I am a sucker for any song with vocals by Polina and I absolutely love Kill The Noise.  This track is completely different than the original mix of ‘Tornado’ by Tiesto and Steve Aoki.  With the haunting voice of Polina, intriguing lyrics and driving sound of Kill The Noise I can guarantee this song will make your fall playlist.  Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD: Tiesto & Steve Aoki – ‘Tornado’ ft. Polina (Kill The Noise Remix) 

The wait to see John Dahlback perform in Seattle painfully continues… Hopefully  an events company will eventually see the benefit of booking him. Until that time we’ll settle for his produced tracks and live sets. Here is his latest track, ‘Zeus‘.

John Dahlback – Zeus (Original Mix)

This song is like a warm summer breeze dancing through your hair or a gentle caress from a loved one.  Leon Bolier and Marcus Schossow came together to create a track of endless beauty.  Just take a listen and you’ll see what I am talking about.  Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD: Leon Bolier & Marcus Schossow – ‘Beach Chords’ 

Dear All,

I am very excited to share with you the first single from my forthcoming #EDM album on @Armadamusic. This song, a collaboration with Arty and Nadia, began several years ago in demo form when I emailed a rough track to Nadia. After several months of riffing back and forth on lyrical notes and counterpoint lines, I began the lengthy and arduous task of comping together a meaningful and poignant vocal. I often compare this process to pointillism in art. It takes an extraordinary amount of time, but in the end when it’s worth it, it’s well worth it.

This track then sat on my proverbial studio shelf for about 18months. During this time, one of the myriad of pieces I was composing was a 6/4 64 bpm orchestral composition that had these protracted movements of cello, vibraphone, metalaphone and handbells. It occurred to me, somewhere I think I have a vocal, in a related key and tempo / signature. I dug around on the server and bingo…dorian it was. Nadia’s vocal was a near perfect fit and worked amazingly with some of the orchestral and small instrument (TBU style) orchestration.

Enter…Arty. At this time Arty and I had been talking over DM on Twitter about collaborating on a track together. I sent him both the vocal and orchestral things we’d written and he sent me back beautiful percolating and driving percussion, an incredible undulating tresillo ostinato synth line and a beautiful drop.

This part of the process began to culminate during this summer. As I was beginning to dig in to Trevor Wisharts brilliant new version of CDP. For those of you that don’t know, CDP is a command based DSP programing language that calls opcodes and commands in either OSX terminal or DOS. I’ve been using it in both for many years but this track is the first time I’ve really gotten my hands dirty so to speak, on something as prominent as a vocal and Nadia’s provided the perfect clay. After about 100+ hours of pure sound design, spectral blurring..distort repeating and the epic PSOW and modify brassage, you can hear the results of these sonic transformations throughout “Must be the Love”, most notably at the very beginning. I for one have never heard anything like this.

More than anything, this is a beautiful and simple song that speaks directly to me, and I hope to you as well. After all, music is first and foremost a language to speak the unspoken directly from breathing life form to breathing life form.

Thanks for listening.
Always,
_BT

Wolfgang Gartner released a new album today called ‘Back Story’ that is a remastered collection of his favorite singles from 2008 to 2010.  With Wolfgang’s upcoming US tour ‘Love & War’ be sure to pick up this album and become aquainted with Wolfgang’s classics (if you aren’t already).

Buy it today on: BEATPORT / ITUNES

Wolfgang’s upcoming tour, ‘Love & War’ 

And lastly my favorite classic Wolgang track – ‘Push & Rise’

“Loving and living and fighting and falling and flying…”

A two word description of this song: passionate and powerful.  With it’s captivating melody and intriguing lyrics this track will surely tug at your heartstrings and invigorate you all at once.  The talent hailing from Russia is seemingly endless and I cannot wait to hear what Alexander Popov has in store for us next!

Alexander Popov ft. Kyler England – ‘My World’

“My world is upside down the sky’s not blue,”

This was the last song of Tritonal’s EDC Las Vegas set this year and it absolutely melted my heart along with the thousands of others gathered under the glorious desert sky.  The Seven Lions Remix will be featured on Tritonal’s ‘Piercing the Quiet Remixed’ released on September 3rd.  Only two more days…

“Slow down, let me be still with you…”

I don’t think words can accurately describe the sheer bliss of warm summer night drives with the windows down and the trance turned way up.  These five songs have truly moved me and set my heart ablaze with their beauty.  As fall approaches here are my top five favorite trancey tunes from this summer to relive those blissful memories over and over.  Enjoy!

1. Dash Berlin with Shogun – ‘Callisto’

2. LTN – ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Beat Service Remix)

3. Velvetine – ‘The Great Divide’

4. Jaytech ft. Steve Smith – ‘Stranger’ (Kyau & Albert Remix)

5. Cosmic Gate & Cary Brothers – ‘Wake Your Mind’ (Tritional Remix)

“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams…”

Hot damn this remix is SEXY.  This was the first track played by Tiesto in Club Life Episode 279 and I haven’t been able to stop listening to this version ever since! Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD: EDX & Nadia Ali – ‘This Is Your Life’ (Leventina Remix) 

 “If walls could talk what would they say?” 

What do you get when three Aussies work together? A breathtakingly beautiful track!  Take one listen to ‘Reason’ and I guarantee you will fall in love. NERVO & Hook N Sling knocked this one outta the park!

DOWNLOAD: NERVO & Hook N Sling – ‘Reason’ (Original Mix)

“This is my reason…”