by Dean CarlsonOn Armin van Buuren's second double-disc mix album, there is a bald-faced statement neatly printed on the cover -- marketing machines must love this -- democratically letting his fans decide which tracks he'll spin. While the fear of 27 different versions of "Kernkraft 400" lodges into your spine, the results are far more successful than expected: van Buuren presents a progressive yet populist slant to trance with most of its fires stoked while Signum's "Solar Level" is the sound of an angelic choir stopping brush fires with a simple curve of the lip. Suspicions aside, this is quite possibly the only trance compilation of 2001 that spans both athletic range and fatalistic audience compromise with total self-assurance.