TOM SWOON RELEASES I AM YOU

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: #ff0072; color: white; font-size: x-large;"> Track Of The Day </span></h2> <h2 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #ff0072; font-size: x-large;">Tom Swoon & First State - I Am You</span></h2> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BtqY9YKoO1DLtZwglKppY-wC1wkNGG_NELZDoX6r66Rj9cx52zde8JY1oYstdsgrzeEzAiV43lZnqmcf527gtmsFrxUR_c0lUxVZJGH-vvfmFqHr-g2KiRWXicwAWqmyYTXxi6hwc1Zv/s1600/tom+swoon+i+am+you.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tom Swoon & First State I Am You" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BtqY9YKoO1DLtZwglKppY-wC1wkNGG_NELZDoX6r66Rj9cx52zde8JY1oYstdsgrzeEzAiV43lZnqmcf527gtmsFrxUR_c0lUxVZJGH-vvfmFqHr-g2KiRWXicwAWqmyYTXxi6hwc1Zv/s1600/tom+swoon+i+am+you.jpg" title="Tom Swoon & First State - I Am You" width="640" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">As we move full steam ahead towards the impending festival season, Tom Swoon today arms himself with arguably his biggest weapon to date, as he releases his massive collaboration with First State, ‘I Am You’, out now via Ultra Music.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.ymlp279.net/mwbjwaxauyshjacaemeapame/click.php" target="_blank">Stream ‘I Am You’</a></span></b><br /> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Striking a fine balance between the progressive and big room genres, Swoon and First State have unquestionably brought their ‘A’ game to the table for ‘I Am You’, as they seamlessly shape their anthemic soundscapes around one of the most memorable vocals in recent memory. The melody will leave twinkles in your eyes, flutters in your stomach and warmness in your heart.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div align="center"> <b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://t.ymlp279.net/mwbjqapauyshjazaemeapame/click.php" target="_blank">Buy ‘I Am You’</a></span></b><br /> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Premiered on Nicky Romero’s Protocol Radio show in February 2015 and having also been recently announced as the official soundtrack to Empire Festival in Guatemala, ‘I Am You’ has already garnered huge support from the electronic community with the likes of Blasterjaxx, Benny Benassi, Bassjackers, Project 46 and Max Vangeli to name but a few playing it out.</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> Having already released ‘Savior’, ‘Holika’ and ‘Ahead of Us’ on Ultra Music in 2014, Swoon is continuing into the New Year with the fruitful partnership that seemingly never stops churning out hit after hit. 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TOM SWOON RELEASES I AM YOU

 Track Of The Day  Tom Swoon & First State - I Am You As we move full steam ahead towards the impending festival season, Tom...

In Conversation With Sander van der Waal on the new First State album 'Full Circle'

