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Xpander - remixes (pg. 7)
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| noonboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Why does it need to be "digitally remastered?" It was released only ten years ago and still sounds just fine next to any track today. |
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| Clovis |
Jesus christ the way people talk about Xpander on here you'd think it's some untouchable holy grail of dance music that will henceforth never be achieved again by mere mortals.
Get a ing grip.
It's a great song. Thats about it. |
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| vinnie97 |
| Who's going ape? Maybe earlier in the thread...I can't wait 'til the hype passes myself. "Little Bullet" is the real gem and progenitor. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
La Gioconda is just some woman sitting on a chair.
There is nothing more to it than that. Nothing is hidden in the production, the stroke, the method of lighting, the choice of canvas, the angle from which the painter sits. Nothing. Da Vinci was a genius in every respect, his mind was a work of art beautifully and meticulously crated by the Creator, but his art was just , something for the self righteous elites of fore coming generations to exaggerate upon whilst they sip on overpriced cups of fine wine.
It's just a woman (fat and ugly, in case it's never been mentioned in the books) looking at the audience.
It's the same with Xpander. It seems such a coincidence that it came at a time when trance was nothing more than a simple beat with producers slapping a succession of notes and hoping no one else had beat them to it. Alexander "Sasha" Coe and Charlie May were no different. Just listen to Xpander. It's nothing special. Just listen to everything else banged out that year from more revolutionary trance acts.
L'esperanza, Choral Reef, The Sound of Nature, Synaesthesia. You can't sit there on your polished Apple computer and tell me these are formulaic copy and pastes of the generic trance structure. These songs broke new ground. Xpander, did not.
Just file Xpander right back there with that fat chick painted by Da Vinci.
There are so many songs just leaps and bounds above Xpander. LEAPS. BOUNDS. What was Rolling Stone thinking, giving a single nod to EDM on their Top 500 Songs Ever list through Xpander. I mean, c'mon.
There are great songs, and there are the greatest songs. Xpander just isn't one of them. Trust me, I go to record shops and only pick up white labels. |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
La Gioconda is just some woman sitting on a chair.
There is nothing more to it than that. Nothing is hidden in the production, the stroke, the method of lighting, the choice of canvas, the angle from which the painter sits. Nothing. Da Vinci was a genius in every respect, his mind was a work of art beautifully and meticulously crated by the Creator, but his art was just , something for the self righteous elites of fore coming generations to exaggerate upon whilst they sip on overpriced cups of fine wine.
It's just a woman (fat and ugly, in case it's never been mentioned in the books) looking at the audience.
It's the same with Xpander. It seems such a coincidence that it came at a time when trance was nothing more than a simple beat with producers slapping a succession of notes and hoping no one else had beat them to it. Alexander "Sasha" Coe and Charlie May were no different. Just listen to Xpander. It's nothing special. Just listen to everything else banged out that year from more revolutionary trance acts.
L'esperanza, Choral Reef, The Sound of Nature, Synaesthesia. You can't sit there on your polished Apple computer and tell me these are formulaic copy and pastes of the generic trance structure. These songs broke new ground. Xpander, did not.
Just file Xpander right back there with that fat chick painted by Da Vinci.
There are so many songs just leaps and bounds above Xpander. LEAPS. BOUNDS. What was Rolling Stone thinking, giving a single nod to EDM on their Top 500 Songs Ever list through Xpander. I mean, c'mon.
There are great songs, and there are the greatest songs. Xpander just isn't one of them. Trust me, I go to record shops and only pick up white labels. |
This guy.
Thanks for that brilliant insight socrates. |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
La Gioconda is just some woman sitting on a chair.
There is nothing more to it than that. Nothing is hidden in the production, the stroke, the method of lighting, the choice of canvas, the angle from which the painter sits. Nothing. Da Vinci was a genius in every respect, his mind was a work of art beautifully and meticulously crated by the Creator, but his art was just , something for the self righteous elites of fore coming generations to exaggerate upon whilst they sip on overpriced cups of fine wine.
It's just a woman (fat and ugly, in case it's never been mentioned in the books) looking at the audience.
It's the same with Xpander. It seems such a coincidence that it came at a time when trance was nothing more than a simple beat with producers slapping a succession of notes and hoping no one else had beat them to it. Alexander "Sasha" Coe and Charlie May were no different. Just listen to Xpander. It's nothing special. Just listen to everything else banged out that year from more revolutionary trance acts.
L'esperanza, Choral Reef, The Sound of Nature, Synaesthesia. You can't sit there on your polished Apple computer and tell me these are formulaic copy and pastes of the generic trance structure. These songs broke new ground. Xpander, did not.
Just file Xpander right back there with that fat chick painted by Da Vinci.
There are so many songs just leaps and bounds above Xpander. LEAPS. BOUNDS. What was Rolling Stone thinking, giving a single nod to EDM on their Top 500 Songs Ever list through Xpander. I mean, c'mon.
There are great songs, and there are the greatest songs. Xpander just isn't one of them. Trust me, I go to record shops and only pick up white labels. |
not bad...not bad... |
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| vinnie97 |
| Part of the reason for the hype is due to the familiarity that it has bred due to the star status of the producer combined with the anthem appeal courtesy of the easily digestible hook. It's not too dissimilar from the lauding that Pachelbel's "Canon in D" receives due to its own anthem status in the realm of Baroque, whilst Vivaldi and Bach made far more involved and interesting compositions under the same banner. |
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| matviscafcb |
| Out without remixes |
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| Dive |
so what's the difference?
I bought the original from 7digital.com this summer... |
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| Lews |
| Whatever happened to the remixes of this? |
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| evo8 |
| Apparently Henry Saiz is doing a remix now - expect some side-chaining........... |
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| Paradox Lost |
| Last I heard (and this was a couple of weeks ago), the project had been scrapped. I'll see if I can confirm this. If nothing else, we at least have the Christian Smith remix out there, which was the best thing to come out of this. |
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