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Opencloud feat. Kristy Hawkshaw - Time Stand Still (Proton Music)
This epic release from Opencloud features Kristy Hawkshaw, a vocalist who has appeared on many classic progressive trance tunes. This release is a nice try to maintain that feel, but utterly falls short. There are so many remixes on this release it's hard to tell what's what so let me tell you.

The Original mix, you would think that for a classic remix-creating type epic prog/trance tune, that it should be a simple track, showcasing the deep sensual vocals of Kristy, with a simple deeper house type of feel. But actually quite the opposite. It's a complex mishmash of overlapping melodies making it hard to even discern or hear the vocals and empathize why it's an original in the first place.

The Royal Sapien Remixes all sound pretty much the same just with different beats; a breaks, a DNB and cheesy prog version. The breaks version is all that is needed here. The others aren't needed, and just sound like a mash up of beat with the same vocal structure, and no new or unique vocal edits or twists.


The Sancho and E-Lation remix brings this release finally some relief. This is exactly the type of track that should have been the original in the first place! This is by far the best utilization of melodic beat and vocal structure of the release. This uses the beautiful vocals of Kristy to it's fullest potential, and a true understanding of what it all means. This track completely saves the release and should be in many melodic prog lover record bins everywhere.

The Slim Yelow's Remixes try to bring an edgier almost industrial feel to it, but the rhythm structures are actually quite boring and repetitive and don't even have any vocals. There doesn't seem to be a reason for them to be on this release.

Overall this release is quite disappointing. With a great vocalist backing this one, the actual accompanying beats are quite lacking. We usually expect more from Proton and recent releases are no exception.

The only saving factor on this release is the true deep house version from Sancho and E-Lation; the only ones to truly understand and accompany the beautiful vocals from Kristy Hawkshaw.




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