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Ayla is a project from German DJ and producer Ingo Kunzi. The most well-known Ayla track is for sure the debut track, which is called “Ayla” as well. The original version of the track already came out back in the year 1996.
During the years the track has been remixed by names such as Veracocha, The Space Brothers, Hole In One, Pronti & Kalmani and of course, every trance fan knows the famous DJ Taucher remix.
“Ayla” has not only been a popular track in the clubs and at festivals, it was also used in the movie "Kevin & Perry Go Large", plus in 1999 the Veracocha remix of “Ayla” was used in a TV commercial for McDonalds!
For this week’s vlog I sat down with Ingo Kunzi in his beautiful studio, to ask him about the story behind “Ayla” and more.
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
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Which remix of "Ayla" is your favorite one?
tandu mix, it is fantastic.
Kosmonova version is definitely the best.
Taucher, hands down.
Obviously the Taucher remix :)
veracocha remix
What a nice fella, seems extremely humble and grounded. On a personal level, Ayla was the track that really kickstarted my love affair with trance, I was always listening to trance during the 90's, but that track smashed the ceiling for me and allowed all the other great artists to come flooding through. Ayla is a seminal track, Ayla is a classic track, Ayla is one of the very best from that era of music. Ingo should be very proud to have produced such a gem.
Oh yes, Ingo is a super nice and humble guy. He did so many great tracks and hopefully more to come!
Named our daughter Ayla after this beautiful track. I’ve met Ingo a few times and each time he’s asked how’s my daughter. A really humble guy.
@@ianclay26 ❤️
Gracias por el reportaje. Es uno de los mejores temas en la historia del Trance.
Thank you!!
For AYLA fans go listen to this Hidden Gem
Schiller - Ruhe (Ayla Remix)
Enjoy!
Also amazing Schiller mit Heppner - Dream Of You (Ayla Mischung)
was just listening to it when i saw your comment! what a banger
@@8bitlife Nice
My favorite part of all of these videos is to see all of these old legends STILL behind the mixing desks
@@Grimehouse 🙌🏻
My daughter is called Ayla, all because of you, i couldn't have picked a better name, thank you ❤
@@PrettyBlueThings oh wow, I know Ingo will love reading this! How cool!!!
@@muzikxpress Thank you!, great interview too, thank you also! 🙏
Its my daughters middle name 😊
@@ktm125pete 😁
I have the same reason for my daughter’s name. When she was born I played Ayla pt. II nonstop 😅
Its incredible how the DJ Taucher remix differs to the original. That's what I loved about remixes in the 90s. So many people when remixing tracks would take it in such a different direction or completely revamp the original, by taking a small sample and doing so much with it. I suppose you still get that today at times. I just hate when many trance producers take an uplifting trance track and make a very similar uplifting trance remix. Such a waste of opportunity to do something unique.
Great comment. Agree! :)
Which ones are Your Favorites in this Legendary Album?
[AYLA - NIRWANA 1999]
1- Liebe (Trance Mix)
2- Angelfalls (Radio Cut)
3- Vegas
4- Ayla (Taucher Remix)
5- Sunday
6- Dreamland
7- Karawane
8- Ayla Part II
9- Into The Light
10- Out Of The Light
11- Angelfalls (Particular Beach)
12- Ayla (Tandu Remix)
13- Liebe (ATB Remix)
Into the light 👍
Yeah great track. Such a classic. Actually my favorite remix or remake is Kosmonova mix. I talked to the one of the producers behind this version. Such a nice and down to earth guy. By the way talking about TB 303 clone Ingo meant Deep Bass nine by Control Synthesis. Very fat sounding 303 clone from UK. Also used for example by Alex Butcher (Klinisch Tot, Der Verfall together with Kai Tracid etc.). Same examples of this machine are on RUclips.
tune
Thank you very much for the interview.
I just regret you didnt asked about the Ayla pt. 2.
The theme of the pt.2 is different and and my favorite one so i still curious about the pt.2 but it's already an honor to see him talking with you about his projects.
@@johnspartan1464 Thank you! And we did 4 (!!!) interviews that day, so we did focus on those tracks only, there simply wasn’t more time. Maybe one day in the future, never say never 😉
@@muzikxpress I totally understand it. No need to justify mate, i lived more than 20 years between the first time i heard Ayla and now so i can live without the answers about Ayla pt.2 haha.