<br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b style="background-color: white; color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To get as much of an inside track as possible on First State's third artist album, we caught up with the man behind it, Sander van der Waal for a down-low pow-wow! </b></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrDJfyNozzgspteW3XGsypmo679diV7cFEqh9e92mu266Gvz1nt7lBNSA3g1M4VuDUm-LVSck3FYjwW6FWR7DXVbLNn3ct8Z2G06qn4GoIL8y_cbRg4CYd1242RbCvOFCS-1-E3_kwDw/s1600/First-State-Press-Pic-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqrDJfyNozzgspteW3XGsypmo679diV7cFEqh9e92mu266Gvz1nt7lBNSA3g1M4VuDUm-LVSck3FYjwW6FWR7DXVbLNn3ct8Z2G06qn4GoIL8y_cbRg4CYd1242RbCvOFCS-1-E3_kwDw/s1600/First-State-Press-Pic-6.jpg" title="first state" width="266" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> Welcome, Sander! Where in the world are you today and what have you been up to? </span></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Sander: Thanks a lot, I'm in Holland right now. I just came back from a tour through India and today I'm working on some new music for this upcoming summer! </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> 'Full Circle', your third artist album, is on full release. What have the first round of reactions been like from your fans? </span></b></div> </b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Sander: I've had amazing reactions so far and pretty much got everything I've hoped for. It's always scary to release an album with new music, because you can never tell if people are going like it. But so far so good! </div> </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 680px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></td><td style="margin: 0px;" valign="centre" width="260px"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dabaa24465&view=att&th=144f3f84098b81b8&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1" /></span></span></td><td style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>> Have you picked up on any distinct early favourites in the track listing? </b></span><br /><br />Sander: Oh yes absolutely. Personally my favorites are 'Where You Are' with Quilla, 'Glow' with Eric Lumiere, 'Seeing Stars' with Sarah Howells and 'I Need Your Love', but as my mood changes from day to day - it could be a completely different list <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_624910909" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>.<br /><b><span style="color: #f1c232;"><br />> Your album titles, the last two in particular, have a degree of the cryptic, or 'hidden message' about them. With 'Changing Lanes', what was the meaning of its title? </span></b><br /><br />Sander: To be honest, my album titles are always highly cryptic, as I like to give people something to think about. For instance, my first album 'Time Frame' was me capturing the sound of that moment and it sounding relevant and fresh for that time (2007). My second album, 'Changing Lanes' (2010) was more about shifting direction, as I already saw that the most popular genre of that moment (trance music) had it's glory days and quite frankly it became boring to me to produce and play out. So that album was me saying goodbye to that chapter. </span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">And 'Full Circle'? </span></b></div> <span style="background-color: white; padding-left: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> Sander: Full Circle is a completion of an era for me, as I think I've found my way as a composer and musician and even as a DJ, I'm comfortable where I am now, right in the middle of everything that's pretty much what "Full Circle" means to me.</div> </span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white; padding-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">With the album, what was your end goal? What did you want to achieve with it musically? </span></b></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> Sander: What I wanted to achieve was not to sound like the next "EDM" artist with huge drops that actually bring nothing musical to the table. I didn't want to put any big club bangers on the album as I think that's not the point of an artist album. So what I've tried to achieve was to produce an album that's joyful to listen to and still has the nice foot tapping four to the floor, but with the right feel to it.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> Over what period of time did you record it? </span></b></div> </b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Sander: All in all I think the album took a year to produce and there were a lot of versions of the tracks that eventually made the final cut. I'm a fanatic when it comes to fine tuning a record, as you only have one chance to do it right. </div> </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 680px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-right: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> Give us some insight into the production process? Where do you start day-one, hour-one? </span></b><br /><br />Sander: All the records that I've produced the last years I've written the piano on first, mainly because I love the sound of it and secondly a melody has to sound great on everything that plays notes. So even though it's going be a detuned synth lead later, the skeleton idea is being made on the piano. With that being said, secondly I'm starting to think about how I want the record to flow and what drive the track is going have after it drops in. After that part the beat making process starts, and this is in my opinion the most time consuming as drums are pretty much the most important thing in the track (next to the theme of course). Once that's done I'm starting to arrange the record and making the skeleton track. From there on it's adding effects drum rolls etc, and you're as good as there.<br /></span></span></td><td style="margin: 0px;" width="260px"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" class="" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dabaa24465&view=att&th=144f3f84098b81b8&attid=0.3&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1" /></span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>> What would you say was the quickest, most straightforward track on the album to produce?</b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: That was ‘I Need Your Love’. I wrote that track in about 3 hours and when I went back to it, I didn't want to change anything as it just felt right from the start.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> And the trickiest, or most intricate/complex track? </span></b></span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sander: Likely, ‘Seeing Stars’ as it was a pop record that I wrote for a big pop artist in New York. Sarah wrote an amazing top line on it and to be honest I wasn't too sad about it when they took too long to sign the record. The thing with that record is its mainly piano's in the break, which is something not very common with the "EDM" machine running on full power. I've tried to keep that breakdown really intimate and indie-sounding and I think with that I brought something very unique.