Neat for beginners, superfluous for Fans

To the music of Dead Can Dance each additional word is needless and for fans it is this CD too! Because fans have always contains the Box Set, and thus any song, the "Wake". And so this double CD is recommended rather for beginners and curious music fans who want to discover the fascinating world of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, without having to opt for one of the always different fancy albums.
However, since the choice is limited from tracks from the box set, missing despite the generous space of two CDs, some of the really important pieces from the extensive repertoire, such as "Spirit" and the terrific "Ulysses".
And even with this "Best of" the pieces are presented in a rather arbitrary order, as it had already done with DCD "A Passage in Time". There, however, the choice was so excellently made, the order chosen so cleverly and also as ingenious interlocking mixed that this principle worked brilliantly. If "Wake" would be a strictly chronological tracklisting due to the different material chosen but better gewesen.Nichtsdestotrotz there was this music never in better sound quality heard and Dead Can Dance are and will remain anyway the best group in the world! Therefore, despite some shortcomings there even four stars.