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My 2 cents:
If we are strictly speaking about the current Andy Moor sound and productions, then I am quite disappointed. Why? Because he is capable of making much better and more qualified music. I'd venture a guess and say that many of the people in this thread who praise Andy to the highest extent, giving him 11/10 reviews and such, have never heard his older works. With tracks like Dark Amendments, Passenger, Athena, and Violent City I couldn't believe what I was hearing when I took a listen to Halcyon the other day. His older style just seems to have more quality as far as track substance, groove, and melodies are concerned. Halcyon and his newer stuff just seems to fluffy and overdone without any real substance to give the track a push forward. Not to mention the melodies sound like something a 12-year old could make on a Fisher Price or Casio keyboard/xylophone. I guess all the hardcore trancers and "McProg" listeners love this type of sound, but I find it completely cheesy, Nintendo sounding, and definitely forgettable. It's a damn shame too because Andy has the potential to create great music, but chooses instead to produce the sub-standard twinkly music that is all the rage right now. So, cheers to Andy Moor for making decent progressive house like the dirty and driving Dark Amendments and the grooving Passenger, but jeers to the newer stuff and his collaborations with Adamn White and Above & Beyond.
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