Perfecto Presents: Another World
| Another World | ||||
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| Remix album by Paul Oakenfold | ||||
| Released | 19 September 2000 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 (mixed) | |||
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| Length | 148:27 (74:51 (disc one), 73:36 (disc two)) | |||
| Label | London Records, Sire Records, Perfecto Records | |||
| Producer | Paul Oakenfold | |||
| Compiler | Paul Oakenfold | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (62/100) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Robert Christgau | C |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | (5/10) |
| Wall of Sound | (8.3/10) |
Perfecto Presents: Another World is the twelfth DJ mix album by British electronic music producer Paul Oakenfold, released in 2000. It is the second instalment in his Perfecto Presents series, a series of DJ mix albums themed around Oakenfold's label Perfecto Records. The album employs Oakenfold's progressive trance sound and sees a return to the Goa trance sound he had helped popularise with Goa Mix (1994) and Perfecto Fluoro (1996). Similar to those albums, it also features a more eclectic array of music genres, featuring music from film soundtracks, the ethereal wave band Dead Can Dance and a remix of a Led Zeppelin song. Although the album received mixed reviews from critics, at the time of release, it became the biggest-selling DJ mix album in the United States, where it reached the Top 50 of the Top Electronic Albums chart.
With his Essential Mix instalment Goa Mix (1994), released as an album in 1995, and Perfecto Fluoro (1996), Oakenfold had helped popularise a subgenre of the emerging progressive trance genre known as Goa trance, originating from the beaches of Goa, India. Both albums received critical acclaim. In this era, he was experiencing a surge in popularity, and in June 1995, he became the first DJ to play on the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset for 90,000 people, a performance which he considers his favourite gig. Broadening his usage of various styles of dance music, his mix album Global Underground: Live in Oslo (1997), a double mix CD in the Global Underground series recorded live at Cosmopolite Club in Oslo, Norway, as part of the official launch of the Quart Festival, was noted for showcasing Oakenfold's eclectic taste in music at the time, as the mix combines various forms of dance music. His second instalment for the series, Global Underground 007: New York (1998), has become the best-selling album in the series, selling 150,000 copies.
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