Back to Mine 2 [Import]

Dave Seaman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Bmg
• ASIN: B00002577Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #87,406 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Superself-Midi Brotherhood

2. Weather Storm-Craig Armstrong

3. Future Past-Genetica

4. Baja (Port Douglas Mix)-Sasha

5. Epsilon Phase-Global Communication

6. Useless (Kruder & Dormeister Remix)-Depeche Mode

7. Six Underground (Perfecto Dub)-Sneaker Pimps

8. Sonic Boom-Desert

9. A Short Goodbye-D Note

10. Format 2:1-Angel Baby

11. Gorecki-Lamb

Editorial Reviews

Includes tracks from Sneaker Pimps, Depeche Mode, Lamb and an exclusive unreleased track by Sasha. 11 tracks in all. 'A soundtrack without a film. Lie back. Close your eyes. And Watch the in-flight movie on the inside of your eyelids.' - Alexis Petrids. D --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece, June 14, 2001

By 

Steve (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Mine 2 (Audio CD)

Before i start, i have to say that this is my favourite cd of all-time, in my 200+ collection. I have every one of the BTM series, all the Kruder&Dormiester and a whole pile of other chill-out cds, not to mention every house/prog. house and funky house comp. imagineable. And, in my opinion, nothing comes close to reproducing the experience that this cd can bring.

Let me remind you, that listening to this cd in normal conditions is a bad way of experiencing it. You have to be in the mood for chilling out and relaxing, be it post-club/pub or whatever, just make sure you listen to it in the dark, with nothing to interrupt you and nothing on your mind. As the sleevnotes say, "Put this album on and indulge yourself in a soothing smoke. Then lie back. Close your eyes. And watch the in-flight movie inside your eyelids."

If you're in the right mood, and you listen, as advised, from the whole cd from the start to finsih without any interruption, you will drag yourself away, probably to sleep, in awe at the pure emotion one cd. can bring. It begins with a wonderfully crafted intro, subtly merging into Craig Armstring's "Weather Storm," a beautiful strings piece that sets the mood perfectly. The cd then effortlessly flows through "Future past"--"Baja"---"Epsilon Phase"

This is where Seaman comes into his own. The mixing between these 3 tracks, not to mention the rest of the cd (But these 3 in particular) is simply staggering. The tracks seem made for each other, and they just melt you into the back of your chair. You forget that you are listening to a cd and it just seems to flow around you. Yet, unlike other chillout compilations, it doesn't become simply background music, it stays as the forefont, never overbearing, but simply focusing. You will relax, but also be locked into the soundtrack. Seaman crafts a blend of musical emotions about you so that, if you're in the right mood, you will hang upon every note, without ever realising it. Over the course of those 3 tracks, they just build, and build and build as one, unless concentrating hard you won't notice the transistion whatsoever, but you will be carried along, always in tune with the music. This sequence of tracks, if experienced properly, is quite simply, the best 30 minutes or so of electronic music i have ever heard.

The direction of the disk changes after this, but in a good way, coasting a little more direct, but still effotlessly tight, through classics like The K&D remix of "Useless" and D*Note's "A Short Goodbye." All of the tracks keep the focus on the music, and never even conspire to become background music, yet, as before, still melt un-noticeably through each other.

After the last track of the cd has finsihed, however, you can see what Seaman has tried, and succeeded, to create. Right from the beginning, the set is crafted, not by building up and down through individual tracks, but over the course of the entire 60 minutes, as one, long, individual "soundtrack," peaking at what is, perhaps, the most beautiful track ever produced, Lamb -"Gorecki" When the vocals kick in, you know then, that Seaman has succeded with his aim. He keeps you locked into his musical world without realising, but when it reaches its peak, you know you have experienced something very special, Taken in a genre defying music cd, probably more focused on the music than you have ever been, yet without noticing until it peaks.

Truly a masterpiece.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ambient masterpiece finally available domestic, April 12, 2003

By 

Richard Diaz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Mine (Audio CD)

For all the mixes from trance maestro Dave Seaman, and all the releases in the Back to Mine series (nearly a dozen), this initial outing of DMC from 1999 still stands as the best work either has produced.

Notably, while most recent forays into DJ chillout albums have veered maddeningly eclectic, showing off obscure record collections, Seaman steers this Back to Mine firmly through trip-hop and proves that a sound thought nearly extinct still has a few discoveries left.

The results are simply enchanting, from the opening symphony of Craig Armstrong's "Weather Storm," with piano, strings, and barely-there pulse to the backwards beat and silky sing-song mantra of Genetica's "Future Past." At the heart of the set are hypnotic instrumentals from Sasha (a rare Port Douglas mix of "Baja") and Global Communications, the ambient hues of "Epsilon Phase" enhanced with a faint vocal. Now add in a much-touted Kruder & Dorfmeister revision of Depeche Mode, a little-known Perfecto dub of ubiquitous "Six Underground" and seamless mixing that builds to the awe-inspiring climax of Lamb's classic love ode "Gorecki."

Simply a masterpiece, this is a must have.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One for the ages, June 28, 2003

By 

Jim Galligan (Denver, Co United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back to Mine (Audio CD)

First I'd like to state that the reviewer before said everything important. This is most likely the best work from either Dave Seaman or Back to Mine. (I know there are a lot of close seconds..Nick Warren comes to mind)
I bought this album several years ago because I needed something to listen to after spending three or four nights in row clubbing. Something to help me get some peace, rest a little. Dave's mix just happened to be perfect. Everyone I've played it for agrees. The mixes are long and beutifully exicuted. The songs are rare tresures; smooth with out ever feeling like bland ambient trite. The finally is amazing. (Lamb, what ever happened to you?)
I don't club that much any more, but I still play this CD more than most. A true classic in every sense of the word. It may have started this current "Chill-out" craze, but it stands head and shoulders above all the mixes it inspired.