Various - Penetrate Deeper

All of a sudden I owned it. This album. "Penetrate Deeper". THE "Penetrate Deeper".

I hadn't heard any of the songs on the album when I got it, but my expectations were still sky high since I just love Deep Dish's and BT's breakthrough sound from the mid-90's: Funky, energetic house with a few hints from the progressive house/trance-scene.

The first track is quite pointless in my opinion, but from track 2, or to be more precise, after exactly 1:34 minutes you know that this is going to be good. A few seconds later you get that magical "xtz"-sample and suddenly you feel that you have goosebumps all over your body. (Completely sober, and listening to the album on headphones. I wonder how it would feel like in a big squat-party on mdma?!)
I guess I could make a comment about more or less all of the tracks, but the true standouts are tracks 3, 4, 7 and especially 11 and 12. Pure bliss!

As I mentioned above, I could kill to hear this mix in a secret club together with people who, like me, actually are way to young for this sound. I can't see anyone NOT like dancing to this sound under the right circumstances.

This CD changed everything. In an instant, almost all existing house music became obsolete, crushed under the mighty, pumping beats of Sharam & Dubfire and some of the most talented house producers on the planet. This is a showcase of some of the greatest house music ever made, and perhaps the best tracks on here are (somewhat surprisingly) the work of producers Brian Transeau and John Selway, who have since gone off in entirely different directions. No house music collection is complete without these masterpieces.

A SUPREME Deep House classic mix CD.
When released in '95..It had already created ripples in the water of the House scene.People were realising that House had a heart once again. Dubfire & Sharam hit the mark every time with this Exemplary album and more good news is, that this Classic mix CD is being reissued on 2 September 2003...Time for some Elastic Reality!!