Review: Silver surfer trance master Solarstone returns to Tiesto' Black Hole label with Island, a new studio album that's right on time following a succession of hash-inspired LPs and last year's One. Maintaining his quality form in tracks like "Take Me On Your Flight (Island version)" with its sweet vocal, slightly left of field keys and techy breakdowns, Solarstone proves once again he's a master of the trace craft. With exotic breakbeats and neo classical feedback making it into "Frontier" (featuring the venerable Super-Frog Saves Tokyo & Ian Urbina), tribal themes and oriental motifs, alongside baerlic licks of guitar in "Summer Fills The Sky" coalesce into a soundtrack of grandeur and grace when its main theme hits. For the more contemplative numbers look to "Tied" and "Twilight" with touches of folk, melancholic pop and two stepping rhythms defining "Heal My Broken Heart" - and with more to be discovered, Island, by a country mile, is one 2020s best trance releases. Life's a beach.
Review: With trance music enjoying a current streak of vogue through club culture today it's important to remember legends of the past alongside what's going on now. In Search Of Sunrise volume 15 does exactly that by pitching artists like Jam & Spoon together with Jerome Isma-Ae in a Blade Runner-reminding remix to "Follow Me" - full of tension and release! Furthermore the compilation highlights the Gouryella project from Ferry Corsten with the epicly synth-drenched "Surga", while other bona fide numbers come from Markus Schultz, and Fonzarelli with '80s Italo disco trance throwback "In My Dream", while Peppemansion & Angelo Di Franco' are another highlight with their minimal burner "Mariposa". A secret weapon hidden deep within.
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