Anything BT touches turns into gold, from trance classics to collaborations to modern day plugins and what not, Brian Wayne Transeau aka BT always is on fire with his projects and taken his recently released single to a next level titled “Wildfire”.

Through guitar strum and piano ponder, BT’s original version embarks in tranquil enough fashion. True to title though, before long – propelled by bass waves, harmonic winds and sun-tipped synths, it’s charting a course altogether more unbridled. ‘Wildfire’s song (written & performed by Canadian vocalist Brenna MacQuarrie) weighs up the age-old enigma of ‘can’t live with/can’t live without’, allowing the listener to draw their own conclusions as to its outcome.

And on remix duties it has couple of variants from Sean Tyas and Somna. Mr. Tyas wastes no time in rolling out the big bass drum, developing a robust intro with a New Order-ish quality to its undertone. Looping and dubbing ‘Wildfire’s vocal, he brings some 303-squall to its game, before reaching musically skywards through its uplifting mainline.

Version by Somna channels a bit of the Original’s arrangement, commencing calm, before – post-break – darting straight for the clubfloor-jugular. In the drop he builds up the snares, before finally (and fully accompanied by ‘Wildfire’s vocals) releasing in a bombastic display of run-amok bass, flying frequencies & grinding FX.

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