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On November 24th, 2000, a bunch of friends and I went to go see God (Paul Oakenfold) spin at Buzz in Washington DC. I had a vastly incredible time there, and wanted to recapture the music that made it such a life-changing experience. I found a partial setlist of the songs he spun, and compiled a bunch of tracks together on one CD. I also mixed the beginnings and endings of the songs to blend or fade into each other. While the CD is only an hour long, and Oakey's set was three hours long, I still feel as though it is a good representation of the atmosphere and intensity of the club.

01 Lost It.com - Animal
02 U2 - Beautiful Day (Perfecto Mix)
03 X-Press 2 - AC/DC
04 Velvet Girl - Velvet
05 Utah Saints - Lost Vagueness
06 Tilt vs. Paul Van Dyk - Rendezvous
07 Azzido da Bass - Doom's Night
08 Timo Maas - Ubik
09 PMT - Gyromancer
10 Solar Stone - Seven Cities
11 Mekka - Diamondblack
12 CJ Bolland - The Prophet
 
I made this CD back when Circuit City used to let me play my own music at work. I wanted to play Pink Floyd CDs, but they all have a song or two where it's just really quiet, or it's just random noise. So I decided to put a bunch of my favorite songs on a CD to play.

01 Run Like Hell
02 Sheep
03 Wish You Were Here
04 Free Four
05 Dogs of War
06 One Slip
07 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
08 Have a Cigar
09 Comfortably Numb
10 Keep Talking
11 Money
12 Poles Apart
13 The Gold it's in the...
14 Brain Damage
15 Eclipse
 
I don't like rap in general. But hey, there are a few songs that are kind of cool, so I took a bunch that I thought were okay and put them on a CD, so when my friends want to listen to rap, I can put this in and not feel completely ill.

01 "Airplane!" - Jive Talk
02 Puff Daddy - Come With Me
03 Insane Clown Posse - Fuck the World
04 2-Pac - California Love
05 Busta Ryhmes - Gimme Some More
06 Beastie Boty - Intergalactic
07 Onyx - Slam
08 Vanilla Ice - Too Cold
09 DMX - Slippin'
10 Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
11 Insane Clown Posse - The Neden Game
12 Onyx & Biohazard - Judgement Night
13 2-Pac - Changes
14 Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life
15 Rage Against the Machine and Snoop Dogg - Bounce to This
16 Eminem - My Name Is
17 Sporty Theives - No Pigeons
 
I got this CD from Pizza Hut and CDnow.com. They had a promotion when you bought a certain pizza, you get to make a six song custom CD from a list of songs they had. Most of it was crap, but they had a bunch of Megadeth and Chemical Brothers to chose from. The title of the CD came from a quote in the movie "Half-Baked."

01 Megadeth - Almost Honest
02 Megadeth - Crush 'Em
03 Megadeth - Insomnia
04 Megadeth - Trust
05 Megadeth - Use the Man
06 Chemical Brothers - Out of Control
 
I decided to make this CD for when I just felt like listening to the hardest, loudest, and most thrashing music I could think of. When I'm in a real headbanging mood. And it works quite well.

01 Snot - Snot
02 POD - Southtown
03 Sevendust - Bender
04 Tool - Jerk Off (Live)
05 Stabbing Westward - The Thing I Hate
06 Limp Bizkit - Pollution
07 In Flames - Zombie, Inc.
08 Fear Factory - Soulwound
09 Queensryche - The Needle Lies
10 Coal Chamber - Loco
11 Soulfly - Eye For an Eye
12 Staind - Mudshovel
13 Metallica - Die, Die My Darling
14 Godsmack - Bad Religion
15 Pantera - Throes of Rejection
16 Slayer - Blood Red
17 Slipknot - Surfacing
18 KoRn - Good God
19 Judas Priest - Blood Stained
20 Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
 
Ahh the High Rollin compilations.. my proudest achievement (hehe). Once I started listening to trance music, I realized that for every CD there is, there's only a few songs that are really good, and everything else on the album pretty much sucks. Only a certain few can actually put you in a zone where you can't focus on anything else but the music. So, I decided to take all the songs that did just that and complile them on a CD. When I realized I couldn't fit them all on just one CD, I decided to make it a double disc set. What more, I personally mixed the tracks together so that the end of one song would blend in to the beginning of the next. Either by fading one out while the next one faded in, or matching the beats of the songs together so it seemed like the song naturally transitioned to the next. I got better and better at it with each High Rollin compilation I made.

