Advantages: Plenty of Quality Tracks for your Money. Familar famous tracks alongside superb less known tracks. Disadvantages: Not really for those with short attention spans. Mixing between songs can be lengthy.
Classic Euphoria. Branded mysteriously as a seemingly independant compilation, this album hit the shops in the summer of 2006. While it's cover would let you think otherwise, Classic Euphoria and indeed it's sequels are by the Ministry of Sound, and call upon its vast collection of music rights to some of the most famous trance tracks in the last decade
Basic Details
Tracks: 47
Approx total runtime: 188 minutes
Featured DJs: Variety of Artists
Label: Ministry of Sound
Other Titles in the Series: Classic Euphoria Level 2, Hardcore Euphoria.
Sub-genre: Trance, Electronic
What is Trance?
There isn't a single genre as subdivided as dance music. Trance, house, acid, hardcore, breakbeat, gabber. What do they mean?
Well don't worry. By 'trance', the music industry is not saying 'music only a drugged up raver ...
Advantages: Good background listening Disadvantages: Odd mixture of music on the Uplifting disc
I will say from the start that I am certainly no expert on classical music. I do often have Classic FM on the radio at home and recently bought their 2 CD set, Voices 2008. This is a compilation containing a selection of vocal pieces from the worlds of choral music and opera. There are pieces in this collection which you would immediately recognise on hearing them, even if their names are not familiar. In the set is a CD of relaxing pieces and a CD of uplifting pieces, so you have the choice of which best suits your mood. The notes which accompany the set are very brief, so here I am adding my own impressions along with information I have found from other sources.
Track Listing
Relaxing CD
1 Elgar - 'Lux Aeterna'. This is a vocal arrangement of the piece titled Nimrod from the Enigma Variations. Elgar wrote ...
Advantages: Diverse, Range of Sounds & Hits Disadvantages: A few listings maybe not in the best place
? Temple Of Dreams
4 > Jan Wayne ? Because The Night
5 > Saint ft. Suzanna Dee ? Show Me Heaven
6 > Brooklyn Bounce ? Loud & Proud
7 > The Sax Brothers ? Careless Whisper
8 > BM Dubs ? Whoomp! There It Is ?
9 > Novaspace ? Time After Time
10 > Airhead ? Dubble Bubble
Disc Four offers a much harder sound this time. Fetauring DJ?s such as BK, quality producing artists like Future Breeze and simple club fillers like the Dance loved Jan Waynes ? Because The Night.
But from the begginning of the CD you hyped into speed, either dancing away or rocking some part of your body to fast tripping chords and beats. BK starts this off with Revoloution and is known for his hard sound with his productions being hits on the Hard House and House scene. But the clever placing of this track sure gets you ready for the rest of the quality listing ...