Cosmosis - Contact

SkeletonMan, Jan 29, 2006

With this album bilbo bagginz as he calls himself on his albums presents a variety of sounds & styles. Mostly we venture in psytrance. I am not that familiar with Bills earlier stuff, but in 2002 he definitely hit a good note!

What Cosmosis does best is keeping things simple and dark and then going from there. Like track 5 Inner Space. This is carried out so effortlessly and smooth, going from intro to build up over mayheem, and then back to deep trance just to start it all over again. Amazing track! And a nice album indeed. You get the impression that Bills a real nice guy whos all about wanting to make us all move in a happy way. And most of the way steering clear of cheziness. Well, Human Evolution may be border cheesy, built on the Space Odyssey 2001 theme, as it is, it certainly is scarily close! Also Skankadelic falls outside my approvable categories!

But I might just need to get my act together. Listening to track 7 built on the infamous Weird Sickn Twisted Homer Simpson sample you got your X-dream FX elements, your full onish bass, and those breaks that seems to take you deeper than the musical parts. And then off course the sample to fuck your brains up the last bit!

Still, no! Human Evolution is cheese but its only for 6:14 ;o)

The artwork here also deserves a comment. As with his previous albums, Cosmosis has let an artist do the cover and inlay. Here it is Alex Grey doing the honours. I am not quite sure if I dig all of Greys work, the religious elements maybe being a little over the top for me, but the artwork here certainly is appealing, even if it may promise a dark journey I dont think Cosmosis is quite delivering all the way ;o) Anyhow, nice work and hats off for including artists in the process from other genres.

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