Album Description: 1995 release by one of techno's most respected outfits.Eight tracks, including 'Guardian Angel', 'Rotorblade','Magnetic' and 'Samurai'.
infinitely amazing Juno Reactor is one of the best techno bands today. This is their second album and it does exactly what the title says. Now, when I first got into JR, I started with a "best of" album, so I am already familiar with a few of these tracks. I was pleasantly surprised with what I haven't heard before. This is a great album. It's unfortunate that the only one's left are a little pricy( around $30 or more!). I'm sure this will deter many people from getting this album who are interested in JR. Trust me, if you are a big fan of dance it is worth it. If not, just get it anyway. It seems to be becoming a collector's item and I'm sure it's value will continue to increase.
Underrated Nobody ever gives this album the recognition it deserves. These tracks are solid. Samurai got a single (deservedly), but don't forget Ice Cube and Mars.
A Musical Masterpiece I am one of the people that jumped on the Juno bandwagon after Shango, and I have been a huge fan ever since. I recently had the honor of purchasing this CD off of a longtime friend of mine (the same friend that got me into Juno) and I am eternally greatful. This recording is nothing short of amazing. Songs like Guardian Angel, Ice Cube, and Samurai pulse with energy, while other tracks have just the right mix of smooth ambience and spacey experimental sounds that makes this sound more like a great piece of art then a simple CD. This is quite a hard album to find, but a treasure that no Juno fan should go without. Ignore the naysayers, Beyond the Infinite is nothing short of amazing.
It really is a classic. I do have to add my two cents to this, mentioning artists like Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Jean M Jarre, and Tangerine Dream in a review about Juno Reactor, is just plain bizarre. This is akin to complaining in a Metallica review that they don't sound like The Beatles. Sure, these groups share musical roots, but of course they are very different and cannot be compared fairly. Even trying to compare JR to Prodigy as that reviewer did just doesn't make any sense.
That reviewer, or any other techno fan who thinks psy trance is simply 'mildly interesting' or dead, just does not understand this very unique and complex genre, and is not aware of the amazing psy trance currently out there. This album is a classic in that it is one of the early releases that defined the genre. It is true that JR has evolved/changed musically (to great effect, IMHO), but other great artists continue to create stunning psy trance, such as Infected Mushroom, Astral Projection, Shpongle, and Hallucinogen, to name a few.
As for this particular album, although it is indeed a classic, I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because I agree with the reviewers who say that a number of these songs do get a bit repetitive. My favorite tracks on this CD are Feel the Universe and Mars... very trippy... :) but some of the other tracks are not quite as inventive, IMHO. But, regardless, a great CD and a must-have for serious psy trance fans :)
Classic? Of course. Essential? Sure. But amid the ethers and intangibles predictably appreciated by synth-heads, the preference of mysterious buttons to vulgar strings, there seems little crime in forgetting or even omitting that spark so worn-out in Roc, but so overlooked in Tec:
Skill. *Demanded by*, rather than *grasping for* Talent.
Try taking it out for 'dated' or giving it up for 'guest', but if you can't recognize a genuinely talented composer here, then it wastes breath to mention that all composers must be musicians, but few musicians can be composers.
You'll enjoy some tracks more than others, and on ensuing releases you'll find a borderline of predictability, but artists like this define everything from sub-genres up to musical theory.
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