COMPILATION: Best of Reactivate mixed by Rachel Auburn out on React Music

BEST OF REACTIVATE MIXED BY RACHEL AUBURN 2XCD, PLUS 42 TRACK UNMIXED DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

Featuring tracks and mixes by Armin Van Buuren, Tony De Vit, John ‘00’ Fleming, S-J, Mrs Wood, Blu Peter, Peppermint Lounge, Marmion, Jens, E-Trax, Sundance, Push, GTO, Ramirez, Push, Elevator, Zero B & Joey Beltram.

With the 90s nostalgia firmly back in the spotlight, Reactivate, the pioneering techno, trance and hard house brand, popularised by cult electronic label React, has been reactivated by demand for a special best of album. ‘Reactivate 91-01’ will be released on Friday 20th November as a 37 track double CD mixed by 90s DJ icon Rachel Auburn and a 42 track unmixed digital download.

Back in the days when weekends began on Thursdays and 6am was not a late finish in clubland, accelerating track tempos fueled widespread decadent partying. When London, Berlin and Frankfurt throbbed to the sound of teutonic beats and Svan Vath and Carl Cox spun high-speed techno and trance, Reactivate ruled as the platform to hear the popular underground anthems making waves at the raves.

The Reactivate series, which sold over 500,000 albums, became a byword for new electronic music and introduced the burgeoning, uplifting European trance sound to UK clubbers, where it found favour at London at clubs such as Trade, The Gallery, Heaven, Bagleys, and Peach, plus Scotland and across the regions, as well as Europe, U.S., Australia, South Africa and Asia. The popularity of this sound led to the rise of superclubs such as Cream, Gatecrasher & Gods Kitchen promoting this style of music, which in turn became a pre-cursor for the EDM movement.

As the sound became more ubiquitous, tracks crossed over to the mainstream such as Zero B’s ‘Lock Up’, Jam & Spoon’s seminal remix of ‘The Age Of Love’ and trance anthem Push ‘Universal Nation’, as well as more quirky releases on the React label such as Mrs Wood’s ‘Joanna’ and Sundance ‘Sundance’ featured on this album. Other popular cult tracks including Tony De Vit’s remix of S-J ‘Fever’, Marmion ‘Schoneberg’, Jens ‘Loops ‘N’ Tings, Lemon Project ‘Peppermint Lounge’ and internationally renowned DJ Armin Van Buuren’s ‘Blue Fear’.

Rachel Auburn, Original Blitz kid and fashion designer, was raised to club stardom in the nineties by crossover singles under the Candy Girls alias and Freska compilation albums on React, plus legendary DJ residencies at Taboo, Trade and Tidy Trax. To celebrate its release Rachel played tracks from her Reactivate collection at Trade’s 25th Birthday.

Tracklisting:

Digital download

1	The Age Of Love	The Age Of Love (Jam & Spoon Remix)
2	Li Kwan	Point Zero
3	Elevator	Shinny (Harmony mix)
4	Jones & Stephenson	The First Rebirth (Red Jerry Remix)
5	Coloured Vision	Violet Rain
6	Blu Peter	Flagship (21st Anniversary Mix)
7	Cygnus X	Orange Theme
8	S-J	Fever (Tony De Vit Mix)
9	Mach One	Roadrunner
10	Push	Universal Nation
11	Sunbeam	Outside World
12	Blue Alphabet	Cybertrance
13	Blu Peter	Magic
14	Shimmon & Woolfson	Evil Queen (Full Force mix)
15	The Hellfire Club	Black Magic
16	Marmion	Schoneberg
17	Jens	Loops & Tings (Fruit Loops mix)
18	Blu Peter	Pictures In Your Mind (Arabesque mix)
19	S-J	Fever (Baby Doc remix)
20	Blu Peter	Flagship (Original Mix)
21	Seb	Sugar Shack (Surfin' On The Clouds Mix)
22	Friends Lovers and Family	Tribute
23	John '00' Fleming	Alpha 5 (Olmec Heads remix)
24	Sour Mash	Pilgirmage To Paradise
25	Antartica	Return To Reality
26	Sundance	The Living Dream (Transa remix)
27	Armin	Blue Fear
28	Mrs Wood	The Awakening
29	Lemon Project	Peppermint Lounge
30	S-J	I Feel Divine (Baby Doc remix)
31	GTO	The Bullfrog
32	Fierce Ruling Diva	Rubb It In
33	E-Trax	Let's Rock
34	Zero B	Lock Up
35	B-Sides	The Tape Remix
36	Beltram	Energy Flash
37	Spectrum	Brazil
38	GTO	Listen To The Rhythm Flow
39	Ramirez	Hablando
40	Fierce Ruling Diva	Rubb It In (Slick Note 2015 remix)
41	Sundance	Sundance
42	Mrs Wood	Joanna (Tony De Vit V2 Remix)

Rachel Auburn DJ Mixes

Mix 1
01. Lemon Project - Peppermint Lounge
02. GTO - The Bullfrog
03. GTO - Listen To The Rhythm Flow
04. Beltram  - Energy Flash
05. Zero B - Lock Up
06. Spectrum - Brazil
07. B-Sides  - The Tape Remix
08. Fierce Ruling Diva - Rubb It In
09. Mrs Wood  - The Awakening
10. Ramirez & Pizarro - Hablando
11. E-Trax - Let’s Rock
12. S-J - Fever (Tony Devit Mix)
13. Mrs Woods - Joanna (Tony Devit V2 Remix)
14. Blu Peter - Magic
15. S-J - I Feel Divine (Baby Doc Mix)
16. Blu Peter - The Pictures In Your Mind (Arabesque Mix)
17. John '00' Fleming  - Alpha 5 (Olmec Heads remix)
18. Sourmash - Pilgrimage To Paradise (Original Barrel Beat Mix)
19. The Hellfire Club - Black Magic

Mix 2
01. The Age Of Love – The Age Of Love (Jam and Spoon Remix)
02. Seb - Sugar Shack (Surfin’ On Clouds Mix)
03. Li Kwan - Point Zero
04. Coloured Vision - Violet Rain
05. Marmion - Schoneberg
06. Friends, Lovers & Family - Tribute (Bucket & Spades)
07.  Jens - Loops & Tings (Fruit Loops Mix)
08. Mach One - Road Runner
09. Blue Alphabet - Cybertrance
10.  Blu Peter - Flagship (21st Anniversary Mix)
11.  Sunbeam - Outside World
12. Antartica - Return To Reality
13.  Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth (Red Jerry Remix)
14.  Cygnus X -Orange Theme
15. Push – Universal Nation
16. Shimmon & Woolfson - Evil Queen (Full Force Mix)
17. Elevator  - Shinny (Harmony mix)
18. Armin - Blue Fear

Additional info:

http://www.react-music.com/