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GLOBAL GROOVE -- Best CD to date

B. Lynch | USA | 02/15/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As usual, the David Morgan photography is just stunning. But what's been lacking from the Global Groove series (except for the better tracks on PUMP IT, and to a lesser extent those on THRILL) has been music that cuts the edge and commands attention the way the cover art does. This CD is the best in the series, and since it's the most recent, that's very encouraging.This CD is starting to move GG away from the 1980's sound that's made earlier efforts so dreary, and probably hurt sales enormously. While ther is nothing really wrong with the old disco flame music, it's just part of the past--and the past is DeadsVille in dance music.Trance, hard-edged electronica, sophisticated digital post production and other engineering in today's studios makes the older music sound queeny and out of touch, no matter how good the producer is. This CD has more of the new sounds and a harder edge than anything released to date in this series, and it's extremely good. But Global Grooves still needs an "over the Top" mix of new sounds to really establish themselves as serious players. This CD will have enormous appeal to fans of dance music, but it won't break out to a wider audience.Get a hipper and younger group to select music, an have "XYBoys" doing post-production on these mixes, and the sales should zoom.Best tracks: 1. PAUL VAN DYK -- Tell Me Why (The Riddle) 2. DJ WILL/PREZ ZING -- Somebody Found Love 3. JESSICA PARKER -- Come On 4. THK -- France 2000.Finally, I still maintain that the Global Groove cover art screams to be made into posters--or is that screaming coming from the fans, most of whom aren't wish that CD's themselves were as good as their covers?"

A mixed bag...

Daniel W. Kelly | Long Island, NY United States | 04/13/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"There's some soft, soulful house with vocals, odd old school techno rave sounds (like Strings 2000), a bit of trancey stuff, and one or two harder vocal tracks. It's nice to have the Johnny Vicious mix of Gigi D'Agostino in a pretty length version on disc. There's the pretty trance vocal of St. Etienne on a Paul Van Dyke track. Things with a very pretty but cheesy cover of Elton John by a male vocalist. Not my favorite of the series-I think these discs work better when the music is all of one variety trance/hardhouse/nrg, etc.





1. horny hustle (4:56)

2. Come On (4:41)

3. Somebody Found love (6:22)

4. Harvest for the World (9:06)

5. Bad Habit (5:19)

6. Tell me now (4:32)

7. France 2000 (5:38)

8. I'll Fly With you (7:55)

9. Strings 2000 (8:49)

10. Tell me Why (5:35)

11. Don't Let The Sun Go Down (6:01)"