Whenever someone tries to say that DJ’s aren’t real musicians or that drum machines have no soul, this is what breaks the stereotype. This is on par with the genius composers. A true sonic journey for the discerning audiophile.
Wholeheartedly agree!!! These 2 are the epitome of DJ’s, even though this compilation is digitally mixed, the work that goes into it by figuring out which song goes where, and having a good enough musical ear to know which songs to pick. I mean, Sasha and Digweed got a hold of a lot of these tracks before they were ever released to the public. East and West coast will always be the pinnacle of which other DJ sets and complications will never hold a candle to.
The mix for like 15 mins is just absolutely perfection. Goosebumps every time I listen to it. Used to blast it in the car and surround sound. Christ. Absolute belter. Sasha and digweed. Untouchable
Definitely one of the all time greatest trance mixes ever compiled. They were the first to expose the trance scene to North America....hence Northern Exposure. I even remember seeing Sasha in San Francisco for only $5 cover. No one knew who they were. Sasha & Digweed were always a pair. If Sasha is reading this, I was the one that gave him these Japanese cookies in WMC in Miami in 1999 / 2000 where he was spinning at a small club hosted by Spundae. Those were the memorable days for sure.
wow dude. I've seen these guys when they were in the early 90's. No names then. You listen to these northern exposures and it's like no other mixes. Music these days have no depth like they did then.
Nickster - are you still around or faded away as an old raver? LOLIf you were at the Midway on Dec 29th 2017 - the pair were there and rocked the house down.
NE2 is something very, very special. Dark yet exuberant, melancholic yet uplifting. Complex and beautiful. Was at the Sasha and Diggers NE2 night at Sugar Shack in Middlesbrough UK back in the late nineties. What a night that was. Danced like a maniac!
Everyone always bangs on about Eastcoast being a-number 1 and all that jazz, but Westcoast is a monster and just as good in my opinion. Harder and darker but no less good!
Nah...this is The One. The former is a masterpiece, but only with the latter completing it. The East is the intro of the epic journey that transitions into an unbelievable emotional ride that is this disc.
I was lucky enough to attend a northern exsposure night absolutley mindblowing sasha got barricaded in the dj booth by the entire club at the end of the night and played for and extra hour and a half.
I was also privileged to attend northern exposure tour at cream Liverpool in the courtyard before it closed, I was in love next to those bass bins crying and paralysed for majority of night. haha what a night
I've owned this record since 1999 and I must say this disc (also known as the EXPO 2 in the uk double disc edition) is among the most epic stuff ever mixed. Is simply epic, epic and more epic !!! The last half hour is an unbelievable rollercoaster.
Truely beautiful. It's not very often that music can be described as beautiful, but this is one of those rare opportunities. The legendary duo quite simply hand picked the best, highest grade of trance, from the connoisseurs of electronic music, and assembled those tracks into an epic ride of emotions. This is what trance was before it became shit. Before the big guns sold out, before Ibiza turned into scouseland. Oh what could've been..
I bought this CD back in 1998 and listened to it dozens of times before I lost it in 2002. I had all the songs ripped as individual mp3s (big mistake) which I never played because the gaps between the songs were ruining the mix. This is the first time I've heard it since, and what an incredible ride... Thank you friend!
My love Sasha I am impressed about your music creativity for too many years, I learned about this genre because of you. For too many years I’ve been following your journey because you stolen my heart. Thank you very much for all music happiness you have given me. ❤️
For the ones who don’t know and may be discovering for first time, West Coast is compiled and mixed by Digweed. East Coast is Sasha. East coast is just as much a gem
From 15:50 till 53:00, the set absolutely travels you to various feelings.. it is like a soundtrack of your own life situations... this is the magic of that music which we were listening that time and still never gets boring to listen after 2 decades... legendary music times...
28Mins to 45mins. Christ. Have all the Sasha mixes but I think this might be the best of all of them in terms of baseline and build up. I wish I could hear this live with the two of them in a club - full effect. Magic, heaven. This is why I believe the 2 of them are untouchable. Pure genuis. BANGING -
I bought this CD because i had just been to my first rave the night before. Sven Vath was the headliner and he rocked it. Saw his name on this album and now its a huge part of my life. Amazing mix
Still one of most listenable and yet danceable mix compilations out there! it hasn't dated at all and fills me with that same sense of nervous excitement I used to get as we were doing our regular weekend drive to the Zap Club in Brighton back in the day :) Happy times indeed!
