Layout looks quite familiar.

Seems to be a decent selection of trance to check out across the spectrum, with some other token styles thrown in. The reviews are kind of short, though, even for capsules. I personally like a little more depth in the reviews I read.

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I'm giving honest critism here, for your own sake:
I'd rethink the organization. You have DJ Mixes in your album section, which is a big no no. Also some of your genre decisions are downright controversial. Putting Balance 8 in a trance section is insulting to any house fan. The closest that cd gets to trance is maybe the orbital track. You also seemed to the use the genre "deep house" out of context in numerous areas.

You also need to give better reasons for liking/disliking a CD. You're a review site afterall. Review the cd properly. Not just parts of it. From the reviews, you don't seem much of a house fan. Why review housey cds; it defies logic. If you're gonna review a house CD, do it unbiasedly. Also you need to grammar check everything, make your sentences sound nice and use attractive vocab. Don't let it sound like you're some 13 year-old writing a couple of sentences about all the mp3ed cds you've downloaded over the last week.

Last thing: The reader prefers quality over quantity. I'd rather see your site with 20 insightful, complete CD reviews (pro/con) rather than 200 1-paragraph-half-ass-jobs.

Other than that keep it!

For layout etc..
Its easy on the eyes.

Easy to navigate.

however, your top banner is pretty lacking.

That bevel & drop shadow combination looks like somoene was screwing around with the text effects option in photoshop

You ought to fix that.

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heheheh.. look at his review for Balance 008

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It hurts to write a review for a house cd on a trance site but because a very good share of Balance material has been trance (now called progressive or deep house) I felt I should write a few things for those who are trance junkies like me. Other then about 25 minutes of some trancey tunes on disc two, this whole thing was BAD. I mean cheezy vocals, cheezy lyrics, just plain lame. Don't expect this to be like the other Balance series, trancey and progressive. This is pure vocal crap that hurts to listen to. F

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lol@theinternet

It's obvious by that review and the review of the Seaman/Chable Renassiance disc that you should stop reviewing anything house.

like hell you've been listening to trance for 16 years

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Summer 2006 Agenda

16/06/06 | Tiësto In Search of Sunrise 5 Celebration Party | London, United Kingdom
17/06/06 | Defqon 1 | Almere Strand, Netherlands
01/07/06 | Sensation White | Amsterdam, Netherlands
08/07/06 | Sensation Black | Amsterdam, Netherlands
14/07/06 | Dance Valley Festival | Spaarnwoude, Netherlands
15/07/06 | Love Parade | Berlin, Germany
27/07/06 | Global Gathering Festival | Stratford, United Kingdom
04/08/06 | Nature One Festival | Kastellaun, Germany
12/08/06 | Street Parade / Energy | Zürich, Switzerland
xx/08/06 | Amnesia | Ibiza, Spain
28/08/06 | Mysteryland | Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands

erhmmh....

Progressive: Dumonde Live at NYE 05 (2006/2/23) PROGRESSIVE???
Progressive: Armin Van Buuren - In Motion (2006/3/6) PROGRESSIVE???
Trance: Orb- Orblivion (2006/1/5) TRANCE???? LOL

You may or should correct that misleading information, and i agree with s0UThErN^sUn there's no way you have listened for Trance in the last 16 years other than that the site has a nice and clean layout but it's maybe a bit dull perhaps and lacking alot of info.