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PERFECTO PRESENTS ANOTHER WORLD
Paul Oakenfold
(Sire/Warner)
"Babe," comes the familiar nasal voice, rising out of a dry-ice swirl of synthesizers and drum-machine thump. "Baby, baby, I'm gonna leave you." Yes, it's Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant -- or at least his decades-old vocal track from Babe I'm Gonna Leave You -- sliced, diced and remixed into a stomping dance-floor filler on British deejay Paul Oakenfold's new progressive-trance mix album Perfecto Presents Another World. Obliterating all trace of Zep's dinosaur-rock swagger, this version by British remixer Quiver wraps Plant's voice in layers of echo and underscores it with keyboards worthy of John Paul Jones, pulling the tune straight into the new millennium. Too bad Oakenfold -- who assembled this set with tracks from his own Perfecto label -- stops there. After Quiver's inspired remixing, the rest of this two-discer is deathly pale by comparison, with Oakenfold digging in the crates for remixed versions of Dead Can Dance (Host of the Seraphim), Lisa Gerrard (Sacrifice) and Vangelis (Bladerunner), which he weaves into your standard, hypnotically repetitive house mix. Next time, more rock and less shlock, Paul.
Track Listing
DISC 1
1. Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
2. Tone Depth - Majestic
3. Chilled Eskimo - Take Me Away
4. Led Zeppelin - Baby I'm Gonna Leave You
5. Timo Maas - Ubik (The Dance)
6. LSG - Into Deep
7. Max Graham - Alright
8. Planet Perfecto - Bullet In A Gun (Rabbit In The Moon Mix)
9. Brancaccio & Aisha - Darker
10. Dead Can Dance - Sanvean
11. Highland - No Way Out
12. Max Graham - Bamone
13. Amoebassassin - Pile Driver
DISC 2
1. Jamez Presents Tatoin - Music
2. Salt Tank - Eugina 2000 (Progressive Summer Mix)
3. Sabel - Song To The Siren
4. Skope - Back & Front
5. Jan Johnson - Flesh
6. Vangelis - Rachel's Song
7. Lisa Gerrard - Sacrifice
8. Lost.It.Com - Animal
9. Black Watch - North Sky
10. Delirium - The Silence 2000