Nitro Praise Live!

Description

A live installment of the American electronic dance music series Nitro Praise, simply entitled Nitro Praise Live!, was released on N•Soul Records in 1998, distributed in the US by Diamante Music Group. The album was recorded August 7-9, 1998 in California at Conejo Valley Congregational Church in Thousand Oaks, Herman Free Methodist Church in Los Angeles, and New Heart Foursquare Church in Simi Valley, with additional recording at N•Soul in Chatsworth, California. Produced by Scott Blackwell and Larissa Lam except track 18 produced by AJ Mora. Tracks 4, 7, and 19 remixed by Scott Blackwell.

We invite you to lift up your voices with us during this live experience. Nitro Praise Live! demonstrates how you can actively praise God with energetic, heart-pounding, blood-rushing beats. Our purpose in singing is not to entertain the masses like rock stars, but to worship our Father in Heaven with all our hearts. We encourage you to use this music in youth churches as a powerful and effective tool in getting people excited about Jesus Christ. We hope you will join Nitro Praise in taking praise and worship into the 21st Century. May we set the world ablaze with revival! [Album liner notes]

Perhaps I’m not really the ideal person to review an album of live sanctified dance praise; in my chronologically challenged condition, I certainly can’t pretend to be able to keep going for the whole 73 minutes of this mega-value for money CD. Scott Blackwell and his henchpersons have done their thing to some of the best praise and worship anthems of recent years – «Shout To The Lord», «Lord I Lift Your Name On High», «More Love, More Power», even John Wimber’s «Praise Song» gets the treatment. Those who have the previous Nitro Praise releases will recognise most of the tracks, completists will want this for the four new items marked “not previously recorded”, and sanctified dance buffs will have the time of their lives, although there are chatty bits and other stuff between the music that slows the pace somewhat. That having been said, Nitro Praise is synonymous with great dance music, and this should not disappoint aficionados of the genre. [Trevor Kirk, Cross Rhythms, April 1999]

CD tracklist:

01. Introduction
02. Psalm 100
03. You Are Mighty
04. Create In Me A Clean Heart (Restores Remix)
05. All About Praise
06. A Shield About Me
07. Lord, I Lift Your Name On High (Sonlight Island Remix)
08. Praise Song
09. Shout To The Lord
10. Beatbox Praise
11. Dueling Doxologies
12. The Name Of The Lord
13. More Love, More Power
14. And The Beat Goes On
15. Silence Of The Lambs
16. Amazing Grace
17. Awesome God
Bonus Tracks:
18. Nitrology
19. Create In Me A Clean Heart (Restored Remix) (Instrumental)