Okay, this release was some kind of an opinion of Deadmau5's music being all the same and easy to make, apparently by Marcus Schössow and Maor Levi. Both tracks on this release don't even try to be anything else, or do they?

The track "Very Exactly" follows the guidelines of Deadmau5's "Not Exactly". If I heard this track somewhere without knowing what it is, I'd surely thought Deadmau5 first. In my opinion "Very Exactly" isn't quite as good though.

While "Very Exactly" is still somehow an original track, the B-side "Printing Russia" is almost identical to Deadmau5's "Faxing Berlin". I'd say that if you heard both these tracks once, you couldn't tell the difference when you heard either one the second time. Thus the similarities, I think "Printing Russia" is the better track on this particular release. It has the same, deeper feeling than Deadmau5's work does. "Very Exactly" totally has none.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you are a starting DJ with CD-players, and/or into (uplifting) trance side of electronic music, this is the first record you should get. This compilation has a big number of the most well-known trance anthems (though For an Angel, Airwave etc. are missing). And they are full versions, unmixed, so they actually are useful for DJing/mixing purposes. Saves a lot of money when avoiding getting every track on this compilation on out-of-print cd-maxi-singles, if you really don't want every remix of those tracks.

If you are a long-time trance addict, you most likely have many of these tracks on your collection, but though, this compilation is pretty cheap everywhere, so this might do the trick even for those.

Also, if you don't know anything about (uplifting) trance music, this compilation is a good journey through the style.

This is one of my favourite records, if not the most favourite one, when I just want to lie on a sofa and relax. It's not too common to have electro-style elements and strong beats in music this relaxing. If one word for this release is "relaxing", the other one would be "stylish". Even before listening you have the feeling when you look at the case, and when you start to listen, the feeling just gets stronger.

A collection of well-produced rock songs, maybe the most neutral pop/rock album for a while to me, though in a positive way. You can't find any hits from this album, but the whole is very balanced. If you've only liked Duran Duran's "Greatest", don't bother yourself with this album, but if you want just easy-listening music, for example for driving, have a go at this one.

The first five releases were in the soundtrack of the game "Grand Theft Auto III" in the channel "Rise FM". What a great way to distribute US Trance music to the people all over the world.