I appreciate a lot what you do for our musical patrimony, you're the best
@@johnspartan1464 Thank you so much! More to come soon, also 2 more interviews with Ingo! 🙌🏻
Correct :) Part II is a quite different song. While the original (incl. Taucher Remix) was written and produced by Ingo Kunzi, Part II was written and produced by Ingo with his friends and colleagues, Torsten Stenzel (aka. YORK), and Ralph-Armand Beck (aka. DJ Taucher). The history behind Part II will be interesting to hear at some point agreed :).
I 💛 ''Ayla pt. 2'' and ''Liebe''.
Amazing original. Everybody only talks about the Taucher Remix. Ofcourse this is amazing and I also played it on tons of partiesand festivals... But actually the original was pretty big in Belgium. It was featured on several compilations and licensed on the Belgian Groovy Records label. Especially in quality tranceclubs like Extreme and Illusion the original was played a lot!
Nice one! The original is a great one as well, I wonder how many people think the Taucher remix is the original hehe (same with the Jam & Spoon remix of "Age Of Love").
Yes! The original is fantastic, Taucher remix was to commercial for me, never liked it while original took me away immediatly.
@@muzikxpress in some releases the Taucher one is sold as the "Original Taucher mix", so it could happen. I'll admit that I hadn't listened to the Tandu & Fact original version before watching this video and I really liked it. A product of its era, faster tempo, stronger bassline, some acid here and there and the mighty piano which was so popular back then. Darker melody which is a plus (at least for me).
In '98 the trend was changing to the uplifting magic most of us enjoyed.
The original is very atmospheric and beautiful, but less catchy and less radio friendly than the Taucher mix. I like both versions, difficult to really compare them but if I had to choose, I'd say the original.
The Kosmonova version released only one year later sounds very similar to the original Taucher mix, and Taucher did a "Taucher 97 Remix" of that which again isn't a great deal different.
I like the toneshifterz remix ruclips.net/video/lAT-oTt05F0/видео.html
My favourite work by Ingo is the remix of I believe by Lange with the DJ Tandu alias, sick tune.
Agree :)
That track……that track…..
Wow; there’s more than a bit of magic in that remix. Ingo; thank you
Great song
I love Tandu - Velvet a bit more than Ayla. So good!
Yes. Hopefully Ingo at some point will make the original mix of Velvet digital available :)
Nice, thank you
🙌🏻
I love your interviews, so friendly and human feeling
Thanks a lot for the kind words! Lots of new interviews to come in the next months: DJ Dag, Paul Oakenfold, Gabriel & Dresden, Solarstone, York, Roberta & Ken Harrison, Jeroen Flamman and more!
Never knew about the original before the taucher mix 😮. It’s always been the taucher or veracocha mix. In the past, even when searching “original mix” on RUclips, it’s always the taucher that comes up. And therefore, I only ever thought it was those two mixes that were about from the trance scene in this era (or the more successful hits anyway)
Even if you can't listen to the tracks on the site, Discogs is a great resource to find all kinds of releases
I remember this Song, of course...i am 55...and i take all the Songs in this Decade and beyond...Wonderfull...Thank you Ingo 🙂
WoW 😩🙌✌️💫
Ayla has been my ringtone since being able to use mp3's on phones as ringtones, that was about 20 years ago. 🤣
I remember been at a rave at the Electric Workshop in Johannesburg in 1996 with a head full of Amsterdam`s finest pills, 15 000 or so people all around me and on the same vibe and this track dropping for the first time...the place melted, then erupted in whoops and hollars...what a time to be alive and young that was!
Ah takes me back! Those Electric Workshop raves were a really priceless moment in time. I seem to remember the 1996 one being one of the ICE editions. Damn would love one more of those!! Bring the kids along now 😂
@@dorondusheiko174 you would be correct, the ICE raves were just before and then many after the mega parties thrown by Mother Productions...The Electric Workshop was my home away from home as was ESP for "Church" every Sunday after a good party at the Workshop..
A really beautiful time and place for a 19 year old guy to find himself in...
