Essential Selection [Import]

Pete Tong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 25, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Musicrama/Koch
• ASIN: B00004UAJK
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,453,575 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. 4x3

2. Woman Trouble

3. Groovejet

4. You See the Trouble With Me [We'll Be in Trouble Extended Mix]

5. Koochy [12" Version]

6. Time Is Now [DJ Plankton Mix]

7. I Like

8. Rainbow Country [Funkstars Club Mix]

9. Funky Music

10. Chocolate Sensation [Original Force Mix]

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Don't Give Up [Original Mix]

2. The Return of Nothing

3. Tuva Groove [Hani Remix]

4. Cry [Original Extended]

5. My Lexicon

6. Repercussion [Funk Funktion's Melody Mix]

7. Horizons

8. Tyrantanic [Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix]

9. Future in Computer Hell, Pt. 2

10. Tell Me Why (The Riddle) [Original Mix]

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What a hack!, August 28, 2000

By 

Sean McDonald (amsterdam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pete Tong Essential Spring 2000 (Audio CD)

Being a Pete Tong Hater is not always easy, but it always enjoyable. It is like people that hate the BackStreet Boys, or Brittany Spears. We hate them becasue of what they represent. They are the hacks that tap into the highest peaks of cultural popularity and try to make it their own. On 2000, Tong has struck again.

Like the old Ronco Greatest hits that we used to buy at Kmart when we were kids (remember all the best songs, no hidden gems) Tong does the exact same here, taking the life away from some great songs. His track listing is a Greatist Techno Hits (as he has always done) and peices them together for our listening enjoyment. To make matters even worse his mixing is not the least bit inspiring.

Such current house hits like (well every track) Koochy, Time is Now, Tell me Why are throw together just so Pete can make a quick buck. Do yourself a favor, just say no, and find some techno that will challenge you, but also move you...unless N'sync really are your hero's.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good tunes...mediocre compilation., October 13, 2000

By 

Andrew M. Schirmer "violist/student" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Selection (Audio CD)

The other reviewer here is referring to the 1999 Essential Spring Collection...I think that one is better.

Tong comes up short here. The tunes are great ("Woman Trouble," "Koochy," "Must Be the Music"....) but it's like he's trying to cover too much ground. So many styles to capture...garage, trance, house...Following tradition, Disc One is house, and disc two is more trancey.

Pete Tong's always been more of a cultural mover/shaker than a DJ. The man's got skills, but his compilations don't always show it. Check out the 1999 Essential Spring Collection - it follows more of a groove with the soul-house-thing going on.

Tongey just played a show here in Seattle as well...will club culture ever catch on in America? Only time will tell.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The History of Disco, part 2, July 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Essential Selection (Audio CD)

Perhaps the most genious House mix ever released, Pete Tong mixes together three beautiful disks of music, beginning with the throbbing History of Disco, to the beautiful Flowerz/I'm Lonely, evolving into two more mellow and beautiful disks. If you're looking for an introduction to London Vocal House, start right here!