Disc 1
01 Ascension - Someone (Slacker and Original Vocal Mix)
02 Lost Trive - Gamemaster (Original Mix)
03 Paul Van Dyk - Forbidden Fruit
04 Astral Projection - Still Dreaming (Anything Can Happen)
05 Orbital - Halcyon & On & On
06 ATB - Don't Stop
07 ATB - Obsession
08 Robert Miles - Fable (Message Version)
09 Prodigy - Climbatize
10 X-Dream - Do You Believe
11 Astral Projection - Aqua Line Spirit

Disc 2
01 Keoki - Majick
02 ATB - 9pm (Till I Come)
03 Agnelli + Nelson - El Nino (Matt Darey 12" Mix)
04 Astral Projection - Maian Dream
05 Rob D - Clubbed To Death (Kurayamino Mix)
06 New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Recontruction Mix)
07 X-Dream - Our Own Happiness
08 Doof - Mars Needs Women
09 Paul Van Dyk - Words (For Love) (Original Mix)
10 Gearwhore - Passion (Harley Mix)
11 Robert Miles - Children (Original Verison)
12 Esthero with Danny Saber - Song For Holly
 
A few weeks after I made High Rollin, I had discovered a lot more trance music, and decided to make another compilation. This one, however, is just a single disc.

01 Theme - Braveheart (Techno Remix)
02 Unknown - Orleans
03 Paul Van Dyk - Seven Ways (Star Ways)
04 Tykwer/Kilmek/Heil - Supermarket
05 X-Dream - The Frog
06 The Touch - Remixes (Remix featuring Chelsea)
07 Art of Trance - Madagascar (Ferry Corsten Remix)
08 Unknown - Vertigo
09 ATB - Too Much Rain (ATB vs. United DJs)
10 Theme - Star Wars (Techno Remix)
11 Fantasy - Ecstatic (Fantasy Edition)
12 Binary Finary - 1998 (Matt Darey Remix)
13 Moby - Inside
14 Lost Tribe - Under the Red Sea
 
After I made High Rollin' 2, I didn't think I was going to make another one. HR2 was originally only 45 minutes long, and I needed another 25 to fill the CD, so I put a bunch of songs on there that weren't all that great. I had run out of songs! HR2 got mixed reviews. Some people loved it, some people didn't care for a lot of the songs. But then in May of 2000, I aquired a whole new batch of trance music that was just phenominal. The result is HR3, maybe the best HR to date. It certainly is the best mixed one; the way the tracks blend into each other is almost flawless.

01 Unknown - Raver's Paradise
02 Alice Deejay - The Lonely One
03 Eiffel 65 - The Edge
04 ATB - Movin' Melodies
05 Taste Experience - Highlander
06 Sonique - It Feels So Good (Trance Mix)
07 The Generator - Where Are You Now? (Moonman Remix)
08 Armin - Communication (Original Mix)
09 Storm - Storm
10 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Remix)
11 Mike Koglin - The Silence (12" Club Mix)
12 Cygnus - The Orange Theme
13 Tilt vs. Paul Van Dyk - Rendezvous (Quadraphonic Mix)
 
I felt it was time to do another double disc High Rollin' album. This one was going to have a theme to it, with HR 4.10 being hard, fast, intense trance, while HR 4.20 being soft, mellow, and slow trance. HR 4.10 borrows heavily from Paul Oakenfold albums or mixes; in fact, only 3 songs on it haven't been spun by Oakey. HR 4.20 borrows a lot from Sasha, as well as some of Oakey's mellower tracks.

