Electronic Dance Music

On this CD:

1. Revels Dance 3
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


2. Ten Legs Dance 1
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


3. Mechanical Organ Dance 2
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


4. Mechanical Organ Dance 4
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


5. Frail Demons, ballet Dance 1
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


6. Tribe, ballet Dance 2
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


7. Pierrot Dance 2
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


8. Blank On Blank, ballet Excerpt
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


9. Pierrot Dance 3
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


10. Aviary Dance 1
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


11. Aviary Dance 2
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


12. Graph Overture
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


13. Chimera Dance 1
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


14. Styx Excerpt
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


15. Gallery Overture
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


16. Frail Demons, ballet Dance 2
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


17. Aviary Dance 3
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


18. Graph Dance 3
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


19. Contact Excerpt
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


20. Blank On Blank, ballet Excerpt
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


21. Crucible, ballet Excerpt
Composed by Alwin Nikolais


Electronic Dance Music, Music, Alwin Nikolais, 20th/21st Century Ballet, Ballet, Classical, Classical Composers
Cinco De Mowo!
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Holy Smoke!!
  • Mocean Worker will Move ya...
  • Once again people..MOWO! delivers a HUGE HELPING of some good times!
  • Dial M for Motion
 Cinco De Mowo!
Mocean Worker
Manufacturer: Mowo!,Inc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000QEILQK
Release Date: 2007-06-26

Tracks:

  1. Shake Ya Boogie
  2. Tickle It
  3. Ole Baby
  4. Que Bom
  5. Reykjavik (featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
  6. Changes (featuring Herb Alpert)
  7. I Got You (featuring Morley)
  8. Sis Boom Bah! (featuring Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
  9. Brown Liquor (featuring Marcus Miller)
  10. Les & Eddie
  11. Son of Sanford
  12. Pretty
  13. Songnumber 3

Album Description

On the fifth album of his career, appropriately titled Cinco De MOWO!, Mocean Worker, (pronounced Motion Worker) has concocted the quintessential feel-good summer album of 2007. The opening number, quite simply, says it best: "Shake Ya Boogie." In what has become the incomparable Mocean Worker sound, Dorn mixes and matches the best of modern beat-making with live musicians like trumpeters Herb Alpert ("Changes") and Steven Bernstein ("Shake Your Boogie"), bassist Marcus Miller ("Brown Liquor"), alto saxophonist Cochemea Gastelum ("Les & Eddie" and "Son of Sanford") and vocalists Morley ("I Got You") and Alana Da Fonseca ("Que Bom"). As on all Mocean Worker records, the legendary jazz icon Rahsaan Roland Kirk joins the party from the great beyond addind wicked flute ("Sis Boom Bah" & "Reykjavik").

Cinco De MOWO! is the follow up to Mocean Worker's 2005 release Enter The MOWO!, which went on to become his biggest album to date. It's where the true vision for the definitive Mocean Worker sound came into focus. While liberally embracing his jazz and funk influences, Mocean Worker crafted songs with undeniable hooks. On Cinco De MOWO!, that vision has evolved even further. More than just funky grooves, tunes like "Shake Ya Boogie," "Tickle It" and "Son of Sanford" find their way deep into the sub-conscious with melodies that reverberate long after the record has ended.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Holy Smoke!!.......2007-07-09

No need to mince words here. BUY THIS CD!! MW creates some of the hippest sounds you'll ever wrap an ear around.

5 out of 5 stars Mocean Worker will Move ya..........2007-07-09

I didn't even know this man existed until 2 days ago, and WOW... whatta sound! If you enjoy jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronica or just like listening to music that moves your mind and body, then MOWO is worth a listen. I'm an avid runner currently nursing an injury, but I promise that several songs from Cico De Mowo! are in my run mix as I type this. This disc is well worth the money. I'm now off to find out if I can see this amazing creator live and in person. Where would the human race be without music? I can't even imagine...

5 out of 5 stars Once again people..MOWO! delivers a HUGE HELPING of some good times!.......2007-07-01

Wow, Im blown away by how hip this album is. Herb Alpert is onboard? Yeah , its crazy hip then. The album much like the last Mocean Worker album (Enter The Mowo!) really is a complete thought top to bottom. Its a party on a disc. You can rock this at any party I bet and then actually play it while you're running the vacuum afterwards and the good times will roll on and on. Key moments on the record include "Shake Ya Boogie" which features Steve Bernstein playing some amazing trumpet. "Tickle It" just a really catchy melody with a funky funky groove. "Que Bom" which features a singer I dont know named Alana Da Fonseca and is so sexy and sung in Portuguese. "Changes" which features Herb Alpert and is one of my favorite tunes on the whole album. You cannot go wrong with this album. This guy "mowo!" or whatever his name is just keeps bringing the goods. This is some of the best music nobody seems to be talking about. I wonder if he is in the witness protection agency or something? Anybody making music like this would be a huge star behind this kind of work! Haha,get this album. This is some killer stuff, probably my summer soundtrack and maybe even the soundtrack for the rest of my year!

4 out of 5 stars Dial M for Motion.......2007-06-29

Mocean Worker's last two albums are straight up fun- the kind of breezy long players that can equally brighten up a late night party or a session of dishwashing. Album number four, Enter the Mowo broke free of DJ Adam Dorn's drum n bass past and signified the arrival of an original sounding marriage of old timey jazz and funk. Consider Cinco De Mowo to be it's fully realized maturation. Yes, samples still play an important part in the album's construction but the DJ is now trully a musician.

