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Music CD - Robert Miles: Dreamland
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Music CD: Dreamland
Artist: Robert Miles
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $7.17
Your Save: $ 4.81 ( 40% )
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Manufacturer: Arista
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Tracks:
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1. Children (Dream Version)
2. Fable (Message Version)
3. Fantasya
4. Landscape
5. In My Dreams
6. One And One
7. Princess Of Light
8. Fable (Dream Version)
9. In The Dawn
10. Children (Original Version)
11. Red Zone
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0078221893022
Label: Arista
Manufacturer: Arista
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arista
Release Date: 1996-07-30
Studio: Arista
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Good house music does not equal good music
Comment: 2 1/2
Competent though disappointing, this highly referenced trance album cannot escape it's plodding, dated backbone of a beat, no matter how refined and professional the production tries to be. Of course, listening to the album 13 years later, one immediately feels the bland, aged thump soaked into the generic sequencing and tonality, which is not to say the album was not worthy of the praise it garnered upon release-in House-centric circles that is. The thudding, ever present, 4/4 layering of a pulse that guides entirely too much mainstream electronic music out there will vastly undermine any of the dreamy atmosphere heavily present on this ambitious little club-hopper, rendering most of the Yanni-with-edge keyboard melodies banal. Thankfully once in a while, particularly at the start and finish of the disc, a semi-potent spell is afforded these static conditions, allowing Dreamland to shine in refreshingly unrestricted ways.
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Summary: A Rare techno record that lasts forever
Comment: This brings back so many memories. Before i left Ireland in 1997 the techno wave was in full stregth and Roberto Milano record was all over the airwaves. Listen to it on a beach and dream. In you car and dream. In your bed and dream. Its a dreamland.It has amazing lasting quality and the vocal track with maria nayler is dynamite. Ill never outgrow this record. Its just too good. great for vacation in a hot climate.
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Summary: Still listening to this one
Comment: I first heard this album while sitting in a coffeeshop in Corvallis, Oregon - many years ago - went out and bought the tape immediately . I pretty well fried the casette tape out during long cross-country drives and, as I'm not a huge fan of the genre had decided not to replace it with a CD. Big mistake! I heard One is One again on a college radio station near Austin, Texas in the summer of 2006 and decided to buy it again. I'm now afraid that I might fry the CD out. The music is surprisingly melodic for techno (if that is, indeed, what this is) and, when listened to closely, surprisingly complex. It is also very strong music (without being overly aggressive - there is, after all, such a thing as too much bass) with enough going on in the way of dynamics and signature shifts to keep the listener engaged - even during the longest and loneliest drives across west Texas. If you like early techno (Space comes to mind, even some of the intrumentals by Sky verge on primitive techno) I think you'll like Robert Miles.
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Summary: Underground legend Robert Miles' first and greatest composition of music on one CD.
Comment: I first heard the radio version of Children when I was [...]. I had later learned that it was the first techno/trance track to reach the Billboard top 100. That track had such an effect on me, I could not forget the sounds and melodies of the radio version of it until I finally owned a copy of it 8 years later. I listened to Fable, Fantasya, Landscape, and the rest of the album and I realized that Robert Miles, who spear-headed the Dreamhouse category of Techno/Trance, is truly the greatest mixer/music writer of all that is instrumental in electronica/techno/trance. His melodies and piano and excellent use of synths on this album are a stroke of true musical expression and feeling; truly one of a kind and extraordinary. Remember, the international hit heard on the radio "Children" is ONLY on the import. Yes, it is worth the extra cash.
Also, if you like his style of music on this album or his other albums that have been released, I suggest Nightmusic by the Thrillseekers. Both respectively, are 5-Star albums.
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Summary: Mmm Good Stuff
Comment: Yeah this album was a bit of a surprise. Usually the earlier you go in trance the more simplistic and poor quality the synths. This is put together as well as anyone could these days. It's certainly not the trance I'm used to (Tiesto, AVB, etc...), but I really like this! It's a welcomed change... It's a lot slower and ambient than most trance, and it's not mixed continuously. If you're familiar with a lot of songs that get mixed a lot, you'll know what I'm talking about. Generally they get pumped up, sped up, and have more sounds added in/changed when they get mixed. This is very melodical, and if you're in the right mood is quite enjoyable.
A couple of songs many of you will have heard are Children and Fable. I had never heard none of these originals before, and the original is a welcomed change to the version(s) I've heard before. I can imagine some people wouldn't go for this sort of music though. If you like trance and are open to other types of music, it's probably worth a chance.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A Swiss-born, Italian-raised pianist, Robert Miles serves up numbingly repetitive but lively sub-Moroder disco for 66 unrelenting minutes. While it may make Vangelis sound like Mozart by comparison on the home stereo, this is evidently sheer magic under the mirrorballs of Ibiza, Paris, and Scarborough. --Jeff Bateman
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