High Rollin 4.10
01 Space Brothers - Shine (Full Vocal 12" Mix)
02 Nat Monday - Nucleus (Main Mix)
03 Spoiled & Zigo - More and More
04 Marillion - Memory of Water
05 Jon Vesta - Gull
06 Space Manoeuvres - Stage One
07 Hatious - Amber
08 Rythym of Life - You Put Me in Heaven With Your Touch
09 Hybrid - Airless
10 UTM - Stream
11 Lisa Gerrald - Sacrifice
12 Lost It.com - Animal
13 Velvet Girl - Summertime
14 Novy vs. Eniac - Pumpin (DJ Icey Re-Edit)
15 Key Cee - Escape (Electro Mix)

High Rollin 4.20
01 Accadia - Into the Dawn
02 Cass-Slide - Opera (Beckett's Phantom Only Mix)
03 God Within - Raincry
04 Rabbit in the Moon - Out of Body Experience
05 Y Traxx - Mystery Land
06 Tilt - Butterfly
07 Lustral - Everytime
08 Head Honcho - Walls of Jericho
09 Jamex Presents Tatoine - Music
10 Salt Talk - Eugina 2000 (Progressive Summer Mix)
 
High Rollin 5 is the product of a splurge of CD purchases and downloads. I acquired more Oakey, Euphoria volumes one through four, and various other miscellanious albums. Despite it being two discs and 25 songs, it wasn't enough. My original tracklist called for over 35 songs! I had to trim the ones I didn't feel belonged with the rest of the album. My mixing has progessed even further by now; not only do I fade each song, but I manage to beat match most of them by accelerating or decelerating the tempo. Keep in mind I have no turntables! All this mixing was done with a simple .WAV editing program. This compilation features some old classic tunes as well, like 'It's a Fine Day,' 'Flaming June,' and 'Heaven Scent.'

Disc 1
01 Tilt - I Dream
02 Mekka - Diamondback
03 Jan Johnston - Flesh (Tiesto Remix)
04 Red Devil - Gamelan
05 RR Workshop - Mess With Da Bull
06 Max Graham - Airtight
07 Skip Raiders f. Jada - Another Day
08 ATB f. Miss Jane - It's a Fine Day
09 Bedrock - Heaven Scent
10 Delerium - Silence
11 Solar Stone - Seven Cities
12 Leeds & Dunne f. Vanessa - Stay With Me
13 BT - Dreaming

Disc 2
01 Blank & Jones - Cream (Paul Van Dyk Remix)
02 Deepsky - Stargazer
03 Planet Perfecto - Bullet in the Gun
04 Shane - C'est Muzique (Armin Van Buuren Remix)
05 Rank 1 - Airwave
06 Transa - Supernova
07 Lost Tribe - Angel
08 Schiller - Ruhe (Humate Mix)
09 Delerium - Heaven's Earth
10 The Argonauts - Sommertag (Main Mix)
11 BT - Flaming June (BT and PVD Original Mix)
12 Expansion Union - Playing With Lightning
 
Wow. Although I am proud of my work, I didn't exactly realize how much my friends liked the High Rollin compilations until I made this one. Not to brag, but this is easily in the top 3 favorite CDs of all my friends who listen to trance. The mixing is near flawless, the track selection brilliant, and even the CD label is cool. *grin* I've even had a professional DJ compliment the album.

01 Safri Duo - Played Alive (The Bongo Song)
02 Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the Sky
03 Barthezz - On the Move
04 Luzon - The Baguio Track
05 LSG - Train of Thought
06 Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp
07 Aurora - Ordinary World
08 Fragma - Toca Me
09 Lange - I Believe
10 The Infernal Machine - Realistic
11 Infected Mushroom - Symphonatic
12 Hands Burn - Good Shot
13 Bunker - Descent
14 Desyfer - 831
15 Planet Heaven - Nautical Bodies
16 Tillman & Ries - Free
 
This installment of the High Rollin' series is darker and slower. This is a true trance album, no fluff or cheese on it. It uses a lot of Sasha & Digweed, and some old school Oakenfold. No one really likes this CD, but I think it's one of the best High Rollin albums. An aquired taste, for sure.

