While this album does get a bit repetitive by the end, I absolutely love the futuristic sound design of this album. Something about it just feels like it came from the future with the mix of electronic sounds and clean, almost calculated song structure.

vistencluse

This is actually my favorite sound design era of his, the sound palette is MAD and a perfect combination of old Oolacile wackiness and his newer future riddim direction, but the execution is really far from great.

The drums, especially, don't sound very good, and you can see it quite clearly when you listen to Mind Scanner and the drums clearly elevate the track a MILE above pretty much the entire rest of the LP.

Also a lot of the drops are just not it. The worst offenders to me are ... read more

scarliee

Absynth (Time Virus) is the best riddim drop i've ever heard, and Mind Scanner is up there for sure. really good stuff there and a lot maintains the atmosphere by continuing to experiment but i find a lot of the experiments less appealing . can't give higher than 85 for that but anyone should go check these 2 songs out if you're even slightly interested in edm. <3

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