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Rexanthony - Memorabylia - The Greatest Hits 1992 - 2008 - 14-Feb-08 09:03 PM
What a disappointment this one has turned out to be. First disappointment was the tracklisting, because there's just too many older great trax missing, leaving place for more recent filler that's not memorable at all. Admittedly taste has something to do with this assessment, but I'd say rexanthony's material has quite objectively dropped in quality through the years. more importantly though and the real reason i gave this a 1 - the mastering is piss poor. Please stop the loudness race already, we all have and know how to crank up the volume knob on the amplifier when we feel like the neighbours have had it to easy for too long. Every track is so extremely clipped that they're a real pain to listen to. There's absolutely no dynamics left whatsoever, everything sounds tinny and distorted (not the good kind of distortion mind you), transients have gone the way of the dodo (don't expect any snares or other percussions to actually have any smack to them). I guess someone more concise than me would say it sounds crap and I honestly couldn't disagree with him.

Rhythm & Sound - See Mi Yah (Remixes #4) - 02-Jun-06 02:40 PM
When you want something done right do it yourself. I guess that's the moral of the SMY remix series. Basic Reshape is finally a remix really on par with the awesome originals even if Moritz & Mark had to do it themselves. With Carl Craig delivering a pretty good remix too, SMY #4 at last fullfils my high expectations for the series after the bitter dissapointment of #1, only in part corrected with #2 & #3.

Human Resource And DJ Reyes* - Thunderdome - The Megamix Of Thunderdome 1-5! - 23-Mar-05 02:37 PM
All in all this is a relatively fun cd with a great trackselection if you're into hardcore, but it looses lots of its potential because of the way it was mixed. Like it was already mentioned track riffs are layered and mixed over the same kick throughout the mix. The kick (a classic Human Resource one) is great, but it doesn't blend well with some riffs (throws off the track balance and makes the track sound weird) and no matter how great it is, it surely gets boring waaay before the end of the mix. Some tracks are also sped up too much and again sound weird. What's most disturbing is that although this is obviously an offline mix, digitally edited, some mixes are surprisingly not all that smooth.

If you want to hear what this cd could and should sound like get yourself "House Party 10 - The Hardcore Mix". A similar mix concept, with a similar tracklist and even a similar intro, middle chill & outro, but done the way it's supposed to be done.

Umek - Neuro - 11-Sep-03 10:18 PM
Now this is seriously going too far. Umek' Neuro bettering Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), now that's rich. Neuro is a washed out copy of what Aphex Twin produced a decade ago when besides having some depth to it and being amazing (as it still now is), it was also groundbreaking, which Neuro isn't (being 10 years late and all).
Umek made some really great hard techno stompers, but a lot of his stuff (including Neuro) belongs to the forget/filler section, where it would stay forever had it not had Umek stamped on it. Some objectivity people please.