Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire (Cosmic Gate's Back 2 The Future Remix)

Needing little (if any) introduction, &Wire&left a colossal footprint on the 2001 dance music landscape, going top 10 in the UK and announcing Cosmic Gate&arrival as an international act. The fourth single to be taken from their &2 The Future&album, &Wire&has been given a root and branch remix overhaul, spanning several different dance music disciplines. From the trance quarter Rank 1 and Cosmic Gate themselves have both gotten to grips with F.W., reworking it using tougher, leaner musical methodology than the original. On their Rank 1 remix, Benno de Goeij and Piet Bervoets have opted for a moody deep trance excursion. Complete with hissing industrial effects, mood-infused synths and a slow-cook build, it climaxes with a steel-tough synth pay-off. On their mix, Nic & Bossi throw the speakers a challenge with warping, quaking sub-bass and then propels it floor-bound with a discordant, arena-sized lead-line finisher! Opting for a more atmospheric take on &Wire&Wippenberg&mix brings a more progressive vision to the track. Housing up the drums and chilling its bleeping main-line, he pans and shuttles it around the speakers, repeatedly peaking and dropping it using a cool, cavernous 303 line. Expanding &Wire&range was very much a part of the &2 The Future&mission and playing no small part in that are DJ Delicious and production brotherhood , Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. The latter give the track a dramatic, thudding tech-elec workover whilst Delicious amps up the house angle...