The story behind "Café Del Mar" by Energy 52 | Muzikxpress 021
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This year 25 years ago, "Café Del Mar" by Energy 52 got released. It is one of the most re-released and remixed trance classics of all time.
In this week's vlog you will hear more about this trance anthem, plus I'll list the 20 most famous remixes of "Café Del Mar".
Which version is your personal favorite?
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
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What is your favorite version of "Café Del Mar"?
Kid Pauls version and the one from Cosmic Baby!
Kid Paul version 👍
Oliver Lieb Remix 1, Kenny Hayes and Activa Remix which was re released by Paul Oakenfold few years back
@@julko28 The Paul Oakenfold version (and the new remixes of that one) actually is a remake, not an official remix ;-)
@@muzikxpress Yeah that's what i was thinking but there is Activa Remix of Paul Oakenfold remake - funny :)
This used to play on repeat on MTV in 1994 together with Antiloop - In My Mind, ATB - 9 PM, Darude - Sandstorm, Sash! - Ecuador and Chicane - Saltwater.
Yesssssss!!!!
Darude - sandstorm in '94😅
Thanks very much for sending me down the Wim Mertens rabbit hole!
This fabulous track is synonymous with a blessed time, all those who lived in this period and who knew raves and clubbing know how great this era was, I do not want to say that now it is less good, only at that time everything was new and everything remained to be discovered and done, Everything is filled with the freshness of novelty ✨💫💙
Hi there. Great video dude, as usual. I really enjoyed it. It's a few years old but it doesn't matter, good music is immortal and timeless. :)
This track, especially with the sublime Three'N One Remix, is a true masterpiece, a cosmic tune, pure musical poetry. This is, arguably, the finest Trance music & electronic music track ever created. And so it was voted in DJ Mag. For me it is too, no doubt.
The fantastic Three'N One Remix of Energy 52 - Café del Mar is my all-time favourite. It is the best one, I believe, it's amazingly good. I haven't heard a better one. Kid Paul's Remix and the Nalin & Kane Remix are also pretty good, in my opinion. Likewise, I also really like a very recent one, Paul van Dyk's SHINE Remix of this gem, it's powerful and superb.
I am so glad that I was able to listen to this gem when it first came out, in the early 1990s. Also the awesome remixes, especially my favourite, Three'N One's, right after it came out. The glorious 90s, dude, how we miss them sometimes. :)
This extraordinary tune and its various remixes made me love and enjoy (good) music and high-quality electronic music even more.
There are other superb tracks too, like for example Greece 2000, and many more, but Café del Mar is so special.
Energy 52 - Café del Mar (Three'N One Remix), Three Drives On a Vinyl - Greece 2000, Paul van Dyk - For an Angel, Cherrymoon Trax - The House of House and Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth are my favourite electronic music tracks ever. They are so, so good!. I absolutely love them ❤. And many more. :)
People with a good musical taste will always love and appreciate these fantastic tracks, now and in the future. 😎
A big salute. Best wishes and all the best, always. Listen to good music and never stop doing it. 🙂
A legendary sound of the electronic music!
Three n'one 1997 remix & Cosmic Baby impression is my favorites versions✌
Absolute classic! I have the 97` Hooj Choons release on vinyl 🙂
Thanks for great story! Really interesting for electronic music lovers 🎹🎼🎵🎵💙
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It is always good to hear stuff you do not know about good tunes - must check if I have the original !
Thank you! :)
Classic track to play loud.
For sure!!!
What a CD collection !!
Thank you 😉
What a tune....timeless
Energy52 - CDM - is THE dance track of my life - always triggers goosebumps - and born in Berlin! ♥♥♥♥♥
Great vid, Twann. My fave remixes are: 3'n'1 and nalin'n'kane.
Cheers, from t.nu.PlasticSoul83.
Thank you for all of these,the channel deserves many more subscribers!
And thank you for the kind words! Feel free to spread the word 😉☺️
Thanks for these videos
So good, though I didn't hear it till the 2000's. Where I lived in the US Trance and Techno were hard to discover back then. 25 years old, wow! Still is a banger! 😎👍
Three n One mix for me
Este tema es eterno y seguira dandonos buenos momentos. Gracias!
Very interesting info thanks
Interesting info! Thanks for taking the time to do this video.
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Who was the girl in the video?
To fill in a little more detail... Kid Paul was in fact in Ibiza off season in late 1992, and was at 'Café Del Mar' when he heard Wim Mertens' Struggle for pleasure being played. He then met up with Cosmic Baby in early 1993, who IS the classically trained musician & pianist, played him the Wim Merten's track, and then they started work on creating Café Del Mar, the name as you stated being based on the Café where Kid Paul first heard the music.
I really love the Michael Woods remix and the last 2.5 minutes of the kid paul original (slowed down a bit.)
Michael Woods' remix is great!
Another top interview. This tune is in the top 10 of my all time favourite trance tracks!
beautiful vlog
The Porte De Bagnolet might be the best remix of all mixes of this. Insanity it goes back to 1993!
One of my favourite dance tracks.
Paul, let's celebrate 3 decades!
Nice one!! I enjoyed that...thanks
An absolute monster of a track!
Great work dudde
Timeless🔥❤🖤🔥
Thanks for that mate really cool vid! favorite remix depends on the situation! if i am relaxing on the beach then deffo michael woods , at the club kid paul's !
I love the Michael Woods version, so good!
Thank you 😇😇😇
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Many years back someone had a playlist with all the remixes on UT.
This track really shows the importance of a remix. It’s not my favourite personally, but man that Three’n’One mix was everywhere. It’s the guise in which everyone knows this track. I wonder how much they got paid to do the remix? Where are they now? Do they regret submitting the mix and should have kept it for themselves?
seeing Cosmic Baby playing it live in 93 , was my greatest rave experience !
