World Dance
The Drum + Bass Experience
Over the past 7 years World Dance has grown into one of the UK's premier party organisations. Today they regularly hold parties for
over 10,000 people and are widely regarded as pioneers of the drum and bass scene.
The two leading lights behind the team are Chris Leonard and Jay. Both old school ravers themselves, they claim to know exactly what
a party needs to go off with a bang....! The album consists of two CDs. The first is mixed by DJ Hype, the second by Ellis Dee. Both contain an incredible overflow of sounds blended along with of course 'drum n bass' ranging from reggae to orchestral and classical. For heavy fans of 'drum n bass', or those who are content jumping around to monotonous, then World Dance is the album for you. For me it was just infuriating.
The first CD is well introduced with a track by DJ Hype entitled "We must unite" clearly emphasising the bond that World Dance is trying to create. The lyrics "Unite on the basis of what we have in common", and "Learn to forget our differences" bind together a crowd which may or may not have this attitude to life, but probably take major drugs and at the time think they do. Failing that, they are major space cadets or have dense ear drums.
The titles of the tracks on both CDs are meaningless to me. "Remember the roller", "Oh Gosh", and "Breaking #4", are typical of both CD 1 and CD 2. The titles may be samples of the tracks or just a feeling or type of sense of how the track sounds. All tracks are blended into the next, providing a CD of non stop sound.
Both compilations are well done, and if hard-core 'drum n bass' is your kind of music, then at รบ14.99 from Our Price, the album is a bargain. For someone that prefers a mellower, more subtle approach, then World Dance is definitely not for you. Although maintaining a regular invariable rhythm throughout, the mass of different sounds was simply too heavy going. Mixtures of sounds included police sirens, lots of scratching, jungle beats, springs and boings, animals including elephants, wolves, birds and dogs, organs, Beavis and Butthead, and a mixture of vague female and male vocals.
The album is not a feel good album, and is definitely not one to listen to if you have a headache. My symptoms whilst listening to it were headaches, nausea and generally feeling irritable. The overall theme of each track was fairly constricted to nightmarish, mystic and bitty. However, had I actually been there to soak up the atmosphere of uniting with complete strangers whilst under the influence of illegal substances I may have felt differently.