"Shake Your Boogie" will not leave your head once it gets in there.
We Are the Night
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		We Are the Night
    The Chemical Brothers
    Manufacturer: Astralwerks
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000OV129I
    Release Date: 2007-07-17

    Tracks:

    1. No Path To Follow
    2. We Are The Night
    3. All Rights Reversed (The Klaxons)
    4. Saturate
    5. Do It Again (Ali Love)
    6. Das Spiegal
    7. The Salmon Dance (Fatlip)
    8. Burst Generator
    9. A Modern Midnight Conversation
    10. Battle Scars (Willie Mason)
    11. Harpoons
    12. The Pills Won't Help You Now (Midlake)

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    One can never accuse the Chemical Brothers of consistency. We Are the Night continues their eclectic electronica approach even though the big-beat groove of the title track remains their digital calling card. Spotted with a minimalist keyboard pattern, vocal non sequiturs, and sampled sound effects, the infectious groove of "We Are the Night" eventually evolves into the monotone-chanted dance chorus of "We are the night skies/We are the bright lies," recalling Brian Eno circa Here Come the Warm Jets. However, for every catchy electro-dance, there's a tune that leaves you scratching your head. What to make of the novelty song "The Salmon Dance" is anybody's guess, though you might find some illumination in a salmon recipe on their Web site. With fractured nursery-rhyme lyrics that are sung like an off-color Sesame Street rap, it will drive you up the wall--or at least toward the skip button. Then there's Midlake singing the trancey ballad "The Pills Won't Help You Now," making the Chemical Brothers sound like a sci-fi version of Coldplay. Retro-analog synthesizers dominate, with the electro-grooves of "Das Spiegel," "Burst Generator," and "Saturate," which builds on a Kraftwerk-forged metal framework coupled with storming sampled drums. The circuits of '70s techno-pop artist the Normal are re-soldered on "Do It Again." With Ali Love singing the title-track chorus, it's built to be a summertime anthem akin to Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is)," albeit robotically chilled. --John Diliberto
    Sound of Silver
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Great music
    • I've heard this before.
    • Better Than His Last One
    • Sounds like a hit!!
    • bright eyes
    		 Sound of Silver
    LCD Soundsystem
    Manufacturer: Capitol
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000M3452Y
    Release Date: 2007-03-20

    Tracks:

    1. Get Innocuous!
    2. Time To Get Away
    3. North American Scum
    4. Someone Great
    5. All My Friends
    6. Us V Them
    7. Watch The Tapes
    8. Sound Of Silver
    9. New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

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    Two years after LCD Soundsystem's eponymous full-length debut sent indie scenesters rushing to the dancefloor, the outfit headed by dance-rock producer James Murphy serves up another stiff cocktail of punk, dance, and funk with Sound of Silver. Analog synths, chugging basslines, chunky guitars, and Murphy's wild falsetto excursions are once again the foundation to which is added the new and strange, such as the heavily chorused voices that suggest backward-masking in the opener "Get Innocuous" and the captivating harmonics keyboardist Nancy Whang bounces off of Murphy's vocals on "Someone Great." If this album has its own version of "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House," it has to be "North American Scum," an infectious stormer that breezily dismisses Europe as a place where "the buildings are old and you might have lots of mimes." Such lines are good evidence that LCD's music would rather ridicule itself than fall into the kind of pretense and nostalgia it constantly lampoons. The album's title track reflects that hankering after one's teenage years is often interrupted when "you remember the feelings of a real live emotional teenager--then you think again," while the power ballad "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" wearily serenades the Big Apple as "still the one pool where I'd happily drown." True, LCD's music is not for everyone, which may have something to do with why their fans love them as they do. If you fall into the latter category, however, Silver is gold. --Brent Kallmer

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Great music.......2007-07-07

    This was the first CD I ever heard from LCD Soundsystem and once I did, I was hooked. Excellent music has made me a fan.

    2 out of 5 stars I've heard this before........2007-07-03

    Why is everyone lauding this second effort from LCD Soundsystem so much? It sounds like his first album. I own his first double CD album and this, "Sound Of Silver", just sounds like a rehash of that. It's well produced, fairly nice to listen to, but it just seems as if LCD Soundsystem realizes they have a hook, something that people will buy, so that's what they'll put out. And unfortunately, I was duped into buying it. I wasted money on an album ('Sound Of Silver') that I basically could have heard by listening to his first album. All of the songs on this album sound like songs on his first, and the lyrics on some of the songs are laughable in the least, which I would quote verbatim from the lyric sheet, had I already not gotten rid of this CD, due to its taking up space in my CD rack. 'New York...', is a riot, anyone who produces a track like this cannot expect to be taken seriously. I hope for his next album that he does better, although I'm fairly certain I won't be buying it anyway.

    4 out of 5 stars Better Than His Last One.......2007-06-22

    If I have one criticism of this album it would be that he wears his influences on his sleeve. However, if you love Talking Heads' "Remain In Light" and Kraftwerk's "The Man Machine", you will probably like this album. The last track is also reminiscent of Grandaddy.

    5 out of 5 stars Sounds like a hit!!.......2007-06-17

    LCD Soundsystem are a US electronic rock group, with a very British sound, a fact not lost on them as they sing "and for those of you who still think we're from england / we're not, no" on the buzzing, incredibly catchy "North American scum".

    The album comprises just 9 songs, averaging 5 minutes each. Each track takes 1 to 2 minutes to build up to the vocal delivery.

    Case in point is "Someone great" with loads of layering and electronic effects building up to a Human League-like song with eighties sounding synths.

    Similarly, "Get innocuous" takes about 2 minutes to build to a shimmery dance song (with disembodied vocals) which takes no prisoners.

