Just found this disc in storage and started listening to again and holly fuck






Golden years of Oakey :/


Has to be Oakenfold's best mix album, drops everything from prog to house to psy. Amazing composition through both discs.









I don't know if it was before he did all the coke








and turned into-

The shit trainwreck years

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Originally posted by MR STROKE Has to be Oakenfold's best mix album, drops everything from prog to house to psy. Amazing composition through both discs.

Better then Resident: Two Years Of Oakenfold At Cream...??


GU007 is a great album no doubt....

Massively overrated, in my eyes. The first disc is a solid but unexceptional Cream-era trance set and that laughable transition into Greece 2000 near the end shows just how amateurish Oakenfold was even back then. I can't even listen to the second disc all the way through and I've tried several times. The first four tracks have absolutely nothing to do with each other, and then track five is Burning Flame and it's just such bullshit.

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i just prefer creamfields 2004. also i never heard tranceport, you guys recommend?

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J and that laughable transition into Greece 2000 near the end shows just how amateurish Oakenfold was even back then

OK i just heard this again because I had forgotten how it looked. laughable is a really good word to describe this.

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I tried to listen to this shitheap once and didn't make it through. Have not touched it since~~~~

Oslo was definitely the better Oakenfold GU.

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I thought his last essential mix was pretty great. I'm going to see him live in a couple weeks, it should be fun.

My hair still looks like that picture, except it's blonde.

My first ever mix compilation, my introduction to both GU and Oakenfold. Yeah, the mixing is terrible but there are some good tunes on it (I actually like that "Burning Flame" song though :P)

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The track is a bit naff but the problem is that it's five tracks in. After faffing around for so long to create an intro, he then goes straight into the most fist-pumpy track on the compilation. It's shit.

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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Originally posted by Kilixpree i just prefer creamfields 2004. also i never heard tranceport, you guys recommend?

Tranceport is also fucking ace.

I don't know how it holds up today as its just the top 10 trance hits of that era mixed by Oakenfold. Nothing edgy or groundbreaking, no crazy mixing or composition, just trance anthem after anthem . But for me(and a lot of people in the USA at the time) its pure nostalgia heaven. It was the first time hearing progressive trance as a teenager and being mind blown. Must of listened to that disc 1000 times while coming down after a night of partying.

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Originally posted by MR STROKE Tranceport is also fucking ace. I don't know how it holds up today as its just the top 10 trance hits of that era mixed by Oakenfold. Nothing edgy or groundbreaking, no crazy mixing or composition, just trance anthem after anthem . But for me(and a lot of people in the USA at the time) its pure nostalgia heaven. It was the first time hearing progressive trance as a teenager and being mind blown. Must of listened to that disc 1000 times while coming down after a night of partying.

I lost my copy of tranceport years ago..finally ended up to getting a new copy for Christmas..

Hearing that opening riff on Time tells you that its going to be a great album