These guys were the first to make a commercial jumpstyle hit in The Netherlands. And that happened in 2007. Just 13 years after jump became popular in Belgium. And that's my biggest problem with these guys. Just like when DJ Tiësto started his career Jeckyll & Hyde simply copy a style that's been popular in Belgium for ages already. Apparently country borders are still to be found in musicland. And that makes it easy for artists to copy an idea from abroad, make a big hit, earn a lot of money, and claim it really was them that made the first jumpstyle record.

There where Serious Beats 25 was released after Serious Beats 29, this second "Saga Of House" 4 CD was just one edition late. Released after number 51, Serious Beats 50 (The 2nd Saga Of House), again gives you the best dance music has offered during the years 1990 - 2005. With tracks from The Prodigy, Voodoo Child, Human Resource, Mr. Oizo, CLS, Gat Decor and many others, this release is just like Serious Beats 25 a nice CD for those who want to go back to the good old days and for those who want to know how house sounded long ago.

What does it take to make a new hit? It seems that 4 tracks originally produced in 1993 and 1994 are the ingredients for a 2006 hit-release.
Take System D's Deviant Behaviour, Cyber Trance, Woops by DJ Bounthyhunter and another big hit in 1994 Zolex - Time Modulator (Black Out Remix), add a beat as they are currently used in the hardtrance and hardhouse scene, re-sample the synth-loops, and success guaranteed on the 2006 dancefloor.

Personally I prefer the original versions though. Simple right in your face (hard)trance made without the need to get more out of the sampler then your colleague producer.

When I first heard this record, I thought it was a DJ Rush production. Vocal samples on pumpin' beats, with non to less instrumentation.
I was surprised to find out it was a Lekebusch release. No continouisly repeating 4/4 deep-basses as I was used from him. This is a little lighter stuff, but it surely is still Swedish quality techno.

Ben Liebrand makes his "Minimixes" since the beginning of the eighties. All minimixes were played on Radio Veronica, but they were never officially released. A lot of bootlegs and illegal tapes later, Ben Liebrand fans got the change to buy some of his Minimixes in 2000. This as promotion for Radio 538, who, since Radio Veronica stopped broadcasting the minimixes in 1993, re-started with these mixes in the beginning of 2000. This release didn't became a succes though, maybe because of the over-digitalised remixes on it, or just because the charm the concept had in the eighties and nineties was vanished.
Minimix 1 was the first, and last, release with Ben Liebrand Minimixes.

The style called "Euro House" had many variants. One of them was the so-called "Country House", which became popular in 1994 when a underground techno record "Swamp Thing" from the English band "The Grid" became a massive club- and mainstream hit.
One of the acts who had the most benefits of this succes was the Swedish act Rednex. their first records "Cotton Eye Joe" and "Old Pop In An Oak" were based on classic country melodies, and had the sounds of banjos and accordions all over it.
Halfway 1995 the country house-hype was over, but Rednex kept trying to produce hits, with less country-influences that was. These tracks were also less succesful then their two first, idiotic, tracks.

LCD is "The World's First Digital Supergroup". In more simple words, a project by David K, represented by 4 digital men (Ted, Ed, Zed and Ned) who, like a kind of Super Mario, run around in the video of this track.
The track itself is a simple basic remake of "La Danse de Zorba". Don't expect highly intelligent digital music here. A simple commercial dance-hit with a very recognizable tune is what you'll get.

Gabber Piet made his excuses for this record as soon as the record was released. The sleeve says "This is a gimmick from me. Respect to all die-hard gabbers, Bass-D & King Matthew and ID&T. And don't worry, I'll stay always HARDCORE!!!".

This excuse didn't help much. A lot of hardcore dj's, mc's and fans dissed Gabber Piet because of this record. Luckily it didn't only happen to him, but it happened to a lot of "die-hard" gabbers who tried to make a happy hardcore hit.

There where most rockbands ask their own pianist to play the chords in their ballads, the Dutch band Di-Rect asked the classical pianist Wibi Soerjadi to write and play the key-parts on their single Blind For You. This surprising co-operation leads to an even more surprising release, on which pretty heavy classical piano-parts are combined with the vocals and guitars of Di-Rect without drowning the rock-sound.

This CD gives you the best tracks from 1991 till 1999. N.E.W.S. and Antler-Subway, the two record companies releasing the Serious Beats CD's around 1999, came with this 25th edition after number 29. So they created an atmosphere in which a lot of Serious Beats lovers almost went crazy waiting for number 25.
Nowadays the 4xCD can be used to take the old-school technofans back to the days of "100% Of Disin' You", "Energy Flash", "Born Slippy", "Der Klang Der Familie", "French Kiss" and many other classics.
Or you can use the CD to teach those kids of today something 'bout the early days.