Groove (2000 Film) [Soundtrack]

Various Artists - Soundtracks (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 20, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Kinetic / Ada
• ASIN: B00004TQWZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,400 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #42 in Music > Indie Music > Soundtracks > Movie Soundtracks

Track Listings

1. "No Obstacles, Only Challenges"

2. Girls Like Us - B-15 Project Featuring Crissy D & Lady G

3. Champagne Beat Boogie - Boozy & Swan

4. You're The Lucky Ones - Baby D Love

5. Duke's Up (Joshua's Dubwise Mix) - W

6. 20 Minutes of Disco Glory (Simon's Come-Unity Mix) - DJ Garth & E.T.I.

7. Perpetual - Christian Smith & E.B.E. Present Timeline

8. Halycon - Orbital

9. Anomaly (Calling Your Name) - Taylor

10. Heaven Scent - John Digweed

11. Beachcoma - Hybrid

12. Protocol - Symbiosis

13. "Wanna Go To The Endup?"

14. Infinitely Gentle Blows (Scott Hardkiss' Aural Hallucination Mix) - Alter)Ring

Customer Reviews

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good sound track album, July 2, 2000

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Douglas A. Greenberg (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Groove (2000 Film) (Audio CD)

I have not seen the Greg Harrison film, "Groove," but partly because of the impressive quality of this soundtrack album, I now intend to do so. The producers could easily have put together a mishmash of pedestrian dance music for a film about raving, but instead it's apparent that a great degree of care was used in the selection of these tracks, which have been mixed nonstop to good effect by WISHFM.

The cd starts out with a boilerplate (but pleasant) "uplifting" vocal garage record, and then swings into a housey groove for several tracks. Most noteworthy here is the inclusion of "20 Minutes of Disco Glory," a fine track by Garth, one of San Francisco's best house dj's.

For longtime fans of dance music, the track list will clearly include some familiar and well-worn tunes, appearing here in edited versions: Orbital's classic "Halcyon + On + On," Libra Presents Taylor's infectious "Calling Your Name," and perhaps the most widely played trance anthem of the first part of the year 2000, "Heaven Scent" by John Digweed and Nick Muir (aka Bedrock). Hybrid's jazzy/breakbeat "Beachcomba" is another welcome addition, followed by a tweaky acid-breakbeat track by Symbiosis called "Protocol." The mix cools down a bit as it concludes, winding up with a long and ethereally hypnotic Scott Hardkiss mix of Alter)ring's "Infinitely Gentle Blows."

The only real shortcoming of the disc is that for a full-length mix cd, it's a bit on the short side (59 minutes). As it stands, it's certainly well worth the attention of both longtime dance music/rave fans and also moviegoers previously unfamiliar with today's wonderful electronic dance music who might have found the film's soundtrack suffiently appealing to inspire another good listen.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Coming Down, June 22, 2001

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Brent R. (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Groove (2000 Film) (Audio CD)

A disappointing soundtrack when compared to the film. The movie was seething with industrial, trance, progressive, and ambient tracks that got inside you, worked their beats against your temples, and thrust you into the center of the dance floor. We're lucky enough here to have surround sound and a DVD player, and the tracks in the movie surrounded my living room with color and body. An amazing soundtrack for a powerful film.

Then the album came out. What a misrepresentation of the spirit of the movie. All traces of the industrial beats are gone, and many quality tracks are forgotten. I think the mixing is mediocre in comparison to the film, certainly not a Digweed production, and the layout of the album is lacking as well. However, for a green dance fan coming away from the movie looking for a little bit of everything, you can find it here.

(I think a girl named Asher was asking about the track right before Bedrock's "Heaven Scent." It's a progressive number called "Blue Bottle" by POB and features DJ Patrick Reid. Check it out, it's a sick track.)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Missing Songs, February 19, 2001

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dopeman "aphextim" (California, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Groove (2000 Film) (Audio CD)

While I agree with most of the above (or blow) reviewers opinions, the only gripe I have with this Soundtrack is that it does not portray all of the songs heard in the movie. While I do believe that this mix might be influenced by the movie groove, very few songs of the soundtrack are heard in the movie itself. Moviegoers might purchase this soundtrack expecting to hear tracks played in the movie, and recieve something else. Unless the moviegoer knows most of the artists songs by heart, they will not be able to identify the songs on the CD they are about to purchase.