- After searing through dancefloors in the northern hemisphere’s summer, ‘Across The Ocean’ now comes to life with a set of remixes by Max Graham, Dean Coleman and Samio under the watchful eye of Yoshitoshi Records.
The original delivers 12 minutes of many glorious and uplifting moments. Laden with a healthy portion of infectious melodies and a shaking bassline, the continual slow build of the elements help reinforce the strength of this track. The main breakdown features an old school piano and lifts up the overall feeling nicely, though quickly overshadowed by the strong bassline and melodies.
Max Graham is up next with his Manta Ray Remix as it takes it up notch with smooth production full of grit and energy. Apart from providing solid beats and sublime melodies, Max delivers a unique and devastating bassline that will surely turn a dance floor on its head. An epic breakdown really boosts the quality of the overall feel. Rather impressive to say the least.
Label favourite Dean Coleman shows his colours with a memorable remix full of great rolling melodies and huge breakdowns, bundled with loads of emotion. Dean stays true to the original and features piano samples throughout while overlaying a chugging bassline and drums. The special addition of a gorgeous middle eastern vocal gives this mix a little variety.
Moving on with Samio, as he returns to deliver deep seated remix full of dark pulsating rhythms and trickling melodies whilst pulling in that emotive element from the original. The mix just rolls along nicely and when it turns down into the breakdown, things turn a little sideways with some new sounds. But it soon moves back into the main dark bassline which is quite a standout here.
Reliving the summer is what this release is all about. Put quality and quantity together and you have a hot package. Varied remixes by all involved and it’s quite hard to put my finger on what’s the hottest. All I can say is give this a listen!