Kai Winter (the Cold in Hennes & Cold) was a very prolific trance artist, known not only for his work as Hennes & Cold, but also has half of the duo of Derb, and also as Kan Cold. There's quite a bit of scattered other stuff out there as well under a number of different names, but those are the most prolific aliases used, and the three that have had a Works compilation released in relatively recent years. I actually heard of Hennes & Cold first from their remix work before I heard any of their original work—DJ Choci and The Geezer's "It's Beyond Control" and even more, Titchy Bitch and The Fallen Angel's "Retribution." Both are on the list to eventually be featured, but as I explored Hennes & Cold, I came to really appreciate their original work too. They've got a lot of really good songs, and are just really talented artists, producers and DJs.
This is a good one; not one that I'd necessarily have picked to highlight their absolute best work, but it came up in the random selector from the tracks that I've thought were good enough to be featured in the random selection.
Given how many Hennes & Cold tracks I have on that list, it was inevitable that they would come up sooner rather than later, and will probably feature again shortly (then again, I haven't had an A*S*Y*S song come up yet, and I'm sure I have more of their tracks than any other single artist. I'm sure they'll be up soon, though.)
Not this track, but Hennes & Cold are also credited with being one of the very first hardstyle artists, mostly because they seem to have invented the reverse bass effect—although they use it on a track that is straightforward hard trance. Combined with the pitch shifting and other exaggerated kicks, like on Warmduscher's "10 Kleine Bassdrums" and you've basically got Early Hardstyle coming out of hardtrance without any particular sharp break.
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