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Today’s compilation:

Het beste uit de Mega Top 100 van 2000 2000 Pop / Pop-Rock / R&B / Latin Pop / Nu-Disco / Euro-Trance / Breakbeat

This one’s for the millennial nostalgia junkies out there who grew up listening to top 40 radio. A real blast from the past, trip-down-memory-lane type of double-disc here, but from a Dutch perspective. A lot of  global smash hits from the year 2000 are packed into this comp, like Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name,” Sisqó’s “Thong Song,” and Aaliyah’s “Try Again,” but then there’s songs that were huge in Europe that leave me scratching my head as to why they never managed to make it Stateside, like the boisterous nu-disco jam “I’m Outta Love” by Anastacia and “Never Be the Same” by Mel C of the Spice Girls featuring Left Eye from TLC. If you’ve got a Y2K pop playlist for yourself, I’d say that those two tunes are absolute must-adds.

A couple good, poppy electronic songs I’d never heard before are on here, too: “Will I Ever” by Alice Deejay (of “Better Off Alone” fame), which repurposes their trademark bleepiness yet again, and “Drop It” by Scoop. There’s also a Britney Spears song that wasn’t released as a single in the US, and I won’t say that I particularly like it, but she doesn’t really sound as young and sweet as she does on songs like “Hit Me Baby One More Time” or “Oops I Did It Again,” even though it’s from the same time period. Less vocal effects on her voice, I guess. Kinda interesting.

A good bunch of songs to reminisce on that you probably haven’t heard in a while, plus a few fun, Y2K-era tunes that you’ve probably never heard in your life. Pretty awesome comp 👍👍👍.

Highlights:

CD1:

Anastacia - “I’m Outta Love” Jennifer Lopez - “Let’s Get Loud” Alice DeeJay - “Will I Ever” Scoop - “Drop It” Sisqó - “Thong Song” Melanie C feat. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes - “Never Be the Same” The Corrs - “Breathless” Joe - “I Wanna Know” Toni Braxton - “He Wasn’t Man Enough” CD2:

Today’s mix:

Club Mix 99 by St. Peter & Heaven 1999 House / Trance / Progressive Trance / Big Beat / Nu-Disco

This double-disc mix has a lot of pros and a lot of cons, so let’s break them down, starting with the pros. First off, the selection on this thing is pretty great. When you have the backing of a major label like Universal to make a mix, you’re not gonna run into much trouble getting access to the tracks that you want. And it’s for mostly that reason that this mix is a good one. It has plenty of bangers: some bonafied, surface-level classics (I will never, ever tire of Alice Deejay’s “Better Off Alone”), some sweet remixes, and a bunch of tunes that should definitely be revisited again. Disc 1 consists of mostly house tracks and Disc 2 has lots of trance and progressive trance jams, and a common theme that seems to unite them both is an overarching feeling of warm bliss, with the second disc especially encouraging you to engage in some fancy-free fist pumpery. So if you wanna try to re-experience some of the sublime feelings of what the house and trance worlds were bopping to in the clubs in 1999 (or maybe experience 1999 for the first time), then this thing’ll do the trick.

Now for the cons. As far as the mixing goes, it’s really not great. Universal got a couple randos, a brother and sister duo who call themselves St. Peter & Heaven, to put this thing together. Looking at their Discogs profile, they’d done plenty of mixes before this one, but only for major labels, which leads me to believe that they just knew the right people and had never been awarded a major label mix assignment based on their skill or popularity among dance music fans.  As a result, the transitions tend to be weak, often sounding like your most basic crossfades, and placements of certain tracks are questionable at best. Another thing that Universal appears to have skimped on was the audio quality. With tracks like these, especially the epic and euphoric trance ones, you want stuff that’s at a premium sonic quality in order to get a full, immersive experience; the type of sound that makes you feel like you’re actually sitting in the decked-out studio that produced it. And the tunes on here don’t come close to that standard. But if you’re not much of an audiophile, it probably won’t bother you that much.

So, in conclusion, while this is a pretty ample mix for its selection and the fact that it reflects well upon 1999, there’s still probably better mixes out there that contain tracks of a similar caliber and are both sonically superior and have more authenticity.

Listen to Disc 1 here (minus track 1 for some reason). Listen to Disc 2 here (minus tracks 3 and 16 for some reason).

Highlights:

Disc 1:

Moloko - “Sing It Back (Boris Musical Mix)” Eclipse - “Makes Me Love You (Morning Star Mix)” Groove Armada - “At The River (English Riviera Mix)” Supakings - “Back & Forth” Basement Jaxx - “Red Alert (Jaxx Club Mix)” MAW Presents India - “To Be In Love (MAW ‘99 Mix)” Supercar - “Computer Love (Olav Basoski Remix)” Pete Heller - “Big Love (Eat Me Edit)” Powerhouse Featuring Duane Harden - “What You Need (Full Intention Power Mix)” Blockster - “Grooveline (Blockster Club Mix)” The Wiseguys - “Ooh La La” The 3 Jays - “Feeling It Too (Blunt Radio Edit)” Phats & Small - “Turn Around (Norman Cook Remix)” The Three Amigos - “Louie Louie (The Wiseguys)” Yomanda - “Synth & Strings” Disc 2:

Blade (1998)

Engeki Haikyuu OST Online Streaming!

Beginning Aug. 14, the three Engeki Haikyuu OST’s will become available on major music streaming platforms!

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There’s a whole lot more to Brazilian music than Samba, Capoeira music and Bossa Nova. And there is also Brazilian Soul Music. Brazil has a rich history of Funk and Soul and the godfather of Brazilian soul is Tim Maia. He’s the most famous soul singer from Brasil. And here are many more soul and funk artists from Brasil. We’ve compiled a list with 15 of the best Brazilian Soul tracks. 

Brazilian Soul Music

Bons Momentos - Serginho Miriti (Bons Momentos, 1981)

Chove Chuva - Samba Soul (Samba Soul, 1977)

Eu Tenho Um Som Novo - Toni Tornado (Toni Tornado, 1972)

Galope - Luiz Gonzaga Jr. (Luiz Gonzaga Jr., 1974)

Hot Pants Road (Estrada Do Desejo) - Boogaloo Combo (Com Muito Ritmo, 1972) 

Macumba - Erlon Chaves e Banda Veneno (Internacional Vol. 5., 1974)

Mandamentos Black - Gerson King Combo (Gerson King Combo, 1977)

Mane Joao - Franko Xavier (Franko Xavier, 1974)

Mister Brown - Bebeto (Mister Brown / Zé Do Tamborim, 1973)

Não Tem Nada Não - Marcos Valle (Previsão Do Tempo, 1973)

Não Vou Ficar - Roberto Carlos ‎(Roberto Carlos, 1969)

Pode Se Queimar - Miguel de Deus (Black Soul Brothers, 1977)

Por Nossa Senhora - Antonio Carlos E Jocafi ‎(Antonio Carlos E Jocafi, 1973)

Rational Culture -  Tim Maia (The Existential Soul of Tim Maia, 2012)