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DJ TIESTO - IN SEARCH OF SUNRISE 5: LOS ANGELES (BLACK HOLE) |
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DJ Tiesto's "In Search of Sunrise 5" finally gets
going good on the fifth track, Fonzerelli's "Moonlight
Party", which kicks in with thick textures, driving
trance rhythms and catchy melodies. Disc One is a
little slow going getting rolling; the first few
tracks are of the pretty but kinda bland variety. It's
Tiesto's curse; sometimes he does really top notch
stuff, but one of his pitfalls is music that's pretty
and even lush but somehow lacks hook. Of course, a mix
that spans across two CDs can be expected to be a tad
slow in warming up. There's always room for
progression in trance. The plus side is that, yes, it
does get moving after a warm-up period and, yes, the
music is quite lovely. The beauty is there right from
the start, it just takes the hooks a few minutes to
catch up. Once moving, Tiesto tosses tasty textures at
you, along with melodies that are relatively emotive
and evocative of this 2-CD mix's title. It's sort of a
musical sunrise (which would account for the
progressive kick-off, huh?). After Fonzerelli's track,
the goodness keeps moving with a mostly instrumental
(a change-up from "Moonlight Party") number, Leama and
Moor's "Everything Matters (Matthew Dekay Remix)",
long building but enjoyable the whole way through.
This is probably where the first CD starts "peaking",
if you'll allow the analogy. The disc loses a tad of
its momentum after this track as it slips into a
really-long-build-up number that, even when it kicks
in, is fairly reserved. Again, not bad music, but it
could use a little salt. I may sound like I'm
complaining a lot, but it's more that I'm just picky
about trance. This is a good batch of tunes and my
star rating reflects that, but I'd still like a bit
more kick overall. Parker and Hanson's "Let Me Be"
picks things up a bit with a lush and ethereal (but
not ethereal-watered-down) track that never gets
heavy-hitting but is absorbing. The lush ethero-prog
flavor continues to flow until the minimalism of
"People Will Go (Steve Forte Rio Remix)" by JES; this
minimalism does flow into some decent textures but
it's a bit too restrained. But following that one the
CD steps back up to the deep etherea akin to what came
before JES' number and even slides into some more
textured, energetic trance on Tom Cloud's "Told You
So" and follows through nicely to the end of Disc 1.
The second disc starts off with promise on "LAX" by
Pink Elephant, a darker number that points into the
night (ironically). The listener begins to slide
through some deep trance a la Armind Van Buuren, such
as with a track from Shah and Laruso present the
Global Experience, "Zanzibar." A Boy Called Joni's
"Green Astronauts", at the track five spot, amps up
the textures a bit. By now the listener has adjusted
to the ethereal quality of the music as the
progression has slowly sunk him into being enveloped
by the music. But along with the etherea are numbers
like Estuera's "Tales from the South (Jonas Stear's
Revision)", another that provides some textured
deepness, and "Hi Jack" by Smith and Pledger pres.
Aspekt, which touches on the lower stratospheres of
epic trance while maintaining the deepness and
actually resolving into a William Orbitish interlude.
Overall the second disc doesn't have as much high and
lowing and stands as the plateau that disc one points
to. What grumbling there is herein is just the
impatience of a persnickety listener. This is a good
CD, a bit slow going in spots, but nice nonetheless.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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