1. Radio Edit
2. Walden Radio Edit
3. Pierre Pienaar Radio Edit
4. Areeena Remix
5. Walden Remix
6. Pierre Pienaar Remix
7. Brian Laruso's Touching Your Soul Remix
8. Raul Pablo Sanchez Deeper Translation Mix
9. Original Mix
10. Chillout Mix
Last year, with his ‘Balearic Beauty’ album, Roger Shah shaped a summer all of his own. Its first single - the Alexandra Badoi-sung ‘I’ll Be Fine’ - captivated fans of old, won fans of new and gave Roger another huge club hit. Now, with a new summer fast approaching, May 19th sees ‘I’ll Be Fine’s primetime follow-up.
‘Surrender’ has proved a forum favourite, a hot request at Roger’s live shows and one of the foremost jewels in the fourth Sunlounger LP’s sound crown. Featuring the vocals of West Virginian-raised/LA-based singer/songwriter Chase, ‘Surrender’ arrives in single form with a complete remix spectrum. Sound-crafters including Walden, Pierre Pienaar, Brian Laruso, Raul Pablo Sanchez and Roger himself (under his Areeena alias) have taken ‘Surrender’ to spaces far and wide.
With its folk-ish tones, lyrically and vocally Chase channels everything from indie to baroque pop into ‘Surrender’. In its Original Mix form, Roger takes all those well known Sunlounger instruments and elements - gently thrummed guitars, timpani drums, analogue synths and wistfully plucked string sections - to deliver the track’s reclined cool. On his Touching Your Soul rework, Brian Laruso adds shuffling and live-sounding cabasa and marimba percussion loops, giving the track beachfront ambiance.
Roger’s Chillout Mix drops the drums out entirely, resting it entirely on its guitars, pianos and Chase’s acoustics for that sundown moment. On his mix, Raul Pablo Sanchez intensifies the LFO, echoes & dubs up the FX and uses longer held notes and housier rhythms to usher ‘Surrender’ into the night.
Through remix treatments from Pierre Pienaar, Areeena, and Walden, ‘Surrender’ gets ready to leave the beach and take it club-side. Fuelling trance-inclined floors to scarcely safe limits, through his remix and instrumental treatments Namibia’s Pierre Pienaar springboards the track into peak-time. Areeena (whose ‘Between 2 Worlds’ debut shook more than its share of speaker-stacks last autumn) toughens the trance stance further with its synth-stridence and rolling bass.
Last and by no means least, Australia’s Walden reimagines ‘Surrender’ as an immense progressive house workout. Replete with irresistibly cheerful synths, it’ll be keeping floors on their toes throughout summer.
Dimitri Kechagias review: The superstar dj & producer Roger Shah presents his brand new Sunlounger single featuring the stunning singer Chase that we hope to see him soon on many more tracks cause his voice is just perfect for great trancers like Surrender. The original mix is a relaxing melodic floating progressive trancer with main element the brilliant combination of electric guitar with acoustic one in order to enhance the result even more, emotional synths, warm luscious strings and hot cinematic atmosphere that brings summer in your mind. The track has so big potential for global penetration and for that reason is supported by wide package of high class remixes that will satisfy wide spectrum of electronic dance music fans. First of all Roger Shah's alter ego project Areena transforms the original into a big prime time weapon for big room trance sets. The breakdown is really melodic and blissful while the drop is harder with agressive sharp basslines and punchy beats to shake and bounce many sexy bodies in the summer festivals. The song is used in its entirety with full vocals for those who like to sing a long with hands in the air and surrender. Walden remix is a powerful big room prog house version that follows the Swedish prog house arrangement with tough bouncy opening sequence followed by intro breakdown that reveals the AVICII style pizzicato synthy melody that lead in the first drop that is energetic with pulsating basslines, guitar riffs and synthy stabs until to land on the main breakdown that the amazing heartbreaking vocal appears to touch you deep leading to the final full on and in your face melodic euphoric drop. For those who like it harder and pure trance style the beloved producer Pierre Pienaar Remix transforms the original intro straight forward uplifting trancer with hard techy metallic drums, energetic basslines and feel good guitar riffs on top along with acid overtones as well. Superb breakdown that is blissful and mesmerising at the start with full vocal until the huge rave style distorted synthy lead comes to the forefront and drive the track to its full on hands in the air euphoric feel good trancer. Pierre is a very able and trusted producer and his remix is simply fantastic and ready for peak time moments of our dj sets. Brian Laruso is very good friend of Roger Shah and his Touching Your Soul Remix that lasts nearly 9 minutes, is exceptional with tribal drums and overall great instrumentation with live like drums, deep floating basslines, guitar riffs and the awesome vocals. It is such a hypnotic relaxing anthem that will surely carry you away in its microworld that you are invited to inhabit everytime you play this great remix that sounds perfect for Cafe Del Mar style compilations and deep trance sets. Raul Pablo Sanchez Deeper Translation Mix is a wonderful deep tech house version that has the warm electronic pop touch to it as well. If you like projects like Klangkarussell or djs like Robin Schulz then this version is right in your door. What is missing from this remix is a bit of saxophone melody as well. Lastly for those who need to relax and calm for a while the Chill Out mix is the perfect end of the night or the soundtrack of early morning in Ibiza terraces while you watch the sun rising! Absolute Vocal Trance Summer Anthem with light pop touch! #PureGold and instant classic! Love iT
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