Y3K is a 60-minute progressive breakbeat education. DJ Hyper takes the role of teacher, mixing together a varied selection of rare and exclusive tracks. These have been hand-picked to represent the whole progressive breaks curriculum, from lush and melodic to dark and moody, with a load of squelchy electro in between. The album kicks off with a succession of soaring, cinematic cuts from the ...
Despite the grandiose title, none of the usual dance-floor suspects--Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Fatboy Slim--are present. Instead this peculiar compilation throws up an incongruous variety of remixes by artists as disparate as Gene Loves Jezebel and the Future Sound of London, with no discernible link. Thus, Bow Wow Wow's early-1980s pop hit "I Want Candy (Girl Eats Boy Remix)" sits uneasily ...