In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 7: Asia

Well, what to say here?

Tiesto is somewhat of a jerk with his whole i'm better than thou attitude when meeting people after his sets, but he does churn out some of the best trance albums out there...

You can't deny it - this double disc set is seamlessly blended with the finest intro/trance/outro setup to date. Yeah its 2009 and things have changed already, but this is a timeless setup - like most of the ASOT's in circulation...

I'm usually a leaner towards the house side of everything, but I really can't get my ears off this compilation due to it's great layered sounds and uplifing schiesse. You know the drill - I don't need to describe the music itself in order for you to know what's up.

Dance.

-|2yan

I love all the In Search of Sunrise cd's...this isn't my absolute favorite, but it's very good, as they all are.

It's been a very long time since I wrote a review on a Tiesto album, but I was so refreshed by this outing that I thought it best to chime in. Basically, I will be echoing the sentiments of other reviewers, so bear with the redundancy.

If this were an Armin Van Buuren album, you would be labeling CD1 "On the Beach" and CD2 "In the Club," for Tiesto follows that same route in ISOS, Vol. 7. CD1 is definitely a beautiful CD to chill out on...the first 5 tracks are classic chill, followed by 8 vocal/melodic tracks, and then ending with another short down-tempo track. I liked the gradual build up and I was really impressed with most of the vocal numbers (my absolute favorite being Airbase's "Denial"), but was a bit let down by the male vocals in track 13.

CD2 was definitely the better of the two, especially if you're a fan of high energy/melodic trance with a splash of progressive thrown in for good measure. I was going to list some standouts, but there are too many to mention. Let me just say that once track 5 kicks in you're in for quite a ride!

There are simply no fillers (on either CD) and this in itself is enough to commend this to any Tiesto fan (or to one who has never heard him, for that matter).

I must confess that I just listened to 3 other double CDs in the last few days..."Nightmusic: Volume 3," "Anjunabeats: Volume Six," and "A State of Trance: 2008," so I'm a bit spoiled. If I had to rate these four I'd give an upper hand to Armin's "A State of Trance" (it's his best in years!!), followed by a tie between "Nightmusic: Volume 3, and the "ISOS: Vol. 7." Anjunabeats was good, but it wasn't on the same level as their previous volumes and unlike the other 3 I found myself hitting the "skip" button too often on CD1. I would highly recommend them all though; in fact, these four artists can be counted on every year to gratify your senses by taking you to "audio Nirvana."

I bought a couple of Tiesto's In search of sunrise discs (disc 3 and 4) and I didn't really like them. I didn't think Tiesto was a great DJ. I decided to give him another try and bought Elements of Life and Loved it and I bought many of his other CD's after that. I then decided to give ISOS one more shot and I bought the Aisa disc set and I was blown away. This is truly an amazing work.
The first disc is slower with lost of vocal (which I love) and the second Disc is much more up beat and has an epic trance feel.
I would highly recommend this album to anyone that loves Tiesto!!

Badly mixed 2 cd's. This cd mix compilation is just awful. The tracks would sound better if they would not be mixed by Tiesto, who is rather a pop star than a dj these days