Seriously, and that's why their list also includes a list of free, online podcasts... right?
Dec-12-2012 21:30
Woony
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Berlin
That quote is referring to the unmixed artist compilations, not mix CDs.
I don't know, I feel like there's some truth in their statement. In the re-issue fever of the last few years there's really been a surge of compilations that compile old/forgotten/rare material.
That said, the traditional mixed CD is as dead as ever. I wasn't really amazed by any of those this year, with Zip's fabric entry probably being the most interesting.
It's absolute horseshit. Go back to the first half of the '90s and compilations were probably the most important medium for dance music outside the 12" single, in the days before commercial DJ mixes became common and when dance music LPs were still a novelty. You could not name a compilation released in the last half decade that has been nearly as important as Articial Intelligence, Café Del Mar or Logical Progression.
