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3.0 out of 5 stars
Ok but should have been great, 10 Jan 2005
This CD should have been brilliant, surely a Euphoria compilation + Frantic's involvement + Anne Savage = 5 stars? Sorry people, you should know that the answer to that is a firm NO. I have a few of the Euphoria compilations (Best of Euphoria, Deeper Shades Of Euphoria v2, Chilled Out Euphoria) and they are all amongst my favourite few albums, as are my two Frantic albums. But somehow adding these two parts together has produced something that is lacking in the "jump up and go crazy" factor. Throughout the first two CDs, Anne Savage's mixing is perfectly in time but the way she plays about with the bassline, often turning it down for up to a minute, has taken away some of the drive this music should have. The mix doesnt endlessly pound you with beats like the Frantic albums with each track building up from the previous one, and this is what makes the album only a three star offering. The inlay talks about some compromise between Anne Savage and the Frantic people in selecting choons, and maybe this has meant that the sets were not ordered very well, this is how it comes across. The first CD is called Future Frantic with the emphasis being on current and future choons, two highlights on this one would be Anne Savage, Vinylgroover & The Red Hed's "Intoxicating Rhythm" and Razor Babes' "Come On Baby". The second CD is called Timeless and is a mix of hard(ish) house classics. This has a bit more drive than CD1 but only after the first few tracks (which feel a little bit dated). Highlights include Praga Khan's "Injected With A Poison" and BK's "Revolution". CD3 is called Bootleg DJ Nation and is probably dropped in there as a bit of a filler, but its actually fairly good! Mixed by Cally & Juice the mix has energy and builds towards the end, even if their track selection seems to have been limited to choons based on samples of other choons(eg Ben Johnson's "We Come One" samples the Faithless hit of the same name). Highlights include Kadoc's "Nighttrain" and Tweetwoof's "Kernkraft 400" (which has a nicely messy synth line like Zombie Nation). This is probably the best CD of the bunch. All in all some ok stuff, but Euphoria (and Frantic) have let people down a bit here, coz it aint what it should have been. It should have been a 5 but unfortunately its only 3 stars.
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