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Music Quickies: Tunnel Trance Force (Tunnel)

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Tunnel Trance Force Series   People say that Tunnel is more consistant, however the albums must be listened as a mix and most of the songs are too short for standalone listening. Also the beats are more repetitive and it doesn't go as epic as FT's songs do.... they are more lower profile trance songs while FT goes more epic with certain songs like Nostra Terra (Can We Turn It Around) (vol 60) Pure Energy 2012 (vol 58) Opera by Matt's Mattara (vol 58) Salva Mea (vol 56), Peaktime Symphony (vol 46) The Black Pearl (vol 46) La Isla Bonita (backslash vs mikkas rmx) (vol 45) and a few others.... This is still an excellent series and it's now joined the Holy Trinity with Future Trance, and Dream Dance, since Trance Voices has taken a hiatus.

Music Quickies: Clubland Series (AATW)

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Clubland Series   This series started out as real club music and was amazing and had an awesome mix of trance, house, and eurodance. It was THE club compilation. It started adding more house styles and less trance styles around volume 13 but still had good tracks. had some hands-up added as well. Around volume 15 I'd say it started to have way too much hip-hop and pop stuff that can be found on Now, Bravo Hits, etc... Volumes 16,17,18,19,and 20 have too much pop tracks that it has become more of a "Now That's What I Call Music" type compilation rather then a genuine Clubland compilation. These are songs for the mainstream radio and not the clubs. Not unless the club scene has really gone downhill since the glory days. I hope to see the series have more of the music that draws people to the clubs in the first place. More of the types of music that's not on any other compilations and to bring the series up to its name.

Music Quickies: Future Trance (Polystar)

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Future Trance   Future Trance and Dream Dance and Trance Voices are the holy trinity of Electronica music. Too bad Trance Voices hasn't had a new release since 2010 :-( I loooove that one. So Tunnel Trance Force has kinda filled in.... Those albums are the biggest and often the best sampling... I do admit FT had a bit of a slump and vol 53, 50, 45 and some of the selections on some of the teens weren't so good..... However that series on a whole is nice... They have picked back up and have done a very good job with the 57,58,59,60 tracks... However on a whole the series is fantastic and it seems to be everyone's starting point into Trance, Hardtrance, and Hands-up. I recommend the following volumes as a whole: 15-42,43,47,52,54,55,56,57,58,59,60 There are a few tracks on the ones I didn't list, however the albums may not be worth purchasing and you would be best off buying the individual tracks. Please note, however, that this series is primarily hardtr...