Monument [Import]

Blank & Jones | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
• ASIN: B001AI7EZA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,184 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Limited edition of the German dance act's 2004 album features 17 tracks including a bonus disc with five remixed tracks, 'A Forest' (Ron Van Den Beuken & Exor Remix/B&J Vocalized Edit), 'Zero Gravity' (Envio Remix), 'Mind Of The Wonderful' (Martin Roth Re --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best, July 7, 2004

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Peter (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monument (Audio CD)

I'm a Blank and Jones fun from thier CD "In Da Mix" '99. Hits like Cream and After Love chenged trance music. After that all other CD's were OK. But MONUMENT is THE BEST B&J CD EVER. I'm sorry I didn't go live show of Monument on the promo tour.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MONUMENTAL PIECE OF ART BY BLANK & JONES, April 3, 2004

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"frankieonly" (Delft Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monument (Audio CD)

Once again they did it: (re)create the most fabulous synth songs in their famous intense dance rhythm. Having the chance to own this Limited Edition adds even more fun to the already complete musical pleasure Monument has to offer. "This music was been mixed to be played loud. So turn it up.", it reads on the booklet inside. Blank & Jones know their fans, I do it all the time. Having listened to the introsong 'Monument' I want to go back in time: it's very similar to what Trevor Horn used to produce back in the eighties: small bits of digital distorted effects in between computergenerated electronic music. Sometimes it's uptempo, then again it's slow, but it always get's you right in your gutts. On this album Piet Blank & Jaspa Jones have joined forces once again with Elles De Graaf, who we know from an earlier B&J-song called 'Flaming June' which is a track from Relax, last years ambient masterpiece. The song is called 'Mind of the wonderful' and is just released as their new single. A true jewel which lasts a full 9 minutes and 19 seconds. On the bonus-cd you can hear the Martin Roth Remix of the same song for another 8 minutes and 33 seconds. The second collaboration on Monument is with Robert Smith, leadsinger of The Cure. Their new interpretation of 'A Forest' is well worth listening, as well as the remix of it on the 2nd disk. I bet you'll turn up the volume, and can't sit still once you own this very well-composed treasure.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some slammin' trance from Blank & Jones., February 23, 2005

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Doctor Trance (MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monument (Audio CD)

Germany's hot trance duo Blank and Jones is here with an "artist" album, and compared to many, many DJ's who come out with sub par artist attempts, this one comes through with 9 strong tracks out of the 14 on the US version (the import has a few variances with A Forest vocal mix and some other remixes not included on this one).

I think there was something up with securing the rights to the Cure's lead singer who sings on A Forest, as only 3 instrumental remixes are on here and not the actual original track featuring his vocals, which does appear on the import. That's quite alright with me, because I think the track works much better as an instrumental as Ron Van Den Beuken proves this with one of his trademark high energy trance remixes of the track. It just might be the best track on the album. There's a shorter edit of his remix too. Then there is the Exor remix of A Forest which starts out very slow, but picks up nicely.

Another stunner is the awesome trance vocal Perfect Silence with Bobo on vocals. This is one of my favorite vocal trance tracks for the end of '04/start of '05 and the album version is excellent, but even better is the super fast club mix found on the CD single (along with a sexy video). Mind of the Wonderful is the only other vocal track on here and it's a smooth flowing, long (9:00+) track that really puts you in a groove.

Zero Gravity is standard catchy trance instrumental that we've come to expect from B&J and it is very good. It can also be found on ATB's DJ in the Mix 2 in the form of a super remix by Envio. Flowtation is a sweet melodic track with some bouncy synths and a female voice whispering "flowtation". Waiting For The Light is another melodic track sounding somewhat similiar to Flowtation, but with an ecclectic twist. Stars Shine Bright is another above average instrumental with a smidgen of female vocal, and also check out the Sam Sharp remix of it found on Trance Mixed Anthems Vol. 1.

The downside to this CD is that tracks 1-3 (1 is only an intro) and tracks 10 & 11 are all pretty lousy. Other than that, it would be a 5 star rating; nonetheless, this album is well worth it for the trance fan and it's high above many other DJ attempts at artist albums.