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Dream house, ambient house – descriptions that were thrown about at the beginning of the nineties but correctly applied to this track that came nestled amongst others of similar ilk on the seminal compilation by DFC, which also had these sleeve notes:

Emotional, meditational, hypnotic are the words used to describe this new lymph of music that is conquering the dance scene. Here you can listen to a revolutionary new form of dance music that mixes atmospheric sounds of new age and ambient music with pulsating house beats. It’s simply called ambient house.

This is a really innovative way to make music, a new method of dance with the mood to create your own mental pictures. Mixing sound effects of new age, house beats and dreamy synthesiser melodies can create a music with a cantering repetitive groove to explore a completely new territory on the dance floor. Now you can dance with your body while you are dreaming with your mind. If house music has been quite an earthquake, ambient house, starting with Sueño Latino by Sueño Latino, is a warm, entangling and sweet shock.

This album is the first ambient house collection and DFC Team compiled it to explore some of the possibilities of this new trend. The tracks in this album are not made to be all commercial hits, but using Aqua Regia’s words we can say “in your hearts, not the charts”.

The ‘new trend’ seemed to peter out rather soon however which was unfortunate, there doesn’t appear to be any other compilations, not even a K-Tel one, of ambient house. Be advised that the pressing on the compilation isn’t great and some of the tracks have been edited  in order to fit them all on one piece of vinyl – if you’re able to indulge yourself, hunt down and procure the tracks in their original form.

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