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Anjunabeats, Vol. 5 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Above & Beyond
Label: Ultra Records
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 31557
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1544
UPC: 617465154423
EAN: 0617465154423
ASIN: B000PSJCL0
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Zeppelin - Michael Cassette | | • | Battery Life - Chunk & Twist | | • | Essense - Jaytech | | • | Remember September - Boom Jink | | • | Together - Joonas Hahmo | | • | Needs To Feel - Super8 & Tab | | • | Spacelift - Jaytech | | • | My Name Is Jacques - Junk Science | | • | Formalistick - Stephen J. Kroos | | • | Buzz - Above & Beyond | | • | Tomahawk - Oliver Smith | | • | Amnesia - Nitrous Oxide | | • | Good For Me - Above & Beyond |
Disc 2
| • | Shapes - Maor Levi | | • | Megashira - Marc Marberg | | • | One Night In Tokyo - Purple Mood | | • | Razorfish - Above & Beyond | | • | Make Me Believe - Daniel Kandi | | • | Home - Above & Beyond | | • | Nimbus - Oliver Smith | | • | Oceanic - Above & Beyond | | • | Worldwide - Mark Pledger vs. Super8 & Tab | | • | Cold Front - Remo-con | | • | Never Gone - Adam Nickey | | • | One Wish - Evbointh | | • | Suru - Super8 & Tab |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The boys at Anjunabeats--who in their collective DJ persona go by Above & Beyond--have probably done more than any other outfit to reinvigorate the genre of trance in the last five years. This is largely thanks to their mix compilations, which have featured talents like Gabriel & Dresden, Kyau & Albert, and Smith & Pledger. So it's a bit difficult to explain how these tastemakers could see fit to include a track peppered with a geek-speak warning that laptop overheating results in decreased battery life (Chunk & Twist's "Battery Life"). But such oddness is soon forgotten with the entrance of "Essence," a predictably excellent effort from Jaytech with plenty of swing. Disc 1 also features Joonas Hahmo's "Together," an effervescent fusion of house and trance elements that works like a charm. Disc 2 leaves the gate with Maor Levi's "Shapes"--whose splice-and-dice vocals nod to James Holden's seminal remix of "Nothing"--followed by Marc Marberg and Kyau & Albert's "Megashira," a must-spin track that is electro on the outside and trance on the inside (and features an absolutely stellar breakdown). Volume 5 is the most electro-influenced installment of Anjunabeats yet, but Above & Beyond are careful to use the harder-edged stuff as a springboard to give their trademark euphoric material even greater effect. --Brent Kallmer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 My first Anjuna Beats CD purchase June 19, 2008
Daylight (California)
I am a DJ and have actually purchased and listened to many Above and Beyond, Records and songs. They never fail to impress on the regular production end, and deffinately don't fail in this CD. The mixing is great, if they actually mixed it and didn't use Abelton, don't know. The first disc is very housy, which I have heard is a new blend style coming around, House/Trance. Kind of makes sense to blend the two. I like so many tracks on here regardless of the blending of the two sounds. I could purchase and play a whole set of Anjuna Beats, it is sooooo hard to not buy most of the records I hear from this label. I only have maybe one of the tracks played in this 2 disc compilation. So there should be some fresh stuff that you haven't heard before. I only gave it a 4 because there are not any huge original things done with the mixing, but the tracks are great. Anjunabeats, Vol. 5
 Excellent addition to their AnjunaBeats collection!! May 26, 2008
Neil Monette (www.myspace.com/neilmonette)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
AnjunaBeats vol.5 is Absolutely Incredible! It comes with two discs, one of which is more progressive trance, and the other are all club anthems that we all love!! Although you will hear a lot of popular favorites... Don't miss out on this incredible compilation.. two mixed albums for the price of one!!
~ Neil Monette
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Beautiful April 28, 2008
Special K (Orlando, FL United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not going to go track for track in my review. I'll just say that this is the best trance I've heard in the last 3 years. It is simply killer. CD 1 is the highlight, which is unusual given the make-up of most 2-disc trance CDs. CD 2 is excellent also but if you want beautiful, melodic trance with a nasty edge, CD 1 delivers big time. "My Name is Jaques" absolutely rocks (think massaging vibrating bass with spacey exterior notes to delight the ears along with an absolute explosion at 3:23....fantastic on good headphones and unreal on a big system) and then leads into incredibly satisfying and progressively melodic finishing tracks. Get it. You won't be dissapointed.
Anjunabeats 5 Review April 26, 2008
Matthew S. Irwin (Champaign, IL)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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There's still hope... April 22, 2008
Benjamin J. Starr (Madison, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was sick of DJ Tiesto, AVB, Ferry Corsten, and most of the other top trance names. Buying their albums inevitably became a way of spending $20 to get a few good tracks that I would listen to repeatedly. Followed by these standout tracks were periods of either monotonous, repetitive beats pounding out my eardrums, or songs so cheesy they could only be worthy of play on MTV. No wonder everyone's saying that trance is dead.
The problem is... there are still those of us who love it, and who get a certain feeling of joy and euphoria from it that's not comparable to any other genre. We persist, buying these crappy albums and responding to our friends' inquiries as to why we listen to something so cheesy and stupid. When I bought this album I thought it was just another one of them, but then slowly started to realize how this album was making me feel good about trance again.
It has the standout tracks (shapes, battery life, spacelift, good for me have all become instant favorites), the lack of cheese (I have a genuine emotional reaction to "good for me" that I can't say I've ever had from a trance track before... beautiful), and what's more an actual FLOW that propels me through the whole disc without skipping tracks (more so on disc 1). Sure, it's not perfect... my ears start to bleed a little towards the end of disc 1 with the pounding beats of tracks like "my name is jacques" and "buzz". But damn... it's the closest to a perfect trance album I've encountered since the early days of Tiesto.
I spend a lot of time sifting through today's garbage heap of electronic music looking for those gems that make the search worth it. After a year of listening to this mix I can say that this is definitely one of them.
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