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	Love Parade [ECD]
	by Dave Ralph Sales Rank: 90751	$0.09 At Amazon on 9-12-2008.

Dave Ralph became (reasonably) well-known to fans of trance and progressive house when he put together the fine two-cd second volume in Kinetic Records' "Tranceport" series. In that set, he stuck to a fairly conservative but still effective formula by including mostly slower, deeper material on the first cd and then more anthemic, uptempo, even "uplifting" material on the second. The mixing was nothing special, but neither did it get in the way of the flow of the music. In this follow-up cd, Ralph has "re-created" the mood and content of what he played at the world's biggest rave event, the Berlin Love Parade. Rave sets, particularly those created during the daytime, tend to be a bit more uptempo and festive than are those crafted for a late-hours club, and this mix reflects this difference. Still, Ralph has avoided falling into a carnival-like groove in this cd; in fact, his selection of tracks and mixes is just about perfect, given his task of combining a Love Parade feel with musical depth and interest. Ralph includes tracks by some of the best current practitioners of the darker, more rhythm-driven trance that emerged in 2000 as the favored sound of longtime trance fans. Canadian Max Graham, German Timo Maas, and Americans Steve Porter and Noel Sanger are represented, and he concludes the set with a daringly different mix of Moby's "Porcelain" that includes dramatic a cappella vocals. Well done! Some listeners might object that compared with Ralph's "Tranceport" sets, this mix has less of a sense of build-up and progression. The tempo and feel evolves only slightly from beginning to end. However, this is exactly the kind of mix one tends to get during large-scale rave events, and Ralph has crafted his mix accordingly. My only real objection to Ralph's work here is that it is disappointingly brief, around 61 minutes. I gather that the shortened musical set is due to the inclusion of the PC (Quicktime) viewable "enhanced video," which includes two additional tracks. This is a fun feature, but I would have prefered that the cd mix itself be extended instead. Comment \| Permalink \| (Report this)
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