The Advent – Elements Of Life

Absolutely seminal Advent tracks across three pieces of well pressed vinyl here

Really happy to have stumbled back across this whilst cataloguing.

Quite a few of these tracks made their way onto mixed recordings over the years :-)

Colin Dale played this on one of his (probably last excursions on Kiss FM ?)1994 .... D3 City Limits 6:50

Bg loveages to you MR Dale XXX
And obviously to MR Favor . . REEEEEEEESPECT :)

Yeah what can I say? I bought this album donkeys. Underground , you will not find this on I tunes.

Comment: And in 2012 it sounds as fresh as ever! A techno-milestone, haha. In fact more electro than techno, it's still a listening pleasure that keeps your feet tapping. 10 of the 12 tracks emerge as tremendous grooves, 2 of 12 remind you of oldschool dumpstyle. And - how many records do you have that play inside-out? nice gimmick.

cool stuff! one of the best techno albums of all times. as said below, more for the mind than for the dancefloor. but if you can play it loud, most of the tracks will make you freak around. timeless milestone. i listen to the four 12inches for 15 years now. the sound as fresh as new. the electro-tracks have some kind of nice retro-style. the uptempo techno tracks are really groovy. vocal samples remind of EON.
two tracks have to be played/started from visible end, they run against normal rotation. nice gimmick.

This is banging "meat & potato" techno. If you like your techno served more refined look elsewhere.

Hard techno - it is description of this album in the middle of 90s. Best track of this release is Lies and album shows what was the techno thirteen years ago. Also "Elements Of Life" shows techno tracks under which people dance in night clubs in , England, Holland in the middle of 90s. Good album. If we chose ten best techno albums released in 1995, this album nesessarily enter in TOP 10.

Favorites: Anno Domini / Bad Boy / It One Jah / Lies / Mad Dog

This is one hell of an album ! As far as hard Techno goes it's hard to find much better. Packed full of dark menacing grooves, this is not for cheeseheadz !

The first time I heard "Bad Boy" was on Jeff Mills' "Liquid Rooms" CD and it quite literally blew me away. One of the most floor destroying techno tunes ever made. It's hard to pick out other highlights as it's such a great LP overall. The Electro tracks are also incredible. As good as, if not better than anything Drexciya have done.

This album makes for good listening at home because as the previous reviewer said these grooves are aimed more for the mind and soul. However anyone who's heard these monsters on a loud system will tell you - The Advent Rock !

This was The Advent's pinnacle release in my opinion as nothing I've heard from them since matches this.
Awesome !!!

This is a rare and recommended CD for the techno/trance collector. The Advent produced some amazing music for this album, maintaining a techno focus whilst mixing in dub and trance elements.

The only weakness of this album is one shared by many techno albums - sparse techno can be repetitive when an album is listened to end-to-end.

Standout tracks for me are 'Spaceism', 'Audio Illusion', 'Heights' and 'City Limits'.

I have never been heard a better work from those two talented technoproducers like this album! Most of the tracks on it are more experience for your ear and your soul than beeing funky dance tracks only. This is a reference for their great work on Internal. Tell me the reason why this cool imprint is closed now?