Best of House 1: Progressive House

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 3, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Robbins Ent. Llc
• ASIN: B00005AQ0U
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,587 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Got the Groove

2. Castles in the Sky

3. Sandstorm

4. Do It Again

5. Kernkraft 400

6. The Final Chapter

7. Sssst... (Listen) (Be Quiet)

8. Stomp to My Beat

9. Fright Train

10. Meet Her at the Loveparade

11. Ecstasy (Take Your Shirts Off)

12. Blackout

13. X-Ray (Follow Me)

14. Afrika - Plasmic Honey

15. Up and Down

Customer Reviews

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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars These reviews are full of BS., February 12, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of House 1: Progressive House (Audio CD)

DO NOT BUY THIS CD. This is NOT in any way Progressive House. This is corporate America bastardsizing the name Progressive to get your money. Not even close to the music. Buy the Global Underground CDs, Renaissance CDs, latest Tranceport series. This is a shameful example of how corporate record labels hurt the electronic music industry and the loyal people that follow it. Shame. Shame. I am embarrassed by this and your tactics in advertising this CD to internet forums of loyal progressive house fans. I know the old cliche "To each his own." but this a slap in the face to the progressive house community.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This is not House, more like RAVe/Techno/Trance, August 10, 2006

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Kyle B. Swafford (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of House 1: Progressive House (Audio CD)

The Best of House... hmmm after listening to samples I wouldn't call it house. Sounds more like RAVE music which is heavy. House is smooth and groovy. This music is hot and heavy. House makes me sway my hips, this music makes me want to jump up and down. For a good house compilation, check out Do you know house? Volume One by Dance Tracks (2001).

Not to say the cd is bad, only mislabeled. Four songs stuck out for me. Sandstorm by Darude is an absolute Rave classic. Then there is Do It Again, and Stomp to my beat. And then there is the mainstream Vengaboys Up and Down. My friend used to call their music Cheese. Vengaboys are in the same class as Effifel 65. Their music can be good for Chuck E Cheese celebration but can be annoying sometimes.

This music is a cousin of Happy Hardcore but definitely isn't house.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Camp Value Only Goes So Far, December 20, 2006

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Mark Eremite "This Is A Display Model Only" (Seoul, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of House 1: Progressive House (Audio CD)

When it comes to electronica and house, it's not that hard for an album to strike a chord with some segment of the population. There are more than a few different species of rave music, and although it means critics can sometimes get bogged down in semantics (do we call this hard house? progressive? deep? industrial? techno? trance? digital box pop? blah blah blah), it also means, on the plus side, that there's usually something out there for all kinds of HouseHeads.

Ignoring the touchy subject of definitions, there's one thing that can definitively be said about this album: it's not very good. In fact, it's pretty bad.

So-called "newbies," seeking an introduction into or an argument for club music, will not be seduced or persuaded by this hasty conglomeration of petty and pretentious songs. The album labels itself as "Progressive House," which is a smug enough title as it is; then you have songs that, in deep bass, urge you to "Shhh...be quiet. Listen!" or that holler, self-righteously, "In the beginning, there was house music ... and from this groove came the groove of all grooves ... and then one day some DJs declared, 'Let this house be progressive!'" Give me a break.

There are some old standards on this record (emphasis on the "old"), so an argument could be made for it as some sort of record of house antiquity (if such a thing is even necessary). Darude's "Sandstorm" was once a club staple (and still calls up nostalgia among older ravers), Da Hool's "Meet Her At The Love Parade" is a song that will probably sound familiar to almost anyone -- it was once "progressive," I guess, but it's now the formula a DJ follows when s/he's run out of ideas. The same could be said for the Vengaboys and their "Up And Down," a song that plays like it was bought from a vending machine.

Any one of these songs might survive in a club, played alone, and sandwiched between songs of higher skill. They have their place just as much as, say, the B-52's "Love Shack" or Ace of Bass's "Don't Turn Around." They are novelties, once popular, good now as something to snicker at and even nod your head, too. But an entire album of them only makes you realize how incredibly trite and grating they really are, and shows you just how far the genre has come in such a short amount of time. House, this music may be, the Best, it most certainly is not.