Category: Song Of The Day

SONG OF THE DAY: Schiller – “Sleepless”

It often confuses me how certain DJ/producers explode out of nowhere while other amazing artists seem to never receive the international success for the amazing music they create.? Schiller is a German producer/DJ who has been releasing incredible trance/electro/breakbeat records since the mid-’90s.? His tracks with vocalists like Kim Sanders, Anggun, Sarah Brightman, September, and Nadia Ali blur the line between pop and underground in quite a wonderful way.? For his new track, “Sleepless,”? he is seemingly inspired by the stadium progressive sound but manages to put his own spin on it.? The retro trance/breaks hybrid (think old school 4 Strings/Ayla) is a perfect counterpoint to balance the nearly cliched-3 chord stadium hook that is so omnipresent. The vocals are angelic, and almost operatic in the way they float almost in a sleepless haze, above the track.? If you haven’t experienced Schiller’s music before, “Sleepless” is a great introduction and I strongly recommend that you check out “Das Glockespiel” along with his many quality vocal collaborations.

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SONG OF THE DAY: Tomcraft – “Like A Roller”

A word can have so many meanings… On the surface, Tomcraft’s new track is a modest electro track with a repetitive, nursery rhyme kind of vocal on top. The hook of the beat and the vocal loop become insanely addictive as it develops throughout the track. I am having vague flashbacks to Sarina Paris for some reason, but then I realize its the word “roller” has myriad meanings- the lyric develops into a roll of film, yet in any EDM scene you are going to imagine that roller describes someone tripping on ecstacy. Then comes the video with clownface-painted girls rollerskating. While the original mix is the clearest vision, the club mix adds a sharp synth line, and the David Jones mix might work better in the bigger rooms with a more progressive sound. Yeah, it’s not Mozart, but there is something trippy and addictive to this earworm of a dark electro record.

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SONG OF THE DAY: Mysto + Pizzi – “Galax”

You never know what you are going to get from a Mysto & Pizzi track. The guys behind the infamous “Somebody’s Watching Me” cover (used in the Geico commercial) also created the gorgeously epic “Where is Love” with Jonny Rose. For “Galax,” the zany duo turn their attention to the big rooms with a massive electro monster. Starting off with a sparse kick loop, the intensity slowly builds as the pieces are added -a synth swoop, a foreboding glitch noise, a screechy lick. You can feel something major is going to happen and then the drum fill builds and explodes into full-on evil electro madness. “Galax” is quite an apt title as there is a spacy feel to it, like this could be the used in a movie for fight scene between spaceships. The dropout to the pretty part makes you think there will be a vocal topline of some sort, but there isn’t (actually no vocals at all on the track except for a few quick male vocal snippets in the build). The build-up of the dropout uses a few seconds of broken beats, but thankfully doesn’t fall into the dubstep breakdown cliche so often deployed. DJs looking for a primetime, big room electro floorfiller will do well to drop “Galax.”

Image Courtesy of Ultra Records.