In Search of Sunrise 2

Tiesto | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 2, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Songbird
• ASIN: B00005NHKO
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,556 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tantrix

2. Golden Desert, Pt. 2

3. Summerbreeze

4. Touch Me

5. Eugina (Michael Woods Remix) [Mix]

6. Perception [New Vocal Mix]

7. Diamondback

8. Dreaming [Lucid's 12" Club Mix]

9. Délirio [Venus Mix]

10. Angel Saved My Life [Mark Shimmon and 3rd Degree Bern's Mix]

11. 4 A.M. [Marc O'Tool Remix]

12. Home

13. Tyrantanic [Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix]

14. Airtight

Editorial Reviews

In Search Of Sunrise is Tiësto's tribute to sun and sand, open air venues and those long summernights. Please welcome In Search Of Sunrise 4, inspired by his latest tours through Latin America in 2004 and 2005, where he visited countries as Brasil, Arge --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Successor To The Greatest Trance Mix Of All Time, June 15, 2006

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Moven - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Search of Sunrise 2 (Audio CD)

In Search Of Sunrise is the greatest trance compilation ever made. It is the eternal representation of great trance. Having said that, I can now review In Search Of Sunrise 2.

The album art is awesome. The movie poster concept is clever. Tiėsto has a great marketing team.

As for the mix, I've found that it helps to divide DJ Tiėsto's compilations into movements, because I'm sure he does. Some songs aren't meant to take you over the top. Some are. Some songs work together to build tension for a powerful, explosive song approaching. Some songs are powerful and explosive. Tiėsto knows how to use different types of trance songs to create a mix that is HIS. He is a master at this.

The first movement is fantastic. It begins ethereal and dreamy, and through the first three tracks there is a brooding feeling.

Tastexperience by Tantrix is an excellent introduction to the mix. It represents the style and mood of the In Search Of Sunrise (ISOS) series. It has the island feel Tiėsto is revered for. As it fades out and LN Movement's Golden Desert (Part 2) is revealed explosively, feelings of nostalgia for the first ISOS are evoked. At this point I am impressed. This is what I expect after the first ISOS. This is a summer mix. Once Kamaya Painter's Summerbreeze comes on, it's obvious that the first two tracks are only a build. Summerbreeze is beautiful. I have to give it up for Kamaya Painters on this track, which means I am actually praising Tiėsto and Benno De Goeij, who together ARE Kamaya Painters. The melodies here are precisely what make great trance. The build, the clashes, the keys... this is the trance that I love. So far, the mixing is flawless. At the end of the first movement, the mix seems to transform from trance to house. Vocals are introduced. Rui Da Silva's Touch Me is a good track with a melody that allows it to mix well with this compilation, but it's not a great song. The vocals and lyrics are mediocre. I expect only the best from the ISOS series. This is good, but not Tiėsto good. I did, however, smile when thinking about the song placement in comparison to the first ISOS; this song is similar to Billie Ray Martin's Honey, which is track three on that mix. Anyway, Touch Me made me skeptical. The mix seems to be going somewhere, then Tiėsto takes a detour with Touch Me. Why? I don't know

As touch me ends the mixing gets heavy and dramatic I realize I'm being swept into the second movement. The Michael Woods mix of Eugina by Salt Tank scraps the previous song and takes the mix right back to where it belongs. This is amazing trance song! Echoing snares, soaring vocals, the ebb and flow of dense subterranean techno melodies... YES! I'd like to shake Michael Woods' hand. The mix into Cass & Slide's Perception is heavy like the last mix, and I dig the style. Tiėsto cautiously mixed the songs through the first movement, but in the second movement he takes over and charges ahead boldly. Perception comes in, hits a break, and the game continues. You have to love the robotic sounds on this track. The bass line on this track is deep, even for trance. The song tricks you... you think it's going one way, then another break comes and in the vocals drop. Wow. Here is another beautiful vocal trance song. "Search and you will find the answer... if you look deep inside of your mind... you can see forever... rise up together." Now that is dance floor ecstasy. Perception ends almost abruptly and in drops Mekka's Diamondback. The vocal trance delight continues. This song is insane. Take a drive on a country road and listen to this song as loud as you can for an amazing experience. Lucid's mix of BT's Dreaming comes on next and the texture of the mix is changed again. The sound effects here are awesome. The ticking clock, the panning, the creaking doors, the chimes: I love this song. Tiėsto knows how to compile great vocal trance songs like no other. With this song the second movement is ending...