The original is always best. Thanks for another Ingo Interview Twan.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it! Two more Ingo interviews to come later this year!
my first contact with this masterpiece was with the DJ TAUCHER REMIX, included in the DJ Tiësto's "Magik Three", wow i can't describe the feeilings of that journey. The original piece is simply EPIC. Thanks bro your work is excellente. SALUDOS DESDE MÉXICO, EL TRANCE ES FUERTE AQUÍ
So, Amazon delivers Retroheroes vol. 2 mixed by Tandu and three hours later, this video pops up. Coincidence?
Great as always. Cheers!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview 😀
@@CFAbove thank you!
Gatecrasher Anthem
One of the greatest trance tunes of all time
@@iamrowano for sure! 🙌🏻
Oz Stuttgart triggered a lot, not just good music between two clubs
Great track. Great interview.Did you pay attention what is on Indo's tattoo?
@@wowerman yes it says “Ayla”, he does show it to the camera in the interview as well when I asked him about it 😉
So started the love❤❤
best memories..playing kingdom hearts on Playstation while blasting Ayla and ATB...dam times flies!
Was looking for which game had it in its soundtrack
Thanks a lot!
Thank you for this interview, Twan! Good job as usual. Nice information to know. Ingo is a great producer and deserves more recognition. This interview of AYLA certainly helps with that.
Thank you!
Thank you Ingo. Taucher Mix was and still is one of my favourite trance tracks. It always land on the playlist and I constantly playing it :)
Personally Alok verison didn't catched my ear like Taucher and Kosmovova many years back, but it is because of memories and nostalgia I guess.
Anyway, thank you :)
Thank you so much for this interview!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks a lot!
has to be the taucher remix
Absolutely AMAZING once again, wow thank you, this track will NEVER grow old, it still sounds amazing to this day ❤🙏
Amazing interview - Thank you for doing this, he’s such a humble guy - Ayla is still an amazing and unique track today👌🏻👏🏻
The Taucher mix is the ultimate version IMO.
Another great interview. Thank you very much for this Twan! Do you know what is happening with the voice of Ingo? From time to time he goes like 2 octaves lower for very short period of time.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the interview! And I didn't notice tbh, so no idea hehe
Nick Jay & Jean Luc mix goes hard.
Great track, great interview :)
a legendary track that was revealed in remixes
Such a nice, humble person. The complete opposite of the inflated-ego DJs nowadays.
I hope Ayla will make some more cool songs for us. As long as we can still dance🙂
Both this and part 2 is very nostalgic, immediately takes me back to the 90's. I think my favorite version is the DJ Tandu version. Wonderful interview btw!
Glad you enjoyed the interview, thanks for watching!
I have an album "Kosmonova - Supernova", and this track is also on it. How did this track appear on this album? Is it a remix, or a cover?
It is a cover, it gets mentioned in this interview as well btw 😉
The original Ayla by Ayla is from 1996. The Kosmonova cover version is from 1997 :). The Kosmonova 'Supernova' album is from 1998.
I always thought angel falls was the best Ayla track
My next interview with Ingo will be about that one 😉
@@muzikxpress sweet. You ever interview Michael cretu? He doesn't give many interviews. But out of Germany my favorites are tandu, atb, scooter and Schiller. And enigma of course....
@@kenmastersmaster I wish, I’m a huge Enigma fan! But indeed, he doesn’t really like to do interviews unfortunately….
Thanks for this interview, it was really great to watch and get to know more about this wonderful track.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
The original is the best version by far. Also someone very dear to me is called Ayla 😊
I will never ever forget the first time I heard the DJ Taucher mix, watching K&P for the first time :D
Great interview, thank you for another interview with one of these legends! :)
@@mortenhn1981 And thank you too! 🙌🏻
As ever, your videos fill me with excitement and enthusiasm for the future. Thank you. X
Glad you like them! Thanks so much!
So many great tunes from back in the mid to late 1990's. The best year I ever had was 1998 - so many, many positive things happening in my life that year. Summer was just crazy. The tunes upto then though, Cafe Del Mar, Wizards of the Sonic (Westbam remix), 1998 (Matt Darey Remix).... just far too many to list but I tell you, London was alive and electric back then.
These were the days hehe
Three Drives Greece 2000, Humate's Love Stimulation, van Dyk's For An Angel, Y-Traxx Mystery Land Sickboy Remix, etc, etc.
