Earth Nation - Thoughts In Past Future

Arhhm!. I beg to differ sir! The album, while yes, a little patchy and easily forgotten, does have one saving grace, the sublime 'In Retrospect'.

This fabulous track starts gently enough, but builds and continues building until around the 7 or 8 minute mark when the the most enchanting breakdown drops, excellent work from Herr Hildenbeutal, magic Namlookian trance moment!. On par with his other masterpeices HypnoticHarmony and Vernon's Wonderland.

Walking around the Omen in 94' waiting for Frank Lorbers Birthday Party to begin at 2.00am when the club opened, listening to the track in an otherwise empty club save for the staff was almost spiritual and not so easily forgotten.

Either that or Numanoid is Sven Vath in disguise, in which case like you Sven, I don't have leg to stand on and would cetainly have a whinge :)D . Ralph rules in Vernon's Wonderland and don't you forget it!.

This album is shockingly bad taking into account all the wonderful records Ralf has helped Sven Väth make. The production and engineering must have seemed very dated even in 1994, screaming MOR-heavy metal guitars are glued onto the songs at every opportunity and for some reason a vocalist that sound too much like the guy from Scooter has been invited to collaborate. No doubt Ralf wanted to reach out to a larger audience with this record, but this is without excuse a blatant sell out.