Being in inexplicable love with the old trance sound again I decided to get this one for listening to the epigones of classics like the 'Visions of Shiva' or the notorious 'Age of Love'. And moreover thru the years being interested in the experience of the suggestive repetition of rhythm and the hypnotic impact of synthetic spheres I was curious about the CDs here.

Now after I heard it several times at several occasions my only lasting impression is that there's a lack of inspired sound generally and an overdose of stupid traaance lookalikes. Don't know why this one's so celebrated here and elsewhere but this guy didn't ever catch the spirit of his first days again.

Come back to the Visions of Shiva and you'll have a better experience of sound ever possible thru the VDT collection.

If you like Trance music, then you have already heard of Paul van Dyk. This is Paul's absolute GREATEST release, spanning six years of the man's career. The title roughly translates as "Moving ahead with technology", and should be in any serious Trance DJ's collection. Each of the discs represents a phase in Paul van Dyk's career and therefore carries a unique sound. Disc 1 is the Anthem Trance music that Paul is best well known for, Disc 2 represents Paul's talent when it was first starting to emerge, and Disc 3 contains some beautiful ambient tracks; the music Paul was writing when he first started out. This could well be in the list of top five Trance CDs ever.