Zirenz
» "Utopia"
Reviewed by Markus Buhmann
/ Submitted 02-01-06 16:27
Label: Mondo
Format: CD-R
Genre: Trance
It's been a busy 12 months for Cat and Bex Zirenz. They've been signed to Mondo, been remixed by Hemstock and Jennings, by Ian Betts and have had their tunes battered by the likes of Graham Gold, Jon O'Bir, John Askew and Armin Van Buuren, not bad at all by anyone's standards.
Their latest track, "Utopia" starts to see them achieve the potential they hinted at in "Tears of Angel".
First up are the original vocal and original dub mix - two solid slabs of uplifting trance with their trademark soaring vocals and infectious basslines,lush euro-sounding pads and catchy leads.
For me the dub edges it from the full vocal mix as the lesser use of that big vocal allows all the atmospherics and nice little touchesin the tune to come to the fore, like for example, the fantastic bass line which follows the lead's chord progression.
It's this kind of stuff that you wouldn't otherwise focus on with that massive vocal washing over you and to me makes the tune sound more like the finished article. That said, both of the orginal mixes are very strong, and deserve an airing.
And then we come to the Gallery main man. Gavyn pares the whole thing down, gates the vocal, teases out a nice groove in the precedings and adds a chunky breakbeat into the breakdown, simple but devastatingly effective. This is the mix I've been playing out to enthusiastic responses around London, a fantastic piece of chunky, vaguely progressive trance, just awesome.
Cat and Bex are definitely on the right track with this fantastic release and I can't to hear what 2006 brings us from Zirenz towers. Top stuff.
Release date 9/1/06
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