Man I love this, what a great track! That's all I can say...
I can clearly hear where inspiration came from. Vangelis and SNES RPG's. Seems we have something in common.
Damn man, I'm jealous. You should apply for a game composer job.
If there's one famous 'artist' I can't stand it's Eminimenemn. When I hear his stupid childish rap tunes about his own life that nobody cares about or whatever, it makes me want to destroy the sound source. Aarrrghhhhh I hate that guy and his music. Sorry but his attitude and tunes just get on my nerves
Hmm well, I still like 2 or 3 tracks very much, same goes for the rest of their albums... they all have 2 or 3 very strong tracks, a couple of average tracks and some weaker ones. So I can't say I rate this lower than the other albums. It's just my specific taste..
Still a shame they made a mess of the mona lisa remix. The original version rocks and is one of my favorite JR tracks.
IDM... I like some of the softer melodic ambient-like forms.
But some is just too much form over substance. Like certain jazz music.... too much notes and too much focus on technique and virtuosic playing. I don't like it.
Same goes for some of this IDM stuff.. too much clicks and plops and trying to make the weirdest rhythms and sounds with some random melodies on top of it... to me that type of music has no soul.
jup, it's nice to feel better than others about your taste in music
but have you considered that a lot of people might actually prefer george michael even if they'd heard x-dream ^^
... but DAMN man, playing george michael at a gym club?