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Fragile State - Voices From The Dust Bowl
Fragile State - Voices From The Dust Bowl
Layo & Bushwacka - All Night Long
Layo & Bushwacka - All Night Long
SSX3 Soundtrack
SSX3 Soundtrack
Susan Morabito - Global Groove Blue Ball – Volume 3
With so much emphasis on making a dollar in the record label business, it is refreshing to see a CD that donates part of its proceeds to a worthy cause. Blue Ball is an weekend event held in Philadelphia annually to raise money for the good of the GLBT (Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgendered) community. Blue Ball has raised over 1 million dollars since its inception over 14 years ago and it strives to make a difference in HIV/AIDS research, education, and advocacy.
Sharaz - Roughneck
Sharaz - Roughneck
Kylie Minogue - Body Language
Kylie Minogue has been delivering quality and experimental dance-pop for more than 16 years now, and in her many incarnations (late-'80s pop tart, mid-'90s alt-popper, intergalactic disco goddess in the aughts) she has always been responsible for records where technology and good songwriting intersected magnificently.
Kevin Saunderson - Deep Space Techno
Kevin Saunderson - Deep Space Techno
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Matthew Dear - Leave Luck to Heaven
Ultra Trance 3
New York Dance Music host Ultra Records gives up their third installment in the Ultra Trance series. This double disc set is a continuously-mixed party stitched together by Johnny Vicious. It is exactly what you should expect from an Ultra Records compilation release, a CD chock full of dance floor fillers with everyone from Kelis to Tiesto, Underworld to Lucas Prata. It is quite a range of artists.
Plummet - Cherish the Day
Plummet - Cherish the Day
Deepest Blue - Give it Away
Deepest Blue - Give it Away
Paul Van Dyk - Crash
Paul Van Dyk - Crash
Benny Benassi Presents The Biz - No Matter What You Do
Benny Benassi Presents The Biz - No Matter What You Do
Junior Jack - Da Hype / Stupidisco
Junior Jack - Da Hype / Stupidisco
Colton Ford and Pepper Mashay - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Colton Ford and Pepper Mashay - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
In-Grid - Shock
In-Grid Shock
Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock
Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock
The Roc Project featuring Tina Novak - Deja Vu (It's Hard to Believe)
The Roc Project featuring Tina Novak - Deja Vu (It's Hard to Believe)
Kelis - Milkshake
Kelis - Milkshake
Diana Ross & The Supremes - The #1's [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
This is like the Rosetta Stone of dance music; you can hear the Holland/Dozier/Holland sense of rhythm in all that we call dance music today. The great early Supremes records are perfect variations on a similar theme, with a one-two rhythm structure that makes even the least confident of dancers feel okay shaking it (this is similar to how trance’s beats are all 1s. To wit: standard pop rhythm structure is 1-2-3-4, the first Supremes classics are 1-2-1-2, and trance is 1-1-1-1). [p]
Ultra Club Classics: 90s
Ultra Club Classics: 90s
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Crystal Method - Born Too Slow
Crystal Method - Born Too Slow
Keith Thompson - Long Time Coming
Keith Thompson - Long Time Coming
Nelly Furtado - Folklore
Nelly Furtado - Folklore