S.H.O.K.K. megamix

I've moved most of my music discussion over to my music blog, but since it's really a "feature a song of the day" kind of blog, occasionally I'll still have wider-ranging discussions here.  Occasionally.

I'm probably about to make a hardstyle megamix #8 and maybe #9 using a bunch of tracks that I already have.  The first one I do will feature a bunch of artists that aren't normally thought of, I don't think, as hardstyle artists, but they are clearly hardstyle remixes; like the Blademasterz remix of A*S*Y*S's "Acid Nightmare" or the El Grekoz remix of Tommy Pulse's "The Answer" or the Philippe Rochard remix of Dave Joy's "First Impression" or the Technoboy bootleg remix of Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400" (the last is particularly ironic, as the most famous version of that song is the remix by DJ Gius—which is another alias for Technoboy back when he was still doing hardtrance as often as hardstyle.)

I'm still not doing my hardtrance megamixes yet, though.  I did one, but then decided to call it a "prototype" and that it doesn't count!  I might forget the randomization thing and go a different direction with those.  In fact, I'm quite determined to start off with a "featured" megamix.  One of the guys who makes megamixes for YouTube (where I identified a lot of tracks to track down, as it happens) did this with Scot Project, but I'm more inclined to start with S.H.O.K.K.  I'll probably include Flutlicht in that.  I actually had thought (incorrectly) that Flutlicht and S.H.O.K.K. were two names for the same duo, but that's not quite accurate.  There is a guy who was in both duos: Marco Guardia, also known as Reverb, a Swiss DJ.  He eventually split with S.H.O.K.K. but not until fairly late, and he was present for most of their famous output.  He also split with Flutlicht, although as near as I can tell that band just kind of ended when he did.  So, that would be a little bit like saying that Hennes & Cold and Derb were the same people because Kai Winter was in both bands—true, but also not true, because he had a different partner with each of those two aliases.  Curiously, most of the Flutlicht songs have a remix by the other guy from S.H.O.K.K. as either DJ Emergency or DJ Giotto (either way it's the same guy) but what's also curious is that these remixes don't necessarily sound more like S.H.O.K.K. songs because of it either.

Flutlicht actually tends to be less hard than S.H.O.K.K..  This is a little odd; if you listen to the Flutlicht output, much of it is just "classic trance" rather than hardtrance, but the exceptions tend to be the DJ Natron remixes.  Since DJ Natron is the other partner in Flutlicht, and not the one who's also part of S.H.O.K.K., I wouldn't have expected this, but I guess it's Reverb trying out a different style.  Besides, the DJ Natron mixes have a lot of 303 acid stuff going on in them, which isn't really S.H.O.K.K.'s style exactly.

Anyway, I've got enough S.H.O.K.K. songs and remixes that I don't need to add anything to it, but some of the Flutlicht remixes or their own songs sound sufficiently similar to S.H.O.K.K. songs that they'd fit in quite well.  And if I'm going to do that, do I want to add in anything by Avatar from their "Red Planet" days?  After all, that band also has Marco Guardia, and there's even a Reverb mix.  We'll see.  Anyway, here's the songs that I might use, but I might trim this list, because it's a bit too long to make a reasonably sized megamix, I think, if I use all of them.

1. S.H.O.K.K. - Folie A Deux [Klub Mix]
2. S.H.O.K.K. - Isn't It All Just a Little Strange? (Flutlicht Remix]
3. S.H.O.K.K. - My Madness Says... [Marcel Woods Remix]
4. Altitude - Altitude [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
5. Avatar - Red Planet [Reverb Mix]
6. BBE - Free [S.H.O.K.K. Mix]
7. Cosmic Gate - Back to Earth [S.H.O.K.K. Mix]
8. Dave Joy - First Impression [S.H.O.K.K. Mix]
9. DJ Energy - Excelsis [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
10. DJ Spoke - Ignition [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
11. Flutlicht - Ahmea [DJ Natron's Rolling Machine Mix]
12. Flutlicht - Das Siegel [DJ Natron Mix]
13. Flutlicht - Icarus (The Flight) [S.H.O.K.K. Remix] (I think I might actually like the original Daedalus mix better, though.)
14. Flutlicht - Mutterkorn [DJ Natron Mix]
15. Flutlicht - The Fall (which version TBD.  Maybe the Marc Dawn mix?)
16. Geilomatics - Geilomat [S.H.O.K.K. Mix]
17. Joop - 3008 [S.H.O.K.K. Mix] (although this is the "new" S.H.O.K.K. with a new partner)
18. Luca Antolini - We Belong [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
19. Marc Dawn - Expander [Flutlicht Mix]
20. Mat Silver vs Tony Burt - Teardrops [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
21. P.H.A.T.T. - Damage Control [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
22. Signum ft. Scot Mac - Coming On Strong [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]
23. Sound Of Overdose - City 2 City [S.H.O.K.K. Remix]

As an aside; just lining up all of these files in a playlist is over three hours long.  I'm not making a megamix that long.