Global Underground 005: Budapest - Warren
Skillfully integrating house and trance styles, this latestGlobal Undergroundset is compulsory for all who want the club in their living room. Never one to let the pace let up, British DJ Nick Warren keeps firing seamless beats in this continuous, carefree ascent to total mental freedom. Superbly captured from a night in front of 2,000 wild Hungarian clubbers, Warren seems to have drawn off Eastern Europe's continuing social turmoil to offer a set that gives total escape from life's daily conundrums: try dancing nonstop to this and wake up surrounded by nurses, but Warren offers the challenge for all those daring enough to try.  Arcadium's "Fade Instinct" is pure driving at 100 mph, while deeper in, Tilt's "Whats This?" is 4 a.m. with the trancelike high peaking. Whether in Budapest or Birmingham, Warren's Global set will invigorate the soul and inspire you to perspire.--Steffan Chirazi