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20 Fingers - "20 Fingers"

This cd is a very unique cd because it has all different types of music.
There is House, Techno, Freestyle, and Pop.  Some of the better songs are
Take Your Time, and Fatboy both by Max a Million, and Sex Machine by
Katrina.  20 Fingers is a recording company, most people I know thought that
it was a group.  There are some strange songs like Choke My Chicken by Ted
Tubbacki and Goober, and Bring it on Bac by Bongo Boys.  Gillette and Roula
are also on this compilation cd.  Most of the good songs have made it to
number 1 or close to it on energy 108 or 103.5.  I give this cd an 8 out of
ten because some songs are really good, and there are songs that are really
bad.

Track Listing
 1  Sex Machine - Katrina
 2  Round we go - Big sister
 3  Cave Man - Bongo Boys
 4  Electric Slide - Dance Factor
 5  Bring it on Bac - Bongo Boys
 6  Choke My Chicken - Ted Tubbacki and Goober
 7  100% Woman
 8  The Raw - Bongo Boys
 9  Short Dick Man - Gillette
10  Holding on to Love - Rochelle
11  Position #9 - Nerada
12  Mr. Personality - Gillette
13  Lick it - Roula
14  Take Your Time - Max a Million
15  Work That Love - JR. Flex
16  Popsicle Love - Cassamdra
17  Fat Boy - Max a Million
18  Putang Ina Mo - 20 Fingers
19  Little Melody - Bongo Boys




Emjay - "In your arms"

This was released in September 95, but the CD and Emjay really took off when
"Flying to the moon" went top 5 in Toronto and Canada. A lot of NRG tracks
on this. But I have to say that the hits she's had so far are my favourites
on the CD. "Sound of my heartbeat", "Fascinated", "Flying to the moon" and
the current single "In your arms"...
Rating: 7/10

Track Listing:
 1  Sound of my heartbeat
 2  In your arms
 3  Flying to the moon
 4  Bring me
 5  Summertime
 6  So far away
 7  Be my man
 8  Fascinated
 9  You say love
10  Every night
11  Falling in love
12  Sing it
13  Point of no return
14  Fascinated (underground mix)




Fun Factory - "Fun Tastic"

This cd has 13 songs including Take Your Chance, Celebration, and I wanna be
with you.  These three songs are the only one's that have been released from
what I know of.  My favorite song on here is All For You (close to you), it
has not been released yet.  There is a re-mix of the 60's song Doh Wah Diddy
which is not good. 
I also like the first song on the cd which is called Dreaming.  Overall I
give this cd a 8 out of ten because I like 8 of the songs, and there are 5
that I don't like.

Track Listing
 1  Dreaming 
 2  Celebration
 3  Doh Wah Diddy
 4  Oh Yeah Yeah (I like it)
 5  I Love You
 6  Don't Fight
 7  I Wanna B With U
 8  Together Forever
 9  Don't Go Away
10  All For You(Close to you)
11  Be Good To me
12  Back in the Days
13  Take Your Chance (Take the original mix)



Real McCoy - "Another Night"

This is a good c.d.  Their are many good songs like Another Night, Come and
Get Your Love, and Run Away.  My personal Favorite is Automatic Lover.
There is a version of the song Ooh Boy which I know D.J. Ray sung a version
of this song.  Their is 11 songs and their is a house mix of Another Night.
Overall I think it deserves an 8 out of 10.

