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Having emerged from the Canadian and Berlin house and techno scene, 33 year old producer and DJ Noah Pred gives us a cosmopolitan taste and an urban feel in his new track.

With use of 808 sounding drums and phasing, robotic and nasal sounding synths, it’s easy to feel lost within the late 1980s/early 1990s. It’s a reminder of the music that was played during the early days of acid house. For a DJ and music producer that has played an active role within dance music for over 10 years, it wouldn’t be surprising if there was an acid house influence. And behind the influence, perhaps it was the transfer from one continent to another.

Overall, Find Your Way is a clean minimal track that includes a variety of glitchy, blippy and futuristic sounds. There is even use of a vocal sample that’s been given a run through a vocoder. It’s catchy and the structure builds steadily. As the track builds the combination of all instruments each stand out. There is a great deal of space between instruments in the mix. It would be interesting to see how Noah Pred would mix this in to other tracks.

If the minimal, acidic, techno feel is your style of music, Find Your Way is to be released on 9th July (Affin).

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Fresh out of the underground dance music scene comes a deep house music remix of Sound Dealers, by German music producer Langenberg. It’s no surprise that Germany has been one large convention for present and future boffins of the dance floor.

Hi-hats rattle prominently throughout the track. Bongo percussion and the kick drums have such a striking amount of warmth and depth. Digital organ sounding synths sit gently on top of the percussion and bass, and are layered beautifully underneath the vocals. String chords compliment the track. The vocals are powerful and haunting, without overpowering the other instruments.

The remix is intriguing and hypnotic. It’s easy for the listener to fully engage and follow in the direction of where the track goes. At times deep house remixes can be challenging when finding what elements to extract from the original song. Having listened to the production and mix of the Langenberg remix, it shows the brilliant attention to detail paid.The track is now available to download from Beatport

Cedric Gervais brings the rare Marseilles/Miami combination to you, that is perhaps the main source of inspiration when he created Playa. As a veteran on the Ibiza circuit and having one of his tracks as Pete Tong favourite, it’s no wonder the warmth and sweet melodies flow smoothly down the ear canal. And if you’re an Ibiza veteran like Cedric, you will most likely hear this on the Space terrace.

Ibiza nostaligia aside, the track begins with pumping and jacking synths, attention to detail on basslines, kick and snare drums. Alluring synthetic organs flow beautifully in the breakdown. Post breakdown, the pumping continues. A great sense of warmth continues to sustain throughout.

Cedric’s main strength on this production was to create a melodic funky fusion without a cheesy formula. And incorporating elements of world music in to his tracks, generates a multi-cultural fusion of house music from different continents. Playa is great for listening everywhere and will the one to look out for this summer.

Playa is available to download from Beatport

 http://www.beatport.com/track/playa-original-mix/3317533

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You’re in for a treat from the Italian producer that brought you “Satisfaction” and “Cinema”. Benny has tastefully created uplifting house music for decades, and now he is back with remix of a house classic.

Marshall Jefferson’s 1986 hit, ” Move your Body” is an iconic house music track that brought life to the underground parties, at the beginning of a rave revolution. Since the beginning, future generations of DJ’s and Producers have been inspired by tracks like this. Now that dance music is stronger than ever, and with new artists bursting in the scene almost faster than the speed of sound, we can’t help but wonder how the classics would sound  if they were written almost 26 years later.

The piano section at the beginning has been replaced with a collective of strings and brass synths, the track eases in smoothly. A longer and digital reverb has been added to compliment the polished re-work of the backing track. Some of the original elements of track were incorporated in to the remix such as the main hook, 808 sounding drums and the piano. More bass has been added to emphasise the bass drum, whilst sounding plucky. Benny Benassi has always brought fresh ideas to the table. Having been in the music industry since the late eighties, Benny doesn’t only move the times, he is one step ahead.