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"Trance Wax One"
I don't know if anyone else noticed this new EP but apparently there's this release on newly formed "Trance Wax" label which I thought was quite interesting.
These are all basically just edits of fairly commercial anthems and they incorporate breakbeats in every single track, but what I thought was really funny is that they don't release any artist info about any of these at all.
People are definitely iffy about these if you go to read the discogs comments but have a look, I don't know what to make out of these but I thought this was both interesting and amusing:
I laughed out loud at the first one. The break from Bombscare with Greece 2000 over the top. Genius!
EDIT: Word on the street seems to be it's probably Bicep and Ejeca, which wouldn't surprise me at all.
I've also just remembered that Bicep did a special breaks mix of Caf� Del Mar on their Essential Mix. Skip to 01.54.00ish on this and then tell me this EP doesn't have their grubby fingerprints all over it:
I was aware that Ejeca might have something to do with it but I didn't think of Bicep. They seem to definitely be capable of doing something cheeky like this, it would be pretty hilarious if it turned out to be true.
These will probably go to no.1 on beatport and they'll be like "its really crazy, we only made them as a joke!!"
The first 2 tracks are pretty enjoyable imo...tracks 3 & 4 were a bit weak however, as the original versions of Strange World and Flaming June already had breakbeat sections in them, so it ultimately wound up sounding like an extended version of those bits.
The edits are pretty well-done but I kinda hate this half-ironic exploitation of well known trance anthems. It's happening with eurodance too, people making Pump Up The Jam bootlegs and playing Snap! accapellas.
So it turns out it's just Ejeca. He's playing in Manchester next month as "Trance Wax". I'm wondering if it's worth checking out. Presumably he'll be mixing this stuff in with contemporary techno.
I managed to get a Trance Wax 4 recently, best one so far I think.
Does anyone know where the piano melody in this comes from?
Edit: its Beat Foundation � Foundations II
ejeca, bicep, dusky , maceo plex
etc , it seems like all of those guys were headed in this direction
no word on he's essential mix?
[000] Tastexperience - Tantrix [R.T.X.R.]
[0??] Freefall - Skydive (Trance Wax Version) [Stress]
[0??] CRW - I Feel Love (Trance Wax Version) [Bang On!]
[016] Marco V - Simulated (Bas Amro Remix) [Wolfskull]
[019] Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Tale Of Us Remix) [Renaissance]
[0??] Yves Deruytur - Back To Earth (Trance Wax Version) [Bonzai]
[030] Filterheadz - Yimanya [ID&T]
[035] Beat Foundation - Foundations (Trance Wax Version) [Unreleased]
[039] Chicane - Lost You Somewhere [Xtravaganza]
[041] Mauro Picotto - Lizard (Trance Wax Version) [BXR]
[046] Camisra - Let Me Show You [Altra Moda]
[0??] CM - Dream Universe (Trance Wax vs Kaily Version) [Addiction]
[052] The Auranaut - People Want To Be Needed [Black Hole - BH CD 19]
[055] V-Three - Zuluu [B-Classics - MWCD 2011234]
[059] Three Drives On A Vinyl - Sunset On Ibiza [Armada - ARDI 1476]
[066] Signum - What You Got For Me? [Tidy Trax]
[069] Vincent De Moor - Fly Away (Instrumental) [Combined Forces - AMCF 010]
[075] Ralphie B - Massive [Black Hole - BHDC 71]
[080] Hands Burn - Good Shot (Club Mix) [La Musique Fait La Force - LMFLF 287D]
[083] B.B.E. - Seven Days And One Week [Triangle]
[086] Cheerymoon Trax - The House Of House [Ediciones A Deianira - DCCD 050]
[091] Push & Globe - Tranceformation [Armada - ARDI 3338]
[098] GTR - Mistral [Armada - ARDI 3438]
[105] Coast 2 Coast & Amanda Jamison - Be With Me [ARVAS - ARVS 051]
[112] Trance Wax - Beul Un Latte [Unreleased]
[???] Atlantis - Fiji (Trance Wax Version) [Scuna]
I can't decide if this is brilliant, or equivalent to the hipster owner of a Shoreditch hoverboard emporium ironically riding around in a sinclair C5 while everyone comments how brilliant it is.
Not a fan of:
The artificial crowd noise throughout
The Bjork vocal laid over Tantrix on the intro goes on for too long especially when the pad opens up, takes away from the lush intro Tantrix has. If only it was shorter it would have been great.
Only really gets going for me when the Auranuat kicks in and I wasnt keen on how it kicked in either.
Otherwise great 
I'm not sure how I feel about this, on one hand it's great fun to hear some classics given renewed attention and the Trance Wax mixes are mostly decent.
On the other hand, it kinda boils down to a bog-standard classics set with absolutely no attention given to the flow of the mix - certainly not the 'full 2018 refit' that Pete Tong mentions in the intro...
1 or 2 hectic key clashes along the way that took me out of it a bit - but on the whole I enjoyed it.
Greatly.
As an FYI and of course take this for what it's worth but ejeca didn't do this as some ironic joke. I meet some industry guy and he told me that ejeca got into dance music through listening to trance and hence why he made these cuts. I have to say I do love the fact that anyone can play and old school trance track in a set nowadays. Everything is cyclical. I was a huge fan of these releases.
Anyone seen ejeca live? Wonder how he is as a dj
I didn't see him in Manchester in the end. I listened to a few of his sets online and didn't really rate him. The trance edits are what they are, but I find the modern techno he plays in between very flat footed and rhythmically boring. Not much sense of him really building sets either. Still, I imagine it's all good fun when you're mangled.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J I didn't see him in Manchester in the end. I listened to a few of his sets online and didn't really rate him. The trance edits are what they are, but I find the modern techno he plays in between very flat footed and rhythmically boring. Not much sense of him really building sets either. Still, I imagine it's all good fun when you're mangled. |
oh FFS, the year of the recycled
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