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So you would recommend Caverns of Time then? I'm looking for some fresh and innovative downtempo - was there a review posted for Caverns of Time?

I went to Don Peyote's website - www.donpeyote.com and listened to the samples of this new album - sounds fantastic, but he wants 28.00 AUD shipping included for the disc... Has anyone heard this or know where else to get it? For those not familiar Don Peyote AKA Peyote Sound System is a producer of eclectic downtempo electronica and has been featured on Interchill comps - superb music...

Yah "Invention" is spectacular - full psychedelic journey - that track takes me places!

For me this link is an RAR file which I can't open - can you help?

I've really liked every track I've heard by him so far!

I really like this album - on headphones it really shines too... Sleepwalker part 1 is fantastic! - I can't relate at all to the others who say it's a lame track...

Yah I still listen to this album('s) a bunch - some tracks I don't get into at all but many are just fantastic...

I couldn't find a review of this which surprises me as this is one of the most brilliant albums I think I've ever heard.. The amount of creativity and genius here is staggering - it's almost like he's showing off at times the way the sounds and melodies are designed - incredibly well produced and intricate - reeks of talent and inspiration - highly sophisticated and gorgeous melodies and sound structures - I place this album well ahead of his previous three and very far ahead of pretty well anything else out there at this point - truly exceptional work... The melodies here are spectacular - melodies all over the place, interwoven with each other, and morphing and evolving in a most delightful way - I can't think of another album that struts the melodies like this one - it's all so catchy and wonderful sounding too, a feast for the mind... After Shulman's previous album I was a little concerned, I thought he was losing it, but this one here vaults him back to the top for me - I'll have to see what the new Ott album is like, for but for now Shulman rules the roost as far as I'm concerned... I won't do a track by track review because I'm no good at that, but everyone should have this magnificent, masterpiece of an album...

Tsk tsk tsk Jon Cocco! You've been reprimanded before for reviewing albums from samples, not by me, but by someone far grumpier - you may be in very big trouble this time... I hope for your sake the grumpy forum member doesn't get wind of this.. Let us all pray for Jon Cocco, that he not get punished too badly over this...

Right on - well actually I do like these albums - I'm not saying I dislike them, I'm just saying I'm not impressed by how homogenous the Ultimae sound is... Fahrenheit 2 & 3 are a couple of my favorite downtempo compils ever, and I love many tracks I hear by Ultimae artists - but I can *always* tell when it's from Ultimae... Why is it always that ultra-serious moody ambient with lots of pads? - I agree that each album is its own "flavor", but to my ears it's all just variations on the same theme, with a very very similar "feeling-tone"... It shouldn't be so easy to predict what a release is going to sound like... I think I'm just starved to hear some really original psychedelic music - and so I've been listening to some of the classic psytrance albums recently, the groundbreaking ones like "The Gathering", "Radio", "Cryptic Crunch", "Dragon Tales" and I remember what it's like to hear something truly unique that has its own voice - thank-God for albums like those! These Ultimae artists, they don't have their own unique voices, or well differentiated sound IMO - I can easily distinguish the Shpongle sound from the Bluetech sound, for instance, and the Ott sound from the Abakus sound - but I have a very hard time differentiating the Ultimae artists from each other in any major way...

I'm sorry but while this is a nice album, and has its moments, it sounds almost exactly like all the other recent Ultimae releases... Why is it the Ultimae artists have such a conformist sound? Why is there such a striking lack of originality? The recent albums by Aes Dana, Solar Fields, Carbon Based Lifeforms, the recent Fahrenheit compils, and now this Asura album all basically sound the same - it's all in the same style, even the insert art is nearly identical... On the last CBL album, they even continued the tracks from the previous album, starting at track 12 instead of track 1 (yes I know it was intentional but still it's a good example of how stagnant a vibe we have here).. The tone of the music is even the same among all these albums - sort of the "moody, serious, and restrained psychedelic-ambient sound", lots of drawn out pads, midtempo tracks sprinkled here and there.. But all in the same style and "tone"... Does Ultimae request that their artists all basically sound like one another, or do the artists just do it because none of them have truly original ideas or want to forge a unique sound? And what is with the artwork - do these artists really all like exactly the same style of art or what? Ultimae releases are *so* predictable - I guarantee you I know exactly what the next Fahrenheit compil will sound like, which is sad...

I'm still on the fence about whether to buy this one - I loved the sample I heard of Perspectives but the others sounded so-so - I loved his last album though and that had to grow on me...

I heard him live in LA (I think he lives in LA now?) and it was really good....

Has no one mentioned Sensient - "Antifluoro" yet?!

Just posting cause I got an email from Don Peyote aka Peyote Sound System that his album is now out - lovers of psychedelic downtempo may be in for a treat - check his other tracks out on Interchill - "Dissolving Clouds" and other comps...

Some of it is a bit boring and redundant but some great traccks too... "Erosion" is one of the best tracks I've ever heard - pure bliss that one!

Oh ok, I've only heard Matenda's chill stuff - I figured this album was his chill project no?

I didn't like Golden Cap at all - very boring lazy stuff I thought.. I've liked some Entheogenic tracks but most sound so generic as psychill...

"Mediterran" is in my top 10 psy-downtempo albums ever I would say - I love most every track... I can't recommend it highly enough... His first chill release "Chilling Matenda" is good too, but I don't like it as much as Mediterran... With Mediterran I read some people saying it wasn't really psychedelic or whatever but I thought it was, just in a different way - hopefully the new one is too...

Nexus - do you feel the same way about "Mediterran" or have you not heard that one?

Short review - excellent twisted Finnish album - some trax I don't care for, but the one's I do care for I love - highly recommend this release!

This album is brilliant! Hopefully with be recognized as that by many and considered a classic... Thoroughly wierd and twisted, colorful, melodic, harmonious and beautiful electronica - well put together stuff, despite the sheer number of short tracks - it's very weird but without the "wank" factor I tend to associate with this genre - in other words, it's weird, it's twisted, but it's all very catchy and in general just fuckin' rocks... The album just oozes with creativity and inpspiration... Zany as all... Properly psychedelic... So many ideas here... Don't dig a few of the tracks but hey, there's 3 whole CD's so that's to be expected... Psychedelic music for people with short attentiion spans too - if you want it twisted and you want it awesome and you want it sounding that way right fucking *now* then this is a great album for you!

Whats a digipack? Heh, I like the artist name...

I think this album is brilliant - very very fresh, unique, and masterful! Favorite album this year along with Sensient... It can be fairly subtle, and people are right about the way he extends the builds and sections and such, but if you really listen to it and get into it, it's just done so freakin proper and *highly* psychedelic... The sounds and rythms he uses are completely wicked... If you haven't liked this album so far I would encourage you to give it another listen, preferably on a good system or headphones - you may wind up loving it - I didn't get it the first listen at all, thought it was dull...

Edit - removed first post - based in ignorance...