Culture Beat – Serenity
Label: |
Columbia – 474101 9 |
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Format: |
CD
, Album
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Country: |
Australia |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Euro House |
Tracklist
| Serenity | |||
| 1-1 | Serenity (Prolog) | 2:16 | |
| 1-2 | Mr. Vain | 5:37 | |
| 1-3 | Got To Get It | 5:21 | |
| 1-4 | World In Your Hands | 5:33 | |
| 1-5 | Adelante! | 5:38 | |
| 1-6 | Rocket To The Moon | 5:47 | |
| 1-7 | Anything | 6:24 | |
| 1-8 | Key To Your Heart | 4:09 | |
| 1-9 | The Other Side Of Me | 4:52 | |
| 1-10 | The Hurt | 4:15 | |
| 1-11 | Mother Earth | 6:11 | |
| 1-12 | Serenity (Epilog) | 7:51 | |
| 1-13 | ID Tania | 0:06 | |
| 1-14 | ID Jay | 0:09 | |
| Bonus EP | |||
| 2-1 | Mr. Vain (Mr. Trance) | 6:22 | |
| 2-2 | Got To Get It (Raw Deal Mix) | 5:34 | |
| 2-3 | No Deeper Meaning (Airplay Single Edit) | 4:00 | |
| 2-4 | I Like You (London Mix) | 6:53 | |
| 2-5 | Cherry Lips (Magic Mix) | 6:57 | |
| 2-6 | Tell Me That You Wait (Airline Mix) | 8:30 | |
| 2-7 | No Deeper Meaning (Technology Mix) | 6:38 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment () GmbH
- Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment () GmbH
- Manufactured By – Sony Music Australia Limited
- Glass Mastered At – DADC Austria
- Glass Mastered At – Sony Music Australia
- Published By – Warner/Chappell
Credits
- Cover – Public Art (3)
- Engineer – Torsten Fenslau
- Photography By – Elke Selzle
- Producer – Torsten Fenslau
- Vocals – Tania Evans
- Written-By – Torsten Fenslau (tracks: 1-1, 1-3 to 1-7, 1-9, 1-11 to 1-14, 2-2 to 2-7)
Notes
1993 Sony Music Entertainment GmbH
Recorded at paraDOX Studios.
A double CD release made with a standard release for CD1 and a Sample release for CD2:
CD 1 (Serenity) Catalog Number 474101 2
CD 2 (Bonus EP) Catalog Number SAMP 531
Disc 2 track times printed incorrectly. The actual times:
Track 1: (6:23)
Track 2: (5:36)
Track 3: (4:10)
Track 4: (6:37)
Track 5: (6:58)
Track 6: (8:35)
Track 7: (6:04)
Here is similar Australian version, with slightly different matrix: Culture Beat - Serenity
Recorded at paraDOX Studios.
A double CD release made with a standard release for CD1 and a Sample release for CD2:
CD 1 (Serenity) Catalog Number 474101 2
CD 2 (Bonus EP) Catalog Number SAMP 531
Disc 2 track times printed incorrectly. The actual times:
Track 1: (6:23)
Track 2: (5:36)
Track 3: (4:10)
Track 4: (6:37)
Track 5: (6:58)
Track 6: (8:35)
Track 7: (6:04)
Here is similar Australian version, with slightly different matrix: Culture Beat - Serenity
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 9 399747 410199
- Barcode (Scanned): 9399747410199
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 1 Mirrored): 12-474101-10 63 [DADC AUSTRIA logo]
- Matrix / Runout (Disc 2 Mirrored): ** SAMP531 ** (DB) #01 SONY MUSIC AUSTRALIA
- Other (Catalogue No. Disc 2): SAMP 531
- Rights Society: Amcos Societies
Other Versions (5 of 76)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Serenity (2×LP, Album, Gatefold) | Dance Pool | 474101 1, DAN 474101 1 | 1993 | ||||
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Serenity (Cassette, Album, Black) | Dance Pool | 474101 4 | 1993 | |||
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Recently Edited
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Serenity (CD, Album) | 550 Music | BK 57591 | US | 1993 | ||
| Serenity (Cassette, Album, Unofficial Release) | Poker Sound | 1349 | Poland | 1993 | |||
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Recently Edited
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Serenity (CD, Album) | Epic | ZK 90978 | Canada | 1993 |
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Reviews
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Edited 3 years agoSerenity is Culture Beat's second album and their most successful project. It's also something that helped solidified Electronic Dance into mainstream music, destroying the idea that this music was some sort of novelty fad. What's interesting on the album is the album versions of their big hit singles are far more interesting extended mixes and different to what you would have heard on the radio or seen on the video clips. In fact the album version of Anything on here is kinda awesome! Besides the above average love songs and Jay Supreme's awful Spanish, some of the tracks touch on more serious issues. The Other Side Of Me is a fairly introspective song, World In Your Hands is a beautifully sombre song about suicide and Mother Earth is an environmental song that is depressingly relevant 30 years on. However, the hidden gem and biggest surprise here is Serenity (Epilog). This one is a glorious journey into Trance Techno music! No rapping, no singing, just sublime layers of classic analogue synth music with a more serious switch up in the middle, great stuff by Torsten Fenslau. The fact it's on this commercial Techno album makes it a bit of an anomaly, shame it never got a proper 12 inch release. Serenity (Epilog) was one of my first encounters with underground Techno music. One of my favourite mainstream albums.
In Australia, Got To Get It and Anything were Top 10 hit singles and Mr. Vain was a number one song. Due to it's popularity, Serenity was re-released in Australia as a unique double CD, that I absolutely loved! On the second CD, were more club mixes of singles off this album and their first album, Horizon, which I had no idea about at the time. No Deeper Meaning (Technology Mix) is probably the best of the bunch but I do have a soft spot for Cherry Lips (originally called Der Erdbeermund, a mistranslation I believe). It's an emphatic love song completely in German, "Ich bin so wild nach Deinem Erdbeermund!" Overall, a nice addition. There is also a cassette version of this double CD.
Torsten Fenslau's production across the board is excellent and too good for this mainstream release, a number of the tracks would be classed as catchy piano House music. Unfortunately, shortly after the album was completed, Torsten Fenslau was killed in a car accident and never got to enjoy the success of Culture Beat. Rest In Peace. -
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