Alphaverb – Beyond The Legacy (WAMLP-003)

I can "vinylly" announce what many of you have been asking for... there will be a vinyl release.
Rather than putting the full album on vinyl, this special release will feature 3 tracks from the new album on Side A, alongside 3 classic AVIO tracks on Side B.

To complete the package, everyone who pre-orders the vinyl will receive the full album on CD as a bonus, for a very friendly price of just under €20.

Making music has always been a passion project for me, and my goal was to make this release as low-threshold and accessible as possible for everyone who wants to support it and add it to their collection. The initial goal was an unexpected digital release with more than 10 new tracks, out of nowhere.

A huge thank you to "We Are Mood" for thinking along with me and helping make this happen. Together we came up with this construction to keep it affordable and accessible. Something that was very important to me from the start and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

As for the music itself... two of the album tracks on this release are completely new, and previews can already be listened to in the webshop.

Set Me Free (ft. REVIVAN)

This is definitely amongst my top 3 tracks on the album. It's a collaboration that started around three years ago with the son of a colleague from my day job. He mentioned his son was making hardcore, so after a while I asked him to show me some of his work. It turned out to be hardstyle, and I told him that's exactly the style I used to make myself, so I invited him over to my studio.

He is a huge Sub Zero Project fan, and that definitely influenced our first session together at the time. Two years later we picked the project back up, but by then REVIVAN had moved more towards industrial and hard techno.
Instead of simply finishing the original track, we ended up creating a whole new chapter within it. Only recently we finally wrapped it up into what became a combination of energetic hardstyle and rough hard techno sequences.

After All I've Done

This was the label's preferred track to complete the A-side. I originally started this track back in 2008. It was born out of frustration surrounding a conflict with my label at the time, Bazz Implant. Because of that situation, our Defqon.1 performance that year came very close to being performed by another artist instead of us.

Fortunately, thanks to Josh, Wesz and Deepack, we managed to get in touch with Q-dance directly and everything worked out in the end.

For a long time I felt the emotions behind this track didn't need to see daylight, but I always loved the melody. While working on the album, this was one of the old unfinished projects I really wanted to revisit and finally complete because of that.