Track Listing:
 1  Another night
 2  Come & get your love
 3  If you should ever be lonely
 4  Run away
 5  Sleeping with an angel
 6  Ooh boy
 7  Love and devotion
 8  Automatic lover
 9  Operator
10  I want you
11  Another night House mix




Carol Medina - "Secret Fantasy"

This was released in the middle of 95. But this CD covers all her hits up to
93!!! When "Sooner or Later" was a hit. This CD is bursting with hits.
(Reason why I bought it!) Lots of nrg in this with a couple slow ones as well.
Favourites are "And the song goes" and "Tell me you love me"
Rating: 8/10

Track Listing:
 1  Secret Fantasy
 2  Tell me you love me
 3  And the song goes... (Doo Dit)
 4  I had a dream
 5  Wait 'til my heart finds out
 6  Love me just srong enough
 7  You never done it like that
 8  Sooner or later Medley
 9  Story story
10  Love is on the way
11  You don't know (where my lips have been)
12  I had a dream (LA Cool Mix)
13  Tell me you love me (Riprock n Dash mix)
14  Secret Fantasy (original NRG mix)



Temperance - "Virtues of Life"

This is a wicked cd.  It has 3 big songs, they are Take You Away, Never let
you go, and Music is my Life.  There are many good songs that haven't been
released like Never say Goodbye, Lost in Love, and I Never Needed.  Also the
song Forever Young has been released.  There is a different version on the
radio than there is on this cd.  There is a jj's remix of Never let you go,
and a short interlude of the song Never say goodbye.  There are 18 songs,
some are about 30-45 seconds, like Come mek wi dance (which is ragai) and
Spelling Bee, in which the letters Temperance are spelled out by a bee
sound, which has a great beat.  There are exactyl 10 songs which I think are
really good on this.  I give this a perfect 10. 

Track Listing:
 1  Virutes of Life
 2  Craving you love  
 3  Never let you go
 4  Too young for promises
 5  You Make me happy
 6  Spelling Bee
 7  Everything
 8  Let me take you away
 9  Lost in Love
10  Come mek wi dance
11  Never say goodbye
12  I never needed
13  Never say goodbye (interlude)
14  Forever Young
15  Music is my life
16  Feed the world
17  Do they know it's christmas?
18  Never let you go (jj's remix)



Whigfield - "Whigfield"

This c.d. has three number one singles.  They are Think of You, Another Day,
Saturday Night.  There are 13 songs.  Another good song is Big Time.  Their
is a bubblegum remix of Another Day, and a Dancing Divaz Club Mix of Think
of You.  The 13th song is a Whigfield Megamix.  It is about 18 minutes long.
It has mixes of Think of You, Saturday Night, and Another Day.  The song
Sexy Eyes is pretty good.  I give this C.D. a perfect ten out of ten.

Track Listing:
 1  Think of You
 2  Another Day
 3  Don't Walk Away
 4  Big Time
 5  Out of Sight
 6  Close To You
 7  Sexy Eyes
 8  Ain't It Blue
 9  I Want To Love
10  Saturday night
11  Another Day (Bubblegum Mix)
12  Think of You (Dancing Divaz Club Mix)
13  Whigfield Megamix





Compliation CDs

600% Dance
This is a good cd, it has artists including Masterboy, fun factory, corona,
and berri.  The mixes in this cd are ok.  Some of the songs on here when
this cd came out were old like I beleive by Happy Clappers, and Deeper Shade
of Love by Camille.  There is some spanish music like Magic Carpet Ride by
the Mighty Dub Kats, and El Tiburon by Proyecto Uno.  DFS's new single Me
Laylo is on here.  I would give this cd a 7.5 out of ten because it has some
older songs that were over played, and people are sick of them.

Track Listing
1   Intro....Celebratio - Fun Factory
2   Land of Dreaming - Masterboy
3   Take Me Higher - Diana Ross
4   Deeper Shade of Love - Camille
5   Fish - Housemaid (feat Kim)
6   The Lover That You Are - Pulse (DJ's Rule Remedy Mix)
7   I Beleive - Happy Clappers
8   Dreamer - Livin' Joy (rollio's big mix)
9   Magic carpet ride- The mighty dub kats
10  El Tiburon - Proyecto Uno
11  Energy - Devone
12  Me Laylo - D.F.S.
13  I don't wanna be a star - Corona
14  Common People - Pulp (Motiv 8 radio edit)
15  Shine Like a Start - Berri (Two cowboys original edit)
16  Say you think of me - Natascha Wright



