Search - Ayumi Hamasaki :: Ayu-Mi-X V.4: Non Stop Version

The best, and most frantic, of the entire series

Brian Ashby | San Antonio | 10/29/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Volume 4 is definitely the best of all 5 volumes currently available of Ayumi's non-stop mega mix collection, Ayu-Mi-X. Volume 4 goes in a far different direction than any of the other in the past have gone: 18 of her greatest tracks, and each is a combination of up to 6 different producers and DJ's interpretations. So, in actuality, each song is remixed by up to 6 people resulting in a frantic hour-long mix that's sure to get you up and moving. Styles of the mixes included vary from trance, house, trip hop, breakbeat and even hip-hop. Some remixes include: Junior Vasquez, Johnny Vicious, Keith Litman, Thunderpuss, Hex Hector and Jonathan Peters. Songs include: Evolution, Trauma, Endless Sorrow, Surreal, Vogue, Dearest and Appears. This release also contains a second disc that includes the full-length versions of 7 of the mixes included, including: Dearest (Jonathan Peters Mix), Still Alone (Warp Brothers Mix) and Dearest (The Implication Dub Mix)"

Time to mix the mixers!

cliftonium | irvine, ca | 05/27/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This NSMM album took an interesting turn. Instead of having individual remixers work on each track, many of the tracks are remixed by multiple artists! Some of the songs will sound quite familiar - since this album goes under the guise of "Selection Non Stop Mega Mix". For example track 12 starts as the Thunderpuss remix of Surreal from NSMM3, but quickly diverges to include several other remixers (I don't have their names offhand). Similarly, they use a mix of Junior Vasquez's "Appears [Junior appears on the air] mix" (as seen on NSMM2) as part of the bridge to "M".As with all other AyuMix NSMM CDs, there center few songs are slow, and detract from the overall great dance feel to the disc, which, is why I gave this a 4 instead of a 5."