Tagged: Daniel Portman

November 9, 2012

DANIEL PORTMAN – RADAR EP (UNRELEASED DIGITAL)

Daniel Portman was born and raised in the suburbs of Zurich, Switzerland. He fell in love with electronic music at a very young age. It was the late 90s, with all its ups and downs, when young Daniel started to test his musical abilities on an Akai 2000 sampler and an old sequencer.

Over the years Daniel’s sound has formed into a forward thinking and unique style of house music, which can be described as a mixture of progressive house and techno. But also with an ability to infuse cutting edge machine music with soulful grooves.

After a short break from releases during the European summer, Daniel Portman gets back on Unreleased Digital with a new 3 track EP, titled, “Radar”. Apparently, it was hard to pick a title for the EP as it was believed that all 3 tracks carried great potential to make it big out on the dancefloor’s. Finally in cooperation with Daniel, Unreleased Digital picked “Radar” to be the title track.

Starting off the first track on the EP, the title track, “Radar”, is a progressive house anthem that has a dark driven beat and a bass section which builds the basic structure of the track, some analog pads sweep up from time to time, leading into an euphoric pre-drop that further crashes down to a breakdown part with some pitch shifted vocals on top. Finally, the track goes on to a huge and unexpected drop.

Second track on the EP is called “Your’re Not Alone”. Some minimal & techno elements surround this track. 808 toms and distorted percussions build the melodies and add on’s, first only played as random single notes, but in the breakdowns filtering up as a full melody that will get stuck in your heads like glue instantly!

“Something In The Air”, the third and final track is another master piece that is maybe the most “Daniel Portman style” like track, that everybody expects from him on this EP. Swinging hi-hat pattern, a punchy kickdrum hammering through and some staccative synth stabs that get the track rolling. The breakdown holds a hypnotic melody that even makes it all go round when it drops after with some deep synth shots and gated vocal glitches.