    "Time to get away" has lead singer James Murphy singing and yelping over a pulsing guitar drenched house groove. The title track is a sparse but hypnotic effects laden song. "All my friends" is a pulsing U2-esque song.

    Closing is the lone ballad; "New York, I love you but you're bringing me down", starting off deceptively like a Coldplay song, building up to a blistering guitar solo, and an unexpected twist at the end. They sound like a totally different band on this one.

    It does take a few plays to get into but once it gets into your head, you can't get it out. One of the best dance CDs of the year!

    4 out of 5 stars bright eyes.......2007-06-12

    I had to think of the Bright Eyes albums 'I'm Wide Awake' and 'Digital Ash'. The first one is a lot about New York, the second is more an electronic album. Sound of Silver sounds to me like an electronic album about New York.

    Great album, very diverse, has its mellow moments (NY I love you) and a superdance tune (North American Scum).

    Also a nice crossover album, people who only listen to electronic music will enjoy it and indie fans will as well.
    Enter the Mowo!
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • I Love This cd!!
    • A fun album
    • If you love jazz you'll love this!
    • A must have!
    • I have a new favorite artist
    		 Enter the Mowo!
    Mocean Worker
    Manufacturer: Sin-Drome Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0001MDQEO
    Release Date: 2004-04-06

    Tracks:

    1. Chick A Boom Boom Boom
    2. Only The Shadow Knows
    3. Right Now
    4. Shamma Lamma Ding Dong
    5. I'll Take The Woods
    6. Salted Fatback
    7. Move
    8. That's What's Happenin Tonight
    9. On And On
    10. Blackbird
    11. Float
    12. Collection II

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars I Love This cd!!.......2006-03-05

    Very very good!!!! I think the song called "on and on" is amazing I herd it on "chill with chris botti" and all the other songs are great! but this cd!!!

    5 out of 5 stars A fun album.......2006-02-17

    Delightful mix of old-fashioned jazz and new sampling. very enjoyable party album.

    5 out of 5 stars If you love jazz you'll love this!.......2005-10-17

    Excellent album! I almost didn't buy this CD it was in the used bin and I figured I like his last CD Aural & Hearty so it was worth giving it a shot. I hadn't even heard of this album or Mocean Worker releasing anything new. I was totally suprised to find an excellent buy. This is what new jazz should sound like! Not the usual crap like Norah Jones or all the typical pop friendly, adult comtemporary s**t that's flooding the airwaves. My God what the f**k? People burn all those albums and buy something from a real artist like Mocean Worker. This album is just amazing! It reminds me of music from a jazz era forgotten. It's got blues, doo-wop, loads of jazz and an electronic (trip-hop, downbeat) background with slight touches of samples like Nina Simone doing Blackbird all blended together to create an excellent CD. It's an amazing album and it's infectious as soon as you pop it in it makes you wanna get up and groove to the first beats of Chick a Boom Boom Boom. Definitely worth checking out.

    SJ
    [...]

    5 out of 5 stars A must have!.......2005-08-20

    I origonaly heard 'Chick a boom boom boom' on a local Jazz station & had to write down who it was so I could get it ASAP.
    Jazzy/Funky-I do love the entire CD-which is a rare deal in a world of 1 or 2 good track's with a lot of filler.

    5 out of 5 stars I have a new favorite artist.......2005-03-16

    The first time I heard "Right Now" on the radio,I stopped and thought, "What is this? This is cool." It seemed to be a blend of blues/jazz/techno. I'd never call myself a techno fan, but with the blues/jazz stylings, this just WORKED. I immediately went out to buy the CD, but no one had it. So, I ordered it and waited. The whole time I was waiting, I was thinking, "Man, I hope the rest of the CD is as cool as 'Right Now'." When I was finally able to pick it up, I immediately threw it in the CD player and smiled. It was. As with most albums, there are a some tracks I like better than others, but one thing I can say is that they're all different. This isn't bubblegum pop where every song sounds the same. Some tracks are fast, some are slow, but they're all interesting. I highly recommend this album, if you can find it.
    Anjunabeats, Vol. 5
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Great, uplifting trance
    • Quite possibly the best trance compilation so far this year.
    • Get ready to be happy, uplifted
    • True pioneers of uplifting melodic, euphoric trance......!!!!
    • Awesome !!!
    		Anjunabeats, Vol. 5
    Above & Beyond
    Manufacturer: Ultra Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000PSJCL0
    Release Date: 2007-06-05

    Tracks:

    1. Zeppelin - Michael Cassette
    2. Battery Life - Chunk & Twist
    3. Essense - Jaytech
    4. Remember September - Boom Jink
    5. Together - Joonas Hahmo
    6. Needs To Feel - Super8 & Tab
    7. Spacelift - Jaytech
    8. My Name Is Jacques - Junk Science
    9. Formalistick - Stephen J. Kroos
    10. Buzz - Above & Beyond
    11. Tomahawk - Oliver Smith
    12. Amnesia - Nitrous Oxide
    13. Good For Me - Above & Beyond

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    1. Shapes - Maor Levi
    2. Megashira - Marc Marberg
    3. One Night In Tokyo - Purple Mood
    4. Razorfish - Above & Beyond
    5. Make Me Believe - Daniel Kandi
    6. Home - Above & Beyond
    7. Nimbus - Oliver Smith
    8. Oceanic - Above & Beyond
    9. Worldwide - Mark Pledger vs. Super8 & Tab
    10. Cold Front - Remo-con
    11. Never Gone - Adam Nickey
    12. One Wish - Evbointh
    13. Suru - Super8 & Tab

