Little is known about Blue Amazon. Creating a good mixture of Techno, House, Tech-House and Progressive EDM, Lee Softley (birth name) made some killer bangers back in the 1990s. These days he is busy with remixing classic tunes for names much bigger than him. However, he did release this album back in 1997. It features some moderately commercially successful hits such as No Other Love. With an open mind and appreciation of an overlooked form of music, let’s jump back in time and listen to this album and we hope it sounds as great as promised today.

Intro begins with some night sounds of cicadas and some rushing sounds of electronics. Dark undertones of sounds emerge, and this tune continues to get underway. Eventually, cut-up musical vocals emerge. Very good to hear. A wonderful and fantastic listen throughout. This quickly launches into some superb and interesting beats throughout, which sound catchy and insanely good. A really adventurous and cool listening experience, this is a clever and enjoyable listen. A wonderful tune. It segues into the next track.

Never Forget launches into a 10-minute-long piece of musical glory. It begins with 4/4 beats and an insanely good-sounding set of rhythms, which quickly builds up into an epic-sounding journey of music. Percussion slowly enters the scene, which is really great to hear. This sounds top-notch and futuristic simultaneously and also sounds like an absolute winner of a tune. A voice repeating throughout says, “Today…” and this tune sounds extremely powerful and wonderful to listen to. This album deserves an award for being one of the most underrated EDM listens ever. This sounds really amazingly awesome and thoroughly good to hear. It takes the imagination and psyche to a higher and better place overall. This cuts down into 4/4 beats, textures and some looped nature-based sounds, which are all really cool to listen to. Some looped wordless vocal harmonies lead into the next section of music, which sounds really powerful and amazing throughout. This tune continues to evolve extremely nicely and sounds great throughout. A fantastic-sounding and interesting piece of music that will never die. A really great listening experience that sounds undeniably wonderful, this must be heard to be understood in a musical sense. This sounds magical and like the music of the future. A catchy, well made and minimal listening experience throughout, this has some unique sounds and melodies that are clear winners. A really great listen from start to finish, this is some of the best Progressive Tech-House you will ever hear. It sounds absolutely fantastic throughout and has looped vocals stating the song title. A really very cool and powerful listen, this sounds fresh, fun and exciting throughout. The music throughout is really very powerful and exciting to listen to. There is a breakdown and build-up towards the end of indescribably awesome sonic textures, and this sounds absolutely amazing. An electric piano emerges, and this tune begins to come alive nicely. A really cool and great listening experience, with tasty textures and moving melodies throughout. Towards the end, this begins to wrap up with some nice sounds and powerful transitions that sound mind-blowingly good. Very, very nice. Worth it all the way. It segues into the next track.

Searching begins with some helicopter-styled percussion sounds and some cool melodies to match it. It sounds, again, ridiculously good to hear. It quickly launches into a beat-laden and interesting piece of music that sounds absolutely awesome. A very cool tune to listen to, this sounds powerful, magical and amazing throughout. This music is really great for what it is, and the album should be recognised as one of the most underrated listens ever. A supremely cool tune to listen to, time after time, this sounds really sensationally good as a track to listen to. The music present on this album is truly magical and is light years ahead of many competitors out there. A really cool tune that doesn’t need loud electric guitars or screaming to make its point. It just flows. Some sweet female vocals by Vicky Webb are present on this track as well, and this adds a different flavour and texture to the music throughout. This 14-minute-long tune is a very fantastic piece of music, and it has some electrifying and energetic sounds throughout. Never dull nor boring, not for a moment of listening. This music is absolutely fantastic, even for the minimal, progressive nature of the sounds here. Really very cool. This is light years ahead of anything recorded at the time, or before or since. The golden age of EDM had arrived, and Blue Amazon made some seriously underrated music on this album. It launches into a section towards the middle with some minimal lyrical singing and some neat backup vocals that sound really great. A fantastic listen, especially when driving in your car, cruising around where you live. A cool tune, this has some pleasantly ethereal vocals throughout and a decent mash-up of sounds, textures and structures musically throughout. A great listening experience that never loses appeal nor dies, this is really fantastic to hear. In the second half, a breakdown occurs with some cyber futuristic sounds that are sweetly detailed. Really very cool to hear, with some ethereal vocals emerging which sound really excellent. This has some singing about the stars falling and hearing one’s call, this is an amazingly futuristic listening experience. A really great tune, this builds up with a frenzy of music and instrumentation back into the second half of the song. Super cool and interesting to listen to. As we gradually approach the end of this track, this music sounds gorgeously and simply wonderful. Great music to listen to, this is fantastic, progressive and minimal music that will never die. Top-notch for such music as this, this definitely deserves more listens. Nonetheless, this tune that goes well over 14 minutes deserves more love. A cool tune, although some may find it difficult to sit through the entire track due to this reason. Nonetheless, a supremely cool and awesome listen from start to finish that will surprise you in a pleasant way. A great and excellently long listen. At the end, the beats stop and this tune gradually winds down. Artistic brilliance and excellence are right here. Worth every moment. It segues into the next track.

