FILO & PERI SET DANCE FLOORS ALIGHT WITH SHINE ON



New York trance sensations Filo & Peri return with yet another master class in how to do a main room smash.
After they rocketed to the top of the Billboard chart and into the illustrious UK Top 40 earlier this year with ‘The Anthem’, fans have been on tenterhooks to see what their second track would be. Well wait no more. August 28th 2008 sees ‘Shine On’ released through Paul van Dyk’s label VANDIT – and it’s an absolute monster!

Featuring the spine-tingling voice of Eric Lumiere once again on vocals, ‘Shine On’ is the first track of many to come from Filo & Peri over the next 12 months. Building on Bo and Dom’s trademark penchant for goose-bump-inducing sounds, ‘Shine On’ is a sensational, hands-in-the-air, euphoric trance triumph that we fully expect to see at the front of every single major player’s CD wallet in the run-up to Christmas. Beautifully produced, lovingly crafted, this has ‘number 1 dance hit’ stamped all over it!

Remixes come from Activa, Aly & Fila plus the original and club mix. To get your digital copy, visit Beatport, iTunes, DJDownload, Trackitdown and other major online download stores. If you are more up for a 12” visit http://shop.paulvandyk.de/

For more information on the track and everything else Filo & Peri-related, visit http://www.filoandperi.com now!

This record is shit, commercial crap.

I like Anthem.. but this one is just a bit too much.  The Aly & Fila mix is pretty good, but I would rather a instrumental version.  IMO Filo & Peri peaked with Closer Now.  That was an amazing track.

I happen to really like the Aly & Fila remix, but hey I like the Anthem as well, so what can I say.

I thought Filo & Peri went in the wrong direction with Anthem.. too much like pop music IMHO. Spectrum and Elevation were their greatest works. Pretty disappointing.

I have said this before but vocals are like weapons, useless in the hands of ametuers(sp?) but effective in the hands of an expert.  This is what separates the good vocal tracks from the cheesy ones.    

This track is ok, but could be a LOT better.

Well Ordinary Moment was a lot better than this, it's like they've actually got worse.

OK, now being from the United States, I've been really pulling for some major players to shake the American trance scene. Compared to the European scene, which has generated dozens of talented artists, it seems like not many American artists go for trance. I don't know if it's cultural or what. I think trance is a pretty big deal in the States, but definitely not as much as in Europe. Here, it's all about house or techno like you might find teeming in clubs across Detroit or Chicago or New York. I think Filo & Peri were on the right foot and I have held them with such high esteem to ignite American trance. They do a lot of house, though, and it usually sounds good (as a disclaimer, though, I'm kind of a n00b with house.) Yet, I think their idea of trance being Anthem and Shine On is just, well, really disappointing. Even if you called it something else, it just doesn't do much for me. It bores me. Their stuff from around 2003-2005 were masterpieces in melodic trance. Their originals were inspiring and quite a few of them landed on ASOT on a regular basis. Their remixes were great quality, too ( Deepsky feat. Jes -  Ghost and Whirlpool vs Octagen - Alaska to name a couple.) No, the clubs probably didn't jump around to Spectrum, but at least it was some solidly done stuff.

Like you said Ben, they have taken a wrong direction. They gambled their credibility for cheap stardom. Maybe they felt they weren't doing enough. Maybe they didn't think I:95 was enough of a club song. Maybe it's pressure from the record companies. Who knows. It's not my goal to psychoanalyze these guys. Either way, to me this new stuff screams "appeal to the masses." Just try comparing Spectrum to Anthem and the contrast is stark. That gripping piano is missing. The massive breakdowns are gone. What happened? Now everything is blended into cheesy, homogenous sounds. There is no anticipation. Seven minutes of melody are crunched into four minutes of overplayed basslines. It makes me NOT want to buy their records. And, for the record, a long while ago I bought Spectrum, Elevation, and I:95. That was $3 more than they got from me on Anthem: $0. My contribution to the free market has spoken. They seem to be going forward with this new stuff. No, I won't "give up" on artists I truly like as some people do. I don't doubt it as a very skilled duo. I'll continue to listen to the stuff they've done before and fully attribute it to their talents. But I can't help but think that maybe protesting their new direction a little bit by not listening to it will matter. They may give their classic style another go around.

Whatever, not trying to sound bitter or anything. Now that I've just been thinking about it, the words just pour out.