April 2012 - Just found a great video from Final Fantasy XIII and I thought I would use it for my third remix - Always in my heart vs Emotions in trance. The two songs are originally from Lagoona. Here is a bit of history about this techno band. Lagoona first started making music in the tracker scene under the name TSEC (The Solid Energy Crew), and the band released its first two tracker songs in October 1996. Their first releases got very popular on the internet, and being one of few artists to release legal MP3 songs in 1997 created a lot of attention for the band. In early 1998, their first album was released. It was named "Dreams" after their first online hit from 1996, and it was completely home-brew and released by the bands own label. The money from the album sales helped the band build a real studio, and in October 1998 when the band started using hardware synthesizers and MIDI equipment instead of tracker software, the band changed its name from TSEC to Lagoona. Sin! ce then, Lagoona have peaked most major MP3 music charts on the net at some point. The band got two songs at the #1 spot of the MP3.com Music chart, "The journey" in August 2000 and "Emotions in trance" a couple of months later the same year. The band also had several other songs in high positions on the MP3.com Music chart, including "The promised land" at #2. In the MP3.com genre charts, all songs Lagoona released (over 40 tracks in total) reached a top-20 place at some point. Lagoona got more than ...
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