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Name: Christian A. Ciccone
Home Page: www.trancecritic.com
Member Since: Mar 29, 2004
Rank: 359
Rated 400 releases, average: 3.93
Location: The West Coast Of Canada
Profile: Been a music fan from my very first memory of listening to The Police with headphones on my Father's reel-to-reels.
Ratings are as follows:
5/5 - Excellent. Nothing on this release sounds like filler. Will often remain in my player for at least a week.
4/5 - Good. Enjoyable listen through with some exceptional moments. Will often remain in my player for a day or two.
3/5 - Decent. Pleasent enough listen but doesn't always stick in the mind afterwards. Will often remain in my player for one playthrough.
2/5 - Odd. A couple of things stick out but overall redundant. Will often remain in my player for a song or two.
1/5 - HOW THE HELL DID THIS END UP IN MY COLLECTION???
If you are interested in more detailed reviews that I write, check out the homepage for such.
PS: I only collect CDs. Too afraid to start up on vinyl because I know it'll be an addiction I'll never be able to kick. ;)
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Moonshine Music - 29-Jun-07 06:02 AM
Moonshine could always be counted on for variety and quality in the 90s. House, trance, techno, jungle, breaks, ambient... it was incredibly rare to see any label indulge in every aspect electronic music offered. Never so underground that they'd release complete unknowns, yet never quite commercial enough to be accepted by the mainstream, they stradled the line as credibly as any label.
That changed at the turn of the century though. Seeing how club culture was having great success in America, Moonshine decided to go for the brass ring and began to reformat their strategy in the same vein as Britain's mega-labels. It proved to be their undoing.
Vector Lovers - Vector Lovers - 07-Feb-07 03:27 AM
With this whole 'electro' house thing going on lately (I call it faux-electro house, since there's very little resemblence to electro proper), I oftentimes get challenged to come up with something I'd deem real electro house. Look no further than the track 'Electrosuite' on this album. It's got all the sounds electro from the 80s was known for, and comes wrapped up in a funky house package that's irresistible. And, most importantly, sound nothing like the funkless farting bassline dance music folks think electro is all about.
No one's ever managed to refute my example as being what real electro house SHOULD sound like, had all the stuff that gets regarded as such not co-opted the word 'electro' as a trendy buzzword.
Various - Mortal Kombat Soundtrack - 21-Jul-06 07:10 AM
A landmark soundtrack of sorts, this was the one that got all the studio execs thinking "Hey, this techno and metal thing seems to go good together, and sells pretty nicely too. Let's do more." The soundtracks for Spawn and perhaps even The Matrix may owe something to Mortal Kombat's success.
While many claim this was the one to get them into 'techno' (c'mon, that Immortals theme is irresistible!), for those who were already in the scene it may not have been much cop. Ironically, this release turned me onto some of the metal acts like Fear Factory and Type O Negative, stuff I'd never care about in those days. I guess it can work both ways, eh?
DJ Tiësto - In Search Of Sunrise 2 - 26-Apr-05 11:30 PM
I honestly can't see what the big deal about this release is.
Having more or less ignored Tiesto's DJ mixes for other material, I was interested to see what the three time #1 DJ had to offer. Almost all his fans will say this is one of his crowning achievments so I gave it a shot.
It starts out pleasently chilled out enough, which was the theme of these mixes from what I hear, but things take a turn for Vocal Valley with some very abrupt changes (including one very dodgy mix, I must add) before going into harder territory to finish off. I'm just not getting a sense of decent flow, though. Songs more or less play one after the other without any build-up for the next track.
As for track selection, almost all of the major songs have been heard on several other releases and nothing in their arrangement here makes them sound any more pronounced than when heard on dozens of other DJ mixes.
It's a pleasent enough listen but hardly the classic I keep being told it is. I found Oakenfold's 'Another World' to be a better example of this style of trance.
Hypnotic - 01-Apr-05 06:32 AM
Lots of fond memories associated with this sub-label of Cleopatra.
Long before trance became much of a buzzword in America, these guys were bringing over tons of material from the German label Music Research (amongst other small labels) and making it easily available to us poor North Americans who didn't want to import. Not all of their releases were gold, of course, and many times they'd be padded out with a fair bit of filler as the years went on, seemingly scraping the bottom of the barrel sometimes. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad, I s'pose.
Very spiffy cover art, too.
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