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  1. I was dissapointed when I first heard this comp because I was hopeing for the

    original "Power Of Celtic" sound. The remix is not nearly as good. I sampled

    this album at psyshop and liked it, but I find many tracks boring because

    there is NO INNOVATION. It is more of the same melodic trance. However, track

    3 with the baby or kid voice singing before the huge climatic break is very

    different. It is both wierd and unexpected and it packs lots of energy. The

    first track is also very good, but nothing here is stunning. I jumped to buy

    Lightbeams when I saw the name EREZ on the synopsis at psyshop. He mastered

    it, not made it. Oh well, maybe it will grow on me given time.

  2. EXCELLENT, DETAILED REVIEW: The first track especially is very sexy, beautiful,

    melodic, floating, and dreamy! The beginning of this album, has one of the

    greatest, most beautiful beginnings to any Goa album in recent memory! The

    singing, SINGING!!!, voices are powerful and awesome. It does not matter if

    track 1 is shorter. The less there is of something beautiful, the more people

    appreciate it. Track 2 (Assign 2) is awesome! Very, very banging, dark, and

    powerful! Assign 2 is the most powerful and awesome track on the album and I

    wish they had more tracks like the first four tracks, especially track 2! T3 -

    Radio Station starts out awesome, as do most of the tracks on this album. The

    orchestral build-up is brilliant! T4 is pure radio! We are given the full dose

    of Zipper ripping X-Dream sounds, and it all works real well, even if it is

    unoriginal. After track 4, things stay hard, full-on and dark, but they become

    too monotonous. I love how the tracks start off...very quiet and interesting,

    with atmospheric build-up and visual sounds, creating some really lush waves

    of sound. Unfortunately, in several tracks, Future Prophecy's style is: add

    layer after layer after layer, without ?really? altering the flow, rhythm and

    direction. They don't change the flow and rhythm enough in some later tracks

    that desperately need it, like the song does not evolve and remains repetitive

    and boring, and therefore pointless. I agree that this album follows in the

    foot-steps of X-DREAM - RADIO, and it works great at times. I would have loved

    it if they had more layers of melody. When this album does have melody, it is

    awesome and very well composed, but it is kept to a minimal as opposed to the

    stomping beats. More melody would have added more depth and character.

    Regarding many of the comments above about this and X-dream. I have several

    thoughts of my own: First, it is possible that FP is imitating X-dream on

    purpose, because they know people will buy FREAK if it is like the

    ever-popular RADIO. Second, maybe FP does not want to be like X-dream, but

    rather this albums purpose is to bring back the great X-dream stuff that

    X-dream does not do anymore. Lastly, maybe they were extremely inspired by

    X-dream, and that is why we hear the major influence in sound. People are

    comparing both albums because both albums sound like one great originator, and

    it was not Future Prophecy. The true problems, or rather gripes I have with

    this album is that several of their later songs (like I said) do not have

    enough melody. Also they do not evolve, go places, change, etc. FP's style

    (and problems at times) is that they maintain a dark pulsating beat, and then

    add layer after layer after layer, but it soon becomes one continuous loop,

    with removed layers on and off through-out to keep it going. Their intensions

    are great at first in the beginning, but the album becomes less grand the more

    into it you get. The album rocks with track 2, and the super-cool and powerful

    track 3+4, but it eventually becomes too repetitive and stale. Some tracks

    would have been so much better if they had a climax, and while some tracks are

    so great that they do not need a climax, other track could have used more work

    with layers of (even dark) melody and or climax. Of course this album has some

    extremely dark, driving, killer dance tracks, and that should be noted. I do

    not care for Track 9, and this album would have ended more memorable if they

    ended it with a beautiful, floating chill-dub or trance track like they did in

    the beginning with "Work Of Art." In conclusion, this is a good, dark-night

    dance album (with some excellent and powerful tracks) and I HOPE THAT their

    next album HAS MORE extremely well created tracks like T2, T3, (T1 for

    beginning & ending) and T4. Respectively in that order. I would rather have an

    album by Future Prophecy with seven tracks if each one was awesome like T2,

    (which must have taken a ton of time to complete!) as opposed to some great

    tracks and some decent tracks. (like this album) Over all, when its good its

    not great, its excellent. This is a good album and I am looking forward to

    their next release. Hope they read what I wrote. Any comments are welcome.

