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    Your most prized??

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Elysium,

    I have a friend here in Cambridge who claims to have a copy of the McArtney/Youth track as an original cd single.... I shall see if I can get a copy from him ... otherwise I shall be in touch again.

     

    Some of my most treasured discs include

    Subsurfing - Frozen ants (it's beautiful and irreplaceable)

    MOTY vol 1 " "

    Special Edition of FSOL's ISDN cd in a card sleeve with velcro & wonderful graphics

     

     

    bomble

    Blue Room

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Actually Blueroom started selling off their overstock in the summer of 2001 - that's when I found out that they were closing down. They sold their music direct for silly prices (18 cds for £18 - 30 Euros). It is a great shame, but the label never really made much money. They are concentrating on the pod speakers which are selling really well (and have appeared on every commercial and tv show recently). I have a friend (Humphrey from L.S.D) who has the entire Blueroom collection including many unreleased things - he was asked to compile a cd of the best of the unreleased tracks, but that fell through. I am hoping to get hold of some of the lost stuff sooner or later, because it is a label that was never afraid to experiment and push boundaries. I am sure there's a lot of stuff that I would like that they never released.

     

    bomble

    Ambient Vs Chill out

    in General Psytrance

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    To my mind, you can chill out to stuff which isn't ambient. Ambient music is stuff which is (atleast as I understand it) more about the textures of sounds than the tune or melody. Chill out music just means that - music which helps you relax. Ambient music can help you chill out, though some can have an unsettling effect and hence perhaps is the opposite (some of Aphex Twin ambient works volume II is certainly not calming!). On the other hand, producers like Asura, Shpongle and most of the other psychedelic trance spin-off acts make chillout which is certainly not ambient - there are beats, there is psychedelic noising and samples, but the overall effect is relaxing and brings you down from dancefloor music.

     

    That's the difference in my opinion.

     

    So for ambient artists I can recommend Brian Eno, some of Aphex Twin, some of Autechre, Biosphere, Steve Roach etc. etc.

     

    For chillout, basically see any of the chillout section of the reviews...

     

     

    bomble

    V/A - Infinessence

    in 2001

    Posted

    A very good alternatively flavoured chillout comp from Canada's finest chill

    label. The beats are cool with a much more electronic feel than their more

    recent release, Floatation, which was very ethnic and organic in style. The

    superb tune from Freeworm has their signature female vocals that can be heard

    on the Ekkocentric remix album. Intelligent, subtle and refreshing music for

    the chill lovers amongst you. 8/10

     

    bomble

    FINANCIAL CRISIS IN PSYWORLD

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    Inpsyde Media - I think that comment about the English (and I expect you mean the British) was a bit odd. Of the rest of the European nations, only Denmark held a referendum as far as I know - and they said no ! In other words, the only country that actually asked it's people whether they wanted to join, decided not to. There is likely to be a referendum in Britain about this soon, but to say it is the fault of the people is a bit misguided. Most of the people of the rest of the 11 Euro-zone states were never asked !

     

    bomble

    PLEASE : WRITE REVIEWS, NOT UNUSEFUL POSTS !

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I have posted a few first-reviews on this site, mainly in the chillout section. The reviews I write have been getting longer (perhaps too much so) because it seems that there are people interested in what I have to say. When I review I try to give an overall impression first, then some increased detail (possibly track by track) and finally a summary with a rating. That way if people don't like to read the whole thing, there's the essence at the top and bottom. Hopefully that is not causing anyone offense ?? If you would like to review my reviews feel free - I happily take constructive criticism

     

    bomble

    Double Dragon

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I wasn't really saying that DD and Mindfield sound alike - more that they have the same kind of intensity and catchiness. I was certainly drawing more from comparison of the two phantasm albums than from more recent work (which I haven't heard).

     

    bomble

    graham wood(s)

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    I have a copy of this - I couldn't get an original - and it is a classic. I had most of the tunes from other sources, but as a whole it shows was a master Graham is. Just wish he was still making this kind of stuff...

     

    bomble

    Man, psy trance has really been sucking...

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    There's so much good music at the moment I can't keep up ! Suddenly the chillout stuff I have always loved is gaining respect at an equal level to dancefloor tunes - 2001 was fantastic for chill (East of The River Ganges, Mana Medicine, Floatation, Nada Masala vol.2, Makyo's Yakshini, Ooze's where fields..., Shpongle etc. etc, and 2002 seems set to be just as good)

     

    There has been a lot of fine dancefloor stuff, and I'm sure loads that I haven't even heard yet. Things are looking a lot healthier on the psy trance scene than they were a few years ago I would say.

