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| quote: | Originally posted by Mattsanity
lol co-sign that. vibrasphere are just another trance artists that makes no transcending difference in edm. |
Truth is that whilst their music is good, there is nothing groundbreaking about it. When i first heard "Archipelago" i got the impression that someone got segments from various 90s and/or 00s Digweed/Sasha/Warren albums and placed them over a typical but slower goa kick ( accompanied by the standard progressive-style "woosh" effects and echoing noises). I mean the best track IMO- "Seven Days To Daylight" sounds like someone got a loop from a 90s Robert Miles or BBE track ("Seven Days and One Week" anyone?) and put it over a hypnotic goatic bit, "Sweet September" sounds like a very standard post-00s Digweed/Sasha/Silver Planet style progressive track, "Reservoir" the same (although very hypnotic and nice), whilst ambient tracks like "Tierra Azul" sound like something out of a "Cafe Del Mar" compilation, and probably reside more on the cheesy-downtempo side of things rather than to serious ambient.
So, summing-up, whilst the production and the structure of the tracks is very good, they somehow lack the special soulful twist and original idea that make the magical difference between great and very good. Its like they got some very standard ideas and presented them in a "clinical and polished" way. At times i think that the current album was more "hype" and "frontcover" rather than actual substance. Still, though, whislt the current album suffers from all the criticisms that all trance and progressive (nowadays) do, it is still a very good trippy, danceable, hypnotic and atmospheric album, and i guess that it can sound great to someone who isn't much exposed to a lot of previous progressive and trance (plus, it is definitely much better in comparison to the majority of current "minimal" stuff...meh). So, yes, this is not the 90s or the start of the 00s, but it is overall good.
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