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The series of compilations Afterhours continues with its third volume. Three CDs, three atmospheres, three different mixes. As it can be noticed, Afterhours has became not only a party concept, but also a music concept.
The first CD is called Organic. it is nothing more than a fine selection of soul, lounge music, ambient and sweet. If you take a glimpse on the track list, there is nothing that would attract your attention. But that’s ok, press play! In the first part of the mix we can listen some down tempo from The Cinematic Orchestra, L Pierre and Kraak & Smaak, but in the second part there is a sweet jazzy and funky house. Here we can listen Mike Monday, Stereotyp. In no time the mix comes back to the tempo from the beginning. The first mix is one full of hypnotic sounds, packed melodic lines and ambient. It is for sure a good mix to listen in a bar.
The second mix called Electronic has more breaks than down tempo, but it has almost the same tonality. From breaks the mix goes to house combined with electro and progressive. We start with Carl Craig, one of the world’s techno legends. On this second mix, there are many well known names like Cerrone, Voltique, Solar, Swoop, Kevin Swain, Trafik and many others. Practically there are 19 tracks stuck together in 78 minutes of continuous music. The musical change is obvious. It is more full of energy, more danceable. Tracklist:
CD1 Organic
1. The Cinematic Orchestra - Channel 1 Suite
2. L Pierre - Rotspots From The Crap Map
3. Boozoo Bajou - Keep Going Feat. Tony Joe White
4. Kraak & Smaak - Keep On Searching.
5. Outlines - Listen To The Drums (Clignancourt Edit)
6. Mike Monday - Zum Zum
7. Nightmares On Wax - African Pirates (Jd73 Remix)
8. Tosca - Superrob (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
9. Fauna Flash - Question (Stereotyp's Booty Call Remix)
10. Stereotyp - Do Dirt.
11. Sinner Dc - Born To Be Mild
12. Killing Joke - Requiem (A Floating Leaf Always Reaches The Sea Dub Mix)
13. Morgan Geist - Skyblue Pink
14. Dark Globe - Atoms (Flight Delay Dub)
15. Innersphere - Out Of Body
16. Cass - Custom Made
17. The Last Atlant - Twin Of The Sun
18. Andrew K - No Hay Banda
CD2 Electronic
1. Carl Craig - A Wonderful Life
2. Radioactiveman - Uranium
3. Kevin Swain - Try 4 Love
4. Charlie - Space Woman / Dilemma - In Spirit (Boom Boom Mix)
5. Cerrone - Supernature (Original 12? Mix)
6. Lindstrom - Another Station (Todd Terje Remix)
7. Voltique - Wah Wah Wah
8. Solar - Shonky
9. Clubbervision - Blue Pills
10. Swoop - Superlicious
11. Zen-Kei - The Punisher (Original Mix)
12. Trafik - Dirty Word (**** Dub)
13. Kevin Swain - Come With Us
14. Ticon - In Stereo
15. Richard Dinsdale - Your Mind (Trafik Reprise Edit)
16. Motion 040 - Timmy?s Turn (Original Mix)
17. Gusgus - Moss
18. Seelenluft - Manila (Ewan Pearson Mix)
19. Cass & Mangan - I Gotta Thang (Uh Huh)
CD3 The Future - nemixat
1. Pako & Frederik - Obscure Hobbies
2. Galea & Native - Dropped
3. Sissy - So Long (Kahuun Remix)
4. The Remote - Like You (Native Remix)
5. The Last Atlant - Reversed Cloud
6. Nick Hogendoorn & Eelke Kleijn - The Rhythmshaker (Ambient Mix)
7. Christian Paduraru - Turning Up
8. Anil Chawla & Dale Anderson - Leftorium
9. Rachel Lamb - By Heart (Trafik?s No Fear Dub) |
The third CD, The Future, is not mixed. We find here whole tracks. We open the CD with Pako & Frederik - Obscure Hobbies and them we continue with something more electronic and alert. The third track is a remix for So Long produced by Sissy. After some melodic breaks, full of warmth, Cristian Paduraru shows up with one of his tracks: Turning Up, some sort of DJ LOOP. This CD ends with a remix for the track By Heart produced by Trafik.
It’s not suck a pity if you’ve waited for so long for this compilation and it somehow let you down. Global Underground has lately proven that they don’t take into consideration the actual musical direction and they do only what they think is best. But still, it is a decent musical package, which crosses just a little the mediocrity line.
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