VARIOUS - MIXED BY NICK WARREN

The eighth volume in the increasingly popular Global Underground series, and the second for Nick Warren, is one of the best. What's surprising is that although Global Underground: Brazil uses many of the same dark tempers of progressive house music before and after its time, Warren walks you through it with definitive self-assurance. The Yum Yum mix of Capricorn's "All I Am" is mysteriously low-lit big beat and the PMT usage proved he was a few years ahead of the game. Where Warren excels is the pacing, the micro-moods he props up with understated but targeted climaxes. The effect is mean, crunchy dance music prepared in such a way that everything rolls effortlessly into unexpectedly memorable moments (Madagascar's "You're Beautiful," Propulsion's "Pressure," the reappearance of "Café del Mar"). It's a shrewd career highlight, a crawl out of the overcast trancebreaks shoreline, and a lesson in pulling it off without being boring or mean-spirited.

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