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Worthy of the Praise
First off, I want to commend the staff at Ahead for its most speedy delivery of the c.d. to my address. I was assuming since it was being shipped from the UK that it woudl take up to 2 weeks to receive the album. It came in after 6 days. Both cd mixes are quite good. Good transitions, a great track listing, much better than ASOT 2004. Like everyone here keeps saying, that transition from Jump the Next Train to White Room is quite mind blowing. Definitely the best transition of the entire album. Although I was also quite impressed with the transition between Somebody and Connected. I never would have thought those two tracks would flow evenly together, given how different they sound.
My only gripe with the c.d. is that the mastering seems to be a little off with the first half of c.d. 1. It's like more than half of the bass was killed off, and I've been listening to it on my Sennheiser HD 212's, quite a bass biased headphone. Seems that once Holding Onto Nothing kicks in, the problem seems fixed. However it is still quite bothersome, as the first half of cd 1 is my favorite part of the album. CD 2 is much more laid back, and never really seems to have a building point in the set, but it's quite a relaxing set to kick back too. Finishing off the set with Paul Oakenfold's Mortal was an excellent choice too IMO, although I think they only threw that track in just so they could advertise an Oakenfold track on their album. Could be wrong though. Overall, a great compilation. Just a mastering problem and a few mislabels preventing this one to have perfect marks. 8/10
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