After rushing their second album Don't Look Back, Boston took eight years to complete the album Third Stage. The long delay is even more surprising considering that their sound didn't change at all; even though only songwriter/guitarist Tom Scholz and vocalist Brad Delp remained from the original lineup, they were the ones responsible for Boston's sound…

It seems as though the Alan Parsons Project's conceptual grandeur began to lose its potency right around the mid-'80s. With Stereotomy, the message that Parsons is trying to reveal by way of his music begins to dissipate quickly, and the album is saved only somewhat by a couple of interesting instrumental pieces…

Koxbox is a psychedelic trance act from Denmark, known for their complex soundscapes, filled with futuristic sounds, samples and sharp funky basslines. Koxbox consists of Frank Kiehn Madsen (aka Frank'E) only. Another member, Peter Candy left the group in 1998, and Ian Johannson (aka Ian Ion), left in 2003 but rejoined the group in 2006 for the album U-Turn. The debut album from Koxbox presents the trio working through psychedelic trance before the style had any rules. The pulsing rhythms and digitally precise acid lines are stiff, but the range of ideas on tracks like "Space Interface" and "Point of No Return" belie the formality…