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REVIEW: Giuseppe Ottaviani - The Reworks including Sneijder & Will Atkinson remix on VANDIT records

01: Until Monday (Sneijder Remix)
02: Through Your Eyes (Will Atkinson Tribal Re-Rub Mix)

How to ensure full justice is served on a pair of club anthems past masters? Pretty straightforward really! Engage the services of two of the British Isles’ hottest, sharpest, most talked about remixers’, pass them the studio stem ‘keys’, stand (well) back and let them do what they were put on this Earth to do!

For the first release in what promises be an exceptionally busy June for the label, that’s precisely what Berlin’s finest music merchants have done. They’ve tasked the highly assured remix heads & hands of Sneijder and Will Atkinson to two of Italian maestro Giuseppe Ottaviani’s 2006 VANDIT oeuvre. The result: two endorphin chasing rebuilds that are going to have you feet, hands and all other extremities in motion all summer long!

Pick up Giuseppe Ottaviani - 'The Reworks EP' here!

First to the remix forge is one of the leaders of Ireland trance nu-skool, Sneijder - a man who knows a thing or eight about the art of a stellar remix. Dynamically threading together toughened drums, crisp, hi-hat-propelled percussion loops and reverb-heavy bass, he gets the wheels turning on his remix of Giuseppe Ottaviani/Marc van Linden collab ‘Until Monday’. Letting the acidics twist and curl, he brings in the plucked string riff and haunting drift of the pads, building them up into to a vertigo inducing crescendo.

Not about to be outdone Will Atkinson is at it just as quick to it with his remake of ‘Through Your Eyes’. With euphoria writ large end-to-end, he uses bulldozing beats & LFO, atmospherically bleepy sub-melodies, and relentless frontend arrangement & energy to set the remix up. Through a sonic updraft of neuron homing notes, floor-quenching FX, stunning EQ and a dizzying, peak-of-the-drop 303 injection, he engineers full and complete trance combustion!

Music for those that desire, nay DEMAND their trance uplifting-and-nothing-but, this pair are setting June’s floors a precedent that’s going to be hard to beat!




Dimitri Kechagias review: The superstar dj, producer and label owner of VANDIT records, Paul van Dyk is responsible for discovering many new talents and help them to shine. One of those artists who has received Paul's care and attention is Giuseppe Ottaviani. The Italian dj & producer developed very soon his own style that was always close to what we term nowadays Pure Trance. With knowledge of classical music and noteworthy composition and technical skills Giuseppe manage to win the respect, attention and wholeheartedly support of Trance Family worldwide. VANDIT records look back to its classic vaults and commission the upcoming trance talents Sneijder & Will Atkinson to remix two of Giuseppe's most requested classic anthems. First of all the Irish dj & producer Sneijder transforms the awesome collaboration Until Monday between Giuseppe and Marc van Linden into his own powerful uplifting Subculture trance style. Energetic and very dynamic groove combined with driving and pumping bassline while on top he adds acid overtones and some parts of the main melody to tease the crowd. His breakdown is heavenly and ethereal with the main synthy theme replayed in such a magnificent way that sounds absolutely hair raising. His climax is full on hands in the air in truly floating classic trance style. With constant change and development between the darker tech trance sound with the uplifting euphoric one,it is no doubt that Sneijder delivers the goods. Will Atkinson does his own Tribal trance re-rub on the unforgettable Through Your Eyes. He actually starts really tribal tech trance and the track slowly develops into a full on euphoric trancer with the massive breakdown staying pretty the same with the original without any touch from him and the same applies for his climax as well that is recalling the original track. As it is mentioned is a Re-Rub rather than being a remix that will rearrange the various elements. Both versions are updating the classics in the finest possible way and will bring happiness and joy when you drop them in your set! Just two of the many classic Vandit records golden moments.#PureGold Love iT!

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