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noizemagazine - noiZe Magazine Issue 60 May 2009 - Index

MUSIC REVIEWS
by Jamie Nicholes
WARM UP Kaskade The Grand
Following the immense success of Kaskade’s first mixed
set, Bring The Night, which spent what feels like months
at the top of the iTunes’ dance chart, The Grand continues
with the same gorgeous formula of the best sing-a-long
house and progressive you’ve never heard before. The set
consists of a number of Kaskade’s own tracks, remixed by
the likes of EDX, Mischa Daniels, Mind Electric, Santiago &
Bushido and Tommy Trash, and a number of Kaskade’s remix
production for other artists, including Jes’s “Imagination,”
Zip Zip Through The Night’s “Beestung” featuring Alex
Kenji, Plumb’s “In My Arms,” and a truly amazing track,
“This Is How It Goes” by Haley [Gibby], the vocalist half of
Summer of Space, the group she formed with Ryan Raddon
(Kaskade).
HANDS UP Junior Vasquez Generation Next
Three years have passed since we last heard Junior create a
lead-heavy set of thumping dance floor bliss (Party Groove’s
White Party Vol.7), and it was time to remind the world
why Junior is and will always be one of the godfather’s of
Clubland. In the last few years, the words “Junior Vasquez
Club Mix” have been oddly absent from maxi singles save
for a few Britney and Pink tracks. After the huge run of
Vasquez mixes that went mainstream in the early 2000s, he
seems to have returned to strobe-pierced darkness, the only
reminder of his existence to those not hearing him live being
the occasional bootleg remix floating around the Internet.
But with Generation Next, the hiatus is over and Vasquez
proves in 13 tracks that as club music goes through its next
adolescence, his throne will remain at the forefront of it all.
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