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Sasha & John Digweed present DELTA HEAVY | 
 enlarge | Creator: Sasha + John Digweed
Label: System Recordings
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 16033
Media: DVD Audio
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 1066
UPC: 820997106697
EAN: 0820997106697
ASIN: B000AORFQI
Release Date: February 7, 2006
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Condition: Brand new in original packaging.
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 Boring January 16, 2008
M. Ostria (sometimes here sometimes there)
I was hoping for live performances and most of it is just following them around talking. Thought I was going to get good music and scenes from awesome parties but nope.
 A thought-provoking document, though be aware there's little music November 23, 2007
Christopher Culver
This DVD contains a documentary about Delta Heavy, the eight-week US tour DJs Sasha and John Digweed embarked upon in 2002 which sought to bring progressive house music to the American masses far from clubbing centres. This tour was a new kind event, the first time that dance music came to stadium venues and drew such crowds.
The documentary presents the logistics of the tour, interviews the staff (older folks much more used to rock tours), and describes life on the tour bus and in hotels. Sasha and Digweed are interviewed at a number of different stops on the tour, as is warm-up DJ Jimmy Van M who came up with the concept of this tour. I really like how the progressive house scene is shown as simply a way to unwind in the company of other music fans, and not as some kind of drugged-up haze, a stereotype that other documentaries (such as Global Underground's Transmission 00:1) end up reinforcing.
The DVD was released in 2005, and I've now seen it in 2007. Five years after the tour, one has a new perspective on its content. Instead of bringing progressive house music more into the American mainstream, 2002 turned out to be the year that the scene dimished, driving progressive house back into clubs. The rise of electro has further settled the genre with a dance-music cognoscenti. The final words of the documentary, spoken by Sasha and foretelling a massive explosion in the American scene, now seem ironic.
As others have complained, there is little music on the disc. There is constantly some track playing in the background in each scene, and you'll hear snippets of Bedrock's "Heaven Scent", Sasha's "Bloodlock", and others. Nonetheless, there is no continuous DJ mix from the tour.
not 141 minutes and where the ----- is the music????? November 28, 2006
A. P. Marquez (Tallahassee, Florida)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
A huge disappointment. First, there is only a documentary of 50 something minutes... just talk and talk and snapshots of people and the events... Then, a 10 min montage, more interviews and... where is the music?? Aweful...
 Not for the music August 2, 2006
Eclectic Electric (Washington, DC)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Let me say right out that Sasha and Digweed are fantastic DJs, each in their own right, and that the Delta Heavy tour was an epic experience. Unfortunately, this DVD does not pack the expected punch of the actual performance. Make no mistake, this is NOT a concert footage DVD. Instead you will find interviews galore detailing the logistics and documenting the events surrounding the Delta Heavy tour. The music, for the most part, is not even live. Too much talk, waste of money. Pick up Sasha's Involver or Digweed's Fabric instead, forget the DVD.
Delta Heavy is light on the good stuff July 20, 2006
Steven Piek (Calgary, Alberta Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'll admit I had a tough time trying to get my hands on this DVD. No where in Calgary was carrying it and Amazon.com is giving me a hard time with ordering items right now.
Well in any case I loved the presentation and gloss on this DVD package. The shine, spit and polish it top notch. However after a short journey it ended! I felt a little robbed at the length and was hoping for a more in-depth adventure with Sasha and John Digweed.
The special features are also a bit lacking in the meat and bones department. The deleted scenes, in my opinion they should have left them in the main feature!! The track selection is rather boring but the songs themselves are gold.
I love Sasha and John Digweed. I have a `large' collection of Northern Exposure and GU CDs. I just wish there was more to this than the bare bones feature.
Hopefully there will be another feature sometime with both DJs that will satisfy us all more so then this Delta Heavy outing.
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