I find myself holding a mostly black digi-pak in my hand, on the cover is the slightly blurred face of a beautiful young woman. The packaging now has my attention, so I slip the shrink-wrap off and open the pak. "What could possibly be inside?" I wonder. "More beautiful women, possibly?"
Not likely, so it seems. Much to my chagrin, I open the pak to find a cheap and loathsome sideshow clown scowling as he accosts the beautiful woman that graces the front of the CD. What were they thinking? As if the world doesn't have enough "Lounge" compilations, now they go and throw molesting sex-offending clowns into the mix!
But I digress..
I can't stress enough how horribly awful the opening track is. It is beyond comprehension by any mortal means to discern exactly what the producers were thinking when they chose to include this single on the album (especially as an opening track). The same individual that selected this track must be the mastermind behind the disturbing killer clown cover art. "Magic Tribe" by Taste Experience is a total waste of 6 minutes and introduces the album with a whimper.
The next track from BPM is called "Urubu" and falls out of nowhere into the Bossa-Lounge sound I expected from the compilation. It is certainly not the most groundbreaking mix I have ever heard but it does bring the CD back up from the depths of hell in which it was previously found.
Afterlife comes in with "Cry," a pseudo-Iglesias sounding track with Latin instrumentation and female vocals; the composition is extremely meager and easily forgotten.
More female vocals follow with 2 Soul's "In the Beginning." This track is another neo-Latin dance track with a decent amount of instrumentation and arrangement. Sasha Lazard is next up with the dark spaciousness of "Awakening" (Delerium remix - of course). Like most Delerium remixes, the arrangements for the track are predictable and nothing short of average; there is absolutely nothing "Lounge-y" about this song whatsoever. The filtered piano of Vertigo Deluxe blends in as "Take me Away" takes us on this ever-worsening adventure. What more can I say - this is also a truly awful song.
At this point, I will just sum up the rest of the disc instead of going into detail concerning each individual track. The recording and mastering job from Neurodisc is one of the worst I have ever heard for an actual bar-coded release. From beginning to the everlasting end, the mixes are unintelligent, the track selection is awful, and the sound is enthusiastically appalling.
