''Tubular Beats'' is a remix album containing collaborations between

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and

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(

Torsten Stenzel Torsten Stenzel is a German music producer, composer and Honorary Consulate of Germany. Classically trained from an early age his roots are within the field of Electronic dance music, Electronic Dance Music. His interest for music first starte ...

), that was released on 1 February 2013. Unlike previous club mixes, the album is a true two-sided collaboration between Oldfield and Stenzel, making use of parts from the original multitrack tapes as well as new parts played by Oldfield.

Tarja Turunen Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish Heavy metal music, heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish. Turunen studied lyrical ...

appears on the track "Never Too Far". It was released on the independent

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label in Germany even though Oldfield is currently signed to the major label of

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/ Mercury. The album cover shows Oldfield's trademark ''

Tubular Bells Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the Percussion instrument, percussion family. Their sound resembles that of church bells, carillons, or a bell tower; the original tubular bells were made to duplicate the soun ...

'' logo in blue/black on a white background. A promo video for "Guilty 2013" was released by earMusic, which contains a shortened version of "Guilty Electrofunk Mix". In 2011 Moist Creations had released a screenshot from this titled "Guilty 2011". The track "Tubular Bells 2 (Mike Oldfield & York Remix)" is, unlike the name suggests, not the remix of a track of the album ''

Tubular Bells II ''Tubular Bells II'' is the fifteenth studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Mike Oldfield. It was released on 31 August 1992 by Warner Music UK and is the successor to his debut album ''Tubular Bells'' (1973). It was Oldfield's first ...

'', but a remix of the track "Finale" of the album ''Tubular Bells'', in which a melody from "A Minor Tune" of the same album is incorporated.

Track listing

External links

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Mike Oldfield Interview about the album
''Sound on Sound'' {{Authority control 2013 remix albums Mike Oldfield compilation albums York (group) albums Edel Music albums