Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight // Ambient Reinvention (Instrumental)

New vocal + drums version here: • Phil Collins - In The ...
Second ambient reinvention with this classic Phil Collins track. Hope you enjoy it.
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[@CuriousDroid]

Don't ya just love it when the modular and other music gear takes over the house, only problem is you run out of room to use it all at once and Behringer and other companies ain't making it any easier with all there new(old) analogue stuff and modules. Great track BTW :-)

[@stateazure]

Thank you. Honoured to receive your comment here. I've checked out dozens of your amazing videos before, but for some reason never been subbed, until now! You're not kidding about running out of room, I hit the limit a while ago, now I have to move house if I want to expand any more!

[@magneticmonopole7824]

Curious Droid into synths! Nice. Great track as always.

[@Ostan-jw2bg]

It would have been better with the drum solo....I gotta be honest.

[@jakobole]

CD is into synths!! I KNEW there was more to you :)

[@Ostan-jw2bg]

jakobole Pardon? (Wasn’t quite sure what you are implying.)

[@DeeNimmin]

Making amazing music from inside the international space station 🚀

[@samjonathanjowett]

Chris Hadfield is a pretty good DJ

[@JoeBallance]

😂😂😂😂

[@martynlewis5901]

I’ve always thought this would make a great instrumental track. I was going to go with - recorded in the control room at CERN!

[@jesuslovesyou1702]

Lol

[@jesuslovesyou1702]

@@martynlewis5901 At some Magnets, portals, and fallen angels and yeah it'll be like CERN❗

[@sebastianschultz3917]

came for the drumfills, stayed for the synths

[@reginaldforthright805]

Came for the flashing lights, stayed for the wires

[@22smudger]

Ditto

[@Gregorak]

Came for the light on , stayed for the beers

[@philhasacomputer]

^this ;)

[@bobblebardsley]

The great thing about not having the drums in this version is that there's finally a cover of In The Air Tonight that you can loop endlessly forever without it ever feeling repetitive.

[@kevwyxin]

I was so ready for the drums to come in HARD. But it never happened...that was the correct decision. Loved it.

[@onealspence8548]

Absolutely its about just living the depths of the tune and sounds. Welcome to the sound world

[@conniee.]

I was so looking for the drums too that's my fave part, oh well. 😞 Maybe someone else will do it.😉😊

[@Enigma758]

I have to agree, the atmosphere would be ruined by the overstatement.

[@leevejung7292]

Tangerine Phil 🎹👍🏼👍🏼😉

[@mezykin]

just reading this comment made me burst into tears

[@vincentbifano]

James Caan driving through a rainy 80s Chicago on his way to crack a safe...

[@videosuperhighway7655]

@@vincentbifano that is a damn fine movie. Not many people know about that masterpiece.

[@acronus]

This is especially good in the car when you're balling it down the highway late at night. Really sets a mood. One that may get you a ticket.....

[@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401]

...with the weed

[@Shaman196]

@@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401 Nah, at home while trippin on shrooms 🍄😎

[@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401]

@@Shaman196 lol i will never forget my shroom experience lol...trying to get more 😎👍

[@Shaman196]

@@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401 I know that when I was on 10 grams I was in so deep that music was irrelevant once I hit peak. I was starring at the blue sky while laying in my backyard and the stars and stripes appeared in full color with A bald eagle next to it, extremely powerful, there was an entity that was saying that America is The serpent and I was fighting with this thing telling it that America is a beautiful idea and it shall not be destroyed. A quote that came out of that trip was......"The serpent dances upon the foundation of fools." That quote was based on a drawing of a clown standing upon the foundation of the zombies wandering aimlessly banging their heads upon brick walls. I actually saw dragons ripping humans apart and the skulls of the dead forming this foundation. I just let my hand go, let it flow. It became too intense and I had to walk away. I went outside to breathe fresh air, as I layed on the ground again I could feel a presence, I started to speak and it was with a Russian accent, I started to hum a tune, I went into the house spoke to my wife and she recorded me as I was speaking, I couldn't stop with the accent.... eventually I did. I could speak for awhile and then the wave hit and I was out to lunch again the visuals of entities appeared again, this time it was a Gorgon sticking his tongue out everything was in liquid gold with Pyramids blending and flowing. I also had this feeling of the sum of the multiples are me....... In 2020 I had 5 trips and none of them were under 5 grams. 2018 I was 48 years old, it was my first experience with mushrooms 7 grams.

