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Steve Roach - The Dream Circle - 09-Aug-08 02:25 AM
Like elvish waves slowly moving through dawn fog, Dream Circle is a mesmerising, majestic and infinitely graceful unravelling of a new day, an almost ritualistic yet so very noble and dignified greeting to the returning light.

The calm and serenity brought by the morning light slowly rising from beneath the horizon, filtering through the hills and trees and houses like fingers slowly run through hair, and the transformation of the mind state that it brings as the shadows and contours are shifting, is something I think no man could ever be indifferent to. This record brings out the exact same feelings in me, and has been played nearly every weekend morning for a long time now. For me the purpose of music is to lead my mind into places it cannot always go on its own, and Dream Circle achieves this better than pretty much everything else.

If it were possible, I'd rate this so that it has a perpetual one point lead over every other record I own. Despite its length, it could very well be that eventually I will have listened to this more times than any other piece of music in the entire world.

Steve Roach - Immersion : One - 13-Aug-07 02:28 AM
When I first heard this I expected another Darkest Before Dawn, and became disappointed when it wasn't as dark and melancholic. I wanted more of that infinite, eternal black womb and felt that this was too light and naïve. But after a while my opinion started to sway, and I now consider this one of the best Steve Roach records ever, which says quite a lot.

This is ambient of endless vastness and enormous depth, despite its remarkable subtlety and minimalism. Unlike Darkest Before Dawn, this record also has a sort of progression or musical movement through the piece as a whole, like a gargantuan 74-minute wave that the smaller ripples ride atop.

This is a truly extraordinary record, made even better by its masterfully crafted and highly sublime slide downwards in volume and frequency range after 20-25 minutes, which adds to its fantastic sense of journey inwards and makes it the perfect record to go to sleep to.

Akasha Project - Electric Church / Chain Of Reaction - 05-May-05 05:41 PM
I absolutely love dense, organic-sounding layer-upon-layer of sinister acidic trance, and "Electric Church" is like a swirling black hole of pulsating hypnosis, relentlessly sucking you in. It would score this record a solid 5/5, if it wasn't for an absolutely horrible pitched-up vocal sample that is dropped in a few times. How the producers could think that smurf-style vocals were a good idea in something as ominous as this is incomprehensible, but try to ignore the sample and you'll find one hell of a track.

Bhakti Experience, The - Dealului - 29-May-04 06:34 AM
This is awful. I bought it without having heard it first, since it was dirt cheap and the titles had "goa" in them - A shot in the dark trying to find some obscure oldschool goa trance, so to speak. However, the vocals present here, while a nice idea, is so horribly out of tune at places that I can't stand listening to it. It's truly awful and how anyone could let this abomination get released on a record or let alone leave the studio, is beyond me. It makes me cringe. Now the production and arrangements are quite OK and this would make for a nice morning goa trancer of the more laidback kind if it wasn't for the worst vocal effort I've ever heard on a record. Avoid this.

Infinity Project, The - Time And Space EP - 18-Dec-03 05:25 AM
I'm not sure if this is true for all copies of this record, but on mine the groove is off-centre on the A-side making the pitch appear to oscillate more and more toward the end of the record, and as a result the A2 track sound horribly out of tune. The B-side is nice and centered though.

As this was only Dragonflys second single, or at least supposed to be, it was still a small label at the time and thus I'm guessing no more than 50 test pressings/promos were made, but the number is probably even lower.

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