Visions of Ibiza

RELEASE
July 03, 2001
LABEL
Beechwood Music
GENRES
Electronica

Album Review

There was always something off with Chicane, either in his discreditable use of guest vocalists or the way he adhered to stunningly melodious trance music while edging in and out of abominable new age. And yet, when deciding to compose an Ibizan love letter for an audience that was quickly beginning to eye the lustier vibes of Miami or Ayia Napa, he culled lifelong favorites, put them beside the likes of Aphex Twin and Everything but the Girl, and fashioned a winding path to one of the most steadily successful records he's ever worked on. You can almost see watery beads form on the first disc's teary ambience, thanks mostly to Kama Sutra's "Sugar Steps" and Chicane's own "Early." And the second disc, though far less consistent, wiggles with more proper dance beats -- the Disco Citizens-like Bassheads, Rank 1's lip-quivering "Airwave" -- complimenting his genuine empathy and dim-witted weaknesses so well that a part of you is pleased that Chicane's influences are far better than his actual product.
Dean Carlson, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Sugar Steps
  2. E.V.A.
  3. Windowlicker
  4. Smoke Belch II [Beatless Mix]
  5. Before Today [Chicane Mix]
  6. Off Shore [Original Mix]
  7. A Brass Band in African Chimes
  8. Natural Thing
  9. Deeper
  10. Oxygene, Pt. 2
  11. Early
  12. Into the Fourth Dimension
  13. Not Forgottoen
  14. Eterna
  15. Overdrive [Timo Maas Extended Vocal Edit]
  16. Wide Open Space [Perfecto Mix]
  17. Strings for Yasmin
  18. Chase the Sun [Adam Freeland Mix]
  19. Help Me Make It Through the Night [Deep Mix]
  20. (Who?) Keeps Changing Your Mind [Fresh Fruit Mix]
  21. Is There Anybody Out There?
  22. Greece 2000
  23. Stars [Way Out West Remix]
  24. Airwave