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Originally posted by Dj_Es-Dva Wow i dont know anyone else who prefers the original i've always felt like an outcast because armin's mix of viola never did anything for me hehe. Good set, my mate collects oakie records, he managed to get symphonic music with "people want to be needed" for only 100 bucks! Considering only 250 copies of symphonic were made.

500, but who's counting.

499 considering oakie had one...

ok i should have checked discogs lol.

498 i think keithos27 has one.

Cam probably has 496 copies

haha, yeah i've had a few copies... just have one now. funny thing is there are probably a lot of copies out there that people don't even know about because during the winter music conference teamprogress was literally putting copies in different dj's crates, haha. so who knows who has a copy now a days?

good em, but i prefer this:


Paul Oakenfold - Essential Mix Live on Radio 1 (2000-02-13)

01. Jaya - Excursion
02. Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance)
03. Medway - Flanker
04. Skip Raiders - Another Day (Perfecto Trance Mix)
05. Body-Shock - Sleepless
06. Jan Johnston - Flesh (Tilt's Going Home Mix)
07. Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix)
08. The Unknown - Spirit
09. Source - Fly Away
10. Lostit.com - Animal (Trance Mix)
11. Amethyst - Andalucia (Natious Mix)
12. Mezz - Cubism (Mezz's Kryptonight Mix)
13. Brancaccio & Aisher - Darker (Reset The Breakz Mix)
14. Highland - No Way Out (Original Mix)
15. Noiz Falls - The Passion
16. Infernal - Serengeti
17. Wonky vs Radiohead - Street Spirit (Wonky's Feel The Rush Mix)
18. Moogwal - Viola (Original Mix)

The first and still the best essential mix i have heard from him.

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Originally posted by keithos27 what you're about to hear... symphonic music

that set defines Y2k for me, all of the oakie EMs are epic... they are what got me into the genre.


Music... symphonic music....

Also Eve- Riser is one of the most thrilling tracks ive ever heard in the genre

So. Fucking. Good.

I remember listening to Resident: 2 Years of Oakenfold at Cream and thinking, "This is the kind of music I've been searching for". It was one of my first edm albums and the time in my life I fell in love with the genre.

Who has heard the EM from '94 which is referred to as Goa Mix Silver? I am so in love with that one too. Such great, thoughtful music.

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Originally posted by broiler I remember listening to Resident: 2 Years of Oakenfold at Cream and thinking, "This is the kind of music I've been searching for". It was one of my first edm albums and the time in my life I fell in love with the genre.

I'm kind of lukewarm on the Shanghai EM, actually, but the Resident mixes are gold.

My favorite of the Oakenfold World Tour mixes is probably still Gatecrasher, but I'll have to give the batch another listen -- I haven't in a while.

(PS -- What I wouldn't give to hear Gull in a proper superclub)

+1 on "gull". too bad jon isn't around producing great music anymore. r.i.p.

"resident" is still one of my favorite compilations... such a great tracklisting and even though it's not live (they just produced it to sound live) it makes me feel like it is live and that the energy is pumping. too many classics to point out on that compilation but mansun's "wide open space" always pops out for me.

it's always hard for me to choose just 1 essential mix from the emwt as my "favorite" but i'd probably say that the gatecrasher set is still the one that gets me going the most, even after all these years. the place sounded mad!

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Originally posted by keithos27 it's always hard for me to choose just 1 essential mix from the emwt as my "favorite" but i'd probably say that the gatecrasher set is still the one that gets me going the most, even after all these years. the place sounded mad!

You never hear sets these days like the Gatecrasher set with the crowd going that wild and that into a set. Truly a shame.

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Originally posted by Nostalgic You never hear sets these days like the Gatecrasher set with the crowd going that wild and that into a set. Truly a shame.

Even if the music justified it, going mental to a set is uncool these days. You don't want to sound like some gushy '99 trance kid, do you?

I agree, a shame. We're due for a change.

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Originally posted by Cobalt Even if the music justified it, going mental to a set is uncool these days. You don't want to sound like some gushy '99 trance kid, do you? I agree, a shame. We're due for a change.

Spot on.

