As expected (on many compilations such as this one), a few of the tracks are predictable and unambitious but consider them breathers.
I'd recommend this for any trance collection.
The album is by and large conventional MoS trance, with only the occasional harder tune. To be fair, it is cheese free, and plugs into the clubber who likes trance not cheesy, but not tough to listen to.
There are a couple of stand-out harder tracks, such as the excellent 'Rise!' by Marco V, and the decent new mix of Binary Finary '1998' by Neo & Farina, but mostly this is just familiar tracks with slightly deeper remixes. Stuff like Snap! 'Rythm is a Dancer', Tomcraft 'Loneliness' and of course, the Magik Muzik (Tiesto) remix of Jurgen Vries 'Brave New World'. All good, chart stuff, but its never going to pass for hard, even on the more mainstream Nukleuz albums such as Hard Dance Anthems 2003, which is much better than this.
A couple of other good tracks are 'Synergy 2003' by the great Darren Tate, as well as 'Forever and a Day' by State One, aka Mike Koglin, which is the trance version of the BBC One theme.
As far as I'm concerned, I'll wait for the next Euphoria album if I wanted non-cheesy dance, and buy the new Extreme Euphoria if I wanted real hard house/trance. This is a decent effort, but it can't match the old Trance Nations, when Ferry Corsten was doing the rounds.
overall i would recommend this to most although serious trance fans will have heard this all before.
lets hope that the people who usually buy the MOS compilations (the cheesemongers) are educated by this and get into the real trance.