Diggers dj'ed in Newquay one Wednesday evening and the warm up dj for the club, brought him to a mates restaurant the following day for some food. Not long after, my mate (who's restaurant it was) received 3 VIP guest passes for the Launch night of NE 2 at Ministry. He invited me. Pretty cool night. I remember Sasha sticking Armin on as the last tune. I still have the guest pass in my drawer. Diggers wondered out to the dancefloor to greet my mate. How cool.
3rd man - solar cycle is one of the best acid tracks ever created. so deep and dark. it's placement in this mix makes it so much better than the song by itself
Twilo S&D nights - seared into my synapses! Jimmy Van M warmup sets, Sasha and Digweed dropping choons all night and on and on until dawn Will never forget that night I feel asleep on the massive Phazon subwoofer to the right of the DJ booth Wokeup at 6am to the sound Of the sun rising in that beautiful/PLUR-filled disco warehouse in the sky West On 27th to this jam th-cam.com/video/a5VrxExoRNE/w-d-xo.html S+D still slaying wax, lacing crowds with tunes lol Digweed in Manchester in a car park th-cam.com/video/bJEeD5KiZOs/w-d-xo.html Sasha in Costa Rica - pushing that Twilo vibe th-cam.com/video/smQvGY9yPpI/w-d-xo.html
The product of a totally matured Progressive Houses scene. When this came out Trance was something else. It shares elements. That's it. Incredible stuff.
AH I still have this on CD it has traveled with me round the world & back. I have enlightened many a hotel & poolside with this mix. It also spent a lot of its life inside my Fiat Uno Turbo I owned in the mid to late 90's. Big stereo big sounds big fun!
My favourite dance music mix cd I ever purchased. The opening track is just awesome and the 41 minute mark track is one of the best hands-in-the-air atmospheric euphoric build ups ever. Ahhh the 1990s...
Man I haven’t listened to this in a long time. That first track brings back so many memories and wow the last half of this mix is absolutely stunning. 😍😍😍
Loved those days when people were like: Who was Armin van Buuren? Oh shit son, wasn't it these two British geniuses that gave this Dutchman a push to his rise in fame? WITH HIS FIRST TRACK RELEASED EVER?
!["Communicate" [Disc 2 of 2] mixed by Sasha & John Digweed | 2000, Progressive House, Trance, Club](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/syGou4xjAMc/mqdefault.jpg)
Whenever someone tries to say that DJ’s aren’t real musicians or that drum machines have no soul, this is what breaks the stereotype. This is on par with the genius composers. A true sonic journey for the discerning audiophile.
So so so true.
This mix packs a real punch. Emotionally physically and sensationally, all of it. Totally incredible.
Take me back!!
"stereo" type hahaha like an audio stereo 😂
Wholeheartedly agree!!! These 2 are the epitome of DJ’s, even though this compilation is digitally mixed, the work that goes into it by figuring out which song goes where, and having a good enough musical ear to know which songs to pick. I mean, Sasha and Digweed got a hold of a lot of these tracks before they were ever released to the public.
East and West coast will always be the pinnacle of which other DJ sets and complications will never hold a candle to.
In 2024 this is still the best DJ compilation ever made.
This is the music played as you arrive in heaven.
Well said my man respect where due👌
This is true ...I was there once...
I really hope so !
That mix of LSG into Taucher still haunts me to this day !!!
cant tell you how many times i played that part. i was 15 in 97' and just discovering my love of the rave scene
Hell yeah
The mix for like 15 mins is just absolutely perfection. Goosebumps every time I listen to it. Used to blast it in the car and surround sound. Christ. Absolute belter. Sasha and digweed. Untouchable
❤ Legendary set...🎉...and still banging in 2024 ❤for the love of music 🎶
Damn I'm glad i experienced the 90's.
S+D still slaying wax, lacing crowds with tunes lol
Digweed in Manchester in a car park
@
Sasha in Costa Rica - pushing that Twilo vibe
@
Definitely one of the all time greatest trance mixes ever compiled. They were the first to expose the trance scene to North America....hence Northern Exposure. I even remember seeing Sasha in San Francisco for only $5 cover. No one knew who they were. Sasha & Digweed were always a pair. If Sasha is reading this, I was the one that gave him these Japanese cookies in WMC in Miami in 1999 / 2000 where he was spinning at a small club hosted by Spundae. Those were the memorable days for sure.
