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2.0 out of 5 stars
What happened?, April 19 2011
By Damien Schwader - Published on Amazon.com
I won't spend much time on this review, but I can say that as a big fan of most Robert Miles, I could not wait for this release. Organik and Miles Gurtu were fantastic. How does this compare? It doesn't. The jazziness, experimental sound and slick production is gone. What's left is an album that is half down-tempo ambient sounds, half amateur garage rock. The garage band portions of the album sound like a bunch of hippie 55 year old guys jamming in a garage. Wow, terrible. bummer.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Prog Rock B.S., Sep 16 2011
By Michael R. Ames - Published on Amazon.com
The Atmospheric part of this album to me was working great until it self-destructs by adding tired drums and tired Robert Fripp wannabe guitar. Sounds like that lame David Torn trying to crash an ambient party. Wow. Disappointing. A word of advice to Robert: put away that guitar for good and never play drums. Or if you have to play drums, use a drum computer or something fresher like you did on track 9. This music was done way better in the 70's and the 70's have been gone for 32+ years. Time to move on. God, I hate prog rock. The only 2 prog rock bands that are listenable in this day and age are SOME of Pink Floyd and Goblin. Pink Floyd because they were genius songwriter/lyricist/virtuoso musicians with great voices, and ground-breaking, cutting-edge (for the time) production and Goblin because they were virtuoso musicians influenced and inspired by many genres: jazz, Italian and French soundtracks, Pink Floyd/King Crimson prog, and even disco, and combined it all seamlessly into a unique instrumental package that still mostly holds up for its' time. This......35+ years after prog rock prime, does not.
1.0 out of 5 stars
What a waste... So long Robert Miles., July 27 2011
By Todd from NJ - Published on Amazon.com
I once considered Robert Miles by favorite "techno artist" but ever since Organik, his music has gone down hill... I didn't even bother to buy the whole CD this time around because I was so diappointed in Organik other then one song in particular.
I love his 'older' music like Children, Leaving Behind, and some other remixes but his latest and greatest is crap. Of the songs I sampled I figured I'd go with ''Voices From A Submerged Sea'' because it was the closest thing to sounding like old Robert Miles... but it failed. What a waste of a dollar.
Robert needs to go back to the drawing board and figure out what made him a success (when he was a success) and build off of it... I don' even want to bother listening to anything else he makes until he does it right.
I wouldn't recommend this CD to anyone.