Above & Beyond - Can't Sleep flac album

The Remixes; all of which offer something quite different in style but equally brilliant and interesting, are as good as or even better than the Original Mix: The Signum Remix steals the show, as it doesn’t loose any of the vocals yet offers a hard, fast, futuristic, atmospheric and more euphoric trance feel overall without compromising the quality - no question, it's a future trance classic. The Maori Remix is very very dark and is full of looping, rasping, chopped-up synths and a heavy yet not high BPM bass. In my opinion this is the underground trance fans choice - typical of Maor Levi's "Maori" work, just listen to 'Destruct' and you've pretty much got the overall feel for this mix. The Daniel Kandi Remix is great "Dream Trance", it's nice and uplifting with lots of beautiful effects and the main synth has been morphed into one of those Daniel Kandi 'piano key specials', not only this but there is a wonderful breakbeat section before the song peaks after 3 and a half mins - very good indeed. The ATB Remix has a really progressive trance feel, and if it wasn’t for the existence of the three other (fantastic) mixes above - then this would be played a lot more. The synth has been extended to match the slower BPM, hence this is a highly simplistic approach for a progressive trance track. Here ATB has produced an underrated interpretation of a true classic. The Sonorous Remix is quite disappointing. Although it offers an initially interesting feel it is not fast enough, and without a lead synth (unlike a Euphonic artist to do that), nor do the background effects to match the vocals; it's ok but not good enough especially compared to the other mixes on show. Therefore not the best work by one of my top artists form the Euphonic label. The Ian Carey Vocal/Dub Mixes are very different to the others, as this artist merges a very progressive house feel with a quite typical trancer. This has a really good beat, lots of welcome effects and a catchy synth, however I am not too fond of the Dub Mix without the vocals - it's just a little too minimal.