There’s a common trope within the music production community that producers need to fuse genres in creative ways and push the limits of sound design to create sounds, genres, and songs that no one has ever heard before. If you’re not doing that, you are falling flat of all expectations.
While there is a certain level of merit to that, there’s also an equal amount of merit to producers who rest on the laurels of the genre and really just knock out of the park all of the tropes and styles and moves that have made this type of dance music popular for the better part of three or four decades now.
Fernweh’s Approach
Fernweh is a German producer who is doing exactly that, and his latest track, “Nebula Horizon,” is a perfect continuation of everything that I have come to love, if not be obsessed with, about dance music for as long as I’ve been following the genre and working directly in it.
Sure, the song doesn’t have sounds that have never been used before, but it certainly does have a fantastic, rocking, energetic bassline, vocal chops that create a soaring and atmospheric soundscape that we just get lost in, and a rise and fall of tension that is highly effective on the dance floor.
The crisp, warm drums create a foundation in the song that drives it all home, and the rises and peaks of the energy make it an effective dance floor weapon. So stream the track below, add it to one of your playlists, and give this producer a follow because he is a perfect continuation of everything that’s made progressive trance and uplifting music so addictive for the better part of three decades.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
