09.2006 >> Review By Ed Real In IDJ Magazine
"Full power! Finland's Carbon Based deliver another intricate hard trance production that twists and turns like rapid. Fast-paced and tough as old boots, the
psychedelic edge to this powerhouse creates a production that makes its own space. Nearly freeform in tempo, it's at the top end of the hard dance scale and
is definitely something I can hear fellow Scandinavian Proteus supporting in his hell-raising sets. Solid and slightly different in vibe from anything else
reviewed this month. 4/5."
05.2005 >> Review By Pearsall on onepearsallandhistunes.blogspot.com
"The Mexican 'Land of the Pharaohs (Carbon Based Remix)'. This track opens with some lovely melancholy pads. That's one thing the Finns seem particularly
adept at within this style of music, evoking a complex range of emotions. Most English hard dance/hardcore is usually gogogogo mad-eyed joy, occassionally
hoods-up darkside terror, but the Finns manage to draw something more complex from their machines, that weird intersection between joy and sadness, between
ecstasy and fear. This track quickly kicks into a nice jagged riff, glittering from the rhythmic bed of the track like smashed car window glass on a sidewalk
late at night. Then into the breakdown, where a fantastically incongruous Middle Eastern melody rubs up against some nicely sweeping synth vamps, which then
cuts out into the main riff. It's a familiar arpeggiated trance riff, yet there's something about it that sets it out from so many of the other millions that
I've heard. Although it seems to replicate the usual arms-aloft euphoria, there's this weird edge of dread to it; a clenched-teeth, eyes-shut kind of power."
>> SPECIFICATIONS
Packaged In Black 12" Disco Bag
308mm x 306mm x 2mm
170g
>> CREDITS
℗ 2006 Electronica Exposed. © 2006 Electronica Exposed. All rights of the producer and of the owner of the works reproduced reserved. Unauthorised
copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this record is prohibited. The copyright in this sound recording is owned by Electronica
Exposed. Released and produced by Electronica Exposed.
Executive production by Richard Andrews. Mastered by Tim Dennen at Unity Mastering. Artwork by Simon Steeden.
A. Written by Richard Andrews and Michael Partridge. Produced by Richard Andrews and Michael Partridge. Pre-production engineering by Richard Andrews.
Engineered and mixed by Dave Edge. Remix and additional production by Tom Wright. Published by Copyright Control.
B. Written by Richard Andrews. Produced by Richard Andrews. Engineered and additional production by Jim Sullivan. Remix and additional production by Toni
Eronen and Ari Virtanen. Recorded at CB Studio, Finland. Published by Interflow Sounds Music.