K took me some time, but you have to listen to an album a couple of times imo +
had some things to do this week, anyway here's my review 
Intro:
| quote: | Inwardgaze,is a state of mind where a person is staring at his/her very
soul. It's a self study. It's a silent communication with your higher self.
I believe that the result of a musical creation process is a true message
delivered from the subconscious mind. Anyone with any experience on
making music can relate to this scenario. As you know, it can take some
time until the creative 'boost' arrives. And when it does, the rest of the
process will carry itself out almost automatically. Hey kids, can you say
'tuning in'? At first, the creation is pure and any later action is too often
taken during day-time consciousness making it less pure, distorting the
message. Every track on this album was left in its original form as far as it
was possible in terms of technical quality and dancefloor dynamics.
Most of all this records was made because now I can say to myself:
'Miik, you're a REAL artsist now'. It was always my intention to create a
full length album that would showcase most of the styles I enjoy, while
keeping a certain mood and atmosphere.
Miika Kuisma
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Track 1: Life [4:48]
Opening track of the album begins with a subtle, gentle intro. Some good percussion in it.
In short nice album starter
Track 2: Smokey Room featuring Elena Mady (Album edit) [6:16]
Like the melody alot of this one, no idea what to think of the vocals thou
Track 3: Autumn Falls [3:46]
After the intro it starts with a regular 4/4 beat, after a while the tempo suddenly changes,
,deep tune with some breaky elements, surprizing tune to say at least.
Track 4: Garden Of Hope [2:45]
Chill-outer, great ambience to it, lay back and enjoy
Track 5: Miami Nice [6:50]
Mixed feelings about 5 imo, intro is nice again imo,deeper tune, but not really feeling
this one, bit to monotonous for my liking
Track 6: The Orion Theme [3:19]
The Orion Theme we allready know kinda,it's a rework of the
main theme of the original Orion track released in 2003 on JOOF.
On this album The Orion theme features as an ambiant/chill-out track,
a long intro and outro was added I guess, nothing mind blowing,
but the Orion Theme stands out for itself, that's for sure.
Prefer the original Orion above this ambient though.
Track 7: Destination [4:48]
Again proggier tune, def. not something for breakfast,
complicated one, lots of layers again,intriguing tune,
title kinda explains the track perfectly imo,
difficult to explain tho ..
Thumbs up for this one
Track 8: Panic Mode [8:03]
Miika allready send me an early version of this track mid May,
first thing that caught my attention was the subtle layered intro.
Have the feeling that he changed something but can't really
put my finger on it.
Oh well this is defintly a wicked track,breaths pure evil,
big-time dancefloor material 
Track 9: Sonic Kiss [8:21]
Sonic Kiss as featered on his Atmosphere E.P.(Dark Disc) released last year,
there's not much to say about this anymore imo,
Atmosphere E.P. (dark & light)was best release for me last year, at least in my book.
Opened a whole new world for me, that there is more than the regular supersaw/ASOT-sound,
therefor it obtained a special place in my heart.
Track 10: Pandemia [7:11]
Could it be that this track appeared in a GTG before (Chris/Miika ??  ),
I'm sure I heard this track before.
Ontopic: This track itself, kicks off with a very nice intro again,
lots of layers, nice melody, really really high quality track
Track 11: Twisted (Miika's Alternative Mix) [8.49]
Same comment as for Sonic Kiss, diggin the new synth,not bad,nice alternative,
but still prefer the original, which is a bit rawer.
Track 12: Sirius [4:32]
Last track and what a tune of to end an album with,
from the the samples earlier I thought it had a great potential allready,
now that I heard the whole track it's nothing short of spectacular.
It's maybe not your typical dancefloor track but yet so beautiful,
,intro is a beauty again,4 minutes and a half of pure emotion,
gives me cold shivers literally.
Conclusion:
Lots of little subtleties in all these tracks,
the intro's of some tracks are really a work of art, lots of diverse influences
I'm not saying all the tracks will become classics instandly,
but you can hear Miika put some hard work into this artist album,
no half-arsed job at all, quality artist album.
edit: had not paid attention to it first but the first 5 couple of tracks
flow perfectly into eachother, kinda nice
8/10
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12" Chase: Vernon - Wonderer (Son Kite Remix)
The X-files - Closure (feat. Moby My Weakness) 
Last edited by Eagle` on Dec-06-2005 at 22:06
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