If you are anything like me and got into DJ Sammy in 2001 during the ultra trancey remakes of Heaven and Boys of Summer, you may be caught off guard by The Rise. The disc is very different from his first album which was like Hypa Hypa and then with Heaven it was soothing trance. This is comparable to listening to Lasgo or ATC. Remember ATC, la la la la la, yea them. This sounds like the follow up album they never had. Lots of vocals, including one super cheese track with a male singer talking about climbing the highest mountain. I was slapped in the face with a dirty diaper when i put this in my car stereo. Good thing I wasn't driving on the highway or may have gone off the road! It gets a 3 because a few of the tracks are good, but nothing sounds like Rise Again, his debut single. Anyway, use judgement when purchasing this. I don't regret the purchase, I just was not educated on DJ Sammy's apparent "ever evolving" nature.

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As a fan of different types of trance, and expecting this to be a good cd, I was totally wrong. To put it short, the cd sucks, at least from a Trance point of view. If you liked his track Heaven, DONT waste your money on this cd. There is nothing trancy about it. Maybe one or two songs from the CD, once they are remixed, have some promise, the rest just fade into the back ground.