Alex Di Stefano, Zach Zlov and EverLight
Format Details:
Release Date: 11 March 2022
Label: Black Hole Recordings
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 8718525484411
Description
Where the others tap out… stylistically, the Skullduggery starts! Following last year's second edition (co-mixed by Beatman & Ludmilla), February sees Greg Downey's label marque back with a bang. Better make that three bangs in fact, as not only has Skullduggery gone 'Vol. III', it's also expanded plans to add a third disc.
Greg is dedicating this volume to his label's brightest artistic talents, and thus has passed its mix-reins to Alex Di Stefano, Zach Zlov and EverLight. With them, they've brought close to sixty tracks and near two hundred & forty breakneck minutes of fast, furious and downright dangerous-to-know dance music.
Over that course, you'll find new audio dynamite from Cold Blue, Activa, Chris Schweizer, Solarstone, Stoneface & Terminal and dozens upon dozens of others of both new & established.
First to the 'Vol. III' fore then is Alex Di Stefano, and while the Italian's showcased some tougher mettle previously, you've never heard anything quite like this! Firing its starting gun are 'Out Of Order' & 'ORKA' from David Forbes, while the tellingly-titled 'Weather The Storm' & 'Fight For Your Right', courtesy of Renegade System and Kriess Guyte further up its frontend thunder. Deeper in, Alex is joined by label honcho Greg for 'Among Us' (Chris Schweizer on the mix), while his own powerful reworks of Solarstone's 'Seven Cities' and 'Shine' by Cold Blue build an unstoppable head of pressure for the mix.
A man with something to prove perhaps, Zach Zlov - Skullduggery's newest newcomer, weighs in with no less than ten of his own productions. Representing a full half of his mix, inside the first eight tracks alone, he drops new, desk-hot studioware including 'Starborn', 'Into The Jungle', 'Ergo', 'Chemicals' & 'Nightfall'. Having played fast & loose inside the Psy, Breaks & Tech-Trance triangle, he expands its stylistic themes further with a deuce from Hassan Jewel and 'Digital Deaf Tones' from Zlov's own mentor, Enrique Calvetty. Activa pres Mekk V's 'Rotation' and Beatman & Ludmilla's 'Terrible' are next to the laser, before Zach signs off with the flourish of his own 'Noviembre'.
In one of his first mix-comp showings, EverLight also brings plenty of his own brew to the 'Vol. III' party. 'Renegade Bass' and '100%' (w/Tasso) provides the sandwich for the tech filling of Ed Lynam's 'Catecholamine', as the masked wonder puts both hands to the mix's pump. 'Dangerous', 'Raucous' and 'Razor Blade' are title-and-description as one, as the UK DJ gets ungodly on its midsection. With his remix of Greg Downey's 'Sense', he draws down a touch, only however to allow the full weight of 'What A Rush' from Kriess Guyte and Blashear's 'Future Self' to exact maximum set-closing damage.
Tracklisting
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Solarstone
Kyau & Albert
Dennis Sheperd
John Askew
Cosmic Gate
Various
Ed Lynam
The Future Sound Of London
Solarstone
Kyau & Albert
Above & Beyond
Gnod
John Askew
Various
Ed Lynam
