Nocturnal – Back to 2000s dream dance

Since November, I have been working on a very special album. I rescued a floppy disk from the year 2004 with a dozen MIDI files on it. And one of them is song “Nocturnal” that releases today.

My social media followers have been victims of how I found a long-lost floppy disk from the year 2004. After carefully analysing its contents, I realized it contained songs I had composed in a MIDI tracker. Since raw MIDI files depend on the sound card and can’t be directly published, I decided to fully produce them. To stay true to the retro aesthetic, I challenged myself to use the oldest gear in my collection. This is how “Nocturnal”, a song blending dream house music and dream dance vibes, started its incredible journey.

“Nocturnal” is the original title of a blend of dream dance and epic trance music that has been quite prominent in the 2000s. I could not believe that I wrote this melody many years before my all-time favourite trance hymn “Adagio of Life”, but it has a very similar style. Seems like I have been longing for epic trance ever since I started to write songs. The single comes in three versions. The original version of “Nocturnal” will be part of the upcoming dream house / dream dance album, but there is also a club mix and a remix from my friend The Primary Phase Principle, who is very much into post-industrial and dark wave. The funny thing about this release is that neither he knows the original version of this song. Nobody but me knows how my album sounds, and I look forward to the Bandcamp Listening Party with you! Let’s take a nostalgic trip to the 90s and 00s.

You can find “Nocturnal” on all streaming services and in my Bandcamp subscription. And if you don’t want to miss out my album, pre-save if on your favourite platform. Of course, I will also announce it on Bandcamp as soon as possible!