Ferry Corsten / System F: Trance Nation Three
| LABEL: Ministry Of Sound Recordings |
| CAT NR: TNCD3 |
| YEAR: 2000 |
| MIXED BY: Ferry Corsten |
| COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: UK |
| 01 | Chicane feat. Bryan Adams: Don't Give Up (Original Mix) | 04:28 |
| 02 | Fragma: Toca Me (Club Mix) | 03:59 |
| 03 | Paul van Dyk: Tell Me Why (The Riddle) (Original Mix) | 01:53 |
| 04 | System F: Cry (Ferry Corsten Club Mix) | 04:03 |
| 05 | ATB: Killer (Lost Witness Dub) | 03:31 |
| 06 | Starparty: I'm In Love (Ferry Corsten & Robert Smit Remix) | 04:59 |
| 07 | Ralph Fridge: Angel (Club Mix) | 03:07 |
| 08 | Angelic: It's My Turn (Original Mix) | 03:46 |
| 09 | Yomanda: Sunshine (Hi Gate Remix) | 03:38 |
| 10 | Des Mitchell: (Welcome) To The Dance (Part One) | 03:59 |
| 11 | Flickman: The Sound Of Bamboo (Boo Extended Mix) | 03:22 |
| 12 | Aurora: Hear You Calling (Dark Moon Remix) | 03:44 |
| 13 | Sash!: Adelante (DuMonde Remix) | 03:57 |
| 14 | Web: Lovin' Times (Signum Mix) | 04:50 |
| 15 | ATFC pres. OnePhatDeeva: In & Out Of My Life (OnePhat Quake Dub Mix) | 03:42 |
| 16 | JDS: Destiny Calls (4 To The Floor Mix) | 03:47 |
| 17 | Gouryella: Walhalla (Original Mix) | 04:12 |
| 18 | Rhythm Of Life: You Put Me In Heaven With Your Touch (Lange Remix) | 03:16 |
| 19 | Matt Darey pres. Mash Up: Beautiful (Original 12" Mix) | 03:21 |
| 20 | Amber: Sexual (Plasma Remix) | 04:16 |
| 01 | Sandstorm: The Return Of Nothing (Evolution Mix) | 04:05 |
| 02 | Sasha: Belfunk (Original Mix) | 04:33 |
| 03 | Oliver Lieb: Subraumstimulation (Sander Kleinenberg Mix) | 04:37 |
| 04 | Matt Darey pres. DSP: From Russia With Love (Oliver Lieb Remix) | 03:32 |
| 05 | Amethyst: Futura 2000 (Amethyst vs. Danny Howells Mix) | 03:31 |
| 06 | Ariel: A9 (Original Mix) | 03:19 |
| 07 | CRW: I Feel Love (R.A.F Zone Mix) | 03:31 |
| 08 | Azzido Da Bass: Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix) | 03:09 |
| 09 | Mario Piu & Mauro Picotto: Arabian Pleasure (Tuareg Mix) | 03:04 |
| 10 | Schiller: Das Glockenspiel (X/Tended Mix) | 04:39 |
| 11 | X-Cabs: Infectious (Vocal Club Mix) | 04:18 |
| 12 | Tomski feat. Jan Johnston: Love Will Come (Original Mix) | 05:48 |
| 13 | UKW: Hypnotic (Binary Finary Mix) | 04:10 |
| 14 | Airscape: L'Esperanza (Armin van Buuren's Rising Star Mix) | 04:11 |
| 15 | DJ Energy & Tatana: End Of Time (Lost Witness Remix) | 03:42 |
| 16 | Moby: Natural Blues (Olmec Heads Remix) | 04:10 |
| 17 | Dutch Force: Deadline (Original Mix) | 04:08 |
| 18 | Kamaya Painters: Cryptomnesia (Original Mix) | 03:01 |
| 19 | Solar Stone: Seven Cities (Solar Stone's Atlantis Mix) | 04:54 |
- (P) & (C) 2000 Ministry Of Sound Recordings.
- Distribution in the UK by 3MV / The Entertainment Network.
- Mixed by Ferry Corsten.
- Mix production by Steve Canueto.
- Mastered by Dave Turner at Tape To Tape.
- Photography by Jamie Baker, Naki.
- Design and artdirection by AMP.
- Sleeve notes:
- Ferry Corsten is a one man trance power house. From System F to Gouryella, Moonman to Pulp Victim, Ferry's unique brand of electronic funk is omnipresent in the world of trance. Born and bred in Rotterdam, he started djing at the age of 15 and by the time he was 17 he was already making music on his own. In 1999 he signed to Essential Recordings and tasted top 20 chart success with Sytem F's "Out Of The Blue". Represented here by System F's "Cry", Gouryella " Walhalla" and a remix of Starparty's "I'm In Love", Ferry Corsten is also a full time DJ. His flawless mixing and spinetingling programming skills have rocked clubs across the world and "Trance Nation 3" sees him put them to work to deliver his best album mix yet.
