Well, there is a bombshell, Vanessa Van Hemert was never the singer. Fascinating learning this stuff, but good to know no-one was treated badly. Also good to know 4 Strings and Susann are working together again. Her voice has a lovely tone! Furthermore, please keep up the good work with these videos. They are a fantastic insight into the behind-the-scenes/back stories of dance music!

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Got some really cool names confirmed (or half confirmed hehe) for the next few months. And yes, I only found out some weeks ago that Vanessa wasn't the real singer! And yes, I agree, super cool that Susanne Teutenberg and 4 Strings are working again!!!

@UMBR.

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have any plans to talk to Opus III or Kirsty Hawkshaw about "It's A Fine Day"? That would be a dream come true.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Since this vlog is only costing me time and money, I don't have a travel budget unfortunately, so I can only interview people that live in The Netherlands (or just accros the German / Belgian border) or people that are here for shows, so whenever I see Kirsty is coming to NL, I will try to ask her. So... fingers crossed ;-)

@Camwin

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was stunned but when you think of what happened with Ian Van Dahl it makes sense. Still I find it so hard to connect with that

@UMBR.

5 жыл бұрын

@@Camwin what happened with Ian van Dahl? There were rumours about Judy not being the real singer of Alice Deejay.

An all time fave of mine for sure!

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

So good right???

@KingLizard616

3 жыл бұрын

You're really cool Darude. You come here among us mortals and leave a comment on the video. great respect!

@darbomusic

3 жыл бұрын

Nice one 👍

The most famous vocal trance song on earth

@MrPacMan36

4 жыл бұрын

Timeless no less!!! Every time I play it, it sounds like a modern and unheard song that is completely euphoric.

@Agave310

3 жыл бұрын

Lol there's a few more with it.

Take me away defined my youth and i still listen to it with shivers

Thank you for interviewing him. I've always been a fall of all 4 Strings tracks. All of 'em! The vocals make the tracks sound extra good, too. I don't typically like the 'stereotypical trance sound'. The epic breakdown isn't my cup of tea; at all. But 4 Strings's trance sound will always sound good to me. I've always been into a melodic progressive house kinda sound, ex: classic Markus Schulz. But I can hear those influences in 4 Strings, too. Thanks again!

I also did an interview with Carlo about his classic "Carlos - The Silmarillia", which he did together with Piet Bervoets (from Rank 1). Make sure to check that one as well ;-)

Great one again, Twan! He never told me abt the vocalist, super cool he just shares that straight up. I was blasting this track right after its release non stop in my car just after I got my drivers license. Carlo is such a cool and humble guy!! and not to forget talented af.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sied! And I only found out myself some weeks ago when I did some research about the track for this vlog. I'm glad Carlo wanted to answer this question hehe And yes, he's a very nice and down to earth guy, super humble and a great producer!

@erenbirol1458

5 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress btw The story behind siedvanriel and standerwick in a perfect world What a trance track thx for The interview best wishes from Turkey

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And FYI, for my channel I focus on classics in all kinds of genres. So I'm only looking for tracks that became really popular in at least a few countries.

@erenbirol1458

5 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress dear Twan thx for your effort if i come to netherlands May ve i can make an interview with you😃

It's great to hear your interviews in 'english' thank you from the Uk

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Darren!

It's really amazing what kind of wizardry the artists had to do back in the day, an ATARI 1040, a synth and a sampler. OMG!

@docteurgreene

4 жыл бұрын

True, but JD990 was a very good synth at this time.

@lesonador7936

3 жыл бұрын

@@docteurgreene JD990 is still a beast.

@Dougie-

11 ай бұрын

The song doesn't contain more than a synth and a beat though. Great song, but not many elements.

I've noticed that the Dutch pronounce the word "idea" as I.D. It was confusing at first because of unknown tracks being listed as I.D. So funny. Thanks for this, Twan. It's amazing to me the number of artists you've gotten access to, but putting faces to tracks I've loved for decades is so satisfying.

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah true, I know I used to do this myself as well, but in the more recent vlogs you will hear me say it correctly (someone told me I also did this, oops :D)

This was my favorite song when I was in college. So cool to hear the backstory! Never knew he was also behind Madeline's "Beautiful Child".

@a226sig

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the exact same thing.

Good to see artists still being active producing. "Take me away" is for sure one of most recognisable track. Thanks for interview!

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the interview!

Damn, now I understand why Vanessa van Hemert kinda 'left' the trance scene. Still love all the classic vocal tunes

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Filmpjes haha yes, now you know 😉

@jollywolly55

7 ай бұрын

Yeah remember years later people looking for her and found she worked in cafe or library .. explains her disappearance

love this song. From stringer to take me away.