In fact, I'd love to see what would happen if all the trendy produces and dj's of the moment started making and playing stuff over 136 bpm

I think the result would be pretty amazing. I don't deny loads of talent in the scene today. I just don't like the stylistic direction most of that effort is being directed.

The whole "make something better yourself" defense is starting to weigh on my mind lately. I've been meaning to produce for years.

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Originally posted by Cobalt Even if the music justified it, going mental to a set is uncool these days.

I blame tech/minimal house.

Has anyone got a link to this set? please

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Originally posted by Nostalgic I blame tech/minimal house.

Well, it's no one's fault, really. The progression of genres makes natural sense. The Great Prog Slowdown occured because of trance fatigue. Electro-toss blew up because people were desperate for something new. Minimal/Tech/Deep/Whatever grew out of that because people realized "electro-house" was wafer-thin crap, and needed a "serious" direction to move. Speed and emotion will come back eventually; it's a matter of how long we wait. I think we're much closer to emotion right now than speed. Slow and emotional might not be such a bad deal, given what the opposite can sound like (ahem, schranz).

These things go in cycles, periodically leaving some tastes out.

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Originally posted by Cobalt The whole "make something better yourself" defense is starting to weigh on my mind lately. I've been meaning to produce for years.

+1 to this as well, with the amount of shit produced thesedays I've been wanting to learn FL for ages and produce what I would consider good music. Havent got round to it tho.

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Originally posted by broiler So. Fucking. Good. I remember listening to Resident: 2 Years of Oakenfold at Cream

My very favorite mix ever.
That double CD is GREAT.

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Originally posted by Cobalt Even if the music justified it, going mental to a set is uncool these days. You don't want to sound like some gushy '99 trance kid, do you?

Ha! So true.

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Originally posted by broiler I remember listening to Resident: 2 Years of Oakenfold at Cream and thinking, "This is the kind of music I've been searching for". It was one of my first edm albums and the time in my life I fell in love with the genre.

cd1 is probably the best studio trance mix i've ever heard (ignoring the inclusion of brainbug - nightmare) ..i could wax lyrical for ages about how awesome the structure, flow & tune choice all are. the atmosphere throughout the latter half is electric (in a sort of 'journey into the unknown' type fashion) & completely unrivalled by any set i've heard since then


also i'm liking the talk of more speed in this thread. i concur, everything's getting too slow

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Originally posted by Cobalt Well, it's no one's fault, really. The progression of genres makes natural sense...

I don't see it that way. I see two reasons why dance music is now much more slow and much less emotional.

Ecstacy has been steadily watered down and now you have what's described as the "sleepy E" or whatever. Additionally, there's much more consumption of K (I'll never get my head around people taking a tranquiliser to dance with). As a result, less people have the stamina or the appetite for fast, energetic dance music.

Emotional emphasis in music, particularly towards the "euphoric", is associated (as you say) with 90s dance culture: superclubs, superstar DJs, glowsticks, smilies. All that was ruthlessly killed off in the aftermath of the "Death of Dance Music" as the scene reinvented itself with an emphasis on distance from what had previously defined it. It's seen as dated, uncool, regressive etc.

I think there will be a revival, regardless of the drugs, because I know for a fact there's a lot of people thoroughly sick with the new face of dance music and its bullshit revisionism.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Ecstacy has been steadily watered down and now you have what's described as the "sleepy E" or whatever. Additionally, there's much more consumption of K (I'll never get my head around people taking a tranquiliser to dance with). As a result, less people have the stamina or the appetite for fast, energetic dance music.

I think this isn't as much of an issue as people make it out to be. I was at a hardhouse night a few weeks ago and fuck, I haven't done much clubbing or anything but the way the main room was going off you'd think it was 98/99.

I think the problem is a lot of people take dance music too seriously, at the moment it's cool to say trance is moronic, generic, cheesy and what not, but it was, is and always has been music to have fun and dance to, not critically analyse etc.

I think that the energy fell off as the framework of the scene (production, getting "signed" to labels, promoting and organizing events, marketing and selling albums and compilations, etc.) became more professionalized, regulated, and infused with a business-like mentality. I don't know if the two are directly related, but I think there's at least a correlation.

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