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Oakenfold Anthems

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Oakenfold's newest release could be considered a milestone for dance music. The three disc collection spans from the mid nineties to the early part of the new millinium with a collection of classic dance floor tracks, ranging from melodic trance, dark drum and bass, and high energy club bangers. The mixes are superbly mixed by one of the greatest dj's of our time, Paul Oakenfold, and this will certainly take clubbers down memory lane. The album features several tracks that appeared on Oakey's mixed compilations that have become classics (such as Tranceport, Another World, the Global Underground compilations, 2 Years Resident at Cream, etc.). For me, this album is special because the first complete listen did bring up a lot of good memories because it was around 1997 or 1998 when I first started getting into a lot of electronic music, especially Paul Oakenfold. A few of the producers that appear on the compilation are BT, U2, Goureyella, Timo Maas, Tilt, Hybrid, Energy 52, Matt Darey, Robert Miles, Kosheen, Iio, ATB, Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan, and Paul Oakenfold himself. To summarize every track and the mixing of the album would be a novel, so I'll just show the tracklisting:

Disc 1

01. BT - Flaming June (BT And PVD Mix)
02. Grace - Not Over Yet
03. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Original Three `N' One Mix)
04. Ascension - Someone
05. Marmion - Shoneberg (Moonmen Over Marmion Mix)
06. Oakenfold - Southern Sun (D.J. Tiesto Mix)
07. Art Of Trance - Madagascar
08. U2 - Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix)
09. Schiller - Das Glockenspiel
10. Mansun - Wide Open Space (Perfecto Mix)
11. Taste Xperience Ft. Natasha Pearl - Summersault
12. Leftfield - Not Forgotten
13. ATB - 9pm (Till I Come)
14. Humate - Love Stimulation (Love Mix)
15. Delerium - Silence (Tiesto In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
16. Matt Darey Presents Lost Tribe - Gamesmaster
17. Mauro Picotto - Lizard (Claxixx Mix)

Disc 2

01. Kosheen - Hide U (Creamer & K Mix)
02. Jam & Spoon - Stella
03. Iio - Rapture (Creamer & K Mix)
04. Three Drives - Greece 2000
05. Chicane - Offshore
06. Push - Universal Nation (Ferry Corsten Remix)
07. Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun (Club Mix)
08. Verrococha - Carte Blanche
09. Airwave - Venus Of My Dreams
10. Robert Miles - Children
11. Freefall Ft Jan Johnston - Skydive (I Feel Wonderful)
12. Blank & Jones - Cream (Club Mix)
13. BBE - Seven Days And One Week
14. Zombie Nation - Kernkraft (DJ Gius Remix)
15. William Orbit - Barber's Adagio (Ferry Corsten Remix)
16. Underworld - Born Slippy (Paul Oakenfold Remix)

Disc 3

01. Y Traxx - Mystery Land
02. Tilt - Butterfly (Tilt's Mechanism Mix)
03. Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance)
04. Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Dex And Jonesy Mix)
05. Faithless - Salva Mea
06. Brainbug - Nightmare (Sinister Strings Mix)
07. Lustral - Everytime (Nalin & Kane Mix)
08. Nalin & Kane - Beachball
09. Groovezone - Eisbaer
10. Moonman - Galaxia (Solarstone Mix)
11. Gouryella - Gouryella
12. Binary Finary - 1998 (Matt Darey Mix)
13. System F - Out Of The Blue
14. The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (En-Motion Remix)
15. PPK - Resurection (The Perfecto Edit)
16. Hybrid - Finished Symphony
17. Olive - You're Not Alone (Oakenfold & Osborne Remix)

Take my advice, whether new or old to the genre, this is essential in any dance music collection, showcasing Oakenfold's talent and peak in dance music.

This is a great 3-disk set with many classic Oakenfold remixes. I love it. The only problem is since it is an import the track list doesn't update correctly from the internet when you rip to your computer. So if you are transferring to an mp3 player you will have to edit the song name and artist manually. But that's not a huge deal.

I've been hoping that Oakie would come out with one of these albums. It has a lot of older stuff that I forgot about (like Zombie Nation) and it brings back memories of the parties from back in the day. The time when this was "underground" and the music was about the music and not about MTV! I wish he would have put some more songs/anthems on this, but he had so many back then that it would be impossible to have them all on just three cd's. And his mixing on these cd's was old school Oakenfold. Each song is around 4 mins long and then shoots right on into the next song kind of like his work at Cream. I'm So happy to have this. I'll be listening to this for years and years.

Don't be confused by the release date of this album. In actuality, it was secretly printed up in 2004 and had a 5-year seal on it. ...Okay, not really, but one gets that feeling. It's not a bad thing.

The Oakenfold name has been slapped on so many different CDs and remixes of every genre of music you can think of over the past decade that it's pretty much impossible to figure out what his "bit" is... what he excels at, where he came from, what his passions are. Without a background or core, you might as well be a generic rented party DJ or a random someone (like me) mixing the same tracks together digitally and getting the same result.

It's been hidden for seemingly forever, but that original trance-based persona has shown itself again. Comprised pretty much completely across all 3 discs of tracks of 2003 or so and older, it's likely a lot of music newer fans may not have even heard before. To 'old timers' nearly every track is a notable classic, and to our delight they've been packaged together in a way no one had bothered to attempt before. Considering how well it all works, it gives mixed feelings-- should we be disgruntled that no one had bothered to try to do this with such detail before, or should we be pleased that it was Oakenfold who finally brought it to us? I'll go with the later. If there's one man alive with the proper qualifications to grab such a large collection of tracks together and package them up in their intended format, it's certainly him.

Besides being a delight for Oakenfold fans, it's also a spectacular trance collection for any interested listener... kind of like a 'greatest hits' list of a list that didn't exist before he came around. I can't think of anywhere else you can find this many club/rave classics in one place, and you could consider it something of an electronica textbook of what trance has given us. Hopefully it can be a starting point for new fans to explore the different artists featured, as well.

All in all, 3 full discs of great tunes with no true weaknesses... so long as you're not expecting another generic Oakenfold pop club remix album. You'll never have been so happy to be able to sing along with everything on your first time through the album.

Great Cd. Oakie really delivers. I like the Creamfields, but this is my new favorite.

He knows how to skip a beat with another. Superb mixing. If you like music that gets up and goes, then let the ride begin with purchasing this CD.

This by far is one of the best cd's i have gotten in a long time. It has alot of the classics from back in my club and rave days. A++++. A must have for the collection.

Ladies and Getleman, this is what I call a real collection of Good Tracks of Trance and Progressive House, I do really recommend this CD, because you can see and feel what is a real master of mixing do in a Triple Mixed CD. The once Number One DJ 2 Tmes in a row is back and he is getting strong. This CD is Reaaally Good !!!

i realy dont like the cd just ons song that i liked its from u2,and cd 3 it sucks,