X-Tremely Fun - Soul Aerobics - Various Artists

Advantages: 60 Tracks of likeable and happy hardcore!
Disadvantages: A more restrained sound that doesn't sit too well with the rest of the series.

...Clubland X-Treme Hardcore Volume 3. The Winter 05 release in the very popular UK Hardcore Dance compilation that has seen DJ Styles, Breeze and Hixxy producing and mixing their own compilations Bi-Annually since 2006. Basic Details Tracks: 50 Approx total runtime: 168 minutes Featured DJs: Styles, Breeze, Hixxy Label: Clubland, Universal, All Around the World, HTID. Other Titles in the Series: Clubland Xtreme 1 & 2. Clubland Xtreme Hardcore 1, 2 & 4. Sub-genre: Hardcore/Happy Hardcore Warning: Parental Advisory, explicit lyrics. What is Hardcore? For those of you whom quite like dance music as a whole but don't quite know what makes hardcore different to other types of dance music, for instance the music featured in Clubland 14, I will give a brief introduction. Hardcore has a faster and heavier sounding... Read review

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Advantages: It is fan-funky-tastic
Disadvantages: None

...(?,) Bigfishlittlefishcardboardbox (?,) I am one of those people who has a very wide and varied taste in music. I like music from the 70's, from the 80's, from the 90's and some of the recent stuff. Okay so I don?t like everything! However, my favourite music, something you are more likely to find in my personal CD player, or on my stereo is house music and in particular this CD - Clubland X-treme.... which is my opinion is the mother of all CD's! Clubland X-treme would only be suitable for those people who like dance music, go clubbing and like loud techno sounds. For those of you who have heard of The Ministry of Sound and own anything by them, you wouldn?t go far wrong with this album. The Clubland CD?s are a series, started with Clubland Vol.1, and are now at Clubland Vol.4. In between each volume being released... Read review

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Advantages: Familiar and enjoyable bold UK Hardcore Style. Hixxy's disk was in my opinion the highlight.
Disadvantages: Styles Breeze and Hixxy have played it safe and produced largely unimaginative works.

...Clubland X-Treme Hardcore Volume 4. The latest in the heavily titled and equally heavily popular UK Hardcore Dance compilation that has seen DJ Styles, Breeze and Hixxy producing and mixing their own compilations Bi-Annually since 2006. What is Hardcore? For those of you whom quite like dance music as a whole but don't quite know what makes hardcore different to other types of dance music, for instance the music featured in Clubland 14, I will give a brief introduction. Hardcore has a faster and heavier sounding beat. The beat usually stays very steady throughout the entire track except for breakoffs- points where the beat dissapears completely and the listener is put into a relaxed state with a mixture of slow strings and harmony. Hardcore uses lyrics more as an instrument than a dominating omnipresent part of music. In... Read review

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