- A darkened floor, several thousands bodies, packed tight, locked in the rhythm of an irrestibly thumping kick. Kinetic energy flowing from the music and through the crowd, b-lines and synth riffs commanding you to move, to lose yourself in the ultimate Saturday night party-fever, take yourself higher as the DJ sends pure sonic sorcery spiralling from decks to system to synapses. London to LA, Berlin to Buenos Aires, the story is the same, one dancefloor nation lost under a mighty trance groove.
- Trends in dance music come and go, but ever since it was born on the dancefloors of Germany back in the early 90s, trance has grown steadily as a driving force within club culture. From old-skool to goa, acid trance to epic, the music has continued to attract fanatical devotion from the only people who matter, the clubbers and ravers who recognise it as the purest dancefloor rocket-fuel known to man. And this movement has culminated in the spectacular trance explosion of recent years, a hedonistic tidal wave that has swept all clubland before it and shows no sign of slowing down as we move into the new century.
- There can be no doubt that trance was the sound of '99. At Cream, at Gatecrasher, at Passion, at the Ministry, in Ibiza, at clubs all over, swooping electronic grooves and hands-in-the-air hysteria were the order of the day. Predictably, some were already trying to claim the sound was finished before the year was out, but even on notoriously fickle British dancefloors, the power of the music was too strong and it is trance that will be remembered as the sound of the millenium. And while the media cast around desperately for the next "big thing", the true party faithful know it's already here as trance continues to dominate the floors that matter in the year 2000.
- Far from fading away as the initial hype dies down, trance is in fact growing stronger than ever. Having conquered Britain and Europe, trance is taking on the rest of the world and can now be heard sending party people potty from Argentina to Australia, Hong Kong to Hungary. The word is that America will be next to fall under the trance spell, with outposts growing from New York's Twilo to San Fransisco's Nikita as US clubbers are hypnotised by the sheer floor-shaking force of the music. Meanwhile, the music itself has continued to evolve and diversify, with producers exploring myriad different avenues while still ramaining true to the basic trance blueprint: an electronic future soundtrack to total dancefloor delirium.
- The power and the energy of trance in Y2K is captured in all it's variety on "Trance Nation 3" brought to you by System F's Ferry Corsten from the heart of the electronic underground. With smooth mixing skills honed at some of the leading trance parties on the planet, Ferry weaves together a spellbinding set of cutting-edge floor-killers from the most innovate producers at work in dance music today. Ferry himself is well-represented, with the raw emotive melodies and power-packed production that are the Dutchman's trademark shining through on System F's "Cry" and Gouryella's "Walhalla". More European trance flavours are brought to you by Mario Piu & Mauro Picotto the duo behind last year's massive "The Lizard" and on top form again here with the pumping "Arabian Pleasure".
- Continuing the continental flavour, Germany's ATB returns with the pounding kicks and ferocious riffs of his re-energised version of Adamski's "Killer". Fellow German Paul van Dyk reminds us that his studio skills are every bit as impressive as his djing with the precision production of "Tell Me Why", complete with elegant vocals from leftfield dance legends St. Etienne. One of the few producers who can match Van Dyke for crisp, tough-edged trance, Matt Darey, also makes a significant contribution with two heavyweight club bombs in the shape of "Beautiful" and "From Russia With Love". The over-size sonics of Des Mitchell's "Welcome To The Dance" provide yet another example of what the music is all about, massive tunes that can rip a dancefloor apart and turn it up-side down, and as if to emphasise the point, Solar Stone pitch in with the truly immense "Seven Cities".
- The Olmec Head's mix of Moby's "Natural Blues" and Quake's edit of A.T.F.C's Adeva collaboration "In & Out Of My Life" prove that big names from throughout dance music have been quick to recognis the quality of today's trance talent, while Chicane pull off the strangest collaboration of all, with their lush production delivering grizzly old rocker Bryan Adams with a bona fide club hit in the form of "Don't Give Up". On a rather more underground note, the hypnotic grooves of Oliver Lieb's "Subraumstimulation" and Danny Howell's tripped-out edit of Amethyst's "Futura" showcase the deep trance sounds that has made huge in-roads on British floors all over the last year. And the sleek, stream-lined and deadly dancefloor assault of Sasha's awesome "Belfunk" reveal exactly why the DJ superstar's groove-heavy sets enjoy such a fanatical following around the world the world.
- As party-poopers and chinstrokers everywhere continue to await the much talked-about "trance back-lash", we've got some news that will have them choking on their goateebeards: it isn't going to happen. The tracks included on this album prove what clubbers all over the globe know already, that trance continues to provide the most progressive dance music going. It's music to lose yourself in, the music that makes those out-on-the-floor, 3am moments that we live for so special and that's why the trance nation is growing stronger by the day. So next time some dickhead journalist tries to tell you that trance has had it, stick on this album, give him the finger and look forward to the next time you can experience that feeling again. Still bringing you the trance, the whole trance and nothing but the trance, this is "Trance Nation 3". Except nothing less.
- The Trance Brothers, Y2K.
- Note:
- - Comes with an extra outer cardboard package surrounding the jewel case.