Saturday 18 December 2010

A Tribute to iiO

Remember iiO? It was the house act composed of Marcus Moser and Nadia Ali. Their 2001 single, Rapture, garnered huge acclaim and was remixed by Deep Dish, and eventually featured by Tiesto on his radio show, and the rest is history. It literally is, because the duo released one album, Poetica, and then Nadia Ali departed to pursue her own singing career. Her career never really took off and she remains heavily involved in house music, and has written for and collaborated with Hardwell, Tocadisco, Morgan Page, BT, and more. Anyways, at the moment shes been working on a project called Queen Of Clubs Trilogy: Best of Nadia Ali Remixed. The first two installments, the Ruby and Onyx editions, were released a couple of months ago, and the final Diamond edition is coming out on the 21st of December.
iiO might not be a name you hear a lot lately, but it is a name that has been recorded in the annals of house music history. Rapture is a track that sits proudly alongside such classics like Delirium's Silence, Darude's Sandstorm, and Everything But the Girl's Missing.
These are the tracks I picked out from Queen of Clubs:
Nadia Ali - Fantasy (EDX Remix)

Nadia Ali - Fantasy (Morgan Page Radio Edit)

Nadia Ali - Rapture (Avicii New Generation Extended Mix)

Nadia Ali - Crash & Burn (DJ Shah Magic Island Mix)

Nadia Ali - Crash & Burn (Ned Shepard & Sultan Remix)

Enjoy!

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