    -peace

  3. I prefer his last album (Beyond the Mask). This seems less risky and more minimal, even though it's pretty cool. Like usual, the voice samples are great. The artist has once again done a great job with where and when you hear them. It's not dark and edgy like Beyond the Mask...

     

    2016 Update

    ...and that's what took the most time for me to adjust to. This album's more dynamic in a funky, psychedelic, and fun way. Some of the songs could have been better. Many are very good, great. Initially I was expecting a follow-up to the darker style on Beyond The Mask. Then I listened to this for what it is knowing that it's not a dark vision; rather a brand new adventure. In that sense and while not groundbreaking per say, this follow up to Beyond the Mark is great.

     

    Can this artist not produce creative and fun albums anymore? He made some really fantastic albums back in the day.

  4. Both (i think new) tracks called "The Flame" and "Purity" are truly AWESOME!!!

    Buy this album just for those two awesome, melodic, deep, powerful intricate,

    tracks! (some tracks run on a little longer then I wanted, but whatever)

    Listening to the new version of THE FLAME at nighttime is absolutely awesome

    and unforgettable....very VERY energetic, cool, and moving, like beautiful

    layers of waves, both on and within more waves!

  5. I like alot of Yahel's music, but this album sounds much too clubish for me.

    Even though he does dance music, this album does not seem anywhere near as

    psychedelic and deep as some of his other work. Did Erez work with him on this

    or not? Some tracks are pretty cool, but not as driving and energetic as some

    tracks on his other 2 albums before this one. Yahel has done better, but this

    album is not bad.

  6. This album is so creative, catchy, melodic, and diverse, well varied. I love it. It is a fantasy dream come true in goa, psy/chill-influenced (classify this crazy masterpiece as is) music! Every track is good/great, if not excellent, superb! Highly recommended. Remixed by Erez of Infected Mushroom around his GOA prime.

     

    Enjoy!

  7. With more listening, I do appreciate tracks 1, 7 and 3 the most, followed by

    track 8. Sadly, the voices in track 2 of the lady saying, "I need to hear you

    scream my name, Punk...!!!" is EXTREMELY ANNOYING and I WISH it did NOT exist!

    It is cheezy and repetitive! Both tracks 7.)- "Another Dimension," and track

    1.)- "Yash" have lots of originality and they constantly surprise me with

    twists and turns of psychedelic rhythm & melody. This album is somewhat

    progressive however, and tracks 2, 5, and 6 just sound waaaaaaaaaay to

    repetitive! However, I do enjoy several tracks here and I HOPE that Bandit

    learns from this album and focus's more on the awesome, darker, more beautiful

    and unprectible sounds like in tracks 7 and 1, when he or they come out with

    their next album. Also, PLEASE KILL THOSE LADY VOICES OR SAMPLES FOR FUTURE

    REFERENCE!

  8. I think of all the powerful dark goatrance out there that is not minimal, and

    its sad that there is so few good ones. We got X-DREAM, Dark Soho, and several

    others, but the beautiful thing is the deep dark, and orginal melodies in

    Orgainic Noise! They are hypnotic and interesting! There is one track that

    does not climax ever, but the atmosphereic ambiance, visual sound FX, and

    psychedelic tides are enough to make you feel the story of the song. Its like

    riding in a boat down a dark tunnel to Hell! Its dark and evil and beautiful.

    I appreciate the fact that each track is very different. The music is

    powerful, dark, and stylish. It is not amazing, but people should not say that

    this is minimal because they don't like it. Believe me, this is NOT minimal!

    The truth is that this album is not as intricate and complex as Simon

    Postfords Hallucinogen, but who cares?! The track, "Labyrinth Of Colors " is a

    perfect example of the awesome, evil, and beautiful melody that I love so very

    much. This is true night goa and it is very well created!

  9. This is not great in my honest opnion. I do like the bass lines and some of the

    parts in several tracks. What truly hurts this album is that lady's voice!

