Before the Storm

Darude | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Groovilicious / S.R.
• ASIN: B00005CCBD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (88 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,314 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > World Music > Europe > Scandinavia > Finland
  • #65 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > Techno-House

Track Listings

1. Sandstorm

2. Burning

3. Feel the Beat

4. Out of Control

5. Touch Me Feel Me

6. Calm Before the Storm

7. Let the Music Take Control

8. Drums of New York

9. The Flow

10. Sandstorm (JS 16 Remix)

11. Sandstorm (Superchumbo Sandy Storm Remix)

12. Sandstorm (Darude vs. Orgy Astro American Remix)

13. Feel The Beat ((JS 16 Dark Mix)

14. Out Of Control (Vocal Mix)

15. Out Of Control (Spectro Remix)

Editorial Reviews

Debut album from Finnish artist whose lead single, 'Sandstorm', has become an international smash. Also includes the follow-up single 'Feel the Beat'. 11 tracks, including two remixes by JS16 of the two singles. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sandstorm, the most catchy electronic tune in the last 5 years., December 6, 2005

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C. B Collins Jr. (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Before the Storm (Audio CD)

This CD, anchored by two major hits "Sandstorm" and "Feel the Beat", is a perfect example of popular electronic synthesizer produced club music. There are three times and places that this CD is perfect.

First,this is sexual night-club music, with a repetitive driving beat that young'uns will groove to on the nasty sweaty dance floor.

Second, this is good driving music for long highway rides. Just be careful that the beat doesn't influence you to put a little too much pressure on the accelerator. The composition of most of the songs on the CD do not have complex movements, rather they are somewhat directionless, which makes them perfect for driving in boring landscapes. However they also are 'trance-like' so they could make you snooze unless you crank up the volume and roll down the windows and freeze your rear *** as you speed down the highway.

Third, and this is most relevant to an old fellow like me, the CD helps me get up and go when I have to sweep, mop, wash dishes, or fold laundry. It is amazing how the sexual driving-beat night-club music that kids in their 20's convulse to can make old dudes get up and go when there are household chores to get done.

So next time you have to dust the furniture or iron your laundry, put "Before the Storm" into your CD player, crank up the volume, and clean like a maniac!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Before The Storm is "Out of Control", September 27, 2003

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Clifford Prisament "Clifford Prisament" (New York City, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Before the Storm (Audio CD)

Walking into a local CD store the other day, I found a used copy of Darude "Before the Storm" on a clearance rack for $4.99. I hesitantly shelled over my five dollars and purchased my first Darude CD. Having once spent over $17 on Ian Van Dahl's CD "Ace", I am now terrified to buy DJ's with one outstanding track. More often than not in the electronica community, a DJ with a single will have about one good song, that being the single. I figured worst-case scenario, at least I would have Sandstorm on CD version.

How wrong I was. Putting on "Before The Storm" was trance bliss for over an hour. In fact, after several listening I would end up skipping Sandstorm and start the CD at "Burning", a track that outshines the first song quite a bit, in my opinion. Darude uses fast-paced, multilayered synthesized beats creating a very trance-y, overall hyped sound that really gets you moving or keeps you moving from Sandstorm.

Following "Burning," "Feel the Beat" resorts back to more of a Sandstorm-y sound. It's as if Darude is using his massive single as a template for this song. Nonetheless, it still is an awesome track and is unique in its own way. "Before The Storm" tops off with "Out of Control", my personal favorite track on the CD. "Out of Control" is the type of song that makes serotonin be secreted in trance lovers. It is hands down not only a better song than Sandstorm, but also a much more artistic and deep song. It is tied with my favorite songs in all of trance. Absolutely Amazing.

After OC, a fast paced song, Darude shows us his ambient side with "Touch Me Feel Me". Relatively speaking, this track is slow and chill, but fits into the CD nicely. Calm Before the Storm segues nicely starting slow and gradually speeding up to a danceable level.

Certain criticisms come with the next three tracks, "Let the Music Take Control", "Drums of New York" and "The Flow". All three tracks although do have some cool mixing, just aren't nearly as catchy as the rest of the CD. "LMTC" I particularly disliked, for its attempt to be almost a hip-hop song. I just wasn't feeling it.

Darude is a talented DJ and this CD shows it. He is capable of many different forms of electronica from trance to drum and bass to ambient. He created Sandstorm, a dance music classic at this point. And in all fairness, other songs very worthy of becoming classics one day.

Overall, "Before the Storm" is well worth the five dollars I spent on it. And even if you don't see it on a clearance rack, I would still say get it.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but at the same time mediocre, October 17, 2001

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Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Before the Storm (Audio CD)

It took me awhile to let "Sandstorm" grow on me. When I first heard that song I thought it was your stereotypical, cheesy trance song but the more I heard it the more I liked the song. Granted "Sandstorm" is cheesy and offers nothing new to trance junkies like me however it is one of those songs you just can't resist. The female vocals really a nice touch, especially on "Calm Before the Storm" which is one of my favorite songs off the cd. Now while I wouldn't rank Darude up there with say Paul Van Dyk, he certainly can hold his own and he certainly is a lot better than ATB. I certainly in the future he starts drifting away from the cheesy synth beats that gives trance music a bad name 'cause the music has a tendency to start sounding like one long continuous song.