Voyager - Hypersleep mp3 album

Pete comments on the ‘Hypersleep’ official release, sample clearance and the remix series in a period, when a wave of noir was sweeping the scene.“So the track itself wasn’t released until at least a year or so after it was made, due to me wanting it to be included on the ‘Future Retro’ album. I had plenty of offers to release the track as a single, but I wanted to keep it, and put it out as a part of the album release.However, the release of the album got screwed pretty badly by legal BS that kept it from being released for at least a year, by which time d&b had moved back to the darkness and wasn’t really into the whole deep atmospheric vibes much anymore, so by the time it finally got its release, it was over a year old, and released into a scene that on the whole, had retreated back into being a lot less accessible to a lot of people, which was in direct contrast to a lot of the tracks that had been released during the previous few years. Also releasing ‘Hypersleep’ as a single in its original version had a few issues, the biggest being it sampled quite a large chunk of spoken text from a major Hollywood movie, and releasing it without gaining clearance would probably have been a bit tricky. So I decided to keep the original version on the album, and get a couple of vocal actors in to redo the speech for the single release version. It didn’t sound too bad, but it didn’t have same impact or vibe of the original, but there was nothing I could really do, as there was no way R&S would have released the original and not got clearance.I did a remix of it which was pretty pale in comparison to the original, and so did EZ Rollers. To be honest, I didn’t know quite what to make of the remix from EZR, they took it into the dark and techy vibes that were all over the scene at that time, and it wasn’t really my thing…..but whatever. I’ve thought about rebooting the original, but every time I do, I run it through my mind, and I don’t come up with anything that gets close, or can offer anything that can better that original vibe that captured a time and place so perfectly for me”.