Cold Night

I should point out that with the Thomas Rubin track of a very techy remix by Renegade System that I embedded yesterday, it refers to a new release that has the Scot Project Remix and the Original Mix on it. However, that's "Original Mix" is actually not. The original release on Druck, the famous German hard trance record label from 15-20 or so years ago had an Original Mix and a Russenmafia Remix. (Thomas Rubin is actually a nom de plume for the two guys of Russenmafia.) What this new release calls the Original Mix is actually the Russenmafia Remix. The original Original Mix is actually a very different track.

In fact, as far as I know, with the release of this new Renegade System Remix, there are now five versions of this track, the Original Mix, the Russenmafia Mix, the Krämer & Pogadl Mix, and the Scot Project Remix, and now this newly released one by Renegade System. Andreas Krämer and Thomas Pogadl are actually the two guys of Russenmafia/Thomas Rubin, though—so three of the five versions are variations done by the same original artist. This is a little hard to determine for sure, though, because there's an obvious misprint on the sleeve and the actual center of the vinyl for the original release, where both versions say that they are8:04 in length (in fact, neither are—the "original" Original is 7:14 and the Russenmafia Remix is 8:50.)

Personally, as I've probably mentioned here many times before, I think the Scot Project one is over-rated as a lot of Scot Project projects are. It's fine, but it's not the best version. The new Renegade System and the "original" Russenmafia Remix are easily the best versions.

Anyway, just in case you're curious to do so, I'm including embedded YouTube videos of all five versions, however.  As is my wont, for the two best versions, I'm speeding them up to 150 bpm and putting them in a separate folder on my phone, though, so I can listen to them the way God intended hard trance to be heard.

The "original" Original Mix:



The Russenmafia Remix, later called the Original Mix, as this video is labeled.



The Krämer & Pogadl Remix. Keep in mind that while Krämer and Pogadl are, of course, the same people as Thomas Rubin and Russenmafia both, Russenmafia in particular was a hard trance alias, while Krämer & Pogadl was the name that they used mostly for schranz releases. I've never been much of a schranz fan, and likewise, I don't really like this mix all that much.



The Scot Project Remix. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with it, I just don't think it's as good as the Russenmafia or the newer Renegade System remixes. Scot Project does some good work, but he's not some kind of trance god or anything.



And finally, the newly released Renegade System version, in it's full "extended" iteration.