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Volume 6 has just been released.

Anyone who enjoys dance/trance/house and doesn't want the stereotypical skimpy blonde girl "singing" over it like all the shit that hits the charts - get this instead.

It reminds me of what Ministry Of Sound Annuals were like before they became popular and at the same time, shit.

They feel like someone has actually taken the time to produce these, rather than just a random selection of what's new, like most compilation CDs seem to be. I'd encourage buying these as they are worth supporting, if you like them of course.

I've uploaded a short selection of tracks from 1 to 5 here:
http://www.moarty.co.uk/badger/anjunabeats





While I'm here, a mainstream-but-not-as-shit-as-the-rest-compilation (MBNASATRC) is Godskitchen 10th Anniversary. Some nice tracks on that in between some poppy shit ones.

I expect big things for this track.

Listen up <s>fuckers</s> you lovely people, if I have to reply to my own post then I'm fine with that...

Nobody had a listen in?

Fear wrote:Nobody had a listen in?

Not really keen on this sort of thing usually, but I just tried that track you linked at the bottom.

It (not trying to be a bastard here) actually gave me a bit of a headache, wasn't particularly aurally pleasing to me either.

*sticks Wolfmother back on*

There are very few aurally pleasing dance tracks, in the sense of a hifi geek, anyway. The few dance CDs I own which you can ear wank to are years old now, nothing current has grabbed me in that department for ages.

The music I linked is more about the state of mind it can put you in, than the quality of the recording, for me at least. You do have to be in the right mood for it, that's for sure.

I actually wasn't listening critically, just as background noise to my brain.

I don't really bother with that much aural sex once my setup is right, not unless I get new music that's old enough to be worth really listening to.


However, I am interested to know what sort of state of mind that music can put you in.

I dunno, it has to be a long mix, not just a track on it's own. When it is good time slips away listening to it. It also helps me concentrate when programming - it sort of closes off the outside world.

Fear wrote:It also helps me concentrate when programming - it sort of closes off the outside world.

ADD.


I can totally relate to that bit, only I use trashy metal to block out the world and my brain.

Cheers for the heads up on this Fear. I shall download this tonight as I'm liking the tunes.

Have you got http://www.clubsguide.com.au/article/on ... nd-machine ?

Seems to be a similar kind of compilation.

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This type of dance music doesn't really appeal to me. I had read your post previously and assumed it was the kind I didn't like from the text and the mp3 just confirmed it. I would describe it as "too nice". For me anyway.

Got anything harder and darker? ...

I thought that track you linked was boring and generic. I like dance music, but prefer something more distinctive.

spoodie wrote:This type of dance music doesn't really appeal to me. I had read your post previously and assumed it was the kind I didn't like from the text and the mp3 just confirmed it. I would describe it as "too nice". For me anyway.

Got anything harder and darker? ...

Try to sweep some EyeQ/Harthouse stuff. German techno which has never been bettered, and probably never will. I'm a bit of an old school techno-head and this new stuff just sounds like euro-pop to me; I don't really dislike it, it just doesn't really keep my interest for more than a few tunes.

SHERIFF. HE LIVES.

I do indeed. Just back from another Mears course (Wilderness Navigation this time). Got to meet the man himself this time as well. He's just as ace in real life

Sheriff Fatman wrote:I do indeed. Just back from another Mears course (Wilderness Navigation this time). Got to meet the man himself this time as well. He's just as ace in real life

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Sheriff Fatman wrote:I do indeed. Just back from another Mears course (Wilderness Navigation this time). Got to meet the man himself this time as well. He's just as ace in real life

I hope you asked him if he could get you Christine Bleakley's autograph.

I love his shows (in the gayest way possible) but he strikes me as one with no sense of humour. Is he capable of making a joke?

It's a good uplifting trance track with decent build ups/break downs. Nicely mixed as you'd expect. Enough vocal to have on in the background of a swanky Spanish sea-side bar or as music-over for a soft focus surf video. Not utter crap like basshunter and it's euro-trance ilk despite sheriff's protestations.

It's well made, but generally a little insipid for me, I'm more a glitch, acid, goa person, messed up and spazzy. So I like my music like that too.

Good to relax with when you're chemically inclined that way, I've spent many a day staring at the sky or the inside of my own eyes and listening to this whilst candy flipping.

But generally I'm so laid back I need angry noise to get me to do anything other than fall asleep.