All 16 tracks from the original album have been anointed with remix treatment, with each producer or group carefully assigned a particular track in order to best demonstrate their unique interpretation of Markus’ sounds. Kicking off with the mystic Alpha State, taken to another level and primed for the clubs by Coldharbour favorite Mike Foyle, the journey moves into broodier waters; with haunting basslines that could only be associated...

Josh Gabriel’s Different Pieces is devoted to discovering and developing emerging artists, so the release of Khaz’s debut artist EP, ‘The Bright Lights’, is another milestone in the rapidly expanding catalog of this visionary new label. While Khaz may be best known as the vocalist and writer for classic trance tracks like Markus Schulz’s ‘Dark Heart Waiting’ and ‘Cause You Know’, The...

Well, I must say, I feel its been a very productive trip so far.  Ive got 4 new singles so far in the works in the first 2 weeks in Holland, and still have a blitz of producers to work with in the last week.  The weather has been a blessing Ive been told, and the Netherlands team keeps doing great in the world cup.  Everyone here  seems to be extraordinarily upbeat (could be the football, or just an everyday attitude). I’ll try to...

If everybody felt the same it would come to me If everything I had before, I could be the beginning If all we knew had gone away, you’d call me the last man standing And over the edge we would drift away

Track to track Inducing the trancelike condition Markus wanted to stimulate for the album, D.Y.D. overtures with the beatless shimmered finery of ‘Alpha State’ (the phase the brain enters in order to dream). From that start-point it charts a tightly-plotted and uniquely Schulz course, embracing housey percussion, swirling atmospheric prog, drum & bass-ish b-lines, stunningly-cultivated vibrant trance riffs and a myriad of other...