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I have heard many of the Back to Mine mixes and this is one of the better ones. Some are just too mellow, and some aren't mellow enough. This one achieves the perfect balance.
Faithless to me still has the best Back to Mine mix I've heard. To me that is the standard of the series.
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I lived in Europe for awhile, and I've always enjoyed European "chill" music, the after-hours "coming down" CD you would put on the stereo after a heavy night of club-hopping downtown. There's a certain beautiful, brooding mystique to the postclub chill genre--not quite as heavy or intense as a Massive Attack album and not as annoying as your archtypical techno track--the songs on this album possess a sort of jazzy, urbane sophistication that captures the essense of trip-hop and electronica. There are MANY CDs like this, mind you, but this is an excellent album to start off your collection on the post-dancefloor music genre. 4 stars.
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I own all of them, and I must say, this is still the very BEST in the series. Recent efforts by Orbital and New Order have been disappointing and just don't even compare. EBTG, Faithless, Nick Warren, and Talvin Singh stick to the original "chill" premise.
"Turn the lights down, pour yourself a drink, and kick back.." Wasn't that what the Back to Mine series was suppose to be all about?
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Best CD I heard in 2002. Laid back but not overly so. I'm not quite sure how anyone can actually sleep to this CD as the insomniac reviewer stated unlees their use to listening to music at a 180 beats per minute. O'Hara's song brilliantly brings down the pace for a few moments until accelerating back to the CD's mostly mid-tempo vibe w/ Roots's Silent Treatment. Perfect for ecletic fans of jazz, hip hop, and house.
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As a certified insomniac, I've found it necessary to devote a whole section of my record shelf to music that will put me to sleep. Not in the mind-numbingly dreary way that, say, Enya might, but pleasantly and with the possibility of pleasant dreams. This disc does it for me every time. It's especially good for airplanes -- I was never able to sleep on airplanes before.
This isn't to say that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed it awake, too. The natural flow of these tunes is so carefully directed that it accomplishes what only the best mixes can: it becomes its own work of genius. Don't listen to it before midnight, but do listen to it. It's the best of the BTM collection, and the chillest thing I own.
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