ALPHAZONE
That's right kids, a tribute mix to the greatest hard trance act of all time. Fans of my usual output are advised to stay the fuck away!


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01. Nightflight - Desire
02. Cloudchaser - Aerodynamic (Alphazone Remix)
03. Alphazone - Stay
04. Alphazone - Revelation
05. DJ Kim - Jetlag (Alphazone Remix)
06. Atmosphere - Storm (Alphazone Remix)
07. DJ Kim - Get Ready To Explode (Alphazone Remix)
08. Alphazone - Sunrise
09. Ralph Novell - Wrong Love (Alphazone Remix)
10. Alphazone - Flashback


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When it comes down to it, 99% of hard trance is shit. Complete shit. I had a couple of options here: make a very long mix using the 50 or so suitable tracks I have or do a Skywarp/Waterworld label tribute mix. However, considering that Alphazone have made so many good tracks, the choice was easy.

Most hard trance just sounds like softer hardstyle to me; it's all retardedly big kick drums, lead notes placed only on every beat rather than in between too, and a disturbing lack of effort made to include anything resembling a bass line or percussion. Alphazone's formula is/was simple: keep the drums tight, make the bass line thick and prevalent, add some good percussion and an epic melody. Fuck, does it work.

It may not be the most intelligent music in the world, but I keep coming back to listen to these tracks over and over. The genre may as well be renamed 'Alphazone trance', because unlike other styles where there will often be several leaders producing similar quality stuff, there is not a single hard trance producer I've ever come across that can even get close to the work of Alphazone.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e11tfb

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Last edited by Domesticated on Dec-22-2009 at 12:29

Lmao, looks epic. Will download when available

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Originally posted by Domesticated When it comes down to it, 99% of hard trance is shit. Complete shit. I had a couple of options here: make a very long mix using the 50 or so suitable tracks I have or do a Skywarp/Waterworld label tribute mix. However, considering that Alphazone have made so many good tracks, the choice was easy. Most hard trance just sounds like softer hardstyle to me; it's all retardedly big kick drums, lead notes placed only on every beat rather than in between too, and a disturbing lack of effort made to include anything resembling a bass line or percussion. Alphazone's formula is/was simple: keep the drums tight, make the bass line thick and prevalent, add some good percussion and an epic melody. Fuck, does it work. It may not be the most intelligent music in the world, but I keep coming back to listen to these tracks over and over. The genre may as well be renamed 'Alphazone trance', because unlike other styles where there will often be several leaders producing similar quality stuff, there is not a single hard trance producer I've ever come across that can even get close to the work of Alphazone. Download file coming in an hour.

Will listen even though I strongly disagree with your post.

A tribute mix without The Legacy? WTF?

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery A tribute mix without The Legacy? WTF?

While I agree, I've heard that song so many times that I probably prefer it left out. I'm going to give this set a listen when it comes up, but I'm already anticipating most stuff sounding quite similar to The Legacy. We'll see, I'm not too familiar with Alphazone outside of a couple of tracks.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery A tribute mix without The Legacy? WTF?

It's a tribute mix by me, not a ministry of sound compilation of 'most popular' tracks. I don't actually like The Leagacy as much as the other works I have included here.

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Originally posted by Teezdalien Will listen even though I strongly disagree with your post.

That's because you like hardstyle.

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fucking awesome!!

flashback is one of my favorite tracks of all time along with that remix of aerodynamic!!

great job here dude! loving it

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im guarenteed to put this on my mp3 player and go to the gym and fuck shit up to this mix.

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Originally posted by Domesticated That's because you like hardstyle.

Actually it has nothing to do with the fact that I like hardstyle. It's more to do with the fact that I think there are other producers of hard trance who equal Alphazone's level of quality.

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Originally posted by Teezdalien Actually it has nothing to do with the fact that I like hardstyle. It's more to do with the fact that I think there are other producers of hard trance who equal Alphazone's level of quality.

Please do share, I'd be really interested to hear. I started this thread a while ago:

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...55&referrerid=2

but didn't really get many decent suggestions.

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Last edited by Domesticated on Nov-18-2009 at 23:01

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Originally posted by Domesticated Please do share, I'd be really interested to hear. I started this thread a while ago: http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...0&forumid=73&s= but never really seemed to get anywhere./

Your link points to this thread.