| Product Summary | | Label: FONTANA | | UPC: 00664612201332 | | Release Date: 9/20/1999 | | Buy.com Sku: 202475372 | | Item#: M2YPMR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Song Listing
| Disc 1 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Deep Progress | ------ | | 2. Deep Edge, The | ------ | | 3. Feel High ~ (Humate Mix) | ------ | | 4. Real Time | ------ | | 5. Baseline Track, The | ------ | | 6. My Lexicon | ------ | | 7. Nothing Left ~ (Breeder Remix, Breeder remix) | ------ | | 8. Move! | ------ | | 9. Talkin' ~ (Tarrantella Vs Redanka Remix, Tarrantella Vs Redanka remix) | ------ | | 10. Stage One ~ (Pariah Remix, Pariah remix) | ------ | | 11. Sacred | ------ | | 12. Amber | ------ | | Disc 2 | | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Fibonacci Sequence | ------ | | 2. Zoe ~ (Timo Maas mix) | ------ | | 3. Perception | ------ | | 4. Fly, The | ------ | | 5. Xpander | ------ | | 6. One | ------ | | 7. Mercury and Solace | ------ | | 8. Dreamstate ~ (LSG Mix) | ------ | | 9. Future in Computer Hell, Pt. 2 | ------ | | 10. Heaven Scent/Lifeline | ------ |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by Sasha. | | This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJ Sasha. (DJ) | | Includes liner notes by Dom Phillips. | | You knew there had to be one. Out of the myriad Global Underground albums spotlighting a major international city, you knew there had to be an Ibiza album. After all, it's only fitting that the most popular DJ mix series of its time spotlight the most popular drug, drink, and dance getaway of its time. And it's also fitting that the Ibiza volume spotlights arguably the world's most popular DJ of the time, Sasha. Furthermore, it's perhaps fitting as well that he spins two sets of almost entirely trance, including all the big records of the time: Space Manoeuvres' "Stage One," Sasha's own "Xpander," BT's "Mercury and Solace," and the biggest of the big, Bedrock's "Heaven Scent." Keep in mind that this volume appeared in late 1999, at the peak of the worldwide trance craze. Therefore, in some ways, Global Underground: Ibiza can be seen as the culmination of all the hype: It features the trendiest DJ, the trendiest locale, the trendiest records, and so on. However, all of this may cause you to presume that Global Underground: Ibiza is the victim of its own excess. After all, popularity and trend rarely correlates with quality in dance music. More often than not, popularity and trend correlate instead with accessibility, mediocrity, and hyperbole. Well, whether you want to admit it or not, this album tends to be somewhat of an exception to the norm. It's no masterpiece, for sure, and certainly isn't anything particularly novel or daring. Rather, as mentioned earlier, it's the culmination of the late-'90s trance movement at its peak (only a year or two before the backlash truly set in and trance suddenly became an ugly word, sending the style spiraling toward the dark, dreary melancholia of the newly termed "progressive" movement). And as a culmination, this zenith is at times impressive, featuring the era's best producers: Breeder, Quivver, L.S.G., Sander Kleinenberg, and Cass and Slide, along with the others already mentioned. Face it: dance music doesn't get much more blissful than "Stage One," and it doesn't get much more over indulgent than "Heaven Scent" or more pseudo-euphoric than "Xpander" -- and that's the beauty of Global Underground: Ibiza. However, if there's anything this album needs, it's some diversity. Track after track of epic trance can start to wear on you after awhile. It's simply too much. And that's precisely why Sasha recoiled after this album for a bit, realizing that he'd taken his trance shtick as far as it could go for the time being. ~ Jason Birchmeier | | This installment in the great Global Underground is Sasha's second mix for the label. It showcases Sasha's funky new sound, inspired by his sets at Space (Ibiza's famous club with a sun-drenched terrace). It's a mix that shows exactly what has made Sasha a superstar DJ: a sophisticated, tasteful choice of tunes, artfully blended to create the maximum excitement when he drops the anthems toward the end of the mix. The first CD is full of bubbling, fat bass sounds. Tracks such as Orbital's "Nothing Left," Space Manoeuvres' "Stage One," and Sander Kleinberg's "Sacred" show Sasha embracing the tech-trance sound, which is as sweet and dark as molasses. | | The second CD gets off to a rather unpromising start with BT's obscure "Fibonacci Sequence," which seems to sample Stephen Hawkins. However, it quickly moves toward the gloriously shimmering "Xpander," by Sasha himself, then Junkie XL's "Future in Computer Hell," before climaxing with the near-perfect melodies of "Heaven Scent," by Sasha's old chum John Digweed. So here it is, the new sound of underground (circa late 1999): chunky, funky trance with more than a dash of deep house. If you would never normally buy an Ibiza compilation, buy this--it's not like the others. |
Producer: Sasha |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/20/1999 | | Original Release Date : 1999 | | Catalog ID : 13 | | Label : Global Underground (USA) | | Number of Discs : 2 | | Runtime : 143m : 57s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00664612201332 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (6/8/00, pp.127-9)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Propulsive. Epic, ever-escalating synth riffs; enveloping, amniotic melodies; bass lines as stirring as 'Ride of the Valkyries'....an album that's dreamy and intimate enough to induce bliss in the privacy of your living room." |
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