Saturday, January 29, 2005

Less Stress Day Part 2

So today is good. A little peaceful day.

My wife needs to go to the dentist this morning. So I drop her off at the dentist's building and then I went to Tower Records across the street.

Finally I got free time. Even if it's short time, it's good for me. I've planned to buy from Tower Records before but I just didn't have a chance to go. 2 CDS.

1. Creamfields : Paul Oakenfold

and, as I mentioned in my entry, 2."The Club CD", I was awaiting the release of the TV Reality Show "The Club" on CD.

I am interested as to how Paul Oakenfold mixed the music in the album. I know the release date is on February 1, 2005. But I can't wait!! So I was looking for his other recent CD. I searched several CDs from Amazon. So I knew which one is recent one. In Dance section, I found this CD. I knew he mixed U2 song "Beautiful day" ( This song will be in his coming CD, too.). But I didn't know he also remixed Carlos Vives's song "Como Tu".

I was surprised because Carlos Vives is a Colombian singer. I know he is famous. But not too much in US. So that's why I was very surprised and impressed about Paul's wide music knowledge.

This album itself is like modern techno sounds. I expected he mixed more singing songs. But most of songs was instrumental. Even Como Tu.. I didn't recognize until 1st 3 min. because he didn't use singing part a lot. So...Is this... Como Tu??? That's what I thought. That's what I didn't expect.. However it's still good. So that's the club music. Also this CD is good to hear for relaxation too. I know he didn't plan to make it this way.. But his sounds are very relaxing for my mind. I am interested in his mixing skill. How he controlled sounds like that...

hmmm... I can give 4.5 stars for this CD. Why not 5 stars? because I expected he mixed more singing songs. But actually ..not a lot. So that's a drop of 0.5 star.

Cont... Part 3