Ayla part 2 is my favorite! great interview!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you Twan! Thank you Ingo for this amazing track! The original mix is one of my favorite tracks ever😍
Thanks so much!
Ayla is Turkish btw.
Thank so much for this interview.
This is one of my favorite trance tracks. It helped me to get through College in Electrical Engineering (2016 to 2022)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Ingo is a legend and one of those I saw up to when I started producing music and dj'ing. Ayla was one of the first vinyls I bought.
@@Sinfour 🙌🏻
One of the best melodies. Thanks for music!
Fantastic. Such humble origins for a legend of a track. I think I need to watch Kevin and Perry again - not seen it since it was in the cinema lol
It's unfunny garbage.
Loved this one Twan. 🙌🏻🙂
@@EnigmaState thank you so much! 🙌🏻
Who needs to watch Kevin and Perry now?????
What a nice, down to earth guy.
Ingo is the best 👍🏼
Nirwana - it is my favorite electronic album, one love!
Tune! Love this
I looooooove this channel so much, amazing to hear these stories from such creative people
@@joeldesmond5558 Thank you so much! Some great names coming up in the next few episodes! Even Paul Oakenfold, York and 2 new interviews with Gabriel & Dresden! 🙌🏻
@@muzikxpress thank you for providing such fulfilling content!
Still sends goosebumps after all these years😊
what a fkin classic...
Beautiful classic record! ❤
Hi Twan love the Channel long time listen and subscriber hopefully resources permitting you can get Charlie May on the channel given it has been 25 years today since the release of Xpander
Thanks a lot! And I would love that, but I simply don't have time and budget for foreign trips anymore this year. After my German trip and the trip to Zandvoort/Amsterdam last weekend (lots of new interviews will be posted in the next few months!), I have to save again for a new possible trip abroad. Charlie lives in / near London, but that's out of my budget unfortunately. Hopefully we can make it happen one day (if he's up for it), but for now I have to focus on artists / producers who live nearby (south of The Netherlands), or people who visit for gigs etc. Hopefully one day I can actually make a decent amount of money with Muzikxpress, so I can do more interviews abroad. Fingers crossed!
Still remember how in our shops the CDs "Nirwana" were with the notification "ATB presents". As a huge fan of Andre and totally impressed by his remix on "Liebe" I bought the album and never regretted after that. 2000 was the year when I played it repeatedly every week. Still remember amazing view on the sunset and river nearby from my window and two parts of "Into the Light/Out Of The Light" playing in my boombox. Emotions for the whole life. Thank you, Ingo, for our fanatastic childhood! Thank you, Twan, for bringing back these emotions) Cheers from Russia
Thanks for the nice comment! Hope you enjoyed the interview!
Wow, this got more views than Andrew Rayel’s interview
You can’t really compare both tracks I think 😉 Pretty sure almost every trance fan knows “Ayla”, so not surprised this one got more views than the “550 Senta” interview.
Still got this on 12" ❤
Please, Story About Three’n One - Soulfreak ❤
@@lukasmidub I’m not looking for suggestions or doing requests at the moment, sorry. I have over 10 interviews to edit and post still, plus like 5 I need to prepare and record still. There’s over 100 tracks that are on my wish list still too, so ideas enough 😉 My main issue is time and budget. I simply don’t have a travel budget for these interviews. The ones with Ingo and Dag took a lot of planning and I could only make those happen after some donations from viewers. Unfortunately there’s not really a lot of advertising money on RUclips if you don’t have millions of views. Thanks for your understanding!
Great interview! Thank you!
Thank you too! Glad you enjoyed it!
thank you Twan
And thank you for watching!!
I remember the Veracocha mix making into a Mcdonalds advert in the UK in '99. Such a tune! ruclips.net/video/JiM1WQjK8W0/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Correct! We mentioned that in the interview as well BTW 😉
Classic Track
Awesome!!!
Thanks!!
I was always wondering wich one came first and who ispired who because in my early days I used to play “step into the arena “ from Dj Energy and both tracks has as lot of similarities . I like them both ❤
Step Into The Arena was released in 1997 :), original Ayla by Ayla 1996
@@mariusej thankx. I saw it also yesterday 😀
Why not ask about part 2, since the original, taucher and part 2 are so different. Part 2 was a radio hit here in Norway, I heard Taucher remix first om Magik 3 from Tiesto.
