''Dancing Galaxy'' is the third studio album by the Israel

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. It was released on 20 October 1997, through

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. It has become one of the best-selling trance albums. The voices in the songs "Dancing Galaxy", "No One Ever Dreams" and "Ambient Galaxy (Disco Valley Mix)" is taken from the film ''

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'' (1984). The voice in the song "Flying Into A Star" is taken from the sixth season of '' Star Trek: The Next Generation's'': episode 22, ''Suspicions'' (1993). The Japanese release includes a bonus three-inch CD single.

Singles

"Dancing Galaxy" ,17 November 1997, was the first song to be a released as a single from the album, it includes the song "Ambient Galaxy (Disco Valley Mix)" as a b–side. "Liquid Sun" , 2000, was released as a second single, with a remix by

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. It peaked at number 91 in

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, number 27 in the dance singles chart and number 19 in

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. Astral Projection's only chartering song there.

Critical reception

John Bush from

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said "The climax of Astral Projection's search for intelligent trance, Dancing Galaxy offers wave after wave of exquisitely produced acid lines on tracks like "No One Ever Dreams," "Soundform" and the title track."

Track listing

Credits and personnel

Locations * Recorded at Dance City Studios, Tel Aviv * Digital Mastering at Village mastering Musicians * Lior Perlmutter – songwriting, programming, producer and mixing * Avi Nissim – songwriting, programming, producer * Ben Bernfeld – digital Mastering Engineering * Lior Perlmutter – engineering Creative * Ido Eshed – art direction and design * Yossi F. – art direction and design

References

External links

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