The Skitzmix series are the kind of CDs many electronica fans would probably be too embarrassed to admit that they were/are fans of (at least to their fellow elitist, electronic-loving buddies). But for many kiddies who came of age around the late 90s or early 2000s, these were strong musical influences on their tastes (which have - hopefully - since developed to include all kinds of electronica).

During the late 90s (from about skitzmix 1-7) they had an overall sound of what can best be described as 'Original Hard House' or 'Oldschool Hard House' (you'll need to listen to understand exactly what I mean). In the early 00's (from about 9-17) they had a slightly more trance-based influence (though the sound is still Hard House, but in it's more refined form). During this period they began to slowly pick up other influences also, mixing in continuously harder (and often cheesier) sounds. In my opinion they dropped significantly in quality from about the 18th volume in the series (I'm not even sure if anyone still buys them).

Some of the mixes were predominately rubbish compared to others, but within many of them, were absolute Hard House classics (and on the flip-side, in almost all of them, was an at least one 100% cheese track - you have been warned!). Certain mixes in the series were definitely of a higher quality than others...

SM10 is such a mix. It's probably the most consistent of the entire series (I'm pretty sure it was meant to be partially retrospective, so it covers a lot of the best parts of the previous 10 volumes in the series), with classics such as Plaything's "Into Space (Public Domain Mix)", Balloon's "Technorocker (Video Version)" and Nick Skitz's "All U Deejay's (Skitz Airplay Edit)" . Of course, there are still a few stinkers (such as Eiffel 65's "Too Much of Heaven"). But on the whole, a consistent compilation.