[@hardwiredtoselfdestruction3401]

@@Shaman196 mine wasnt nearly that deep. Probably because it was only 1 gram lol...i wouldve love to have gotten that deep seriously lol..good trip dude! Ive learned something.. Shrooms = masculine energy, extrovert Weed = feminine energy, introvert

[@Only_God_Is_Allah_SWT]

I never knew that this song is so beautiful even without the Phil's super voice.

[@whitewolfleadthepack]

Why are you listening Phil Collins music?

[@lucasfelipe396]

I never realized how good this is without vocals and drums. As a Kraftwerk fan I say, you did a GREAT job. And for idiots complaining about the lack of the drums, the drums would be nothing without the synthesizers in the background.

[@erfanmoharramy2039]

30 years old memories with new and delicious essence

[@svgenterprises1]

Daughter: "what is that? Are you listening to space music?" Me: "yes, yes i am." LOL

[@BryanMiller]

Man, that ticked all of my boxes. Gave me chills. In the Air Tonight is my pubescent anthem and chill/downtempo/ambient is one of my favorite music styles. Combine the two....heaven.

[@shadowhenge7118]

This could have been used in the show Miami Vice as scene background leading into the actual song at the climax. Epic man... Phil should hire you.

[@adriangroeneveld9341]

Crocket's Theme 😎

[@christieboicos4671]

Phil is dead

[@JayKaufman]

Scene: Lieutenant Martin Castillo calls the boys into his office to tell them a job well done, but not without giving them a proper shakedown for their unorthodox antics in getting the job done. The mess will be left to the district attorney to clean up and he's not happy. This track slowly fades in. Cut to the next scene. An overhead shot from a helicopter steady-cam: Sonny & Crockett are driving in their Ferrari Testarossa across one of the famed bridges that go across Biscayne Bay after being deep under cover for a year. Their partnership has been sealed in gun battles and arrests made over the course of the past year. The sun is setting into a myriad of pinks, purples and blues. Both cops' wardrobes match the sunset. They lost a close colleague in a shootout to one of Miami's biggest drug lords (while shootouts of the past year cut in and out) , but now the druglord is dead too. The rest of the gang's bad guys are behind bars. Miami is safe for now - until someone inevitably fills the void (as foreshadowed earlier in the episode). Sonny and Crockett say nothing to each other as the top is down and the wind blows in their hair. Roll credits. Wrap that year's season.

[@DeePal072]

The original was indeed featured on the show : kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5KwdK2In5iGr8k

[@sonnycrockett6527]

@@JayKaufman I remember.

[@wrowe2559]

I played a loop of this in my mind the night I began my deep dark battle with Covid and pneumonia, played it all night long in my head. The song help me keep calm as my condition steadily worsened until I reached sunrise, then headed for the emergency room. Sometimes, I close my eyes reliving that night with the music replaying itself again, softly in the background. I would call it "dramatic ambience" if there actually is such a thing. This masterpiece is something that I'll never forget, for it was in my head at a critical point in my life.

[@liamtilliam5866]

The nostalgia is unreal, Im in love

[@comedyhunter]

Don't you just love KZbin recommendations as you get to hear outstanding unique stuff like this. Absolutely love this so much, thanks !

[@DroneShots_UK]

In the air tonight was one of those tracks that captured me as a teenager in the 80's. You've done a mighty fine job with it, thank you!

[@miguelgaldonmoragues]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. GREETINGS FROM SPAIN.🇪🇸👍

[@MrFlyingguy]

nice execution - we from the 80's approve.

[@AngelOfDarkness01]

I found a mistake: It´s only 5:54 long. Where is the rest of the hour (at least) ?

