Melodic house group Mistier reveal playlist ahead of latest release Waiting

AS they continue to redefine the boundaries of melodic house music, US-based group Mistier invite listeners on an emotional and immersive journey with their latest release, Waiting.
With support from dance music royalty, such as Armin van Buuren, Will Clarke, and Roger Sanchez, Mistier have carved out a unique space in contemporary electronic music.
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The visual art collective is led by vocalist, producer, and composer Andre Mistier. While he serves as the creative core of the project, Mistier collaborates with a network of artists and producers to bring their immersive sound to life.​
Waiting, is their most profound release to date, a vocally rich, soul-stirring track that blends euphoric grooves with poetic lyricism.
Inspired by the luminous, transformative moments of sunrise at Burning Man in the Nevada Desert, Waiting captures a search for connection and meaning amid a kaleidoscope of synths, rhythms, and live instrumentation.
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Curated to compliment the release, Andre has compiled an exclusive playlist for us that reflects Mistier's evolving sonic identity, where melody meets depth, and each track tells a story.
Plug in and drift through an ever-expanding world of sound:
Ben Bohmer – Breathing
It's really just a beautiful song. The mood, the vocal performance and tone, the production. I feel like everything I love about Ben Bohmer is encapsulated in this track. Breathing was a definite influence on our next single, called Waiting.
Mistier – Waiting
I wrote this track thinking about a moment at Burning Man during sunrise, watching people bike by, waiting for my girlfriend (now wife) to arrive.
Thinking about how all these people were off on their own explorations and adventures, and all of them are different lives and journeys (what would life be like if I was one of that group?). Then reaffirming that I was where I wanted to be, waiting for the person I wanted to be with.
I wanted this track to evoke the mixed feelings of sadness, longing, joy, and the haunting and beautiful quality of sunrise.
Panama & Tinlicker - Fade Into Black
I love Tinlicker! Their combination of beautiful melodies, powerful grooves, and stirring transitions always uplifts me.
This track is a particular favourite - I feel like the combination of Panama's gorgeous vocals and lyrics with Tinlicker's swelling sound just gives me something I need all of the time.
I often listen to this track as the first thing I do when I step outside in the morning.
Aaron Hibell, Alex Wann - Set Me Free
I love his mix of afro and melodic house - it can feel so uplifting and poignant at the same time.
Besides his well-crafted and beautiful sound, Alex Wann has a gorgeous touch with how he builds and leads the energy into his drops.
I feel the same energy and elevation inside me every time I reach those moments in this track, no matter how many times I hear it. I have definitely been inspired by how he does that and studied it for my current writing and productions.
Mistier - The Time Is Now
The Time is Now celebrates a couple of important ideas to me. First, that there truly is no moment but the present. Every moment is a now, the past a use of the present for recollection and the future a use of the present for projection.
Once you accept this, then every moment as being now is connected, one infinite now. Second, get up! There is no other time but now. There is no point in waiting - we have this moment to do what we will, so seize your life! Also, I love the bassline for this track. . .
CamelPhat, Yannis - Hypercolour (ARTBAT Remix)
CamelPhat and ARTBAT are 2 of my absolute favourite artists. Yes, their combination for "For a Feeling (feat. Rhodes)" is also great, but this track, to me, is one of my all-time favourites.
The break and build-back that starts at 3:10 is so intense and dramatic that it just takes my head off. This is everything I like about each of these artists wrapped together and flung off the top of a majestic cliff.
There is a short version but treat yourself to a full 8-minute extended version. You deserve it.
Rufus du Sol - Surrender
A couple of years ago, for my wife's birthday, we tried something called KAP (Kundalini Activation Process). It's meant to be a high-powered jump into activating your Kundalini.
We all had very different reactions, but mine was the most intense visual trip of my life (involving no substances). Swathes of pastel colours - at one point, I was rowing through the sky - at another, riding a hippo on a rainbow. It was intense and vivid!
The high point of this experience was when this beautiful song came on. And, wouldn't you know it, a peaceful summer rain started right as he began to sing, "Let the rain come down."
That was actually the first time I had ever heard this song. It was a tremendous experience and one that I vividly remember every time I hear it.
Mistier - In You (Lost & Found)
I am amazed and delighted by how love can fulfil such contradictory needs in us at the same time. I am overwhelmed and lost in you. I am found and safe in you. You make me feel like I am so powerful. Your opinion means more to me than my own etc.
What we see in ourselves through becoming truly vulnerable to another person is just remarkable and life-affirming. That's what this song is about.
Francis Mercer, Nitefreak, Idd Aziz - Kamili
To me, afro house at its best can evoke so many feelings at the same time. This gorgeous track is intense, haunting, joyful, good to dance in the sunlight, in the moonlight, good to walk in the rain, good for cooking, good for the car . . . you get the idea. It moves me deeply in basically any context I have ever heard it.
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (Secret World Live)
If you were alive in the 80s or have ever seen a John Hughes movie, this is likely an incredibly important song to you. But honestly, if you are a human being with a heart and soul, this song either is or should be an important song to you.
Peter Gabriel is connected to truth, and this love song has such specificity. It's just one of the greatest songs of all time. But this live version takes it to a whole other level - from 4-minute pop song to 10-minute afro-fused anthemic festival of joy, love and music.
It's both one of the most anthemic music experiences ever and yet still nonchalant at the same time. It feels so pure and authentic. And the singing! Wow! Knocks me over every time.
To me this song is where the mix of afro house and melodic house that really moves me got its start, in both sound and mood.

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