Binary Finary – 1999

In my top 10 Trance ever. These are the 2 mixes you want. Both excellent. As soon as the Kaycee Remix starts the bass grabs you. It's a little more laid-back compared to the flip, but with that instantly recognisable "vocal stabs" in the break. Beautiful strings, then the filtered lead pluck slowly opening to the climax - nice! The second main break has the lead an octave higher, this is actually a great arrangement. Now the Gouryella Remix is different. To sum it up in a word would be 'intense'! It's probably the most euphoric, high energy, rushing trance track that reached commercial success. It is pure euphoria, ecstasy! With the usual Ferry Corsten bassline, the track chuggs along to the breakdown where the distorted digital lead and organ-esque pads surround you, it's like a mix of an epic cinematic film and a church organ at full volume. The build up is intense with the ever-climbing supersaw lead going up and up. When it drops, it drops hard and fast. This is Trance, '99 Trance.

It's a record that needs no introduction. It is simply everything that represents what is good about trance. Even 21 years on...

Both sides of this do something totally different, the kay cee mix is typical stephen bodzin stuff, just listen to his other tracks in the guise of mojave, van gott etc and you'll hear what i mean, progressive to the core, they tend to play this mix on skys Clubland music channel. On the flip Gouryella takes this to another level, many trance jocks played the paul van dyk mix but this mix beats that hands down for me, you cant but help pitch this up to +6 when you play it out. This track along with countless others such as veracocha - carte blanche, babe instinct - disco babes from outer space etc catapulted trance into the millennium in 1999. Its rise was sadly also its downfall as after 2000 trance music and indeed positiva tended to be corralled into the pen of "cheese" and "same old hands in the air stuff" and so vanished from many record shelves for eternity. So if not anything else this [for me personally] is a slice of trance history. so id recommend holding onto this, its not cheese as far as im concerned even if it was plastered on all those crap mix trance cds and played by Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules and Brandon Block.

Just played this track 16 years on and it's still epic and sounds great on vinyl, love it

Yes, I can swing with a bit of progressive trance now and then. And to my mind, the Gouryella remix of 1998/1999 is the best, aside from the possible exception of the original 1998 (which, to be fair, is a very different kind of trance track from most of the numerous remixes that followed). A good, driving bassline and a rich, lush pad incarnation of the main melody give the Gouryella version a highly euphoric feel. If you can deal with the long breakdown---which, as a trance-head back in the day, I certainly could---you are rewarded with an explosion of classic trance exuberance. This one really brings back memories. Great stuff.

wow 90's trance was just the best time to your CD"S and just have fun ,,,and this track again was in every trace mix simple but great