#ad: From Cloud Productions comes club ready electronic track ‘Thunderhead’.
With high demand for more of the music from the wildly popular advertisement of the same name, ‘Thunderhead’ has become the force behind a trio of big room, genre blurring club tracks that fuse high-energy house and techno with a decidedly underground edge.
Calling in seminal DJ/producer Tom Middleton for remix duties, now spearheading the newly resurrected solo Global Communication identity (having separated with former member Mark Pritchard). ‘Thunderhead’ acts as the perfect vessel for Tom’s long awaited return to the studio this year. Following hot on the heels of recent Liquatech and Bass House releases and remixes for Anjuna Deep and Sector Four and a monster remix for Dusky. The founding member of Global Communication is slowly unveiling the new incarnation as a solo project.
“I still draw on the original manifesto of atmospheric emotions in sound, and a reverential celebration of Soundtrack music, Eno, Jarre, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Detroit Techno, Chicago Acid House, New York Garage, UK Jungle, Rave and Electronica but updated with cutting edge production techniques and cinematic sound design for epic base and space theatrics.
Cloud Productions are a refreshing project to be involved with, I loved working up the thunder and the lightening narrative with huge SFX, and particularly proud to be involved as it’s backing the charity Centrepoint, who provide hope for young homeless people in the UK.”
The Tom Middleton 101 Mix is a distinctly underground club track that finds the perfect blend between the British production maestro’s instantly recognisable high production technique and the driving basslines he’s been setting dancefloors alight with since the early 1990s. What starts as an atmospheric, smokey intro – reminiscent of the early techno sound – quickly breaks out into a plethora of rolling basslines and progressively building synths, taking the listener on a sonic journey through perfectly formed beats and setting the bar for the following mixes. Hold tight for the cinematic club quaking thunder and lightening drop!
Keeping the vibe decidedly retro Detroit and Chicago, the 202 Mix builds at pace, adding clapping drum beats to the rousing bassline and interjecting synths before dropping into the familiar bass heavy beat, this time with a myriad of cymbal claps and acid-like synths, perfectly placed within the mix. Having made a name in the early 90s with pioneering music such as ‘76:14’, an album that grew to define the 90s ambient sound, and deep house classic ‘The Way’, Tom Middleton has long been an artist to rely on for rapture inducing underground production, which the 202 Mix has in spades.
Rounding off the remix package with the 303 Mix, introducing an emphasised TB303 acid synth and elongating the already pulse quickening build-up before dropping the beat into an acid heavy stomper, sure to send shockwaves across dance floors the world over. The 303 Mix keeps cohesion with its preceding mixes, while managing to be hugely impactful in it’s own right – concluding a well rounded remix package and using the original track to it’s full potential.
Stream ‘Thunderhead’ – Tom Middleton 303 Mix
Adding a visual element into the mix, ‘Thunderhead’ also comes with an accompanying video, breathing life to the character and bringing the track and it’s inspiration into context. The video opens on a London rooftop with a curious looking office worker being drawn into a mysterious cloud where she encounters Thunderhead. What follows is a fast paced, highly engaging visual that flips between clever lighting sequences, intense choreography and spliced in shorts, all of which adding to the track’s futuristic, cutting edge vibe.
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