Best Lost Witness Songs

Why five tracks is all you need

If you only give Lost Witness five tracks of your time, here's how to spend them. No filler, no deep-cut detours. Just the songs that made the project's name and the ones that show you why it stuck around. Listen in order.

The anthem: Happiness Happening (Lange Remix)

This is the Lost Witness song. Released in 1999, the Lange Remix took it to number 18 in the UK charts and turned a good vocal trance track into a genuine anthem. That build, that release, the vocal riding right on top of it. If you're only going to hear one thing on this page, make it this.

The sibling: Red Sun Rising (Lange Remix)

Also from 1999 and also reworked by Lange, Red Sun Rising is the track that sits right next to Happiness Happening. A little darker, a little more driving, but built from the same DNA of big strings and a vocal that refuses to sit in the background. Play them back to back and you'll understand the moment.

The atmospheric turn: 7 Colours (Angelic/Darren Tate Remix)

By 2001, Darren Tate working as Angelic had taken 7 Colours somewhere more atmospheric than the earlier singles. It's the track to reach for when you want the melodic, emotional side of Lost Witness rather than the pure euphoria of the Lange years. This is where the sound starts to deepen.

The tender moment: Did I Dream (Song to the Siren) featuring Tracy Carmen

Tracy Carmen's vocal is the whole story here. Released in 2002, this is Lost Witness at its most tender. Proof the project could do quiet devastation as well as it did peak-time euphoria. This is the track that shows you there's a songwriting craft underneath everything.

The warmth: Home featuring Tiff Lacey

Tiff Lacey's voice on Home gives the track its warmth, and putting it on after the others shows you how consistent Simon Paul's songwriting instincts stayed across the years. By this point you've heard the full range of what Lost Witness could do.