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Soundbluntz* Featuring Cheyne* - (Maybe You'll Get) Lucky - 15-Feb-08 12:51 AM
Quite an awesome release in my opinion, one of the best commercial house ones lately. Very catchy (disco) house, which hook is absolutely Cheyne's vocals. Her voice has been perfect for house music like this since Madison Avenue, and still is, definately.
The whole CD-maxi is a great deal, look at the amount of remixes found. It is very hard to decide which remixes are the best, the Smax & Gold ones or the ones by Hoxton Whores. Hoxton Whores remixes have nice sounds and drive. I guess at least fans of Fedde Le Grand like them very much because of some very similar sounds. Smax & Gold remixes are closer to the original mix with a bit electro mixed within. Royal Gigolos remix doesn't mean much to me, but people who like their (and Global Deejays' and Vinylshakerz's etc..) sound definately like it.
And as the end, can't actually remember a (house) single in ages which has two different video edits with an actual video, both found on this release.

Ray Munns - Ray's House - 05-Aug-07 06:45 AM
Okay. It's a pretty bad compilation. Why?

1) The DJ Mix is awful. Sounds like a first DJ mix by a starting mainstream-DJ. Some playing with the levels, usually bringing a new track in at the break and fading the old one out instantly. No skill required at all.
I read somewhere that Ray Munns isn't even the DJ (instead of it a MTV VJ or something) so I doubt he's done the "mixing" at all.

2) Look at the tracklisting. If the CD is unmixed with full versions, I'd bought it immediately by looking at the tracklist. BUT, it's a mix compilation. And it has only the biggest floorfillers around at the time. ...and with a bad "beat" mixing. IT DOESN'T WORK. A good DJ set needs some basic tracks to flow forwards and then to bring in the killer one, this has the biggest anthems around all the time. (So I guess it has sold well.. Can't help noticing the goal of sell as many copies as possible)

...though, there IS a reason to buy this compilation. It DOES have "Score" by Slyder, maybe the best piece of trance the Americans have ever made. And it's in the end, so you can skip the other album, skip the horrible dj mix, and enjoy that masterpiece, rarely available on CD format.

Jox - When I Fall - 22-Jul-07 01:37 AM
In this kind of poppish trance, it's not too usual to have vocals that go fluently with the melody (which this time is NOT some horrible german-hardtrance one - yeah!) background, pushing the track nicely forward instead of just repeating itself the whole of its length.

In my opinion, "When I Fall" totally avoids the cliche in this genre, which basically is that the track sounds like it's made in ten minutes, by just pulling the melody out of a hat and then raping it with random filters, and the same again with the vocals - and then combine these two to form a complete mainstream "masterpiece".

When compared to most of this type of trance around, I think this release should have deserved much more attention than many of the mainstream floorfillers, but I guess no one remembers this release anymore.

Eric Prydz vs. Floyd* - Proper Education - 09-Mar-07 12:16 AM
I can't believe myself, but this track does it for me. For now. First when I heard Proper Education, I was like "wow, mr. Prydz has taken a huge step forward from "Call on me"". Then somehow I realised: Basically, this is just Pink Floyd's legendary "Another Brick In The Wall part II" with some filters and an added (tech) house sample, which repeats itself. Listen to it over and over again and you'll start to notice the simpleness of it underneath the "wow-this-is-the-best-track-of-the-year"-factor.
One of the club/disco anthems for year 2007 though, I think no one can deny that.

Underworld - Dinosaur Adventure 3D - 04-Feb-07 07:23 PM
One of my favourite bargain-singles that I've got. Dinosaur Adventure 3D is a pretty basic, typcially good Underworld track, but it is the Track 4 "Ansum" that does the trick for me. It's over sixteen-minutes of ambient trip that truly takes you to another atmosphere. It's like one third of a good ambient album. I'd buy the single for just that track separately.

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