Club Cutz 7

This CD has got some really great tracks. A very nice combination of harder
house beats with nrg on this one. There's the #1 from First Base as well
as Sin's "Shut up". Throw in a couple cover versions from Senor X (very hard
hitting track) and Pearl (who had did a version of "Neverending story") and
you still haven't even come across my favs on this one!
A couple of my faves were actually hits last year respectively in the UK and
the US. De'lacy was top 10 in the UK late last year (dunno why it's taken
this long to hit over here) while Tatjana was big on the US dancefloor with
that track getting some votes on the end of year chart, #33 on the internet
top 50. But the best track of all goes to Linda Rocco. The last two tracks
though we're kind of disappointing though.
Rating: 9/10

Track Listing:
 1  Love is paradise - FIRST BASE
 2  Fly with me - LINDA ROCCO
 3  Tainted Love - SENOR X
 4  Shut up (and sleep with me) - SIN w/ SEBASTIAN
 5  Summer Holiday - PEARL
 6  Let me in your heart - LISA NILSSON
 7  Love is all we need - SAFE
 8  Gimme love gimme all - CLUBLAND feat ZEMYA HAMILTON
 9  Santa Maria - TATJANA
10  Hideaway - DE'LACY
11  Dedicated to you - SADIE
12  Feel my riddim' - SKIBBY feat KING LOVER



Dance Machine - First Gear (D.J. Line 20)

This c.d. is wicked.  The songs on this c.d. are Ou Eee Ou - D.F.S., Boom
Boom Boom, Oye Coma Va, Try Me Out, Give a Little Love, Show Me love
Tonight, and bad version of Scatman sung by Paul Scat.  Their is Flying to
the Moon, Memories, Me and you, Miracles, Private Fantasy, Live on Love -
Nadia, Alice, Who the Fuck is Alice? There is a party and I wanna be with
you which is a Recon-Struck version Feat Lia.  My favorite song is Miracles.
Some of the other top songs are Memoris, Flying to the Moon, Try me out, and
Ou Eee Ou.  This c.d. has some cool mixes.  The first song is the intro
which has Miracles, Boom Boom Boom, and Ou Eee Ou mixed toghether.  This is
my favorite c.d. I give it an eleven out of ten because every song is good,
and some of the mixes especially the different songs Oye Come Va is mixed
with are really wicked.
NOTE: DJ Line 20 does not include the Dance Machine Intro feat Lady Shelley
      And the track listing is different.

Track Listing:
 1  Dance machine intro feat lady shelly
 2  Ou ee ou - dfs
 3  Boom boom boom- outhere brothers
 4  Oye come va -Tito puente jr. and the latin rhythm
 5  try me out - corona
 6  give a little love - Capital sound
 7  Show me love tonight - solina
 8  Scatman - Paul scat
 9  Flying to the moon - Emjay
10  Memories - Netzwerk
11  Me an you - Alexia
12  Miracles - Cartouche (my favorite song of 1995)
13  Private Fantasy- Lia
14  Live on love -Nadia
15  Alive, who the fuck is alice? _ The steppers
16  There is a party - D.J. Bobo
17  I Wanna Be With You - Recon-Struck feat Lia.



DJ Line 25
I'll tell you what i think is good, & bad:  Roxxy's song is pretty good,
maria lisa's isn't that good, lady shelly's sucks (its a reggae version of
old mcdonald had a farm e.i.e.i.o.) e-sensual is decent, illegal is wicked,
same with julia, and zhi-vago, the outhere bro's is ok, justine earp did a
dance version of of fugeela, emjay you've heard, reactor project is wicked
it starts out like the song love is paradise, jx is good.  Is the song there
nothing i won't do by jx any new or old? When did it come out.

