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Juno Reactor - Beyond
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Industrial, Ethno Techno |
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Whether you
believed Goa trance was the LSD-inspired wave of the future or
just another bastardization of third-world culture, Juno
Reactor has been plunging forward as if they don't care how
close the genre could come to disaster. This might be a good
time for the band to get a devil's advocate implanted inside
their heads. Beyond the Infinite offers more of the east meets
west dance sentiments thrown together in a surprisingly
tiresome manner and its overall feeling of flipped-out
exclusivity damages any of the band's mighty aspirations.
"Silver" can have all the sitar friendliness to
satisfy those prone to psychedelics, "Magnetic" nods
along to the twirling excesses of an outdated pre-jungle beat,
yet these efforts make the sober listener simply feel left out
of a loop. It doesn't make things easier that the band has yet
to choose which path to take. In "Samurai," for
example (the track used in promoting Arnold Schwarzenegger's
Eraser), there is more of a Photek-like, oriental focus on
techno-trance operations than ever before. Which is an
interesting new attempt; even though it feels stilted,
confused, and just an excuse to steal the keyboards from the
Cure's "A Forest." With its mystified sense of
native adoration and tiring execution, Beyond the Infinite is
an album signifying a band at a crossroads. They've now
exposed about five musical directions to take, and it might
take less (or more) drugs to show which path is the correct
one.
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