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Global Underground: Hong Kong | 
 enlarge | Artist: John Digweed
Label: Global Underground
Category: Music
Buy New: $29.99
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 207152
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
EAN: 5033272002729
ASIN: B0000300NZ
Release Date: July 31, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Cups (Salt City Orchestra Mix)-Underworld | | • | Overflow (FC Kahuna Mix)-Madder Rose | | • | Something For The Soul-ADNY Presents Leiva | | • | Into Deep (Medway Remix)-LSG | | • | Gravi Tech-Sphere | | • | Tribe & Trance (Voyager Remix)-Francesco Farfa | | • | Here I Am (Hard Mix)-Lexicon Avenue | | • | The Baguio Track-Luzon | | • | Music Saved My Life-Cevin Fisher | | • | Aviance Useless-Jean Phillippe | | • | Flanker-Medway | | • | Glide-POB | | • | Angry Skies (Tilt's Numerology Dub)-Tilt | | • | Futurized-Moonface | | • | Diablo (Evolution Mix)-Cass Versus Slide | | • | More-Van M/Leeds | | • | Sputnik (New York FM Mix)-Breeder | | • | Persuasion (Funk Function Future Mix)-Science | | • | Crash (Funk Function Groove Mix)-Johan | | • | Amran In The 7th Phase-Hole In One | | • | To The Rescue-Ingmar | | • | Heaven Scent (Evolution Unreleased)-Bedrock | | • | And She Does (Quivver Alternative Mix)-Stoneproof |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
For those unwilling to travel across the world in order to hear the finest sets played by the finest DJs in the finest clubs, the Global Underground series proves to be a godsend. Less concerned with forcing as many chart hits into the equation than most other commercial mix CDs, Global Underground pushes the DJ to the fore. John Digweed's Hong Kong is a perfect example of the superstar-DJ effect paying off--his sleek, polished take on tech-trance isn't dictated by commercial concerns, market forces, or chart position, but simply concentrates on molding the dance floor into a pulsing, hypnotic ambience. An eight-minute reading of the Salt City Orchestra remix of Underworld's "Cups" recedes into the sparse, dark house of Madder Rose's "Overflow" (FC Kahuna remix) without even showing the join, and that's very much Digweed's style. Confident, seamless, accomplished--Hong Kong is so good it defies genre pigeonholing. --Louis Pattison, Amazon.co.uk
Album Description
Double disc set of club grooves, all mixed by top house DJ John Digweed. Includes many unreleased tracks & acetate exclusives. Artists featured include Underworld, Cevin Fisher, LSG and Bedrock. 23 tracks total. 2000 release. Double slimline jewel case.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 70 more reviews...
 Will find its place in your best rotation! August 8, 2007
Domenic Micheli
I have been listening to electronica mainly house and progressive as well as some trance for the past 7 years. I have searched long and hard for the best of the best cds, there are not many cds that I would be happy listening to straight through and dont really have to skip songs. It is also these cds that I keep coming back to again and again. Here is my list in no particular order.
John Digweed- Global Underground Tokyo
Carl Cox - Mixed Live Second Session @ Area2 Detroit
Paul Oakenfold- Tranceport
Dj Tiesto - In Search of Sunrise 3
Sasha - Global Underground Ibiza
That is it. There are other really good cds Armin's Universal Religion 2004, Josh Wink's Profound Sounds (which I should hold my opinion on because I havent listened to it enough), Many of Nick Warren's GU mixes, some Deep Dish, some Hernan, Danny Tenaglia's London set may also be included in the above list after I have listened to it a bit more..
 Good Start...Flat Finish February 16, 2007
CloudMan (Sydney, NSW Australia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll be the first to admit that I love the Global Underground label. However there seems to be a repeatitive pattern with the majority of these 2 disc sets. One disc is usually great, while the other is mediocre or subpar. It feels like themes or different tempo genres are attempted to be given to each disc. Usually disc 1 is more mellow while disc 2 has a little more oomph. GU 014:Hong Kong follows this trend again.
This can make for an interesting compilation with good track selection. It gives the listener 2 sets from their favorite DJ's instead of one long one.
