Today I want to recur to a – for me – absolutely heartbreaking tune. I do love the original mix of Darren Porter’s Spellbound, so do I love the Ferry Tayle remix. Both these mixes are part of the peak where Trance can lead – emotional, motivational, deep, still euphoric and banging.
The hearbreaking part is, that Ferry Tayle produced and played an early version on one of his sets. This differs from the the released remix in minor (or major?) points. Whereas the released version had pluck synths all over and the beats where somewhat lighthearted, this unreleased one has a banging kickdrum and features something that changes the complete atmosphere in the break: the piano. The pluck synth has a nice sound and leads you into the silent part, while the piano makes everything sound so right, soothing, being warm and harmonic. This is something the pluck synth couldn’t do.
And to this day – mind you: being released in 2013! – I can’t understand why they changed it in the first place. And why the early version never got released afterwards. Either Ferry or Darren Porter or Monster Tunes must have rethought it and have the enlightenment that this tune is just so much better than the released mix. This is so different and such unbelievably better, I can’t get my head around it!
Having lost so many words about it, here is the unreleased remix:
For comparison you might want to listen to the released version: