Creamfields (2004 album)

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Creamfields
progressive trance
Length138:12
Label
ProducerPaul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold chronology
Perfecto Presents: Great Wall
(2003) 		Creamfields
(2004) 		Perfecto Presents: The Club
(2005)

Creamfields is the fifteenth DJ mix album by British electronic producer and disc jockey Paul Oakenfold, released in 2004. The double album was inspired by the annual Creamfields festival which at the time took place at the "Old Liverpool Airfield" organised by the Cream brand where Oakenfold had often performed. The album was released to commemorate Oakenfold's performance at the sixth annual Creamfields festival which took place several weeks after the album's release on 28 August 2004. Oakenfold performance at the festival was headlining the Cream/Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena. Creamfields was also the third in a series of mix albums of the same name commemorating the festival, with previous albums by different DJs being released in 2000 and 2001, with both releases carrying the same name. Oakenfold's Creamfields was considered a relaunch of the series

Musically, the album was a return to his "epic"

2005 Grammy Awards. The album also reached the top 50 of the UK Compilation Chart.[1]

Background

The album was inspired by the Creamfields festival.

In August 1998, popular

club night Cream launched an outdoor annual electronic music festival, Creamfields, to take place each August bank holiday. At the time, Oakenfold was a resident DJ at Cream. The successful inaugural event received an attendance of 25,000 festival goers to Winchester in Hampshire, England.[2] For its second edition in 1999, Creamfields moved to the Old Liverpool Airfield,[3] where it remained until 2006.[4] By 2004, the festival's attendance had largely increased, reaching as much as 200,000 attenders each year.[5] For the third event in 2000, Creamfields released a double DJ mix album on Virgin Records, simply titled Creamfields, which reached number 5 in the UK Compilation Chart.[1] The compilation was a studio mix but commemorated the event. For the fourth event in 2001, Creamfields released another album with the same name mixed by Seb Fontaine and Yousef, who appeared at that year's event, although this release was less successful, reaching number 27 in the UK Compilation Chart,[1] and receiving a mixed to negative review from Dean Carlson of AllMusic.[6]
The lesser success of this release halted the series, and no album was released for the fifth event in 2002.

Oakenfold had performed at the festival many times. When the festival launched in 1998, Oakenfold had finished his first of two years as a resident DJ at Cream, releasing the DJ mix album

progressive trance and Goa trance
.

By 2004, other Creamfields events were being held in other locations around the world, although the original Creamfields continued to be held at the Old Liverpool Airfield.[5] For the 2004 Creamfields event held at the Old Liverpool Airfield, the sixth such annual Creamfields held in England on 28 August 2004, Oakenfold headlined the Cream/Goodgreef and Mixmag Arena.[11] For the event, Oakenfold and Creamfields decided that Oakenfold could mix a DJ mix album to promote his performance. The album would relaunch the Creamfields DJ mix album series and commemorate the event.

Music

Oakenfold in 2009.

In many ways, Creamfields marked a return to the "epic"

Quivver's "Space Manoeuvres", which contains samples of speech from the 1998 movie Dark City
.

On the second disc, Oakenfold "discovers breaks, bleeps, and bloops for the first part of the set, works steadily up to his epic U2 remix, and exits with a couple reliable stompers."[13] The song opens with the progressive breaks of "Ocean of Love" by Suzy Solar. Pinkbox Special's "Nice Guys Finish Last", the third track on the disc, was noted for managing "to maintain the so far prog breaks feel within the mix,"[12] with the pace speeding up with the next track, Lemon 8's remix of Girl Nobody's "Cages". Stel & Good Newz’s "Particle" has an "atmospheric breakdown leading into an uplifting tone."[12] The tenth and eleventh tracks on the disc are both "2004 Mixes" by Oakenfold created exclusively for the compilation. The first of these, a remix of U2's 2000 single "Beautiful Day", is sometimes seen as the disc's highlight.

