Customer Reviews

Great Unknown

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This ablum is incredible. Even better than their first two releases, (which were also phenomenal). The sounds on this album are more evolving and complex than their previous work, but it still maintains the essential rythms and beats that make trance music enjoyable in the first place. One of the better trance albums I have heard in a long time.

This is definitely a good cd...however its nothing compared to earlier work by Koxbox such as Dragon Tales. Pick up some of the classic stuff if you really want to be blown away.

Many Psy-Trance bands these days are attempting increasingly conceptually crafted albums with little success. For example, Pleiadians' follow-up to Identified Flying Object, Family of Light, and Cypher's I-Music are examples of attempts at artsy multi-facetedness gone awry, or just plain unfocused. On the contrary, Koxbox's Great Unknown is a perfect example of a diversely styled, yet still cohesive, Psy-Trance album. Track three, the title track, track five, Crunchy Moies, and track seven, Geomancer, are the album's most fulfilled trance songs, I feel, while the remainder of tracks serve to fill the gaps in, for the most part, interesting ways.

I've withheld the fifth star for two reasons: One, the album contains a song or two that I have yet to find as enjoyable as the rest, and two, Great Unknown is a little light for my tastes (the closer this stuff gets to Van Dyk or BT, the worse).

If you enjoy Psy-Trance, even the aggressive stuff like I do, you'll enjoy this album for its creativity and solidity.

Koxbox takes it one step further into the amazing world of trance,with their latest release 'The Great Unknown.' This album is by far the best and most sophisticated psychadelic trance album on the market today. Powerful basslines,awesome synths,and errie vocals are just a few of the things that make 'The Great Unknown' such a mind-blowing album. I recommed this album to anyone who dares enter the world of Koxbox. If you dig this one you have to check out their two earlier releases.

Having been a fan of Koxbox since their first release on the Harthouse label, I am thoroughly pleased with the direction they are going. This is Psychedelia at its best. The patterns are constantly shifting and focusing. Listen with pleasure!

When I bought this album, I truly ventured into The Great Unknown. I didn't know how mediocre it would turn out to be. A bit on the lame side even. Although it contains a sprinkle of the old Koxbox sound, it is not as tight as it is weird. And what's the deal with the cover art? If anything, it is likely to boost sales to the members of the community with more active libidos, but that doesn't make the music any better. Perhaps it is to make you think that the erection you get from the album is caused by the music itself. "Wow, this must be good music, it aroused me, huh hyuk!" I don't think so. No amount of soft porn will mask this album's repetitiveness. If you think you are in for the perfection that was their last album, think again. Dragon Tales is where it's at. Good luck finding it though.