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gor, blimey, etc. that one's turning into the micro-house "strings of life", no?

Dave Seaman's is the most well-mixed of the bunch, I feel. It's got a continuous, cinematic soundtrack-ish feel to it. Nick Warren's is good too, though aspects of the track selection tend to be a bit obvious (Moby - Go, Coldcut - Autumn Leaves). Of course to be fair this is not a new compilation by any stretch.

Groove Armada's is a lot of fun.....to me it feels like a very sunny "beach" album. I've taken it to the beach and played it there and confirms my suspicions. Beach-towel disco.

Faithless edition is one of the more eclectic. This is actually one of my favorites. Since everyone seems to hate Dido, though, I will give the Dido-alert, she is on this comp, being Rollo's sister. If you can't stand her you can simply skip the opening track.

EBTG's is great - I find this one to be the most groove-oriented of the BTMs. Morcheeba's is the heaviest on the hip-hop, also some soul, funk. Haven't heard Talvin Singh's yet.

Found that these comps are on Spotify after stumbling onto the, uh, Fatboy Slim one. Nice to re-discover the Pet Shop Boys and Everything But The Girl ones, going to revisit more.

The Tricky one is a good example of the diversity in these mixes—The Cure>Eric B>Dr. John>Morphine—though I do think of the vibe of these now as Chipotle Music.

Chipotle Music

Must ILM ruin all that I hold good? Actually I'd be pretty stoked to hear Eric B in Chipotle, I heard him in the local falafel shop the other day and it made an excellent meal that much better. Otherwise I'd imagine you nailed it.

The Underworld issue was a personal favorite of mine when it came out, I haven't revisited it much since then. The Orb's is outstanding although it does lean heavily on the expected likes of Thomas Fehlmann and AFX. Seems like MJ Cole's is also worth a listen if you're desperate enough to resort to Norman Cook's, heh.

I mean it affectionately! (And it’s an instrumental “Paid in Full” and definitely The Cure’s “Lullaby” that I’ve heard at Chipotle.) And just as a sign that these comps influenced what has become everyday background music.

Huge huge fan of Neil Tennant / Chris Lowe one. Each gets a CD, and you get that English romanticism + Italo disco = Pet Shop Boys equation perfectly laid out.

The groove armada one has a nice journey through disco, deep house and chill out. Good selection of tracks

What nikola said about the Pet Shop Boys one. Probably my favourite. Looking at things I have written I seemed to like the Richard X and Royksopp ones, too.

i only have a couple - the richard x and talvin singh editions.
very different to each other, but both of them are really good.

Very happy to see this revived!

Surprised these are on Spotify as I’d have assumed the rights would be a nightmare.

I have only heard one, the Orbital BTM, which for Earth Leakage Trip alone is worth it.

Are these actually mixed on Spotify, or just playlists of the unmixed tracks?

Both - there's usually an unmixed version and then a "DJ Mix" version

i can't find them - maybe it's a US/UK thing?

I can only find the playlists people have made, not the actual albums. PSBs one is predictably great.

I can just see three recent ones:Jungle, Nightmares on Wax and Fatboy Slim