</span></div> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">> The track you’re most proud of from the album?</span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: That's hard, but if I had to pick one it would be between ‘Seeing Stars’ or ‘Glow’. I think the first one would win as I've got so many great memories of that record. Playing it out in so many countries with people singing along.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">> The track you think you’ll play out most this year?</span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: That's hard to say, as I still want to make separate club mixes of the records that I'm going put out as singles. But at a guess I’d think it would be ‘Where You Are’ with Quilla</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">> And the track you’re most likely to still be playing in 5 years time?</span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: Easily, ‘Seeing Stars’, because of it's a timeless piano theme.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">> The one the fans will love the most?</span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: Once again ‘Seeing Stars’, but ‘Where You Are’ is looking like a future favorite at the moment. So who knows!</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">> The album’s hardest sell, or its most challenging track?</span></b></div> <span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sander: ‘Annunaki’, as that record is like Alice in wonderland one weird but joyful trip.</span></div> </span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #979797; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; width: 680px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-right: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b>> You declared yourself ‘non-trance’ quite a few years ago. How has that artistic transformation been in terms of the music itself and your fans reaction to the stylistic change-up?</b></span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Sander: I've always been a mixed genre artist but with the transformation to the more progressive house side of thing I had some negative reactions from the older Trance fans. I think that community is the least forgiving of all music genres. But apart from that my fanbase is growing with about 3000 new fans each month, so for every negative reaction I get about 10 nice ones. As there is one thing I've learned from being an artist it’s that you can't make everybody happy. Doesn’t stop me trying though ;) </span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> How would you choose to stylistically classify yourself now?</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Sander: If I had to classify myself right now, it would be between progressive house and electro as it different per track. The great thing is that nowadays it doesn't really matter anymore as genres and formats are mixing so well together, which is a great thing. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>With so much sound clashing of styles these days, the sub-genre of a track is ever harder to classify. So people can get a broad idea of what you feel ‘Full Circle’ is about musically, what do you think are it’s:</b></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><br />More progressive cuts:</span><span style="color: black;">  'Worlds Apart',' I Need Your Love', 'Take The Fal'l, 'Glow', 'Seeing Stars'.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Housey tunes: 'Maze'<br />Electro-ish pieces: 'Anunnaki', 'One Push' and 'Humanoid'<br />None of the above!: The rest ;)</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">> Musically, who inspired and influenced you in your earliest years?</span></b></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 680px;"><tbody> <tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-right: 20px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: A few names actually, but mainly Tiesto, Gabriel & Dresden and even before that Jean Michelle Jarre and E.L.O.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> And in more recent electronic music times, which DJs and producers do you particularly take note of and have an appreciation for what they do? </span></b><br /><br />Sander: I really love what Matisse and Sadko are doing, I'm a big fan of Hard Rock Sofa and Axwell, Dberrie, Fedde Le Grand there are so many great producers out there at the moment. > Will you be touring in support of the album?</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: Yes I will be touring through North America later this year. I've just came back from India and will most definitely do a tour through Asia of course I won't skip some festivals this summer in Europe.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">> The album’s a good kick-off for the year; what else does 2014 hold in store for you?</span></b></span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: Thanks a lot! Yeah it's definitely a great way to start the year. My upcoming plans for this year are to expand on the progressive house vibe and sign some records to genre fitting labels and have some great collaborations. There's a lot happening behind the screens and I can't wait to tell you more but I can't say much more than that right now.</span></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks Sander!</span></b></span><br /> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sander: You're very welcome, thanks for this interview!</span></span></td><td style="margin: 0px;" width="260px"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dabaa24465&view=att&th=144f3f84098b81b8&attid=0.5&disp=emb&zw&atsh=1" /></span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqsmanaumyuhaoawqaaaumqehu/click.php" target="_blank"><br />www.firststatemusic.com</a><br /><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqsjaoaumyuhazawqataumqehu/click.php" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/FirstState.<wbr></wbr>Artist</a><br /><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqsbafaumyuhazawqaiaumqehu/click.php" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>firststatemusic</a><br /><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqshataumyuharawqakaumqehu/click.php" target="_blank">www.soundcloud.com/firststate</a><br /><br /><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqswaaaumyuhacawqaoaumqehu/click.php" target="_blank">www.lostlanguage.com</a><br /><a href="http://t.ymlp256.net/hqsqacaumyuhagawqafaumqehu/click.php" target="_blank">www.soundcloud.com/<wbr></wbr>blackholerecordings</a></span></span></td></tr> </tbody></table>

