In time honored RTS tradition, you build and upgrade your fleet as you complete mission objectives and gather resources which allow you to progress further into the game. Or CLICK HERE to return to the main Aural Innovations page.About This Game Venture deep into space to uncover secrets and find a lost expedition!Īncient Space features real time strategic starship battles that encourages tactical maneuvering. Reviewed by Jerry Kranitz CLICK HERE to return to the Chris Phinney / Harsh Reality profile index page.Ĭlick your browser's BACK button to return to the previous page. Highest recommendation to fans of cosmic electronic space music. Each subsequent listen uncovers new little passages, sounds, and atmospherics making this an overall enjoyable experience. Certainly there's ambience, but the cold mechanical atmosphere works well and listeners who are attentive to aurally exploring all that the music reveals will be rewarded. In summary, far from being an ambient form of floating electronica, Ancient Astronauts is a busy work in the sense that there is usually too much going on for it to be meditational in any way. And "Silver Disks Over The Jewelled City" is a calmer track as well, but with no shortage of freaky synth noodlings. "Tiahuanaco" and "The Great Pyramid" are the two examples on the disc of mind soothing ambient space music. But there is a continual parade of sounds, like the goings on at the factory, or the everyday sounds of a bustling urban metropolis.īut Ancient Astronauts does have it more peaceful moments. The pace and central theme are fairly static throughout. "Crop Circles At Stonehenge" is like the daily operations of an industrial space factory. ![]() All the sounds are still detectable and distinct from one another, which is important for me with this kind of music. But even though I ended up with my brain fried, this isn't just a massive wall of noise. "Chichen Itza" features harsh, brain searing electronics that forced me to take off the headphones. Two of my favorite tracks are "Chichen Itza" and "Crop Circles At Stonehenge". The volume increases steadily and I think I now know what it must have felt and sounded like to be present in Close Encounters as the mothership was descending from overhead. The drone is relentless and when the phases kick in it's a bit jarring. A heart thumping cosmic drone keeps the pace as lots of spacey bleeps and blurps dance about. This same effect is heard again on "Return Of The Star People". I like the way varied synth lines are slowly phased giving the feeling that we're twisting and turning through space. On "Through The Inter-Dimensional Portal", wails, washes, and drones set the tone for our travelers' journey. The disc opens with our heroes leaving their home planet of Sono. The atmosphere is, for the most part, cold and dark throughout. Basically this well researched work fills in the cracks left open year ago by Von Daniken.Īll the track titles represent different stages of the story told in the comic book. Our heroes travel (at 91 million miles per second) to the planet Earth where - they being the Ancient Astronauts - they visit the Mayans, the Druids at Stonehenge, and become the likenesses for the pyramids. Ancient Astronauts!! Monsieurs Phinney and McGee are on the cover suited up and strapped into the seats of their flying saucer which they navigate with moogs and theremins. By way of introduction to the music I should mention that each copy of the Ancient Astronauts CD comes with a very cool comic book titled. I won't even try to list the equipment each used but suffice it to say that this is analog synth heaven. ![]() Phinney/McGee - "Homemade Alien Music Volume 2: Ancient Astronauts" (HalTapes 1997/1998, HT 097)įrom Aural Innovations #13 (October 2000)įor Ancient Astronauts, Chris Phinney and Hal McGee combined their respective arsenals ofĮlectronic gear to produce over 70 minutes of pure space music, atmospherics, noise, and fun sounds. Phinney/McGee - "Homemade Alien Music Volume 2: Ancient Astronauts"
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