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    The boys at Anjunabeats--who in their collective DJ persona go by Above & Beyond--have probably done more than any other outfit to reinvigorate the genre of trance in the last five years. This is largely thanks to their mix compilations, which have featured talents like Gabriel & Dresden, Kyau & Albert, and Smith & Pledger. So it's a bit difficult to explain how these tastemakers could see fit to include a track peppered with a geek-speak warning that laptop overheating results in decreased battery life (Chunk & Twist's "Battery Life"). But such oddness is soon forgotten with the entrance of "Essence," a predictably excellent effort from Jaytech with plenty of swing. Disc 1 also features Joonas Hahmo's "Together," an effervescent fusion of house and trance elements that works like a charm. Disc 2 leaves the gate with Maor Levi's "Shapes"--whose splice-and-dice vocals nod to James Holden's seminal remix of "Nothing"--followed by Marc Marberg and Kyau & Albert's "Megashira," a must-spin track that is electro on the outside and trance on the inside (and features an absolutely stellar breakdown). Volume 5 is the most electro-influenced installment of Anjunabeats yet, but Above & Beyond are careful to use the harder-edged stuff as a springboard to give their trademark euphoric material even greater effect. --Brent Kallmer

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Great, uplifting trance.......2007-06-30

    Confirming what most of the previous reviews have reported..this 2 disc set really is a great mix by Above/Beyond with lots of uplifting tunes, beats, and melodies. I would go as far as saying that there are no bad tracks on this entire mix. If you're a fan of trance, anything by AvB or PvD, or are looking to get into trance, I would suggest this Volume 5 mixed by Above and Beyond.

    5 out of 5 stars Quite possibly the best trance compilation so far this year........2007-06-30

    I just recently got into the Anjunabeats compilations and I gotta say, they damn near leave A State Of Trance in the dust. Not that they're bad, mind you, it's just that they're the CDs to get if you're really into euphoric and progressive trance (even though ASOT 2007 was a little more dissapointing than 2006). 2 new Tranquility Base trax, Above & Beyond's club mix of Home, Super 8 & Tab, and one of the purest tracks I've heard in 2007, Evbointh's One Wish? What more do you want?! It's already got me looking foward to volume 6 (Gee, thanks a lot, Above & Beyond!)

    5 out of 5 stars Get ready to be happy, uplifted.......2007-06-17

    I have been very impressed with the great work of Above & Beyond since I first heard their masterful "Air for Life." Since then they have continued to produce genre defining trance music. I had high expectations for this album and wasn't disappointed. This two CD treasure has two and a half hours of moving, beautiful, euphoric music that has left me wanting to hear the album over and over again. It's perfect for dancing, driving, relaxing. The strength of this album convinces me that in a couple of years Above & Beyond will be vying for the top spot with the likes of Armin van Buuren and Tiesto. In many ways, this compilation is better than anything Tiesto or van Buuren have come up with, and that's saying a lot as I have well enjoyed their respective mixes. Hats off to Above & Beyond for making great music. They keep the beats...and smiles coming.
    Every song on this album is fantastic. Rarely does one encounter a trance album where every song just flows with the next song, and every song is a song that you want to replay after you hear it but, on Anjunabeats 5, Above & Beyond have managed to compile a collection of 26 great songs. Literally all of them are great. I seldom can rave about an album where every song is great, but this album is that exception. Not to rave too much but some of standout faves for the first disc are the opening and closing songs, "Zeppelin" (an emotional, energetic, synth-driven melody) and "Good for Me" ( a gorgeous club mix of the original that is thankfully close to eight minutes long for full effect). Other highlights on this disc for me were the catchy "Battery Life," the infectious grooves of "My Name is Jacques," the flourishes on "Formalistick" and the bouncy feel of songs like "Together" and "Spacelift." On CD two my favorite track is "Shapes" but I also loved the atmospheric "One Night in Tokyo" the expansive "Megashira," the cinematic "Oceanic" and also "Make Me Believe" and "Suru." Every other song is fantastic too.
    Thank you Above & Beyond for giving me something to actually enjoy listening too this summer. I'm sure this album will be in my player for a very long time.

    5 out of 5 stars True pioneers of uplifting melodic, euphoric trance......!!!!.......2007-06-16

    The voluem 5 installment is a mesmerizing journey of such brilliance, that you will want hear every song over and over again. I've never experienced such jaw-dropping ectatic energy, ever since I popped these masterpiece gems in my car...!

    5 out of 5 stars Awesome !!! .......2007-06-11

    Brilliant stuff from Above & Beyond. They continue to exceed expectations and have done so again with Anjunabeats Volume 5. Both disc 1 and disc 2 are brilliant with disc 1 being more progressive and disc 2 packed with uplifting and melodic trance tunes, simply beautiful. Can't really chose my favourite tracks as they are all brilliant. Buy this album now, you won't regret it. Great track selection and great mixing. Well done Above & Beyond, Well done!!
    Passport to the United States of America
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Ferry Corsten - Passport to the USA
    • One of Ferry's Best
    		 Passport to the United States of America
    Ferry Corsten
    Manufacturer: Ultra Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000PSJCOW
    Release Date: 2007-06-19

    Tracks:

    1. Poison Pro - Hello (Original Mix)
    2. The Doppler Effect - Beauty Hides In The Deep3. Solarstone - Late Summer
    3. Wippenberg - Promised Land (Nic Chagall Remix)
    4. Summer Sessions feat. Tiff Lacey - By My Side (Signalrunners Fierce Mix)
    5. Mind One - Hurt Of Intention7. Marc Marberg with Kyau & Albert -
    6. Ferry Corsten - Beautiful
    7. Rafaël Frost - Worlds10. FKN feat. Jahala - Why?
    8. System F - Insolation (Ferry Corsten Flashover Mix)
    9. Ronnie Allstar - Good Morning Sunshine13. JPL - Mirakel (Supüer Mix)
    10. Breakfast - The Sunlight
    11. Lemon & Einar K - Hope

