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Sam McCarthy | New Haven, CT United States | 02/20/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is, in my opinion, Dave Seaman's best work to date. He has always amazed me by the freshness and originality of his track selection like on Renaissance America and GU Buenos Aires, but this CD demonstrates this ability the best. But they are also expertly mixed by Seaman into one very emotionally moving set. And this is precisely why I sometimes favor Seaman over the likes of Sasha and Digweed or Tenaglia. Although I do think S+D are the best DJ's in the world right now in trance and progressive house, respectively, I do concede that their murky, dark tunes do sometimes grow a little distasteful (but not much). When this happens, Seaman's emotionally uplifting sets are like a breath of fresh air. He drags you into the depths of house hell with one track and then lifts you into trance bliss with a track like Meeker's "Save Me" (fittingly placed AND titled). My only problem with this mix is that, like his other mixes, there are too many vocals in tracks big trance fans have heard too many times, which makes me worry about whether Seaman is going to start spinning like Oakenfold. Although both these DJ's continue to AMAZE me with the freshness, emotion, and mixing of their sets, they lack the originality of remixes and unreleased tracks that other DJ's have. Nevertheless, Awakening is definitely worth the money (yeah, I know it is pretty expensive) and then some. While I have knocked it a little here, which I always do in my reviews of less than 5 stars, it still ranks up there with GU:SF, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Northern Exposure Expeditions as my favorites."

Best of dave seaman

03/02/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this compilation is with out a doubt his best. From the start track one sets up this compilation with a mellow but beautiful sounding track. this album is ful of building songs(songs that start up slowly then pick up faster) which is patented dave seaman style, after track 5 this cd really starts to pick up the pace then he ends this cd perfectly with human movements- love has come again(the best version ive heard of this track. Cd2 is the best out of the two which is hard to explain because cd1 is incredible. cd2 starts off with a melodic track with no bass but a beautiful track then the rest of the tracks just take you for a wonderful ride through thumping beats and unpredictable beats(where there will be a certain phat beat that will out of nowhere change into an even phater beat)he then ends it perfectly with bt's dreaming. his mixes are perfect, track selections perfect,I own all his gu's he is my favorite dj trust me this is by far his best album.If your a new listener to dave seaman he has a very simular style to sasha.Sasha even uses some of the tracks on this album on his album "Communicate". If you are a true trance fan buy this album if you are new to the scene i do not recommend buying this album yet, i recommend albums like the "Euphoria compilations",the Gatecrashers(black,wet,disco tech)and trance nations(ministry of sound).I am a huge trance fan i listen to so many different styles but i must say dave seaman is truly the best!! I over read the other reviews i agree with most except the first he obviously is new to the trance scene to give this album 2stars.Well anyway trust me its a great album.ENJOY IT!!!"