I ran across this 2-disc set back in 2002 when I was housesitting for some friends. I asked if I could make a copy and they said go for it. At the time I was a noob at disc ripping and let’s just say the results were…disappointing. These friends moved to Seattle shortly after all this happened so I wasn’t able to borrow the discs again to try for a better copy.
And it’s not like these Euphoria discs were cheap. I would’ve sought out my own copy if it weren’t for the fact they were going for $40 at the time and that simply wasn’t in my budget.
I eventually copied everything to iTunes and stopped obsessing over the fact that I’d cut off the last two tracks on each disc because they wouldn’t fit on the 74-minute blanks I’d used for the original rip.
Fast forward 23 years. I wanted this music on Minidisc because it’s my favorite of all the Euphoria series I’ve heard, but of course the only source I had was my original rip transferred to iTunes. I was able to transfer them, but then realized that there was a small gap between each song on these continual-mix CDs. Aargh!
So I decided it was time to bite the bullet and shell out whatever was needed to get original copies that could be transferred—gapless—to MD. Discogs again came to the rescue and I received this pristine copy from the UK today.
One not-totally-unexpected fallout of having the orange mental patient in the White House is that I’m seeing more and more sellers on Discogs marking their items as “Unavailable in the United States.” There were several offerings of Ibiza Euphoria listed, but this was the only one that shipped to the US—and was reasonably priced.