Crush is just sweet. TOOL is different, but not bad. I liked the vocals anyway. Like A Friend is... even more different. Don't know what to make of this. Sounds kinda neat though. Reflections is instantly recognizable as a PvD production and is very nice, trancey but not too upbeat. NBY is, well... NBY. Buenaventura has a cool loungey feel to it, hard to really judge the track from the sample though. Home may need some time to grow on me... sounds somewhat retro. Never Forget is another downtempo track; nothing in the 30-odd seconds really jumps out at me. Knowledge goes in a completely different direction, obviously. I don't think I'll ever like this. That's Life... well, maybe Paul shouldn't try for a spot on American Idol just yet. The track is catchy though. Connected I've liked since I first heard it, and I still do. I see it as a modern-day Words. Spellbound is fairly trancey and seems quite nice at first listen. Finally, Kaleidoscope is along similar lines and sounds very promising.

So it seems like Reflections definitely isn't much like OTAB (which is good). It's certainly promising and I'm anxious to hear full versions of these tracks. It does seem at first glance that it will easily surpass Armin's somewhat half-assed artist album, but only time will reveal its true merit...

I think i'll have to listen to some of the tracks a couple of times before liking them (understanding them?)

Anyhow... why release this album 2 weeks earlier in the US

heh! i will get s00000000000000000n

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Originally posted by djthunderbird I want AUTUMN on vinyl

Doesn't everyone?

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This is just *my* opinion.. take no note of it vandit whores.

Home = gash
like a friend = gash
that's life = gash
kaleidoscope = gash

knowledge = worst track on the album (sounds like a fusion between hip hop and trance. think, bunkka except.. more trancey)

spellbound is pretty bad, definetely better than most of the other vocal tunes.

reflections sounds like a piece of eurodance trash =(

buenaventura is a pretty decent track... (need to hear more of it really..)

never forget reminds me of massive attack's work.. really downtempo, sounds promising

Crush, TooL (liked the liveset rips better though, different version????) and NBY seem to be the best tracks on the entire album.

Based on these 45 second samples, definetely not the album I was expecting, pretty dissapointing overall...

*edit* I was far more impressed by armin's 76 than this album..

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Venus: And there are troops of savage giraffes whose necks are on fire, like the starry ejaculations of fireworks in the very pale sky of childhood ... Venus: Enter, enter here - men of all kinds and races, victims of reality! You who have the thirst for dreams. ... Venus: You, on life's bitter road, drenched in hard sunlight who have the thirst that once more the dark marvel of dreams...

i'm a big fan of Crush, i think it's absolutley amazing and well constructed. However, i think a lot of the tracks fell short compared to Out There and Back (tons of inovation!). I've always bought all types of PVD's material to support him in wake of all these leechers who 0Day his albums, but i'm definently gonna second guess about Reflections.

+ no Autumn, no points

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Sorry, but all the samples sound pretty monotomic to me.

I already preordered my copy lets see how the real thing sounds I mean you cant really judge the tracks from 50 seks 96 kbs samples...

knowledge will sound horrible thought

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Originally posted by arturob i dont really care about what your opinion is, but if you're going to ruin our thread, please go somewhere else.

Yeah, don't express a negative opinion about PvD! What the fuck were you thinking Mr. Mystery? OMFG!

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