Your essential top 10 DJ mix/compilation albums.

Perhaps these might be more up you street but then again I don't know! :?

Jez, you could try some of Tiesto's or Paul Van Dyk's stuff - they're not compilations, (if you get the right albums), they're mostly their own work.

Also, a lot of the work of Sasha and Digweed and also John '00' Fleming are their own remixes of others material - but the remixes are so clever and so technically advanced, many of them do not resemble the original piece of work.

Knowing what you like (from what you've written in other threads), I wouldn't rule out the possibility that you wouldn't find something that is 'your cup of tea'. I was never into this kind of EM until I heard Northern Exposure by Sasha and Digweed in a HMV years ago. I had to ask what it was as I thought it would be by someone I knew, when I realised it was some mixed work by a couple of DJ's, I was shocked, but pleasantly surprised. They may not be using banks of synths to make the music, but how it is made is largely irrelevant, it's what it sounds like, and if you didn't know, you could easily imagine these guys as synth wizards.

There's big a difference between compilations and a 'mix'!
Your perception of a particular track can really be influenced by the track before especially when mixed creatively which is an art form in itself.
It doesn't have to be boom-boom 4/4 all the time, the Euphoria comps tend to be cheesy 'Iyebeefa' trash but Deep and Chilled is totally different and Mixmaster Morris' Mixmag 9 is a work of ambient genius .

I can understand this. Even though I started in the techno (well more ambient techno, but still...) scene in the late 80's, I never really got into mix CD's. The only ones I have are ones that I've been given or that I had a track on. Usually there is too much on there that I don't like as I'm a fussy bugger...
I have a few DJ Kicks one's (Krueder & Dorfmeister is one I seem to recall liking and the one Andrea Parker did which I am bound to like )
BUT in general, I'm not a big fan of mix CD's...