Search - DJ Tiesto :: Summerbreeze

If you're new to Tiesto, this is a great choice!!

11/22/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard of DJ Tiesto around 2 years ago, just when trance was starting to make its long expected comeback. I believe that Tiesto will be the one to pioneer trance into the future.This cd contains some great tracks and one or two above average tracks....but thats the beauty of it. Tiesto's mixing and production capabilities make every song sound awesome. Highlights in this album include Tiesto's Magikal Remake of Yahel's Going Up, Sisko - Light Over Me, Jaimy and Kenny D - Caught Me Running, DJ Tiesto's ever uplifting Sparkles(one of my fave trance tracks), Delerium - Silence (Tiesto's Remix....who else!!), and lastly Major League - Wonder, which Tiesto co-produced with Armin Van Buuren(another dutch producer/DJ).There are many other Tiesto albums/compilations better than this one, but since most people in the U.S can't get most of the others (The Magik Series {1-7}, In Search of Sunrise), this is an excellent first cd for Tiesto in your part of the world. He may not be as popular as Oakenfold, Sasha or Van Dyk, but he's probably better than any of them. Don't take my word for it..buy the album and experience it for yourself. Pumpin, melodic, uplifting.........Magical (or Magikal, as Tiesto spells it).P.S.....Try to go and hear him spin in clubs or live events. I guarantee it will be the best clubbing experience in your life."

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Jeff | San Diego, CA | 04/20/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Over the past year or so, I have become more and more enraptured with Trance. It can be powerful and uplifting, it can be dark and mysterious, it can make you want to lie for hours in the dark with your eyes closed dreaming, or dance the nite away in a lasered, glow sticked, rollin-hard frenzy. All this magic is weaved threw the power of DJ's, which I put on the same level with composers like Mozart when it comes to mastery of music and emotion. There are many good DJ's out there, but Tiesto is the best of the best.Summerbreeze, DJ Tiesto's first American release is amazing. The track selection is perfect. It opens with the awe-inspiring Dido by Aria, that blooms with beats and vocals that sound straight out of heaven. The CD continues with the club-hit Dreaming by BT, who is a great talent himself, this song pounds away beautifully, beckoning you to the dancefloor. The next three tracks, Going Up by Yahel, Light Over Me by Sisko and Caught Me Running by Jaimy and Kenny D take you in another direction, on a sedated journey around your brain, or around the universe. The dreaming continues with songs 6-8, which are more melodic then the rest of the ablum. Dark Blue by Cabala, No More Tears by Allure and Far From Over by Kamaya Painters are slow and relaxing, and each song cascades into the next with no real peak. But they are still wonderful. Track nine rocks, Gothic Dream by Dawnseekers back-tracks and moves foward fast, higher and higher, and its momentum doesn't stop and flows flawlessly into track 10, DJ Tiesto's Sparkles, where the beats and melodies climb even higher, Sparkles is my favorite track. You want it to build and build into infinity. Instead you are brought back to Earth by the sweet voice of Sara MacLaclan on Silence by Delerium. Her voice more then the music carries the song, and she captures every song she sings so perfectly. And then the finale, Wonder by Major League, which exceeds Dido as the most powerful track on the ablum. With synths and swirls the that fall into deep powerful drums and then rise again into full on Ecstasy one wonders if mere mortals could have produced such music. This CD is a perfect example of why people sometimes say "God is a DJ". I highly recomend it, if you are first starting your Trance collection, or have been listening to it for years longer then I have. Five Stars!!"

Possibly the Best Compilation Ever

Jeff | 05/05/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A met a guy on the Internet, and he introduced me to DJ Tiesto. About a month later, I bought this cd, and I signed my soul over to him. That was in late October of 2000. Coming on to two years later, I still pop it in the deck once in a while, and love every waking second of it.It begins with a deep, haunting intro. Aria's Dido is remixed by Armin, and done in truely perfect form. The intro soon moves into a pounding, melodic masterpiece. After a few minutes, the sounds of BT mix in, with the Libra mix of Dreaming. Then, your ears are exposed to some dreamy trance before Jaimy and Kenny D burst in with the fifth track, Caught Me Running. After totally getting you up and moving, Tiesto changes the style back to the dreamy, captivating trance. Track number 11 is the big hit. Tiesto's own remix of Silence by Delerium hits the decks and makes you wonder what God liked so much about Tjis Verwest. Although outdated and overplayed by now, it was once as popular as sliced bread. After houding the airwaves, the cd makes room for the conclusion, Wonder? by Major League. Not losing any of the momentum gained in Silence, Wonder? plays out with full intensity, and lets the cd finish in fantastic form.What amazes me about this cd is the mixing is so perfect that I could swear it was mixed electronically. When I asked DJ Tiesto, he insisted that he mixed it live on turntables. I won't hazard to guess how many studio takes he went through to produce something as perfect as this."