And with the Venus Mix of Baracoa's Delirio the third movement blooms. This song... man... this song gives me goosebumps. The build is like no other. This is deep trance. This is a classic. Songs like this are what give the ISOS series it's enigmatic quality. You might as well just burn the house down for this one. The vocals are intoxicating. Delirio takes me away. At this point I'm sold on the mix. The next track is a remix of Fortress's An Angel Saved My Life. The sounds here remind me of Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport. The trance here is hard, heavy, and dense. It's good, but it's one of my least favorite tracks on the album. It gets serious quick, but there is no distinct build. It does however, mix superbly with the Marc O' Tool Remix of Ballroom's 4 AM, which I think is the reason why Tiėsto used it. Ballroom is a cool song, but it doesn't have the power of the previous songs on the mix. It does have a unique style that makes this ISOS mix even more eclectic. As Coast 2 Coast's Home comes on, I understand the purpose of the previous two tracks. Tiėsto was building. This is why I like to group his mixes into movements. Home is another great track because of its uplifting melody and its quick build to an all-business breakdown.

The business continues right into Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix of Breeder's Tyrantanic without a breath of air to relax. Then... BOOM! The beat drops and there is silence. The fourth and final movement is crowded, dense, heavy, busy, and every other adjective you can think of that is opposite of free and airy. Tiėsto ends his mix with pure progressive trance. The builds aren't epic and sudden. They're constant and relentless. The beat just keeps going. The breaks don't even feel like breaks. The vocals are gone. This all describes Max Graham's Airtight, and the title fits perfectly. Tiėsto suffocates you in the last movement. I just know that I can't stop bobbing my head. The song takes you higher and higher and higher and higher... then proceeds to the most elaborate breakdown of the entire mix. It doesn't send you away in the ecstatic build-explode-jump off way that trance typically does. It doesn't make you feel like you just got off like never before. It doesn't take you away with heavenly vocals and melodies.

It leaves you in a trance.

DJ Tiėsto has done it again. He has left me In Search Of Sunrise.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, August 9, 2002

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Rex Dillon "Contrarian" (Las Vegas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Search of Sunrise 2 (Audio CD)

I love this CD... It starts out with great beauty and then the energy builds. Even on my commute from San Jose to Berkeley and back, I can always imagine driving out into the desert out side of Moab with the sun's glow pushing the midnight sky further and further west, before its first rays pierce the eastern horizon...

get it. let your imagination take you there.

-rex

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelieveable, February 27, 2001

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"leighton76" (San Marcos, Tx USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Search of Sunrise 2 (Audio CD)

I learned of DJ Tiesto about 2 years ago and since then, I have followed his every move as closely as I could. All of his Magik Series CD's being some of the best trance compilations available today, I picked up Summerbreeze, ISOS, and searched tirelessly for this CD (In Search Of Sunrise 2) since the day it was released (Dec 11). Since it was originally only available in Europe, it was hard to find in the U.S. I had been able to find the listings of the tracks on it thru the net, but was never able to hear them mixed altogether on this CD. Well, since Tiesto finally decided to do a U.S. tour for the first time ever, I got airline tix to San Francisco to see him spin at his very first U.S. performance. While I was in San Fran, I picked up this CD and I have to tell you, it is nothing short of one of the best CD's I have. Tiesto is magic. He is magic on vinyl, CD, and especially live. If you are a trance fan and are looking for music that will do nothing but move you and take you on a melodious journey, this CD is the type you are looking for. A must have for your collection.