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Delerium
Remixed: The Definitive Collection
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. Dust In Gravity (Niels van Gogh vs. Dave Ramone Remix) featuring Kreesha Turner
2. Silence (Niels van Gogh vs. Thomas Gold Remix)featuring Sarah McLachlan
3. Lost and Found (DJ Dan Club Mix) featuring Jäel
4. Euphoria (Firefly)(Rabbit In The Moon?s Divine Gothic Disco Mix) featuring Jacqui Hunt
5. Send Me An Angel (Andy Moor Remix) featuring Miranda Lee Richards
6. Innocente (Deep Dish Gladiator Remix UK Edit) featuring Leigh Nash
7. Angelicus (Andy Moor Full Length Mix) featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian
8. After All (Svenson & Gielen Remix) featuring Jaël
9. Underwater (Above & Beyond's 21st Century Mix)featuring Rani Kamal
10. Heaven's Earth (Matt Darey Remix Radio Edit)featuring Kristy Thirsk
11. Silence (DJ Tiësto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)featuring Sarah McLachlan
12. Dust In Gravity

CD Details

All Artists: Delerium
Title: Remixed: The Definitive Collection
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nettwerk Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 3/30/2010
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rock
Styles: Electronica, Techno
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 067003087322

Synopsis

Album Description

Remixed: The Definitive Collection is a career encompassing compilation of the music that led the legendary Canadian alt-pop duo to over a million albums sold in North America alone. The collection includes hit songs like "Silence" featuring multi-Platinum recording artist Sarah McLachlan, "Innocente" featuring Sixpence None The Richer lead vocalist Leigh Nash, and "Angelicus" featuring the highly esteemed Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian. Now, these memorable singles have been remixed by some of today's top electronic producers, including Tiësto, Niels Van Gogh, Deep Dish, Above & Beyond and DJ Dan. The 12 brilliant tracks are presented as a continuous mix and also include two new songs: "Send Me An Angel" featuring Miranda Lee Richards, and "Dust In Gravity" featuring Canadian R'n'B sensation Kreesha Turner.

CD Reviews

Bring Back the Magic Please

Kort Kramer | South Florida, USA | 04/02/2010

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I wanted to like Remixed: The Definitive Collection. I'm a longtime fan of Delerium but should have realized that their slow slide to mediocrity hadn't changed course. I also should not have expected too much from a remix album but I was hoping. Well, it was not as I hoped. I had mine on pre-order with Amazon and was initially excited to get it the other day.

If you are a fan of the other Delerium remixes and dance music in general, then you have a good shot at enjoying Remixed. All the tracks are mixed so that they blend into one another, and the "trance" floor beats continue pretty much unabated throughout the whole album. Engineering and sound quality is quite good -- as it should be. The last track is strangely louder than the rest though.

Sadly, I found it to be rather dull. Some of the well know tracks are remixed to the point of not sounding much like the originals. I like the originals. That wouldn't be so bad though if the remixing had been more inspired. I don't feel it was. There was a lot of repetition and aspects of the songs that made them so good have been edited out. There are moments, even short stretches, that are good, but it quickly become dull again. In contrast, 2001's Odyssey-The Remix Collection is a much more engaging outing. It doesn't help that I don't care for the song Dust In Gravity, and two versions of it bookend the album.

While not terrible, I can't really recommend Remixed: TDC to anyone but hardcore fans of Delerium's more recent work, and perhaps to dance music lovers looking for some lullaby music. Leeb, Fulber, Peterson and Nash should get back in the studio and try and recapture that old magic with some new material."