Disc 1, track 1 is called "Nightstalker", track 2 "Late Night" - and that might just be all you need to know. This is an unrepentantly dark and thoroughly nocturnal entry into the progressive house canon. You probably already know if you like this stuff or if it bores your ass off, but for those who are partial to some spooky, subtle beats, this is one of the best compilations the stlye has to offer.

Disc 1 is stripped down to bare essentials, with the dubbed out tech-house of Late Night providing an early high point. The intensity builds through the industrial-edged Control of Sound, with the peak of Tocharian and Love Like Sleep burning up the tension.

Disc 2 offered trancier stylings, but is no easier a listen. The two mixes of Janeiro offer the mix's first truly great hook, and dissolve into the howling of dogs. A couple of run-of-the-mill prog cuts from Brancaccio & Aisher and Quivver lead into the oddest turn on offer, the classic trance (and i mean old school, Accident In Paradise grade stuff here) pastiche of Mansdisco. After the screaming peaktime anthem antics of Bon Voyage (quite possibly the biggest tune of all time, but Jimmy's earnt it by now), this style is reasserted. it's a strange manoeuvre, but then there are obvious parallels between the dark stylings of '02 prog house and the minimal arpeggiated goodness of '92 trance that make it work.

A classic mix of the genre...but of the genre it certainly is.