Big Fan!
wow dude. I've seen these guys when they were in the early 90's. No names then. You listen to these northern exposures and it's like no other mixes. Music these days have no depth like they did then.
Nick Nguyen sasha still rocks live man:)
Hey I both Tiesto's club life album, did you download it?
Nickster - are you still around or faded away as an old raver? LOLIf you were at the Midway on Dec 29th 2017 - the pair were there and rocked the house down.
NE2 is something very, very special. Dark yet exuberant, melancholic yet uplifting. Complex and beautiful. Was at the Sasha and Diggers NE2 night at Sugar Shack in Middlesbrough UK back in the late nineties. What a night that was. Danced like a maniac!
***** Tell about it pal - same happened to me at bagleys goods night freedom night - !
Timeless. Even 19 years on, its way ahead of the curve.
Damn right!
@@SailfishSoundSystem
It is 22 years old now.
@@Art-is-craft 23 and fresh as ever
@@SonOfTamriel obligatory 24 and still pukka
@@johnselekta 25 and can't get enough of it
Everyone always bangs on about Eastcoast being a-number 1 and all that jazz, but Westcoast is a monster and just as good in my opinion. Harder and darker but no less good!
Nah...this is The One. The former is a masterpiece, but only with the latter completing it. The East is the intro of the epic journey that transitions into an unbelievable emotional ride that is this disc.
They're completely different and both awesome - while I would love to hear both on a club system, this is the one I'd love to hear again in Twilo.
Westcoast is still played till this day ❤️
Each one of East Coast’s tracks are sick all by themselves. None of them need a build up or transition.
Digweed mixes are their own genre.
I was lucky enough to attend a northern exsposure night absolutley mindblowing sasha got barricaded in the dj booth by the entire club at the end of the night and played for and extra hour and a half.
I was also privileged to attend northern exposure tour at cream Liverpool in the courtyard before it closed, I was in love next to those bass bins crying and paralysed for majority of night. haha what a night
Lucky bastards xxx
Saw Sasha and Digweed in Twilo NYC in 1998. What a night!!!!!
I've owned this record since 1999 and I must say this disc (also known as the EXPO 2 in the uk double disc edition) is among the most epic stuff ever mixed. Is simply epic, epic and more epic !!! The last half hour is an unbelievable rollercoaster.
Since I discovered Sasha and Digweed back in 93 ive probably listened to this mix at least 500 times....is that obsessive?
Not at all
Nope!
Nope probably on my 2000th playthrough right now..
Nope. It’s righteous.
Keep going, it’s worth it.
INCREDIBLE! I just don't understand how both these mixes passes me by for so long... but better late than never 🙂
My grand kids will know about this mix.
Resurrection Project your grandkids will be lists ing to the future
Such an incredible album.
The most powerful mix of my entire life, this one.
Truely beautiful. It's not very often that music can be described as beautiful, but this is one of those rare opportunities. The legendary duo quite simply hand picked the best, highest grade of trance, from the connoisseurs of electronic music, and assembled those tracks into an epic ride of emotions. This is what trance was before it became shit. Before the big guns sold out, before Ibiza turned into scouseland. Oh what could've been..
0:00 Cygnus X - Positron
5:18 Speedy J - Fusion (Live)
14:12 Humate - 3.2
22:28 Sven Väth - An Accident in Paradise (William Orbit & Spooky Remix)
27:53 The Light - Panfried (Original Mix) / (Mind Over Matter Mix)
35:35 Third Man - Solar Cycle (Arrangement Two)
39:47 L.S.G. - Netherworld (Jules Verne Mix)
46:30 Taucher - Waters (Phase III)
51:59 Art of Silence - Teach Me (Clean & Serene Remix by Mantra)
58:23 Transa - Enervate
1:03:11 Armin - Blue Fear
Seahawk
Thanks. But it’s in the description
@@Primus-ue4th The time stamps aren't
Fank dank u x
Thank you !
I bought this CD back in 1998 and listened to it dozens of times before I lost it in 2002. I had all the songs ripped as individual mp3s (big mistake) which I never played because the gaps between the songs were ruining the mix. This is the first time I've heard it since, and what an incredible ride... Thank you friend!
