New York, NY (Top40 Charts) In a single album stroke, late 2015 saw one of Europe�s most established electronic music houses celebrate their landmark 500th release. The temptation for �Bonzai &
Friends � 500� to stroll through the highest heights of their estimable catalogue - now spanning almost a quarter of a century of musical operations, was doubtless strong. The label though went �the other way� and instead of backwards, looked very much towards the future. They tasked their producer bedrock with the creation of a mind-blowing 50 new tracks - ones that would construct as an album and go down in the annals as both a long-player-great and as a portrait of all-things-Bonzai.
Against seemingly overwhelming odds, FFWD six months and the label have managed to go one better again. 20 of Bonzai�s all-star assemblage have picked out their favourite tracks from the original �500� album, returned to the studio and reimagined them. If �500� wasn�t the absolute essence of the label before, it most certainly is now�
Listen to �Bonzai &
Friends � 500 Remixed� via Bonzai Progressive�s Soundcloud channel here
Get �Bonzai &
Friends � 500 Remixed� via Beatport here
Highlights of its highlights, first amongst its equals, best of the best � they�re all but impossible to pick out from the album�s embarrassment of remix riches. We�ll mention a few though!
�Vega Shining� from Airwave (�a tune in itself worthy of representing 20 years of the label�said LessThan3) gets an engrossing 10+ minute-long remix companion from Australian psy-ops specialist Satinka. Airwave himself takes Spaniard�s Alex Vidal �Blue Twilight� on a sublimely epic, not to mention cosmically themed remix-ride. Having recently dropped his own debut artist album and mix-comps, Audio Noir furnishes John 00 Fleming �The Dark Ranger� with an Odyssey Remix remap. Matt Holliday reconfigures Rick Pier O'Neil�s �Signal� in dark and deliciously humid fashion, while Matt�s own �Prizma� receives an epic, beatific remake courtesy of that man Yuriy From Russia. Crocy waxes galactic on Rise And Fall�s �Looking Forward�, whilst Gai Barone produces a beautifully dark, labyrinthine twist-cum-take on �East Caf�s �Minus Ten� with his Ode To That Night Remix.
01. Phi-Phi - Hiccup (East Cafe Remix) 02. East Cafe - Minus Ten (Gai Barone Ode To That Night Remix)
03. Alexey Lisin featuring
Alexandra Pride - Sum Of Space (Matan Caspi Remix)
04. Airwave - Vega Shining (Satinka Remix)
05. John 00 Fleming - The Dark Ranger (Audio Noir Odyssey)
06. Thorin - Dreaming of A Better World (Nico Parisi Remix)
07. Steve Sai - The Void (Rick Pier O'Neil Remix)
08. Alex Vidal - Blue Twilight (Airwave Remix)
09. Rick Pier O'Neil - Signal (Matt Holliday Remix)
10. Matt Holiday - Prizma (Yuriy From Russia Remix)
11. Manu Riga - A Sense of Hope (Alfonso Muchacho Remix)
12. Rise And Fall - Looking Forward (Crocy Remix)
13. Yuriy From Russia -
Streets of Budapest (AudioStorm Remix)
14. Matan Caspi - Cassandara (Dharmalogy Remix)
15. LoQuai - Numans Prayer (Alex Vidal Remix)
16. AudioStorm - I Will Forget All Bad Things (Manu Riga's Remember This Remix)
17. Crocy - Bedroom Stories (Steve Sai Remix)
18. Alfonso Muchacho - Darkosaur (Narel's Deep Hours Version)
19. Platunoff - Two Faces (Manu Riga & Mimi Erotique Remix)
20. Alexey Lisin featuring
Alexandra Pride - Sum Of Space (Kevin Vega Remix)
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