Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Darwin feat Fraz - We-re Getting Faster
2. Arkitech - When Tears Fall - Kaotik
3. Ham - Jump 2 Da Groove 2009
4. Sharkey, Odyssey & Arkitech - Black Rain
5. Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy (Darwin's "Arena Space 5" Remix)
6. Sharkey & CLSM - Wikkid M.C (2009 Exclusive)
7. Slippery Disco - Feeling High (Kevin Energy Remix)
8. Brisk & Ham - Dance Don't Slip
9. Sharkey - Never Say Die (Kevin Energy Remix)
10. Sharkey - Today's the Day (Darwin Remix)
11. Marc Smith & Gammer - Building Shaker (V.I.P Remix)
12. Al Storm - Jumpin
13. S3rL - Here We Go
14. Scooter - Jumping All Over The World (Sharkey & K-complex Remix)
15. Scooter - Posse (I Need You On The Floor) (Weaver Remix)
16. Porn Kings v DJ Supreme - Up To Da Wildstyle (Gammer & Andy Whitby Remix)
17. S3rL - Dealer (V.I.P Remix)
18. Marc Smith & Darwin - Let The Bass Kick
19. Kevin Energy - Freeform Will Never Die

Disc 2:

1. LMC v U2 - Take Me To The Clouds Above
2. Styles & Breeze - Amigos
3. Rampant DJs featuring JT - Alabama (Sy & Unknown Remix)
4. Insight featuring Emily Reed - Heaven Help Me Now
5. Topvibe Vs Dj Sy - Pacman
6. Chris Unknown & Re-Con - Welcome To The Trip
7. Sy & Unknown - If You Believe
8. Chris Unknown - Wanna Be Here With You
9. Chris Unknown featuring Grant Paterson - Come Together
10. Dougal & Gammer - Guitar Hero
11. Flip & Fill - Discoland
12. Scott Brown - Pilgrim
13. Phaze4 - You\x{2019}re Never Gonna Know (Scott Brown Remix)
14. Sy & Unknown - Hardcore
15. E-Type - Rain
16. Emily Reed - Your Love Is Shining
17. Stykal Brix Vs MC Storm - Cold As Ice
18. Sy & Unknown featuring Grant Paterson - Bring You Down

Disc 3:

1. Bo - Judgement Day
2. Hixxy - R U Ready
3. Darren Styles - Getting Better
4. United In Dance feat Lisa Marie - Still The One
5. Clear Vu - I Adore
6. Hixxy - C.O.N
7. CLSM - Set Your Body Free
8. Hixxy & Styles - Elevator
9. Clear Vu - Close To You
10. Re-con - Report To The Bassline
11. CLSM - See You On The Other
12. Hixxy & Squad-E - Beat Drop
13. Squad-E - Lost Without You
14. Gammer - Body Flow
15. Styles & Breeze - Electric
16. Styles & Breeze - You're My Angel
17. Hixxy & Styles - The Theme

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17035 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-11
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .50 pounds

CD Description
The recent success of Scooter, Darren Styles and Ultrabeat and countless compilations prove that Hardcore is one of the dance music success stories of recent years. the latest edition of the popular Bonkers! series features huge acts like Scooter, Styles & Breeze, Dougal & Gammer, Flip & Fill, Darren Styles, Hixxy and LMC.

Customer Reviews

Better than I expected
I was very dubious when I first heard that the rights to Bonkers had been sold to UMTV, the same giant responsible for the currently wayward Clubland X-Treme Hardcore series. Bonkers always used to be the series that purists relied on for keeping hardcore hard and shunning the attempts of other series (such as CEH) to commercialise our genre. It's slightly ironic that they managed to sell out to one of the most commercialised dance labels out there but that's beside the point. Onwards with the review.

Sharkey's mix is the choice cut by a mile. The mixing is good but the highlight is the track selection. It's much harder and less cheesy than either of the other disks but keeps just enough in so as still to be euphoric. I'm listening to it right now for the second time in two days and, I have to say, it's great. Everything from the acoustic intro to Kevin Energy's uplifting message at the end that "Freeform Will Never Die" is done very well. The best track for me was Al Storm's "Jumpin'" and I can't wait until this gets a proper release.

Moving onto Chris Unknown's mix which kicks off, just as you've come to expect from cheesecore today, with a hardcore remix of a dance classic (LMC Vs U2 - Take Me To The Clouds Above). The remix, I'm disappointed to say, is just like the disk itself: very mediocre. Coming from one half of the infamous Sy & Unknown duo, I would have expected something much more uplifting. I've always been a sucker for a bit of cheese but the cheese on display here wasn't anything particularly special. However, it's nice to see Unknown doing something on his own (something he seems to be doing more and more lately) because in the past, Sy has always been the pick of the pair.

And finally onto the "Boss" of hardcore, Hixxy's mix. Wow, way to scam us by using tracks that are years old and have already been mixed too many times. This is genuinely really bad. When buying an album like this, you should expect AT LEAST a third of the tracks to be new material but none of this is! There really must be problems going on in camp Raver Baby, no new releases so far this year and not even any new stuff for his Bonkers disk. Further proof of why Raver Baby doesn't deserve its reputation. Shocking. (It's also partly UMTV's fault for allowing this recycled crap to be sold, I suppose). In fairness, the mixing is okay and the disk is enjoyable enough because it features classics in their time but this is not what I expected!

Awesome
This is the best hardcore CD of the year -09. Really good songs and perfect mixing, awesome.

Best in a long time
One of the best Bonkers from the series in a long time with it going back to how it used to be. AATW has done an amazing job of bringing back the Bonkers brand and if they are like this I hope there are plenty more to come.