| Mike Koglin & Marc Vedo - "Dirty Monster" Review |
 Mike Koglin and Marc Vedo both return to Five AM with a massive collaboration aptly named ‘Dirty Monster’. Mike & Marc have both been cutting swathes through the scene for a long while now and their meeting here is a rough trip into gritty tech-trance that we are all really getting high off these days. Add this to a remix from surging new talent Richard Durand who is taking on the world with his fresh thinking remixes and intense DJ sets. Well known as Tiesto's favourite remixer, altogether FiveAM have an extraordinary package to deliver. Read on for more details about this tune....
The original mix springs into action with a pop of echoed sonic and snap of whipping electric arcs. Stab lines punctuate, ever increasing with moody presence. It licks around with a hint of old skool flavour over bang up to date tech streamlining. Gritty sounds fizz and pop all over up to a fanfare synth and straight back into the mechanical bliss of rolling beats and jerking funk lined bass tones. Richard Durand sets down for one of his finest works of studio sorcery and tweaks up Dirty Monster with a day glow fresh emotion. Blurts and pops still abundant, lead up to an ingenious bubbling synth line that moves round the set pace with glorious efficiency. Rapid fire shots of glistening globules bouncing around with twist s of electric funk. The riff line leaps up and really sings out a line that uplifts and soothes. Pumping along with characteristic Dirty Monster grit and layering a beautiful mood over that enwraps the listening and adds some space fuel for dance floor upheaval. TheTranceArena.com's verdict:
Original Mix: The Original Mix starts off as it means to go on - pounding and gutsy! The intro starts off with a 'chunky', energetic feel to it, and climbs with the aid of stabbing chords and the occasional sweep too. It has a very moody vibe to it, and a slight Electro feel too. Once upon a time, Mike Koglin was more renowned for his more uplifting sound, but these days, he seems to prefer a Techier sound - and this tune highlights that. It combines a Techy bassline, with Trancier chords and a hint of Electro-edged elements too, which works very well indeed. The breakdown is very dramatic and powerful, allowing for a massive hands-in-the-air moment before it climbs back towards its peak. The main melody isn't particularly catchy - one you leave the club, you'll forget it completely, however, it has a fantastic repetitive looping structure which will really grab your attention on the dance floor. I really like this tune - it'll never be a classic, but its one of those tunes that will hang around in your set and still sound fresh after several months. A great tune if you like darker basslines, but with dramatic breakdowns. A powerful and fairly unique tune - and a different sound than we're normally used to from FiveAM. 8/10 Richard Durand Remix: After hearing the original mix, I thought that Richard Durand would be the perfect person to remix it - it was just the type of tune that would work really well with his trademark sound added to it, but in all honesty, I was slightly disappointed. Normally, i'd associate Richard Durand's productions with loads of energy, oozing in guts, and sounding very different to the work that everyone else is doing, but I didn't feel that with this tune - it doesn't sound like his usual style at all. The bassline is dark and tough, and climbs at a steady pace, accompanied with stabbing chords and a sweeping loop, to form the main intro which leads towards the breakdown. The breakdown itself is quite light and catchy, however, I felt that it was rather 'basic' and didn't really have any real appeal to it. Trance breakdowns are supposed to do as the genre title suggests and leave you in a Trance - however, this breakdown just left me disappointed. The melody was also not very appealing - I felt that it was a basic loop with very little else going on. It didn't really build up to anything - instead, it just looped and looped for a few minutes with various bits of percussion being added and taken away again just to break it up a bit. I much preferred the original mix over the Richard Durand mix - I felt it had a lot more going on and would sound more appropriate in a peak-time set. 6/10
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