Ibiza Trance Club Vol.8 - Various Artists

Trance the night away!

Advantages: Classic tracks, no fillers
Disadvantages: Adagio for Strings is missing!

! Disc One's stand out favourites for me include Storm's Time To Burn, Cosmic Gate's Fire Wire, IIO's Rapture, Angelic's It's My Turn (Angelic being Amanda, wife of DJ Judge Jules), an amazing Tiesto remix of Delirium's Silence, and one of my all-time favourite tunes, Sandstorm by Darude. So many memories of Ibiza and a brilliant, high-energy opening full of mainly chart hits and possibly the most recognisable tunes for the average listener. The second disc, although still full of recognisable hits, is a little more obscure and is possibly more familiar to the seasoned dance music fan. Again chock-full of trance anthems, Salvea Mea by Faithless builds the momentum, Planet Perfecto's Bullet in The Gun has you dancing like a loon and ten songs later, Lost Witness's Happiness Happening has you needing a quick sit down to recover before getting ...

emma079 22.07.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Classic Trance Nation - Various Artists

Allegedly, We're Having It Large

Advantages: 3 CDS - good value, lots of tracks
Disadvantages: Bad mixing, no vibe, soulless

I do like my club music, you know. At 7.30 a.m., sat in the solitude of the office before everyone comes in, I’m sat there with my headphones on, pumping out one tune or another. It’s an acquired taste of course – you’re either that sort of person or you’re not – but I’ve been out clubbing since I was about 14 and I think it’s in my blood. Well, something certainly is, anyway. I do find, however, that I get very bored of compilation albums very quickly and I seem to buy them by the ream. As fast as the Ministry of Sound can bring them out, I’m buying them, along with all the Clubland ones and anything else I can lay my hands on. The History of Trance is a newish compilation from Warner Dance, and is the latest in a series of triple set CDs. I’ve been listening to it fairly ...

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Review of Ibiza - The History Of Trance - Various Artists

Dave Pearce Trance Anthems 2009 -Bumper trance classic collection

Advantages: packed full of hits, some lesser known, as well as a CD of new anthems in the making
Disadvantages: Heard them all before? Possibly! But we still love them

new to trance, some may be, or if you are looking for a walk down memory lane and haven't bought one of these albums in a few years you may just enjoy what Dave has blended together. The albums saving grace is CD 3 which does have a more up-to-date selection of club tracks for your aural enjoyment. So how does it breakdown? As i've said briefly, CD's 1 and 2 are made up of staple classic tracks from seminal trance artists such as Matt Darey, Chicane, Angelli & Nelson, Paul Van Dyk, Faithless, the list goes on! CD 3 brings us bang into 2009, or well more technically some of the tracks that were big towards the latter end of 2008. It would be unfair to judge this CD on the lack of real upfront 2009 tracks, having only been released 3 months into a new year. For me personally, out of the 2 classic CD's, the second has to take all ...

josef_wardle 28.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dave Pearce Trance Anthems 2009 - Various Artists