Infected Mushroom's glory days are long, long, LONG gone. They didn't do anything noteworthy since Classical Mushroom and The Gathering IMO.
While the collapse of the classic Goa sound in general is only to be expected, the collapse of the intense yet spiritual goa
feel is a travesty in electronic music. Goa really was onto something special, and it's (mostly) all gone. But anything good is bound to become more popular and collapse under its own success and the pressure to imitate itself, though I suppose X-dream is, involuntarily anyway, more to blame than anyone else. They started the psy sound that eventually killed Goa but then died out with a whimper itself, at least here in the States.
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Originally Posted by Iron_Dreamer  Definitely like the album overall, but at least thus far none of the tracks are hitting me on as high a level as the best tracks from their previous albums do. Farrel doesn't add much to the track he's featured on, but Davis fits with the sound much better. My favorite track at this point is probably "Project 100," which is just all over the place.
In other news it's definitely their most compressed album, and it is to the point where it annoys me, at least a little bit, from a SQ point of view. Sure, Supervisor and Vicious were more compressed than the preceding albums, but it didn't intrude as much as it does here.
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Great, just what the genre needs: hot mastering! Quick, music's not selling as quickly anymore, let's brickwall everything because, you know, you gotta move with the times, man, and it will sound better on the radio!
It will be a real blow to the genre if hot mastering spreads, to the point of rendering everything completely unlistenable. Electronic music relies on sound quality more than any other, especially ambient. I've noticed a lot of sound quality degradation from some of the old stalwarts lately, especially Halluconigen during his live sets. Hopefully most of the artists will have enough brains and integrity to stave this off indefinitely.