Oh wow! How cool is that!!!
@@muzikxpress there was little snippet of the live recording of Cosmic playing cafe Del Mar from the same gig on his old website but sadly it’s not there anymore live Melbourne 22/09/1993, maybe someone else has it
th-cam.com/video/rL5faEis43k/w-d-xo.html
What a great video!!! Just, that... what a great video this is! The most amazing thing is actually to go and listen to Wim Mertens original creation of this classic house track and how awkward it sounds. Stil lI think all other artists just got their skills to a more 'up-do-date-level'... and got that Mertens-track out of awkwardness. Fan of Mertens now to be honest...
Thank you so much!
listen the Tale Of Us Remix!
Yeah great remix! It wasn't out though when I made this vlog, but love their version!
He still has a blog that he runs semi-anonymously and every now and then his new pseudonym appears in my Facebook timeline, but it doesn't seem to be pushing him into the public eye, so I will be careful not to trumpet this . Those who know him and whom he has confirmed as friends know where to find him. - "Tanith" November 20, 2012
Wow, waarom heb ik die overeenkomst met Struggle For Pleasure nooit gehoord? Zo duidelijk en ik heb het nooit gemerkt
This is the second trance song. First - Age of love, I think
First one is “What Time Is Love” from the KLF from 1988 😉
Just wanted to find an old song and I came by this video lul ! It was very interesting , it's really nice to see where it came from gotta say !
Too bad I couldn't find the one I wanted , my mom talked about an "original" version made in 1991 , it was exclusive to a radio? (not sure) x[ , welp , she did told me that after hearing this song , she recorded it to VHS tape .And after all of those years , she couldn't find it anywhere , I tried it myself but didn't find anything ...
Anyway if anyone knows what versions it is I would be very grateful :] ! (the difference with that one is that at the end , I quote = "it get slower" or something like that , not sure if I understood what she meant ^^") .
it's really good questions - what has happened to Kid Paul during all these years? what is he doing now??
I only found out he is good at hiding online haha! No social media accounts / LinkedIn. But I hope he is still making music :) Who knows ;-)
+1 remix i remembered ,i think somewhere 2012-2013 probably it was from Claudia Cazacu.
He moved to Berlin when he was 6, had an acid house record when he was 14, and by the time he was 18 he was partying so hard in Ibiza that he was friends with Sven Vath. What an OG.
I really liked the rave track he released in '91 - turns out he was only 16 at the time!
Best Remix: Da Bruck & Klein ❕
Cosmic Baby's Impression, no doubt. Btw a pity he is not there to be interviewed in person.
Yeah I wish I was able to find him, but no social media, no website, no LinkedIn… nothing…. Plus none of my contacts had info about him too….. very mysterious hehe
Deadmau5 remixed Café del Mar? 🤨 Three 'n' One, Nalin & Kane and Michael Woods (both remixes) absolutely smashed it. Timeless track.
Yes, released in 2008!
I once listened to a classical violin/piano version. Please let me know if you are aware of the same.
Struggle for pleasure, Wim Mertens
The original.
Cant get used to it , i can play this forever :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D.............. ENERGY 52, MICHAEL WOODS remix also.............. CAFE DEL MAR FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Earth can welcome extraterrestrial with Cafe Del Mar and see them rock.
More importantly, who is the girl in the video?
A good question, which I don't have the answer to ;-)
Mhmm Interesting Musical Group Never Heard Of Them But Cool
I could never understand the Cafe Del Mar connection, becuase CDM was always a chill zone place.
I once heard the track was mixed on a SSL table?
When I did research for this vlog I didn't find any info about it, but it might be :)
At least the Three ’n’ One version was mixed on Mackie th-cam.com/video/eqsMFXDYYZI/w-d-xo.html
I don't know about the original version but the 1997 Three 'n One remix was made in the studio of Sharam Jey (1 half of the duo Three 'N One).
Sharam's old studio contained a Mackie 32:8 mixingdesk and 24 channel expander. When I listen to the tonal character of that song, the directness in the mids and bass are really like a Mackie 8-bus mixer indeed (I do own a 32:8 aswell).
Drums and hits were created and came out of an Akai S3000XL sampler, the deep bassline is an FM-bassline by a Yamaha TX816, the upper bassline was by a Roland Juno 60.
Pads, strings, orchestral hit and the famous plucked lead sound were created/came out of the Roland JV1080. The famous 3-note pluck sound with reverb throughout the song (used in the buildup/suspense and cooldown) was produced by a Nord Lead 1. All the reverbs used most probably came out of a Roland SRV330.
Those instruments + composition vibed a lot and let generations have unforgettable moments on the dancefloor or at home xD
Original! Of course Nalin& Kane is also supreme! Original always to me ! It will Always be a mystery why he decided to leave music scene !
Yeah I hope he’s doing well and maybe still makes music under a secret name or something hehe
@@muzikxpress What Ive read about him. He went into IT scene. Maybe it was something he looked to work for himo. Shame still !
I wonder if they had to get the melody cleared from Wim Mertens
I don't see his name in the credits, so I doubt it.... Maybe they made a deal afterwards though, who knows!
1993??????? it comes out in 1998
Gianni Van Heusen The Official no, that was a re-release. The original version came out in 1993 already on Eye Q Records.
@@muzikxpress Thank you i didnt know
Gianni Van Heusen The Official I did mention it in the vlog even lol 😉
@@muzikxpress Sorry i do getting old
out of office mix destroys every other mix.
Café del mar energy 52,amphetamine Heckmann,Turkish bazar Top.....discoteque Baby O de Acapulco México....1994.