I don't agree, nor do I think the premise of "very best CD of all times" make much sense.

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It gives me an out of body experience unlike any other

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Originally posted by Clovis I don't agree, nor do I think the premise of "very best CD of all times" make much sense.

I asked 800 penguins to name their favorite cd and they all unanimously agreed that northern exposure is without a shadow of doubt the best cd of all times.

It is my favorite Northern Exposure CD but can we please wait at least another couple years before making threads about it again? This topic is about as dead now as "why does trance suck so much?!"

Yes it does.

http://www.discogs.com/Sasha-And-Jo...e/release/36165

The 2xcd limited edition.

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The second disc is certainly the more influential of the two, I'd say. It predicted every progressive house set of the following six years. Sound System, Heliopolis and Dark Train are also my picks from the whole compilation.

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> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
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> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Second disc sounds too straightforward, dare I say too standard in comparison to first one. S&D already did almost the same thing with older (and IMO much better) tracks on their first Renaissance.

With that in mind, disc 1 still today sounds completely otherworldly and different from everything else that have been done when it comes to mixing and especially selection. This ambient breaky optimistic and carefree style intermixed occasionally with dark and mysterious tones (O.B.E., Cascade) all perfectly mixed in a whole was definitely not a common practice with mixed CDs, even after NE popularized that sounds. To be fair, some of the tracks already dated up to 6 years when they appeared on NE, so today the whole disc looks more like a fine mixed compilation of the greatest tracks from the first part of the 90's, but considering the fact that even to more experienced EDM ears most of those tracks were unheard of at that time, we can all agree that S&D did a tremendous job.

for those who want to check it out if they haven't already

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vV-dmAKjaE&fmt=18

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Originally posted by sljiva Second disc sounds too straightforward, dare I say too standard in comparison to first one. S&D already did almost the same thing with older (and IMO much better) tracks on their first Renaissance.

I'd love to hear exactly how any of the discs on the first Renaissance "did almost the same thing" as the second disc of NE. I find that a baffling comparison.

The second disc sounds straightforward now, only because it laid the blueprint for every Global Underground and Masters Series disc that followed.

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> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Straightforward and similar to Renaissance as in bunch of relatively fresh dance tunes (that in the meantime became semi-classics) compiled together for a nothing more than a good dancefloor entertainment.

Disc 1 sounds deeper, more intriguing, more varied and like they generally spent more working on it.

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Originally posted by sljiva Straightforward and similar to Renaissance as in bunch of relatively fresh dance tunes (that in the meantime became semi-classics) compiled together for a nothing more than a good dancefloor entertainment. Disc 1 sounds deeper, more intriguing, more varied and like they generally spent more working on it.

The Renaissance mix was a summary of the biggest tracks from that club spanning from 1992-1994. NE CD2 was pretty much the opposite: a completely new direction for S&D that they would later go on to immortalise at Twilo.

I dispute the notion that the tracks on the second disc were just "relatively fresh". Many of them are from 1993 and 1994 and didn't fit into the Renaissance aesthetic S&D would have been playing in those years. The second disc is just as much a collection of older material to form something new as the first. Especially when you compare it to their sets from 1995 - it's a complete shift in sound.

I don't agree that most of the tracks on the first disc were "unheard of" before they featured on NE. The Orb, The FSOL, YAP, Guerilla, Banco De Gaia... all known names, even at the time.

I also think that the second disc is much deeper and more subtle than the first. The first disc is very "songy": despite the sterile Protools mixing and editing, it does feel like a collection of tracks glued together rather than a unified set. You've also got quite a few poppy vocals and accessible, almost New Age melodies. I can imagine my mother enjoying it. The second disc completely went against the hands-in-the-air progressive sound they'd been playing up until then. There's little in the way of accessible melodies, and the individual tracks are mixed unbelievably tightly. It all becomes one fluid 75 minute piece of music.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/

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