
Label: Iboga Records
Released: 2007
01. Ace Ventura - Intro
02. Ace Ventura - Serenity Now
03. Ace Ventura With Liquid Soul - Psychic Experience
04. Ace Ventura - Sao Paulo
05. Ace Ventura With Intelabeam - Stimulator
06. Ace Ventura - Presence
07. Ace Ventura - M.A.R.S.
08. Ace Ventura With Lish - The Light
09. Ace Ventura - Exposed
Behind Ace Ventura is Israeli musician Yoni Oshrat, ex-member of Psysex project. "Rebirth" album of his current prog image as Ace Ventura is also jubilee because it's the fiftieth CD released by the famous Danish label Iboga Records. The label recently could powerfully change its musical direction to stretches of house what we could heard in "Wanderers" by Antix. But this time, similarly to Gaudium's "So Called Life", we stay still on more psytrance lands.
Interesting, but short intro - composed in chillout formula from the type of sounds that we will hear also in the future of this CD - lead to the series of eight fast compositions. These tracks sometimes are more psytrance orientated (example is "M.A.R.S."), sometimes are more proggy ("Sao Paulo"), sometimes are more clubby ("The Light"). Most of the tracks we have on this CD aren't too emotional, only the end become more like this: "The Light" and "Exposed" (both morning trance) release also quite a lot more energy than the previous tracks, however, I would feel that energy is born and explode some compositions before track number eight. I don't think that it would be necessary to pump a morning atmosphere here, the point isn't here. Simply too long we rolling with the pointless and impassive in mind.
The entire style of the album is progressive with many clubby elements, and rarely with tribal elements and even (but it's a deceitful titbit) with... goa elements ("Psychic Experience" have the motive reminding Astral Projection's "Flying Into A Star"). But I miss originality here. The album is a little boring. The worst thing I see is in the pallette of the sounds - too many of them we can easily find and hear in the last Iboga's CDs. But it seems that this is a policy of the label: to release good music but not so really varied.

RB, December 2007
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