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Buyer Rating: 100.0% positive (2 ratings)

Various - Total Workout! - 27-Jul-09 09:00 PM
I wanted to love this release, I really did. The amount of work that it took to secure the licensing rights for all these songs mustve been AMAZING - I was hugely impressed at all the big name artists they got on this record. Unfortunately, the segues between songs are underwhelming at best, and occasionally painful. Theres a few good ones, some bad ones, and then some REALLY bad ones like from track 2 to 3. It appears as if Gina Star wasnt all that familiar with the concept of BPMs and tempo, since she chose to go from Toni Braxton (123 BPM) right into Britney Spears (132 BPM) and as a result the Toni sounds choppy, oddly spliced, and artifically sped-up. This is a pretty serious mistake any good DJ never EVER makes - drastic tempo changes from one song to another trying to retain the same pitch.

Also, youll often hear the intro beats for the new song come in halfway thru the current song thats playing! She doesnt even wait for an outro beats section - which always sounds incredibly messy. One might say, well hey this is a non-stop mix CD compilation, every minute is precious. Then guess what friends, thats what re-editing is for. Two full-on productions playing at once sounds busy and cluttered, which is a simple concept for most DJs to grasp.

Zero stars also goes to the typo on Track 15, the correct remix title is the T-empo Mix of Taylor Dayne, which any dance music fan should know immediately - shame on them for not catching this. And the lazy fade outro at the end was pathetic....Any DJ, industry person, remix collector, or Taylor fan worth their salt can easily track down the FULL tempo mix from either the US promo vinyl or even the import cd5 to give the whole entire collection a PROPER cold outro, not that shoddy fade-out job, as if all Gina Star had access to was the lame Tempo edit thats already been included on a dozen Arista dance compliation CDs throughout the years.

Overall, if youre buying this CD to listen to the mixdowns between each song, hoping to be impressed, dont bother. However, a casual music fan who doesnt care about the technical stuff like that will be very VERY impressed with the big name mainstream dance hits that Thrive managed to license for this compilation. Lets just hope they exercise better quality control for their next compilation.

Pat Benatar / Elton John - We Belong / Your Song - 18-Jun-09 08:15 AM
In email correspondence with DJ Michael Brown in 2005, he gives insight into his experience remixing the Pat Benatar song:

"This was my first remix so its a bit rough. It was completed in 1999 and was passed around as Richie Santanas Mix and as a White Label. It should have been labeled as Shake Rattle and Roll Tribute Mix. The vinyl on it is labeled SRR. We actually went to Sacramento to meet her husband and manager. One of her fan club presidents passed it along to her. They managed to track us down and invited us to come meet them in Sacramento. I was living in San Francisco at the time so my remixing partner at the time and I drove down. Met with them and talked about producing their daughters band GLOW. Nothing ever materialized out of it though."

Chynna Phillips - Naked And Sacred - 06-Feb-09 09:15 PM
If I were forced to listen to only one album for the rest of my life, it would be this one. Every song is amazing, well-written, SO musical, SO fun to sing along to, SO emotional and intense - the lyrics are great, the melodies are great, the harmonies are absolutely beautiful. All music should be this good, seriously. I dont know why the label didnt promote this better, almost any one of these songs couldve been a huge hit.

Various - Millennium 2000 Disc 2 - 12-Jan-06 09:58 PM
This is a collection of some of the most poorly beat-matched trainwrecks ever released. Most of the tracks are hastily-assembled re-edits of the official mixes, and given alternate titles. Intros that sound like 2 mixes being played at the same time, and outros which are even worse. I feel disgust and shame for the people that put this out.