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If, from its sequentially un-synched ‘13.5’ numerals, you were to guess that change was afoot with the mix-comp line that MIXMAG calls “the greatest trance series of them all!’, well… you might be right.
Since the reigns passed from his former mentor
Tiësto to
Richard Durand, the
I.S.O.S. helmsman’s search has sailed him to
South Africa &
Australia; to settings as contrasting as
India &
Vegas and most recently, in 2014, out to
Dubai. Well versed in seeking sun-up in the most exotic and far-flung of spots, this year’s ‘
In Search Of Sunrise’ though brings the search considerably closer to its spiritual
home. In fact about as close as close gets, which of course means…
Amsterdam! A native and resident,
Richard’s had a ringside seat on which he sees and participates in the city’s year-on-year ascension to club, festival and electronic music metropolis. And with I.S.O.S.’s
2015 edition, he pays
AMS its due!
Change could also be sensed with the selection of this year’s co-host - a man who typically needs little in the way of introduction. Richard is thrilled in 2015 to welcome the one-&-only, in-the-dictionary-under-legendary BT to the I.S.O.S. decks!
Brian brings with him an unparalleled sound, as well as a new stylistic, artistic tangent to the fabled series.
Together Brian and Richard have sought, signed and woven a best-of-the-best trance/progressive/house nexus into ‘13.5’s disc triad. Across 47 tracks, they feature the latest, hottest and brightest from dozens of producers,
Andy Moor, Tenishia,
Arty, Moonbeam,
LTN,
Andy Duguid and
Dimension being just a few. Additionally, it also features numerous ‘I.S.O.S. 13.5’ exclusives, including the forthcoming, ready-to-thrill
R.D. singles ‘
Typhoon’ and ‘
Time Warp’.
Arriving at the latest stage of the mix-comp series’ journey, Richard says: “Amsterdam is my hometown and, since I started mixing the ‘In Search Of Sunrises’ the electronic music lights around here have grown brighter with each year passing.
Recognition of that is long overdue, so with this edition, I’m bringing it back home!” As to the origin of the new edition’s 13.5 ‘code’, Richard reveals: “I’m not the world’s most superstitious guy, but I’m as ‘13-phobic’ as they come! So there’ll be no
13th floor at the ‘
Casa del Sunrise’ and no 13th stop on the I.S.O.S. voyage on my watch! Be lucky!
Stay lucky!”
Richard gets ‘Amsterdam’s first mix underway with the savannah-like themes of Sue McLaren &
Michael Badal’s ‘Recapture’. The box-fresh ‘Electrifying
Love’ from
Alex O’
Rion, and latterly the Dutchman’s new single ‘Koi Koi’ further develop
Disc 1’s sun-teased atmosphere. Through a triple hit of ‘
Heaven’, ‘
Memories’ & ‘Soulstring’,
Russian duo Moonbeam stamp their enigmatic, quixotic mark on the cooler of Richard’s two mixes. In its latter stages, the ever-impressive pairing of Andy Duguid &
Audrey Gallagher return with ‘
This Is Life’, before
Johnny Noberg’s ‘
No One’ and ‘Love Your
Scars Away’ from
Somna & Michele C
sign it off.
Durand overtures both of his 2015 I.S.O.S. mixes with the music of recent discovery Vidda Deborras. The contemporary chillout composer respectively supplies discs
1 & 2 with the beatific splendour of ‘
Tower Of
Tears’ and the beat-free radiance of ‘
Bikini Atoll’. From there, palpably, the album’s heartbeat accelerates and becomes more floor-robust.
Hot from his own studio desk, Richard charges its midfield with new productions ‘Time Warp’ and ‘Typhoon’. They, in turn, gateway Dimension’s Beatport chart-topping ‘Origami’, ‘A New
Dream’ from Tenishia &
Jonathan Mendelsohn and
Airbase’s renovation of Arty’s ‘
Hope’.
Binary Finary vs.
Three Drives’ ‘
Icon’ & ‘Abhyasa’ from
Menno de Jong lock some earlier I.S.O.S. influences in and bring proceedings to a turbulently trancey head!
With its third disc, I.S.O.S. 13.5’ tunes to a new and every bit as exciting frequency. On it, BT mixes up a brilliant ether-filled equation of progressive x house x trance. Ten
Words’ engagingly vocalled ‘His Way,
Right Way’, the thrall of Forerunners’ ‘
Watching The Lights Go Down’ and DIRTYHERTZ’s tripped-out anthemia on ‘
Forgiveness’ set a major sonic precedent. ‘
The Girl With
The White Shoes’, ‘
Don’t Be Shy’ and ‘
Cruisin’ come hot on their heels: a evocative, imaginative triple from the ever-so-hot LTN.
NYC producer
Lyon Hart works up a remix storm on
JES & BT’s ‘
Every Other Way’, before
Luke Chable adds club edge to
Oliver Englafjord’s amazing ‘Molntus’.
- published: 03 Jul 2015
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