SHA News // Cocoon Heroes mixed by Joris Voorn & Cassy

Artist: Various Artists
Title: Cocoon Heroes mixed by Joris Voorn & Cassy
Label: Cocoon Recordings
Release: 25th June 2012
Cat No: Cormix040

Not without good reason is the motto of this year’s Cocoon Ibiza season “Into the Magic”, as the sun-drenched Balearic island is steeped in a special enchantment. So, with great enthusiasm, the team around Sven Väth are applying themselves to the 13th season in Ibiza, and you don’t have to be a prophet to predict some historic club nights ahead at Amnesia. As is the annual custom, at least since 2007, Cocoon lay the way for this season with
their Cocoon Ibiza Summer Mix CD, this time featuring mixes from two of the years DJ highlights Joris Voorn & Cassy.

An open artistic approach is what Rotterdam-born DJ and producer Joris Voorn shows on his mix for this stunning new compilation. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Voorn has stood for an inspiring alliance between European club traditions and the aesthetics of Detroit Techno, and thus won the hearts of Technasia, Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier and Sven Väth. His mix elaborately intertwines a total of 30 (!) tracks by, among others, such well-known producers/remixers as Oxia, John Tejada, Guy Gerber, Samuel L. Session and Radio Slave. in his own inimitable way he delivers a complex yet seamless mix illustrates the aesthetic bandwidth and deepness of modern electronic dance music perfectly. Constantly altering the tension, Voorn draws the line from Lawrence’s melancholic and emotional sound sketches (“The Swan”) to Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge’s “Für die Liebe” via the sensualpercussive Dub House of Microtrauma’s “Pollenflug” and the groove-accented “Acid Jam” by Rhauder. Right up to the epic finale featuring the tropically-dense cover version of the Derrick May classic “Strings Of Life” by the British producer Astro Fram aka Soul Mekanik, this is a mix that keeps you drawn in and gasping for more. There is no better way to pay homage to the Balearic island’s magic.

Turning to disc 2 and we meet once again with Catherine Britton aka Cassy, a key players at this year’s Cocoon Ibiza, who will be playing both the opening and closing parties. For more than ten years now, the multi-national Berlin resident has been an essential part of the global Tech House scene and looks back on numerous releases for the likes of Perlon, Ostgut Ton, Playhouse as well as her own label Cassy. Her DJ style is characterized by an intensive and groove-accented mixture of reduced rhythmic elements with an intuition for warm and sensual Soul, which has led to her residencies at Berlin’s Panoramabar, the Rex Club in Paris and the Trouw in Amsterdam, and excited the audiences on her 2009 Cocoon mix CD “Simply Devotion”. In her current set, Cassy dives deep into the magic of Dub House: with a stunningly deep delay wonderland, “Kaimanawa” by the Swiss Cavalier aka Agnes sets a distinctive exclamation mark right at the start of the mix, while the percussive “Put That Record Back On” by DJ Dan remixed by Peace Division remains committed to the traditions of US Housetrax and “Cortometraggio” by Alfredo Caforio and Gianni Sabato aka Rush? applies a very literal sense to the name of the French label Bass Culture. Apropos Bass Culture: Cassy’s favourite producer at the moment, Mr. G (former member of The Advent), embellishes the track list with three jewels: with tropical House deepness (“New Dayz”), the Kasper remix of “Sunday Blues” and at the end of the mix with tribal Subsonic Jazz (“Lex”) and thus gives CD1 a more than precious finish.

This is another landmark compilation from Cocoon featuring two mixes that will help define the coming season.

CD1 Joris Voorn
01. Olaf Stuut – I See
02. Matthew Burton – Soul Groove
St. Thomas – Romochalumo
03. Egal 3 – A51
04. Lawrence – The Swan
05. Philip Arruda – Seeds Of Brooklyn (&ME Remix)
Robosonic – The Sweetness
06. Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge – Für Die Liebe
07. Gerry Read – Roomland (Youandewan Remix)
08. Microtrauma – Pollen Flug
09. Jason Justin – Tab Jack (Springwater Dub)
10. Steve Lawler – Caracas
ONNO – Mumblin Groove
11. Hot since 82 – Let It Ride (Nicolas Masseyeff Remix)
Hobo – Ipperwash Dusk
12. Stefny Winter – When The Rain Fell
13. Truncate – Truncate 17
14. Clio – Poem
15. Otra feat. Argenis Brito & Pier Bucci – Part7 / Amarillo y Verde
16. Guy Gerber – One Day In May
17. Someone Else – Barbay (Ronan Portela Remix – Joris Voorn Edit)
18. Soy Mustafa – Return of the Anunnaki (John Tejada Remix)
19. Rhauder – Acid Jam
20. Oxia – Harmonie
21. Luis Flores – New Flesh (Drumcell Remix)
22. Back Pack Poets – Objective T
23. Himan – Midnight Express (Samuel L. Session Remix)
24. ReUP – Back In A Day (Marco Faraone Darkness Remix)
25. Intruder A Murk Production – Jei Amame feat. Jei (Radio Slave Dub)
26. Astrofarm – Strings (Ain’t What They Used To Be)

CD2 Cassy
1 Pearson Sound – Stifle
2 Dario Zenker – Works
3 Cavalier – Kaimanawa
4 Sigha – Fold
5 DJ Dan – Put That Record Back On (Peace Division Mix)
6 Rush? – Cortometraggio
7 Paul Woolford & Psycatron – Stolen (Dub Two)
8 Mr. G – New Dayz
9 Shed, Wax – Wax30303 B
10 Mr. G – Sunday Blues (Kasper Remix)
11 Tennis – Make It Good (Ryan Elliot Remix)
12 Adam Marshall – Thelon
13 Mr. G – Lex (Flip Flopping)