by David Jeffries

Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Presents...The Club is a "main room" affair. In other words, big tunes to move the masses. This means folks like the Doors, Justin Timberlake, the Flaming Lips, and U2 figure into the mix, along with an amazing amount of guitars for a Perfecto album. There's also surprisingly less of what you could call "trance" on the disc, but that doesn't mean Oakenfold isn't going for the epic and grand sounds. Mixing the Doors in a way they become a dance act may be sacrilegious, but on the other hand, it's campy fun, something the disc is filled with. Oakenfold isn't "working the wheels of steel" as much as just sequencing the songs in an order that makes dramatic sense, but he does blend a couple of the tracks rather nicely. The one-disc format is actually beneficial to the collection, seeing as much more of this grandeur would be cumbersome. Not a giant leap forward for the DJ; rather, it's a fun collection that's huge, rousing, and perfect for taking the top down on beautiful days.