CD1 Track Listing:
tine renee/ do you wanna play
roxxy/ live my life
quadran/ free your mind
e.i.e.i.o./ lady shelly
release me(remix)/ angelina
maria-lisa/ dreaming of you
jaade/ burning through the night
e-sensual/ check me out
samira/ the rain
illegal/ moments in love
julia/ all i want
alpha base/ heaven help my heart
zhi-vago/ dreamer

CD2 Track Listing:
lisa marie exp/ keep on jumpin
the outhere bro's/ ole ole
rhythm 544/ where di your love go
justine earp/ ooo-la-la-la
backroom boys feat takiya dixon/ all of me
emjay/ point of no return
reactor project/ give me attitude
jx/ there's nothing i wont do
heavy weather/ love can't turn around
nicole/ runnin away
lady gee/ the game is over




Dance Mix 96 - Canadian Limited Edition

This cd has many new songs, and there are songs from last spring.  There is
some minor mixing, but nothing special.  Some of the newer songs are Feel it
in th Air by Intonation feat Joee, First Time by Pleasure Beat feat J.Cock,
and I don't Wanna be a Star by Corona.  Some of the older songs include
Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio feat LV, and Feel The Vibe by Afrika Bambaataa.
There is a bad version of the song Missing which is sung by 7 sign and Julia
Simon.  Overall I would give this cd an 8.5 out of 10 because I have 6 of
the songs on other cd's.  Other wise I would most likely give it a 9 or 9.5.

Track Listing:
 1  Gansta's Paradise - Coolio feat LV
 2  Everybody be Somebody - Ruffneck
 3  Sex on the Streets = Pizzaman
 4  Feel the vibe - Afrika Bambaataa
 5  Ou Eee Ou - D.F.S.
 6  Flying to the Moon - Emjay
 7  Feel it in The Air - Intonatnio feat Joee
 8  First Time - Pleasure Beat feat J.Cock
 9  In the Summertime - Shaggy
10  I Wish - Skee Lo
11  The Bomb (These sound fall into my mind) - The Bucketheads
12  Bump Bump (Booty Shake) - 740 Boyz
13  I Don't Want to be a Star - Corona
14  Sunshine After the Rain (Two Cowboys Mix) - New Atlantic
15  Memories - Netzwerk
16  Missing - 7 Signs & Julia Simon



Chris Sheppard's Destination Dancefloor

What can you say about the Shep? Brother and sisters, this definitely has
more what you looking for!!! All these songs are what are generally played
on Shep's live-to-air Radio Shows. The first four tracks are definite dance
anthems. But each track on this CD is great, enough said really...
I love Hyperlogic's sample of U2's "New Years Day" and though old, Purple
King's use of Dire Straits' "Money for nothing"
BTW If you are looking to hear Shep's unmistakable vocals, you might be a
wee tad disappointed ;)
Rating: 10/10

Track Listing:
 1  Stayin' Alive - N-TRANCE
 2  Higher State of Consciousness - JOSH WINK
 3  Everybody be somebody - RUFFNECK
 4  Set u free - PLANET SOUL
 5  Oye como va - TITO PUENTE JR & LATIN RHYTHM
 6  High as a kite - ONE TRIBE feat ROGER
 7  Don't laugh - WINX
 8  In my dreams - DARKNESS
 9  Find another way - CAPTAIN HOLLYWOOD
10  I'm alive - CUT 'N' MOVE
11  Only me - HYPERLOGIC
12  For the very first time - PLEASUREBEAT feat J-COCK
13  Love is just a heartbeat away - GLORIA GAYNOR
14  That's the way you do it - THE PURPLE KINGS



Groove Station 2

This cd has a lot of really big hits like Pick it up by Herbie and Scatman
by Scatman John (U.S. remix).  All of the songs are good.  There is a mix of
all types of music including dance (Real Mckoy), r&b (TLC), and rap
(Herbie).  There is a U.S. remix of By Me Lover by La Bouche.  There are
remix's of One More Chance by the Notorious B.I.G. and No more I love you's
by Annie Lennox.  There is an Extended Radio Mix of We've got it goin on by
the Back Street Boys. Also there is a really fast version of the song
Macarena.   There are some really wicked mixes in all the songs.  The first
song is Pick it up and it is mixed with Be my Lover and Scatman John.  My
two favorite songs from this are Pick it up and Can you feel it.
I give this cd a 9 out of 10 because some songs are old on it.

