House music is not rocket science, but yet how often is it that one finds a solid, nearly 100% quality mix CD like this one? Starting with the classy vocal track "Afterglow by J-Punch Featuring Harland, this gets atmospheric before bringing out the inevitable not still not half bad electro with "Freaks (Keep Rocking) by Richard Humpty Vision. An utterly puzzling bootleg of "West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys follows, but Dustins "Hardtime thankfully gets things back on track with a hypnotic groove powered by a looped female vocal. This slams awkwardly into the slightly obvious but nonetheless good, super-house-y track "Everyone by Static Revenger. Its about a millimetre away from being an S Club 7 theme song, but just pulls it off. Humpty returns again with some house-y goods before Jay Walkers dirty, minimal filtered house track "Sense takes over. Bryan Coxs big-room, big-vocal houser "Music Is Moving closes things out on a very three a.m. note. Certainly no surprises here, but a quality collection of tunes (for the most part), mixed (for the most part) quite well. Worth a listen.
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System House Anthems No. 1
BY Matthew HiscockPublished Dec 1, 2005