Robert Elster - Still Breathing (Album) [J00f]

[juracid]

A complete artist album and one of the very last outstanding J00f releases before the quality went down.

https://www.discogs.com/de/release/8737854-Robert-Elster-Still-Breathing

This one is from Summer 2016 and of course this is mostly Vibrasphere style at its very best!
Nearly every track is a winner and its hard to pick a fave here.
I decided to present my personal fave 'Trails' - the title speaks for itself. Just listen. One of the best melodies in the 2010s AND released on J00f. It could not be better.

 

[Hensmon]

I'll need to try this one again. I remember not really feeling it when it was shared here. I love the Vibrasphere sound but found this album a bit less 'vibrant' and musically interesting compared to that project.

Btw, if you like Robert Elster, check out his Kritical Audio project (if you don't know it already). When I listen to Yellow Blend or Krupp the sound design just sounds such more pleasing than his work on Still breathing - same for the Vibrasphere work too. Just sounds a level above to my ears.

 

[Enlusion]

This album of Robert was released in the hardest period of my life (so far) and really helped me to go through everything back then. Still love it as a whole

 

[Altair]

Lol this is the album I wrote a long-ass front page review for on the old forum

Vibrasphere was about the third trance artist I discovered (after Tiësto and Miikka Leinonen, before I even knew what this music was called). Their entire catalogue has been a constant companion since my high school days, but ironically I discovered them the same year they broke up. So I was incredibly happy to pick up this album in 2016, and I played it to death afterwards. It's definitely different than what Elster and Berglöf did as a duo, but that overall ambient-psychedelic-acid vibe is still all over it - as it was on Elster's followup downtempo album, Endless Observations.

I just hope that Elster puts out some more stuff soon!