Ferry Corsten - Blueprint (Virtual Surround - FLAC) [ADHDerby]



Virtual Surround is a technology which allows you to listen to music, watch movies, or play video games with surround effects using any set of two channel stereo headphones. I'm a big surround music fan and made this album so I can listen it in surround through headphones on a portable player. The sources of this release are surround versions of the tracks ripped from the Blu-ray of the Limited Edition. I've converted them to virtual surround with Creative's BlasterX Acoustic Engine Pro. Using state-of-the-art technology, it gives an enhanced virtual 7.1 channel surround sound experience with regular stereo headphones.

Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen
Style: Trance, IDM, Ambient
Release Date: Dec 10, 2018
Original Release: May 19, 2017
Label: Flashover Recordings
Source: Blu-ray DTS-HD MA 96/24 5.1
Resampler: Adobe Audition
Sample rate: 44100 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Codec: FLAC

Blueprint is the sixth studio album by Dutch trance artist Ferry Corsten, released on May 19 2017 though Flashover Recordings. It is a science fiction-influenced trance album with tracks containing a storyline. The plot narrative, which is unfolded at the beginning of each song, depicts humans on Earth who begin to hear an endlessly repeating sound emitted from space and the creation of an android by a man who had deciphered the sound's hidden message.

The album features a single from Corsten's side project "Gouryella" titled "Venera (Vee's Theme)", which was the first single released to promote the album. Along with "Venera (Vee's Theme)", four other singles were released with the album, "Reanimate", "Trust", "Waiting", and "Wherever You Are". Blueprint received positive reception from music critics, who praised the album's overall sound design and emotional listening experience evoked by each track.

Unlike Ferry Corsten's earlier albums, Blueprint is a concept album whose concept is based on a science fiction-themed love story. According to Ferry, the initial inspiration for creating a narrative-focused album came from his father reminding him of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, an album that they used to listen together. Like the main concept of Blueprint, it is a progressive rock and symphonic rock album which contains narratives from Welsh actor Richard Burton. "As a kid, I grew up looking at the vinyls with all the artwork and paintings of these aliens and stuff. I was fascinated by it!" When Ferry's father reminded him of the old album, a lightbulb went off: "You just said the magic words, I told him. You just gave me an idea," recounted Ferry.

Being a science fiction fan since his younger days, Ferry decided to base the theme of Blueprint on that very concept. "Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been a big sci-fi fan. The interest in the unknown and what lies beyond that always grabbed me. For this project I had a chance to work with both my favourite interests, sci-fi and music," said Ferry. Blueprint cites references from esteemed authors of the Sci-fi genre such as Hugo Gernsback and HG Wells, and delves deep into a storyboard crafted by the minds of David Harrington Miller (of House Of Cards and Rosewood fame) and Ferry himself, giving the listener a cosmic adventure of truly interstellar proportion – voiced by Campbell Scott known for Hollywood box office hits such as The Amazing Spider-Man.


Tracklist:

01. Reception (2:21)
02. Blueprint (5:23)
03. Your Face (4:08)
04. Venera [Vee's Theme] (5:13)
05. Something To Believe In (4:54)
06. Waiting (4:42)
07. Here We Are (5:01)
08. Edge Of The Sky (4:08)
09. A World Beyond (9:44)
10. Trust (6:18)
11. Lonely Inside (5:14)
12. Piece Of You (4:24)
13. Wherever You Are (6:30)
14. Drum's A Weapon (5:51)
15. Reanimate (4:13)
16. Another Sunrise (4:49)
17. Eternity (6:22)

Cover modified by me.


Cheers,

ADHDerby