furthur

A friend that booked them for a show told me a couple of weeks ago. I guess they told him.

'The way I feel I don't expect to go to sleep for a year. I'm on fucking fire.' No need to say where that is from. OK, it is from Altered States (shitty movie)

Waterjuice - Melbaphonics

Any of the above can put into a trance, but what brings me the furthest is ambient or chillout.

I can maybe suggest to try Zenon and Groove Zone releases for twisted dark psy with tribal influences. Also give Etnoscope - Nordic Fury (from Dusty Nation 2) and basically anything by Etnoscope (not so dark but helluva tribal)

Tegma – 002 : Avant.Garde Label : Candyflip Year : 2005 Cover: http://212.227.206.198/cgi-bin/zoom.cgi?cf...fr1cd014.html:; Tracklisting: 01. Eternal Sleep 8:39 02. Modern Movement 7:06 03. Myth of an Angel 8:46 04. Thunderblade 7:37 05. X-Istanz 8:52 06. Trapped in a Hypercube 7:41 07. Conscious Minds 7:18 08. Clock Next Door 7:38 09. Irrational Impulses 9:39 Review: Well, I loved Encoded/Decoded and am a fan of Tegma’s since X-Calibur. After many years of anticipation, their second album is finally out. It is taken in a different direction than what we are used to, and being a hardcore proggy lover, I was at first surprised at the increased bpm here. However, it is not simply a step sideways from what we are used to, it is also a step forward. So, with an open mind (as much as that is possible), I will give this album a thorough listen after several not-so-thorough ones. I do not write music so I will not give a track-by-track technical description. But I will describe what each track does to me. 1. Eternal Sleep [136 BPM] Starts out relatively mellow with a nice long atmospheric intro reminiscent of a foggy spring morning in a meadow with plenty of birds and flowers around. About two minutes in, a vocal sample ushers in a more technological twist and a steadier beat. There is also a pretty uplifting melody suggestive (but only suggestive) of old school. An electroish beat at 5 minutes is covered in layers of psychedelic effects. A very nice highly enjoyable progressive introductory piece that while not being groundbreaking per se, would be very welcome outdoors in the morning with its combination of sounds from different genres. (Sort of makes me think of a faster trancier version of Transmission in Vain). 2. Modern Movement [138 BPM] A groovier and faster track than the first one that starts out with a sample by what sounds to be the same man is in the first track. Takes a little while to get warmed up as well. Once it does, the shift from earlier Tegma is apparent towards more Candyflip-like territory. While the sounds are less like what you would hear in a “progressive” tune, the structure is very progressive, letting the track take its time to evolve. A nice blend of psychedelic layers put together rather interestingly. Since I do not understand what the guy is saying, it becomes sort of redundant for me. However, the break at 4:20 could have been drawn out a bit more as far as I am concerned. All in all, a very skillfully put track that somehow does not do it for me. 3. Myth of an Angel [140 BPM] Starts out sounding somewhat similar to Son Kite’s later work. Very nice percussion work before the rolling bassline sets in. At 1:30 it goes away further from that progressive recipe of fullon sounds, and becomes less focused. I like being unfocused. Very very reminiscent of goa-type sounds that in the words of a dear friend “rip your roof (krysha) off”. By 4:30 becomes all-out booty-shaking music taking me out of days-long slumber. I believe this would rip the dance floor apart in the early morning. Also contains a very developed and long aquatic outro. 4. Thunderblade [140 BPM] Another science fiction sample kicks this one off. And the kicking off is done without as much preparation as in the previous pieces. Sounds as though there was a dying engine that finally takes off after some sputtering. Very hypnotic and repetitive beat until 2:15 where the rocket is put into a higher gear. Sounds like a fullon reworking of a Suncontrolspecies track. Unfortunately, the bassline at 4:00 does not get me off at home; but I do remember it (or a very similar one) doing magic on the dance floor. Nice piece but not as interesting as the previous one in my opinion. 5. X-Istanz [142 BPM] I guess it is a tribute to Cronenberg’s movie Existenz. I hope the track goes beyond the movie that I found very forgettable despite the talented director. From the time the beat kicks in, it sounds like a soundtrack to a cartoon where the superhero is running from some monster. At 1:40, the monster starts spewing fire from its mouth and using other dirty tricks throughout the track seeing that it cannot catch up. Just like superheroes, not my cup of tea, even if I can tell that it is very well produced and should thrill any Radioactive Man fan out there. I do find the female vocals to be highly highly enjoyable despite their context. I could probably lose it on the dance floor to this one, but don’t fancy myself listening to it at home often. 6. Trapped in a Hypercube [140 BPM] Starts off pretty techish with some industrial sounds that evolve into a steady beat. This is one of the night tracks on this album. Fits very well into the middle of the album. I find this one extremely interesting. The only slight let down is the over-use of vocal samples (I prefer my music to be almost word-free unless it is a song). Other than that, originality abounds here. Thumbs up. 7. Conscious Minds [142 BPM] This one wastes no time before turning hard as f*%k. Another extremely hypnotic (and even minimal) tune. The title is probably supposed to be ironic as the beginning makes me think precisely of unconscious minds. A melody finally finds its way into the track after 3 minutes. Once again, a roof-pulling-off piece. Pure mad psychedelia. Two more thumbs up. 8. Clock Next Door [138 BPM] Fucking trippy sample at the beginning, that guy’s voice fits in very well into the overall project of the obscurely narrow corridor. Very nice overall structure with maybe just one layer too many. One of the trippiest and darkest pieces on the album so far worthy of the best Baluns compilations. 4:40, fuck yeah!! The light shines through in rays that multiply as the track goes on not taking away from the beautifully somber ambiance at all. Clearly, one of the favorites here. 9. Irrational Impulses [138 BPM] Could this be a downbeat piece to close the album? Might be what with the instrumental beginning. However, as soon as 20 seconds in, we can easily tell that it will explode into another progressive melodic morning track to dig to. The melody washes over you wave after wave after wave. Very skillfully put together; it is apparent that the limits of Tegma’s talents will not be usurped any time soon. Irrational impulses got me dancing maniacally once again. A beautiful ending to an exciting album from this Swedish duo. If you like the recent shift back towards melodies (a la 12 Moons), get this. If you like it techy, hypnotic, and at the same extremely twisted, get it too (even though there will be a bit less for you here than the first contingent). Basically, Tegma have refused to be sucked into the housier realms of progressive that we have seen lately (and that I love, mind you), and have taken their earlier techniques and have revamped it with melody and good feeling. Despite a few weaker moments (and the over-use of samples over which I have already expressed my concern), this gets somewhere between a solid 8 and a superb 8.5 depending on the mood that I am in. It should be noted that I really do not like rating music, but find it very helpful myself when reading others’ reviews in deciding a purchase. Favorites: 1, 3(!), 6, 7, 8(!), and 9(!) Do not resist you rational impulse and get this now.

