Johan Gielen - Show Me What You Got (Tunes For You)
Fundamental Recordings
Catalogue Number: TFY002
Johan Gielen is part of the legendary Airscape who released such classics as
L'Esperanza and Pacific Melody. He has also been involved in producing a track
for Alice Deejay and has remixed tracks by Chicane, Delerium, & Tiesto. Here he
brings us his second release on Tunes For You - a pounding tech trance number with
an accompanying Montana mix on the flip.
Original Mix
This mix sounds like it's a combination of Sander Van Doorn VS Outback! Starts off
directly with a nice hard kick drum and a fuzzy synth every 4 bars before kicking in
with a thudding baseline. A small break introduces some broken up vocals and a dark pad,
which is built up over 8 bars before dropping into an added dark baseline. The track
continues to build using mini breaks to keep the audience's attention, until the main
break where swirling synths rise up until an echoed vocal kicks in which is where the
main riff is introduced. There is also a very nice second riff added as a background
layer to compliment the main one and it works very nicely indeed. The build up is left
a little thin when the track drops for the first time and the top synth layer does sound
rather cheesy to say the least! The track is structured much like most trance and tech
trance is and I feel it's let down a lot by not having a really massive build up which
takes the audience to the peak before the breakdown. The cheesy riff is unnecessary,
but doesn't hinder it from being a decent overall effort.
Montana's Greenwhich Breeze Remix
This mix is much more electro house orientated and wouldn't sound out of place in
Judge Jules' box! Starts off with a rather subtle, but still rather hard kick before
fading in a layer of bass nice and slowly which sounds nice and dark. Then comes a
subtle riff which accompanies the bass line quite nicely. Breaks on about 1m 40secs
and introduces the main riff and builds up with the bass line to a crescendo then stops
and adds a layer of fx and builds up again. The drop is a bit of an anti climax me thinks
- the track doesn't burst into life - just goes back to the same as it was before the break.
The main riff is added again quietly at first, but gets louder. Then there is a really
nice synth added which accompanies to the main riff really nicely. The main breakdown and
build up doesn't disappoint as much as the first drop did.
The Montana mix is a very nice alternative to the Original Mix, but it would still
be the original that I would use out in a club.
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Review by Tom
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