The 23rd of July 2010, as dawn breaks over the seaside surround of Kołobzeg on Poland’s north coast, the Sunrise Festival will rise up from the ground. A recent graduate to the global A-list EDM festival circuit, it is the biggest outdoor music event in the country. Now talked about in the same breath as Nature One, Dance Valley, Creamfields and Tomorrowland, it will bring in world-class DJs and acts, and draw in over 30,000 clubbers from every corner to power it through final July weekend.

As great as festivals are though they have one substantial drawback: they only last a couple of days. With some well-placed assistance though those memories can last forever and that’s where forward-looking electronic dance music label High Contrast come in. They have teamed-up Sunrise to release the festival’s as-essential-as-being-there 2010 compilation companion…

To engrain the sound & spirit of the event into the release, High Contrast have recruited two of their tip-of-the-spear Sunrise spinners to bring the festival experience back…

Flying the flag for the trance corner is Cliff Coenraad – a man whose persona beams out originality and ingenuity and someone who can pump funk into the most minimal of productions. Leading out his mix with production wunder-team Nic Chagall, Rank 1 & Wippenberg’s club-decimator ‘100’, he maps an early tough trip around the suburbs of techno & tech-trance. Dave Schiemann’s ‘Elements’, Christian Fischer dark ‘n’ long ‘Wildsleep’ and his own ‘Ticked off by Default’ all pour fuel on the floor-fire. Halfway through Cliff begins to amp up the pressure and starts working in the main-floor, big-room guns, with tracks like of Ali Wilson’s ‘Pandora’, Marco V & Benjamin Bates all-tranced-up ‘WTNF’ and his own official Sunrise Festival 2010 anthem ‘Massive’ making the speakers sweat..

Sunrise is as much about house as it is trance and to fully reflect that flavour, Netherlands sensation Hardwell takes control of the mix for the second disc. Kicking off in big form with his 2010 rolling piano-vs-synths spin on Red Carpet’s anthem ‘Alright’, he takes the listener on an 80 minute round-the-world journey that starts with cool, summer-style grooves… and gradually works its way up and up… Alex van Alff & Errol Reid latest Big & Dirty release ‘I Never Knew Love’, Daniel Portman’s reformation of Marco V & Khashassi’s ‘Scenario’ and the Tiësto-champed ‘Switched’ by Nicky Romero all get their moment in the sun. Hardwell’s big own one-two of ‘Smoke’ & ‘Molotov’ comes under the laser before Disc 2 climaxes with Dada Life’s stabby, wonderfully-unhinged electro-avalanche ‘Cookies With a Smile’.

The festival’s unique DNA is available now at your download portal or CD shop. To deny yourself one is to deny yourself part of summer itself!
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Tracklist
CD 01 mixed by Cliff Coenraad
01. Nic Chagall, Rank 1, Wippenberg – 100 (Extended)
02. Justin Feriér – Feel the Love (Pacific & Vandyck Remix)
03. Dada Life – Love Vibrations (Phatzoo Dub Remix)
04. Dave Schiemann – Elements
05. Christian Fischer – Wildsleep
06. Cliff Coenraad – Ticked off by Default (Original Mix)
07. FM Radio Gods – 333 (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)
08. Dyor feat David Gionfriddo – Spiritual Meeting (Ricky T Vox Remix)
09. Marco V feat Benjamin Bates – WTNF
10. Cliff Coenraad – Massive (Sunrise 2010 Anthem)
11. Ali Wilson – Pandora
12. Marco V & Ali Wilson – Kaos Theory
13. Evol Waves – Hourglass
14. Wezz Devall – Free My Willy (Cliff Coenraad Repimp)
15. Cliff Coenraad – Obsession For More
16. Eddie Sender – Baltimore (Original Mix)

CD 02 mixed by Hardwell
01. Red Carpet feat. Hardwell – Alright 2010
02. Big World feat. Markus Binapfl – Quadrillion (Moquai Remix)
03. Alex van Alff & Errol Reid – I Never Knew Love
04. Bates45 – Coming Back
05. Marco V – Scenario feat Khashassi (Daniel Portman Remix)
06. Hardwell – Voyage
07. Benjamin Bates – Whole (Hardwell 2010 Remix)
08. Youri Donatz & Franky Rizardo – I Like this Sound
09. Nicky Romero – Switched
10. Hardwell – Smoke
11. Wippenberg – Drumster
12. Swanky Tunes – Rave-O-Phonic (David Tort Rework)
13. Hardwell – Molotov
14. Dada Life – Cookies With a Smile

Cliff Coenraad has reached the number 1 position at the Planeta FM chart in Poland! His latest release ‘Massive ‘, which is the official anthem for Sunrise Festival 2010, went straight to number 1. When mister bootylishious dropped his Massive anthem at Sunrise Festival last weekend the Polish people lost it and shaked their booties to the beat. Cliff Coenraad played a bootyshakin set which the Polish fans appreciated a lot. So it’s no wonder that his anthem is now number 1 at Poland’s number 1 dance station.

Check the website from Planeta FM here

Cliff Coenraad is responsible for this years Sunrise Anthem (festival in Poland)! check out this melodic bigroom track that will be released on High Contrast Records.

Check it out!

It’s out now on CaptivatingSounds (Armada Music)

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My new release”Obsession for more / Ticked off by default”  is out now on High Contrast Recordings!

2 fresh new bigroom tracks which will get your booty going for sure!

Get them right here:

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A bit late with the news, but as we like to say… better late than never!

Second re-release of Fred Numf’s classic ‘Globalisation’ after its first re-release on ID&T back in 2003. Now with a new version from sir Numf himself, Cor Fijneman and bootyshakin’ boy Cliff Coenraad. 3 Mixes, 3 styles, but it’s the bootyshakin’ boy who delivers the stand out mix, proving he’s on fire at the moment and the man to watch!

Supported by: Sander van Doorn, Marco V, Armin van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Nic Chagall, Marcel Woods, and many many more!

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Check out this coolio review!

“It there is one thing trance music is always in danger of its unoriginality. Whilst the framework for a trance track is fairly simple, it’s the interpretation and application of this genre that can be detrimental to the life and times of trance music. In layman’s terms, if all trance music sounds too similar its listeners would become bored and stray into other genres of electronica and without listeners there can be no producers and no DJ’s.”

Read the full review here: http://trance.nu/v4/reviews/cliff-coenraad-distorted-reality

“Distorted Reality” is out from July 27 2009 and is available at downloadportals like Beatport, Audiojelly, Trackitdown, Dance-Tunes, DJdownload, and Masterbeat.
The good ol’ vinyl release is set for August 10 2009, we can’t leave the black gold behind!

Curious what it sounds like? Head over to www.myspace.com/cliffcoenraad for a soundclip.