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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 20:42:23 -0500 (EST) From: Robogirl <esherman@umich.edu> To: "Alan M. Parry" <fluid@hyperreal.com> Cc: IDM-Reviews <idm-reviews@hyperreal.com> Subject: Re: Trance Atlantic Uno (fwd) re: trance atkantic I think this disc is incredibly funny. It's obvoius that all of the artsists put on tracks they think suck... "give the volume guys your worst tracks" being the practice. Almost all of these artists have amazing music, and almost mone of these tracks are very moving at all. I mean, comon, theplastikman track is a rip off from his la funk mob remix.... And the himadri track... in fact,the whole himadri article is misrepresentative, too. And, of coruse, they did silly thingslike spell people's names wrong.. oh well. Definately not something OI'm going to buy :)

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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 20:42:23 -0500 (EST) > From: Robogirl <esherman@umich.edu> > To: "Alan M. Parry" <fluid@hyperreal.com> > Cc: IDM-Reviews <idm-reviews@hyperreal.com> > Subject: Re: Trance Atlantic Uno (fwd) > > re: trance atkantic > > I think this disc is incredibly funny. It's obvoius that all of the > artsists put on tracks they think suck... "give the volume guys your > worst tracks" being the practice. Almost all of these artists have > amazing music, and almost mone of these tracks are very moving at all. I > mean, comon, theplastikman track is a rip off from his la funk mob > remix.... And the himadri track... in fact,the whole himadri article is > misrepresentative, too. And, of coruse, they did silly thingslike spell > people's names wrong.. oh well. Definately not something OI'm going to > buy :)

Well, this has always been a problem with Volume's collections. Sometimes it feels like the artists just dump to them their surplus tracks they don't bother to use on their own releases. And on the contrary, sometimes there have been real gems you can't find everywhere else. Like for example, Volume 3 (1992) had some outstanding tracks from Orbital, LFO, Moby and (then mostly unknown) Depth Charge, each of which alone would have justified the purchase of the collection. Also Volume 5 with Secret Knowledge and Sabres of Paradise, and so on. But I have to admit there's a lot of duff stuff also, especially now when they have started to publish their Trance Europe Express/Trance Atlantic collections. All the worthwhile tracks from the techno/ambient acts (well, quite a lot of them) are now there, and the actual Volume collections are left with pointless, derivative indie guitar pap I won't bother myself with anymore... Not to generalize again, there has still been some great songs from Spiritualized, Tricky, Wagon Christ, etc. But to get to the point: yes, I was also a bit disappointed with Trance Atlantic - the selection of the tracks just seemed too patchy - but only initially. After a few repeated listening everything started to fall into their places, and there were also many interesting acts I hadn't heard before. Yeah, maybe there was some filler, but as a whole I was quite satisfied. And of course there was again a booklet with its interviews and the background insight for all the tracks, so I really wasn't disappointed with this one. Just give it one more chance :) Greetings, ERkki onnow: Suomen Talvisota 1939-1940 - Underground-Rock -- "when i diet, i diet. when i orgasm, i orgasm. I don't think you should mix the two of them." - elizabeth taylor in 'the psychotic' (1973)