Emma Hewitt

Emma Louise Hewitt is an Australian singer-songwriter and trance vocalist who resides in Los Angeles.

Biography

Hewitt was the lead singer of the Australian rock band Missing Hours, with whom she released the eponymous debut album in October 2008 through Sony Australia. The band that she formed with her brother Anthony is currently no longer active, because both now live in Los Angeles and are now working as songwriters of electronic dance music.

Although Emma Hewitt had a musical background in rock music, she released her debut single in 2007 in the field of progressive house. "Carry Me Away" was a collaboration with British DJ Chris Lake. The single reached number 11 in the Spanish singles charts as well as number 12 in Finland. The single spent a total of 50 weeks in the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay charts in the United States and reached number 1 in December 2007.

After the success of her first single, she has worked with several trance artists such as Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin, Cosmic Gate, Gareth Emery, and BT. The single "Waiting", which she published with Dash Berlin in 2009, was ranked 25th in the Belgian singles chart and No. 1 on the Global Trance Charts. In Armin van Buuren's popular radio show A State of Trance the single was elected by the audience with 2109 votes to the second best song of the year 2009. At the International Dance Music Awards 2010 "Waiting" was awarded as best HiNRG/Euro Track. She was nominated twice in the category Best Trance Track with "Waiting" and "Not Enough Time".

Cosmic Gate

Cosmic Gate are a German trance duo made up of Claus Terhoeven and Stefan Bossems. Both hail from Krefeld, Germany. On October 28, 2009, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, with Ultra Records artist Cosmic Gate placed #19, 43 spots above the group's ranking the year before. For the 2010 DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll, Cosmic Gate moved to #24.

Career

Formed in 1999, Cosmic Gate's first single was "The Drums", followed by "Exploration Of Space", "Mental Atmosphere" and their "Somewhere over the Rainbow" remix using samples from the film The Wizard of Oz. However, Cosmic Gate did not become well known until their single "Fire Wire" was released in the UK in 2001.

Cosmic Gate have made many remixes for artists such as Tiësto (Urban Train), Ferry Corsten (Punk), Blank & Jones (DFF), Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (Somewhere Over the Rainbow), Svenson & Gielen (Answer the Question) and Vanessa-Mae (White Bird).

Over the past few years, Cosmic Gate's sound has developed and moved away from the harder edge trance through to their current, more subtle yet still driving energetic music style. Since their third studio album, Earth Mover, they started moving towards the Progressive Trance style.

Not Enough Time

"Not Enough Time" is the third single from the 1992 album Welcome to Wherever You Are, it was released simultaneously with "Baby Don't Cry" (Europe and Australia) but only in the US and Japan, by Australian rock band INXS. The song was written by Andrew Farriss and Michael Hutchence, the music in Sydney and the lyrics in Paris, France.

The lyrics to the song were originally intended for another composition from Welcome To Wherever You Are, which became later became the album's opening song 'Questions'. The original version can be heard on the 2002 remaster of the album.

Australian singer, Deni Hines, featured as a backing vocalist on the song and also married guitarist, Kirk Pengilly, a year later in 1993.

A video has been released for the song on YouTube on 3 August 2011.

B-sides

The B-sides include a solo compositions from bassist Gary Beers; "Firma Terror" and another by Lead guitarist Kirk Pengilly entitled "Light the Planet" as well as "Deepest Red", an outtake from the X album.

Not Enough Time (manga)

Not Enough Time (足りない時間, Tarinai Jikan) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shoko Hidaka (日高 ショーコ, Hidaka Shōko). It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga through its imprint, Juné, on July 25, 2007. It is licensed in Taiwan by Sharp Point Press and in Germany by Carlsen Verlag.

Reception

Holly Ellingwood of Active Anime praised the characterisation. Mania's Danielle Van Gorder describes the linework of the art as "assured", and appreciated the "variety" in the anthology.Comics Village's Katherine Farmar regretted the brevity of the stories, saying that although the author creates a good atmosphere of "yearning", that the feeling could not build enough in the space of a short story.

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