The Runner is a differently flavoured tune with some interesting sounds and electric piano throughout. This quickly emerges into a beatastic and interesting listening experience that very few could come close to. This piece is a lot shorter at six minutes in length. Still, it sounds energetic, fairly minimal and interesting. A really good effort is present throughout here, and the music is a clear winner throughout. It sounds frenetic, fast-paced and strong enough to get your blood pumping. A really cool listen from start to finish, this music is extremely fun and different throughout. The colourful, clean and minimal musical output sounds insanely good. The music and production are an excellent mixture throughout. This music is extremely good to listen to and has a powerful, punchy and upbeat-sounding craft that is rarely matched in some ways elsewhere. If this music was indicative of the future of music, it would blow away many people’s perceptions of traditional music being superior. All in all, a really great listen. Towards the end are some interesting cyber melodies mixed with electric piano and other sweet electronic patches. A very brilliant listen from start to finish. Worth it all the way through. Excellent music to hear. It concludes with ethereal sounds to boot. A worthy listen.

The Javelin is another lengthy tune at 13 minutes long. It begins with hi-hats and snippets of delayed vocals, sounding really great to hear. Some weird sounds in the background emerge, along with ethereal strings and percussive sounds. This quickly gets going into the tune at hand, which sounds ridiculously good. A pretty, interesting and well-crafted piece of music, this sounds absolutely ridiculously good. An enjoyable and heavenly-sounding tune, this sounds really great. It slowly and gradually builds up into a fantastically melodic tune, which sounds electrifying and awesome. This sounds like it is worth a million dollars, and is a thoroughly sweet and enjoyable listening experience. This music sounds incredibly and wonderfully cool. The rhythmic melodies throughout are great, as are the beats driving this tune along. This also sounds like it should have been in a video game of the day. The ethereal vocals sound really cool and great here, and the backing track supports these vocals perfectly. A really cool listen, designed to get you bopping along to it all. This sounds very fresh and uniquely different, especially today. In fact, this music is unlike anything else out there today. This is some of the best music from 1997, sounding invincible and gold. In the midsection is a breakdown with RRoland TB-303 Acid House-styled melodies, which sound really cool. A fantastic and suspenseful build-up of sound is present here. This tune is a solid gold winner, and the musicianship throughout is absolutely awesome. In the second half, the ethereal breakdown is absolutely genius and sublime, with cut-up vocals returning into the mix. A fantastic tune, this eventually builds up with some exquisite sounds and melodies that make a musical difference. A really awesome piece of music, this works so well on many different musical and emotional levels. It eventually heads into liquid TB-303 Acid House melodies, before launching into a frenzied mixture of beats throughout. A super cool and enlightened-sounding tune, this is really very amazing and awesome to listen to. The music throughout is interesting, exciting and pulsating full of energy. A fine listen, with many surprises throughout. This is never dull or boring throughout its 13-minute long running time, either. The music sounds really great and moving, and it is a sweet experience to hear all of this. Towards the end, cut-up vocals take the centrepiece of it all, just as this gradually shifts and wraps up. Very, very cool. This sounds amazing to this very day. A wonderful listen from start to finish. It ends with the sound of rushing waves and segues into the next track.

Paradise Regime is only two minutes long. It launches into a sweet-sounding piece of rushing seaside sounds, and interesting melodies and sounds incredibly good to listen to. Some flute-like wind instrumentation is thrown into the mix, and this sounds really, really great to listen to. A sweet and pleasant listen, this is the perfect music to meditate to. It sounds very lovely and magical and is extremely cool to hear. A cool 1990s tune with a ton of flavour in it. It concludes slowly and gradually after two minutes of audio bliss, and it segues into the next piece.

