| Super Best Trance Presents: Xmas Trance
Listenability: 5/5 Weirdness: 3/5 |
This was the album that prompted me to take a good, hard look at Christmas albums floating around out there. It's Christmas music. It's trance and techno. It's entirely imported from Japan (like all wildly good things). No, I'm not entirely certain what possessed people to make techno remixes of traditional Christmas songs, but you know I'm totally here for it. And like all good traditional Christmas albums, it starts out with a classic: All I Want For Christmas Is You! The album also contains a couple tracks I had never heard of before that entirely confused me (a track titled "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" being the most baffling addition - it sounds entirely stereotypically asian, but that'll be a topic for later on in this list). Overall, all of the covers of the traditional songs are pretty good. My favorite is probably Joy To The World, which has a good bop and lyrical talent not far off from a Jackson 5 vain. Overall, it's become a staple of my musical playlist around Christmastime! |
