Speed Limit 140 BPM+

I grew up with this series. there are some awesome comps and some so so ones. most of them are good with a few of them still sounding great all these years later. I would say volume 5 holds up as a great continuous mix. volume 2 has some awesome songs on it, volume 4 has some good tracks as does volume 6, volume 7 is an updated old school sound that has some great songs. especially vertigo and the beginning part of airhead. volume 8 is not that good but has an awesome song called JT goes north. for the happy hardcore sound it is great and not too silly or happy. volume 3 has some great songs. open your mind is just great and the ending is so cool, an ahead of its time song on an older comp. the quality of albums seemed to jump all over the place. the jump from 1 to 2 is huge. then volume 5 comes out of nowhere as a classic. top buzz track on volume 4 is cool and got me checking out their stuff on youtube recently.

The compilation series that was largely responsible for introducing the sounds of UK hardcore, jungle (during its formative period) and later, happy hardcore to the United States. I can attest to this, because I was one of those enthusiastic initiates. Thankfully for me and a whole generation of future ravers, djs and electronic music fans, these and other comps, singles and albums from the Moonshine label and its subsidiaries could be purchased at chain stores, mall record shops, etc, so they were accessible to folks just tapping into what was percolating underground. Moonshine were also issuing comps featuring all the other major forms of underground dance music of the era, and all were generally decent, well-informed representations of those respective sub-genres.