Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Moment Of Truth, The - (original radio version)
2. Relativity (Transeau's Excursion)
3. Embracing The Future - (Embracing The Sunshine mix)
4. Loving You More - (with Vincent Covello, 7" edit)
5. Blue Skies - (with Tori Amos, radio edit)
6. Flaming June - (BT & PVD edit)
7. Love, Peace And Grease - (BT's Puma Fila 7" mix)
8. Remember - (Single mix)
9. Road To Lotswithiel, The
10. Lullaby For Gala
11. Believer
12. Dreaming - (Libra mix, with Kristy Hawkshaw)
13. Giving Up The Ghost
14. Never Gonna Come Back Down - (with M Doughty, single edit)
15. The Revolution

Disc 2:

1. Tripping The Light Fantastic
2. Dreams (BT's Circadian Dream)
3. Running Around Town - (BT's Shelter mix)
4. Nanita (A Spanish Lullaby) - (BT's Voltaire Organica remix, with Tribe/Deborah Blando)
5. Stranded - (BT VS. DD Mix mix, Deep Dish edit)
6. Promethean Groove, The - (edit)
7. Anomaly-Calling Your Name - (Brat edit)
8. Quark - (Coolaid mix)
9. Drowned World (My Substitute For Love) - (BT & Sasha's Bucklodge Ashram remix)
10. Bad Girl - (BT's Spoken Progenitor mix)
11. Keep Hope Alive - (BT's Creatine Method mix)
12. Shineaway - (with Richard Butler)

Product Details

• Released on: 2002-10-01
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Import, Best of
• Dimensions: .34 pounds

Customer Reviews

Yick!
I'm sorry but after having heard so much about him, I had a go and checked this CD out. Terrible. The songs are lame, and there is nothing here that jumps out and grabs me. I was expecting a lot more. He must have friends in high places because talent alone didn't get him where he is today.

BT at his BEST
This 2 disc set is a must have for any BT fan! From club house to trance beats, this set covers it all! Madonna 'Drowned World/Substitute for Love' remix is the best!

Very good, though dated at some points
As opposed to the case with most greatest hits compilations, this one sadly shows how the early sound of the electronica/dance genre (which was influenced heavily by BT's contributions) sounds dated when we are about to enter 2004. On the flip side, much in the same way as those of us born in the seventies now look back at the eighties with a sense of "that was the music we went through High School with" I can see a lot of younger people enjoying this music in 10-15 years time, as a retrospective into their middle school years.

This album presents a compilation of hits spanning from 1993 until 2002 (when it was issued) of Brian Transeau (a.k.a. BT), one of the masterminds behind the electronica/dance movement of the past decade, considered by many to be "bigger" than the very own Paul Oakenfold (I subscribe to that view, by the way...) '10 Years in the Life' gives a clear idea of how the sound of BT evolved through time, with a more techno/dance type of sound in the first half of the first disc (and in general in the first five years covered by the compilation), morphing into a more ambient/trancey sound toward the end of it (which closely match the most recent five years), when he takes a plunge into some originals and some remixes extracted from the great ESCM album. As the first disc closes, we get a feel for BT's scoring abilities, with "Believer" (from the movie "Go") and "The Revolution" (from "Tomb Raider" part I).

Disc 2, for a change, presents a continuous mix bundled with remixes that BT did of other artists' work (and a couple of his own crop) between 1995 and 1999, with Madonna's "Drowned World/Substitute For Love" and an almost unrecognizable (though very powerful) remix of Crystal Method's "Keep Hope Alive" as the high points. In general, I prefer the first disc by far, since it sounds less dated and sticks more with the more trancey music/remixes by BT that I learned to love.

As for me, though I didn't grow up to this music (not in the sense of going to school listening to it), I found more than one spot in the compilation that made me feel more alive than ever, as if being reborn. Hope it gives you the same feeling when you spin it... keep a young spirit!