Newcastle's Felix Leiter returns with a club smash...
One of dance music's greatest strengths is the sheer volume of material out there. Jump on sites like Beatport or iTunes and hundreds, if not thousands, of new tracks go live every week. Some are, of course, very good and some very bad, yet there's no denying the vol-ume of choice. But there aren't that many bonafide classics, tracks that transcend a period in time and attain truly legendary status; these are few and far between. One such tune that qualifies for such an accolade is 2000's 'Finally' by Kings of Tomorrow, although it's hard to believe it's 13 years old, which is why Newcastle's Felix Leiter has decided to re-record and re-title it with a modern day take and is now set to captivate and bewitch a whole new generation of clubbers. "I wanted to re-imagine it for the modern dancefloors I'm playing to," explains Felix, "To inject my own harder, melodic edge and bring it bang up to date."
Enter Penny Foster, a brilliant vocalist who Felix has worked with before. "The key to get-ting the track right was the vocals and I knew Penny would be perfect," Felix continues, "I needed someone with an exceptional voice to carry this off and do it justice and Penny re-ally stepped up."
Flipping the title to the more simple 'Paradise' the track is indeed a monster of truly eu-phoric proportions; the sort or record that has end of set written all over it. When the crowds call for 'one more tune', expect this to be the 'go to' for quite a few of the planet's professional DJ population over the coming months. Even if we do say so ourselves, it's a bit special, which Felix had more than an inkling of in recent road tests. "I played it to over 5000 at the Mint Festival and the roof nearly came off the tent!," he says, "I know paradise is different things to different people, but standing there and seeing that reaction from such a massive crowd came fittingly close for me!"
Dimitri Kechagias review: The exceptional and quickly rising UK based dj & producer Felix Leiter lands on the top house imprint Mutant records with his 2nd release and this time he offer us a slice of tasty uplifting Paradise. The brand new single features the stand out and very powerful vocals by Penny Foster who enhanced with her voice the whole track. Paradise is an uplifting progressive house at its most Swedish house friendly. Bouncy beats, rough basslines and uplifting synths for the very melodic and hands in the air climax that will bring eargasms for sure. The first breakdown is really good with rock guitar riffs that create a moody atmosphere for Penny's voice to come in and shine like a rainbow after the rain. Her voice has that retro romantic quality reminding you something but you can not figure out what is it exactly. The 2nd breakdown is equally heartfelt with that indie rock edge to keep it interesting and when the drop arrives better call your friends to come over cause its time for party hard nights. Paradise is clean cut, polished and ready for club and radio action as well. Love iT
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