Negativa

Track Listing: Icarus - JX4 Remix Icarus - S.H.O.K.K Mix Icarus - Big Al's Club Reworking

Released 2/02 on Negativa. Written and produced by DJ Natron (Daniel Heinzer) and Reverb. It's Big Al's Club Reworking that does the business here. A driving, pulsing trancer with a great top line, featuring spoken references to the biblical character 'Icarus'. It's marred for me personally by the mid-track breakdown vocal (although with a cleaver bit of editing we've taken this out), but if you don't mind girly commercial vocals then i'm sure this will be the icing on the cake for you. The JX4 Remix pales against the anthemic Big Al's Club Reworking, whilst the S.H.O.K.K Mix is suitably hard, although god only knows why they've used the effect that mimics a record deck stopping in the middle of the track??

Track Listing: Different Ways - Dirt Devils Remix Different Ways - Original Mix Different Ways - Mark Lawrence Remix

Released 6/02 on Negativa. Licenced from Anjunabeats Records 2000. Written and produced by Jono Grant and Paavo Siljamaki. Head straight for the original version of this big trance anthem by Free State, aka the Dirt Devils. Its a bouncy hands in the air affair that's guaranteed to rip up dancefloors, featuring a familiar spoken sample (although I can't quite put my finger on it) of "people react in different ways, its like fingerprints, everybody has different fingerprints". Mark Lawrence, aka JX4, smoothes out this anthem whilst the Dirt Devils Remix toughens up the beats giving the tune a hard edge. Three excellent mixes of a quality tune.

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