Renaissance: The Mix Collection
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| Remix album by Sasha & John Digweed | ||||
| Released | 14 October 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Progressive house | |||
| Length | 225:32 | |||
| Label | Renaissance Records | |||
| Producer | Sasha, John Digweed | |||
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| Renaissance: The Mix Collection Remastered 10th Anniversary Edition | ||||
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| Remix album by Sasha & John Digweed | ||||
| Released | 15 November 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 (mixed) | |||
| Genre | Progressive house | |||
| Length | 222:18 | |||
| Label | Renaissance Records | |||
| Producer | Sasha, John Digweed | |||
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Renaissance: The Mix Collection is an electronic dance music compilation album consisting of three CDs, each presented as a continuous DJ mix. The album, mixed by Sasha & John Digweed and released in October 1994, was the first in a series of mix albums released under the brand of the Renaissance nightclub. Containing music from the house, progressive house and trance genres, it was intended as a sampler of the kind of music played by the club.
On the tenth anniversary of the album's release, a fully remastered version with a slightly altered track listing was released.
The album is considered by many to be amongst the greatest mix albums of all time. Resident Advisor said the album was a "landmark CD of its kind" and "the great Daddy of all DJ mix compilations – the cornerstone for all things progressive, and a massive influence for legions of DJs to follow."The Quietus said the album marked the point of when the "second wave of dance music crossed over to a wider audience" and said the album was "arguably one of the first – and best - DJ mixes of its kind to be released on CD", referring to the album's "then upcoming talents of Sasha and John Digweed blended effortlessly a heady and hedonistic miasma of progressive house and early trance that included Leftfield, Underworld, and Age of Love to freeze in time forever the euphoric nights that would become days that would become euphoric nights again," featuring the album in their unordered 2015 list of their "Favourite DJ Mix Albums". In 1996, Mixmag ranked the album at number 26 in its list of the "Best Dance Albums of All Time". In 1997, Q ranked the album in their list of "The 10 Best DJ Mix Albums...Ever!". DJ Mag included it on their list of "5 of the Best DJ Mixes of All Time".
Presented inside an outer translucent tracing paper emblemed slip-sleeve, a card digipack case unfolds into four faces; each CD section has a separate flap that folds over it, while the case packaging itself folds like a book, continuing the Renaissance theme. Pictured on the front flap is a typical renaissance painting by Michelangelo, while a landscape portrait of a colleseum under a bright blue sky stretches inside the packaging. The CDs are arranged by colour; blue, orange, and green. The story behind Renaissance, the club, between 1992 and 1994 is written on top of the CD flaps. Due to the case's heavy faces only being held by card, it is rare to find an original completely intact from damage to the seams, and also the outer slip-sleeve is often missing.
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