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<h1>You can't eat space, and have it too! --R.O.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-08-2020 15:45, R.O. wrote:<br>
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<h3 class="review-author headline"> AllMusic Review by <span
itemprop="author">François Couture</span> <a
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<p> It took <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Planet X</a> five
years to come up with a follow-up to <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/moonbabies-mw0000226415"
class="album-link" moz-do-not-send="true">MoonBabies</a>,
and the first thing fans are bound to notice is the absence of
guitarist <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tony-macalpine-mn0000744391"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Tony MacAlpine</a>.
On this, the group's third studio album, <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Planet X</a> is
presented as a duo -- leader/keyboardist <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/derek-sherinian-mn0000200709"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Derek Sherinian</a>
and drummer <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/virgil-donati-mn0000216447"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Virgil Donati</a>
-- rounded up by guest bassists (<a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-johnson-mn0000295984"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Jimmy Johnson</a>
and Rufus Philpot) and guitarists (mostly <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brett-garsed-mn0000935915"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Brett Garsed</a>,
also fusion legend <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allan-holdsworth-mn0000002252"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Allan Holdsworth</a>
on two tracks). You may also find the music veering a little
more into fusion territory and less into the metal-fusion
genre established by the Magna Carta label -- and all for the
better. In fact, <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173"
class="album-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Quantum</a> is a
quantum leap above previous <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Planet X</a>
releases: stronger compositions (tighter and less flashy),
more diversity across the album, better-dosed excitement. The
resulting music is less in your face but just as satisfying,
since it welcomes repeated listens. The fierceness presented
as the band's core is its manifesto of sorts ("a band that
played so fiercely, it would strike fear..." stated the press
release for the group's first album), giving way to a more
strategic use of intensity and better-crafted songs, as "Alien
Hip Hop" brilliantly illustrates. This album opener simply
keeps on building and building over the course of its seven
minutes. "Matrix Gate" and "Space Foam" are vintage <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Planet X</a> tracks
-- complex time signatures, jammy feel, and a drummer that
just won't quit. On the other hand, you have moodier pieces
like "Kingdom of Dreams" or the <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/holdsworth-mn0000002252"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Holdsworth</a>
feature "Desert Girl," laden with jazzy stacked chords and
subtler progressions. The only piece that does not quite work
out is the closing "Quantum Factor," its stop-start sections
failing to form a cohesive whole; here, the band falls back to
its early excesses. That minor flaw aside, <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173"
class="album-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Quantum</a> is a
surprisingly mature album, the kind that could redefine <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sherinian-mn0000200709"
class="name-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Sherinian</a>'s
career. Recommended. [<a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173"
class="album-link" moz-do-not-send="true">Quantum</a> was
also released with bonus tracks.] </p>
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net als Malcom-X een dikke kruis door de space. Heidegger en
Derrida maakten er ook een gewoonte van om woorden door te
kruisen (SeinX). <br>
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To write 'Under erasure' is to write a word, cross it out, and
then print both word and deletion. The word is inaccurate
(which itself is an inaccurate word), hence the cross, yet the
word is necessary, hence the printing of the word. This is one
of the principal strategies of Derrida: "(possibility) of a
discourse which borrows from a heritage the resources
necessary for the deconstruction of that heritage itself".[18]
This is similar to the concept of bricolage coined by
anthropologist Lévi-Strauss. <br>
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