    They are childish, I mean that they sound like some black woman singing and

    then they loop her annoying voice and mix it over and over, making it sound

    more and more tweaked each time. (pitch or frequency change possibly?) These

    voices are on more than one track. I have only heard the album once, but I

    remember that it wasn't as great as I hoped for. I agree that for a first

    album, Bandit has potential and this does not suck. Unfortunatly, the voices

    do get mighty repititive and it does hurt the experience of the lasting

    appeal. On the dance floor it probably sounds real good because of the beats

    and bass lines, but I don't feel anything while listening to this album on the

    head phones. Bandit is powerful, but power without direction, unless its

    purpose of direction is to get you on the dance floor.

  10. This album is arguably the most awesome album by Miranda! Track 7 is just too

    amazing to describe. Seriously, I don't see any commercial influence directly

    involved with Miranda's new album. It's her style, and sounds so

    sweeeeeeeeeeet! This is fresh, psychedelic, FULL-ON, Goatrance, and it's more

    mature then ever before. If you like Miranda, you should love this album!

  11. Track 2 is amazing! Listen to this at night and blast it!!! It is incredible.

    The sounds are insane! Pop is also a really dark, insane song! The last couple

    of tracks I don't find that great. But another great track is "Thing." It is

    like for a scene in an insane horror movie. Listen to how it builds! I like

    X-Dream-Radio better than this album, but this album is damn wicked cool! Nice

    cover too. peace

  12. Okay, um... I don't think some people "get" this album. Let me just tell you

    that if you drop acid and listen to this album, you will realize that this

    album all makes sense. You will find this album so amazing, you will absolutly

    love it, unless you love it already. This music is beautiful and trippy as

    hell, and made better for tripping then almost any album on this planet. (next

    to Twisted and I.M. of course) Listening to this changes the trip, it

    literally makes you totally tranced! It is very friendly with acid and you

    will likly be amazed what you feel and see, or think you see. It is also

    beautiful without any use of drugs. Simon Postford is extremely talented.

    Whoever worked on this album is also extremly talented. This opens your mind

    and works your imagination. You will never forget it! The first Shpongle album

    was classic, even though it seems to not have as much melody as this one. Both

    are treasures that any person into goatrance, chill-out, should own. True

    music does not need drugs to be enjoyed, but this music is made for Shpongling!

  13. Moon Cake is beautiful. That is real night time melodic stuff. There is
    something very interesting about the rhythm in this song. I can't explain
    really, but I have great thoughts when hearing it. The Z Principle is
    great too, but I expected more after reading the reviews above with the
    overall album. This album took me years to find so if
    you have the opportunity to buy this, I would do it before
    someone else does. 7.5/10

  14. I bought this album for over $25 and by God its worth it! This album is much

    better then Trip to trance...! It is deff. more mature, alot more powerful,

    and very, very melodic! I like melody, but this isn't happy, cheesy, lets go

    fucking hug each other bullshit. Where as their first album was very soft and

    happy and at times boring, or rather repetitive, this album is very melodic,

    deep driving, beautiful flowing, and full of awesome rhythm. (Yes I know their

    first album was melodic, but this is better) The only track I'm not impressed

    with is Related Vortex, but I wouldn't say it's bad. The way this album begins

    is very intelligent. I mean, many albums will jump right into the beat and not

    evolve enough, hence sounding minimal. This stuff is the complete opposite.

    The beginning of track 1 so gradually builds, constructing layers without

    jumping straight to the drums. It doesn't stay in one spot, nor does it change

    just to avoid repitition. It builds. It evolvs. Some tracks such as, Our Own

    Happiness, and Eleven are truly masterpieces! Our Own Happiness is so deep and

    uplifting. I'd even say crazy in some unique way. The voices are very

    unexpected, the melody unpredictable, the flow beautiful. Some of these tracks

    are like a great story unfolding. When the sun goes down, put on really good

    head phones, and let this take you to places only imagined. Better than that,

    let it create places that were at one time unimagined. The first three tracks

    are great, if not excellent, and fucken aye, I won't bother talking about the

    other ones. This deserves to be owned regardless. To sum it up in two words,

    this rocks!

  15. The Legend is decent. Track 6 is fairly dark. The Highlander and many samples are cheesy IMO.

    This melodic trance album sounds so dated that I don't listen to it anymore.

