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Луѓето се спојуваат по својот афинитет, рециклираат, истражуваат и создаваат свој простор за живеење. People connect through their preferences; they recycle, explore and create their own world. In the case of the Slovenian band Coma Stereo, in 2004, their obsession with science fiction books and films merged into music. Their debut was in 2007 with the single “I can programme myself whenever I want to", and that same year they released their long-playable album "Binary Endings". After their marathon promotion of the material (also the audience in Skopje had the opportunity to hear them in October 2008), in April this year, they released Transgalaktica, without any doubts, their most creative highlight ever.
The quartet from Maribor - Tomaž, Domen, Sašo and Marko – doesn’t flirt with trends, which must be respected. On the contrary, they dig through music eras, quoting allegedly heard light motives, but they form an acceptable amalgam of electropsycho influences. All 8 songs are made with mindful sense, and with that tolerable easiness that you want to hear, more or less. The analogous synthesizers, with nonchalance of the previous albums of Ralph and Florian or maybe as a lost territory of Tangerine Dream in La Resistance, open the album in a parade-like manner and announce the tripping story that follows.
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Wisely staring at the golden era of “back to the roots psychedelics”, Coma Stereo, is juggling with the archaism of the same in a peaceful way, with an exuberant repetition, sometimes in major, sometimes in minor scale. Fortunately, there is no song in this album that exceeds all the others (although Sevastopol is chosen as leading song and video), Transgalaktika offers inspirational, sci-fi roaming of melancholic nature in one breath. Although it seems that it’s a product derived from Dr. Hofmann’s laboratory, Transgalaktika is however, a down to earth album, with authentic and intriguing sound. At the end, if I could allow myself to give the final “diagnosis”: as most of the bands, Coma Stereo is infected with the Anglo-Saxon virus... it seems to me that somehow, this would sound more plausibly in their own language.
This is not an album from and for the Trainspotting generation, it is an open and modern text for the post-modern era.
Rating: 8/10
Artist: Coma Stereo
Album: Transgalaktika
Released: 14 April 2009
Producer: Hrvoje Nikšić
Label: Solar Pulse Music
Duration: 51:11
Tracklist:
1. La resistance
2. Iskra
3. Android transmissions
4. Jasmin Starwars
5. Sevastopol
6. Sea of tranquility
7. Transgalaktika
8. Her daddy didn't love her, but the acid did
Saša Pavlović
