I recently re-purchased this two disk set off of Amazon. I used to have it, purchased in a record store on 23rd in Portland, Oregon in 2006. Loved it and it somehow grew legs and disappeared. I ripped the new one and backed it up. So awesome hearing this again and owning it once again.
Takes me back to a time not so far away..before the name EDM was coined over Techno. My ex raver girlfriend back in 2006 bought me this album and it still echoes in the bassbin of my mind.
Haha yes! There was a time when everyone called everything "techno." Then came "dubstep" and "EDM." Everyone thinks everything is that now. Tbh, I still casually refer to anything four-on-the-floor as "techno," even though it's not really accurate... You'll even hear old school happy hardcore fans complain about how the genre went from "breakbeats" to "techno."
Humorous Rick and Morty style meme aside, in terms of raw musicality, these tunes (as well as 95% of EDM) would not hold a candle to much historical European classical/romantic-era/baroque music in terms of utilizing harmony and dynamic. Rather it is a feat of engineering that accomplishes a whole different and necessary world of expression while using mere simple diatonic structures. Play any of these pieces on a string quartet or acoustic piano and it will put everyone to sleep (an orchestral arrangement could interpret a couple, but it would be a very lose interpretation that would have to play to an orchestra's strengths). However, the synthesizer automation and the pristine craftsmanship of sound selection and polished production is a modern marvel in its own context. Varian *Endless Desire (Mark Otten Energetic Remix)* is one of my favorite progressive trance pieces; not to mention Galaxia gave me a road-trip of pure joy. Wow, where do I even begin with that Matthew Adams pres. Stratosphere - Sunscape (Alucard Remix)? So dreamy, it's docile repetitiveness causes a open mind to imagine a warm and fiery sunset in some far away land with romantic ambition. You do not need to be Nikola Tesla to capture these sentiments -- merely sensitive to beautiful sounds in even the simplest of structures.
Do you cry your eyes to sleep? Is it peace you seek at night when your body is weak? Did it leave you with the scars of a war torn ravaged heart? Do you cry your eyes to sleep?
This album brings me so great memories. Too bad it isn't on Spotify but glad I can hear it in YT music. I lost my CDs somewhere in the past and miss this to date.
