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989380
2CD
Y2KAOS (2CD-AMBIENT SENSATION OF 1999)

CLASSIC (AMBIENT)

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!

Disc 1 is a continuous seventy minutes (plus) journey without any breaks, where all of the above elements, in ever changing, dense, deep, emotional and totally 'out there' musical settings are present in abundance. Often, these have some of the strongest drum loops and rhythms present on such an overtly space-music styled album, and they will have you completely hooked from the start. You will marvel at the way the electronics and samples seem to work their way all around the central structure and occasionally rhythmic framework of the music – You will be in awe of the way the magnificently produced and arranged sounds fill the room, some with an almost organic presence, so brilliant that it lights the night sky into a blazing supernova! Yet, it's a mix of darkness and light where the music posses no fundamental melodic or rhythmic structure, and yet it is totally cohesive throughout, as it takes over your very consciousness. The drums die away on occasions, leaving you with brief passages of calm. Using samples as an integral part of the overall sound, they unite with the constituent elements of percussion and electronics to produce a type of music that is wholly creative and unique...and that's just the first CD!  There's a further seventy minutes (plus) of even greater space-music proportions on Disc 2, where the percussion and rhythms take a lesser role, giving way to an infinite variety of sound-pools, layers and textures that produce some thoroughly galaxian soundscapes. Make no mistake - this is still an intense musical trip, but if you want neat little melodies and sweet space music at one end, and dark gothic stuff that does little but drift at the other, then this is not for you. However, if you’re an adventurous soul, and want what amounts a CD of a style of ‘real’ space music that totally ditches the space-rock, ambient rule-book and takes over every fibre of your feelings, then ‘Y2Kaos’ is exactly they way to go.  Just turn out the lights, turn up the volume and turn on to an experience that has more effect than 'just music'!

 

Weight: 250.00 g