"daze" was a track that i listened to and played in sets ever since it was released and i still think it's amazing. first time i heard it was through armin van buuren's radioshow "a state of trance". after that it was seen as one of the big releases and recieved a whole lot play from various dj's. somehow i want to believe that the record is more of an austin leeds record than a kobbe record as kobbe was more associated with techier tracks.
the first collaboration between them "connection", was on belgian label headrooms imprint infrared and leaned towards the techier but that sound changed for the more melodic with "daze". it wasn't to be a sound that stayed for too long with their collaborations as it started to sound more tribal at first but it landed in the progressive house category.
with this one it's very much a textbook example of good driving and hypnotic trance music even though it's not completely that description. as it came out in 2004 the phenomena that was sidechaining had become a factor in all sorts of subgenres. mostly it was with the use of basslines and you hear the ducking motions in the bottom end of "daze".
other than that the track does what it should and relies on repetition and layers of sounds, it builds very well and has a good progression in general. the title of the song derives from the vocal sample used in the breakdown where they have sampled the beginning of perry farrell's reading of his poem "letters to xiola". during my most rabid phase of the breakdown-dislike i used to irritate myself over the breakdown of daze "as it took a bit too long".
that didn't take long for me to get over as i used to just take it out by mixing the track into itself as cutting it out in cool edit was too audible. i didn't like it if you could tell that something was missing and this is a statement that i live by today when i do my subtle edits. anyhow it was also mostly on occasions when i wanted to use the track just as a builder and not completely as a peak track. but i still love it in any form, except for m.i.k.e.'s remix which sucked out all the great ideas from the song made it into a bog ol' push track.
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