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FERRY CORSTEN – ONCE UPON A NIGHT VOL. 4
Maven electronic music master Ferry Corsten opens the book for a
fourth spellbinding volume in his fabled ‘Once Upon A Night’ series. Over two exactingly
structured, seamlessly crafted mix chapters, he chronicles his and Flashover
Recordings’ latest clubland adventures. In addition to his own musical stock,
the fourth edition features a wealth of new material from some of Holland’s
most established label houses - Black Hole Recordings, Spinnin’ Records and
Armada Music among them.
With this new edition Ferry has shifted the style sights - audibly travelling far beyond the exclusive province of trance. Expanding the ‘Night’s remit, he’s opened it up to embrace a wide span of electronic music, from which he draws on audio from both its best-known proponents and brightest young talent.
With this new edition Ferry has shifted the style sights - audibly travelling far beyond the exclusive province of trance. Expanding the ‘Night’s remit, he’s opened it up to embrace a wide span of electronic music, from which he draws on audio from both its best-known proponents and brightest young talent.
Released through Premier Recordings,
November 28th 2013
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‘Once
Upon A Night’s pages have been reopened and Ferry’s again ready to let the
music tell the story.
Tonally the
fourth O.U.A.N. odyssey departs on calm waters with a brace of tranquillity
from London-based producer Ad Brown. With the vocalized shine of ‘More’ and ‘Thrive’
prefacing the mix, through fresh studio names Ferry crafts new threads into ‘Night’s
narrative.
Drawing on audio from far and wide, Analogue Sound Department’s Daft Punk-ish ‘Rhodestep’, Timur Shafiev’s electronica-edged ‘Mainstream’ and the progressive harmonics of Amir Afargan’s ‘Dawn of Paradise’ light the mix’s path. Ducking its head into the big rooms for a moment, the midpoint finds Ferry debuting a track under a new pen name. Composed alongside fellow Hollander Joeri Lodders, the chip-tone channellings of LoCo’s ‘Out In The Field’ again subtly tweak O.U.A.N.’s character. Further in, ‘Is This Love’ from Zachary Zamarripa and Disco Freaks vs. Dayton Elliss ‘Take Me 2 The Sun’ inflect a grooving up-swell of house, before ‘Once Upon’ veteran REZarin signs the chapter off with ‘Signature’s flourish of pulse-racing anthemcs.
Drawing on audio from far and wide, Analogue Sound Department’s Daft Punk-ish ‘Rhodestep’, Timur Shafiev’s electronica-edged ‘Mainstream’ and the progressive harmonics of Amir Afargan’s ‘Dawn of Paradise’ light the mix’s path. Ducking its head into the big rooms for a moment, the midpoint finds Ferry debuting a track under a new pen name. Composed alongside fellow Hollander Joeri Lodders, the chip-tone channellings of LoCo’s ‘Out In The Field’ again subtly tweak O.U.A.N.’s character. Further in, ‘Is This Love’ from Zachary Zamarripa and Disco Freaks vs. Dayton Elliss ‘Take Me 2 The Sun’ inflect a grooving up-swell of house, before ‘Once Upon’ veteran REZarin signs the chapter off with ‘Signature’s flourish of pulse-racing anthemcs.
On bringing the fourth phase of O.U.A.N. to
fans, Ferry said: “With the diversity of
dance music in general being bigger than ever before, my playground is endless.
And with the sound of this compilation I hope you can hear that nothing is
impossible.”
With its
pace & tempo dialled in, Ferry doesn’t ease off the gas but for a second.
The second disc’s prologue comes in striking, bombastic fashion, courtesy of
Slovenia’s Beltek. His summer 2013 ‘Inhale’ release conspires to bring some
whipping, festival-rousing techno stomp to ‘Once Upon A Night’s plot. Fleshing
out that tech-ish lean comes Chris Schweizer’s steel-tough remix treatment of
Giuseppe Ottaviani’s ‘Gave Me’ and Beat Service’s dazzling re-spray of Bobina’s
‘For Who I Am’.
In their
December issue Album of the Month review, MIXMAG says: “In a relatively lean end-of-year album
landscape, ‘Once Upon A Night Vol. 4’ stands head, shoulders (and the rest) out
from the crowd – 9/10”
With skilled assurance Corsten proceeds to drive the mix onto trancier ground. Alongside his and Giuseppe Ottaviani’s floor-packing ‘Magenta’ come the renegade, pitch-bent synths of Markus Schulz’s current club-rocket ‘Remember This’ and David Forbes’ fiery ‘Exist’. Providing ‘Once Upon A Night 4’s climactic twist-in-the-tale, Andy Duguid’s shimmering ‘Tiago’, Witness45’s synth-suffused ‘Thank You’ and the heady captivation of Venaccio’s ‘Foxy’ deliver its melodic-through-euphoric bookend.
With the
album’s sonic fable travelling the listener to the farthest reaches of its
author’s musical mind, ‘One Upon A Night’s latest edition serves Ferry’s series
a new level high. ‘Vol.4’ is yours to own from November 28th.
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