    Album Description

    Corsten, one of the world's most exciting trance DJs, is ranked #6 DJ in the world, and after non-stop international touring, is considered a tastemaker in this dance genre. He's also an accomplished producer and remixer, having remixed the likes of Moby, U2, Fischerspooner, and Duran Duran. Discover the freshest tunes from international dance floors, smoothly mixed by one of dance's best. Upgraded with a bonus DVD containing exclusive behind-the-scenes footage.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Ferry Corsten - Passport to the USA.......2007-06-28

    Let me say that Ferry Corsten's newest release "Passport to the United States of America" is Good, but it just didn't really blow me away. I thought his Passport Netherlands was stronger.

    Passport USA is solid but never really reaches epic trance status. It gets in the ballpark, but never really made me go "wow" for any extended period of time. Plus you're paying quite a bit of money for only one disc of music. I could do without the DVD if the album cost less.

    There are TONS of other trance/ dance/ electronica discs out there. I would skip this and get Armin van Buuren's "A State of Trance 2007" instead.

    5 out of 5 stars One of Ferry's Best.......2007-06-25

    Certainly a great mix. Although it's unfortunately only 1 disk, Ferry still delivers a well balanced collection of the recently popular electro-sounding progressive trance in addition to the high pumping synth lines that Corsten does best.
    Goodbye
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Decadent Ambient Perfection
    • So long, farewell...
    		 Goodbye
    Ulrich Schnauss
    Manufacturer: Domino
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    ASIN: B000RGSOOG
    Release Date: 2007-07-10

    Tracks:

    1. Never Be The Same
    2. Shine
    3. Stars
    4. Einfeld
    5. In Between The Years
    6. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
    7. Song About Hope, A
    8. Medusa
    9. Goodbye
    10. For Good

    Amazon.com

    Goodbye is not a farewell from German electronic artist Ulrich Schnauss, but it does mark the last in a trilogy that includes Far Away Trains Passing By and A Strangely Isolated Place. Both are landmark albums of melodically ecstatic electronica, and Goodbye flows from their digital loins. Tracks like "Never Be the Same" and "In Between the Years" share the same surging rhythms, heroic electronic melodies, and jangly shoe-gazer guitars heard on the earlier discs. A slight tweak on Goodbye is the shift toward more overt vocal tracks as opposed to the textural, chanting choruses Schnauss has always employed. Rob McVey, the singer from Longview, intones the epic strains of "Shine," while "Stars" places singer Judith Beck deep in echoes, singing like a delay-drenched, surf-music dervish. In fact, "delayed," "drenched," and "dervish" pretty much sum up Goodbye. Schnauss piles on effects and layers in a psychedelic melee that would leave Ozric Tentacles and Pink Floyd standing transfixed by his stroboscopic strategies. Unlike on his previous CDs, Schnauss doesn't let you get comfortable. Reverb-smeared vocals, feedback-oscillated synthesizers, and raging guitars of destruction crush through on tracks like "Medusa." But there are also moments of sublime beauty and the kind of haunting melodies that have made Schnauss a favorite for chill-out soundtracks of the imagination. Ice crystals glisten on the branches of "Einfeld" and the deliriously euphoric "Goodbye" simply lifts you higher, in a spiritual way. It may be goodbye to this era of Ulrich Schnauss, but it promises many happy returns. --John Diliberto

    Album Description

    Ulrich's third album marks his first new release in four years. "An altogether lusher, more slouched, musical approach. The results have strong echoes of My Bloody Valentine or a turbo-charged Brian Eno..." - Music Week (May 2007). "A triumph of simplicity over pretension, of melody and harmony over pops and clicks and of the humane over the elusive" - Impose.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Decadent Ambient Perfection.......2007-07-10

    Delicate and sublime with a stirring of ecstasy dancing over a driving powerful intoxication is what you will find if you listen to Goodbye first. It is the perfect place to start this journey into soul shivering musical escape. The song surges and sways bursting from the limits of sound into an unbelievably ecstatic moment in time. This goes beyond inspiration to new levels of creativity where modern technology and ancient longings collide. At times it is crystalline perfections and at others the warm sounds completely surround you enveloping you in a dreamy haze.

    If you listen to the album from start to finish you will first encounter silky washes of sound with ethereal vocals. "Stars" is almost chilling with dramatic elements that seem to seek to overwhelm with psychedelic swirls and epic sonic power. Vocals cascade over driving beats like a waterfall and then a plane suddenly lands. The dreamy "Einfeld" has a renewed clarity but still retains the warm washes of sound ebbing and flowing from the first tracks. "In Between the Years" is like a snowstorm and a warm fire with distant echoes of haunting chill. It invites you closer and then sends you spinning off into starscapes.

    "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" wakes up this album with a spontaneous fusion of lush layering and nostalgia. You can sink deeply into the memories of this track and yet it has the excitement of new discovery. This song and the mesmerizing "Goodbye" both give me shivers. "A Song about Hope" is much more mellow and has a captivating rhythm that keeps your full attention as the song soars in luminous orchestral beauty. "Medusa" is much darker introspective piece with static urban elements and echoes. "For Good" has the sounds of lonely acoustic guitar and distant brooding longing.

    As a relaxing chill out album this offers a sinking into the feeling of escape while it plays with the ideas of fragility and power. Warm washes of sound mingle with ethereal vocals throughout and capture many moods and places that are exciting and serene all at once.

