Audio CD review:
Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport

Paul Oakenfold - Tranceport

Band: Paul Oakenfold Title: Tranceport Rating: Release Date: 03 November, 1998 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Time (Original Mix)- The Dream Traveler 2: Greece 2000 (Original Mix)- Three Drives On A Vinyl 3: Rendezvous (Quadraphonic Mix)- Tilt v. Paul Van Dyk 4: Purple (Sasha v. The Light)- Gus Gus 5: Someone (Slacker and Original Vocal Mix)- Ascension 6: El Nino (Matt Darey 12" Mix)- Agnelli + Nelson 7: Cafe Del Mar (Three N One Remix)- Energy 52 8: 1998 (Original Mix/PVD Mix)- Binary Finary 9: Words (For Love (Original Mix)- Paul Van Dyk 10: Gamemaster (Original Mix)- Lost Tribe 11: Enervate (Original Mix)- Transa

Editoral Review The music is guilty by association with the hippies that worship it with a religious-like fervor. Of all the genres within electronic music, trance probably gets the worst rap. And if executed poorly, its dramatic crescendos sound like pretentious, pompous pap. But a good trance DJ can save a string of the genre's records from falling down the drain of all-too-common gargantuan breakdowns and endless wind-ups. Paul Oakenfold might be the DJ to rescue trance from itself; Tranceport features a veritable who's who of trance records and producers--Sasha's remix of Gus Gus's "Purple," a few tracks from seminal trance producer Paul van Dyk, and the driving, impenetrable "Enervate" by Transa. Oakenfold's mixing is impeccably suited to trance: long, drawn-out bleeds of sound seep from one transcendent track to the next. --Tricia Romano .. You can see a complete list of all Paul Oakenfold discography, or go back to the Paul Oakenfold tabs