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Member Since: Jul 19, 2003
Rank: 153
Rated 1025 releases, average: 4.24
Location: ann arbor michigan
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Kid Loco - DJ-Kicks - 22-Jul-09 04:54 PM
This mix has been with me through the years, it just never gets old. Superb tracks, selection, etc. An unforgettable ride... not afraid to take you into serious dark gloom... and then wup, some track like Introspection just blows your world open with this blast of warmth. Its like that whole the mix. And it takes balls to cut off Happy Cycling before the breakdown!

Really though, review above said it as well -- easily one of the best DJ Kicks and one of my favorite mixes ever.

Final Exposure - Vortex - 14-Jun-09 11:16 AM
One of the best acid/hoover tracks, combining the party genius of Mundo Muzique, Beltram and Hawtin in FUSE mode. Mix it in with a slow builder right and it will drive people insane. The new schoolers will go crazy wondering WTF you just dropped. On 3 turntables even better to mix in and out of, its over 7 minutes long. Also great very fast. Whats great is also the techno-overlord voice decreeing "Vortex!" here and there -- which sounds like either "I want sex" or "phone sex". Makes me nostalgic for the time when techno was messy, crazy and fun.

Various - Psychotrance - 04-Aug-08 07:27 AM
The tracklisting on this CD is misleading... The tracklistings begin in the middle of the mix of two tracks. For example, track #5 is low-key, and its Sorceror by Megalon -- but the last 2 minutes are the next track, Play it Loud by Orlando Voorn (Baruka). And several are also either unreleased or hard to find.

I say this with a note of frustrated admiration, though tracks 2&3 of the mix are also really good (great acidy hard trance), 5&6 are incredible. Throw up the volume and with the latter part of #5 you get a really sexy tech-house jam (Play it Loud) that mixes into this almost ragga-type techno track (Xeno Ero by Dave Clarke/Red 1). It has a tough as nails hard hitting bassline that just kills. Track 6 winds up with Darkness by Megalon.

Quentin Harris & Robert Owens - Always - 02-Aug-07 11:26 AM
Quite simply one of the most beautiful songs Ive ever heard. A sparse but soulful arrangement, with a smooth chorus and simple but powerful, intimate lyrics that celebrate friendship and love through the years.

John Beltran - Ten Days Of Blue - 13-May-07 03:26 AM
Looks like everyone has their favorite here- surprised honestly that Gutaris Breeze (6000 km To Amsterdam) hasnt been mentioned. I think its just an amazing amazing piece of music. Light, muscular, melodic, Latin, incredibly danceable yet beatless- just unreal. I can imagine a bunch of breakdancers poppin and lockin to it just as well as myself, toes in the sand, on a breezy beach in the Caribbean. Musical perfection.

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