Richard Durand - Reactivate [Black Hole Recordings]

Artist: Richard Durand
Title: Reactivate
Label: Black Hole Recordings
Catalog: BHCD226
Released: 28.01.2022
Type: Album
Genre: Electronic, Trance, Tech Trance, Uplifting Trance, Lossless


A Richard Durand album is a rarer item these days and even more welcome for it. Since the heady times of his -Always The Sun- debut, swiftly followed by 2012-s -Wide Awake- and -Richard Durand Versus The World- the following year, the Dutchman-s taken a more measured approach to the longplayer release.

-The Air We Breathe- in 2018 ended a six-year interlude, and it-s been a further four to where we stand today. That, specifically, is the release of -Reactivate-, his consummate fifth LP, which releases Jan 28. Unlike some contemporaries, Richard-s not fundamentally re-designed his sound to mirror world events. His consensus was that - even had he wanted to, something less floor-centric simply wouldn-t have been him.
While unmixed, in both approach and structure, -Reactivate- is probably Richard-s most -music-compilation-like- LP to date. As such, its earlier moments are largely given over to tracks with a song-based bias. Featuring the never-less-than reflective words of Christian Burns, the touching vocal refrains of his most recent single, -Almost Home- opens the album. That transitions perfectly into the harmonically affecting mid-paced space of -It-s Not Too Late-, adding to the album-s early sense of bitter-sweetness.

As with Christian, the album has presented Richard with the opportunity to re-collaborate with Christina Novelli. Emotionally, -My Guiding Light- generates the uplift, while -Made Of Stone- that follows it - and features singer-songwriter Sarah De Warren - adds lyrical resolve. With the inclusion of his recent debut team-up with HALIENE (on the Beatport #1 -Give Your Heart A Home-), -Reactivate-s needle begins to swing and the album increases its instrumental presence with the ethereally natured -Tales Of A Silhouette-.

01. Richard Durand & Christian Burns - Almost Home 3:25
02. Richard Durand - It's Not Too Late 4:04
03. Richard Durand & Christina Novelli - My Guiding Light 3:45
04. Richard Durand - White Dolphins 3:23
05. Richard Durand & Sarah De Warren - Made of Stone 3:39
06. Richard Durand & HALIENE - Give Your Heart A Home 3:25
07. Richard Durand - Tales Of A Silhouette (Reactivate Mix) 4:14
08. D72 & O.B.M Notion & That Girl - In My Heart (Richard Durand Remix) 3:26
09. Signum - Beyond This Earth (Richard Durand Remix) 4:00
10. Richard Durand & Susana - I Matter To You 3:59
11. Richard Durand - Walk With Me 4:38
12. Richard Durand - Off The Grid 4:05
13. Richard Durand - Tree Of Life 3:51
14. Richard Durand - Ultimate 3:14
15. Richard Durand - Hexyl 3:27


Richard Durand - Reactivate [2022]-MKD.rar