I believe an album should come out in the next couple of months.

For psytrance, I really enjoy Emok's flow, technique and the rest. For non-psytrance stuff, Sasha possibly. As for the whole debate going on, I believe that it is harder to mix psytrance at the same level than house or techno, which is why in part there are so many more technically better skilled DJs in the house and techno scenes, because psytrance would just not allow them to show their stuff off that way. You simply cannot mix 4 or 5 psytrance tracks over each other, whereas you could do it with techno and it could sound good too.

I have chillout, trance, classical, jazz and everything else (basically rock) separately. Inside the genres, it is divided up into artist albums and compilations. Then alphabetically. Oh yeah, IDM and other non trance or chill electronica goes with rock for some reason.

Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment Dark at times, some beats, slower than trance (almost all the time), very very little vocals. And in general, kick ass

As for chill, I recommend to everyone Sir Eel - Shiva Subcontractor. An amazing piece of plastic. It is the same guy as in Waterjuice, but the album I mentioned is very different from melbaphonics (which is also very good). If you like ethnic oriented stuff, nothing beats Gaudi.

I don't doubt it my friend. The Pylon brothers know groove.

Really nice. Have only heard up to the Neelix track, but have enjoyed it quite a lot. Only thing is I am not sure that Dreaming is a great lead-in track.

I think they have, but I might be wrong.

I actually think it is a relatively good idea on Isratrance's part. Yes, there are a few yellow members whose taste I liked, but let's face it... Well, I, personally would appreciate having it back the way it was, since I have finally learned whose tops to read and whose to avoid, but in general, not such a stupid idea. The only drawback I see with this is the possibility of even more unreleased in the tops section with artists and labels only allowed to post. Yes, those will be unreleased tracks gotten ahold of legally, but it is still not interesting for me. My two kopecks.

NOOO The download has no hyperlink behind it. Please fix it Basilisk, I want to hear the mix.

Almost all tracks from Celtic Cross have violins in them. Or rather they are fiddles.

