Monday, December 22, 2008

Spa Tick's Top 5 Favourite Mix Compilations of 2008

Been a pretty good year for quality compilations, many of which I dig too but unfortunately I can't list all. Here are my Top 5 favourite progressive/trance compilations of the year.

In particular order, they are:

5. Marcus Schossow - Tone Diary presents Ukraine

Schossow has a unique sound, somewhat channeled into this compilation, a very interesting album(2 discs) to listen to indeed!

4. Rank 1 presents High Contrast Recordings

Never really heard a mix compilation from them before, great track arrangments/selectionson this 2CD compilation for maximum aural pleasure.

3. Sasha - Involver 2

A truly immersive progressive sound to follow up on Sasha's Involver album! The wait was definitely worth it though!

2. Markus Schulz - Hypnotic Music Volume 12 (A/X)

This double album is chock full of progressive-trance gems. A beauty encompassing 2 CDs, including yet another great mix of Big Sky (If you're not sick of it yet that is LOL)

And Number One is...
1. Airwave - Summer Euphoria

So warm, so soothing, yet so epic, haunting, beautiful, a masterpiece mix with a fitting climax in the form of the euphoric Airwave track Urban Toureg. This is my fave mixed album of the year by far!

Overall, a great year and looking forward to yet another great year!

Disappointment of the Year:

Thrilseekers - Nightmusic Vol 3

Compared to Nightmusic Volume 2 (which was my favourite mix compilation last year), this year's was bland and predictable. Bleah.


*I have updated the links from July to present so they are all working now. Let me know if u wanna sample my fave 5 albums too and i can pm you!
*Up next - my Fave Top 5 Artiste Albums of 2008 and a mix of Fave Top 20 tracks of 2008 !

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