No Other Love – Album Mix features vocalist Vicky Webb and is one of the key tracks from this album. It begins with some transitional sounds from the previous track, straightforward beats and launches into a cool and clever EDM Progressive House-based tune. It sounds really very amazing in a musical way, launching us into the future of music back in 1997. A really awesome and cool tune to listen to. This music will last the test of time, and it sounds electrifying and excellent throughout. The Roland TB-303 Acid House-based melodies return here, and they do sound really great. As this progresses, layer after layer is thrown upon this tune. A really awesome and powerful listen throughout, this music is a cause for celebration throughout. Very, very good and sweet in general. A cool and driven tune with attitude and melodic structure, the sounds on this track will blow your mind. After a few minutes, the track breaks down very nicely and sounds decent and ethereal to listen to. Very cool. Some racing-paced melodies continue on nicely, and this tune sounds really amazing. The vocals here are soft, smooth and fantastic, just sounding absolutely awesome throughout. A totally cool tune to hear, this sounds marvellously done by Blue Amazon and Vicky Webb. A wonderful tune to listen to. Eventually in the middle, the beats resume. A very sweet and interesting tune to listen to, through and through. This quickly launches back into the EDM groove at hand and sounds awesome. The music on this tune is progressive, yet minimal to hear. A really cool and great listen from start to finish. Blue Amazon obviously knows how to create great music throughout this tune, and this does sound extremely wonderful to listen to. The outer space mentality of it all also sounds really great to hear. This may be a bit too minimal and repetitive for some, but if you still through it, it will be a fantastically awesome and rewarding listen for you to experience. This does go on for some time and eventually has repeated vocals and some other interesting patterns towards the end. This has some more ethereal sounds and textures right towards the end, which sound really quite great. The next tune begins to be segued into this album mix, and it all sounds really ingeniously wonderful and excellent. A fantastic listen from start to finish.

And Then The Rain Falls – Album Edit features Vicky Webb on vocals, yet again and runs for nearly 14 minutes. It launches into a minimal yet awesome Techno-styled musical vibe, which is really killer to listen to and dance along to. This sounds amazing and is a redeeming listen if you don’t have the patience for 10-minute-long plus songs in most cases. It sounds driven, interesting and intelligent for this kind of music. A great listen, it never wears out one’s ears even with this length of time. Nonetheless, this sounds extremely cool to hear. Vicky Webb’s vocals are really excellent throughout, and this music is a melodic yet powerful listen. This is very much Progressive House Underworld-based territory here if you can understand the context of this sort of music. Nonetheless, it does sound very, very good to listen to. A really awesome tune to hear, although by this point of the album, the lengthy and repetitive nature of the music is likely to drive some out there nuts whilst listening to it. In any case, this does sound really sweet and smoothly melodic throughout. A cool and interesting listening experience. The cut-up vocals and repetitive melodies are very, very good and memorable throughout. This music is perfect for when you need a good dose of looped EDM that has some sustained and interesting energy throughout. Towards the midsection is the chorus throughout, and the music has a large amount of consistent changes throughout. In any case, this is good but the appeal of the album wears off by this point with this rather repetitive music. It changes in the midsection to something better and more groovy and minimal throughout. Some robotic squelches come through which sound really different. The second half has some cruising yet rather repetitive musical loops that sound really good. This gets into headbanging territory musically here and sounds absolutely wonderful throughout. A cool tune, this definitely demands sunglasses to be worn upon listening to it. A great tune, even if it goes on for what seems like years. Nonetheless, this is a great effort in a musical sense. A really great and fine listen to that sounds absolutely wonderful provided you can sit through such a long listen. It has some rather Trance Music like melodies as we gradually approach the end of this tune. Very nice to hear, although this gets rather boring by this point to listen to. In any case, this is great music to play in the background whilst busy with something, as opposed to being in the foreground. Towards the end, the beats finish and the looped, ethereal melodies continue on to conclude this track gradually, and the album itself as well. A good but long listen, this has some pretty and different sounds that are absolutely gorgeous. This wraps up and concludes a long album listening experience and a very long track with the sound of rain and thunder.

This album is a good album to listen to but does not reach great album status due to its rather absurdly long running time. With the average song being over 10 minutes long, this is difficult to get through for most listeners. However, having said that the music is sweet and variable enough to enjoy in certain circumstances. However, it is only worth hearing once in a blue moon, rather than regularly. Should you listen to this album? Yes if you like repetitive EDM, no if you prefer a more variable mash-up of music other than beats and textures.

Almost there.

7/10