Three of the fifteen cuts carry AMINTO's name, which makes this volume his home turf: he signs 'No Excuses' on his own and hands two more tracks over to outside remixers. Those two remixes are the best clue to which names hold this series up, because the chosen ones are anything but random.
DIM3NSION and Ahmed Helmy, the guest hands
Spain's DIM3NSION — Borja Iglesias, raised in Vigo and signed to Ferry Corsten's Flashover imprint back in 2010 — has spent years turning out mainstage-ready melodic trance, and his take on 'Never Enough' (5:36, D minor at 130 BPM) is exactly that: euphoria with craft. Egypt's Ahmed Helmy, with a catalogue across Armada, Black Hole and Suanda itself, and hand-picked by Armin van Buuren as the official remixer of his classic 'Full Focus', delivers the record's outlier: his version of 'Show Me All Your Love' is the longest cut here (5:50) and the only one tagged as peak-time techno, easing down to 126 BPM in A major.
The rest rests on the house roster, with three recurring names:
- Bigtopo shows up three times: he opens the record with JARR Head on 'Retrosexual' and pairs with Pinkus on both 'Feel' — the lone dance/pop cut — and 'Red Lights'.
- Adip Kiyoi works two gears: 'November' at 128 BPM and 'For Your Soul' at 136, the same melodic pulse at two energy levels.
- Feel aims big with 'Swan Lake' and 'Now We Are Free', titles that already signal cinematic ambitions.
And at the end, the boss. Suanda Base is one of the satellite imprints of Suanda Music, Roman Messer's label, and he keeps the final slot for himself: 'The Edge', alongside Somnia, psy-trance at 140 BPM in Db minor, the fastest register on the record next to Michael Milov's 'Chaos'. When the label owner chooses to close with the hardest cut, the direction of the series is stated without a press release.
Sources: Beatport · Illustrate Magazine · Trance Wiki · DIM3NSION