Old Behringer DSP 8024 behind on the desk!

Great journalist job! Loved to know more about the band and the songs, thank you!

@muzikxpress

9 ай бұрын

And thank you too!!

En realidad está es uno de estas canciones que se quedan en tu alma y jamás se olvidan, marcan tu alma y se quedan para siempre, tnks a Lot

Top notch job as always. It's amazing that vocalist of 'Take Me Away' and other tracks from that time was kept secret all this time.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! And yeah, they did a good job on keeping it secret for so long right??

@xaero212

5 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress tbh I couldn't believe it. All those years I was certain the person singing is the girl from those covers

I love his song. It's very emotional in a unique way. Makes me think of something you've been waiting for for a long time

Wow he did “beautiful child”? That was so banging.

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! He did so many great tracks! Legend!

Thank you Carlos - My fav is "Let It Rain" - it will forever stay close to me. (Leonety Ambient Mix) is pure bliss

One of my favorite tracks.

Brings back good memories. Absolutely love that track! Great interview :).

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel! One of my favorite vocal trance classics as well, so I'm very glad Carlo was willing to be interviewed for my vlog :)

Always preferred the original version without the Vocal, hauntingly beautiful.

@TransurLifeawai

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed !

GOLD!

Magic tunes ❤️❤️❤️

In 2001, Turn it around and few of it's remixes blew me away as i was new to this music. Thanks for sharing this interview.

Legendary track!!!

Still as good today as the first time I heard it!!

Good job guys

Take me away & diving are up there as my all time fave tracks!

One of the first tracks I listened to, Thank you very much for this video!

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you too!

I just recently stumbled upon your channel and I have to say I really like your "the story behind" videos a lot. Thanks for making them.

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Much more to come this year, glad you like the videos! :)

4 STRINGS FOR EVER!! ♥️🎼

Twan, this is great to have this channel. Great to have these stories. Thank you

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Cormac!!

PLEASE, MORE INTERVIEWS! THIS IS AWESOME. I love the chat about production and gear used

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

More to come soon! :)

Omg this is beautiful

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Ricardo glad you enjoyed it!

Теперь я знаю его историю от данном треке. 🔊🎶🎶👍

Great documentary!

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Nice interview, Twan 😊👍🏻

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks David!!

Gaaf man!

Hymn😍

Yeah😁Now this's really an awesome interview😊🙌 I knew about 4 strings back in 2001,it was this track on a Breezer Compilation CD,I loved all tracks but 4 strings track was my most favourite track ,since then I've been a great admirer of his music💞💕😊🙌👍👌now going to watch it completely😉👏👏👏great work Muzikxpress and thank u both Twan and 4 strings😊🙌🙌🙌would love to see a new album/single soon😁🙌

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! The new single should be out this month and I also hope they will do a new album later this year (maybe) as Carlo said!

Great man and a true pioneer! Funny story that happened to me few years ago, Jan De Vos arrived at this local club as 4 Strings live, and I gave Jan all the Carlos and Meridian maxi cd's for a signature, thinking he was Carlo Resoort haha.. Well.. happens, at least i was close as they're related. :)

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, oops! ;-) Good story though lol

@low3freq

4 жыл бұрын

"I gave Jan all the Carlos and Meridian maxi cd's for a signature" hahaha hilarious.

Legend

Great interview Twan. The original is still the best version although the D'tec remix is at tight second place.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!!

@low3freq

4 жыл бұрын

Original is king. Gabriel & Dresden mixes second.

@JohnSmith-qp4bt

2 жыл бұрын

Is it Twan, or is it Toine?

@alphabetamusic7

Жыл бұрын

DTech was a 4 Strings alias.

30-04-2019 ~ Thanks for adding this URL at Discogs discussion, Twan! You're adding entertainment and interesting information here. You did " Take Me Away ... "

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I was surprised to when I found out about this hehe.... When I did some research before the interview I found some stuff, so I thought I should ask Carlo. And I was happy he was willing to share the truth! Hope you like the rest of my content as well, Sunday a new vlog wil be online; a 30+ minute interview with Ferry Corsten about Gouryella and more!

Great interview Twan, still love that track and it's so sad the label refuses to release that awesome Darren Porter remix.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! And I think the reason is that Spinnin' Records doesn't release any trance anymore these days :(

@tibielias

5 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress what a shame...

Wow wow wow 🥰😳

Fantastic interview and video! :D One of my favorite tracks of all time. I wish the label would let Darren Porter release his remix of the track though! ;_;

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the interview!

Funny thing that i remixed this track couple of weeks ago just for pure fun (not finished though - needs few touches here and there). Nice interview as usual and keep up the great work

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Dario!!

