This is another song released in the 1990s that I think is timeless because it has been about 10 years since release and it is still not boring to listen to. I guess during that time when trance was extremely popular, BT's Brian Transeau has created something quite beautiful. This is also one of those songs of the past that beats out most if not all modern releases in terms of creativity.
Listen carefully and you will find that this song is both very upbeat yet very peaceful at the same time. The highly melodic nature of this track combined with a stead drum and cymbal beat does just that. Especially the high pitched melody that sounds like a piano played underwater, those loops and solos are very blissful and happy. This song is very original and it is the first of its kind I have ever heard and it is the only song that I've heard that sounds like that aside from the remixes. Whenever I listen to this song, a shade of blue that is kind of like a neon sky blue, but much brighter appears in my mind and starts to equalize with the song (maybe it's because I have listened to this song so many times that I know the beat and how it looks like on an equalizer already). Listen to it a few more times and you will notice the wide pitch range. From high pitched underwater piano melody to the lower notes of a normal piano, "Flaming June" is one of the best trance tracks because of its broad melodic nature.
This video contains bits of the original video which are the water skiing bits. The title of the track fits perfectly with this music video. The water and winter activities in the video are probably what many of us wanted to do in the hot or flaming month of June. The intro is very relaxing because of the guitar melody leading into the body of the song. This version is very free flowing and very progressive in that the beat is continuously moving forward and not taking and breaks for other melodies except for a few drum solos that lead into another part of the song. When the basic "Flaming June" melody is playing, this song becomes very serene, but when the bass and drum beats kick in, this song becomes audacious.
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My only problem with the song would be its repetitiveness. I realize that in many trance songs, this is a common characteristic, but I think that even a bridge or alteration on the main part would have made it change from a passive song to an active one. What I mean by that is that as the song is, I would be more inclined to listen to it as background music, but if it were more interesting I definitely think that it could be a melody impossible to ignore.
And just a technicality: when you say "high pitched underwater piano," it's a slightly contradictory description. The underwater quality to the synthesized piano is just a boost in its mid-range frequencies (or pitches) while softening its higher ones. I think I understand what you mean, but I just wanted to try to clarify. I agree the effect on the piano is a very intriguing one. BT was able to keep a fairly clean sound to it while surrounding it with more synthesized loops.
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