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[13]
Resident Advisor[12]

The album was released on 9 August 2004 by New State Recordings, nineteen days before his performance at the festival, and was the first Creamfields album to be released on the label, as the previous two albums were released by Virgin Records. The album was released in both the UK and the US, whereas the previous albums were only released in the UK. Ultimately, the album was not as commercially successful as previous Creamfields albums in the UK, only reaching number 49 in the UK Compilation Chart,[1] but the copies sold in the US assured it was more popular than the 2001 Creamfields album. The album was successful enough to the point where Creamfields continued to release albums in the series, mixed by a DJ appearing at the festival. The subsequent edition, 2005's Creamfields mixed by Ferry Corsten, was slightly more commercially successful in the UK, reaching number 44 in the UK Compilation Chart.[1]

The album received positive reviews from music critics. Antonella Sirec of

Allmusic rated the album three out of five stars, stating "there are thrills but few surprises from this one-time maverick, but if Oakie is trying to sonically reproduce the massive size of a Creamfields' event, he's done it. Skip past the lackluster kickoff and think film composer John Williams as a DJ with a wicked haircut." Unlike Sirec, Jeffries preferred the second disc.[13]

The album was subsequently nominated for "

Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards in 2005, the first time the award was held at the Grammy Awards.[14] It was one of five albums nominated, and one of two mix albums. The award was won by Basement Jaxx's Kish Kash
(2003). Nine years after the album's release, Oakenfold and Cream would team up for another mix album, as Oakenfold mixed Cream's twenty-first anniversary album, Cream 21 (2013).

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Point Zero" by Li Kwan, presented by Matt Darey
  2. "I Found U" by
    Interstate
  3. "First Sight" by Duran and Aytek
  4. "Wadi" by
    Sultan & The Greek
  5. "Clear Blue" by Elevation, presented by Markus Schulz
  6. "Como Tu (Paul Oakenfold Mix)" by Carlos Vives
  7. "12" by
    Tilt
  8. "Living the Dream" by
    JES
  9. "Space Manœuveres Part 3" by
    Quivver
  10. "The World Doesn't Know" by
    Tilt
  11. "Jump the Next Train (Probspot Mix)" by Young Parisians featuring Ben Lost

Disc two

  1. "Ocean of Love" by Suzy Solar
  2. "One Day" by NuBreed and Luke Chable
  3. "Nice Guys Finish Last" by Pinkbox Special
  4. "Cages (Lemon 8 Mix)" by Girl Nobody
  5. "Scatterbomb (Original String Mix)" by The Sneaker
  6. "Perfect Wave" by Peter Martin Presents Anthanasia
  7. "Time of Your Life (Shane 54 Mix)" by Paul Oakenfold
  8. "People Want to be Needed" by Auranaut
  9. "Particle" by Stel & Good Newz
  10. "Beautiful Day (Paul Oakenfold 2004 Mix)" by U2
  11. "Lizard (Paul Oakenfold 2004 Remix)" by Mauro Picotto
  12. "I'm Not Fooled (
    John "00" Fleming

Chart positions

UK Compilation Chart: #49[1]

References

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  5. ^ a b "2004 -". Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  6. ^ "Creamfields 2001 - Seb Fontaine, Yousef | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  7. ^ "Various - Cream Live". Discogs.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  8. ^ Q; October 1997 issue.
  9. ^ a b "Paul Oakenfold Biography". Archived from the original on 29 April 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  10. ^ Matos, Jon Dolan, Michaelangelo; Dolan, Jon; Matos, Michaelangelo (2 August 2012). "The 30 Greatest EDM Albums". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ "Creamfields mixed by Paul Oakenfold : Review". Residentadvisor.net. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Creamfields mixed by Paul Oakenfold · Album Review ⟋ RA". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d "Creamfields 2004 - Paul Oakenfold | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  14. ^ "Nominee list for the 47th Annual Grammy Awards". LiveDaily. 7 December 2004. Archived from the original on 7 January 2010. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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