Customer Reviews

Trance Essentials 1

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IF YOU LIKE TRANCE, YOU'LL LOVE THIS CD!! ITS AN AWESOME PICK FOR ANYTIME YOU WANT TO RELAX OR BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE DAY TO DAY NORM! THIS CD IS ONE THAT YOU CAN LISTEN TO WITHOUT SKIPPING TO THE NEXT GREAT SONG BECAUSE THEY ALL KICK IT UP A NOTCH. EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO IT I FEEL BETTER AND I LOVE IT!! GET IT AND YOU WILL TOO!

This disc was mixed direct from vynl and you can hear the difference! Cudos, thanks, and much praise to UBL. Real long versions too!

By Commercial, I mean a megamix put out by a record company with no real star DJ to advertise. You know, you've seen all those Pure Trance, and This is Trance, and Trance this and Trance that CD's everywhere. Well, this one sets the standard on what they all should sound like.

Superb track selection, lots of long versions of each song, and a well-mixed cd.

If you are going to by one "commercial cheese" trance CD, make it this one and you're done. Come on, you've got 2 Tiesto remixes, an Armin Van Buuren track (as Perpetuous Dreamer), Kosheen, Moby, and Oceanlab. What more could you want!

this album is AWESOME. it flows fairly well, and was my favorite cd in my entire collection, until it started getting funky air bubbles in it - now i may have to buy it again. This is a good starting point if your looking to get into techno - the ground covered on this CD will turn you on to a bunch of different DJ's and will help you figure out what you like and don't like. Plus it's not entirely new school. I only give it 4 stars because it could be a lot longer and there are a few other tracks I wish they had put on this album...
if your thinking about getting this one... get it... god only knows how much longer you'll be able to find it around.

I would definitely recommend this album. While I don't really care for the remixes of "Tremble", "Omnibus", or "Catch", I would say that the majority of these tracks are worth having. DJ Geoffe did an excellent job mixing this album--I like his usage of the phasing/flanging effects. While some of them may be considered "cheese trance", I really don't see the point of elitist "progressive" trancers who scoff at the uplifting/hard trance genre. Let the people listen to whatever they feel like. I also enjoy many types of rock music, which always use the same basic instrumentation. I don't complain that they "just find new ways to use the same things over and over". There are only so many synthesizer settings in the world, you know. If you have a problem with this style, don't listen to it. But don't criticize other people for their tastes. That being said, I will step off the soapbox and suggest that you give this album a second look.

If you've never heard Trance before, then you need to get this CD. It's not the best in the world, but it's a fabulous collection of really great, classic stuff. Buy it!