Information:
Artist : Asia 2001
Album : Contact
Genre : Psychedelic
Label : Avatar Rec.
Catalogue : AVA1CD069
Url : http://www.avatar-music.com/
Source : CD
Encoder : FLAC1.2.1
Bitrate : 992kbps/44.1Khz
Mode : Joint-Stereo
Store.Date : 00-07-2013
Rls.Date : 10-07-2013
Tracks : 11
Playtime : 70:34 Min
Size : 525.43M
Tracklist:
1. Light In The Dark 6:28
2. Contact 5:34
3. V-Link 6:40
4. Gold And Blue 5:55
5. D-Beam Magical 7:09
6. White Day 6:40
7. Dance Over Dub 6:20
8. Mad Prince 5:51
9. Insidious 6:19
10. Minutes For Enzo Kuta Edit 6:13
11. V Link Overdream Rmx 7:25
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70:34
Notes:
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After switching back to online from invisible mode, Martin
Cooper, the respected maverick...
... replies to many knocks on the door, and delivers his truly
Long Awaited album Contact. As a matter of fact, if there is one
certainty in this world, it's that his fans are devoted to a
seriously considerable level.
In the process of the making of this album, we were absolutely
bombarded and stunned from the feedbacks we received from his
enthusiastic followers, demanding and waiting for this new one,
and for subsequent touring to follow. Since the beginning of the
90s, Asia 2001 has developed a rabid following of hardcore fans
in its wake with its music and the cult classic albums Ama Zone
and Dreamland.
This seventh studio album follows the critical and commercial
success of his Amnesia album. The new one is the most self
assured album produced in his 20 year career. In the large
perspective, after having paid his dues as a trailblazer, Cooper
surpasses, since he is not trying to invent the wheel here, but
rather deliver a message of optimism and hope without any
apprehension. He reflects his ideas in a simple and clear way,
and keeps a steady and measured amount of innovation, far from
trying to be bombastic, something that is a sign of time when
looking around. Contact is a blend of his lush classic tailor
made trance, with his unique rough Asia 2001 style and sounds,
and at the same time up to date refined sound.
Contact deals with man's constant desire and almost obsession to
communicate with beings from another world, and sends a message
of hope for a contact to be made. The album includes the DJ Mag.
No.1 rated 6 Minutes For Enzo, and also includes a bonus remix
of Overdream to the first track revealed from the album on
YouTube, V-Link.
The results of Contact are simultaneously a breakthrough and
oddly familiar, the culmination of an artistic journey that has
led Asia 2001 to a new crest and, somehow, back to his
beginning, when the tracks on one level are his most complex,
and on another they are simple and human. It just feels like
we've embraced the chemistry they have. Many will find the album
as a self-indulgence, an inflammatory merge of influences of Goa
sound and up to date compositions accompanied by Asia 2001 style
transitions and driving reefs, that together create an
unrestrained sound.
The album was self produced and mixed by Martin Cooper in
France, with additional mixing and engineering from Avi
Algranati (SpaceCat) in Israel. Cooper grew up in the same
backyard with Loren Garnier and Scan-X. After defining the
meaning of Goa Trance and putting the genre on the map, history
will testify that Asia 2001 left its fingerprints on the
foundations of the French scene, and plays a very strong and
influential role on the Goa Trance movement.