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Live At The Love Parade [Enhanced]

Dave (Various) Ralph (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

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Audio CD (Aug 1 2008)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Enhanced
Label: Kinetic Records
ASIN: B00004YWZG

Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #228,532 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Impact - John Johnson

2. Deep Blue - Nuclear Ramjet

3. Musak - Trisco

4. Flash (Timo Maas Remix) - Green Velvet

5. No Greater Love (Tour De Force Remix) - Noel W. Sanger

6. Track One (Steve Porter Remix) - Kolo

7. Freet - Tata Box Inhibitors

8. Airtight - Max Graham

9. Music - Jamez

10. Shoreline - Max Graham

11. DJ Stigma Presents Baby Sunshine (Stigs Original Club Mix) - DJ Stigma

12. Porcelain (Torsten Stenzel's Vocaldubmix) - Moby

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To borrow a page from the Unsolved Mysteries dictionary, Dave Ralph's follow-up to Tranceport 2 is less like an actual live album than a reenactment. A dramatization, if you will, based upon the test sets Ralph spun leading up to his stint at Berlin's monstrously large annual Love Parade party. Don't let that "not really live" thing dissuade you, though. Live at the Love Parade actually bests most of its peers when it comes to capturing the dynamics of a live set. Anything you'd ever want on a dance floor is here in some fashion, be it echoey breaks (Nuclear Ramjet's "Deep Blue"), jumpy piano (Takka Box Inhibitor's "Freet"), burbly synths (Noel Sanger's "No Greater Love") or tons of emotional build-ups and breakdowns. Ralph's choice of a closing tune, a very front-and-center vocal dub of the omnipresent "Porcelain," is the best indicator of his main strength behind the decks, the ability to create and sustain a mood. While certainly not the most engaging mix of Moby's home-listening masterpiece, it's the mix that best sustains and summarizes the set's loved-up vibe. --Bob Michaels

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relatively boring with few bright spots May 27 2002

By George Hunt

Format:Audio CD

Compared to other Dave Ralph releases, this CD is very repetitive in an annoying way. I'm not a fan of simplistic banging beats, so my bias is showing here. Ralph's track selection is heavy on the straight-forward thumping and crashing, lacking the polyrhythmic and melodically intricate sounds that make Tranceport 2 so hypnotic and engaging. It seems that he, like so many other DJ's, got swept up in the anti-trance sentiment of the last couple of years, moving away from anything with emotional expression or musical complexity. Hopefully this trend has peaked and we'll see a broad spectrum of "trance" and related genres being released, and there won't be any more musical abortions like this one from an otherwise excellent DJ.

So why do I give it 3 stars after roasting it? Cuz it ain't quite as bad as I'm makin' it sound! It just annoys me that he didn't follow up Tranceport 2 with something of comparable quality.

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I'll concur with the masses on this one. Jan 23 2002

By Marshall Stanton

Format:Audio CD

I have to agree that this isn't Dave Ralph's most amazing set of tracks, but his work is so consistantly excellent that it still outshines most of his peers (and certainly all the punters in the space). I'd recommend this to people who have either a large trance collection already or who are diehard Dave Ralph fans.

I fall into both categories, so there's certainly no regrets in my purchase. For the record, if you're looking for really strong work by the same artist, pick up Tranceport 2. A little dated, but still very strong indeed.

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Decent and worth buying April 14 2001

By Sam McCarthy

Format:Audio CD

While this was definitely not as cutting-edge and innovative as Tranceport II was, it is still a very good effort by Mr. Ralph, Oakenfold's right-hand man. Tport 2 was a very gritty and futuristic style that hinged on a very progressive sound with minimal touches of anthem-like melodies and nasty industrial, tech samples. Love Parade jettisons this type of sound on Love Parade, which was NOT taped as a live recording at this year's mega-rave in Germany, Love Parade.

The sound attempts to capture the darkness and deep trance sound from Dj's like Digweed and Sandra Collins. And though not as good as classics like Northern Exposure: Expeditions or the classic Lost in Time, Collins' first release, LP is well-done. But it should be noted that Ralph does do an exceptional job here with the mixing, which is at par with that of Global Underground's. You know it's good when it seems like one, 60-minute song. But that's another problem as well, it is very short relative to the 75 minute standard now. It's very difficult, in my opinion, to reflect a set with 15 minutes less than typical mixes usually have.

The track selection is very mediocre, but with good reason: the Moby track (ATTENTION: MOBY IS NOT TRANCE!) is terrible, he concludes the mix with this song, and the remix is terrible even compared to similar versions of this mix like on Cape Town. Timo Maas delivers another solid track with the groove, funk of "Flash." And Max Graham gives a nice housy flavor to Ralph's potluck with his housy "Airtight." But all in all, the track selection is just above average because the mix has the same vibe of Digweed, and that is impeccable to touch. Plus, "Music" is now getting kinda annoying since I've heard it about 50 times now.

It's still worth adding to your collection, though. And I am sure that most of you reading this will consider buying it. Not too many people know Ralph or the exceptional work he did on Tranceport II as they do about Sasha or Oakenfold, but this guy is good and worthy of some recognition. Love Parade will definitely help that.

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Not what it would seem...........

This is short and sweet. If you expect to get the feel of the Love Fest don't buy this. It will put you to sleep! Sorry,but that is how I feel when I listened to it.

Published on April 4 2001 by "rkalmus"

Not the best, but worth buying still

Ok, so the mixes on this CD are not as tight as they could be, and I must agree the video footage should have been left out in favor of a few more tracks. Read more