Thank you very mush for showing thoese tracks I was looking for this song for 10 years and I finally found it bc of you thank you It was the Original Mix I never new the Original Mix was different to the rest of the remixes that’s why I could not find it Turn It Around (Original Mix)

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you found it haha! :)

@rockstar_daniel9852

4 жыл бұрын

Did you kown that the original mix had different piano sounds I did not kown till now I type turn it round first video pops up and it had no piano sound that I remember so I side Alena turn it around must be the wrong song than I gave up for ever But I never click the original mix till now I had this piano melody stuck in my head when I was 12 years old I heard it somewhere in the 2000s

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@bestdj2010

3 ай бұрын

Mainline ❤

@jakubkusmierczak695

3 ай бұрын

@@bestdj2010 4 strings was the first the best impression in a row

@bestdj2010

3 ай бұрын

@@jakubkusmierczak695 Blank & Jones got me into trance music what a legends

@jakubkusmierczak695

3 ай бұрын

@@bestdj2010 cosmic gate, marco v, marcel woods etc. but 4 strings set of tracks dismanteled the reality.

great tune

Great track

so cool...

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

ThorStenberg thank you!

Take me away revived my soul

choooon

My favorite track was let it rain! Beautiful vocals

@xaero212

5 жыл бұрын

this! Let It Rain is fantastic

I've been waiting for this and the result is much better than expected. I was kinda shocked when I heard about the vocals. So thank you Twan for you work it's so great. Btw it would be great if you catch up someday Mark Sherry and ask him about his Public Domain hit Operation Blade and this whole band experience!

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Artem! And same here, I always thought it wa Vanessa who was sining until I did some more research before the interview. I was surprised Carlo was willing to admit it btw, never expected that! And believe it or not, next month I will sit down with Mark to talk about his brand new album and about "Operation Blade" as well. This is 90% confirmed now, fingers crossed!

@JDCooper95

5 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress wow! You read my mind hahaha! So I'm so excited keep up the good work and looking forward for a new interviews!!!

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I hope it is pushing through! I have no travel budget, so I hope Mark's plans to come to The Netherlands next month are gonna happen indeed, so if all goes well and if there's enough time, we should be able to do the interview. Fingers crossed ;-)

Amazing channel.

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Richard!!

thanks for this interview!! forget the commercial 4 strings, his productions under the One guise are the real quality stuff! also check out deepstar- pacific! he’s one of my top 5 90s trance producers!!

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, Carlo is a great producer, he did so many amazing tracks!

Nice job, Twan.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What a nice guy.

@jlc7300

2 жыл бұрын

very easy to talk to guy

It's the melody dummy!😍

I really wish Roland would re-release the JD-990 on Roland cloud. Such an amazing unit

😍

Been fan since the beginning and when this was announced I said "fucking finally" I doubted Vanessa was the singer in the Belive days cause she didn't lip sync some of the lyrics correctly l and knew it wasn't her in Turn It Around because Jan's girlfriend told everyone on a 4 strings Yahoo fan group (when they existed, this was early 2000s). I've tried to find the post but no luck...she said something along the lines of "I dont know why you guys like her she's not even the real singer, the real one is some German housewife" i never understood why she would jeopardize her man's money...but bitches be crazy. The moderator of the thing was a girl named acidburn

@Kev27RS

3 жыл бұрын

Try using the internet archive site *wayback machine* to find that post. Here: archive.org/web/

What a shocker that Vanessa Van Hermet wasn’t the original singer. Does anyone know who actually sang the songs? I wonder what Vanessa is up to now a days? Regardless 4 Strings is an awesome act and Believe one of the greatest EDM albums of all time.

@muzikxpress

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! :) Susanne Teutenberg is the name of the original singer, she's currently releasing music with 4 Strings under her own name. I have no info about Vanessa though, but maybe someone else does :) Hope you enjoyed the interview!

@arche024

3 жыл бұрын

muzikxpress Hello as well thanks for replying I enjoyed the interview I will look forward uploads.

@muzikxpress

3 жыл бұрын

arche024 awesome! Thanks a lot!

@arche024

3 жыл бұрын

muzikxpress your welcome by the way can Vanessa sing?

@muzikxpress

3 жыл бұрын

arche024 I’m pretty sure that they would have let her sing if she could, don’t you think so? 😉

I'm a little bit surprised but I think it happens a lot in the industry. Same thing happened with Milk Inc. at late 90s. Few years later, we discovered that Ann never sung any song and instead their songs was sung by Karine Boelaerts.

