In 1996, after having released three other trance & hardcore mixes under the DJ Connection flag, the NEWS label released Belgian DJ Pierre's first mix cd. Pierre has been the resident DJ at Fuse, Brussels' famous technoclub, since 1994. I still remember the first time I heard Pierre play at one of the first I Love Techno-parties at Vooruit in Ghent in '95. In the middle of his set he dropped the beatless Carl Craig remix of Dave Angel's Airborne, which made the place go bazerk.
Over the years, Pierre's mix for DJ Connection turned out to be a timeless piece of art. It all starts of with a mesmerising Bandulu track (Phaze In-version; a track I looked for for years) and slowly sucks you deeper and deeper into a trancelike state with true classics like Compass's Gliding, Wishmountain's (= Herbert) bizarre yet obsessing Radio, Octave One's Empower, the future funk of Juan Atkins' remix of Beltram's Instant and Man Made's (= The Advent) techno anthem Spacewreck. The cherry on the pie to is the last track, Green Velvet's I'm losing my mind, a track which was first released on the Flash remixes double ep. The track became so popular that it got a new title (The Stalker)and a seperate re-release on the Belgian Yeti-label.
Twelve years after my first listen to this cd, I still play it regularly because of its slow but seamless mixing and its excellent tracklist. A true classic!
For more info: http://www.discogs.com/release/78748
PS Compass's Gliding can be found on the Cabinet Records compilation on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 records. Essential stuff!
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