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It is quite common for a song to be announced that you are dizzy with anticipation for - usually it's one of your favourite artists who has brand new music coming out and the waiting & excitement for the time when can actually sooth your ears with listening to the promised tunes sends you into a frenzy; indeed the wait is deliriously agonising yet exquisitely painful in it's longing... Imagine though a project so immense that it contains many of your pop obsessions, brimming with new songs that team with a theme. It is a whirling dervish of musical genius that has one goal - to make you dance to some of the best in upcoming artistical sensation.

It is actually the biggest musical event for me since melodifestivalen - and one even more exciting. Ballroom Remixed has been announced this very day and features several of my very favourite acts that have featured on this blog many times over the past months and years. At the bottom of this blog, you'll find a list of and links to some of the artists involved along with my favourite musical accomplishments of theirs (so far - this album could change everything). What makes this even more special is the people behind the scenes of this epic project. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't twirled around a room to the lyrical insight of musical impressario Charlie Mason (who, among many fine others, wrote Eric Saade's Upgrade and current Disney Channel smash Determinate). I've been wowed at the creative art work of Liam Curry (who now turns his hand to several co-writes on this album). I've grabbed the one I love and shimmied like a superstar to the remix work of Ricardo Autobahn (particularly his remix of Kyle Brylin's Committed). I've swooned over the vocal and lyrical stylings of Richard Hymas (particularly in his acclaimed Ben Waters Band) and his singalong choruses. And who hasn't been wowed by the stunning choreography that Melanie LaPatin brings to the US version of my current UK obsession, So You Think You Can Dance. For me, this is indeed a dream team and a dream come true...

Above you can see and ecoutez to a preview video of the album (tracklisting of all great artists here). It starts off with the delightful and intoxicating original version of Elouise's Lovers Rumba (which I reviewed in it's remix format just last week here). There's an added drama in the tune that wasn't as apparent in the remix and this works incredibly well. Then it's onto Swedish pop darling Neo, who wraps his soaring falsetto vocal around a swirling disco number called New Star. It's straight onto Glamaholic by Kaya (with Nelson Clemente), a blistering dance twister that wouldn't be out of place in a lip-synch for your life on RuPaul's Drag Race. The all too short preview is concluded with a number from one mr. Simon Curtis himself, entitled The Puppet Who Gave Himself Strings. It's nice to hear Simon do a straight up pop number that has both an 80s synth vibe and a lovely feel of Stock/Aitken/Waterman genius to it. It's also nice that at the very least both Elouise and Simon have been given songs that totally fit them. Elouise's theatrical oomph is well matched by Lover's Rumba, while Simon's Puppet seems to link in perfectly with the Nick kid who went independent :) I'm chomping at the bit to hear more and you just know that I'll do a full album overview as soon as it's released :) Be sure to follow NinthWave Records on twitter for more info.

My fave acts involved (and my fave moments of theirs to date)...

• Elouise (blog posts here - fave moment? One Night Only)...
• Neo (blog posts here - fave moment? Human Frontier)... 
• Simon Curtis (blog posts here - fave moment? Diablo)...
• Kyle Brylin (blog posts here - fave moment? S&M)...
• Lee Latchford Evens (Steps posts here - fave moment? Deeper Shade of Blue)...
• Gravitonas (blog posts here - fave moment? Religious)...
• Craig Powell (blog posts here - fave moment? Can't Let You Go)...