[.ca] Gatecrasher: Discotech Generation

From Amazon.co.uk:
Sheffield's legendary super-club follow their "National Anthems" album with the seventh in an ongoing series of mixed compilations, Gatecrasher Discotech Generation. As with the prior volumes, many of which have reached platinum sales, big tunes are the order of the day with an opening set of all-star eclecticism launching with the rabble rousing bleeps and beats of FSOL's ubiquitous "Papua New Guinea" before powering through tech-house cuts from Satoshi Tomei and the mashed Xpress 2 mix of "Star 69". The second CD steps up the pace still further; progressive sounds eventually shifting into trance orbit by way of Riva's irresistible "Stringer" which sets the subsequent pace before finding even its own bright star with the acid burbling which stages the epic vocal of "Voodoo". An album that screams "party". --Kingsley Marshall

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The tracklisting is quite impressive, rather uncommercial so its not like you're gonna find those tracks on your local radio station. Chances are that most of the songs won't even make it to CD pressing. I think people here who say that the first CD is garbage really don't have any clue about european dance music. Delerium feat. Leigh Nash - Innocente \oTiesto mix\c is garbage?? Beam and Yanou - The Freefall is garbage?? Max Graham - Falling Together is garbage?? Tenth Planet - Ghosts is garbage?? Moogwai - Labyrinth is garbage??? That's just not true. The first CD very much like the second picks up slowly as you head towards the end of the disc :) It's basically like in any real club or discotech - you begin with a warm up set, then work your way up to the anthems to keep the crowd on the dancefloor The musical style of the entire album can be described as progressive trance, and thats just what it is! There is no funky house (or any sort of house for that matter) Now I want to touch on an issue that really made me wanna return this album right back to where I bought it from: Gatecrasher is a mixed compilation and all the tracks were mixed using vinyl records. However, the restoration work to remove some of the artifacts associated with vinyl was just horrible and very unprofessional!! Considering that the label who puts together this CD is a spinoff of Sony Music surely they could do a lot better than that. That's my only complaint about this album, which is why I'm giving it 4/5

Think very carefully before buying this CD:
First off, I only bought this CD yesterday. I hope it grows on me as I listen to it more often. I saw the ad for this CD on TV, and heard the song playing in the background. I knew from then on I needed to get this song. So, I went and looked at the tracklist, figured out which was the song I wanted, tried to download it. Bad luck - it had been blocked. I sat fuming at my computer, wondering what to do. My only choice would be to buy the CD. I did. And I brought it home and listened to it. Quite a few of these tracks (especially at the start of the CD's), seem to be filler material. And yes, I know that DJ's like to gradually get louder and faster (more 'anthemic', if you will), as their set continues, but after listening to the first five tracks of CD2 and not hearing an actual tune, I began to wonder. Then I skipped ahead to 'Release Me' by Factor 9 - Without a doubt the best song in the album, and one of my favourites ever. This was the song they had playing on the ad. I listened to it and sat in a state of dazed euphoria until the shocking 'Dr. King's Dream' came on. Only a dairy farm could out-cheese this beast. I put CD1 in, and listened to it from the start, but got bored again. I listened to Starving Dolphins, Virtuoso and Labyrinth - songs I had expected to be great but weren't quite as good as I expected. 'OK', I thought, 'I'll give it a chance', and I am doing that now. I may find some gems on here and if so, I am sorry for misleading you all, but remember: You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.

If you liked the other Gatecrasher CDs you'll like this one.:
If you enjoyed the other Gatecrasher CD's, especially the original Disco-tech set, you'll enjoy this one. You know the drill by now: A bit of progressive house for the warm up, followed by the anthemic, epic trance that Gatecrasher is so justly famous for. The next best thing to being there. And to respond to the reviewer that asked about the slow beginnings to the CD's: These disks are crafted by real DJ's. If you just want 2 disks full of cheesy trance anthems, there are better places to look than Gatecrasher. Trust me, 2 hours of build, breakdown, melody, rinse, repeat, is very boring. It's better to gradually build a set up, so when you get to an amazing anthem, like this set's "Lost Emotion", you can't help but get up and dance. If you like this CD, I also recommend Tiesto's new Revolution set.

Great clubbing Tracks:
I recently bought this CD not having heard a Gatecrasher title before. I am now addicted to Gatecrasher and a major fan of Trance, House, Progressive and Breakbeat and Paul Oakenfold. This has fantastic club tracks such as APEX - VIRTUOSO. The first CD has so much bass and the second CD has excellent tunes and grooves. This CD can be heard best on a huge stereo system where the bass is pumpin' and the tunes are groovin'. This CD will have you dancing for hours. A MUST FOR ANY DANCE/TRANCE LOVER OR JUST ANYONE WHO APPRECIATES GOOD MUSIC. GO GET IT.

Buy the Import version - Beware the Domestic release:
In my opinion one of the best releases in the Gatecrasher series, and much, much better than National Anthems. It faithfully reminded me of being at Gatecrasher in Sheffield this past New Year's Eve. Be sure you buy the Import version and NOT the Domestic release. ... the domestic release LACKS some of the best tracks that the import has: Delerium "Innoncente," Ratty "Sunrise (Here I Am)," Blaze "My Beat." Amazon only carries the import version right now, but if you shop around you may come across the "cheaper" domestic (the domestic says "Mixed By Scott Bond" on the front cover, while the import does not) so beware. Since Scott Bond is one of Gatecrasher's long-time residents, the import is probably mixed by him as well (it sounds like it.)

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