You remember back in the early seventies, even up to mid-seventies, when you'd get the cosmic bits before, between and after the more Pink Floyd or sequencer-led main bits that Tangerine Dream used to unleash to great effect? Well, the opening track on this album, “Cathedral Cavern” is right out of that era – so much so, you'd think it might have come from some lost outtake of “Alpha Centuari” or “Atem”. It's simply assorted layers and textures with that warm, welcoming, “out there” cosmic feel as the sounds and layers drift by, but always with movement, always something changing, never standing still and sounding absolutely sublime. It's now that you realise why the on-body CD work is a homage to the great “Kosmische Kuriere” labels of that time. When you lok at the instrumentation list with its analogue gear stacking up, you also realise why you're hearing something that's transporting right back to the heady days of early seventies comsic music exploration – the voyage to the farthest reaches of a new musical frontier has just begun, and you're along for the ride. There's synth, organ, flutey sounding electronics, deep space rumblings and the whole thing simply does what no other artist from a contemporary era has managed to achieve so spectacularly well. Barely without a pause, it's right into “Depths Of Insanity”, where the cosmic chill continues, this time now voyaging beyond what's gone before and entering wholly new musical universes as electronics spiral and bubble up – picture the scene – it's early seventies, you're watching Gerry Anderson and it's on the moon – the soundtrack to something unexplained or mysterious – all incredibly eerie and other-worldly, almost formless, and yet with a flow and cohesion that keeps you hooked, despite its almost slow-motion Ligeti-styled attempt to take you to a place beyond the vision of you musical perception. It achieves its aims. “Colliding Waves” then fills out the sound and provides a canvas that's now got hints of melody as the disparate sounds coalesce to form something that's got altogether more structure, more shape and a huge sounding slice of flowing, soaring, bubbling, expansive and timeless slice of cosmic seventies bliss, unfolds to wondrous degree, the still moving, still travelling layers, sliding, gliding and drifting over one another to extremely enjoyable effect as synths take over and the worlds are more familiar. Finally, we move to the four-part structure that is the album's epic piece, “Invasion Earth”, and here, all of the aforementioned soundscapes, strucures, musical wanderings and outer space cosmic leanings, all find a home in a magnificently cosmic track that really is simply timeless and something that you really want to experience from start to finish, every time you play it, never once boring or meandering, with plenty of textural qualities, space music structures and 100% cosmic joy for even the most discerning of early seventies-founded fans of electronic space music. As a Kosmik Musik album goes, a triumph.