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Breast milk for the musical infant.

David Wood | Auckland, New Zealand | 02/10/2006

(2 out of 5 stars)

"How else can I begin, but by saying that if it were not for this album, I may never have discovered trance, or electronic dance music in general. My brother bought it four years ago, and the moment I heard Sander Kleinenberg's "My Lexicon" I was convinced I had discovered something truly amazing. The first eight tracks on disc two [except the Yothu Yindi Track] are phenomenal. In fact, there are so many excellent tracks among the forty-four here that you must be wondering why I gave "National Anthems" only two stars. Track length. Forty four tracks over two discs? Each track is only given about three or four minutes to wind up, and then is faded out into another track. This album could be considered a 'sampler' of sorts, in that we only get to hear short segments of tracks, and are ultimately deprived of the true experience we would otherwise be having if Gatecrasher were not so eager to fit every little track they could find on this album.

As an introduction to electronic music, this album was some pretty decent breast milk, but this reviewer quickly grew hungry for more solid food."