The story behind "Chicane - Offshore" with Nick Bracegirdle | Muzikxpress 050
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For this week's vlog I sat down with Nick Bracegirdle a.k.a. Chicane, about his trance classic "Offshore", his new artist album "The Place You Can't Remember, The Place You Can't Forget", his "Sun:Sets" radio show and more!
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I love this interview. Maybe in the future, you could do another chicane interview about SALTWATER? Keep up the good work.
Thank you! And I would love to do that, maybe another time when he's back in The Netherlands ;-)
Seriously... Saltwater is unreal!!!
@@muzikxpress Yeah could be interesting to hear about Saltwater and Dont give it up of course!
@@onel_ofc5011 both are on the wish list, but Nick hasn’t been back in NL for a while now, so hopefully once things get safer again in the future. Fingers crossed!
@@muzikxpress Haha for sure! Nobody knows when we will be back to normal life! Thanks for the answer and for your interviews! Cheers from Greece!
'Offshore' remains an absolute classic - one of those tracks that somehow resonates for so many people in countless ways. For me, it's a perfect representation of what I call 'widescreen' music - lush, atmospheric, melodic, and highly evocative. Beautiful chords supporting a hugely compelling riff.
If GOD listen music then OFFSHORE must be on his playlist.....
The day I no longer get goosebumps while listening to this track is the day I no longer consider myself alive.
This Track & saltwater always gave me the "hot summer deserted beach walk feels"' So dreamy & So Melancholic. The music Chicane created always felt inspirational and life if full of potential. Thanks Chicane & Bedankt beste Twan.
the sound of 90s ibiza
No tunes do it like Offshore and Saltwater. So simple, yet takes you further than almost anything else out there today.
They can both bring bliss, memories, emotion, nostalgia, euphoria, they’re absolute Masterpieces of Trance
Well said! 🙏🏻
Interviewed in FM 95 May 2000 I still have it. He used mainly Roland S-750 & S-760's back then, there are four in the rack. He had a JV-1080 that he used but tended towards the samplers. A Spirit Studio analog mixer, a pair of SH-101's. He used an Alesis 3630 across the mix and an SPL Vitalizer on everything. He also used the Lexicon MP1 on everything as that's what he had, also used a pair of Boss SX-700 effects. Sometime after Offshore he got a Nord Lead Keyboard and Rack which he used on main plucks for Saltwater.
Known nick from school came to the ministry of sound with me once so he could give a few copies of his records out to the dj’s who were playing that night. That record launched him into world wide success!
That’s so cool!!!! Nick is a legend!
From memory he made an absolute banger on the disco citizens before chicane but couldn’t get the samples released…
I love this Artist. Unbeknownst to Nick , his music defined my life. There is NO OTHER artist that moves me on the dancefloor and just for that alone, indeed a great Artist. A TranceGod !!
uhh he was plenty influential for early bird trance fans
I was 12 when offshore came out, my brother had it on cassette and even then I remember I got butterflies in my stomach. For me something about the track signifies strength and hope, even without the vocal. Its so well produced. I really get what Nick is saying about the music being in you. I really do believe that one is born with an innate sense of knowing what/how to write, its like a gift. Offshore is 100% the best example of this. The emotion is conveys seems to be universal.
Wow, great and detailed reply! Thanks for that! Hope you enjoyed the interview! :)
I must have listened to this track over a thousand times. Still love it just as much as the first time I heard it. Ultimate classic!
So good!
As a producer this very inspirational for me 🙏🔥
Saltwater warms my heart and takes me on a nostalgic Time Machine every time I hear it.
I was blown away when I heard Don't Give Up. I was like wow Bryan Adams doing dance music.
I remember participation in a super rig, night of the discotheques, where we compete to be the best club in Flanders. Intro was Adiemus - Adiemus and a remix from this, goosebumps alert, and public lost their minds and go into the trip. Still goosebumps here hehe. Understanding mixing and mastering can be chaotic in some manner, leave the working project, doing something else, going back, so he learned it hard way lol, poor fella.
So good from a production standpoint to hear that Nick takes a long time in order to let a track marinate. Instead of: "Yeah, man. Tossed off that hit in an hour." He's always been one of my greatest influences. What an amazing artist. Thanks for this outstanding interview.
Love his Rapa Nui shirt.
Easter Island represent! 😆
Nick, you are just a brilliant composer, this is a great composition when I hear it, all problems disappear and it gives strength and joy
my first introduction to this brilliant man. Chicane's beautiful work has been a part of who I am since 1997. :)
Phenominal artist. Probably the one I hold in highest regard for the most inspirational uplifiting tracks in my life.
