In the RMX-department I actually only liked FREq – Strange Attractor (Liquid Soul Remix) Really nice work, adding a new perspective by digging out the melodic part a little deeper & still not wandering to far from the original.
The other 2 didn't really appeal to me. If you can't make it better or different (especially Switch) , maybe just don't touch it at all?

Zen Mechanics – Environmental Porn is more FREq than FREq: nice sounds, but not very original, imo

Morax – Lost In The Woods I never heard of Morax, but I'd like to! Nice powerful bass-line & unexpected twists. First standout original track. More of this please

Casa Flava – Further South (Deep Mix) & Manuel Duego - Deception represent the deeper more housier side of progressive here & they definitely take the cake! Somz hints of a melody, nice rhytms & flows. What was lacking a little until now was tension & these guys know how to build a nice break! Both are excellent for Sunday afternoon progressive-floors or a Hi-Quality-Night-@-the-Club.

Nyquist – Singularity (FREq Revision) DP put it well: everything is going on in the back of the track/mix? So maybe this has to be played really LOUD like X-dream? Not thàt impressive really...

Instead of spending their money on a nice booklet (come on: 3 pages & the same cover art AGAIN ???) Iboga prefers to continue their good tradition of adding a Bonus Track. Here it's Nasser with a track I would describe as Israeli House Music. Nice hypnotising sounds. As far as cross-over potential goes: this is looking at a very different direction indeed. But still good stuff...

So in conclusion:

I like it, but for very different reasons than I thought I would.
Nice tracks by new names, 2 dissapointing rmx & only 1 "new" track by FREq himself, which didn't break records with me either.
But ofcourse FREq's main achievement here was obviously to compile the tracklist & in general (heavily) inspiring some of the artists featured here.
Recommended for openminded ears, although far from the 9/9 straight jaw-droppers I had hoped for...

Iboga Records based in Denmark is out with their sixth chapter in their Set series, as usual focusing on progressive trance. This time it is compiled by the pretty wellknown prog trance artist Freq (dj Frequence), who has also picked out a couple of progressive house tracks here.

Freq has managed to pick some tracks here that will probably be appreciated both in the progressive house scene, and in the progressive trance scene. A couple of the tracks become a little bit too housy for my taste, such as the Beckers track, which should probably fit better in a disco than on a progressive trance floor. Those vocals we get in there is so annoying! Anyway, we get some really trancey, trippy tracks here too, such as the quite massive Zen Mechanics track (my favourite on this compilation) and the deep Liquid Soul remix of the Strange Attractor track originally made by Freq himself. The tracks are well put together, so we get a nice flow through the compilation.

Iboga Records has managed to compile a CD that should fit the taste of a bigger crowd than the usual progressive trance scene. I’m sure many of these tracks will be found on several progressive house floors too this fall. Another example of how small/difficult the border between progressive house and trance is.

Slicker than your average!

The 33rd (!) CD release by Danish label Iboga Records is the 6th in the notorious Set-series… The 4th was Israeli proggy trance, whereas the 5th was smooth progressive summer choons… This one is compiled by FREq (Aran Gallagher) under his DJ FREquence moniker… It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the FREqqy sound, so I’ve been looking forward to this particular compilation for a long time… Let’s find out what Aran has cooked up for us this time…

Another well-adjust journey in the Iboga Set-series… Maybe not as good as Set/5 but its damn close. As always with Iboga, everything reeks quality here – from the cover art to the informative release notes… Pure class!

Aran has picked some real gems here, and besides maybe from the Switch Remix, there are no bad tracks on this compilation… Iboga Records are truly the undisputed heavy weight champs of progressive trance… A safe buy for anyone into slick-yet-edgy progressive trance – and I’m sure this will appeal to the crossover crowd too… Enjoy!

Favourites: 1, 2(!), 4(!), 5, 6(!), 7, 9