Various - Human Traffic Soundtrack

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Review: Russell Baillie


A double-CD collection from the current Cardiff-based film which attempts - unsuccessfully, we've heard - to do for ecstasy culture what Trainspotting did for heroin.

The two instalments offer both listenability and rave-power, the first mixing requisite off-your-nut dialogue (or is it Welsh?) with big beat (Fatboy Slim, Jacknife Lee, Death In Vegas), hip-hop (Public Enemy), drum'n'bass (Dillinja) and ambient techno (Orbital, William Orbit).

The second is a mix album from house master Pete Tong, his turntable tag-team including tracks from Armand Van Helden, Carl Cox, Underworld and Primal Scream.

A meaty collection, all up. It might be a small-scale film but its soundtrack goes successfully for a big dancefloor picture.