DAVE SEAMAN, RENAISSANCE THE MIX PART 7

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Tough act to follow I thought given the history of the mix series.

Obviously Sasha and Digweed's stands alone and Digweed's own mix I thought personally was the best of the lot. Seaman's Own mixing in Part 4 though was outstanding.

Part 7 was for me a great effort, although other than Seaman's Melbourne on Global Underground I've never been disapointed by his mixes.

CD1 was his usual style of slowly building progressive trance building up to some rip the roof off pumping trance/deep house. Ideal for driving in the car with the stereo turned up to max. Very reminisant of his Buenos Aires GU, but with a more modern sound, although capturing the classic Renaissance feel and sound.

CD2 - Seemed to be a bit of a homage to the current trendy electro sound. Gone are the longer epic tunes and replaced with a more edgy house feel. Still progressive/deep house in nature, but some of the rifts are a little more techy/electro although Dave Seaman in set style the end of the CD lacks the real energy and emotion of CD1. The interview in the sleeve notes indicated Seaman's own preference to CD1. If this change in sound was to keep in line with current taste, for me its a bit of a cop out.