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Chicane celebrates 20 years in the game
After two decades at the forefront of the dance music scene, Nick Bracegirdle aka Chicane, is preparing to release retrospective album Twenty on his own label Modena Records on July 29th.
Chicane’s legendary 20 year career has placed him at the very centre of dance music, writing and producing his own music, creating music for the likes of Cher, performing as a solo DJ and part of a full live band, and curating a weekly podcast Chicane presents Chicane Sun:Sets. Now he's celebrating the big 20 with a retrospective album.
CD One epitomises Nick’s passion and commitment to new music and dance talent. Crammed with remixes from some of the rising stars on the scene, the disc shows an entirely new side to Chicane. UK iTunes’ ‘Best Electronic Artist Of The Year’, Grum brings an euphoric remix of 'Offshore’ to the table, full to the brim with dancing synths and deep basslines of what he acknowledges as “a universally acknowledged Ibiza classic.”
Meanwhile, the Earmilk-approved Thomas Datt offers up his own shimmering remix, the exhilarating crescendo of the track mixes the best of 90s trance with a 21st century minimalist twist. He explains that whilst creating his shimmering remix his “main focus was to get that classic Chicane pad just right to give it a whole new life; a more engulfing, epic feeling. Then came the guitar and piano…Once [he] got in Datt flow state, it more or less wrote itself.”
The hand-picked tracks of CD Two wind a musical path through the last twenty years of club bangers and chilled out trance, from ‘Saltwater’ to ‘Offshore’ to the timeless Sigur Rós-inspired ‘Poppiholla’. Including exclusive reworks from Jody Wisternoff, Kyrder and Philip George, the release transports us to the beaches and clubs of Ibiza with tracks that are woven into the very fabric of dance music.
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