Simon Leon opens the tracklist as a guest vocalist on “Strange Love,” then turns up seven tracks later as the remixer of “Release Me.” Yelow remixes “Hollow” in the second slot and sings on “Sila” four tracks on. Marcel Vautier and Daniel Simon pull the same trick — each remixes one song here and gets a featured-artist credit on another. That's not sloppy crediting; it's Black Hole documenting how Dennis Sheperd actually works with his circle.
The source material is “The Next Generation,” the album the German veteran built entirely with his own production mentees, based across Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia, the UK and Poland. Sheperd called it “the strongest album I have created so far,” a record that ranges from deep house to oldskool trance. This remix set flips the gesture: names who've spent years on Black Hole's roster — Daniel Kandi, Richard Durand, Sunny Lax, Jerome Isma-Ae, Aurosonic — take that student material and rework it for the booth. It's the same house logic Tiësto and Arny Bink built the label on back in 1997, and it survived Tiësto's 2009 exit intact.
All sixteen versions sit between 124 and 138bpm, with Jerome Isma-Ae's “Begin Again” the lone breather at 106. The genre split tracks the generational mix: six lean full-on trance, five sit in melodic house & techno, four in progressive house, and one — Ramundo's “Too Late” — flirts openly with pop. The closer, ToZu's “Stars Begin To Fall,” credited with Leon Bolier on the original, is also the longest track here at 4:44 — one more generation, this time one of the label's own veterans, added to a family tree that already branches everywhere.
Sources: Wikipedia · Beatportal