Artist: Cosmic Baby
Album: Heaven
Label: Intercord Tonträger GmbH
Genre: Electronic
Styles: Electronic, Trance, Downtempo, Ambient
Original Release Date: October 20, 1998
Quality/Bitrate: MP3 / 320 kbit/s / 44.1 Khz / Stereo
Quality/Bitrate: FLAC / Mode: 8, Best Compression / 44.1 Khz / Stereo
Total Time: 77:19 Min

Somehow it was time for the legendary trance musician, Cosmic Baby, to officially own up to his bourgeois background - there are after all very few people who identify their personality so much with their music that they stand out tall in the usual crowd of anonymous tracks. Cosmic Baby's music was always a Cosmic Baby psychogramme, a process of emotional declaration from a no holds barred romantic dedicated to opening himself to people in the most direct and intimate fashion. Logically you are then exposed to attack and Cosmic certainly suffers most trying to appropriately assimilate the conflicting messages: from crowds moved to tears in 1993 to the current hefty criticism that started in later years. After the break with the past in "Loops of Infinity", "Heaven" is the first release to at least partly directly recapture the sound-pictures of "Stellar Supreme! and "Thinking About Myself! and dedicate itself to the wide-ranging instrumentalisation of hyper-harmonic ostinatos. Sure, that is often nothing but undemanding main-stream kitsch, in Alan Parson's "Lucifer" theme for example, but could we have expected anything else? ~ JD in Groove /98