[@mikeriverajr4447]

on my 4th replay!!!!!!

[@reikibahia]

my english is not good enough to express all the beauty of this track. Hope there is much more to come in this awaken project!

[@reikibahia]

I must say that i dont like very much the original...for both tracks.

[@genx1144]

Dude. Phil Collins ought to shake your hand. You sir have done the best cover of this song I've ever heard. I've heard them all too. This is gorgeous beauty in audio.

[@Lucifer-qt9gh]

I've heard this song before my friend, but I don't know if I even i have...oh lord

[@opfnorfolk588]

Mate you just summed it up. 👍👌

[@genx1144]

There's always that one guy...

[@NostalKeys]

@@genx1144 I agree, buddy.... How can somebody dislike such a beautiful work?

[@NostalKeys]

Man, this got me some goosebumps. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@Chrispy01a]

Someone used the word "exquisite" to describe this in an earlier comment - probably the most apt use of that word I will hear this year.

[@BehzadBhandari85]

In love with this.. would love to see a tutorial on how u bring together all sounds..playing and programming from start....the ambience in ur studio is heavenly..

[@isanvicente1974]

i usually start working very early so i drive like 45 minutes to get to the job in completely dark, this music is perfect for driving in the dark. these days i am listening to "edge of forever" also marvellous to drive in the dark..what can i say "piel de gallina" "goose gumps". ,,

[@paulinfrancis]

Perfect driving music, but it’s easy to get carried away when listening to stuff like this in the car 🏎💨🤭

[@harmless3449]

I obviously love cool ambient or chaotic patches, but people who can leverage their modular hardware to actually compose structured music with tension and release always impress me. Good on you. Also? This is someone who knows how to film their synths. Like damn. That's gorgeous.

[@stateazure]

Thanks so much, Mac! Glad you appreciate it!

[@AndyVonal]

Well, who'd have thunk it? A beautiful song, made even more beautiful and not a single gorilla in sight! Amazing!

[@JukeboxOddities]

Wot Gorilla?

[@DroneShots_UK]

To the non UK viewers here, Cadburys chocolate released an advert a few years ago with this song and there was a gorilla playing the drums. Hope that clears it up 😀

[@JukeboxOddities]

@@DroneShots_UK the gorilla Was a Reference to the Genesis tune "wot gorilla" which was itself an inside joke about chester Thomson (the live Drummer) Chesters Gorilla is a lyric line in frank zappas song florentine pogen.

[@SuperJohnnyO]

This is proof that a great song will usually be great, no matter how it's presented.

[@terrelldrayton]

That’s not a room,that’s a spaceship! 🔥

[@daaajester1]

The og song used on that night train scene in Risky Business takes me right back to my teens. This version is super smooth.

[@nomadcrowe2209]

I wish I could get this version on spotify...

[@suonllenlee665]

I don't want to repeat what someone may have already said, but I give this 2 thumbs up.

[@ChantingInTheDark]

Wow, the remix you didn't even know you wanted!

[@unrealnews]

What is learned here: You can’t have the amazing climactic drum solo breakdown if you don’t build up the tension with the vocals.

[@stateazure]

There might be an alternative version eventually :)

[@Umz_Ums]

@@stateazure please add his vocals if it's possible but keep the vibe here

[@tobiastho9639]

@@stateazure I hoped so much for the drums! Please make more versions of this! ; )

[@jay8443]

@@stateazure this would make 2020 MUCH better if you did :)

[@stateazure]

@@jay8443 Voc/Drum version coming very soon, stay tuned :)

[@adamnealis]

The drums of this track always remind me of the opening to Tangerine Dream's Logos Part 1

[@martinsloan9785]

Man, I Am back in 80's. Nice

[@alu2387]

Could you just imagine the moment when this melody sparked in the mind of Collins, before nobody else had ever heard of this song, 30+ years ago?

[@andrewluchsinger]

WOW!! I love this version. I could loop this on forever. It may not have Phil Collins on the drums, but this version sure has some power to it.

