Inner-Voice First Light Play Sample:   56K Dialup   Broadband   Download Sample:   500K   1.5Mb (Excerpt from track(s) 'The Beginning')

A fizzing swirling sequence gives a rather dreamy start to the appropriately titled 'The Beginning'. An excellent melodic lead line comes in then we really take off on the back of a foot tapping and head nodding rhythm. Another superb lead surges forward followed by yet another. Inner-Voice certainly are first class tunesmiths. If you are into melodic rhythmic music it really doesn't come much better than this - sort of like a hybrid of Otarion and Synthetik. 'Thanks to JM' is much more atmospheric with swirling pads and a stunningly beautiful piano melody. An equally melodic sequence emerges from time to time then submerges. From tenderness the piece suddenly transforms into a wonderful powerful rhythmic number so full of joy and energy. The lead lines are again exquisite and mix superbly with a snarling sequence. As well as the artists already mentioned I am now also reminded of Jarre and 'Uncertainty Principle' period Ian Boddy. Yet another fantastic track. 'Universal Love' curiously has a rather dark, droney, water- dripping introduction. Not quit what I expected, thank goodness. A sequence can just be heard as the backing becomes more windswept, appearing then fading away again once more. We then enter a more ethereal section with meandering lead lines and sampled spoken words.

'To Be (continued)' is a short piece but fits so much into its three-minute duration, combining an infectious head nodding rhythm with stupendous melodies. It could have come straight off a John Dyson album. 'Trance' is just as melodically brilliant as the rest of the CD both in sequence and lead line. Despite the title there really isn't much laid back about this as we are soon into yet another killer groove with tunes that will stay in the head long after the album is finished. Now Asana mixed with Daley and Lorien came to mind- maybe even Binar! 'Floating Mood' takes my mind to a steamy rainforest until the second minute when a curious melody starts to form propelling the track forward for another couple of minutes before leaving us in cosmic realms only to come back to Earth with a bump as a wicked sequence, full of attitude, kicks up a storm getting my whole body moving to the wonderful pulsations. 'Magic Time' is a slow chugging number, quite moody actually. 'Strange Reality' begins with a meandering lead line then a tuneful tinkling sequence starts up. Another sequence replaces it then as we have come to expect by now another lovely lead line becomes the main focus.