Chicane is a brilliant producer! Love all of his music and I still own a great many of his CD's!
This tune is my number one tune of all time, closely followed by BT - Flaming June and Lustral - Everytime.
Nice one! And there are interviews about all 3 of them on my channel! 😉
The Saltwater track is like the music talking about the existence of having a holiday in Ibiza .
Offshore '97 is the GOAT
Offshore was by far the best track he ever did, absolute masterpiece with such an ambiance at the end, I’ve always enjoyed his music but this track is fantastic, Hats Off To U Aswell Muzikxpress 🙏
Thank you so much!
💞💞...new music.2021...💯🎵Nick...what an inspiration to the world of music..😷.🥁🎻.🤗✌️💋☘️
Thank you for carrying my soul from the rain to the beach.
More history taken from insert of Anthony Pappa's - Resolution, amazing mix CD btw really captures Pappas soul, that IS HIM YOU ARE HEARING.
He did have a few advantages, mind. He'd met a number of British DJs while playing in Australia and there was also the small matter of him being extremely good. Those musical skills encouraged by his dad had found an outlet in his DJing, not least his harmonic mixing skills (he still organises his box into keys). In face, this was how he chanced across the Chicance/Offshore liaison. "I wasn't mad on the record, but i thought it was a nice vocal. Offshore was breakbeaty tune. I keyed them both and put them in my record box and I wondered how they'd sound together and-bang-that was it." That was, indeed, it: 'Offshore' reached number 14 in the pop charts.
Wooow🙌🙌🙌🙌one of my favourite Trance legends😁🙌if you're from 90's, you must have heard and liked "Offshore", wow interview of Chicane 😍👌😇🙌😁👏👏👏Thank you Muzikxpress, thanks a lot😁🙌👍love this show, and thanks a lot sir Nick Chicane🙌😁😇😍👍🙌🙌🙌🙌😇👏👏👏👏hope you create more tracks like "saltwater" "don't give it up", "poppihola" "spirit" (almost all your past tracks left a massive footprint in Trance World, loved/still love your tracks sir😇🙌😇👏👏👏Thank you 😁😇🙌👏
Thank you very much!
muzikxpress 🙌😇🙌
Love it and he seems such a nice guy aswell.
Thank you Niels! And yes he is!!
Great interview. The main thing I take from this is that he REALLY knows his stuff.
Amazing! It's really hard these days to produce such great songs, to listen again after 10-20-30 years like it was released yesterday.
Brilliant interview mate, and what an absolute legend Nick is! Love this one :)
Huge thanks for getting my 'Saltwater' vinyl signed too! Framed and on the wall already of course :D
Thanks so much! And you are welcome, thank you for all the support as well! :)
@@muzikxpress Could you make a video about Saltwater too, please?
And don't forget to ask the connection with
Theme from Harry's Game!
Would love to sit down with Nick again somewhere in the future if he is up for another interview. Someone else already suggested I should do one about "Saltwater" with him too ;-) And of course I should ask then about the Clannad song, that's a given lol
@@muzikxpress Thanks! :)
And of course: Thanks for doing the series! :D
Chicane = Superb !
every single track from Chicane is great masterpiece, but my most favorite one is Red Skies
"Bracegirdle" What a name! lol
Great producer top guy nice interview :)
😉✌️This guy!? Took months? Glad he finished it. Master piece.
Such a classic right??
The investment in tracks back then still shows to this day, when production becomes quick and easy, tracks become disposable, unfortunately
Nick without doubt is a Trance God!.. Offshore, Seven Cities (Solarstone), Out of the Blue (System F (aka Ferry Corsten)) and Children (Robert Miles) defined the Trance Genre for me and if something new comes up that I love you can be sure it has echoes of those types of songs!.. Nick you are a Genius truly a modern day Mozart!! 😊
What a legend! Thanks a lot for the interview! Chicaaaaaaaaaaane!!!!
Offshore is great, reminds me of very, very good times. I still love to lesson to it today. Thank you Nick!
I was i gues 14 years old, now i am 34 and still listening this song every day in bed.
Great interview, Nick seems like a top bloke. Offshore is one of my favourite tunes ever!
It's incredible how challenging it was to complete this track, which has had such profound impact on electronic music - Everything after the album Far From The Maddening Crowds was VERY good as well, and certainly less challenging to produce from a technical POV, but this, this was something unprecedented, it was/is that good!
Absolute legend! Love Chicane ❤️
very cool again, Twan!!
Thanks Sied!!
I listen to this track every week.. Its part of me 💜. Part of My most innocent lovely time of my life when I first listen to this track back in the day of 1997...
