Cosmic Gate Wake Your Mind CD

2011 album from the German Trance duo. From the first beat and bar of the album, C.G.'s finely tuned sonics tear relentlessly at the speaker fabric, with the strident, spiked synthesizers of their Arnej collaboration 'Sometimes They Come Back for More' leading the charge. On Wake Your Mind, vocals play an ever greater part of their sound design and the album sports some of their very best. Taking time out from his film and TV singer/songwriter activities (including work on Easy a and Grey's Anatomy), Cary Brothers provides the contemplative, low-fi, Rock-ish refrain for the album's outstanding title track. Cathy Burton meanwhile applies serious uplift on 'Drifting Away', while Wake... hits it euphoric high around the stabbed synthesizers and up-rush of 'Over the Rainbow' (vocal led by South African singer J'Something). Scene darling Jes supplies the can't-miss vocal hook to 'Flying Blind' and at the other end of the tempo scale Australia's Alana Aldea provides from-the-heart lyrics and flawlessly articulated vocal lament to the slow burning 'Never Apart'.

1. Sometimes They Come Back for M (With Arnej) 2. Be Your Sound (With Emma Hewitt) 3. Wake Your Mind (With Cary Brothers) 4. The Theme 5. All Around You (With Myon ; Shane 54 and Aruna) 6. Never Apart (With Alana Aldea) 7. Over the Rainbow (With J'something) 8. Nothing Ever Lasts (With Andrew Bayer) 9. Calm Down (With Emma Hewitt) 10. Barra 11. Drifting Away (With Cathy Burton) 12. Flying Blind (With Jes) 13. Perfect Stranger 14. Beautiful Destruction (With Alana Aldea)