Various - Dream Therapy

Various - Dream Therapy (Quango Records, QMG 5015-2, 2002) (320)

This is a considerably better compilation than the previous Quango comp.  Some good tracks and good remixers.

01 Millenia Nova – Otra Bes (Frequencies Mix)
02 Fila Brazilia – Spill The Beans (Dorfmeister Mix)
03 Professor Oz – Waves And Sun (African Mix By R. Dorfmeister)
04 Howie B – Hey Jack (Afterlife's Mix)
05 Orbient – Boarding (Doubleseat Mix)
06 Cantoma – The Call
07 I:Cube – Adore
08 Starseeds, The – Parallel Life
09 1 Giant Leap – Racing Away (Featuring Grant Lee Phillips & Horace Andy)
10 Basement Jaxx – Urban Haze

No review needed, it's pretty solid.

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Various - Coffee Table Music

Various - Coffee Table Music (Compiled By Grantby) (Cup Of Tea Records, COT CD 018, 1998) (320)

I remember stumbling upon this at a record store and checking it out at the listening-station.  I thought it was pretty good, so I bought it.  It is a compilation that I go back to every once in a while.  I'm not really familiar with any of the artists on here, nor have I checked out their individual back catalogs.

01 Brown Susan – How We Used To Live
02 Narcoleptics, The – High Over Glenelg
03 Brothers Grimm – Chase Scene *3
04 Jobclub Music Workshop – Large Block Of Flats
05 Picturebox – Glass Shards
06 Grantby – Timebooth
07 Kaysound Fashion – Don't Trust The Brains Trust
08 Emiliano – Vamos A La Playa
09 Albert Hall – R53
10 Kirk Lake – Dementia Pugilistica

Decent Amazon review:

this album is a well-chosen collection of instrumental trip-hop and mood-music that sounds like the soundtrack to an unwritten film-noir masterpiece. Compiled by the master of dark, jazzy beats music, Grantby, this album is well worth experiencing.

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Akasha - Cinematique: The Remixes

Akasha - Cinematique: The Remixes (2CD) (Wall Of Sound, WALL CD022, 1999) (320)

I've never heard the original album, but I bought this based on the remixers.  There's some pretty good songs on here for sure.  Reviews are tough to find.  Just check it if you dig any of the remixers.

1-1 Crazy Baby (Groove Armada's Presque Celebre Mix)

1-2 Mescalin (Interfearence Mix)

1-3 Akasha Theme (The Creators Remix)

1-4 Cold Fusion (Lemon Jelly Muggsy Remix)

1-5 Soft & Melting (Dorfmeister's Surreal Dub)

1-6 Brown Sugar (PFM’s Cosmic Journey Mix)

1-7 Interzone (Ian O'Brien Remix)

2-1 Maximum Karma (Sloop John Barillo Remix)

2-2 Brown Sugar (Les Rythmes Digitales Mix)

2-3 Spanish Fly (Freaks Superfly Speakeasy)

2-4 Akasha Theme (Smug Brothers Big Old Unit Mix)

2-5 Interzone (Tapping A Guitar With Beef On A Lonely Summer Day In Menlo Park)

2-6 The Blues Pt. 1 (Salt City Orchestra Remix)

2-7 Crazy Baby (Akasha Dub)

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Filling a request from this fine blog.

Various - Upstairs Recordings Remixed

Various - Upstairs Recordings Remixed (Upstairs Recordings 2008) (320)

This is has two Gel-Sol related tracks. A remix of "Cool Sweet Awesome Yay", and a Gel-Sol remix of a track by another electronic act. A lot of the rest of the songs fall into the downtempo category, which mostly bores me. A few songs are okay, but there's a couple on here (I don't remember which at this moment... track 3 for sure) that I have to immediately skip, because of the annoyance factor. So, check it out if you're so inclined.

Tracklist:

01 Solus - Session 5 (Monta Remix)

02 E.D. Swankz - Gamefazed (Ancient Astronauts Remix)

03 Telefuzz - Sayshell (Hexes & Ohs Remix)

04 Gel-Sol - Cool Sweet Awesome Yay (Maya Jane Coles Remix)

05 Bussetti - Itch (The Verbrilli Sound Remix)

06 Hexes & Ohs - Alive Until Saturday Night (Solus Re-Focus Mix)

07 The Verbrilli Sound - Moonlight Swim (Kinetic Kid Remix)

08 The Verbrilli Sound - Interstellar Spy Story (Chris J Remix)

09 The Hermit - Find Someone Who Actually Loves You (Gel-Sol Remix)

10 Telefuzz - Sayshell (Sound Capsule Remix)

11 The Verbrilli Sound - Interstellar Spy Story (Solus Remix)

12 Laura B - Ice Cold Water (Telefuzz Remix)

13 The Verbrilli Sound - Parisonic (Bonus Track)

Review from here:

This album features 12 tracks (+1 bonus track) by various artists remixing Upstairs Recordings artists and Upstairs Recordings artists remixing fellow artists from other labels. Up.Remixed is full of the deep and dreamy sounds trademarked by West coast electronica. Track after track after track, this album comes highly recommended.

Reuppage here by request.