My heart was so pure.. Still is, especially when I put this track on to enhance that emotion 💚
He is such a down to earth wonderful being. Luv this guy !.
Thanks for the interview 🌟
Thanks so much! I love Chicane, I hope I can do another interview with him in the future, fingers crossed!
I can acknowledge the influences of Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre in Chicane's work, but Offshore definitely has a Tangerine Dream influence. Love on a Real Train from the Risky Business soundtrack. Not that its a bad thing, they were among the pioneers of electronic music.
What you see is their success, but what you do not see is the hard work that goes into it. Great interview.
Very nice interview! Im very thankful to Nick for including one of my remixes on his recent Sun:Sets compilation! Legend....
Wow, that's cool! nice one! And thank you!!
Classic track. SALTWATER is amazing.
Xtravaganza -- golden years of Nick Bracegirdle...
Idea with vocal version of "Offshore" (i think) led to collaboration with Brian Adams to another radio hit #1
This track gets me emotional every time I hear it. I dedicated it to 3 female ex co-workers of mine when I walked away from my job. I had a crush with one of them and did not tell her at the time as I barely knew her... She had her birthday on that day and I left with tears in my eyes. She never saw that scene. Never seen her or heard from her since then... I am still furious about this till today.
The legend himself ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Excellent channel and content, you deserve more attention, keep it up!
Thank you so much! I started like a year ago, so I'm still kinda "new" to this. But I hope my channel gets more attention, so every comment / like / share is very much appreciated!
I agree. And I know this will rise.
@@SamiJumppanen Thank you, I hope so too ;-)
Thank you, for so great interview, again. Greetings from CZ.
Very cool, down to earth chilled dude and of course a master artist!!
the artist is amazing genious....
Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@muzikxpress Yes, your interviews are greatly appreciated ( and very informative )
Much love & respect to Nick (and for you Twan once again for a great interview)! ‘Saltwater’ is most def in my top fave tracks of all time and many others, like ‘Offshore’ have left a deep memory mark, too!
Thank you Ville! Would love to do one of this with Nick about "Saltwater" as well in the future! :)
Love every week podcasts - Chicane:SunSets
Music genius = Nick Chicane
Oh yes, he is!
Beautiful song so much memories!!!
Reminds me little bit prodigy singer!
Your channel should have at least one million subscribers
I found it really interesting how he Nick said he often listens to music he loves with an ear to figuring out precisely *why* particular chords or harmonies etc 'work' for a specific result.
Made me instantly think of that beautiful middle-8 / angelic voices pad reprise he put into Poppiholla. At the time I remember thinking how much musically it reminded me of James Horner's final cue from the Titanic score and if he'd made it sound like than on purpose as a homage to it.
Very nice
Mate im from oz. Used to dj but not anymore. Chicane's No Ordinary Morning is a personal favourite of mine i still have it on vinyl. Keep these old skool contents coming ur doing a great job
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the videos! I hope to have new interviews online soon, stay tuned hehe
@@muzikxpress when this damn isolation is over will send some patreon money over mate. Hope you can get an interview with Lange. He remixed Agnelli Nelsons Everyday. And his tune Out of the sky. Nalin & Kane- Beachball. I wont give u a mile long request list lol
Get Off This Rock Travel Thanks so much! And.... Last year I did 2 interviews with Lange, they are both on my channel 😉
@@muzikxpress crap sorry mate 🤪🤦♂️🤦♂️🤪. Will have a watch 🎶🙌
Get Off This Rock Travel haha no worries! Hope you enjoy them!
Love on the run - made me 'look for him' back in 2003. Good to see him enjoying the interview. Thanks for sharing. Peace from Pakistan.
Thanks a lot Irfan!
Great interview! Chicane single was my first CD single I ever bought... love this track to bits and play it very often. I have his whole discography but love the early stuff the most up to Giants, after that there’s just one or two cool tracks and rest were just fillers
In its original form, arguably one of the finest pieces of music ever. My original copy is credited to Offshore before he had to change it (remember 'I can't take the power' early 90's). I was at a night called One Love in Swindon UK when Anthony Pappa was scratching in A Little Love, absolutely biblical! Thanks I've enjoyed a few of your videos now, so I've subscribed. Stay safe x
mono lith Thank you so much! And stay safe too!!
love it
Nick seems like a really cool guy. A master of his craft no doubt.
