Global Underground: NuBreed

• Artist: Anthony Pappa
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• Release Date: March 07, 2000
• Total Time: 148:43
• Type: Mix-album
• Genre: Electronica

Review

While the concepts underlying the inaugural release of Global Underground's NuBreed series are both intriguing and refreshing, Anthony Pappa's mix unfortunately doesn't quite reach the preconceived expectations most loyal Global Underground listeners will have. A few songs into the first set, these exceptions seem to be fulfilled as the Melbourne DJ drops some driving, straight-ahead progressive house tracks that forcefully move the momentum forward and start the first set off on a high note. Unfortunately, this sense of excitement soon fades as Pappa never really moves away from this style of music, maintaining the same tempo, aura, and style of tracks throughout the first set, which ultimately reaches a depressing anticlimax during the extended lull of Humate's "Welcome to the Future" remix (an otherwise wonderful song that would fit better in the middle of the set as a momentary valley perfect to build upon). Pappa's second set heads into trance territory, favoring the epic style of trance with its steady linear rhythms, slow shifts in momentum, and a lingering sense of heavenly aura evoked through distant synths. But again, Pappa never fleshes out his set, dropping one similar track after another; eventually, he moves his set into a breaks-influenced flavor of trance during the fluctuating nine-minute ride through Hi-Fi Bugs' "Lydian & the Dinosaur," yet for as wonderfully majestic as this song may be, it still isn't the hands-in-the-air anthem one wants at the end of a DJ set. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Narcotik		Anthony Pappa	(8:57)
Moon Face		Anthony Pappa	(5:31)
Two Right Wrongans		Anthony Pappa	(4:28)
Timo Maas Pres, Mad Dogs		Anthony Pappa	(3:28)
Pascal, F.E.O.S.		Anthony Pappa	(6:42)
Sloth and Dormant		Anthony Pappa	(3:58)
Sphere		Anthony Pappa	(6:05)
Trancesetters		Anthony Pappa	(6:27)
Medway		Anthony Pappa	(5:05)
Odessi		Anthony Pappa	(8:38)
Nova		Anthony Pappa	(6:38)
Dune		Anthony Pappa	(7:44)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Chab		Anthony Pappa	(6:57)
Moon Face		Anthony Pappa	(5:29)
GF		Anthony Pappa	(4:58)
Interflow 4		Anthony Pappa	(4:48)
C. Smith and J. Selway		Anthony Pappa	(2:36)
Rhythm Reigns		Anthony Pappa	(5:08)
Steve Porter		Anthony Pappa	(5:30)
Cass		Anthony Pappa	(5:08)
Astral Projection		Anthony Pappa	(7:29)
Corellian		Anthony Pappa	(4:46)
Asap		Anthony Pappa	(5:37)
Hybrid		Anthony Pappa	(7:01)
Hi-Fi Bugs		Anthony Pappa	(9:35)

Credits

Anthony Pappa (Main Performer), Anthony Pappa (Compilation), Anthony Pappa (Mixing), Dean Belcher (Photography), Andy Page (?), Rich Murphy (Liner Notes)