Confluence - Kumara

Advantages: Excellent mixes
Disadvantages: Some fillers - unheard tunes

...) Having Fun - Mr DJ (Original Mix) 16. Feline - Maurice (Original Mix) 17. Pump It Up (Mash It Up) - Potatoheads (Caba Kroll's Disco Dub Mix) 18. Now Or Never - Tom Novy feat Lima (Hatiras Dub Mix) 19. Around The Way Girl - Urban Cowboyz (Digital Souls Remix) 20. Blood Is Pumpin - Voodoo & Serano (Future Breeze Mix) 21. The Greatest DJ - Lexy & K-Paul (Short Mix) Disc: 2 1. How U Like Bass? - Norman Bass (Warp Brothers Club Mix) 2. Wack Ass M.F. - Rhythmkillaz (Payback Mix - Clean Version) 3. The Vision - Mario Piu presents DJ Arabesque (Vision 1 Mix) 4. Fire Wire - Cosmic Gate (Club Mix) 5. Strange World - Push (2000 Remake) 6. Music is Moving - Cortina (Kumara Mix) 7. Operation Blade - Public Domain (Original Mix) 8. Whoomp!... There It Is (The Club Mixes) - BM Dubs presents Mr Rumble feat Brasstooth & Kee (Public Domain Remix) 9. We... Read review

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Advantages: Intelligent and thoughtful that grows on you with intoxicating results
Disadvantages: Restrained and very calm throughout that will lull the unwary to sleep

...tragic opera Ogi no Mato (The Folding Fan as a Target) is paraphrased, among many other moments of more threatening nature, parts of it sounding very similar to his scores for Munich and Revenge of the Sith as well. Other standout highlights include "The Journey to the Hanamachi," where Sayuri's Theme is heard in a beautiful string arrangement in the middle of the otherwise tense underscore, complete with the shakuhachi solos of Masakazu Yoshizawa à la James Horner; "The Garden Meeting" and "A New Name…a New Life" where the two main themes are circulated among each other one on top of the other to a beautiful effect; the gently impressionistic "Destiny's Path"; the absolutely fantastic "Confluence," quite possibly the finest track on the album (the most emotional moment the score gets), featuring surging strings, Ma's passionate cello... Read review

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