[@SnigFargle]

Astonishing ... the guitar sound is other-wordly, and deeply satisfying. Brilliant!

[@PhantomWorksStudios]

don't you just hate it when your trying to listen to an instrumental cover or a re-created cover and yet you still hear the lyrics in your head >

[@antongee666]

For sure

[@paulcrisp9861]

Sept twenty two and it still sounds truly amazing two years later, one of my all time favourites from the awesome STATE AZURE 🙏❤️🙏❤️🇬🇧

[@san.escobar]

You took what is the best within this song, yet very underrated. As a musician who haven't every touched such set, I'd like to say that it is really amazing to see that you actually play this whole set as it was one single instrument. Another great thing about this piece, is that it's not a cover, but a song seen in a completely different light!

[@stateazure]

Thank you!

[@djjohnnymel4411]

I’m feeling the lab, great work.

[@twinflametarotyo8478]

I CANNOT GET ENOUGH OF THIS!!

[@paulgingell8778]

Hi from England. My medicine is this type of music...smoothing me out for the weekend.. ... Looks a complicated studio to put this music together ..

[@Garbrel80]

You got the Midas Touch sir. This is exquisite. I hope to one day have a fraction of your knob-twiddling abilities.

[@diggerbarnes5708]

Hauntingly beautiful. The sounds you make are amazing..loving all your videos 👍🎶👌❣

[@stateazure]

Thank you so much 😀 Cheers, Barry!

[@redrobinson77]

Hells Yeah!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍 👌 Thank-You! I need a loop version... Pretty Please 😁

[@olotot]

Directly from the future, fantastic version...

[@wimwijn1]

Phil Collins out of a modular rig, you can't do nothing wrong to me anymore 🎶😎

[@micahjoyner4312]

Beautiful and quite ethereal. Been on repeat, for hours now.

[@TheFakeMikeLWatts]

Really like the way you put the song in a starship and went straight to Andromeda.

[@kaywest9213]

I feel like I'm living in an episode of Miami Vice. Loving it

[@mezykin]

i wish there was a 5 hour loop of this song

[@pmusic6414]

I like this one better than the updated vocal version. The atmosphere here is just insane. Love all your remakes.

[@gearheadgregwi]

Woah... all you Gen-X... the kids are playing with our songs again. Cool man. Feels like I should be in a Syd Mead Blade Runner pic.

[@annamolly6]

What's even better is that Phil's current live version of this song is actually very similar to this interpretation. This is giving me flashbacks to his "Still Not Dead Yet" Tour from 2019.

[@AndriSoren]

Absolutely incredible! Just gorgeous. Inspiring.

[@filon.]

I haven't heard anything like that before ... It's wonderful. Amazing interpretation. Great admiration.

[@timbark3411]

how can you dislike this unique video? u must be from another world .

[@kd4pba]

At first I thought it as cold in my room. Then I realized I actually got Chills from this.

[@FassinTaak]

That was wonderful mate. Totally smooth with a real edge too.

[@lorrieleblanc8888]

I’ve always loved, “In The Air Tonight.” Your version is both sultry and smooth. So thanks SA, you’ve made my night❣️ 🎶🎹🖤I LOVE IT🖤🎹🎶 My favourite lyrics to original: “Well, I remember, I remember, don’t worry. How could I ever forget ? It’s the first time, the last time we ever met. But I know the reason why you keep your silence up, no, you don’t fool me. Well, the hurt doesn’t show, but the pain still grows It’s no stranger to you and me”

[@GrandAdmiralBrador]

Looks like a spaceship cockpit out of something like Aliens or the Expanse. Love it.

[@amauriangelino]

No words describe, just ears to listen.

[@raptorekpl]

Pretty cool but come on, In The Air Tonight IS that drum roll!

[@ngirish1986]

Now, THIS is a work of art, and yet another fine addition to your list of sublime works. Amazing recreation of that analog-ish drum: soft yet has bite

[@mtjoy747]

The original of this is SO DARK, it makes me think of any moment when I DID have revenge on any bully...the line "I was there and I KNOW what you did" so powerful

[@shin-ishikiri-no]

That whining guitar is iconic. I remember hearing it in Sonic CD (US soundtrack).