    ~The Rebecca Review

    4 out of 5 stars So long, farewell..........2007-07-10

    Ulrich Schnauss has always specialized on sweeping, ghostly wintry electronica, the sort of thing that gives you tundra dreams.

    Technically, you can only do that so many times before people start getting tired of it. But in "Goodbye," he explores some new sounds -- Britpop meldings, ambient sweeps, and some truly epic explorations into a strange new electronic world.

    It opens with gently ringing synth, which practically smothers the gentle beats and a murmuring voice that never quite forms words. Call it angel electronica. The second song is something of a stumble -- Schnauss collaborates with Long-View, in a song that sounds like a merry-go-round of stoned vocals.

    But then with "Stars," he erupts into a a tightly wound melody that slowly builds to a messily epic crescendo. From there, Schnauss mingles new work with old: sleepily ambient electronica, haunting fuzz experimentals, angular creepy electropop, and more soaring epics like "Song About Hope."

    It ends with a sort of mellow acoustic guitar that slowly melts into a soft synth tune... and what sounds like a musician cleaning up and leaving the studio. It's a suitable ending to what sounds like a transition album, as if Schnauss is feeling out what he can do other than sleepy electronica.

    And somehow, without giving it a jumbled feel, he succeeds -- you can hear some drum machines and piano buried down there, and there's a flicker of ringing guitar in places, giving the nebulous melodies some solidarity and helping build them up.

    But the overriding presence is synth. Synth, synth, synth. And here's Schnauss's real skill: he molds them into soaring epics, windblown stretches, fuzzy twists, and -- in "Medusa" -- elaborately twisted dark explorations of just how far you can push a complex melody.

    Ulrich Schnauss explores some new territory in his third full-length album, the hopefully unportentous "Goodbye." But we just said hello!
    Mezzanine
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • A classic
    • Worth it by far
    • Sublime
    • It's Not Trip-Hop, But it is....
    • The most original album of the 90's
    		 Mezzanine
    Massive Attack
    Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
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    ASIN: B000006045
    Release Date: 1998-05-12

    Tracks:

    1. Angel
    2. Risingson
    3. Teardrop
    4. Inertia Creeps
    5. Exchange
    6. Dissolved Girl
    7. Man Next Door
    8. Black Milk
    9. Mezzanine
    10. Group Four
    11. (Exchange)

    Amazon.com essential recording

    The third full-length release from Massive Attack is a taste of the future of pop music--a future where precisely engineered events can be seamlessly partnered with the subtle complexities of a human voice. Since their first album, Blue Lines, they've been making similar magic happen with any one of several guest vocalists, but nothing like the way it happens on Mezzanine. This time they take the union further, moving it into a darker space in which the individual elements become less discernable. Guest vocalists are Sara Jay, Horace Andy (who also appeared on their debut), and Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins), whose amazingly articulate and distinctive voice works so very well with the music of Massive Attack. --Paul Clark

    Album Details

    Very Very Limited Edition. Tracklisting Tba.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars A classic.......2007-06-21

    There aren't many trip hop albums I have bought over the years that has managed to sound fresh every time I throw in the cd into my stereo or listen to it on my iPod. Massive Attack's 1998 classic "Mezzanine" is one of those few trip hop albums that still sounds as fresh today as I first heard it almost ten years ago. The music is a sublime mix of hypnotic electronic beats, seductive male and female vocals, and a diverse mix of samples from bands like The Cure.

    What I love about "Mezzanine" so much is that the music is dark and sinister. All the death/black metal bands in the world cannot create music as richly dense and heavy as "Mezzanine" is. There is a terrifying quality to the music that the entire album would be a perfect film score for a psychological thriller. The first two songs "Angel" and "Risingon" sounds like they would be perfect scores for my nightmares. I can never get tired of listening to "Teardrop" which features Elizabeth Fraser on vocals. The production is neither too slick or too gritty. "Mezzanine" is one of the few albums I can actually call flawless. Every song is a Massive Attack classic.

    5 out of 5 stars Worth it by far.......2007-06-18

    This is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. Great CD and quality. Buy it, you won't regret it.

    5 out of 5 stars Sublime.......2007-05-23

    This is one of my favourite CD's and sounds like a cross between Advokat and Zero 7. Great for late night, moody listening...

    5 out of 5 stars It's Not Trip-Hop, But it is...........2007-05-04

    This was the first Massive Attack album i bought. it doesn't sound like it's been almost ten years since this came out, it just has this timeless feel to it. Massive Attack has, ironically, done everything they have set out to do on this album, and that is be exactly who they are by trying to escape who they have become. i know that that may sound kind of strange, but it makes sense. The label "trip-hop" is something they have always loathed, despite the fact that they were pioneers of it, and i find it ironic that this album is one of the (if not THE)preeminent examples of this style.

    "Mezzanine" is like the "Sgt. Pepper's" of trip-hop, and of Massive Attack's career. i don't care how many more albums they release, this will always be the best one. however, i do disagree with some reviews that label this album as heavy metal. Massive's music always seems to come close to style, but shies away. there are shades of everything reggae, hip-hop, metal, ambient, but i can't say that there is enough to pinpoint it down in general. again this is something that i find unique to trip-hop, never quite getting at what it wants to be stylistically but coming very close.

    continuing my comparison to "Sgt. Pepper's" the first obvious parallel is the structure of the album. the songs fit so perfectly together, that while some may not be great songs, it is how they fit in relation to the others that makes them work. the track "exchange" while seeming stupid to other reviewers i find to be a wonderful midpoint break between the four track barrage to open the record and the second half. unfortunately though, in similarity to the Beatles and all great bands, landmark albums lead to destruction. The Beatles were never the same after Sgt. Peppers breaking up barely three years later. Massive, while still barely clinging to 3D and Daddy G, have lost a bit of edge. The creative juices only flow so far and i think the gas has ran out a bit. but what an incredible record!!!

