Audio CD review:
Paul Oakenfold - Perfecto Presents Another World

Paul Oakenfold - Perfecto Presents Another World

Band: Paul Oakenfold Title: Perfecto Presents Another World Rating: Release Date: 19 September, 2000 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim 2: Tone Depth - Majestic 3: Chilled Eskimo - Take Me Away 4: Led Zeppelin - Baby I'm Gonna Leave You 5: Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance) 6: LSG - Into Deep 7: Max Graham - Airtight 8: Planet Perfecto - Bullet In A Gun (Rabbit In The Moon Mix) 9: Brancaccio & Aisha - Darker 10: Dead Can Dance - Sanvean 11: Highland - No Way Out 12: Max Graham - Bar None 13: Vangelis - Tears in the Rain 14: Amoebassassin - Piledrvier 15: Jamez Presents Tatoin - Music 16: Salt Tank - Eugina 2000 (Progressive Summer Mix) 17: Sabel - Song To The Siren 18: Skope - Back & Front 19: Jan Johnson - Flesh 20: Vangelis - Rachel's Song 21: Lisa Gerrard - Sacrifice 22: Lost.It.Com - Animal 23: Black Watch - North Sky 24: Delirium - The Silence 2000

Customer Reviews "A" for Effort..."F" for Repetition Mostly for not keeping both his sets in line with his usual solid trance extravaganzas. Lots of criticism by the fans for this one by Oakenfold. I applaud Oakenfold for trying to be creative and adding his own flare. Trouble is, he's just not that good. I also have to agree with a few other reviewers. . . I can't stand Oakenfold's ego-driven female narrator constantly reminding the listener that he/she is listening to a "Perfecto" album. Yes Paul. . . that's great you have your own label. . . we know. My main gripe with this album is that over 50% of the tracks are featured on some other Oakenfold album. The album that comes to my mind is the similarly titled "Travelling" that was released one month later. By the way, those of you that don't like this particular album because of all the classical ballads and motion-picture scores should have a listen to "Travelling". None of that plus the Perfecto girl only comes on once! Disc 1 gets my vote for being the better of the two. Nice opening trio of tracks, but then Paul gets the "Led out"? Terrible choice. Disc 2 is pretty similar to disc 1 with the ballads and so on. . . but the inclusion of Delerium's "Silence 2000" (as if the original wasn't bad enough) as the finale track for the album will guarantee an automatic thumbs down for both the set and album from this reviewer. Disc 1 gets 3/5 stars, and disc 2, 2/5 stars. . Positively Hypnotic! I picked it up at the local record store on impulse, and didn't expect much. This was my very first electronic cd. At first listen, it seemed somewhat pretentious, indulgent, artsy. . . This was my idea of trance music in general at the time. In fact, I bought this album as a challenge to myself: I wanted to give every style of music a fair chance. After my 30 second scan of each track, I left it alone until one fateful night. My friend Ricky pulled out some nifty little toys called glowsticks! He told me he had been learning how to make interesting light shows out of them, but the only "techno" music he had was a horrible mix tape featuring the likes of alice deejay, t-99, and other outdated rave-monkey acts. I shuddered at every track's rediculous synths and over-enhanced basslines. So he noticed my copy of "Another World" sitting in my cd tower, and suggested we try it. I was overwhelmed at the difference it made to play this album on Ricky's 6,000-dollar home stereo. I was simply blown away at the darkly hypnotic, and playfully dreamy sounds that were coming out of the speakers. I picked up the glowsticks for my first time and I created something beautiful out of this mix. And now, 6 years later, I still keep coming back to this mix whenever I need to unwind. Seriously, almost EVERY SINGLE TRACK here is on my list of favorites. However, the two that really stand out to me the most are North Sky and Tears in the Rain. I still whistle the melody of the Vangelis song to my baby nephew as a lullaby, and he loves it. Summing it all up: These are some of the most intense, uplifting, and soulful pieces of music I have ever experienced. If you have a patient ear, and an active mind. . . You will enjoy this mix. Quintessential Oakenfold. It has a seamless progression that takes you on a journey of mind-altering consciousness. Another World is one of my three favorite Oakenfold releases (Tranceport and Creamfields are the other two) and it's easy to hear why it's so popular among trancers. It allows you to escape to another world. This is Oakenfold at his best. Enjoy it while you can, however, because Oakenfold is slipping into oblivion under the toxic blanket of fast-buck economics. His demise, I'm sad to say, will rival that of Whitney "Bolivia" Houston. . You can see a complete list of all Paul Oakenfold discography, or go back to the Paul Oakenfold tabs