Cd Evaluation

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CD Evaluation


A few months ago I was flipping stations on my radio while driving to Louisville and came across a station I hadn’t noticed before, Trance. First, let me explain, I have a XM satellite radio in my car so radio stations are grouped by categories: Rock and Roll, Hip-hop, blues etc… As I was saying, I came across the station Trance and foe some odd reason I never noticed it before. The music sounded very familiar, I realized that this was the music that I here in dance clubs all the time and absolutely love it. At that point I decided to make a detour and get some of this music for myself, so I headed to Best Buy. There are certain moments in a young clubber’s life that we would love to forget. That long line for a single restroom, ten dollars for a bottle of water, and the list goes on and on. But there are plenty of others that we’d love to hold on to and the music has to be number one. For that I turned to the artist that was displayed on my stereo, Nick Warren.
Upon arriving at Best Buy I wasn’t sure were to look for Trance so once I got in the store I quickly found a clerk and asked were to go. The salesclerk was a nice guy, providing me with all the information I could handle. We came upon the techno section and he told me to look for Global Underground. It took a few minutes, but I found it and to my amazement there were over forty selections of the label. Each CD was by a different artist and most were all in different cities and hardly ever the same city twice. I was absolutely amazed. I never realized trance was that big. The salesclerk opened my eyes when he started to explain that trance/techno is everywhere and in every club around the world, I figured that much considering I have been to hundreds of dance clubs and this was the type of music that was played. I quickly found Nick Warren, paid for it, and ran to the car so I could indulge myself in some ambient tones for a while, ...