Track Listing:
 1  Pick it up - Herbie
 2  Run Away - The Real McCoy
 3  Be My Lover - La Bouche
 4  Macarena - Los Del Rio
 5  Creep - TLC 
 6  One More Chance - Notorious B.I.G.
 7  We've got it goin' on - Back Street Boys 
 8  Fat Boy - Max a Million
 9  Mr. Personality - Gillette
10  Scatman - Scatman John
11  No More I love yous - Annie Lenox
12  Cotton Eye Joe - Rednex
13  Swamp Thing - The Grid
14  Can you feel it - Matrix



Massive Dance Hits

This cd has 17 songs.  My favorite song on this is Missing by Everything but
the Girl.  Some of my other favorite songs include Feel The Good Times (Eric
Kupper 7 inch mix) by Charlene Smith, and I believe by the Happy Clappers.
There are three songs on this cd which have been a re-mix.  They are Missing
(Todd Terry Club mix) Feel The Good Times, and Anything For You (cast remix)
by snow.  Out of ten I would give this cd an 8 because some of the songs are
pretty old, and some are really bad.
There is an error written on my copy of the cd.  On the back of it it says
that Technotronic sings Reach up (Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag), and it
says Perfecto Allstarz sings Move it to the Rhythm.  It is the other way
around.

Track Listing:
 1  Do You Wanna Get Funky - C&C Music Factory
 2  Baby - Brandy
 3  Your Loving Arms - Billie Ray Martin
 4  Dreamer - Livin' Joy
 5  Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix) - Everything but the girl
 6  I believe - Happy Clappers
 7  Never Ending Story - Pearl
 8  Love For Love - Robin S
 9  Oye Como Va - Tito Puente Jr. & the Latin Rhythm
10  Reach up (Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bad) - Perfecto Allstarz
11  Move it to the Rhythm - Technotronic
12  I've Got the Music in me - Cleo and Marcus
13  Everytime You Touch Me - Moby
14  Find Another Way - Captain Hollywood
15  You don't Love me (no, no, no) - Dawn Penn
16  Anything For You (Cast Remix) - snow
17  Feel The Good Times (Eric Kupper 7 inch mix) - Charlene Smith



MC Mario Connection
MC Mario added another great CD to his great series of cd's.  Some artists
include Alexia, Masterboy, Darkness, and DJ company.  The mixing on here is
superb.  The songs Higher state of consciousness, and twinker are mixed
together, and they sound almost exactly the same.  The intro is great for
this cd, it has mixes with Higher state of consciousness, and other songs.
Get Away by Shauna Davis, and Cloesr To Me by Libra are mixed together, and
it sounds great.  Also the new version of Yakety Yak by Mundo Disco is on
here.  I give this cd an 8.5 out of ten because some songs are pretty old
when this was released like Machine Gun.  Also the mixes are good, and the
songs are good.

Track Listing
1   Mastermind Conexion Intro
2   Machine Gun - Party Nation
3   I Don't wanna be a star - Corona (Euro beat mix)
4   Wrap Me Up - Alex Party
5   BG tips "You should be dancing" - E-Sensual (Premier club rap mix)
6   Jump Up - Boody headz (original mix)
7   El Tiburon - Los Locos
8   Get-Away - Shauna Davis
9   Closer to me - Libra
10  The Rhythym of love - DJ company
11  In My dreams - Darkness
13  Anybody - Masterboy
14  Higher State of Consciousness - Wink (Joles & skins epic mix
15  Twinker - Shrill
16  Booyah here we go - Sweetbox (Geo's mix)
17  If You wanna party - molella feat. The outhere brothers (Aladino mix)
18  Yakety Tak - Mundo diso - (U.D.S. boyz mix)



