EnMass - Avalon / Bass High

Bass High is an average track by itself, nothing special. But next to Avalon, nothing can really compare.

Avalon is one of the finest examples of breakdown and buildup style trance. Once the first breakdown begins with harmony and melody, and a monstrous bass, flowing in and out sans percussion, you know that a something big is coming. And this track does not disappoint.

The progressive and slow buildup of instruments escalates into a climatic bombardment of harmony, melody, and drums, that is unparalleled in most underground electronic dance music tracks. These are the kind of songs that shape and define underground dance music and give it its separate place in music. The sonic and harmonic achievements in Avalon are worthy of a place in dance music history and should be missed by none.

I am primarily a house and techno DJ, with a focus on progressive house, but such a classic trance track like this should be in every electronic dance DJ's record box regardless of preferred genre.