by John Bush
Arguably the most underrated electronic album of 1994, Visions of the Past alternates between songs of uptempo trance beauty and slower ambient cuts so sinister that the flesh crawls. The best example of the former is &Aqua Viva,& a 12-minute dolphin epic with dolphin sounds; of the eerie tracks, &Northern Dark,& &Dream or Reality& and the title track are the most paranoid.