01 Junk Project - Composure
02 Mainline - Narcotic
03 Dutch Liquid - Rush
04 Allium - MOT Venture
05 Spooky - Little Bullet
06 Evolution - Phoenix
07 Tijuana - Groove is in the Air
08 Sven Vath - Barbarella
09 Satoshi Tomie - Love in Traffic
10 Madam - Penetration
11 Joshua Ryan - Pistolwhip
12 BT - Dreaming
13 Tilt f. Grace - Invisible
14 Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You (Oakey's 1997 remix)
 
It's back to hard trance for this one, a rollercoaster of buildups, breaks, vocals, and catchy hooks. It's a tie between this one and #6 for the best High Rollin' album.

01 Adam Dived - Deep Inside
02 Mutiny UK - The Virus
03 Progress - Symphonic Music
04 Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia
05 Greece 2000 - Three Drives on a Vinyl
06 Chac - 7 Years
07 Unknown - Unknown
08 Johnny Vicious - Here With Me
09 Keoki - Jealousy
10 Airscape - L'Esperanza
11 Norma Bass - How U Like Bass
12 Paul Van Dyk - Out There & Back
 
Ahhh, more deep trance at its best. With each successive HR, the mixing gets better and better.

01 Radiohead - Everything in its Right Place (Hybrid Mix)
02 John Digweed - Unknown Track
03 Chemical Brothers - Influence
04 James Holden - Horizon
05 Lemon 8 - The Inner Sanctuary Sessions
06 Paul Oakenfold f. Tiff Lacey - Hypnotised
07 Dee Dee - Forever
08 Conjure 1 - Untitled (Max Graham Deadsea Mix)
09 Push - The Legacy
10 Sunscreem vs. Pusj - Please Save Me
11 PPK - ResuRection (Space Club Mix)
12 Planisphere - Ozone
13 Elton John - Rocketman (Oakenfold Mix)
14 Jose Amnesia - The Eternal
15 Stargate - D-Formaz
16 Conga Squad - I Lose It
 
I decided to break away from the High Rollin series to try something different. This is probably the highest energy mix of them all with some heavy trance and epic buildups.

01 Klea - Tic Toc (Paul Van Dyk Dub Re-Edit)
02 Jose Amnesia - The Eternal (Paul Van Dyk Muzik Mag Mix)
03 The Moon f. NU-NRG - Supersonic (Promo)
04 Insigma - Open Your Eyes (Insigma Mix)
05 Prime Mover - The Weapon (Grinder Mix)
06 Miro - By Your Side (Dick Van Koch Remix)
07 Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth (Airwave Remix)
08 Main Element - Take Me Down (Original Mix)
09 Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)
10 Jericho - Personal Reflection (DJ Tiesto Mix)
11 Mansun - Wide Open Space (Perfecto Mix)
12 Coldplay - Clocks (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)
13 Solar Stone - Solar Coaster (Original Mix)
 
I made this CD back when I worked at Circuit City, as an excuse to play nice rock songs with cool guitar riffs and solos. (Tracklist coming soon)

 
While I don't like making mix CDs in general, except for "themed" ones like the High Rollin compliations, I decided to make one of all my favorite hard rocking songs at the moment. The title comes from the movie "Tomcats." So here it is:

01 Methods of Mayhem - Proposition Fuck You
02 System of a Down - Toxicity
03 Deftones - 7 Words
04 Sevendust - Licking Cream
05 OneSideZero - Holding Cell
06 Slipknot - Spit It Out
07 Tool - 46 & 2
08 KoRn - Divine
09 Disturbed - Down With the Sickness
10 Primer 55 - The Big Fuck You
11 In Flames - Ordinary Story
12 System of a Down - Chop Suey
13 Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
14 Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
15 Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Dropping Anchor
16 Deftones - Nosebleed
17 Disturbed - Conflict
18 Sevendust - Bitch
19 Snot - I Jus' Lie
20 Metallica - So What
21 Phunk Junkeez - Devil Woman