Thank you for taking the time to do this interview. I've always wondered what Nick/Chicane is like & the history of his music style. Originally I found Chicane with Halcyon, thought it was a remix of Orbital's at first
Excellent video. Thank you for this.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Trance Legend :-) i have this vinyl one of the best Records of all time many releases from chicane are very amazing but offshore toped this :-)
Chicane one of my all time favorites. Really happy that I found this interview. Thanks alot for doing this
And thank you too, glad you enjoyed it!!! :)
i never knew the origins of this track but the feelings nick explains he tried to capture is exactly the memories and feelings the track invokes for me .late summer evenings , sun setting a warm wind the waves gently rolling a very calming relaxed vibe.one of my favourite tracks along with saltwater fantastic memories
Great interview - its a track I always used to start a set with!
Top man. Top tunes. Creates music that makes my heart soar. Total respect.
Thank you for this interview, thanks to Nick i discovered more and more music, i still remember how i discovered his music by accident and to this day he stayed one of my favorite musicians. I still embrace more his second album Behind the Sun, and my favorite Chicane track is Low Sun
Thank you very much! I was very happy Nick wanted to sit down for me to talk about this beautiful classic!
I love chicane & still have the vinyl version of salt water & thanks for sharing, great interview, and love his work and other songs & will continue & support his work & DJ and mix his songs in my sets
Thank you Dan! Glad you enjoyed the interview!
Fantastic interview, Nick comes across so well, just raw talent, there's no question. He is one of a select few producers we've had in the world. I love the depth he goes into about the production process and the old Atari setup. The sound he managed to produce on Offshore and Saltwater was so so ahead of it's time, and like he says, the fact he managed to produce it on that legacy hardware is nothing short of a miracle.
Thank you for the nice words!
He is one of my top artists, with BT, Moby, and others who exposed EDM to me. Also respect to Bill Leeb/Ryhs Fulber
I love this channel so much! and damn, these legends are getting old, and by extension, so am I xD but some immortal pieces of music on the spotlight, amazing!
A good interview. It was detailed and Nick provided good information. 👍👌
Thanks Hersh!
Thank you for taking the effort to bring us this! It REALLY means a lot!
Glad you enjoyed it! I hope to sit down with Nick again once he’s back in The Netherlands after the pandemic.... fingers crossed!
He's exactly as articulate and down to earth as I'd always imagined. Saw him at Avalon LA a few years back. Woulda liked to hear about his fear of flying and how he didn't tour the States for a couple decades. Or so I've heard.
My favorite classic prog house song ever is his remix of Jose Padilla's Who Do You Love.
I never heard about his fear of flying tbh? I know Eric Prydz is / was scared of flying (but I think it got better). Next time I talk to Nick, I'll try to ask him hehe ;-) Hope you enjoyed the interview!
@@muzikxpress yeah, i can't find anything on fear of flying online, either. it was just something someone told me once, i think. but i'm pretty sure he never performed in the states, or at least on the west coast, before a few years ago. i definitely woulda gone to see him back in the day.
eric wolfe the reason for that might be that he hasn’t always been a DJ. Chicane used to perform live with a band first, which of course is pretty expensive for an overseas promoter to book. Flying over 4-5 band members, crew and all instruments isn’t the cheapest, which is maybe the reason he didn’t perform in the US ever / often.
@@muzikxpress yeah that makes sense. the last band/dj/producer i saw was Trentemøller, and that performance was magical.
Wonderful interview, he seems very intelligent, and very thoughful about his productions which definitely shows in his tracks. Thank you for this great interview :)
Morten Nielsen Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this!!!, Can’t wait for another sitdown with Nic
Thank you! And same here, would love to do another interview with him!
nice interiew he is the founder of the famous plucked type sounds that came from the nord lead you can heard in many trance tracks from other artist as well
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Fabulous interview. I've loved Chicane for over 20 years
Thanks a lot!!
No surprised he spent months knowing how well these both tracks are produced.
Good work needs time right?? 🙂
Brilliant interview, and awesome introduction of the timeline and versions of the track.
thanks a lot Barry! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting interview. Thanks!
AWESOME!!!!
Great interview Twan. The best thing about offshore? The breakdown at 3.12 as per the radio edit. Incredible. And on live versions with the electro acoustic guitar. This track is what defines my passion for this type of music. 😊
Thanks a lot James!
massive thanks
classic
Awesome interview!! I've always wanted to know the inner workings and story behind that epic masterpiece! I, too, would love to hear an interview about Saltwater, probably the greatest trance tune of all time (in my opinion). From the sounds of it, though, he seems like a very busy man to "track" down LOL!
jayvivaitalia thanks so much! And yeah, next time Nick is in The Netherlands, I wanna ask him about the story behind “Saltwater”, if he has time and if he’s up for it of course hehe
What a gem of a channel
Thank you so much! And.... a LOT more to come! In a few days I will post a teaser of which 9 interviews you all can expect in the next months!