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This beautiful piece of work encapsulates electronic musicduring the 90's. It contains magical nuggets of bliss representativeof most forms of electronic music that were born in the 90's. This is possibly System 7's best work, with the notable exception of both versions (the subtle U.K. and more remixed U.S.) of their first album.

Y2K is an irresistibly bouncing and very bent track that just installed itself in my head for a week straight. It was a very enjoyable experience, and would make the CD worthwhile in itself. The middle of the album isn't as memorable, but the last few songs are stronger.

- Ryan

This album is a spectacular example of how the music industry's marketing-driven 'electronica' BS ruined things going into the latter part of the 1990s. Prior to this, System 7 did "Power of Seven", which although it was a little unfocussed in spots also contained some intricate and beautiful work, particularly the driving "Interstate" and the "Osmosis Suite" trilogy of tracks. But _this_...is an atrocious piece of work, an obvious attempt by Hillage to cash in on the whole 'Big Beat' and drum-n-bass mess foisted off on people as marketable 'electronica' of the period. Consequently, it sounded dated by the time the record hit the street, and really doesn't satisfy. Compared to all of the previous System 7 releases, which I listen to from time to time, I think this has been in my player all of twice...once to hear it, and twice to go back and wonder 'gee...was that System 7? How could it suck so _bad_?' Spend your cash on the rest of their stuff, but give this a pass.