discovery - missing (mac zimms dub)

file this one under the concept of a revision remix where a few or no elements have been used as it's trying to capture the market of someone else. usually it's with less than credible acts or songs that are cheesy in the ears of the producer at hand. i don't know what the case was with this one but it all stems from a version of everything but the girl's "missing" done by errol lafleur, mark nieuwenhuijzen and rené van oosterwijk.

the former two are also more known as donald & girls or symphony of strings but have done a few tracks together with van oosterwijk under different monikers.the original is something decent but has it's flaws and the most obvious one being a really bland and anonymous vocal, delivered by anoushka wink. the second one being structure and a breakdown being too long but with some re-editing the instrumental of the original club mix would be perfect epic trance material.

never the less the song was given remix treatment on both it's original release on liquid and when it was licensed off to nebula. on the former it as mentioned by mac zimms and by aqualoop's rocco which does a terrible remix and feuershake which does a decent version. zimms' main version takes one element from the original and that's the vocal and even then it's somewhat lowkey. what it's replaced with is a swinging filterfunk houser cut with some nice trumpets and sunshine strings.

i understand that it's also lazy as zimms could have easily done like john "00" fleming where he took the few good elements and did a heavy duty reshape. but it all boils down to taste and for me it's a track that i really like and in that respect, the principle of "why is this even called a remix" is gone outside the window. i will certainly criticise and point out this fact for many other tracks if they done a terrible track and were obviously just out for the cash-grab that remixing could be about in the days of yore.

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also if i didn't make that clear as i'm not going to make a post about the john "00" fleming remix but that one is well recommended as well. reason why i'm not writing about that is because that was the unique selling point for nebula's licensing. a really dark, brooding and somewhat techy progressive trancer that sounds killer pitched up quite a bit. it also gives a vague but small nod to solar stone's "seven cities" in the breakdown before it launches right into that driving beat and even the vocal makes sense in this one.