 |  | The best bang for your buck |  |
SO i ordered this cassette and every single song on it i love, over 2.5 hours of great music for $2! ive been listening to this thing over and over, i like every single song on here except for one at the front of one of the tapes, so when u turn it on dont let it scare you its only like 3 minutes and then 2:27:00 of great music all the way!
January 27, 2008Absolutely amazing! I used to listen to this cd all the time as a young teen. It has some really amazing tracks that bring back lots of memories! If your interested in this cd when you get it check out track 7 by Keoki on disc one. Disc two is my favorite, check out tracks 2, 5, (my fave) 6, and 10. PLUR
May 26, 2007 | | The year techno was positioned to be "the next big thing"... | |
I bought this when it first came out having listened to early techno such as Eon and early Moby, having attended some raves once they had crept out of the underground. So I was merely dabbling, having no idea until years later just what techno was all about. So I picked up this CD. The fact it was a compilation from K-Tel and the fact that one of the songs on here - Propellerheads "Take California" - was up for a grammy, electronic music being a new category is indicative of the fact that "electronica" was poised to be the next big thing. Fortunately, it never became such and it still remains relatively underground, Moby aside.
I am astounded at how well of a representation of electronica is contained in this disc. Many of the artists such as The Chemical Brothers, BT, Rabbit in the Moon, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy and Underworld, went even further on their way to success. Even a tune by Derrick May, one of the legends of techno out of Detroit, is on this compilation. A few songs are more or less disposable or the artist could have been better represented but for the most part this CD does a great service to a history of techno right at its cusp of going popular.
It's not a continuous mix and I find it hard to listen to the entire thing at one sitting but it's a great way to go back and it's also a great to remind yourself of how far this type of music has come.
October 26, 2006| | | Go To The Digital Empire.... | |
...put some electronica in your CD collection. This is the start of the popular DE electronica/trance/trip hop series and you can't go wrong with some of the names featured here--Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Frankie Knuckles--explosions in the art of noise. It will definitely help make you an electronica fan.
January 8, 2005| | | Superb 2-Disc Compilation | |
"Digital Empire: Electronica's Best" is, overall, a superb 2-disc compilation of mainstream electronica/techno songs from the late 1990s ('95 - '98). With so many popular bands/artists featured on here, it's easy to please most listeners.
Disc One starts off with one of my favorite songs and bands on here: "No Good (Start the Dance)" by The Prodigy. It's an almost un-Prodigy-like track--particularly if you're used to their songs like "Firestarter" and "Smack My B*tch Up"--mainly because of the female vocals.
A few of my other favorites on Disc One are pretty much the obvious choices: "Busy Child" by The Crystal Method, "Roots" by Mark Verbos (ok, not so obvious), and "Choose Life" by PF Project featuring Ewan McGregor from the movie "Trainspotting" (no f-ing four-letter UK swears here, though; it's all censored). In my opinion, this latter track (#11) should have traded places with the last track on Disc One: "Shnowed In" by Hawke. Number 12's ok (though I tend to forget it and turn the CD off after 11), but 11 would have made a better finale.
Disc Two, as well, opens with another good song: "Block Rockin' Beats" by The Chemical Brothers. Like Disc One, it's full of mainstream, high-energy songs (like a few of my faves: "Going Out of My Head" by Fatboy Slim, "One 4 Da Head" by Buzz Fiend, "414" by Doormouse, and "Born Slippy" by Underworld--yet another track off the "Trainspotting" soundtrack), as well as some slower, more mellower tracks, such as two gems that come to mind: "Subconscious" by Rabbit in the Moon and "Flaming June" by BT.
Together, these two CDs provide well over two hours of mostly high-energy electronica music. If you're a fan of more than a handful of bands/artists on here, then "Digital Empire: Electronica's Best" is definitely a must-have. You'll love it. Also recommended: all the other "Digital Empire" CDs. June 8, 2003
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