

                                           Cloud Nine Present

                            - F i r s t  A n n i v e r s a r y   A l b u m -

                                          - F R O N T I E R -


Introduction:
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   Hello! We would like to thank you for downloading this musicdisk and taking time to listen to 
it! This project started in the early December 1997. Our original intention was to release it in 
February 1998, but due to some setbacks the project was delayed... and now it's finally released 
to the public!


A word from Alexey Zolotukhin (aka Nexus):
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   This is our first anniversary album as Cloud Nine Productions has turned one year old in February
1998. Yep, hard to imagine but time does fly! I remember this time one year ago when I got my first 
idea about starting an electronic music label on the internet after being a solo musician for about 
year and a half. That was the time when I met Daniel lo Presti (aka Turrican) on IRC. We talked a 
lot and became very good "cyber" friends (at least that's what I belive :-). I shared this idea of 
mine with him and he also got interested. Many people still belive that I am the only founder of 
Cloud Nine, but I belive that Daniel deserves a credit as well, because without his support there 
may have never been Cloud Nine...
   Many things have happened to us during that past year. We got five excellent musicians, we made 
a name for ourselves within underground tracking comunity, became good friends among ourselvs and 
with people from Chill Productions and Onyx... Right now many of us are working on CD projects 
that'll help Cloud Nine musicians to get recognised outside of the tracking scene. 
   My original idea for the group was trance/acid music only, but as new members joined we became 
something bigger and my opinion on this policy has changed. Now Cloud Nine is known for releasing a 
variety of great electronic music ranging from progressive house to trip-hop and from acidhouse to 
goa trance.  Well, I could go on about this for ever...<g> I just want to thank all our musicians 
for their hard work and constant support. Those people are:

Turrican
Arclight
Pherplexer
Euji Acha
BassQ  (no longer active, but he still deserves a big credit!)

Also I would like to thank all our fans for their great feedback and enourmous patience! :-)

                                                                Signed, Nexus.

About "Frontier":
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   This project took us almost 3 months to complete and all of us are very happy with the final 
result. Ten tracks are featured on this album. Instead of focusing on one style we decided to 
let our musicians write music that they do best. As result we got goa, deeptrance, darktrance,
breakbeat, ambient, deephouse and progressive house for you on this album. The people that 
were involved in this project are (in alphabetical order): Arclight, EujiAcha, Kjwise/chill 
productions, Nexus, Pherplexer and Turrican. 

Playlist:

 INTRO:  Curved                    - Euji Acha  (2:37)
PHASE1:  Interact                  - Arclight   (4:44)
PHASE2:  Dream Hallucination       - Pherplexer (9:36)
PHASE3:  Entity                    - Nexus      (8:13)
PHASE4:  Polaris                   - Euji Acha (10:42)
PHASE5:  Ebbing Shadows            - Turrican   (5:51)
PHASE6:  The Final Movement        - Pherplexer (9:10)
PHASE7:  Ebbing Shadows (deep mix) - Dj Zen     (6:04)
PHASE8:  Mind Knobs                - Nexus     (14:31)
 OUTRO:  Cloud Purple #9           - Kjwise     (1:59)
      
[We strongly advise that you follow this playlist when you listen to the album]


Thanx to the following people for their support and opinions:
Madhatter, Jrb, Martyn, Borglord, Matrix Cubed (aka Mantis), Kjwise and Orion.

Greetings go out to everybody in Chill Productions, Onyx, Ultrabeat, Advance, BMP and you!


   Now.. go listen and ENJOY!!! :)