Warehouse Grooves volume 3

This is a two cd set which has songs like Which Doktor, Set U Free,
Everybody be Somebody, and The bomb (these sounds move into my mind. The
shortest song is about four and a half minutes.  Most songs are around eight
or nine minutes long.  One of my favorite songs is Big Time (Carlitos
Dream).  Their is 22 songs, 11 on each c.d. It cost only 20 dollars, which
is good for a two c.d. set.  Out of ten I would give this a seven.

Track Listing:
Disk one
 1  U Sure Do (Guest List Mix) - Strike 
 2  Dreamer (Original Club Mix) - Livin' Joy
 3  The Bomb! 9These sound fall into my mind - The bucketheads
 4  New Jersey Deep - Black Science Orchestra
 5  Didn't I know (Divas To The Dance Floor) - E.G. Fullalove
 6  Don't Laugh (josh WInk Edit) - Winx
 7  In & Out of My Life 9S-Man Supreme Mix) - Adeva
 8  Witch Doktor - Armand Van Helden
 9  Make My Love (Stone's Main Mix)- Shawn Christopher
10  I Believe (Our Tribe Remix) - 3rd Nation
11  Keep in Touch - Shades of Love

Disk Two
 1  Everybody Be Somebody - Ruffneck Feat Yavahn
 2  Set You Free - Planet Soul
 3  Higher State of Conscienceness (Tweekin Acid Funk Mix - Wink
 4  Big Time (Carlito's Dream) - That Kid Chris
 5  Come With Me - Latino Brothers
 6  I'm Standing - X-Static
 7  Color of My Skin (Remix Dub#4) Swing 52 Arnold Jarvis
 8  Satisfied - H2O Feat Billie
 9  Bottom Heavy - Danny Tenaglia
10  The Storm - Salt City Orchestra
11  Dangerous (Juniuor Vasquez Mix) - Mercedes



CD Singles

Double Vision - Knockin' (the single)

There are 8 different versions of this top European single.  Th Radio
version is my favorite but I also like the DJ X-Play, and Extended club mix
versions of the song.  Every version is quite different from the other
versions.  I really like this song a lot so I give this a 9 out of ten
because there are 6 great versions, including a VocalFree Dub mix of it.

Track listing
1  Radio Version
2  DJ X-Play
3  Baseline Mix
4  Extended Club mix
5  Subsonic 808 Mix
6  Vocal Free Dub Mix



Me and My - Dub I Dub (the single)

Their are four versions of the songs Dub I Dub on this C.D.  They are the
radio mix, the mg radio mix, the club remix, and the underground mix.  My
favorite versions of this song is th club remix and the radio mix.  If you
like underground music you will really like the underground version of Dub I
Dub.  I give this single a ten out of ten because each version is unique,
and this is my favorite song.



N-Trance - Stayin' Alive (the single)

This cd is a good single.  It has three songs on it which are Staying Alive
(radio version), I Will Take You There, and Staying Alive (Long version).
It is a good cd for a single.  The two versions of Staying Alive are similar
but they have some differences.  The radio version starts off with gun shot,
and the long versio doesn't.  The song I Will Take You There is a pretty
cool song.  Overall I think that this cd deserves a eight out of ten.



Lina Santiago - Feels so good (show me)

This single only has two versions of the song Feels so good (show me love)
which is a great song.  The two versions have a lot of similarities.  The
two versions are the Juanito's Way, and the Power Workout.  I prefer the
Juanito's Way, it is the one that is played on the radio, and on tv.  I give
this cd a 7 out of ten because there are only two versions, and this is a
great song.

Track listing
1  Juanito's Way
2  Power Workout