8 / 10

A sprawling three-CD monstrosity mixed by hard house doyens Ziad, Simon Eve, and Nick Rafferty, '21st Century Hard House' turns the spotlight on The New Trance. To the casual ear, it sounds rather a lot like The Old Trance, actually. Handy, that. Glo-sticks at the ready? Then we'll begin.
Necessary or evil? Faceless, faultless, and resolutely fromage-free. But why would anyone want to listen to this outside a club?
Louis Pattison
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