Advantages: Classic euphoria beats, alternative mixing. Disadvantages: Hard to come by now
John 'OO' Fleming is a well-known DJ. This album is one of the early Euphoria's. I believe it is quite rare especially now. Anyway, I bought my 2CD set in 2007 for £4.50 of Amazon second-hand.
I'm not sure they manufacture these any more, so getting this would be a challenge. I see there are ones for sale for crazy amounts of money!
The album is smooth and relaxed with a fast pace to it most of the way through. "Legato 2002" by Digital Blonde is very good as is "Boys & Girls" by AYU. I would say this compilation is not so much chilled as others are, but very refined with more of a beat to it. I would say this is an essential album for Euphoria fans and collectors. It is definately one of the better ones.
Tracks
CD 1.
1. Digital Forward by Blue Planet Corporation
2. Wanted by DJ Nukem VS Chab
3. Illusion Of The Truth by Fred ...
Advantages: A different, new style of Trance Disadvantages: Not to all tastes.
A good album, I bought this 3 CD set in 2008 for £15 off the net. First of all, don't expect this to be a normal Euphoria CD. Most of the music is Goa(India) derived and it is a completely new sound in terms of usual trance. Headed byJohn '00' Fleming and 00 db. It has a distinct Asian feel to it, which I think is rather good, but I don't think it would suit all tastes. Many of the artists I have never heard of.
John Fleming gives good commentary explaining his views and thoughts on his choices of tracks. The package is bright, very colourful and imagative and the discs are all coloured brightly. Is this the way forward in trance now? We'll wait and see. Highly recommended.
CD 11. Spines by Sun Control Species
2. The Strangest Night and Still... by Out Of Loop
3. Hertz So Good by Kiwa
4. Ghostrider by Nyquist
5. Human ...
Advantages: Great sense of fun and music abilty, lacking ego! Disadvantages: The Automatic and Fiddy!
Covers have always been a bit of a hit and miss affair. Some people do it well, some people don't. It can be commercial suicide and ruin artists' credibility. The recent trend over the years, pushed particularly by Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, and other ventures such as Warchild, is that an artist can perform live, or record a cover and still retain their credibility and not come over as a sell-out. Maybe it's just that people have lightened up a little, or maybe it is just because there are things like the Live Lounge, that encourage well-picked songs to do as a cover.
Granted that the concept is not a new one, and even Jo would not say that. But, I think the idea of the Live Lounge is maybe new. For the last couple of decades, musicians and music lovers have been concerned about what is cool and what is now. Noone would have dared ...