Because this interview wasn’t about “Ayla Part 2”, but about “Ayla” 😉 FYI, I did a total of 4 (!!!)interviews with Ingo that day, there wasn’t unlimited time, so I did focus on the (in my opinion) most important questions.
The story behind Ayla Part II would indeed be exiting to hear. Part II was written and produced by the trio Ingo Kunzi (DJ Tandu/Ayla), Torsten Stenzel (YORK) and Ralph-Armand Beck (Taucher). To my knowledge Ayla Part II was created because of the great success of the original Ayla and of course the Taucher Remix.
Why Ayla/Tandu never enter in the project Trance Allstars? Saluti from Italy
Maybe they didn’t ask him, or maybe he was busy with his own projects at that time. Could be a lot of reasons…
Well he is kind of there with the Ayla Remix of Schiller's Rune, included on the Worldwide album ;)
This video is remarkable!! I'd love to see a vid on Three Drives - Sunset in Ibiza or the older Tiesto france stuff he did with Dennis Waakop
@@janetbailey6727 thank you! And Erik de Koning (Three Drives) is on my looong interview wish list, but he doesn’t live in The Netherlands anymore, so that’s a bit difficult. I did ask Dennis already, but unfortunately he doesn’t do interviews (and Tiësto doesn’t do any interviews regarding his trance past….)
@@muzikxpress Such a shame!! they would be like the holy grail. Maybe Svenson and Gielen? either way I look forward to each new video youpost
@@janetbailey6727 Gielen is definitely not going to happen. Would love to do an interview with Sven Maes, but as long as he’s with Johan’s management I don’t think it will happen 😂 Anyway, lots in the works and on the wish list still 😉
@@muzikxpress Darn! who would have thought it was so hard to get these guys to talk about some of their greatest tracks. Still looking forward to more interviews from you
@@janetbailey6727 coming soon: York, Gabriel & Dresden, Solarstone, Paul Oakenfold and DJ Dag!
the OZ-Club was open from 9 p.m. on saturday to 12 lunchtime on sunday. He probably meant that he left the club at 6 o'clock in the morning.
i love all the remixes except the car key lol
I thought ingo was Romanian. Maybe I'm thinking of Michael cretu
Nope, Ingo is German! 😉
I think his biggest hit was Liebe.
I think when you combine everything during the years, it was “Ayla”. When you combine all sales and streams I think it topped “Liebe”.
I believe Mr. Kunzi's self-confessed favourite is 'Angelfalls'. A personal favourite too. Looking forward to the interview on that one :)
That will be indeed the next one I’m gonna edit / post, hopefully up in a few weeks from now 🤞🏻
Please do Schönenberg by Marmion!!!
That's one of the 100+ tracks that is on my wish-list for an interview ;-) Hopefully I can make it happen one day, but please keep in mind I don't have a budget for these interviews. The ones with Ingo (and DJ Dag) were made thanks to donations I got some months ago. I wish I would make some good money on advertising here on RUclips, but you need millions of views in order to do all of that. So, hopefully one day..... If you enjoy my interviews and you want to support Muzikxpress, you can do that via one of the links in the video's :)
Who else Wants to see an interview with the Girl with golden hair and a Star on her forehead - Ayla in the Video AYLA PART 2
Could have done with actually playing the track
@@MrJemk if I play it louder the video will get blocked because of copyright 😉
@@muzikxpress Makes sense
@@MrJemk yup, unfortunately that’s the way it works, so I can only play the music softly in the background. But it takes 5 seconds to find the tracks I talk about on Spotify or so 😉
He doesn’t remember anything. Turned this interview off.
Your loss 😉 Plenty of stuff he still remembers and shared.
what would be the total amount of money made by him? thats what i wanna know..
I never ask about things like that, I find it very disrespectful when other interviewers ask things like that. Nobody’s business, those things are personal / private.
Great interview Twan! Keep em coming, love these! :D
@@djeuphoria2273 thanks so much! More to come for sure!
The Alok version is terrible. The DJ Taucher and Veracocha ones are the only two you need. Taucher if you want the Balearic feel and Veracocha for the unabashed energy.