Well so much for my chronological order but this won’t wait!
I pre ordered Hernan Cattaneo’s latest release as soon as I learned about it last month, it arrived earlier this week and I’ve had to hold myself back from posting about it until I’d had chance to really listen to it. It’s been on in the car everyday and in the house so I feel I’ve got to know it well enough now.
The anxiety of putting a disc in for the first time with hopes that it will live up to my own high expectations is excruciating, so with fingers and toes crossed and silently saying to myself “please be as good as the others!” I pressed play and as early as track 2 of disc one I could relax, I knew it was gonna be good!
On first listen you know you’ve got something special but this is a different direction to the Sequential mixes which I have and love and will be posting about when the time comes, it’s also different to his Masters Series Part 6 which is also amazingly good. These discs are slower, bordering on chillout in some places especially disc 1 but as always the track selection and mixing are top quality and there are some first class high points.
Both discs have this dreamy, ethereal feel about them, they’re more like landscapes or atmospheres. Hernan’s sound seems to have matured, the tracks are highly intelligent, a million miles from other mix franchises offerings and all I have to say is… more please!
On Disc 1 track 4 Motherland and Track 17. Ventura are my personal favourites but really there a lot of great moments right across both discs.
Disc 1
1. Guy J – Lost and Found (Found A Corner Of Silence Mix) (c/w) Peter Keen – Musicians (Accapella)
2. Martin Garcia – Last Beautiful Flower
3. Ripperton – Des Promesses De Couleurs
4. Timewriter – Motherland (Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile Edit)
5. Pional – In Another Room (Reduxed Version)
6. Compuphonic – Sequoia (diskJokke Remix)
7. Hernan Cattaneo and John Tonks – Sendia
8. Lonya – De High (Audio Junkies Romantic Re-Edit)
9. Nobuyuki Tokunaga – Solid feat. Mia Tuttavilla (Conure Remix)
10. Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Atrial Rhythms
11. Microtrauma – Crickets
12. Nick Varon – Shibuya (Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile Remix)
13. Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Japanese Snowbell (Day Mix)
14. Mono Electric Orchestra – Indifference (Ambient Mix/Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile Edit)
15. Guy Gerber – The Mirror Game (Snake Pit Dub/Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile Edit)
16. Mercurio – California
17. Hal Incadenza – Ventura (Masters Series Edit)
Disc 2
1. Underset ft. Lifa – Moon Rover
2. Slok feat. My Favourite Robot – Feel Alive (Slok’s Original Vocal Mix)
3. Layo and Bushwacka! Feat. Cevin Fisher – Dancing In The Dark featuring (Guy Gerber and Tennis Remix)
4.Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Infoxication
5. Rodskeez – Left In The Dark
6. Ernest Luminor – Jaga (Pako and Frederik Remix)
7. Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Citycism
8. Umit Han – An Einem Traurigen Morgen (Mircrotrauma Remix)
9. Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Altair
10. Guy Mantzur and Stehpan Bazbaz – All Over Music
11.Kieran J – Symbiosis (Santiago Garcia Remix)
12.Hernan Cattaneo and Soundexile – Japanese Snowbell (Guy J Remix)
13. Fran Von Vie feat Cio May – Wake Me Up When Everything Has Changed
14. Agoria. – Panta Rei (Max Cooper Remix)
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