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Pearsall – Dreaming of Berlin [Free hard trance download for Bandcamp Friday]

As part of this Bandcamp Friday I am re-releasing a track I did back in 2013 just before I moved to Berlin. It’s called ‘Dreaming of Berlin‘ and I have always liked it, so I thought it would be cool to get it back out there again as a freebie (although of course you can pay more, should you choose).

If you want to download it, head over to Bandcamp.

The track itself is a 170 bpm freeform hardcore / hard trance tune that was heavily heavily influenced by the classic sound of mid-90’s European hard trance.

Here’s what I wrote about the track at the time:

As you might know, since I keep going on and on about it, my family and I are moving to Berlin very soon, so two weeks ago I made my way to Orpington, on the south-eastern edge of London, for a day in the studio of Alex ‘A.B’ Bailey of Stamina Records, where we cooked up this tune, ‘Dreaming Of Berlin’.

It was quite an interesting day out for me. I had sent a lot of different influences through to Alex in advance (from hard trance to jungle), so when I got there he was able to quickly translate my somewhat hazy ideas into a real actual track in just one day. As is the usual case when a dj works with an engineer, what I did was basically arrangements (“no hi-hats there”, “let’s make the acid stab sharper”, “put the Amen snatch right on the bass note in the break”, “how about we take the bubble off the bass and stick to a straight off-beat?”), with him doing all of the actual manipulations for the sake of speed and clarity. Overall, it was a lot of fun being in the studio, and I am personally very pleased with the results.

With this tune I wanted to capture some of the magic of the mid-90’s M-Zone and Mark EG hard trance sound and cross it with contemporary freeform … judge for yourself how well we did it!

Thanks to Nick Cocozza for the artwork!

By the way, I’ve also cut the price of my Squat Rocking EP to 8.99 EUR. Buy it here.

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 25 [The 780 Project Part 5]

rampage turbo

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 25

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Mixed in Berlin, January 2016
(71:44, 164 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Freeform Hardcore

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Pearsall – Freeformaniacs Round 20

Freeformaniacs Round 20

Pearsall’s Freeformaniacs Round 20 Mix

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100% Vinyl!
Mixed in Berlin, September 2015
(58:53, 135 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Freeform Hardcore

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 24: A.B Special

Rampage Turbo 24

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 24: A.B Special

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Mixed in Berlin, November 2014
(32:04, 73.9 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Banging Freeform from the Stamina Records head honcho: A.B!

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 23: Smiling Corpse Dead Happy History Lesson

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 23: Smiling Corpse Dead Happy History Lesson

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Mixed in Berlin, September 2014
100% vinyl!
(97:18, 223 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: A true Freeform History Lesson

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 22: Qygeneration

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 22: Qygeneration

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Mixed in Berlin, September 2014
(58:38, 134 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Psychedelic Freeform from the Washington Wizard, Qygen

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 21 (Specially Substanced)

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 21 (Specially Substanced)

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Mixed in Berlin, June 2014
(32:12, 74 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Freeform Hardcore – A tribute to the Finnish darklord, Substanced

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 20: The Best of Freeform 2013

Rampage Turbo 20

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 20: The Best of Freeform 2013

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Cover by Woofy

Mixed in Berlin, November 2013
(115:58, 265 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Freeform Hardcore – The Best of 2013!

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Download Pearsall ‘Dreaming of Berlin’ and the rest of Freeformatted Vol. 2 for FREE!

Freeformatted Vol. 2

Very chuffed with this bit of news:

A massive massive thanks to everyone who has downloaded and enjoyed the tune so far!

As you might remember, a few months back I made a freeform tune called ‘Dreaming of Berlin’ at A.B.’s studio; now you can download it totally for FREE, right here:

Here’s what I said about the tune at the time:

It was quite an interesting day out for me. I had sent a lot of different influences through to Alex in advance (from hard trance to jungle), so when I got there he was able to quickly translate my somewhat hazy ideas into a real actual track in just one day. As is the usual case when a dj works with an engineer, what I did was basically arrangements (“no hi-hats there”, “let’s make the acid stab sharper”, “put the Amen snatch right on the bass note in the break”, “how about we take the bubble off the bass and stick to a straight off-beat?”), with him doing all of the actual manipulations for the sake of speed and clarity. Overall, it was a lot of fun being in the studio, and I am personally very pleased with the results.

With this tune I wanted to capture some of the magic of the mid-90?s M-Zone and Mark EG hard trance sound and cross it with contemporary freeform … judge for yourself how well we did it!

Make sure to go to Soundcloud to get the rest of the tunes!

Full tracklisting:

1) Qygen – Supersonic Speed 2013
2) SamHard & Meke – Heaven and Hell
3) Pearsall – Dreaming of Berlin
4) Flammable DJs – Unity (H-Blast remix DUB)
5) Sebucan – Unleash the Power Within Your Soul
6) pHate – The Last Question
7) MHX – Gray Death
8) Le Dos-On – Sanctuary
9) Custom Built DJs – Myriad
10) Ikaruga_Nex – Dilapidated 2013
11) Evolutionize – Pain
12) Vyral XIII – Scathe

All in all, it’s a brilliant compilation, with a very very level of quality throughout the album. Enjoy!

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Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 19: The Lost Years

Shanghai night

Pearsall presents Rampage Turbo 19: The Lost Years

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Mixed in London, September 2013
(105:37, 243 MB, 320 kbps MP3)

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Style: Freeform, covering some of my fave tracks that I missed from 2004 to 2011