TITO PUENTE JNR FT INDIA - ‘OYE COMO VA’

(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)

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Tito Puente Jnr “There was magic in the music my father made. It made people happy, all over the world. My goal is to keep it alive, and in doing so, expose it to a whole new generation.”

This same ethos is mirrored by the hot new label Big In Ibiza who having resigning the huge 90’s classic dance mixes of the timeless song ‘Oye Como Va’ have reworked it with fresh mixes for 2008 opening it up to a whole new audience.

Having been covered consistently since it’s original Latin roots in the 1950’s, Tito Puente’s own son Tito Puente Jnr released his own definitive version alongside star vocalist India in the mid 90’s and shot into prominence with a massive Joey Musaphia mix, turning it into a huge New York style garage anthem which excited radio and club playlists & received solid support from the biggest DJs of the time.

Released alongside the original mixes are contemporary interpretations by Bassmonkeys, Love Assassins, James ‘Blakstar’ John, Filip Le Frick and others fusing Latin, Funk, Electro, House, Tribal & Minimal creating a huge summer anthem package sure to be rocking floors until Christmas and beyond.

Also available are the Wideboys Bassline Mixes and remixes by Andy BopH, Pedro De La Fiesta and many more all helping Oye Como Va to smash into the Cool Cuts Chart at #13.

                     

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Ibiza Closing Party 2008

(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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The third in Big In Ibiza’s 2008 Ibiza summer series, Ibiza Closing Party 2008, mixed by Big In Ibiza DJs is another 10 tracker rammed right to the brim with this seasons White Isle anthems!

Kicking things off with the No.1 DMC & Music Week Club chart topper, is The Wideboys and their Miami mix of Connected Ft Max’C – A Feeling.

Next on the agenda are Audioscape & Annikka (usually more known for their big room Trance anthems) with the House mix of the ‘All My Lovin’ single, forthcoming on Audioscape’s new Trance Form album. For this the crossover works amazingly well, with Annikka’s beautiful vocals succeeding in creating another big summer vibeing house anthem.

Other tracks to take note of throughout include the massive Ibiza Knights, ‘(Feels So) Good To Be Alive’. A track that shot into the Itunes top 20 off the back of Big In Ibiza’s Opening Party mixed by Jonathan Ulysses. This time with the full vocal Terrace mix that adds to that special euphoric, uplifting feel of the track and keeps this compilation’s sing-along theme running all the way through. There’s also the ‘Love Assassins’ mix of Filthy Louca’s massive ‘All Alone’, with its haunting, vulnerable vocal sample complimented by an uplifting piano to give the whole track a bittersweet feel good vibe. Big Piano’s also appear in the mix with Pedro De La Fiesta’s fiesta rework of The Angry Kids & Bob Marley’s ‘Mr.Brown’ and Chris MiMo Jones’ new club anthem ‘Parachute’.

Finally up is Chris MiMo Jones’ huge remix of this summers absolutely monstrous underground Ibiza Anthem, Picotto Vs Papini, ‘Gonna Get Ya’, Anthony Brooks & Tristan D’s Azzido Da Bass like smash, ‘Do You Know Who

I Am’ & last up is the Love Assassins again with their remix of Fonzerelli’s Infinity.

Tracklist

1. Connected ft MaxC – A Feeling (Wideboys Miami Mix)
2. Audioscape feat Annikka – All My Lovin (House Mix)
3. Angry Kids vs Bob Marley – Mr Brown (Pedro De La Fiesta Remix)
4. Roulette ft Charlotte McKinnon - Someone To Hold
5. Ibiza Knights - (Feels So) Good To Be Alive (Terrace Mix)
6. Filthy Louca - All Alone (Love Assassins Mix)
7. Picotto vs Papini - Gonna Get Ya (Chris MiMo Jones Remix)
8. Anthony Brooks And Tristan D - Do You Know Who I Am
9. Chris MiMo Jones - Parachute
10. Fonzerelli - Infinity (Love Assassins Dub)

                     

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CONNECTED FT MAX’C - “A FEELING”

(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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Big In Ibiza the new label from the people behind the resurgent UMM UK drop their biggest tune of the year Connected ft Max’C ‘A Feeling’. This song has had a long development from underground club anthem to worldwide club smash.

After more revocals than a classic Mowtown hit eventually the perfect performance came from Max’C (of Axwell ‘I Found U’ fame) who is set to collaborate with David Guetta, Soul Avengers, Todd Terry, StoneBridge and many more top acts this summer (Max’C has also opened for P Diddy and Snoop Dogg, acted in TV mini series & films and is an accomplished dancer, moving to Finland from the US to teach Hip Hop and Break Dancing at the Helsinki Dance Academy).

We believe in the vocals, this song moves people, it’s in the melody and the words and the Fonzerelli mix brings that interesting fusion of the electronic backing track crossing with a soulful vocal, which is exactly what made the classic ‘Sweet Dreams’ work so well. “A Feeling” has in fact had many mix treatments through bootlegs and remixes over the past 3 years that has made it an anthem in many different arenas.

So now, with the perfect rendition, killer new mixes, and huge new support meaning the track has reached over 2,500,000 listeners in it’s first three weeks of radio play and who knows how many more clubbers it’s reached up and down the country, even gaining the No.1 spot in both the Music Week Club chart, and the DMC Club chart. The summer of 2008 will most definitely be all about “A Feeling”!

Connected

CONNECTED is a lose group of producers, remixers, singers, musicians songwriters who communicate create and produce via the web, with Big In Ibiza as their hub. They have never met, and may never meet but relate to each others creativity and offer in each case a part of the jigsaw that makes the whole picture.

In the case of a Feeling, the song was conceived and composed by Stu Allan (Manchester), communicating with Phil Allen (engineer, musician and singer) who was based in the record companies London studios. Their communication was email, web messenger and phone.

Fonzerelli (Northern Ireland) has supplied key remixes as have Wideboys (Portsmouth) and Melodia (Namibia) but none have ever met and received and supplied their contributions via ftp sites. After several singers were used on the track eventually Max’C (USA resident in Finland) recorded his vocals in Finland and supplied them all via the web. For some people this may seem unremarkable for more many it would be a revelation.

The role of Big In Ibiza is to help the various creative people to link and contribute and ultimately for The A&R and production staff at Big In Ibiza to finalise the song and offer, again via the web, to the DJs and fans. This would have been inconceivable 10 years ago but is now very much a natural consequence of creativity and technology.

Including Mixes from…

Fonzerelli
Wideboys
Pedro De La Fiesta
Love Assassins
Melodia
7th Heaven
Pete Pritchard
Darwin
Outsource DJs
Acapella

Aaron ‘Fonzerelli’ McClelland has established himself as the man to turn to when dancefloors need rocking and has proven his point with # 1 Download & # 1 Label of the year on DJ Download, # 1 Beatport charts and being requested personally to play alongside Tiesto in Ibiza this year!

Platinum selling producers The Wideboys add to the package dropping massive pumping house and garage mixes cementing themselves as some of the hottest producers around with their new single Snowflake getting 1xtra & Kiss FM playlisted following their chart hit Daddy O ft Shaznay Lewis.

Additional remixes courtesy of Pedro De La Fiesta who made a huge name for himself on Tito Puente Jnr’s ‘Oye Como Va’ and Love Assassins who are establishing themselves as a premier remix team following the hype on their debut ‘Teardrops’ release. New Head of Nukleuz Green Pierre Pienaar (aka P.H.A.T.T.) toughens things up under his Melodia guise and CD Pool’s very own 7th Heaven add their own unique party vibe.

                     

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