    5 out of 5 stars The most original album of the 90's.......2007-05-04

    Massive Attack's Mezzanine ranks right up there with David Bowie's Low and the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat for most original album in the history of pop music. It is an album of craft; each beat, each note, and each lyric are carefully put into place for perfection. This album is not for everybody however; the dense, pristine production of Mezzanine conjures up a heavy air of claustrophobia. If slow and creepy is your cup of tea, then take a gulp, because this is as good as it gets. Mezzanine is a concept album. Since it is hard to figure out what the concept is, I will give it away. It is about autism. Mezzanine is not a happy record, but it is not depressing either. The tone that I get is one of fuzzy, distorted confusion, with the singers detailing the struggles of making sense of the world around them (the way autistic savants do) with impeccable songwriting. Lyrics such as "toy-like people/make me boy-like" will remain fresh and experimental for a very long time. Mezzanine is more hypnotic than entertaining, that is for sure. But in that, it succeeds impossibly well. Mezzanine, along with Blur's The Great Escape, is the best album of the 90's. Genius. A+
    La Revancha del Tango
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Tango fantasico
    • One Sexy CD
    • Tango Music at Its Best
    • Tango-Trance? Trance-Tango?
    • My Favorite Gotan Project CD!
    		 La Revancha del Tango
    Gotan Project
    Manufacturer: Xl Recordings
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00008NRL8
    Release Date: 2003-04-08

    Tracks:

    1. Queremos Paz
    2. Epoca
    3. Chunga's Revenge
    4. Triptico
    5. Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)
    6. Una Musica Brutal
    7. El Capitalismo Foraneo
    8. Last Tango In Paris
    9. La Del Ruso
    10. Vuelvo Al Sur

    Tracks:

    1. Triptico (Peter Kruder Mix)
    2. Santa Maria (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Mix)
    3. El Capitalismo Foraneo (Antipop Consortium Mix)
    4. Santa Maria (Pepe Braddock Mix)

    Amazon.com

    Released in Europe in 2001, La Revancha Del Tango's sexy combination of chillout programming and authentic tango music became a lounge favorite and led to massive sales. Lightning struck twice when it was released two years later in the States--the domestic debut attracted the attention of electronic music hipsters, tango freaks, and world music geeks. And rightfully so. The Gotan trio of Philippe Cohen Solal, Christoph H. Müller, and Eduardo Makaroff write the album's strongest material themselves, but their imaginative incorporation of Frank Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge," Gato Barbieri's theme from the movie Last Tango In Paris and, not surprisingly, Astor Piazzolla's "Vuelvo Al Sur" into the Gotan world shows just how broad and inclusive their tastes really are. Naysayers may complain that this album can be heard in every hip restaurant and clothing boutique from Paris to Los Angeles, but sometimes the cream does rise to the top and gain mass acceptance, as it has here. Also includes a bonus disc of four remixes. --Tad Hendrickson

    Album Description

    The debut by this Paris based trio is a relaxed blend of tango dance rhythms and Argentinean instrumentation. The group was brought together by their passion to combine sound with image and to marry electronic and acoustic music. They built on their house, dub, and hip-hop influenced productions by adding two of Argentina's finest tango musicians, the musical result being supremely distinctive, incorporating bandonion (a form of accordion), violin, and vocals. This release includes 2000's most memorable jazz-house hit, "Triptico", which has already sold over 400,000 copies worldwide. The US version features the original ten tracks from the European release, along with a special bonus disc of the "Santa Maria" video plus four audio tracks.

    Album Description

    The debut by this Paris based trio is a relaxed blend of tango dance rhythms & Argentinean instrumentation. The group was brought together by their passion to combine sound with image & to marry electronic & acoustic music. They built on their house, dub, & hip-hop influenced productions by adding two of Argentina's finest tango musicians, the musical result being supremely distinctive, incorporating bandonion (a form of accordion), violin, & vocals. This release includes 2000's most memorable jazz-house hit, 'Triptico'. The U.S. special edition includes a second disc with five bonus tracks, 'Triptico' (Peter Kruder Mix), 'Santa Maria' (Tom Middleton's Cosmos Mix), 'El Capitalismo Foraneo' (Antipop Consortium Mix), & 'Santa Maria' (Pepe Braddock Mix & Video). Digipak. XL. 2003.

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Tango fantasico.......2007-06-27

    I saw the movie "Shall we dance" and one of the songs from the film is on this cd. I liked the music and thought I would enjoy all of the songs if they had the same instrumental feel as the song. I really enjoy it and would recommend it for anyone who likes a mixture of latin, instrumental and tribal beats.

    4 out of 5 stars One Sexy CD.......2007-03-27

    I'm loving the CD. They have a great sound....sensuous and chill. I first heard their music on a compilation CD. They play some of their tracks on Nip/Tuck too.

    4 out of 5 stars Tango Music at Its Best.......2007-03-09

    This is definitely worth the purchase. A combination of Parisian electronica and Argentinian dance music. Perfect blend of two styles.

    5 out of 5 stars Tango-Trance? Trance-Tango?.......2007-02-18

    A very nice French lady called Anne-Marie gave me this disc a few weeks ago and I've been listening to it ever since. I watch the American remake of the Japanese film, "Shall We Dance", last week and I noticed that the music of Gotan Project was used very effectively when Richard Geer dances with J-Lo.

