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Review: Russell Baillie
The biggest brand name in the trance and hard house business, the UK-based Gatecrasher Global Sound System, touches down at the Aotea Centre next Thursday.
Should you feel the urge for some endurance training for the event you could always introduce this spin-off to your lounge — an Australian-compiled 33-track double CD album presented in a package of eye-catching graphics.
Within the two discs — entitled Latitude and Longitude respectively — GGSS variously goes whoosh, sigh, squelch and thumpity-thump-thump with unwavering pneumatic determination.
Among the featured names and/or highlights are Delerium featuring folkie Sarah McLachlan on Silence, Paul Van Dyk, BT and the ubiquitous Moby with a heady remix of Natural Blues (the "trouble so hard" one).
The debate about the merits of trance aside, listening to this long, exhausting but impressively epic album under domestic conditions raises the perennial question: does this music work anywhere else but on a very big dancefloor filled by a bunch of your new best friends?
<i>Various:</i> Gatecrasher Global Sound System
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