[.ca] Dreamland

From Amazon.com:
A Swiss-born, Italian-raised pianist, Robert Miles serves up numbingly repetitive but lively sub-Moroder disco for 66 unrelenting minutes. While it may make Vangelis sound like Mozart by comparison on the home stereo, this is evidently sheer magic under the mirrorballs of Ibiza, Paris, and Scarborough. --Jeff Bateman

Tell Me Fable...:
Robert Miles is one hell of a talented man, WOW...I wonder why this album only became famous years after it's release. ''Fable'' became a dance floor hit during in 98/99, the song was constantly played everywhere. It's hard to believe that this CD was originally released in 1996, while it sounds like it was produced years ahead of its release. The style of music here is dance, moreover there are the piano tunes, which climb along with the beats making the song climax occasionally. In addition to that, you have lightly sedative vocals which mourn through most of the songs, giving them a dreamy mood, one of the female vocalists-- Maria Nayler has a incredible voice which sounds like a hybrid between Nina Persson's (From The Cardigans) and Madonna's voice-- imagine both voices merged in?...the result of that would definitely be pleasant-- and well that's what her voice sounds like. But also she isn't the only female vocalist included, 4 different vocalists are also along for the project. This album takes you off to a dreamland, telling stories about the mystical and fantasy world, occasionally during the CD it starts to sounds a bit unnerving because some of the tracks feature the most unheard-of sound effects....they sound like they came from another world...- But Hey? that's the whole point of this CD. My Favorite Tracks are: One And One, Children, Fable, Fanstasya, Red Zone. This is definitely for fans of trance/house music. This man did a great job!. I also liked the production for the X-Files theme song...unfortunately that's not included here. But other then that-- ''Dreamland'' is a excellent masterpiece and definitely stands a testament to it's time...1996.

OK at best:
I got this CD a couple of years ago when I first heard Fable on a radio station. I was hoping for more of the same when I purchased Dreamland, but unfortunately, that was not the case. The only songs that are good on this CD are the overplayed Children and Fable. There's probably another good song on this CD, but I can't seem to remember the name of it. If you're a trance fan, you know there are CDs out there that are better than Dreamland. I can't really say that this type of music can be classified as trance, but there are some similarities to that genre. However, I have to give some credit to Robert Miles. He does have some fantastic piano skills. :) Overall, I give this album 3 stars, one for each of the songs listed above, and one for the song that I can't remember at this moment.

Mind-numbing -- and NOT in the good way.:
I have listened to this disc many times, trying to find a comfort zone with it, but alas, I must surrender. After the first seven minutes of the CD have passed (and I admit to liking those first few minutes), the rest of the CD becomes nothing more to me than a thumping aural assault. Miles has some very interesting ideas musically, but they get lost behind the relentless hammering and it's easy to lose interest after a while. Perhaps if the volume of the beat was toned down just a little, I could give it another star or perhaps two. I can highly recommend it to dance to, but casual listening is apparently not what's intended with this disc. In summary, great musical ideas overwhelmed by the thump.

EXCELLENT MELODIC TRANCE CD:
To those who seem to again misunderstand and mislabel this CD, shame on you! This is NOT a new age ONE TONE CD. I love the new age music and have many CD's in my collection that are absolutely beautiful. This CD is considered new age as well as melodic and trance music. It is beautiful all the way through. It is to be measured against all others for what melodic music with a beat should be. To the person who said maybe if they toned the beat down a bit or this or that, you are listening to the wrong CD and should have known by the classification that this is a TRANCE RHYTHM cd. It is not going to be made without the beats, and they do NOT distract from the music either. Some electronic music does get rappy and too much hop hop garbage but this is clearly not that. ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Anyone who does not see this should look at all the awards and other songs he has. This is a CD that needs to be FELT AND HEARD THROUGH THE EMOTIONS AND THE HEART! I feel sorry for anyone who does not understand that!

Beautiful Classic:
This album came out in 1996 so i suppoose we can call it a classic by now? I remember it like it was today, the radio was frequantly playing "Children" and i really adored it. In 1996 these kind of songs were unique, instrumental dance songs were not that common at all(the likes of Dj Bobo, 2 Unlimited, Cappella and Culture Beat were frequenly on the charts) later it become one of the best selling singles in Europe that year and it made a way for other emerging techno dj's with simular sound to hit the charts. However Robert Miles or Robert Concina as he was born, didn't make those typical dance-pop songs for the charts, this album was quite dark actually. It's a personal album with inovatite rhythms and beautiful sound, many of them include synth sound too which Miles is quite good at, he makes it all sound good together. Most songs are instrumental, It's almost like many songs could have been used for a movie. When i hear "In the dawn" i feel like it's a jersey over the rainbow. Reminds me a little about Rank1's "Airwave" from 2001, maybe they were inspired by this one. "Red Zone" is a typical song for a fantasy movie. Slow but wonderful. " Children" and "Fable" are simular to each other. "One and One" is by far the most diffrent song on the album, with Maria Nayler singing the lyrics, whcih are smart and interesting, but deep like the whole album itself, still it's the most happy song on the album. "Landscape" was later used by Andreas Johnson on his "Glorious". A real classic album, undoubtly one of the best of it's genre. A must have.

• One and One \oRadio Version\c
• Children \oEat Me Edit\c
• Children \oDream Version\c
• Fable \oMessage Version\c
• Fantasya
• Landscape
• In My Dreams
• Princess of Light
• Fable \oDream Version
• In the Dawn
• Children \oOriginal Version\c
• Red Zone