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: Songs, mix/range of artists Disadvantages: None
I love this CD. The songs may be over five years old now, but I think that they stand the test of time (in my lifetime anyway). The songs released nowadays under the "dance" genre all sound the same with no originality and are all about the same sort of stuff. I'll start off talking about CD One.
There is a range of different artists on here including Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake, Kelis, Blue, Atomic Kitten & Jamelia. I like how not all of the songs have been remixed and edited, and how most of the songs by the artists are the "originials". I don't like MC Jig's version of the Cha Cha Slide. It lacks the bounciness DJ Casper's had, and it doesn't feel right to try and do the Cha Cha Slide to it either. All in all, the first CD is good but not my favourite. I love CD Two!!
I find CD Two is the disc to switch on if you're having ...