    If you like melodic goa-trance, I suggest: Astral Projection, MFG, Dimension 5. This

    album sounds too flat for me. Overall, many tracks on here

    are very repetitive at times.

     

    UPDATE - I think this is one of the weakest albums in the goa trance genre.

  16. AP should have waited with the 4 totally knew tracks, until they had enough for

    a new album. I can't buy stuff (re-mixed or not) that I already own. Axis and

    Burning Up is really good, but what about Virtual Booster, State of Mind, 10

    Minutes To Sunset and Celestial Groove??? Are those their new tracks? ...?

    Cause if they are, they would have gone great with Solid Electronics, Axis,

    Burning Up, etc... I don't reccommend buying this album even if you havn't

    heard all these tracks. They were taken from different albums made at

    different times and it just doesn't feel the way it's supposed to. AP

    basically made a compilation of most of their best stuff, but why bother cause

    most of it is awesome anyway? Why disrupt the way the albums these tracks were

    taken from were originally made to be heard? You shouldn't alter perfection in

    my opinion, even with new remixes. The best way is to buy each of AP's albums

    if you don't already own them. Listen to them the way they were meant to be

    heard.

  17. By the way, on that last line in my above review, I meant that Bible of Dreams

    will never have the audience that Beyond the Infinite had. Juno Reactor on the

    other hand, does have respect to date, especially after the very unexpected

    release of Shango. I just wish that Bible of Dreams was better, cause their

    other albums kick serious ass.

  18. My favorite Electric Universe if I had to pick one, and the best EU album next to Stardriver IMO. I love the risks Boris took with exception to two songs (2, 6) that leave much to be desired. The artist clearly knows what's catchy so I'm not sure why he'd allow two weak songs to be on an otherwise stellar album. Great album overall! If you weren't sure what you thought of this back in the day, give it another listen. It may sound different to you as is sometimes (often) the case with music (with more elements) like this.

  19. Okay??? Who the FUCK doesn't like POP! I laugh cause those childrens voices are

    insane! They are such a surprise! Fuck anyone who hates X-Dream. Whats up with

    this guy above me. What does he think I'm laughing "at" X-Dream. What kind of

    twisted ass bull shit is that?! Maybe if I said Pop sucked, I'd be a cock

    sucker, but I didn't, and I sure as hell don't duck cock. X-Dream ROCKS! READ

    MY X-DREAM-radio review. This is some dark, powerful stuff. Tracks 2 and 4 are

    absolutly awesome! Track 1 is very powerful, those voices are wicked cool!

    Enough said.

  20. Alright, I listed and "felt" this album more carefully. This is truly

    magnificant! No BS. This is very deep and beautiful. This is NOT

    dub-atmosphere-slow-minimal-bull shit. This is really cool, beautiful

    sounding, with excellent rhythm that really moves you. The reason people

    compare this to Shpongle is because both Asura and Shpongle are at the highest

    level of this type of music. Shpongle might be better for tripping, and

    Shpongle has some awesome tracks regardless, but I can not compare this with

    Shpongle as if one is better than the other. They are both totally different.

    They are both totally original. Enough said. Asura gives us seven tracks, but

    seven excellent and/or awesome tracks. You can really tell they put alot of

    time in and didn't just take an idea and loop it this way and that. I don't

    reccomend you sample these on MP3'S, cause mp3's are compressed. As you know

    most compression loses some or alot of quality, hence ruining the music. I

    trusted my instinct and bought this without hesitaion and it is worth it.

    Seven tracks? I'll take quality over quantity anyday. This is some awesome

    stuff that deserves to be in every ambient/chill/trance lovers collection,

    period.

  21. All I have to say is, Encrusted Filth! What a HOT TRACK! Okay.....I never

    described a track as being "hot" before but this thing is HOT! Pure dance,

    powerful, adrenaline charged, night Goa! Oh my GOD, this is Platinum! Without

    a doubt the best track on this whole entire album. Some other tracks are a

    real work of art too. It may take some time to see Double Dragons mature,

    intricate, and intelligent creation. If you have, you know exactly what I

    mean. For those who havn't, you shall, and for those who are deaf, I'll pray

    for you.

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