Chris Raven - I Know You Love Me Too!

One of those slightly indefinable tunes that skirts around the edges of trance, whilst staying mostly in a progressive house vein.

The orginal mix develops and builds really well, unfortunately the main drop after the central breakdown suffers from poor production (overly compressed) but it's still a great track with tons of character, charm and individuality. There's an intimate tone to this track which is really beguiling. If you think about a lot of trance and progresssive house from this period and later, it's all "big room", epic stuff. This instead is subtle, still emotional and uplifting, but without any of the hysteria of your taucher/moonman/system f kind of track.

The Van Bellen mix heads off in a deep trance direction, and is darker than the orginal. Some melodic 303 action introduces the main hook to good effect. One of Van Bellen's finest efforts from the period, duly picked up by Sasha and Digweed for "Northern Exposure - Expeditions (CD1)" a year after its release.