[@jeanturcotte211]

Hi from Canada Agree tangerine Phil. Big fan of both THX

[@thesequencer4971]

Wow... great ambient tribute of one of the greatest all time synth songs. I like the deep bass (starting 1:50), the flying guitars and the cr-78 stereo pan. I guess some non ambient listener will miss the Gated drum fill and are waiting 5:55 for Phil Collins to start singing😅👍

[@stateazure]

Thank you :) I'm glad you get the point!

[@Hyper_Dreamer]

VERY cool interpretation of the mega hit. Phil?! Ya hearing this?! Great.

[@RichardDrempt]

This.... Is.... Beautiful....

[@Raku777]

Thanks, as always, for sharing this. I do like how you reinvent some classics, like all the TD ones that you have done. Phil Collins I have also enjoyed a lot. I would not have thought of doing an ambient remake though. This is quite insightful of you to think of doing and you pull it off! This one I am going to call a special one. I just lost my house to a fire a few days ago...and my whole music studio turned to white ash and scrap metal inside it. The fire was so hot it melted the metal frame that was holding the house. It was nice to hear you play your wonderful music this morning as I go through this. I know things are going to be well. Keep playing your music...it is more than entertainment.

[@stateazure]

Shit, Raku777, real sorry to hear about your home. Are you in the Cali area then? Man, you have my sympathies. Best of luck to you.

[@Raku777]

@@stateazure Thanks, I am in Southern Oregon, one mountain pass away from the coast. This has been the worse fire season of the last decade and possibly even the last 100 years. It seems that a very strong wind combined with a grass plain fire to produce something almost like a flame thrower that blasted our house to gray ash and even melted part of the metal frame. I lost a library of 40 boxes of books, all my musical instruments except three that I grabbed going out the door. Lots more also destroyed. I learned a lot about how transitory and fragile life is, but also how precious. It is like music...music is so transitory that each note disappears as soon as it is made, and yet the whole sound reverberates through time. I will be okay. Thank you for your sympathy and your music. I really appreciate your music a lot and now it is a source of continuity through this rite of passage. Everything feels like it is unfolding perfectly with the flow of good sensitive ambient music.

[@MrGrumpyGills]

@@Raku777 There's great wisdom seeping through your words. You also managed to describe everything that happened so vividly. I'm really sorry :(

[@Syntek-Alba]

Excellent mate. Well done.

[@Anamazing]

I want to wake up to this.

[@scottchapman3555]

I Love the way the guitar sounds, the unforgiving dirty street sounds!❤

[@deoproximo1572]

This is my first time on here and this set up looks like you need a degree, very good remix.

[@Quarrel47]

More like "INTRO to In The Air Tonight" Can't claim its the full song without that drum roll/drum into. Was actually disappointed it wasn't there.

[@livejoker24]

"Reinvention", not full song. Think of it as a cover version.

[@Taobyby]

@@livejoker24 No can do. No drum roll no song. ;-)

[@s4b0t4g3]

so you will love this one for sure 😉 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmnXn5SQrJKoiqc

[@stateazure]

@sabotage That's hilarious 😂

[@j0ltc0lajunki3]

@@s4b0t4g3 That's awesome :D

[@UrbanTiger74]

Need this version in the next Mass Effect game. Yeaaaaaaaa boiiiii!

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

I don't usually like remakes and cover versions of any kind, but this one really got me.

[@Phobose]

This is absolutely beautiful, please never stop remastering these amazing songs from the past

[@duboriginals]

Thanks Popbitch for pointing me to this, well ‘blissed out’ now.

[@geoffbeardsell590]

Lol, I arrived here on the same trip. Good stuff Popbitch

[@2600hz]

I find myself returning to watch and listen to this weekly or whenever I need a Miami Vice vibe. Brilliant work!

[@ArgoNavis94]

My god this is beautiful. Thank you.