S+D still slaying wax, lacing crowds with tunes lol
Digweed in Manchester in a car park
@
Sasha in Costa Rica - pushing that Twilo vibe
@
Absolutely Brilliant
My love Sasha I am impressed about your music creativity for too many years, I learned about this genre because of you. For too many years I’ve been following your journey because you stolen my heart. Thank you very much for all music happiness you have given me. ❤️
I couldn't hav said it better myself thanx 4 keeping it alive Cynthia 1♥️👍🕺
Miss these days
Don't we all. 😎
For the ones who don’t know and may be discovering for first time, West Coast is compiled and mixed by Digweed. East Coast is Sasha. East coast is just as much a gem
That's incorrect, everyone seemed to assume they did one each, but they actually did both sides together, I asked Sasha myself to confirm.
This is Godly, I honest can't understand how something so beautiful was created. Only through some sort divinity
39.47... one of the greatest mix of two tracks ever!!!!
Has their ever been a better electronic album ever made. 16 years on it still blows me away.
I'm pretty set on the 1st Northern Exposure albums... But your argument is definitely a valid one, lol. Peace
Was at the Northern Exposure vol 2 tour @ Rhumba Club, Icefactory, Perth, Scotland.
LIFE CHANGING!!!
themanlike mont I was at the Northern Exposure 2 tour in Perth, Western Australia, also life changing!
a masterpiece i ve heard it like1000 times and i still love this......Sasha & Digweed respect
Those intro organ keys will stay with me for life.
One of my favourite mixes of all time. I don't listen to trance anymore, but when I do...
Roger Raigosa House was around a long time before this bro.
niceprince but this ain't house...
Not trance dude:)
andrea apostolou this sound was actually called trance at the time it was made.
Marios Mavros I never said it was...
what a tune Netherworld was...in every version...for me the best track of all times...this hypnotic main sound is unreachable till today.
Speedy J and Humate at their best.
From 15:50 till 53:00, the set absolutely travels you to various feelings.. it is like a soundtrack of your own life situations... this is the magic of that music which we were listening that time and still never gets boring to listen after 2 decades... legendary music times...
Haven't heard this album for over 10 years, so glad I found it. Thank you
1 of the sickest duo's ever. EVERRRRRR!!!
Jinkuist keep listening
So many wonderful memories, still awesome.
i grew up on this, techno baby!!
28Mins to 45mins. Christ. Have all the Sasha mixes but I think this might be the best of all of them in terms of baseline and build up. I wish I could hear this live with the two of them in a club - full effect. Magic, heaven. This is why I believe the 2 of them are untouchable. Pure genuis. BANGING -
Out of this world bought it back in the day
The intensity build through to Solar Cycle, then release of Netherworld is something rather special
This is my favorite of the collection.
It sounded like nothing else back then.
Over two decades later, I still enjoy it.
ohhhhh ohhhhh ohhhhhhh the best years of my life with these gorgeous and brilliant dance composers.... ohhhh
Auuuuush! just went back in time. Amazing memories. Thanks for the upload!
That Humate 3.2 track chills to the bone. Nice upload. thanks man
I bought this CD because i had just been to my first rave the night before. Sven Vath was the headliner and he rocked it. Saw his name on this album and now its a huge part of my life. Amazing mix
The greatest mem's ever! 97 was the year of years!
15 minz BREAK-BEAT love it................
Still one of most listenable and yet danceable mix compilations out there! it hasn't dated at all and fills me with that same sense of nervous excitement I used to get as we were doing our regular weekend drive to the Zap Club in Brighton back in the day :)
Happy times indeed!
❤LOVE❤
Here I am in 2021 still listening to this beautiful mix.
Not a patch on the first Northern Exposure but still in the best 10 mix CDs ever. Sasha and Digweed are so much more than DJs, they're pioneers!
Yidman01 no,2 far better you need to smoke a bigger spliff
I wouldn't say "not a patch"... but NE1 set the bar very very high.. :-)
TIMELESS! Still listen this 20 YEARS!
36mins 32seconds - boom 💥
43.10. Goosebumps. So much love. ❤
The first disc...and the first half of this disc - it's like a higher being talking to me. Pure magic.
wow I still get so excited when I hear them I listen when I was 20 years now 27 years later still get goosebumps o yesssss
Very good !
6 people dont have a fucking clue...best thumbs up ever.period.