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

JoSeMaPR I think back in the day it did happen more often. There’s a few more examples, but those are not known to most people yet, so I better keep it secret for now 😂😉

meet Vanessa at cream liverpool a few years back and the lads and even got to turn her around on the nation dancefloor and still would have not change it now for anything looneytunes cream nation liverpool

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! Did you already knew then she didn't sing? I only found out last year hehe

@70looney

4 жыл бұрын

only found out last year still wound not change it now retired my self

OMG 😲 What a plot twist. I thought it was Vanessa all this time.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Surprise surprise ;-)

I really want him to get a screen stand.

@muzikxpress

3 жыл бұрын

lol

so who were the people in the take me away video?

@muzikxpress

Жыл бұрын

No idea, I’m more interested in the story behind the track, I don’t really ask about who the people in the music videos are tbh 😂

A Roland JD90 ? I thought it was produced with a JP-8000

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

Yes a Roland JD90 indeed :)

turn it around is a masterpiece u should do paul van dyk on another way

@muzikxpress

3 жыл бұрын

Well I did ask PvD already but I didn’t get the answer I was hoping for unfortunately.... I do want to ask Carlo for an interview about “Turn It Around” in the near future btw 😉

We had no ID

It's completely different from that I though it was.

4string Vanessa van hemert #millivanilli

Vanessa is not a real singer of the song "Summer Sun"? and other works ..?

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Artem Kokin That’s correct, she didn’t sing on any of the 4 Strings tracks. The real singer / voice is Susanne Teutenberg

Purple Haze is the best remix

Where's a Madylane singer now?

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

Her name is Alexandra Prince, she's still releasing music according to Discogs!

...still think the instrumental version is the best.

Das clan

I think it's a blond older woman but she has the lovely voice I think she was German as well ?

@muzikxpress

11 ай бұрын

Her name is Susanne Teutenberg and she's a German singer indeed. She's still active with releasing new music, also with 4 Strings. Hope to do an interview with her next time she's in The Netherlands!

Let Darren Porter release his banging remix!

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

Spinnin’ Records own the rights of the track and apparently they said they have no plans to release it 🙁

@NickyDekker89

2 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress I wonder why

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickyDekker89 good question, I’ve heard it is because they don’t focus on trance anymore…

@NickyDekker89

2 жыл бұрын

@@muzikxpress Lame :( off-topic but now that I've got your attention: any chance you could interview Fadi from Aly & Fila sometime? :D

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

@@NickyDekker89 I tried that 3 times already in the last years without any luck, so I’m gonna give up.

Shocking :'-( DId Vanessa ever do her own singing anywhere else? Or was she never even a singer and only a model ?

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

From what I've heard she never did sing herself. So she was just in the group because of her looks ;-)

@low3freq

4 жыл бұрын

Yes... in the shower.

He lies, in a other interview he told Vanessa van Hemert is the vocalist of 4 strings in the first Years.

@muzikxpress

2 жыл бұрын

He doesn’t lie, Vanessa never did sing on any of the 4 String songs. She was “just” the face of the act. You can easily compare the old 4 Strings songs with the new ones and you will clearly hear it is the same voice (from Susanne Teutenberg). Working on an interview with Susanne later this year 😉

I don’t understand how or why this practice is so commonplace in Europe. Produce hit songs and get a pretty woman to be the “face” and pretend to “sing”. You would think after the whole Milli Vanilli fiasco, they would forbid this practice. It’s unethical and egregious, and here in the US it is seriously frowned upon.

@muzikxpress

4 жыл бұрын

Trust me, it does happen in the USA as well. Plus what do you think of people that don't write / produce their own songs but are still acting like they did on stage? It happens all around the world, not just in Europe. Especially in today's dance scene there's lots of DJs that say they produce, but they have ghostproducers that make their music. Happens in the USA as well, but most people don't know this ... yet ;-)

@noahliasam7407

2 жыл бұрын

Yeaah like with Dash Berlin and Tiesto

liars

Not going to watch the interview. As far as I'm concerned, after losing Vanessa Van Hemert that was the end of 4 strings. Stupid, stupid move. And clearly, it cost him dearly.

@muzikxpress

5 жыл бұрын

She didn't sing on any of the 4 Strings tracks ever, so not sure how "losing" her is a bad thing lol. And the original vocalist (Susanne Teutenberg) is "back" to do all the vocals.

@af1762

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, when 4strings dropped the vocalist... all the tracks, while being not bad really missed it!!! The freaking powerful vocals!!!

@low3freq

4 жыл бұрын

What a strange comment as muzikxpress said that woman (Vanessa) just appeared in the artwork and videos and maybe lip synced live I don't know. She had zero input in the actual music as far as I can tell.

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