"Generations: Three Decades of Dance" - Oakenfold, Paul
Album
U2 Related Content:
- "Beautiful Day" (The Perfecto Mix - Edit VI) - U2 (06:25)
Alternate Tracks:
- "Beautiful Day" (The Perfecto Mix - Extended) - U2 (09:12)
Full Track Listing:
CD One:
- Sueno Latuno With Manuel Goettsching Performing E2E4 – Sueno Latino (Paradise Version)
- M/A/R/R/S – Pump Up The Volume
- Steve “Silk” Hurley – Jack Your Body (Club Your Body)
- Joe Smooth – Promised Land
- CeCe Rogers – Someday (Club Mix)
- Marshall Jefferson – Move Your Body (The House Music Anthem)
- Adventures Of Stevie V – Dirty Cash (Sold Out 7” Edit)
- Inner City – Good Life (Magic Juan’s Mix)
- Black Box – Ride On Time
- Everything But The Girl – Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
- Dirty Vegas – Days Go By
- Robin S – Show Me Love (Stonebridge Remix)
- Eric Prydz – Pjanoo
- Jaydee – Plastic Dreams
- Storm Queen – Look Right Through (MK Vocal Edit)
- Deadmau5 & Kaskade – I Remember
- U2 – Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix)
- Mory Kanté – Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)
- Underworld – Born Slippy Nuxx (Paul Oakenfold Remix)
- Swedish House Mafia Ft. Tinie Tempah – Miami 2 Ibiza
CD Two:
- Salt Tank – Eugina (Reactivation Mix)
- Lost It.com – Animal
- Chicane – Offshore (Disco Citizens Remix)
- Tilt – Children (Tilt’s Courtyard Mix)
- Tastexperience – Highlander
- Paul Oakenfold – Southern Sun (DJ Tiesto Mix)
- Faithless – Salva Mea (Sister Bliss Remix)
- Planet Perfecto Knights – Resurection (EC Twins & Remy Le Duc Remix)
- Timo Maas Ft. Martin Bettinghaus – Ubik (The Dance)
- Der Dritte Raum – Hale Bopp (Raumgleiter Version)
- Paul Oakenfold – Barber’s Adagio For Strings
- Da Hool – Meet Her At The Loveparade (Nalin & Kane Remix)
- Chakra – Home (Salt Tank Reconstruction)
- Grace – Skin On Skin (Orange Mix)
- Paul Oakenfold & Cassandra Fox – Touch Me (Perfecto Club Mix)
- Jam & Spoon – Stella
- Planet Perfecto – Bullet In The Gun (Saturday Mix)
- Amoebaassassin – Pile Driver (Grayed Out Summer Mix)
- Schiller – Das Glockenspiel (Humate Remix)
- L.S.G. – Netherworld (Vinyl Cut)
- Grace – Not Over Yet (Perfecto Edit)
CD Three:
- Frankie Knuckles Ft. Jamie Principle – Your Love
- Electra – Jibaro
- It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home (Wicked Weather For Walking)
- Simple Minds – Theme For Great Cities
- The Beloved – The Sun Rising (Deeply Satisfying Mix)
- Orbital – Belfast
- Leftfield – Release The Pressure (The Desert Edit)
- The Grid – Floatation
- Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Andrew Weatherall Remix)
- Carly Simon – Why (Radio Edit)
- Happy Mondays – Hallelujah (Club Mix)
- William Pitt – City Lights
- Cyndi Lauper – What’s Going On (Club Version)
- Thrashing Doves – Jesus On The Payroll (Street Groove)
- Izit – Stories (I’ve A Novella Mix)
- The Cure – Lullaby (Extended Mix)
- Red Box – Enjoy (Solid Gold Easy Amex)
- The Stone Roses – Waterfall (12” Mix)
- The Woodentops – Why Why Why
Background Information
This 2017 compilation was released by New State Entertainment in Europe. There are two versions of this release, a continuous mix version, found on the 3-CD set, and also available as a digital download, as well as an unmixed version, available as a digital download.
On the 3-CD set, the tracks are minimally mixed with the ones that come before and after them on the CD. In this version of the album, “Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix)” is 06:25 in length.
Digitally you could purchase the album as unmixed tracks, where “Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix)” is the full length extended version at 09:12 in length. Included with the downloads are the three full mixes, but not broken into individual tracks, and in this case, the version of “Beautiful Day (The Perfecto Mix)” is the same as what is featured on the CD above.
As part of the continuous mix, some elements of “Beautiful Day” can be heard mixed into the prior track, this is less than 15 seconds, and consists mostly of an early start to the beat for “Beautiful Day”. There is little evidence that “Beautiful Day” continues into the track that follows it in the mix.
An added bonus on the second disc of this set is the track, “Skin On Skin” (Orange Mix) by Grace. This is an instrumental version of Oakenfold’s remix of “Lemon” done for U2. On the unmixed digital version this runs 07:57 in length, and on the mixed version found on CD, this song is 04:02 in length. Oakenfold remixed U2’s “Lemon” in 1993 but he went a little further with the track. He took the instrumental version of the mix that he had done for U2, sped it up slightly and started using it in his sets under the name “Orange.” He asked for permission to use it and to release it. U2 agreed and Oakenfold brought in vocalist Dominique Atkins, and they recorded lyrics for the song, now known as “Skin On Skin,” and released the song under the band name, Grace. It is the instrumental version of the song that is included here without the vocals by Atkins.