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[MITTLE]

how much you pay?

[tim dawes]

ended up at $59 for the two

[Orbi]

Is that with shipping? Not bad if so, that's pretty much what you'd pay in a retail store.

[tim dawes]

it is with shipping. the annoying thing was for 1, postage was 9.90 euros, for 2 it was 19.80 lol

[Tosh1R]

am i the only one who finds a striking resemblance in the album art to the project.1 artwork for their album..? either way so many solid releases on this album

[Orbi]

Tosh1R, on 07 December 2011 - 09:52 AM, said:

am i the only one who finds a striking resemblance in the album art to the project.1 artwork for their album..? either way so many solid releases on this album

Well they're both slightly stylised comic book versions of themselves so sure, I can see the resemblance. Those P1 artworks were actually pretty awesome now that I think about it.

[tim dawes]

hell yeah they were. i have the vinyl of life beyond earth/zero hour, it's awesome.

[Rudolph]

very good album. good variety of collabs, and unlike the Coone album the collabs mix well, instead of just sounding like the artist coone was doing it with.
only one annoying thing is the vocals in track like break my fall, back again (think its Olcay doing them) eh they just dont fit very well. Also dunno if the 2 remixes had to be included seeing as they have both already been released in full.

pretty much all the tracks are solid. Party Down, Quirk, Take my Breath Away, Da Phunk (Nitrouz Remix) are all uplifting, cheesy possible hits, with darker/heavier tracks being Darken Your Mind, Back Again, THe Visitor, Human Experience.

[Orbi]

Yeah, after giving it a listen this is probably the best album of 2011. That's not saying terribly much though.

The collaborations are definitely better than in Coone's album, they have elements of the other artists but it doesn't just sound like they were produced by one half with the other giving ideas. Which is what I think happened with The Challenge.

I don't mind the vocals in Back Again and Break My Fall. It does contrast the vocals in the tracks surrounding them but I don't think they're terribly out of place.

Definitely agree about the remixes. They had already been released and a 15 track album is perfectly fine, they didn't need to pad the album out like that. Plus the BH remix was released on another label (that also happened on The Pitcher's album) which I think is a really strange thing to do.

edit: Oh, I skipped it first time through but did they fix their Musical Impressions remix? I remember the transition between melodies being extremely harsh and borderline unfinished in the released version but this one sounds slightly different from memory.

[Tosh1R]

Orbi, on 12 December 2011 - 11:39 AM, said:

Yeah, after giving it a listen this is probably the best album of 2011. That's not saying terribly much though.

The collaborations are definitely better than in Coone's album, they have elements of the other artists but it doesn't just sound like they were produced by one half with the other giving ideas. Which is what I think happened with The Challenge.

I don't mind the vocals in Back Again and Break My Fall. It does contrast the vocals in the tracks surrounding them but I don't think they're terribly out of place.

Definitely agree about the remixes. They had already been released and a 15 track album is perfectly fine, they didn't need to pad the album out like that. Plus the BH remix was released on another label (that also happened on The Pitcher's album) which I think is a really strange thing to do.

edit: Oh, I skipped it first time through but did they fix their Musical Impressions remix? I remember the transition between melodies being extremely harsh and borderline unfinished in the released version but this one sounds slightly different from memory.

yeah they did change the album version but i prefer the original that has already been released.. in the original Toneshifterz rmx release the first melody is the same as the original BH track, just a teensy bit more polished, but i think that abrupt kick to the second melody makes that remix, and now with both melodies in the album version reworked it looses that epicness it had before in the original Toneshifterz rmx.

[tim dawes]

haha mate, scantraxx fucked up the version they released, this is what it was meant to sound like. the one scantraxx released was the tool they did for BH for qlimax last year

[Tosh1R]

tim dawes, on 13 December 2011 - 10:27 AM, said:

haha mate, scantraxx fucked up the version they released, this is what it was meant to sound like. the one scantraxx released was the tool they did for BH for qlimax last year

lol major fail on their behalf then.. i still think the DJ tool version sounds better