Think Global - Salsa [Digipak] - Various Artists

Advantages: Excellent tracks - no rubbish
Disadvantages: No good if you don't like dance music

...I love dance music so maybe that makes the review seem little bias but where dance albums nowadays seem like 10 a penny, trying to find the ones that are the cream of the crop are becoming rare. So it made a refreshing change when I bough the latest gatecrasher album last week. The gatecrasher series has been on the go for awhile now with albums named after colours last few years (red, blue etc) these too are excellent mix albums. As is the new one GATECRASHER GLOBAL SOUND SYSTEM. A 2cd 140 mins plus excursion of the best sound released/unreleased around. The tunes never stop coming and is one album you will not get bored of. Featuring tracks/remixes by Oliver Lieb (LSG) Bt, Moby, Paul Van Dyk, tracks from Hooj Choons label and Platipus. 33 tracks. The album is on cassette/lp/cd and limited cd and is available on incredible label which... Read review

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Advantages: Totally immersive trance experience
Disadvantages: You're gonna lose precious loafing time!

...First off, anyone who knows me or those who have seen other music reviews of mine will notice that I tend to prefer easy listening pop stuff, like Phil Collins and Genesis...stuff like that... Well, I popped into HMV some time ago and though "I want to buy a CD"...and in the New Releases rack was "Gatecrasher: Global Sound System" and looking at the track listing, I was instantly keen! So, I whipped out my Barclaycard and bought the CD, headed back to the office, stuck CD 1 into my player and got working...the next thing I knew it was past 5pm and I had worked solidly for 4 hours nonstop listening to the first CD without noticing the time. That says quite a lot there...that I could work for 4 hours without stopping for a cup of tea is quite impressive and it was all because I was sucked into the world of Gatecrasher! I love this CD... Read review

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Advantages: Relaxing story telling music with a bit of heart
Disadvantages: Too boring

...OK album, with a nice mix of different artist most of which i have never hear of before. As you can probably tell I'm not usually into this kind of music but being someone always looking to expand my musical horizons, I thought i would give it a go but was not too impressed. Most of the songs featured were not too impressive, many of which sounded very boring and generic for the genre. Track 15, Green Fields of France - Furey & Davey Arthur was probably one of the most impressive tracks on the album; this song featured delicately sung lyrics and an impressive story which i think is based on world war 2. Some of the other tracks were almost up to this standard but were too boring and didn't catch my attention.... Read review

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