Dennis Sheperd – Onwards // Upwards

Long before lockdown, Dennis Sheperd was way ahead of the conversational curve, addressing the areas of mindfulness and mental wellbeing through his 2015 album, ‘Fight Your Fears’. Given that six years elapsed between that LP and 2021’s ‘Find The Sunrise’, you could be forgiven for a sense of surprise at the speed with which he’s achieved ‘Sunrise’s follow-up.

It's not been an exactly quiet 365 for the producer from Essen, Germany either. Aside from peppering its course with precursor singles, he’s also mixed an ‘In Search of Sunrise’ disc, co-hosted this year’s Trance Retreat @ ADE and toured all four corners of the globe. Some of the follow-up’s rapidity however may have been born of necessity. Artistically, stylistically and topically, the album has a brother-in-arms like relationship with ‘Find The Sunrise’. It’s title, ‘Onwards // Upwards’ also says much as to the headspace Dennis has found himself in this year.

Tracklist:

1. Dennis Sheperd x Brandon Le - Intouchable 
2. Dennis Sheperd x Diana Miro - Denials (Album Mix) 
3. Dennis Sheperd - Run 
4. Dennis Sheperd x Joston - Sugar Coat 
5. Dennis Sheperd - Cryptoverse (Album Mix) 
6. Dennis Sheperd x Nadda Mercenary - Every Little Thing 
7. Dennis Sheperd x MR. CLN x Gid Sedgwick - Wishful Thinking 
8. Dennis Sheperd x Koni Blank x EKE - Limitless (Album Mix) 
9. Dennis Sheperd x George Jema - The March (Album Mix) 
10. Dennis Sheperd x Scott Cameron x RELEJI - This One 
11. Dennis Sheperd x York x Iris - The Fall 
12. Dennis Sheperd x Elliot Johns - Hearts (Album Mix) 
13. Dennis Sheperd x Nic Toms - Banishora 
14. Dennis Sheperd x Mira Feder - Torture