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Sirius Isness
Resolution Of Duality
Moon Spirits (France)
Every so ofen, somebody (yours truly included in this) bemoans the way that the music doesn't sound like it did when it started. There's no spiritual element anymore, or producers aren't brave enough to really communicate their feelings into the music, or the melodies simply dont ascend like they used to. On any of these counts, Sirius Isness may just shut us up for seventy odd minutes; in fact the cover art alone gets the 1996-trancer in all of us foaming at the mouth (or the pants, depending on which side your bread's buttered.) 2012 Tepoz Troopers is wallop, straight in, a delicious energy and the melodies are perfectly-placed. Out Of Reality is up next, and instantly makes the preceeding track feel like just a mellow warm up: fat, tasty, fast -- this is ballsy fullon with the dials firmly up to eleven. Osaka Blues is spacier, with nice guitar lines and great effects. The cute melodies form a great hook, giving a nice "chase-the-sunris e" kinda vibe. Spheres is all about a cutup vocal that threads and winds its way along and through the track, which you'll either find works for you or it doesn't; Likewise The Good Man. Irrational Substance on the other hand -- well, this is the money shot. Loads of energy, a certain nonchalant effortlessness about it -- despite being a crazy, hazey, far-reaches-of-the-cosmos type affair. The way the hardly-there breakdown catapults off into the ether is astounding... Zaps aplenty, and we like. Living Memories relies on anthemic lines, drop it at the right time and it'll do the business; as will Secret Vision, a very nice bit of end-of-set pre-sunrise boogie. Chicks, in other words, will love it: a sensitive, otherworldly bit of fullon. Think a floatier Talamasca at his kaleidoscopic peak. Finally Resolution Of Duality takes an easier bmp for a tasty, smooth morning-pace workout, with breakdowns to die for and mellow, tear-jerking pleased-with-the-universe kinda stuff. Nice, and a g reat way to end the album. This is likeable, and defiant in how it gets its ideas across and sticks by them -- and there is this sense that they realise, at the end of the day this is also great party music as well. Too fluffy for some maybe, but the rest of us can enjoy a powerful and loveable album till the cows come home.
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... 2004 
