Nick Bradley and Ashley Hollis' first dance music magazine, Cloud 9, only lasted three issues but they later secured proper funding and were able to produce a magazine of high enough quality to receive national distribution. It was called Dream and launched in 1995 covering the UK happy hardcore rave scene. By mid-1997 the magazine had diversified to cover other styles of dance music and also had a mix-CD on the front every month, typically featuring happycore, old skool hardcore, D&B or trancecore. The magazine shut down in early 1998 but relaunched as Dream UK Magazine in October of the same year, still with a monthly cover-disc, but only lasted for half a dozen issues.

The CD's had a range of catalogue number formats but are listed here with the numbering scheme that was introduced with "Dream Compact Disc #8".