Galaxy - Angel

[Guest Gizmo]

Great chilly album from master Blenn. There's a revision of different styles of

light electro music (breakbeat, trippy, ambient, downtempo...) First track

"Musication Celebration" good trancy, 2,3,5 great musical stories specialy

"Open Your Heart" really romantic track . The last two, are very ambient,

for good dreams. 8/10

[Guest telli[at]dellnet[dot]com]

Galaxy - Angel

 

Artist: Galaxy

Title: Angel

Label: Blue Room

Date: 1998

 

Track listing:

 

01. 04'44" Musical Celebration

02. 05'55" Cosmonautical

03. 09'08" Baile Celestial

04. 05'14" Electro universe Vol 3D

05. 04'11" Open Your Heart

06. 08'11" Alien Encounters Vol 1

07. 12'07" Aquarian Deep Sea Diving Part 1&2

08. 20'03" Higher Vibration :

09. Part 1 : Spring Forest

10. Part 2 : Energetic Angel Meeting

11. Part 3 : Mandala

 

Review:

 

This is a real quality production as you would expect from the Blue Room. The

pace ranges from total chillout to mellow drum And bass (track 2). The whole

album has a very floating feel to it and overall is excellent. For those

seeking chillout albums, this is one to get.

[Guest Snow Dog]

One of my favorite ambient albums.

Boris Blenn has put a lot of work

into this, drawing from german

Electro influences, intelligent

techno And ambient, and the result

is mesmerizing. Tracks have the

feel of an extended meditation.

My absolute favorite is 3, so

powerful, emotional And dramatic.

If I ever write a movie, I want

Galaxy to do the score! 8.5/10

[Guest Psylent Buddhi]

Indeed a very nice chill album. Though I find some of the tracks rather

uninteresting. But there a 4 tracks on this album, which really stands out.

2,3,7 and 8. Number two because of the d'n'b elements mixed with that mellow

mood of Galaxy, and three because it's simply beautiful! The last two tracks

are some of my all-time meditation favorites. They're simply fantastic.

Especially "Higher Vibration"! What a gorgeous 20 minute long journey!

Plur - Psylent Buddhi

[Guest Phaedrus[at]austin.rr[dot]com]

Not at all my cup of tea. Not sure why this is considered psy trance... or

chillout either - The last 2 tracks are ambient, and are tolerable, but the

rest of the album is not. The music has no depth - sounds much more like

house than psytrance to me. Either way, I don't dig on it. To each his own,

though.

[Trance2MoveU]

To appreciate Boris's debut album as Galaxy I believe it necessary to slay the preconceived demons of what it isn't. Not goa? Ok, cool. His goa wasn't that great most of the time anyway. Not psy? Well all right. No big deal especially if you had the misfortune to suffer through Higher Modes. The album is a free flowing mixed homage to the techno and electro sounds of the early 90's. Sometimes upbeat and loaded with cool percussion it's always clear. It further cements the notion that he is more creative when the bpm's are low. Some of the beats are so old school (track 4) you might want to lay the cardboard on the corner and dust off that backspin.

 

Some might not like it pointing to it's simplicity, but isn't the idea of a side project the freedom to explore different avenues on which you might not normally tread? I take shots at Boris for lots of things, but I cannot do so because he moves in different directions. Believe me, he's made several albums that leave one scratching his head.

 

Someone called this house? House? I'm sorry have you ever f*cking heard house?

 

Consider this a nice change of pace from Boris. An escape from what you expect him to deliver. Hardly essential and not even his best downtempo stuff, but a fairly nice shot across the bow of the electronic genre.

 

BTW, hated the last two tracks. It's like he just said ah, f*ck it. 20 minutes, really?

 

Mdk

[abasio]

Higher Vibrations was actually one of my favourites on this album, long and meandering.

I like the album as a whole, it has a nice dreamy but clear quality to it. I prefer this to any of his upbeat stuff and feel like he just explored more in this album.