I'm being asked to put down my views, probably because I am usually the one supporting or defending the guy around here. So...

What can i say really. I've had faith in this album for a while. The attitude and 'voices' coming out of the Black Hole made me really truly believe we would be into In My Memory territory, or at least, somewhere OTHER than Just Be country.

How wrong i could be. You won't see me wasting time defending this one on TA or other fora. Thats for sure.

The only saving grace on this album is that most of the filler tracks have some predecessor that i related to, and loved and enjoyed. If i find the same sounds in the next year of Tiesto gigs, then i will be semi-happy. Clearly Elements Of Life is not a derivative of "these are the 4 elements in the world etc" There is no rational explanation or placing within the new Concert thematic. However. With all the older elements in these tracks - it is clearly reference to how they took samples from his previous work and cobbled together this album.

Playing the actual 'original' tracks would please me. But thats not really possible. So these updates. Will suffice. I mean suffice - because just with PoA... these tracks won't be remembered with any fondness in 5 years time like the impact IMM had.

Conclusion: The best tracks of the album, we already have known about for 6 months. How that will affect the longevity or appeal of this album for the duration of the next 12 months EoL tour. is well, beyond my thought process.

I like the tracks. But i'm not overly excited by them either.

p.s Wild Bunch - Groove Lounge & Dibaba - Hold You FTW!

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Overall a completely gash album. I liked Ten Seconds Before Sunrise the most, then Bright Morning Star, though the latter half annoyed me as it lost all the sway it had going into it, and I liked He's A Pirate. Though that too also rips off of Flight 643 and the synthwork seems to be a bit overdone during the climax. This album is very hollow sounding throughout. Carpe Noctum and Elements of Life are blatant rips offs of Traffic and Adagio For Strings (respectively) and the second one is a piss poor imitation. Elements of Life is easily the worst track on this, but all the others follow in at a close second.

2/10.

Maybe. Maybe.

Liking the album thus far 'Ten seconds Before Sunrise' is tune of the album for me I like Elements Of Life, Everything and Do You Feel me a lot aswell! 8/10

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Originally posted by d-miurge Some people think that Paris Hilton is a singer, don't be amazed by the fact that some people think that Sean Tyas is a good EDM producer.

where can u hear the album?
is it out to buy already?

I haven't heard it yet but I give it a 10!!!!

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The only good tune is 10 seconds before Sunrise for me. Pirate's has already lived its sell by date. Pity Tiesto has a lot of scope to shut people up here and failed pretty miserably. It sounds like half an album with tunes with random sounds thats sound thrown together with bits and pieces of previous tunes. The remix and 12" packages will have to be extremely good to turn my head

So far Im on In The Dark... I'm liking this album, though a few weren't so impressive so far.

This song though (IN THE DARK), I dunno what about it, but it's really appealing to me, I can't tell why, but I like it a lot.

Dance4Life could've been a sick track if it wasn't for those awful vocals... wtf!

And I dunno how some morons could possibly compare Adagio For Strings (great fucking track) to a trashy one such as Elements of Life... I dont know what, but that track tries to be something big, the one that's most memorable, yet fails miserably.

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Originally posted by CrazedOut So far Im on In The Dark... I'm liking this album, though a few weren't so impressive so far. This song though (IN THE DARK), I dunno what about it, but it's really appealing to me, I can't tell why, but I like it a lot. Dance4Life could've been a sick track if it wasn't for those awful vocals... wtf! And I dunno how some morons could possibly compare Adagio For Strings (great fucking track) to a trashy one such as Elements of Life... I dont know what, but that track tries to be something big, the one that's most memorable, yet fails miserably.

sif bag the guy from faithless

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Originally posted by the gamemaster sif bag the guy from faithless

That's who huh, trying to spoil the goods...

Not a bad album overall, but listening to his previous albums, which give me shivers, makes this one seem so ... below average.

well i havent heard this album yet so i cant comment but dance for life, the vocals werent really that big a problem, they were a very minimal part of the song anyway but the song just didnt have that much going on and i got tired of it very, very quickly.

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Originally posted by CrazedOut So far Im on In The Dark... I'm liking this album, though a few weren't so impressive so far. This song though (IN THE DARK), I dunno what about it, but it's really appealing to me, I can't tell why, but I like it a lot. Dance4Life could've been a sick track if it wasn't for those awful vocals... wtf! And I dunno how some morons could possibly compare Adagio For Strings (great fucking track) to a trashy one such as Elements of Life... I dont know what, but that track tries to be something big, the one that's most memorable, yet fails miserably.

I agree the only comparable factor between Adagio & Elements is that it samples an old moviescore/classical piece. I havent' put my finger on it yet, but the sampled piece sounds like it was lifted straight from Final Fantasy II rather than Barber's Back Catalog.

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