With the expansion of global electronic music culture at a rate like never before, it is difficult to find many countries that can boast a feverish admiration for the genre than Argentina. And over the past number of years, few have felt the affection and resonance of the fans as passionately as 2012 America's Best DJ Markus Schulz.
Following on from acclaimed titles such as Prague '11 and Los Angeles '12, Schulz takes his famed city compilation series to South America for the first time, and can cite several instances where his connection with Buenos Aires has stood out above others. He was specifically chosen to entertain the masses during the country's Bicentennial celebrations, and cites the relationship between himself and the local patrons as pivotal inspirations when in studio production mode.
2013 has already been littered with personal Buenos Aires gig highlights for the Miami based DJ. Despite torrential weather, the Argentinean faithful remained in force to support Markus when the city hosted its own edition of the Ultra Music Festival in February. And the final seeds of his chosen city were sewn in June, in the immediate aftermath of two sellout performances at Mandarine nightclub, where he demonstrated his immense DJing art craft by playing for a total of almost 15 hours.
As is customary with the Markus Schulz city compilation experience, he pools the essential resources from fellow members of his Coldharbour family, including South American talents KhoMha and Danilo Ercole. Significant contributors to the Buenos Aires story also include Rex Mundi, Digital X, Grube & Hovsepian, Fisherman & Hawkins vs Nifra, M.I.K.E., Basil O'Glue and Protoculture among many others.
Markus himself factors prominently across both discs, boasting brand new singles and remixes, including a fresh take on the iconic Solarcoaster by Solarstone, a new collaboration with the incredibly talented Rex Mundi, and another foray into his deeper and darker Dakota alter-ego with the track Barracas. His tradition of anointing a new alias continues through Buenos Aires, with Marscela responsible for the first and last moments of the journey.
One of the standout highlights of the compilation is "Remember This" - which will intrinsically link the Buenos Aires compilation with Schulz's next artist album Scream 2. The choice of the Argentinean capital was primarily due to memories of the long nights and mornings shared with the patrons, and with Buenos Aires '13, the worldwide SchulzArmy members will have many reasons to attach memories of their own towards this musical experience for years to come.
Dimitri Kechagias review: One of the most anticipated compilations was Markus Schulz latest 2CD dedicated to the beautiful and comsopolitan city of Buenos Aires. Packed with the finest trance productions exclusively recorded for this compilation. Now Armada Music reveals those exclusives for the pleasure of fellow djs and club crowds worldwide. First collaboration included is Rodg & Ruben de Ronde with their stunning deep infectious melodic progressive trancer Remain Different. Its the perfect warm up track that you can beautifully build upon the rest of your set. Aaron Camz heavily influenced & supported by Markus service the stunning tech trancer Suburbia. Hard banging big room tech trancer with huge dark and very epic to the maximum synthy lead plus beautiful sincere female voices on top. Digital X is on board with his Phantom. It starts with nice feel good rhythm and slowly is transformed into a dark haunting epic hands in the air monster trancer with old school melodies and huge synthy electro infused melody that will bring to your mind trance classics . The Irish talents Tucandeo present the superb To An End. Their productions as always are high class with depth, rich sound layering and attention to detail. Tribal drums, deep basslines and with focus on the maintage sets manage to balance the darkness with the light side and deliver a hair raising sonic experience. The Belgian trance legend M.I.K.E. presents the very good Before Dawn (Original Mix). With this trance anthem is confirmed that his sound works like a treat within the Markus Schulz context and he has found there his new homebase that his ultra large and emphatic trance sound deserves to be and worshipped by thousands of fans. Electronic synthy melody to the point that will be hard to forget that targets the prime time of your set. Can you feel your hair raised from your body too? The superb Romanian producer Mr. Pit challenge us to Catch Him and as it seems will be hard to do it as he runs fast and furious and he is pretty unreachable. Deep driving progressive trancer with many different melodies playing around and making you feel tottaly outerspace in his well composed soundscapes. Catch Me is peak time monster of the highest ranks. Last but not least the Brazilian Danilo Ercole presents his Freezing Rain that moves on his dark driving warm and tender powerful melodic progressive trance sound with psy trance and tribal trance influences as well. Stand out element the cinematic breakdown and his well conceived riff that will raise roofs and hook the clubbers straight way. 7 Essential trancers not to be missed. Love iT
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