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Progressive Review: Darren Tate - Adrift out on Anjunabeats

 


Darren Tate releases ‘Adrift’, out now on Anjunabeats.Darren Tate has been a pivotal artist in dance music for over twenty years. In 2022, the UK Top 10 charting producer joined forces with Above & Beyond’s Jono Grant to form JODA. Released on Anjunabeats, their self-titled debut album and has since seen over 10 million combined streams.

Under the aliases DT8 Project, Angelic with Judge Jules, Jurgen Vries, Orion and Citizen Caned, Darren has amassed twelve Top 40 UK singles across his accomplished career. He is also the owner of Mondo Records UK and a successful composer; in 2022, he scored the soundtrack for the IMAX feature film ‘The Last Glaciers’ with Above & Beyond.

‘Adrift’ is Darren’s first solo production since 2021’s ‘Where We Go From Here’ under his DT8 Project alias. The progressive gem is the follow-up to Darren’s collaboration with trance titan Solarstone and established vocalist Julie Scott, ‘A Long Way From Home’, which earned support from Nicole Moudaber, ANNA, Joris Voorn, Hernán Cattáneo, Carl Craig, Nora En Pure and more.



Dimitri Kechagias review:
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[content title="Summary" label="Overall Score"]Darren Tate is one of the most hardworking talents delivering always stand out tracks. Except his iconic classics and collaboration with various artists including Jono Grant as JODA, Darren well known for his work on cinema soundtracks provides the electronic music with diamonds like Adrift. His current single Adrift is a stunning dark haunting moody 122 BPM deep melodic progressive with dark male sensitive vocals and distorted dystopian synths within a very cinematic sonic environment with cool sound design and lyrics that reflect the despair and fear that modern people go through within a rather dangerous world. Adrift represents the current stream of progressive meet melodic techno tracks that focus on how society is moving towards the wrong direction and serves as an alarm to change before the world falls from the cliff. #PureGold Love IT [/content]
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[item value="10"]You can’t get this memorable track out of your head[/item]
[item value="10"]It has potential to become an anthem or a classic[/item]
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