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<h3 class="review-author headline"> AllMusic Review by <span
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<p> It took <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link">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">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">Tony MacAlpine</a>. On this, the group's
third studio album, <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link">Planet X</a> is presented as a duo --
leader/keyboardist <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/derek-sherinian-mn0000200709"
class="name-link">Derek Sherinian</a> and drummer <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/virgil-donati-mn0000216447"
class="name-link">Virgil Donati</a> -- rounded up by guest
bassists (<a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jimmy-johnson-mn0000295984"
class="name-link">Jimmy Johnson</a> and Rufus Philpot) and
guitarists (mostly <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/brett-garsed-mn0000935915"
class="name-link">Brett Garsed</a>, also fusion legend <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/allan-holdsworth-mn0000002252"
class="name-link">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">Quantum</a> is a quantum leap above
previous <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/planet-x-mn0000851807"
class="name-link">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">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">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">Quantum</a> is a surprisingly mature album,
the kind that could redefine <a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sherinian-mn0000200709"
class="name-link">Sherinian</a>'s career. Recommended. [<a
href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/quantum-mw0000583173"
class="album-link">Quantum</a> was also released with bonus
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03-08-2020 15:28, R.O. wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:96d901b0-853f-198e-b203-015122d35c7d@ziggo.nl">SpaceX
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.
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