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The music follows a beautiful, slowly flowing path of deep, dark, reflective, full-sounding, ambient, synth-style drones and flows, passing though some of the most fantastic cosmic soundscapes you’ll come across on an album like this. Whether you are a synth or an ambient fan, you can’t possibly fail to be moved by the warmth and heart that exists within this album. Not since the days of real epic space music releases like Steve Roach’s ‘Structures From Silence’ has this corner of space sounded so good, and on this star trek you will find a cosmic beauty that is enmeshed in a sea of glorious electronic landscapes. Certainly as good as anything from Steve Roach, or the Kranky label and the like, this must be a strong contender for the space music album of 2002, and that’s for sure!

410098
Weight: 150.00 g

Prepare for the musical ride of your life… but take care, because this is an intense listening experience - in fact, nearly two and a half hours of the most expansive music you'll hear, but delivered in a manner that is so much more than space-music, so much more musical than space-rock, and never have elements of the two been combined like this before, and it's an instrumental voyage into an infinitely long galaxy of mind-boggling proportions. From the opening salvo of drums, electronic percussion, bass drones, echoed samples, scorching guitars (Brock, Froese & Gottsching could only dream of sounding like this!), distant feedback, massive electronic backdrops and layers of space effects, believe me when I tell you; you are not, as on most such albums of this genre, at the start of a mere cosmic trip, no, here you are propelled into the heart of the outer reaches of a musical universe that really is like nothing else you've ever heard before! This could be one of the biggest 'highs' you’ll get that's legal, and one thing is for sure - It will split the Ambient audience up into those that can't get enough of it, and those that can't get anywhere near it. To know which side of the fence you’re going to land on, you just have to hear it - It may well change your whole perspective of listening to music, but one thing is for sure - You simply cannot ignore it, and for those who do get off on it – It’s perfection on a silver plate!

989380
Weight: 250.00 g

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Trance music with an Ambient twist - in other words, synth and sequencer rhythms galore that sparkle and race around your head, over, under and around, with an assortment of great melodies that weave their merry ways as layer after layer unfolds, with the result on the first track being a cross between Tim Blake, Shamanic Tribes On Acid & Banco De Gaia, deceptively repetitive on first hearing, but play it again, and all the nuances and subtleties within, come into bloom - a striking eight minute opener, and it works a treat. As for the rest of the album, as ambient trance music goes, it’s got one hell of a lot going for it, as a wild ride of rhythms drives forth, sometimes more bass-oriented, sometimes higher register, but always with synths, sequencers and electronic percussion in perfect harmony, as melodies, spacious tunes and string synth textures form just part of the overall make-up of these largely seven to ten minute compositions. If you think trance music is something that will drive you senseless with its rhythmic qualities, then this will come as a complete shock, because it is a serious listening musical experience that could change the way you think and feel about modern electronic music forever, and as such, comes highly recommended to all electronic music fans who may be sick of the old ways and want something new, exciting and vibrant that isn’t going to drill holes in their heads. It is a quite superb CD, but, as with all great music albums, the first play will not always reveal the full extent of emotional reaction it is well capable of producing, so make sure you give it a second play before passing judgement.

340639
Weight: 150.00 g

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