The review stated above is just right. However I`d like to add that this FP-episode is a huge improvement in production quality compared to FP-6. Listen to the way the emotions fit right in the mix! Excellent job by Tiesto, it remains a mistery why he is not credited in the booklet..! Highlights include Greece 2000 and the surprising mixing combination of track 15 and SOSA-The wave. One of the first releales of Hammock Brothers (where Tiesto teams up with Rolank Kramer) also sets the standard for years to come. When going to trance heaven, this cd will be played in the arrivals lounge.

After Forbidden Paradise 6 went to be a huge underground succes in the Netherlands, the tone was set. More melodious trance lines, less hard hitting beats.

This compilation was the last one in the Forbidden Paradise series to be done by DJ Tiësto, who had by then gained quite some success in the, then still underground, trancescene of the Netherlands. Tiësto quit his job at Basic Beat and focussed on his own Magik compilations series, lifting dutch trance to a completely different level.