Inadequate samples
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By Maeldun
Reviews should not be respnses or rebuttals to other reviews - restrict that kind of thing to community forums. This seems to be a download-only album and iTunes does not provide sufficiently long samples to get any idea how these tracks develop. Buy it from somewhere else. The music is reminiscent of pre-Karma Delerium work that will be refreshing to some, unwelcome to others and suspiciously famiar to fans of the genre.
best album in years
5
By altjeringa
The samples are a good representation of the album. This isn't Chimera, Poem, or Nuages du Monde. And if you are only familiar with "Silence" and what came after "Karma" you may not like this album. However, if Front Line Assembly means anything to you, or if you are a Semantic Spaces and prior fan this might just be the album that converts you to liking the more Pop work they've put out over the last few years. Chillout Friends really feels like an attempt to reconnect with the bands roots but with the sophistication and technological evolution that time provides. Oh an perhaps I'm off here but I think most of "Trans-Humanist" is a remix of FSOL's Lifeforms album. Wonderful stuff. Really wonderful.
A wonderful journey back to 'Karma'
5
By ffmusicdj
The samples aren't wrong, This music is a root back to that album that started it all, 'Karma'. Of Delerium's albums, 'Karma' has garnered the most commercial success. These guys were amazing at their new age music, their musical style has encompassed a broad range, including dark ethereal ambient, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop music. This is back to what they did best. And BOY this just the best. I guess what is confusing people is that they think Delerium makes dance or trance, but failed to realise that those were a number of remixes, produced by DJ Tiësto, Airscape, Fade and others, proliferated throughout dance clubs.You are all sadly mistaken if you think this is not Delerium.
learn to read!
3
By stinky138
for all the haters, read the album title, its chillout music, if your looking for anything more then soft sounds to gerp out to then your looking in the wrong place
iTunes does not know how to preview music
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By benperezg
This is the basic and frustrating problem with iTunes. They think 30 seconds of previewing will help you decide if you want to the song or not. In albums like this one, it is impossible to figure out if the song is good or bad. While I agree that this is not the typical Delerium music, I also think that iTunes 30 seconds of previewing does not help to decide. Since the 30 seconds of each song here does not give you any good ideas of how good the songs are, I am not purchasing anything. So, 2 stars for Delerium for not delivering good musc, and 0 (zero) stars for iTunes to deliver no time to preview music like this.
mix cd but odd...
3
By Satiated
Well it's a mix CD from Delerium and not their own stuff (minus a few tracks) but anything from Celopatra I find suspcious (not a fan of the lable) and this would be no excpetion, for example track 6 is may be Consciousness by Synaesthesia but it's a complete rip off (or almost completely sampled) from Sad World by Apadana - it's on a chillout CD I have from 1994. I like Delerium's early stuff (before they had some changes in their lineup), and this seems to be pulling a bit of the sound from that work, so take it for what it is, chillout music resembling basic chillout from back in the day.
Is this some kind of joke?
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By Technocub
I agree with the other reviewer here: what IS this album? - it's not the band Delerium!...the samples do not help at all...strange!
