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| Artist: Paul Oakenfold
Label: New State
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 25870
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5050072506325
ASIN: B000V8HS5Q
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Skunk Anansie - Brazen (Weep) (Perfecto Remix) | | • | The Cure - Close To Me (Closer Mix) | | • | Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground (Perfecto Remix) | | • | Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise | | • | Happy Mondays - Step On (Twisting My Melon Mix) | | • | Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body (Oakenfold Remix) | | • | The Stone Roses - Waterfall (12" Remix) | | • | Bad Apples - Get It On (Club Mix) * | | • | Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (Perfecto Remix) | | • | Mark Ronson - Stop Me (Exclusive New Oakenfold 2008 Remix) * | | • | Oakenfold ft. Pharrell Williams - Sex N' Money | | • | Arrested Development - Mr. Wendal (Perfecto Mix) | | • | Mansun - Wide Open Space (Perfecto Remix) | | • | Alison Limerick - Where Love Lives (Perfecto Remix) | | • | Robert Owens - I'll Be Your Friend (Perfecto Re-edits) | | • | Shamen - Progen (I.R.P. In The Land Of Oz) | | • | U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing (Perfecto Mix) |
Disc 2
| • | Olive - You're Not Alone (Oakenfold & Osborne Remix) | | • | Oakenfold ft. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat | | • | Radiohead - Everything In It's Right Place (Exclusive New Oakenfold 2008 Remix) * | | • | Groove Zone - Eisbar (Exclusive New Oakenfold 2008 Remix) * | | • | Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Paul Oakenfold Vocal Remix) | | • | Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect (Perfecto Remix) | | • | Joyriders - Big Brother (Oakenfold Mix) * | | • | Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go | | • | Paul Oakenfold - Switch On | | • | Everything But The Girl - Missing (Exclusive New Oakenfold 2008 Remix) * | | • | PPK - ResuRection (Perfecto Re-edits) | | • | Planet Perfecto - Bullet In A Gun) | | • | Madonna - Sorry (Paul Oakenfold Remix) | | • | U2 - Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix) | | • | Grace - Not Over Yet (Perfecto Mix) | | • | Oakenfold - Southern Sun (Exclusive New Oakenfold 2008 Remix) * | | • | Oakenfold - Not Over (Robert Vadney Club Edit) * | | • | Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx (Paul Oakenfold Remix)* Exlcusive Track |
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| Customer Reviews:
Oakey's bid for posterity October 24, 2007
darkmark6 (Sheffield, UK)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
Love him or loathe him, Oakenfold has had an indelible influence on UK dance music, particularly by taking it to a wider audience. This mix compilation brings together, for the first time, productions from every stage of his career, from early balearic remixes of The Cure and the Happy Mondays to trancey Cream Anthems and some of the rock-influenced dance sounds he plays today. There are even a few previously unreleased mixes of club classics like EBTG's "Missing".
It may not as cutting edge as James Holden or as subtle as Lee Burridge (both of whom I highly recommend to those with more underground tastes!) but it is a lot more listenable and accessible than the vast majority of dance compilations (and it's likely to stay in your collection for a lot longer). Is it pushing back boundaries and redefining genres? Nope. Will it rock a lot of student house parties, and give a lot of thirty-something retired ravers an enjoyable trip down memory lane? Definitely.
There's some significance in the inclusion of U2 twice on this compilation: arguably the pinnacle of Oakenfold's career was in supporting the Dublin band on world tour in the early 90s, and like Bono's band in the rock world, Oakenfold has a stadium-filling universality which seems to transcend the music. There are those who play faster, harder, or with more intensity and originality; but there's something suitably epic in scale about their music which connects with a wider audience and can fill the enormous venues where they play.
If you're a purist techno fan, this CD is not for you, but if you're a casual listener looking for an introduction to dance music, a souvenir of your mis-spent youth, or something to listen to on a long drive/at a party/while going for a run, this compilation is worth checking out as it's likely to be infinitely more enduring than those billions of soundalike Clubland or Hed Kandi compilations.
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