Various - Classic House Mastercuts Volume 2 mp3 album

Great compilation packed full of classic cuts with a selection of big House & Techno tunes back in their day, from Rhythm Is Rhythm "Strings Of Life", Fallout "The Morning After", Arnold Jarvis "Take Sometime Out" and Blaze "If You Should Need A Friend" to name but a few. Absolute classics and still a pleasure to listen too today.

and they are taken from the masters too most on later compilations are vinyl rips.

Worth obtaining this compilation primarily due to the rare inclusion of a record that has astonishingly managed to avoid any attention (even the sleeve-notes here skip along without a specific comment to this track's relevance): 'Strings of Life (unreleased mix)' by Rhythim is Rhythim. A collaboration between Derrick May and Carl Craig (in 1989, I think) resulted in this sublime re-loving of the classic song. Contains every aspect of life throughout all imagination. More subtle than any other electronic dance track I have yet heard. Timeless: because it's so unique, it sounds like it's necessarily always been there: the statement the track makes would support this idea.

I always just assumed this compilation's "Unreleased Mix" was the 1989 "Exclusive Mix" or the 1991 "Unreleased Mix", a.k.a. "Strings of the Strings of Life". But it is indeed a different version, apparently unreleased to this point.

This compilation is one of my all time favourites out of vol 1 & 3 simplier because of the more abstract & experimental type of tracks on this particular album.