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Release Information
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Artist: Cosmic Gate
Title: Wake Your Mind
Label: Black Hole Recordings
Cat. No.: Black Hole CD 85-2
Tracks: 14
Size: 228.29 MB
Quality: 320kbps / 44.1kHz / Full Stereo
Genre: Trance
Street date: 2011-10-24
Store: http://www.beatport.com
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Tracklisting
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1. Cosmic Gate & Arnej - Sometimes They Come Back For More 7:34
2. Cosmic Gate & Emma Hewitt - Be Your Sound 4:14
3. Cosmic Gate & Cary Brothers - Wake Your Mind 6:08
4. Cosmic Gate - The Theme 4:25
5. Cosmic Gate, Myon & Shane 54 and Aruna - All Around You 5:32
6. Cosmic Gate & Alana Aldea - Never Apart 5:43
7. Cosmic Gate & J'Something - Over The Rainbow 4:56
8. Cosmic Gate & Andrew Bayer - Nothing Ever Lasts 6:16
9. Cosmic Gate & Emma Hewitt - Calm Down 5:47
10.Cosmic Gate - Barra 3:45
11.Cosmic Gate & Cathy Burton - Drifting Away 5:42
12.Cosmic Gate & JES - Flying Blind 6:09
13.Cosmic Gate - Perfect Stranger 5:34
14.Cosmic Gate & Alana Aldea - Beautiful Destruction 6:00
Total Track Time 77:45
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Release Notes
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"Heralding a throng of fresh new tracks from the respected musical minds
of Nic and Bossi, their fifth studio album includes the recent single
The Theme and 2010Æs epic, majestic Barra; co-productions with
international artists like Arnej, Myon & Shane 54 and Andrew Bayer and
vocal team-ups with singers including Emma Hewitt, Aruna, JES, Cary
Brothers, Cathy Burton + more.
Dreamtime is over. Wake Your Mind!!
2011 has proved to be another extraordinary musical year in the lives of
Cosmic Gate. ItÆs already brought the release of their early years
retro-refit album æBack 2 The FutureÆ - singles from which took up
residence in BeatportÆs Top 10 for an unprecedented 3 straight months.
TheyÆve also delivered their hugely received Essential Mix debut for BBC
Radio 1 and have already brought the C.G. experience to close to a 100
clubs, arenas and festivals around the world.
Now û saving their biggest and best till last û theyÆre about to crown
the year with the release of their new artist album. Nic says: ôWake
Your Mind is ourcollective call-out to the EDM universe. We want this
album to shake up peopleÆs conceptions of our musicàö ôAnd blow the
lingering, out-dated misconceptions to pieces!ö adds Bossi.
From the first beat and bar of the album, C.G.Æs finely tuned sonics
tear relentlessly at the speaker fabric, with the strident, spiked
synths of their Arnej collaboration Sometimes They Come Back For More
leading the charge. Hot on its heels is their new single, Be Your Sound,
which sees Nic and Bossi re-teaming (after 2009Æs Not Enough Time) with
IDMA-winning vocalist Emma Hewitt. On Wake Your Mind vocals play an
ever-greater part of their sound-design and the album sports some of
their very best. Taking time out from his film & TV singer-songwriter
activities (including work on Easy A & GreyÆs Anatomy), Cary Brothers
provides the contemplative, low-fi, rock-ish refrain for the albumÆs
outstanding title track. Cathy Burton meanwhile applies serious uplift
on Drifting Away, while Wake hits it euphoric high around the stabbed
synths and up-rush of Over The Rainbow (vocalled by South African singer
JÆSomething). Scene darling JES supplies the canÆt-miss vocal hook to
Flying Blind and at the other end of the tempo scale AustraliaÆs Alana
Aldea provides from-the-heart lyrics and flawlessly articulated
vocallament to the slow burning Never Apart.
The Theme û Cosmic GateÆs cover of Jurgen VriesÆ livewire club-smash û
delivers another floor bomb-drop. Its appearance in Nic & BossiÆs early
summer club sets was the albumÆs vanguard track and sparked a rash of
æhow-do-I-get-this?Æ questions from some of the worldÆs biggest DJs.
As ever Cosmic Gate have looked to the less obvious margins to seek out
the most imaginative co-production partners to work with on the album.
Alongside Anjunadeep/Beats artist Andrew Bayer, they hit the æHÆ in
æHouseÆ hard with Nothing Ever Lasts, which combines canyon-deep beats
with swirling, sky-scraping prog atmospherics. Another vocal reunion
(after the Sign of the Times track Under Your Spell) sees the Cosmics
back in the studio with U.S. vocal doyen, Aruna. Completing the line-up
(and forming something of a trance super-group in the process!) are
Hungarian studio wizards Myon & Shane 54, and collectively theyÆve
created the heady, intoxicating All Around You.
Diverting brilliantly, Nic & Bossi continue to chart new courses and
directions on Wake Your Mind. Whether it be the low-end tempo and
hard-warp effects of Beautiful Destruction (Alana Aldea vocalling again)
or the familiar, drifting sweep of their Brazil-gazing Barra, the album
provides a 360░, all-tastes-catered-for listening experience.
Forget what you think you knowà and Wake Your Mind!"