Plenty of structure, easy to mix. Very good for transitions between styles.

Three different grooves for each of the loops of the single verse. First a galloping trance, much like on Armin Van Buuren's show, second very balearic and chill, third very progressive house.

Beautiful rolling parallel major 9th chords, gorgeous voice floating above it.

10 minutes is way too short. Even mixed with the instrumental version at 20 minutes it's too short.

Absolutely gorgeous tune, let's hope for a digital release of the vinyl mixes.

Eiko obviously doesn't get how to listen to the chill genre. There aren't supposed to be songs. You're supposed to listen fractally, as deep into the mix as you can possibly go. When you get to the point where you can do it, you start losing track of time -- as in where did that hour just go -- I put the disc on 5 minutes ago and it's over already? Shakatura is a wonderful record full of rewarding listening, but it certainly isn't due to the sectional structure of the songs -- the correlation between the sectional structures and what's happening fractally is awe-inspiring.

Many people write this disc off, but I was amazed the first time I heard it. I don't pretend to understand it, but I listened to it until I knew it inside and out, down to how long the pause was between "Truth" and "Dream Within", and only then did I allow myself to make up my mind whether I like it -- and it turned into one of my very favorite records. Especially "Truth", "Dragonfly", and the 2nd movement of "Mother."

The title says it all to punters ...

This first disc seems to be a way of collating all the versions you were likely to hear on the dodgier compilation albums that needed the short version, and at least they let me hear a piece of many of the songs in question before I located the 12"s or the CD5s. All the radio versions are here along with the obligatory secret bogus track at the end. Obviously, it's the farewell to Island Records, who were screwing them over at the time.

I like the second disc better than the first but Mickey Mars is one of their most wonderful tracks ever ... a through composed track that resembles the progressive rock that Alex was a part of during the 80's, with a truly technically astonishing through-composed sampled vocal. How I wish this were a 12" somewhere. But it's good to put on and float away to.

I don't think this is such a bad one 10 years on like everyone seems to think. It's funny how as I get older, it becomes the "space to think" record, that I can put on and ignore, just to have some sort of sound in the background. It's not the best, but it's the stuff that everyone heard first I think (was with me ....), so I'm kinda glad I heard it.