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The Politics of Dancing, Vol. 2 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Paul Van Dyk
Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 36908
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 9293
UPC: 724596929322
EAN: 0724596929322
ASIN: B0009ZE976
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | String Theory - Alex Gold | | • | Getting Away - Tranquility Base | | • | Tangerine - Calmec | | • | Transatlantic - Jose Zamora & Damian | | • | Dream On - Shiloh | | • | Burn - Walsh & Coutre | | • | Alone - Thomas Datt | | • | Why? - Lolo | | • | Adrenalin - Purple Haze | | • | Summerdream - Kuffdam And Plant | | • | Closer Now - Filo & Peri | | • | The Unknown - White Water | | • | Forbidden Love - Marc Van Linden | | • | Someday - Whiteroom | | • | Falling Anywhere - Kyau Vs. Albert | | • | Lyteo - Mr. Sam | | • | Messages - Solange |
Disc 2
| • | The Other Side - Paul Van Dyk | | • | Second Day - Jose Amnesia | | • | Yeah - Angello & Ingrosso | | • | Make It - Simon & Shaker | | • | Superfly - Yellow Blackbird | | • | Linking People - Giuseppe Ottaviani | | • | More Than A Life Away - Marco V | | • | Close Horizon - Thomas Bronzwaer | | • | T34 - Mark Norman | | • | Shine - CJ Stone | | • | Believe - Santiago Nino | | • | Swing 2 Harmony - Perasma | | • | Higher - Dallas Superstars | | • | Carry On - Wellenrausch | | • | Nothing - Holden & Thompson |
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Album Description
Paul van Dyk is one of the most revered artists of his generation. With a huge global fanbase, he's also one of the most well known electronic musicians in history. The Politics of Dancing Vol.2 mix album is arguably his best yet, and shows how far Paul has embraced new digital technology. The majority of the tracks on Politics of Dancing 2 have been reworked or rewritten by Paul to form this album. Positiva. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 59 more reviews...
 PVD at his best! July 21, 2008
Chris Hardiman (Chicago, IL USA)
This CD is intense as hell. This CD has heavy bass and trancy rhythms and almost no vocal tracks, which will scare off those who are not accustomed to trance. That being said, I'm usually not into this kind of trance either but this is what made PVD the #1 Dj in the world! Phenomenal CD!
Best trance cd mix compiltaion July 17, 2008
A. Shmihelskyy (Chicago, IL USA)
I think it is the very best trance cd mix compilation ever produced. NO, I don't think I mean it! Track selection is ideal...and for those who rate it 3 and 2 stars - you are soo wrong.
 Sadly, this one was a Great, Big Let-down :-( September 21, 2007
K. Jones (Arizona, USA)
The Politics of Dancing (1) was spectacular! But it, own it, love it, if you don't already have it. However, sadly, The Politics of Dancing 2 was a Great, Big Let-down. I can't believe Paul van Dyk put his name on it; of course, the Reflections Cd largely sucked, too. So, I guess that, and TPoD2, just proves that we're not going to love everything done by our most favourite dance-trance-DJ artists.
The mix that got me into trance, still the best. July 15, 2007
Trancemaster 0454
I don't know why there are so many bad reviews for this mix, this cd just proves why PVD remains number one dj in the world. Compared to all the other cd's and thousands of trance songs i have, Disc one really stands out as the best melodic trance mix of all time, even to today. "Closer" and "Someday" never get old (I thinks its actually better he took the chorus out of "Closer"), and this whole mix is very uplifting and energetic. Cd two could be better, its not very fluent, but the song selection is great in my opinion. The mixing could be a bit better overall, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying it; some of the mixing is actually really catchy (The beginning of "Tangerine" and the last minute of "The Other Side" leading into "Second Day" is flawless). As PVD said, I think he did a good job picking the songs he felt were gonna be hits and mixing them around, even though they are two years old. If you like the samples that you can hear when looking at the album, you should buy this album regardless of what reviewers say (thats what i did, and its my favorite still). Really anyone who likes trance should get this.
Break Out Your Glowsticks and Lollypops July 8, 2007
Cloudman (Vancouver, BC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
You think that the passing of four years would have a world-class DJ evolving? Even a little? Well, think again. The Politics of Dancing, Vol. 1 was released in 2001, and this second volume demonstrates no clear progression in Paul Van Dyk as a DJ. He still choses to feature as many short anthem tracks as possible on each disc with the ever present "bubblegum" trance overtones. Conjures up images of a time when it was cool to wave glowsticks around at a club or rave.
Paul Van Dyk is great spinning live, but the majority of his commercial compilations leave a lot to be desired.
Both discs get 2/5 stars.
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