Sneijder - Afterdark 002 [Los Angeles]

Release date: | 24.05.2019 |
Total discs: | 2 |
Total play time: | 5:9:00 |
Genre(s): | Dance, Trance |

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After his ‘Buenos Aires’ inaugural popped Afterdark’s mixcomp cherry last August, the spring of 2019 sees label honcho Sneijder ready for a second drop. Doubling down, the album expands to two discs and finds Afterdark bringing the sound of the underground to Los Angeles. Capturing every fader-flip, drum-kick, synth-soar and reciprocal crowd cheer, in the liveliest of live forms Sneijder’s ‘Afterdark 002’ defines the trance divinity of the City of Angels.
Packed with exclusive music from the likes of Giuseppe Ottaviani, Key4050, Stoneface & Terminal, Simon Patterson and others, with finger-on-pulse intuition ‘002’ shifts between the melodic, the uplifting, the tech and the out-&-out tough. Boasting a track list rammed with upfront, cutting edge club music from the Afterdark roaster and seasoned artists across the trance and tech spectrum.
Comprising of 16 tracks, in about the finest way possible, disc one commences with Sneijder’s most recent single, ‘Back Home’. Having notched an 8.5/10 in DJ Mag (“when song and mainline meet, honest-to-goodness magic happens” declared the mag), the Irishman rolls ‘Home’ into an early uplifting ascension. Collectively Cold Blue’s synth-storming ‘Another Life’, ‘Redemption’ from Italian doyen Alessandra Roncone and newcomer Billie Gillies’s thrill-packed ‘Evolve’ send it airborne. Sneijder proceeds to slide recent Giuseppe Ottaviani chart-topper ‘Panama’ between Craig Connelly’s remix of his & Karen Kelly’s ‘Be With You’ and his own firestarting, ‘Resonate’.
Album-exclusive ‘Here Once Again’ sees the mix go up a gear, opening it up into its tougher second act. Stoneface & Terminal’s ‘Mind Games’, Mandy Reid’s ‘Infiltration’, ‘Taipan’ from Renegade System and others orchestrate the floor action before Sneijder’s harmonic, anthemic revision of Ben Gold & Sivan’s ‘Stay’ kisses it off.
From disc 2’s outset, Sneijder drops straight back into a tougher groove. Alex Di Stefano dives ‘Into The Flames’, Shugz explores ‘The Darkside’ and David Forbes produces a ‘Phenomenon’ - each raising its pressure by degrees. Into that slipstream comes another swathe of Sneijder’s own, with his recent rewire of Nick Callaghan’s ‘Kill Jester’ and his team-ups with David Forbes (on ‘Flashback’) & Nick Callaghan (‘Marching Orders’) bringing techier tones. The second mix reaches its dizzying zenith with some weapons-grade gear from O’Callaghan & Kearney’s Key4050 project. ‘Egon’ and ‘Utterly Butterly’ viscerally bookend James Dymond’s bringback of Maria Nayler anthem ‘Angry Skies’ and Simon Patterson/Sam Jones pair-up ‘Rotavator’.
If you’ve not clubbed in LA before, this compilation will all-but secure those credentials for you. Across its 30+ tracks, two or more musical hours and disc deuce, Sneijder musically divines LA to a forensic level.
Track list
Disc 1
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018:34Back Home (Club Mix)By Sneijder
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027:30Another LifeBy Cold Blue
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034:38RedemptionBy Alessandra Roncone
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041:01Evolve (Afterdark 002 Edit)By Billy Gillies
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051:42Resonate (Afterdark 002 Edit)By Sneijder
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066:36Panama (Extended Mix)By Giuseppe Ottaviani
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076:15Elated (Extended Mix)By Starpicker
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087:30Here Once AgainBy Sneijder
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096:10Reason I Say ThisBy Project 8
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103:44Mind GamesBy Stoneface & Terminal
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115:17Redux (Extended Mix)By Renegade System & Ed Lynam
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126:27InfiltrationBy Mandy Reid
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136:26EVO (Extended Mix)By Manuel Le Saux & Unbeat
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145:57TaipanBy Renegade System
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157:51Stay (Sneijder Extended Remix)By Ben Gold & Sivan
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1663:35Afterdark 002 [Los Angeles] (Continuous Mix 1)By Sneijder
Disc 2
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016:00ViolateBy Sneijder
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022:37Phenomenon (Afterdark 002 Edit)By David Forbes
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032:10The Darkside (Afterdark 002 Edit)By Shugz
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043:18Into the FlamesBy Alex Di Stefano
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057:32Kill Jester (Sneijder Rework)By Nick Callaghan
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062:00Flashback (Afterdark 002 Edit)By Sneijder & David Forbes
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072:00Marching Orders (Afterdark 002 Edit)By Sneijder & Nick Callaghan
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087:07Blink (Extended Mix)By Simon Patterson featuring Lucy Pullin
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095:45Sesh GremlinBy Ashley Bradbury
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107:09Break The SilenceBy Sneijder
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116:00Cognitive BehaviourBy Dante
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125:20Egon (Extended Mix)By Key4050
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136:36Open Your MindBy Billy Gillies
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143:49Angry Skies (James Dymond Remix)By Maria Nayler
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156:08Rotavator (Sam Jones Extended Remix)By Simon Patterson & Sam Jones
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166:00SerotoninBy Iain M
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177:03DecimateBy Sneijder
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184:15Utterly ButterlyBy Key4050
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1968:58Afterdark 002 [Los Angeles] (Continuous Mix 2)By Sneijder