You wouldn’t know it’s about Venus unless you knew about the movie the vocal samples come from. “No observation from orbit can let us know the answer to the most important question we’ve come to ask,” says Faith Domergue as Marsha Evans. It’s Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet, a science fiction flick old enough to imagine man landing on Venus by the year 2020, and it’s somehow landed onto a Bass 305 song.

How, or why, that happened probably has a lot to do with its obscurity. Having no idea where the samples come from, let alone what movie, gives the song a curious mystique. It’s the music though, led by a Heavenly chorus section featuring what sounds like a male angel singing, that is profound. The breakdowns preceding it are sort of annoying, so the song isn’t perfect, but it’s the best Bass 305 song so far.

my rating : 5 of 5

1994