pash> I was listening to CJ Bollands "Electronic Highway" again this
pash> morning. This has to be the most overlooked release of 1995.
pash> Were there any singles that went with this album?
Yes, there was the "Neural Paradox" single, which I passed on, because I
already had one song on _In Order To Dance 5_ ("Astral Body") and the
other on _Electronic Highway_. More to the point, the actual song "Neural
Paradox" struck me as the sort of vague, non-engaging trance that R&S
seems to be cranking out with such abandon right now.
I own newer releases by The Source Experience, Ebizoo (a new Japanese
signing to the label whom I'd expect will be on IOTD 6.3), and Speed
Jack, and while all of them have their high points (and two of the three
are brilliant releases in their own right), they all serve as excellent
evidence that R&S is cultivating a sound that doesn't leave a whole lot
of room for innovation. The "Neural Paradox" single is a good example of
this bad phenomenon.
pash> Nice design too, who did it?
The designer is DasPasCals, who also designed In Order To Dance 5, The
Source Experience's _Different Journeys_, and the R&S web site. If you're
curious, check out
<
http://www.rsrecords.com/> and
<
http://www.arcadis.be/daspascals/>
for more examples of his stuff.
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