    I listened to "La Revancha del Tango" this Sunday afternoon. It was around 40 degrees outside - damned hot! - and I just sat and listened to this disc with my air conditioner on full blast. I rather think that I will play this CD the next time I have some friends over for a few drinks.

    The music of Gotan Project is rather hypnotic and relentless on this CD. I like that. I guess that one could call this "Tango-Trance", or something like that?! The percussion/drums, bass line, piano and piano accordion dominates the sound here.

    I've been playing "Lunatico" at work all week and I like it, too. Gotan Project is performing in Adelaide, South Australia soon and I am seriously considering making the effort to see them.

    Very spunky, suave and sexy dance music.

    5 out of 5 stars My Favorite Gotan Project CD!.......2007-02-14

    La Revanch del Tango is beautiful, easy to dance to, and fun! Lifts your spirts up with it's light hearted beats, but still remains mysterious and romantic with it's darker flair. It's just good!
    Lunatico
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • More promiscuous than your average tango
    • Better than Revancha
    • Es bueno, pero me gusta mas el primero
    • Different and sophisticated
    • recommended by Lucinda Williams
    		 Lunatico
    Gotan Project
    Manufacturer: Xl Recordings
    ProductGroup: Music
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    ASIN: B000EHQ7KG
    Release Date: 2006-04-11

    Tracks:

    1. Amor Porteno (featuring Calexico)
    2. Notas (featuringJuan Carlos Cacares)
    3. Diferente
    4. Celos
    5. Lunatico
    6. Mi Confesion (featuring Koxmoz)
    7. Tango Cancion
    8. La Viguela
    9. Criminal
    10. Arrabal
    11. Domingo (featuring Jimi Santos)
    12. Paris, Texas

    Amazon.com

    The Gotan Project literally took the world by storm in 2003 with its million-selling La Revancha Del Tango. Skillfully mixing the heated passion of tango with the cool insistent beats of dance music, the group kept the best of both genres as it offered up an unheralded fusion. This time around, the production team delves further into the tradition, cutting down on the dub production filigree and overarching electronic programming--now sexy grooves often come on the back of organic beats and an unprocessed sound captured during live studio sessions in Buenos Aires. This new focus is furthered with conventional bandoneon soloing as well as acoustic piano and string section backing. Nonetheless, kids craving to cut a rug will dig "Diferente" and "Notas," while the robust "Amor Porteno" (featuring Calexico) is the group's most muscular tune to date. More skilled than the debut, Lunatico is no sophomore slump, though hardcore house music fans may want to wait for remixes. --Tad Hendrickson

    Album Description

    Not wanting to replicate what their debut, "La Revancha Del Tango", had achieved musically, the group has a decidedly stronger emphasis on the organic roots of tango on "Lunatico" and utilized a host of local musicians from Buenos Aires; a complete string section, two emcees, a trombonist, and Argentine piano legend and long time Gotan collaborator Gustavo Beytelmann. The result is their most accomplished work yet. "The beats are sparse and liquid, and the transition from Buenos Aires bordello to European dance floor is seamless" - Rolling Stone. "A jiggy melange of tango with a dab of dub" - Entertainment Weekly. "...an intriguing blend of traditional, passionate tango with cool, contemporary electronica" - LA Times.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars More promiscuous than your average tango.......2007-05-24

    Gotan's first collection "La Revancha del Tango" was an irresistibly gut-grabbing, loin-twitching, bass-loping, dub-tango hybrid winner from the first listen, invariably prompting responses of "What it THIS? I LOVE it".

    "Lunático" is a much less in-your-face proposition. I could barely wait to get it out of its packaging, but then I struggled to get into the music itself. Mostly less meaty than "La Revancha" and more varied - tricksier, even. It took some chance random plays on the iPod to insinuate a couple of the songs into my ears again. Then I wanted more. Badly. And now I rate it just as more-ish as "La Revancha".

    It juxtaposes the sweet, warm-deadpan voice of Cristina Vilallonga on some tracks (Amor Porteno, Diferente, Celos, Arrabal) with the roguish, rough-edged panache of Carlos Caceres describing the birth of the tango (Notas)and Jimi Santos (Domingo) and the tango-rap of Koxmoz (Mi Confesion). There's even a robot-like treated voice intoning the words to La Viguela, giving it a strangely religious quality.

    Like "La Revancha", "Lunático" is steeped in a sense of place and culture but it's not Strictly Tango Argentino. The Gotans have tapped into a tango and a Buenos Aires of the imagination, adventurous and promiscuous and modern yet managing to be faithful to its deep roots.

    A mysterious, sly, inventive and captivating work of outstanding creativity.

    5 out of 5 stars Better than Revancha.......2007-04-20

    For a long time Revancha was my favorite CD and I just couldn't believe that a follow up album could be as good. Well, Gotan Project did it!

    3 out of 5 stars Es bueno, pero me gusta mas el primero.......2007-04-11

    Lo escuche muchas veces, y tal vez sea tanta fusión con otros ritmos y generos lo que no me gusta tanto, es un disco bien hecho, con buen concepto, pero prefiero el primero que es mas tanguero y electrónico.

    4 out of 5 stars Different and sophisticated.......2007-04-10

    I liked very much this CD. It's a kind of electronic tango, very sophisticated and mysterious in some way. A new fashion for old style but eternal music.

    4 out of 5 stars recommended by Lucinda Williams.......2007-03-22

    (from the NY Times article about what she's been listening to lately.) elegant and sophisticated stuff. very capable of setting the mood. wish i spoke the language.

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