[@ActualKaktus]

This is incredible. Those synthesized guitar leads WAIL.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Sampled?

[@watercolourmark]

Nicely done. But like a fool I was waiting for the drum fill. Should be called, Not In The Air Tonight - then I wouldn't have been waiting. But great stuff, I couldn't do this as I'd have to finish on the drums.

[@lprofessor5222]

+1

[@craighill4709]

I would call it "out of air tonight"

[@jukesjointOG]

Should have done the fill, but with a very dry analog high-pitched snare: “tik tik, t-tik, t-tik tik, t-TIK TIK!”

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

In the water tonight

[@kuvalautalainen]

This came at the right time and straight through my heart. Have a great year 2024.

[@rawnukles]

Maybe the fact that this doesn't have that expected drum fill and leaves me wanting more every time I listen to it, is part of the magic. It's exquisitely unsettling ... I have to play it again... and again. Like driving around thinking about my ex girlfriend or craving drugs intensely and just feeling it and then realising I'm not gonna go see her or score...

[@sex6cult9revolution]

With the recurring use of that beat, I'm inclined to put this track into a subgenre of ambient/prog with Heart Beat, Pig Meat and Obscured By Clouds by Pink Floyd (which have also been remixed as ambient tracks). Of course, if the big drums came in, it wouldn't have fit into this subgenre.

[@jordanbagbey1903]

"I need to know something, Caroline..."

[@WirSindVerl0ren]

Exactly the lines I was thinking of. Miami Vice forever!

[@CarinaStargate]

It was real wasn’t it...

[@funkstrummer2151]

Beautiful to listen to whilst I sip my mushroom tea. Thanks 👍🏻

[@BancaDoMauro]

Love the keys, knobs, lights, plugs....in my world this type of music is in the air for all people feels all rhe time....

[@darinsuntkentv]

Ugh, waited for the drum fill and got blue balled.

[@valairsoft]

Thank you for your service. I was looking all over for it.

[@SuperHonkyPodcast]

I agree. Wasn't as epic as the camera angle and gear suggested. I was expecting a lot more to be honest.

[@RaquelFoster]

I know modular synths are really cool, but ... there's a point where you need to admit you have a problem. Are they patch cables, or are they hundreds of little cries for help? Kinda hiding the Octatrack. Cuz the Octatrack looks at you and tries to tell you, "Hey, I'm doing all the work here," and you're like, "Shut up! I could replace you with a Volca Sample!" That damn Octatrack. Sorta a Tell-Tale Heart situation. But those Swedes make magical boxes. I hear if you open one up it's full of lingonberries and pixie dust.

[@stateazure]

Any eurocrack addition I might have had, seems to have passed. I'm satisfied! :) The Octatrack is awesome, and wont get replaced! Liking your techno mixes, listening to qel06, good stuff. Thank you for the comment!

[@MesGuided]

Lingonberries 😂😂

[@JayKaufman]

Bwahaha. Gear Acquisition Syndrome (G.A.S.) as defined by the Oxford Dictionary.

[@ceddy1031]

Absolutely beautiful. I can listen to it all night.

[@alexbosorogan7501]

This is the music of 70's Klaus Schulze, Jarre, Tangerine Dream. Amazing good for you you find your path into real stuff.

[@Phobose]

Just letting you know, you're currently getting me through Covid. You're the first artist I've listened to in 15 days, my high temperature has finally died down enough to enjoy music. Have an amazing Christmas my friend, sending love from UK.

[@zachporter8864]

"my body temperature from a dillusional virus prevents my ears from functioning properly,they cease to exist due to my overly exaggerated comment"

[@bastiaanw3519]

This is very nice stuff! I think you kinda missed the opportunity to get those famous drums in. Or at least the energy peak (to net let go of the ambient feel too much). Other than that this is as good as you can turn In The Air Tonight into ambient!

[@hfghdghfhfhxdh2902]

The more I listen to this, the more I 😍 love it.. X

[@pauladams1915]

All that is needed now is the 10hr version, and life would be perfect.