SUOMI baby

I did enjoy BLT's last album. Tegma's new album is not full-on per se, but has some fullonish moments and sounds very good. Prometheus, once again not proper full-on, i.e. the sounds are not fullonish but the structure and feel of the tracks is how fullon should be made.

Can't believe Juno Reactor is not mentioned. Very tribal at moments imo.

However, sexy trance does exist. For me the sexiest ever is Xlnt by Phony Orphants.

Soul Surfer - Highest Drop from their album I think the Casui track from Vibration 5 by Midijum also uses the violin.

Hi everyone, Lakura Records and Ganesha Productions are proud to present abstrakt: a celebration of Tegma's new album release. LINEUP: Tegma LIVE + DJ (Candyflip Recs - Malmo, Sweden) Absolute (MusiCall Box - Montréal) Br34th3 (Phonolite - Montréal) Clown (Jester Recs - Montréal) Digbeez (Lakura Recs - Toronto) Ivan Medvedskiy vs Evgeniy Wolf (Ample Prods - Montréal vs Tel-Aviv) OSG (MusiCall Box - Montréal) U-Ctac (Omnitribe, NYC) www.ganesha.ca WHO IS TEGMA? Behind the music of Tegma is Omar Chelly and Jason Orfanidis, both born and bred in Swedish town Malmoe. So what’s the story behind this successful trance project? Omar and Jason have been friends since childhood, with a friendship that goes back to their fathers it was only natural that the two would sooner or later create such a thing as music together. The story begins in 1996 when Omar moved back to Malmoe after having lived a couple of years outside of Sweden and also in Gothenburg. By the time Omar moved back, he found that Jason had discovered something called Psychedelic Trance. With Greek origins, Jason spends every summer in Greece and that’s where he got in touch with trance, a close friend and relative, Alexis, introduced him to this new genre of electronic music; Psychedelic Trance. This was in 1994 and Jason went into addiction directly, starting to collect vinyl and playing as a dj at small parties and co-assisting his cousin at a radio show called Danceswitch which was broadcasted on a station in Athens. However this was mainly for fun and Jason didn’t consider picking up dj’ing or producing seriously. However for Omar, this music didn’t seem too much interesting, he was more into hip-hop and world music. Although he had been listening to some electronica like Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk and Vangelis it was a bit hard to swallow. Later on , at the end of 1997, Jason forgot some cd’s at Omar’s house, and he put them on just to give it a try as Jason was insisting that this is THE music to listen and party to. Slowly, slowly Omar also got bitten by the psychedelic grooves. After a year, in the end of the year 1998, Omar got hold of the program Reason and started experimenting with it. This later resulted in their first common project called Epsilon, which Omar and Jason describes as “lousy, crappy melodic psytrance” Thankfully none of the songs of the Epsilon project never got a chance to get out to any larger crowds… After a year of messing around with Reason , and learning the basics from it they both agreed that they wanted to go deeper into producing music and they decided it was time to buy some hardware to expand the system. They first bought the Yamaha Rm1x and later on a Novation Nova, with these two and a simple pc running Cubase they continued producing under the Epsilon name for a couple of months. However in the beginning of 2000 they instantly fell in love with the new wave of progressive and minimal psytrance and felt that this was the thing they were looking for. So the result was the death of Epsilon and the birth of Tegma! In June 2000, Omar and Jason produced their first 3-track demo and sent it out to a couple of labels, with positive feedback and a signing of one of the tracks, things started to look good for Tegma and this resulted in more hard work. Since then things have gone quite well, releasing on over 20 cd compilations on various labels around the world, a couple of twelve inches and an album… Adding the fact that they performed their live act in many parts of the world , far places such as Japan, Brazil and Mexico among many others… The Tegma boys also tried to make some other projects, with their Homer N Lazon project they had some releases in the U.K., and Omar also producing his solo project O’Chelly with a couple of releases on some cd compilations. Jason also picked up his dj’ing again and has played many times along the Tegma live set and also on a couple of occasions on his own... So what is going on for the moment? After not having produced under the Tegma moniker for a while now, Omar and Jason decided it was time for a second Tegma album. The result will show in November. Tickets will be available at Psychonaut and Musik Hall as of November 20. The price of a ticket will be $20 during 2004 $25 during January 2005 $30 during February 2005 ? at the door The event will take place on February 12 2005 in Montreal. The exact location will be revealed 2 weeks prior to the event. See you on the dancefloor