I also like the first set, but I must say that the 2nd for me is where it is all that. Given the wrap on the first I'll go straight to the 2nd which i believe is a great deal better.

From the opening track of the set, it sets a grinding bass driven progressive tone that is fantastic. Not sure about the Josh Wink but after that the set gets into driving some huge tracks that make this overall one of my top mix compilation CDs in the collection.

Well worth your while if you haven't picked it up yet.

Just another Digweed GU bomb.

This starts off a bit slow on disk 1 to get you in the mood. Imagine is a great opening track to start you off. From there highlights include Flood before the emortal Elements. If you haven't had the pleasure of hearing this track this would be the CD to get to hear it. This song rocks!! Other highlights on a very smooth first set include Down the River and Slap me Some Skin. Very easy listening.

Disk 2 is the nuts. The last few songs are pretty trancy but up until Words (for love) it is the signs of Digweed again being ahead of the curve. Just nuts early prog and well worth the listen.

Highlights a plenty but check out Rub a Dub. Rocking party beat. Then Release. This absolute rocks before molding into Autobahnana. Lucky enough to have found it on vinyl (limited copies) and I can now mix those freeway sounds into anything I want. This song is nuts!! Driving all the way home. Steel Blue is a great pick to come out of this and this is my pick of the mixes on the CD. Finally Words is just classic and will still rock any room at a party almost 10yrs on, again a must own.

If you don't have this (or any of the other 2 Digweed GUs) really recommend you get it. The man is something else!

If you find this review and haven't heard this CD, well its a must buy. This is the one that made both of them, it is one of the greatest and it still rocks all these years on.

Check out Liquid Cool and Sound System as my highlights of both disks but really the whole thing is amazing.

Play CD1 to those that aren't dance converts and CD2 to those that are, and play both to yourself anytime you want to realise how good DJs can be. It is no wonder that the vinyl and CDs for this are at astronomical prices.

Whatever form you can get this, just do it. This is the one that we talk about for a reason, Northern Exposure is the bomb!

This CD is what serious progressive music is about. Can't believe I read a review that said he nearly fell asleep. This will go down as not only one of the best GU releases ever, it will be one of the best mix CDs ever.

CD 1 is perfect warmup, dark progressive tracks that are blended in seamlessly by Digweed. Happy to sit back and listen even after 5 years.

But CD 2 is what it is all about. From the onset this is the Bomb. It is hard to highlight as I could go through all 11 tracks but if I have to highlight then the mixes of One Last Time into Genesis (one of the best tracks ever laid down) in Carnival XIII is absolutely majestic. Special mentions to The Fall, Inner Laugh and One.

If you are serious about your progressive this CD is a must own. Will stand the test of time for ever. Sure I will be pulling this out in 2030 and telling people that this is what it was all about early in this century.

They just don't make them like this anymore unfortunately, but they didn't really make them this good beforehand either. Classic.

I must say that I was beginning to lose faith in that music was going to be able to continue to flourish in 2006 and that perhaps we had 'peaked' earlier in time. Well I can say after listening to this that boy was I wrong.

Cattaneo manages to weave together so many different sounds into these CDs that should provide something in here for a lot of people.

CD 1 is very good, though I tend to think it really kicks off with Florence and then goes through to the end, with apologies to Feel It which is a great track. 1983 is just amazing and should be a big track on dancefloors for a while. The final track, For the time being, is just a beautiful melodic track that closes it all off nicely.

CD 2 gets better again with Fashionista getting a bit electro early in the piece to warm things up. Some of the baselines that are going through this CD are just amazing, particularly the Howell, Cram it up your Cram hole. From here the CD is just driving, progressiveish dancefloor bombs before finishing with Sirocco, another highlight.

One of the best things about a mix is when it gets better with every listen as you find different things out about it. And that is exactly what I have found since getting this, I have been almost unable to listen to anything else, and am still getting heaps of enjoyment and finding new bits and pieces.

Highly recommend to anyone who has not managed to get a copy, this really is class.