Shiver up my spine and a smile on my face, just brilliant
Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing Amazing
one of the best from sasha , how music has changed since then
A true testament to music still listen to this 20 years on. Timeless
Diggers dj'ed in Newquay one Wednesday evening and the warm up dj for the club, brought him to a mates restaurant the following day for some food. Not long after, my mate (who's restaurant it was) received 3 VIP guest passes for the Launch night of NE 2 at Ministry. He invited me. Pretty cool night. I remember Sasha sticking Armin on as the last tune. I still have the guest pass in my drawer. Diggers wondered out to the dancefloor to greet my mate. How cool.
he's always been a class act it seems.
41:42 - spin tingling! yeah baby!!!
Superb! Totally agree about the quality of this creation!😁
3rd man - solar cycle is one of the best acid tracks ever created. so deep and dark. it's placement in this mix makes it so much better than the song by itself
2020,still rocking baby..miss the good music
I've got this on cassette, but am too scared to play it in case it snaps. Thank you so much❤
You want to keep that wrapped up and in a box. Could be worth some $$$
Amazing music, thank you diggers and king sasha :)
Wonderful selection and mixing
I have a huge collection and this is one of the 3 best mixes in history, specially after Netherworld!
My sentiments exactly.....If I was a painter I'd say it's a masterpiece!
David V what are your other top 2 mixes
David V In my top three all time favorites for shure 👍🏽
All of these are epic north south east west and expeditions 1 and 2
Enjoyed this set at the Government in Toronto back in the day.
This is timeless. Part 2 with frontside dammerung is another formidable compilation.
maybe the lads will open twilo again in NYC !!!
In all my prayers ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Twilo S&D nights - seared into my synapses!
Jimmy Van M warmup sets, Sasha and Digweed dropping choons all night and on and on until dawn
Will never forget that night I feel asleep on the massive Phazon subwoofer to the right of the DJ booth
Wokeup at 6am to the sound
Of the sun rising in that beautiful/PLUR-filled disco warehouse in the sky
West On 27th
to this jam th-cam.com/video/a5VrxExoRNE/w-d-xo.html
S+D still slaying wax, lacing crowds with tunes lol
Digweed in Manchester in a car park
th-cam.com/video/bJEeD5KiZOs/w-d-xo.html
Sasha in Costa Rica - pushing that Twilo vibe
th-cam.com/video/smQvGY9yPpI/w-d-xo.html
Omg the 3 mins from 29:30 on is my favorite moment in electronic music!! That bass, that sound .. wow xx
A classic................
The product of a totally matured Progressive Houses scene. When this came out Trance was something else. It shares elements. That's it. Incredible stuff.
Savage Stuff Altogether
Belting
AH I still have this on CD it has traveled with me round the world & back.
I have enlightened many a hotel & poolside with this mix.
It also spent a lot of its life inside my Fiat Uno Turbo I owned in the mid to late 90's.
Big stereo big sounds big fun!
My favourite dance music mix cd I ever purchased. The opening track is just awesome and the 41 minute mark track is one of the best hands-in-the-air atmospheric euphoric build ups ever. Ahhh the 1990s...
Love, love, love, love this.
Great for the gym
Ohh the memories!!!
Lsg has to be one of the best ever
Agreed. One of my first albums, back in '97-'98
Did all the northern exposure bk in the day at Suger shack best night of my life ...and the shimmes were spot on bk then 😜😳
Stands the test of time this mix.❤❤
Man I haven’t listened to this in a long time. That first track brings back so many memories and wow the last half of this mix is absolutely stunning. 😍😍😍
Bardzo dobry zestaw jak ja lubię wracać do lat 90 ych. Działo się 🙂
Track selection is key on this mix..Seamless..
sounds greattttttt!!!!hahaha dance music!!!
Loved those days when people were like: Who was Armin van Buuren?
Oh shit son, wasn't it these two British geniuses that gave this Dutchman a push to his rise in fame? WITH HIS FIRST TRACK RELEASED EVER?
This record will forever be tied to one of the best experiences of my life...
and it slaps.
The other song is 'Genie in a Bottle'... dont ask lol
Humate 3.2 😍
listen to those Roland TB303's on tracks 4 and 5, absolutely magnificent!
still kicking it.. timeless. 2019
I've had this album on my playlist for at least 10 years
A defining mix for its time, beautiful electronic symphonies this is the modern equivalent to classical Beethoven, touches the mind body and soul.