Vast

New Clear Sky | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2001)
• Original Release Date: November 27, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: A Different Drum
• ASIN: B00005UKCG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,090,017 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Vast (album version)

2. Vast (System22's Overwhelmed Mix)

3. Vast (SIX's Colossal Mix)

4. The Stuff of Magick (Big Mix)

5. Feeling Fine (Big Green Lines Mix)

6. Vast (DJ Edit/Dub Mix)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, February 24, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Vast (Audio CD)

This is a Great CD...However it has nothing to do with V.A.S.T. (Music for the poeple and Visual Audio Sensory Theater) This is a Completely Different Band. The Cd's should not be marketed together. it is missleading. I am a major V.A.S.T. Fan and find it appauling that he two cd's were marketed together.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New Clear Perfection, December 7, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Vast (Audio CD)

No, I'm not a die-hard synth-pop fanatic, clad in leather and black eyeshadow that stalks the dancefloors until the wee hours. But perhaps that might lend more credibility to this review, as my tastes vary quite ecclectically-- from Dave Matthews, to Metallica, to Spyro Gyra... so with that in mind I offer the following:

New Clear Sky follow up their debut single release "psychodrama" (which may be out of print?) with this first single off their upcoming CD, "Newer, Clearer..." What this NY duo has managed to accomplish with Vast is exactly what I have been hoping to hear someday in the clubs: a moving, intelligent, even heart wrenching SONG, not "track," against a backdrop of club-friendly intensity.... not an easy task as far as I can hear these days on the dance floor. But this song raises the bar even more with the inclusion of an industrial edge that enhances rather than detracts from the overall mood. The vocals sound reserved, but in context exude quite the opposite emotion throughout, and I can't stop hitting rewind to make sure I didn't miss something. And to launch the song even further away from the "synth-pop" category... the lyrics are happy (or are they...)... maybe even inspirational. This may very well be the start of something unique in the world of dance music. We shall soon see, I hope.

NCS include two of their bonus remixes from another release which may be out of print, including the award winning remix of "Stuff of Magick" and there are two pretty decent remixes of "Vast" by The Nine and System 22, who also seem to making some headway in the electronica world. Not a bad deal at all, methinks, especially in this economy.

Take my word for it as nothing more than a jaded consumer of all things musical... this is the "stuff of excellence."

5.0 out of 5 stars Great music...... Just Great Music, August 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Vast (Audio CD)

That title for this review is for lack of a better way to describe the VAST track by New Clear Sky. It's not quite synthpop, and it's not quite industrial or trance or anything. It's not just electronic because of the guitars... you get what I mean. It's just an impressive piece of rock music by some talented blokes from the east.

The actual NCS additional tracks are the strongest for DJ scrutiny, but the "visiting" tracks by other groups lend a pretty suave interpretation of the title track.

We need more stuff like this on the airwaves.

Ken P.