In Conversation With Sander van der Waal on the new First State album 'Full Circle'

To get as much of an inside track as possible on First State's third artist album, we caught up with the man behind it, Sander van der...

First State Releases 3rd Artist Album 'Full Circle'

<div style="background-color: white;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">In a comparatively short time frame Holland’s Sander van der Waal released his debut album on In Trance We Trance, before changing lanes for the new creative aesthetic of its Magik Muzik follow-up. Now, in 2014, he completes that initial three-album arc with ‘Full Circle’. For this new long-player, the spectrum of Van der Waal’s compound sound becomes ever yet more expansive. Frequency hopping across genre bands - often inside the confines of a single track, it beguiles the audiophile by exploring the EDM route less travelled. The only predictable feature of ‘Full Circle’ is its entire lack of predictability! </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneSzTAckoNRTheeQRyFxW-R-yeYRJ9Om_5fWAHaOzUBD6fwrkGrmj0epTpTK2a7_BC-jBZSitx8-tr4VjH9-uo-gC1zcAPEKvfKRJ3u3FNfyv3a-WcAybYQ08hMPObDxFdLHM3iqLjvw/s1600/First-State---Full-Circle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="magik muzik" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgneSzTAckoNRTheeQRyFxW-R-yeYRJ9Om_5fWAHaOzUBD6fwrkGrmj0epTpTK2a7_BC-jBZSitx8-tr4VjH9-uo-gC1zcAPEKvfKRJ3u3FNfyv3a-WcAybYQ08hMPObDxFdLHM3iqLjvw/s1600/First-State---Full-Circle.jpg" title="first state " width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Also along for this sonic ride, he’s brought many a standout vocalist, to the album, with performances by international singer-songwriters including Eric Lumiere, Sarah Howells, Relyk, Tyler Sherritt and others. Never knowing exactly what’s around the corner has rarely provided such a thrall-ish, edge-of-the-seat type listening experience!</span></div> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Coming through Magik Muzik / Black Hole Recordings </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1102774079" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3rd March 2014</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - </span><a href="http://t.ymlp226.net/uuuqwadaummysadaushafaeubyjj/click.php" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">order here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch the Preview Video on YouTube here- </span><a href="http://t.ymlp226.net/uuuqwadaummysadaushafaeubyjj/click.php" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> </span><br /> <div style="background-color: white;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">On the release of his third album, Sander stated:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #f1c232;"><strong style="font-family: inherit;">“</strong><em style="font-family: inherit;">‘Full Circle’ represents my journey as an artist and song composer, as I feel this album stands for the completion of an era and my development as an artist. With this album I’ve followed my heart and some songs took days while others took weeks or sometimes even months. Even though an album is never finished for a producer until it leaves it’s studio, the same goes for a circle as it has no beginning nor and ending.</em><strong style="font-family: inherit;"><em>”</em></strong></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Artistically, ‘Full Circle’ drops its first compass point with the vocoderizing ministrations of ‘I Need Your Love’ - its analogue MOOG-isms bestowing a Mylo-esque driven groove and floor-sense to ‘Full Circle’s onset.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Further in, Sander reunites with the first of several ‘Changing Lanes’ vocal alumni. Paper Aeroplanes front-woman Sarah Howells brings first vocal anthemia to ‘Skies On Fire’, and further in laments the loss of a love supreme on the TKO of ‘Seeing Stars’. Her acoustics initially come accompanied by flecked guitar and pianoforte, before Sander roguishly diverts and subverts them, rolling the snares and space-shot synth lines in underneath.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Another ‘Changing Lanes’ returnee is songstress Kyler ‘Relyk’ England, who etches her soulful burn onto First State’s 3rd. Last heard ruling on Tiësto’s ‘Take Me’ in 2013, she brings her tones and inescapably catchy and empathetic lyrics to ‘Take The Fall’, as Sander stokes the production engine with trance-fired synthery.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> </span><br /> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Equally accomplished in its vocal-free regions, First State’s instrumentals bring ‘Full Circle’ further sonic grades and shades. An unexpectedly soulful spin to the EDM sound on ‘Lourdes’; old-skool M1 piano uplift on ‘World’s Apart’ and an astonishing sound collage of violins and tech-through-elec grind on ‘Anunnaki’ all interconnect its vocal numbers. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Be in no doubt, the moment you think you have ‘Full Circle’s genre categorized, it will delight in confounding you! Eternally toughened by retro-futuristic chemical FX, ‘Humanoid’ blows back in consciously knockabout fashion to Daft Punk’s ‘Robot Rock’. ‘One Push’ meanwhile aces unchecked frenetic festival-ism: think an on-acid Tangerine Dream or Moroder’s ‘Tony’s Theme’ in a head-on electrode collision with Erol Alkan. </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Elsewhere Y chromosome vocalists are every bit as well represented. Across a deuce of tracks, US singer/songwriter Tyler Sherritt further broadens ‘Full Circle’s vocal spread with some indie-rock elements and edges. Introspection, vocal contemplation and lyrical existentialism are quick to hand on ‘Maze’ and ‘I’ll Never Die’. Just as fine is the floor illumination of ‘Glow’, which features the vocals and lyrics of Eric ‘Anthem’/’Love Will Bring It Back Around’ Lumiere.    </span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Drawing on sonic stylistic influences and inspirations from dance music and way, way beyond, ‘Full Circle’ brings a new track collection-come-expedition that through eclectic, amazing tangents and curves, grips the attention from primary beat to terminal point. It’s out <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1102774080" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 3rd</span></span> through Magik Muzik.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Tracklist:</span></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">01. I Need Your Love (3:11)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">02. Skies On Fire (featuring Sarah Howells) (5:10)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">03. Worlds Apart (3:39)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">04. Take The Fall (featuring Relyk) (4:48)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">05. Lourdes (4:43)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">06. I’ll Never Die (featuring Tyler Sherritt) (4:48)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">07. Nothing Lasts (featuring Neev Kennedy) (4:42)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">08. Anunnaki (3:20)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">09. Battle Of Hearts (featuring Fenja) (3:56)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">10. Seeing Stars (featuring Sarah Howells) (5:12)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">11. Where You Are (featuring Quilla) (4:44)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">12. Glow (with Eric Lumiere) (4:49)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">13. Humanoid (3:04)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">14. Maze (featuring Tyler Sherritt) (4:18)</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">15. 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First State Releases 3rd Artist Album 'Full Circle'

In a comparatively short time frame Holland’s Sander van der Waal released his debut album on In Trance We Trance, before changing lanes ...