Unfortunately with this compilation, disc 1 steals most of the glory. It has great depth and pretty good track selection. If you are a big fan of John Digweed then you'll understand when I say that disc 1 is the kind of set that he mixes when he teams up with Sasha (who in my opinion brings out the best of John Digweed).
Disc 2 on the other hand is disappointing. Flat and repeatitive with a lingering hard beat tempo that gets old fast. There are even glimpses of anthem rhythms on this disc...disturbing. This is probably where I differ from most of the other reviewers who think John Digweed is a demigod on the decks as this disc more closely represents his solo style that he has developed over the years.
Disc 1 gets 3.5/5 stars. Disc 2, 2/5 stars.
Musical Quicksand: An Absorbancy Unmatched January 17, 2007
LexAffection (Philadelphia, PA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an essential Global Underground release, no doubt; the older, more exquisite sound. No anthemic, Balearic trance here. Nor funk-infused house efforts like Uruguay, Miami and Dubai. And even though this could quite possibly be another definition of the haphazardly thrown-about term 'progressive trance', another phrase which instantly enters my head is 'dirty house'. And this mix is about as dirty as you can get!!
Dark, brooding background melodies cascade over one another as hard-hitting 4/4 kickdrums and tribal drum releases waltz together atop grinding, relentless and thickly-lain bass lines. I have been known to blow out a subwoofer disc two with a bit too much enthusiasm.
I enjoyed someone else's sentiments on the disc; that this mix is not as dark as Los Angeles (which was a bit more lost, directionally, anyhow) and less diverse as Sydney. And as another reviewer stated, this album is one of the most consistent in the Global Underground series. In fact, in that regard it reminds me significantly of Nick Warren's Shanghai set - both Hong Kong and Shanghai don't vary widely from the aural range they set for themselves initially, yet both accomplish creating a musical labyrinth which seems to instantly captivate (with very different styles, I realize). Possibly even moreso with this release, though.
Hong Kong is nothing like Bedrock (released only several months prior to this) which is, by comparison, a dance album. I could see dancing to Hong Kong, but the way I prefer to enjoy it is through a nice set of headphones or playing through a quality stereo. These discs seem to find a cozy, semi-permanant residence in my car; they are the ultimate driving grooves. Or, as background music for a game of cards, a pre-club warm-up banger, this album is versatile while maintaining its steady downtempo sludge-funk. And really, only when one actually hears the release will they be able to comprehend what terms like 'sludge-funk' and 'mucky deep trance' actually mean. In my opinion, this album mirrors the slick, dark and uncertain urban life of Hong Kong's underground music scene almost to near perfection.
With very few discs of my extensive electronica library do I form some sort of unspoken bond; this release connected to me instantly, and has never been far from my heart, although as-of-late I've been exploring Digweed's more minimalistic dub tech-house releases like Transitions 1 & 2 and Fabric20. I love his new style, but I am IN love with his classics. Quite simply put: a must-own, and an essential addition to any electronic music library out there.
~Lex
Flawless August 23, 2006
J. Wahlgren (boston)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This mix is flawless. I can't imagine any other mix being better than this. I have Foundations, Stark Raving Mad, Bedrock (which is also hard to beat) and Renaissance Transitions, and this tops them all. The uniqueness with which Digweed operates is amazing. It even has Heaven Scent on the second disc.
The Greatest of All Times... May 18, 2006
Zonker the Brainless (Silver Spring, MD)
If you happen to be sifting through all my reviews, stop everything and buy this old CD. Now.
By far the best trance CD EVER MADE. A little dark and intense, with muddy, burping, evil frog noises. But I like evil frog noises. Like in "In Too Deep" on the first disk. Sounds great. Tribe and Trance is like pouring chocolate syrup into your brain. Digger's own Flanker is marvelous, and the Baggio Track here is intriguing. The low point of the first disk, "Music Saved my Life," stinks, what can I say. Skip over it.
Angry Skies is one of the best trance tracks ever, ever, ever sung by a chorus of evil burping frogs. Worth the braincells you lose listening to it. Although it really should be called Angry Frogs. The Breeder track is stellar as always.
BUY THIS CD
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