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** (2 stars)
Kiss FM Volume 03 - Mixed by Manuel
(Gallo/DGR)

So there you were, late one Friday night, stumbling out of your favourite trendy bar somewhere in a trendy part of town where you've been trying to groove to something indecipherable that must've been cool, because all the cool people were there. Outside, you run into an old friend from school and he accosts you for another drink on the other side of town.

In his car, he's got some commercial dance music turned up so loud as to apparently attempt to lift the finish off the dashboard. You frown, for you are cooler than this music, surely. But soon, city lights flashing by, recreational drugs zipping through your veins, your head is bopping along - the sounds of The Psychedelic Waltons, Planet Perfecto, Rank and Delirium suddenly making perfect sense after all those years of trawling through the math of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher.

There's uppity house here, some good old techno (and all those who know dance music will say in unison: "What does this dude know about dance music?" To which the answer is: "Not a heck of a lot.") and not much else. Sure, it will get you home, give you a workout and make you dance funny, but whether there's life at the end of it all, only those who LIVE this kind of music will be able to tell you.

Manuel Oetti does a fine job mixing the lot, ensuring that, by the time the familiar vocals of Delerium's (sic) 'Underwater' filters through, you're effortlessly in the palm of god, or any other DJ you might know. Final track, PPK's 'Resurection' (sic, again, can't DJs spell?) winds you down nicely, just in time to wake up before you do something you might be sorry for in the morning.