Wednesday 4 March 2009

To make it easy :-) ...
A blog page will be added to Mike.be and on the myspace's of M.I.K.E and Push by the end of the week.
I can say that the new Push album is nearly there...
Expect teasers going around soon!
Mike

Monday 9 February 2009

- Push - Global Age -

Hi all, and welcome to the official Push "Global Age" blogger page :)
Here you can follow what i'm doing in my studio right now, and see how the new Push album progresses.
I'm very exited about the new Push album, 5 years after "Electric Eclipse" and almost 10 years after my Push debut album "From Beyond".
The comeback is a bit harder then i though to be honest, as people would like to see me writing anthems all the time like "Universal Nation" or "Strange World".
But it's not that easy.
The 2008 comeback with the "Universal Voice E.P." was great, with great reviews and reactions.
We're in a different time scheme, a new generation, and there are so many subgenre's in the global dance scene of today.
Back in the days, trance was trance, and techno was techno, but now all those subgenre's are blended into each other, and that makes it an interesting tool to work with.
My aim with the new album is to bring back to good old trance feel, updated with the sound of today, mixed in with all kinds of edm genre's.
Expect, yep, for the very first time, 2 vocal tracks!
One is nearly done, and co written by Portland (U.S.)  based Elsa Hill.
It's a really cool trancer, 132bpm only, and it has the old skool trance feel all over it.
Another vocal track i start the coming weekend with a girl named Naomi is very refreshing.
She's U.K. based, but she has a voice ..wow..this can be really something big.
But i only have a small part of the song ready yet.
At the moment i'm doing the mix down of the opening track called "On The First Day".
This one can be described as the typical electro trance sound, though with the Push touch all over it.
A really cool hard bassline with some dreamy triggering pads.
The next weeks i might drop some previews, who knows :)
That's it for now, back to work ...