     

    bomble

    Solar Quest - Orgisms

    in 2000

    Posted

    Solar Quest - Orgisms

     

    Artist: Solar Quest

    Title: Orgisms

    Label: Entropica

    Date: 2000

     

    Track listing:

     

    CD 1

    01. 06'06" Cherchez La Lumiere

    02. 06'48" Dubblet

    03. 07'22" Lucid Beauty

    04. 10'03" Levitation

    05. 05'53" Walking Tree

    06. 05'53" Anchors In The Mist

    07. 08'39" The Groove Merchant

    08. 07'20" Switch Off Your Mind

    09. 04'00" Misanthropy

    10. 02'29" Seven Veils

    11. 14'46" Ceremonial

     

    CD 2

    01. 11'45" The Belle of Atlantis

    02. 06'39" Singtree

    03. 07'06" Awaken Kundalini

    04. 08'53" Liquid Sky

    05. 08'43" The Open Path

    06. 08'22" Save the Whale

    07. 03'53" Requiem For A Lily

    08. 16'58" Flying Spirals

     

    Review:

     

    I am not too sure why I have never heard people talking about SolarQuest when

    the topic of chillout comes around in these forums. They are undoubtedly

    masterful at making the stuff and rival many of the better known acts. Funnily

    enough, that's almost exactly what I said when I first did a review of Makyo

    for this site, and now he seems to be one of the most popular choices for

    chillout ... so maybe it's SolarQuest's turn next!

    Anyway ... what to expect ...? This is warm, subtle and smooth chillout. Hints

    of psychedelic sounds thrown in and perhaps one of the closest sounding

    productions to Makyo without being Makyo of course. SolarQuest is in fact

    primarily George Saunders, though there are other artists involved playing the

    plethora of 'real' instruments used in the tracks. This is by no means his

    first release, but in my opinion this is the one to go for if you don't know

    the SolarQuest sound. One other point that is worth a mention is that all the

    SolarQuest recordings are made using power generated from the Greenpeace

    portable solar generator 'Sparky'. The music that is produced is of the

    'organic' sound with plenty of atmospheric natural noising, thoroughly chilled

    and with a mixture of beat and beatless tracks. I think that the album only

    comes as a double cd, which is great because you get the superb Orgship in the

    bag too. This I believe was an earlier release (1994 maybe), but the pair

    together form a fabulous ambient journey.

    Orgisms:

    There is not really much point dwelling on the tracks one at a time as they

    are soft-mixed together (still extractable for dj-ing purposes, but without

    any silences), and it is the overall effect that is so pleasant. Certain

    tracks do stand out however - notably Anchors in the Mist which has a divine

    flute swirling and wafting the ears downstream. Absolutely blissful. The flute

    is back in Switch off your Mind and don't I just love it - this time with a

    snare beat and plenty of weirdness. In fact the general intensity of the

    Orgisms cd builds as the tracks go on with more beat structure until the

    wonderful Ceremonial which just launches the imagination onto another plane.

    This is the proper length for a chillout track in my mind, and you may still

    be sorry when the cd comes to a stop.

    Orgship:

    If Orgisms was chilled then Orgship is even more so! This is one of the most

    relaxing discs I have, some really gentle beats but mostly soft drifting

    sounds and instrumentation. It is really beautiful stuff - not overproduced

    and not too busy... just about right for me to keep me from being bored but

    not interfere too much with my thoughts. Liquid Sky is magnificent - very much

    like a Dakini tune with a perfect flow towards an emotional power that gets me

    right here [bomble reaches for his chest]. The Open Path is also a splendid

    trippy little number and the joy just builds! Save the whale keeps things

    tasty, but I think that the Requiem for a Lily might have been better left out

    - it doesn't add much for me. Then again, it leads into Flying Spirals which,

    just as the final track in Orgisms, provides the soul with a magic carpet for

    some serious interior voyaging.

    The combination of the two discs (hopefully at ordinary album price if you have

    an honest supplier) makes this album a real treasure. It won't infiltrate your

    every waking moment like Shpongle can ... but I doubt you'll regret buying it

    if you can find a copy. Lovely.

    8.5/10

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