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Groove Radio Presents House Grooves Compiled and Mixed by Swedish Egil | 
 enlarge | Artists: Groove Radio, Swedish Egil, Felix Da Housecat, Kosheen, Timo Maas
Label: Nettwerk America
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $3.42
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 273672
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 067003028325
EAN: 0067003028325
ASIN: B00006LHX2
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Safe From Harm - Narcotic Thrust (original mix) | | • | Fly With Me - Coloursound (Ashley Beedle's Air America Vocal) | | • | Sting Me Red (Clever) - Who Da Funk/Terra Deva (Harry Choo Choo Romero Vs Who Da Funk Dub) | | • | Little Bit Paranoid, A - Different Gear (extended mix) | | • | See - Starcase (Timo Maas mix) | | • | Shifter - Timo Maas/MC Chickaboo (full vocal mix) | | • | Madam Hollywood - Felix Da Housecat (Ralph Myerz mix) | | • | La La Land - Green Velvet (Futureshock mix) | | • | Superfreak (Freak) - Wink (original mix) | | • | Machine Say Yes - FC Kahuna (Josh Wink's Acid Dub Interpretation) | | • | Love Story - Layo & Bushwacka (original mix) | | • | Hungry - Kosheen (Satoshi Tomie Vocal remix) | | • | Walking On Fire - Evolution (Bedrock Vocal mix) | | • | It's Gonna Be (A Lovely Day) - Brancaccio & Asher |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Groove Radio's Swedish Egil, whose early embrace of dance music helped artists like Depeche Mode and the Orb get their breaks in America, adds another fine compilation to his credit with this savvy house mix. Egil's radio programs in the '80s and early '90s made him a powerful tastemaker, and his ability to pick out the cream couldn't be more obvious here. Cherry-picking tracks from Harry "Choo Choo" Romero, Timo Maas, and Felix Da Housecat, among others, Egil makes his already unassailable selections even more interesting by choosing sweet remixes like Josh Wink's "Acid Dub Interpretation" of FC Kahuna's "Machine Say Yes." It's a tactic that keeps House Grooves from being just a greatest hits compilation, while still spreading the word with the masses in mind. --Matthew Cooke
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| Customer Reviews:
 Tune In, Turn up and 'Ave a Nice day April 3, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well, despite the other reviews I've read of this album, I think overall it is quite solid.
Having said that, it probably isn't everyone's bag, as most of the tracks here are remixed quite a bit from their original versions that most fans are already familiar with.
But really, I think that is the compilation's strength as well. Because, if you buy more than three or four comps a year, you know that you will have repeat tracks on them. How many had 'Love Story', 'Madame Hollywood', or 'La La Land'on them? Ok, so this one does too, but instead of just rounding up the mixes that everyone knows already (Ultra Records, I'm looking in your general direction...), Groove instead collects the more obscure variations of them, making many of them sound fresh all over again. Which is great as many of these tunes are already near classic.
Also of note, as it mentions in the booklet, Swedish Egil mixes all the tracks directly from vinyl, to "give the listener the real feel of a DJ mix", which makes the whole thing bristle with the dynamics that are usually found only in the club.
Very refreshing for a comp to do something like that, eh?
 Lackluster. January 14, 2003
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
There were a couple of nice tracks on this album. However, a couple of nice tracks does not make a good album. I used to listen to Groove Radio when it was on the air in LA. It always struck me at how odd it was that the station played some fairly inaccessible tracks. Sweedish Egil has once again shown his lust for obscurity and inaccessibility on this CD. Egil once again shows his inabillity to read his audience, or even find them.
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