 | Out There and Back by Saccharine Trust
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $0.01 PvD is GoD. For some odd odd reason, Seven Ways is not offered. That CD is worth your effort to hunt down.
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 | Tranceport, Vol. 3 by Sandra Collins
Buy used from: $2.24 Dark, deep, soothing, climactic, orgasmic. And Sandra Collins is hot too!
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 | Global Underground: Hong Kong by John Digweed
Buy used from: $4.49 The best GU CD. A blend of... strange, exotic music? Cups is one of the few songs that Sasha or Digweed start with something that hits you right away. I like, I like.
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 | Global Underground 003 San Francisco by Sasha
Buy used from: $8.28 Hey, Sasha's voted #1 in the world for a reason. This is the CD that defines the 'intelligent trance' genre. Cosmic and mindblowing, a better GU to cheer you up than HK.
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 | Northern Exposure 2: West Coast Edition by Sasha and John Digweed
Buy used from: $16.26 What do you think happens when the #1 DJ in the world (Sasha) and #2 (Digweed) collaborate? West Coast is a little bit more chill than East Coast, or any of their other CDs.
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 | The Politics of Dancing by Paul Van Dyk
Buy used from: $5.38 PvD's first mix CD. He has great track selection, but it's as an artist that he truly distinguishes himself, not as a producer.
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 | Northern Exposure : Expeditions by Sasha & John Digweed
Buy used from: $16.98 Sasha and Digweed, again. "Expeditions" is such a perfect name for this CD... They take you on a journey of new highs and lows. Listen to be dominated, not to relax and just chill.
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 | Integration 1 by Satoshi Tomiie
Buy used from: $33.99 Strange, that a Japanese man has such a good grip of what makes Eurotrance tick.
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 | Resident: Two Years Of Oakenfold At Cream by Paul Oakenfold
Buy used from: $4.99 This is like a who's who, what's what of trance music up to 1999. What a great parting gift from Oakenfold as he left Cream. The man as the peak of his powers.
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 | Painting on Silence by Parks & Wilson
Buy used from: $0.10 Rishi Patel would surely remove my genitals if I didn't include this on the top 10. In all seriousness though, this is a great CD for those into the hypnotic and textured music.
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 | In Search of Sunrise by DJ Tiësto
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $11.14 Tiesto's best CD, because of the track selection and mixing skills. Why has he gone insane and released all these CDs though? I sure hope it's not a prelude to him selling out....
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 | Global Underground: Los Angeles by John Digweed
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $4.66 Another CD in the Hong Kong vein... But since it's later, I give the edge to HK. Listen to 'Love in Traffic' over and over.
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 | Spundae Presents Interpretations by Jerry Bonham
Buy used from: $4.48 The most underrated and unknown of the Great Ones. This is trance in the PvD mold, happy and light and soothing and psychedelic.
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 | Vorsprung Dyk Technik: Paul Van Dyke Remixes 92-98 by Paul Van Dyk
Buy used from: $18.41 Maybe a little too heavy for the light users, but this 3CD compilation of PvD's remixes will definitely appeal to those already obsessed. Don't forget about CDs 2 and 3. (It's hard, CD1 is that good)
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 | Cream by Sandra Collins
Buy used from: $1.99 Not nearly as good as Tranceport III, but ehh... few CDs are. Still prototypical Sandra in that it's a deep and mysterious mix, without Digweed's sinister edge.
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 | Global Underground 013: Ibiza by Sasha
Buy used from: $16.00 Sasha does great music, but this is just a little too chill for me. It makes me bop my head, but not get up and dance. It makes me think, but it doesn't make me space out.
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 | Vol. 3-Nocturnal Frequencies by Danny Howells
Buy used from: $3.49 Danny Howells defines minimal trance. Little/no interference with the music. Lack of buildup may be only complaint.
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 | Gatecrasher: Digital by Various Artists
Buy used from: $6.75 A three CD collection of some of the newer trance stuff... The best Gatecrasher compilation, which tend to be good but not spectacular. This mix is.
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 | Tranceport by Paul Oakenfold
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.84 Old? Yes. Dated? No. Instructions: loop songs 5-9, still hands down the 5 greatest trance songs in a row of any compilation. Three Drives on a Vinyl is kickass too.
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 | Naturalized by Dave Ralph
Buy used from: $0.50 No doubt this is Dave Ralph. No real buildup, no climax, no peak... just great, consistent dance music.
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 | Way out There by Jody
Buy used from: $0.75 Jody, the other half of Way Out West, has usually been in Nick Warren's shadow. No anymore. I hate that the CD cover so resembles the WoW Intensify CD.
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 | 45 RPM by Paul Van Dyk
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.98 PvD as a child still, when he's first learning the ropes, is still better than almost everyone else. For An Angel deserves incredible praise.
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 | Playback Engineering by Tarrentella & Redanka
Buy used from: $0.49 Not very famous, but I'm slow to realize why not. Great deep progressive stuff. This is a mood, not the typical state of mind that trance should be (for better or worse)
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 | Live at Dance Valley 2001 by Ferry Corsten
Buy used from: $65.34 I just got this mix, so maybe it's unfair for me to judge so early... But from the looks of it, this will be a great one.
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 | Snivilisation by Orbital
Buy used from: $1.99 Not trance/proggy, I know, but this deserves some sort of mention... Orbital defines ambient techno, which is appropriate for certain moods...
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