I got this CD for my birthday as I quite liked Furney's track "You and I" and ended up really enjoying most of this CD.

I enjoyed the variety of tracks and would compare it to receiving a box of chocolates instead of a chocolate bar. There's something for everyone! The variety adds to interest, offering different sounds by different artists, with different ideas.

Mostly the CD contains the lighter, chilled side (Imagine the soft centre's in chocolate box terms) of drum n bass with tunes like Kubatko's "Flying Without Wings", Motive Within's "All That Remains" and Arje's "Over Clouds" (Big Ups Arje!).

There are a few slightly harder edge tracks (Imagine toffee and nut centres in chocolate terms again) scatted around the track listing like Solar Empire's "Space Station Orta", Genom's "Northend Aura" and of course Soultec's "Mind's Eye" which is one of my favourite tracks off this CD and of the year.

I hope that the producers on this album have a colourful future ahead of them for the next few years in the Drum & Bass scene as I think they have all deserved it.

This release is clearly cashing in on High Contrast's earlier talents that are beginning to wear thin. There is no point in this release even existing. Where these two tracks originally came from ("Plastic surgery 2" and the sampler to that album) are not that hard to find on ebay or even here on Discogs, they are not mega rare or "future classics". So why re-release these tunes in the first place?

Keep your money and buy the Plastic surgery 2 album, there's much better tunes on there like the Danny Byrd's remix of "Wishing Well", and Carlito and Addiction's "The Ride".

Probably one of the worst "Free" CD's I have ever heard. Everything about this mix is just poor and lazy. Bryan G can't mix to save his life (Ive never heard this guy do a decent mix at all, ever), the MC is very annoying (chanting Happy Birthday 15 times is very grating, I don't give a toss its his birthday). The tracks are either rinsed, poor/lazy/unoriginal remixes or tracks not worth getting excited about.

Overall a massive failure for Knowledge Mag and Liquid V. You are responsible for me littering (I never ever litter but I had no other choice this mix is that bad!) the A13. I threw this CD out of the car window and into a rough patch of concrete, where it belongs with the discarded litter, cigarette butts and empty beers cans. Put a smile on my face to see it break in half as it hit the ground. My other half would have ran over it if he had the chance Im sure.

This album is to me slightly better than the hugely successful "Now More Than Ever" CD. Although both albums can be judged differently and are not exactly the same. This album "Reality Checkpoint" is I feel designed for simply listening to at home on a Sunday, compared to "Now More Than Ever" which really is the exact opposite for me.

It has this amazingly deep and powerful vibe to it, that most drum n bass albums lack at the moment. The recorded samples fit perfectly into each track and nothing is too full on. Hospital Records need to release more stuff like this. As music is not always about the dance floor.