Cream - Anthems

Before you read this review, I apologise to any dance music fans straight off if I misrepresent the music you like, or categorise it in the wrong way, because I will be honest with you, I don't know the difference between house, hardhouse, garage and trance. It is just all dance music to me, and I often get confused where each tune sits in the individual styles. I like dance music to a point, but I would not say that I am a huge fan unless it has a more R&B edge to it, and it just has to have good vocals. We have been decorating in our house and found a box of old CD's which had not been played for quite a while, and just to try and write about something ...

Cream Anthems 2001 is yet another commercialised mix CD from the Liverpool superclub. The only respectable CD’s from cream are those resident ones by Seb Fontaine and Paul Oakenfold. I have the special edition with the special packaging, which was very attractive. The first CD is ok, if a little predictable and not many tunes that haven’t been on many compilation CD’s before it. The best tunes on the first CD are Goldenscan- Sunrise (Tiesto mix), Dumonde- Tomorrow (Lange remix) and Jonah- Ssst…(Listen) from those rank 1 geniuses of Holland (of Airwave fame). It’s mixed ok… nothing special as it’s mixed digitally. It ...

Cream have been running successfuly for many years and it has expanded out to many other events and even to Ibiza. In the last few there has been the appearance of an annual release of the best beats for the last year. It is basically just a rival to the Minstry of Sound or Gatecrasher annuals. This year (near to the beginning of 2001) was no different and out came Cream Anthems 2001. Priced at £15.99 it was quite reasonable for it's 41 tracks of pure dance and trance from the club on 2CD's. It certainly struck you when you saw it with it's purple and gold case and maybe that's why I bought it having never bought a Cream album before. ...