[V/A - Floatation]

I agree with the above. It is one beautiful ambient journey. Absolutely

excellent. :-)

[XV Kilist - Kante / Gummi]

XV Kilist - Kante / Gummi

 

Artist: XV Kilist

Title: Kante / Gummi

Label: Spiral Trax

Date: 1999

 

Track listing:

 

01. 09'20" Kante

02. 10'40" Gummi

 

Review:

 

The second EP of XV Kilist from Switzerland. One of the best selling Spiral

Trax EP's at its time and with a reason: both tracks are f*** great! They can

rock a dancefloor up side down.

Although the EP was released quite some time ago, and is not available anymore,

I think it should be reviewed so that people can understand what all this X.V.

Kilist fuzz was about.

"Kante" contains crazy sounds arranged in an intelligent way. It has a sample

that makes me grin just becuase of the sound of it. It goes like: "Ich kann

die Fernwehn nicht mehr so wichtig absetzen... Oh!", or something that sounds

simulair. It's in German anyway. =] After this sample, when the music peaks at

3/4 of the track, a bassline comes in that sends thrills up my spinal column.

"Gummi" has a very simular sound, though the samples here are present in a less

obvious way. The rythms in the track are just awsome. And, the track has been

released on a compilation too.

To wrap up: these tracks are funny, groovy and able to induce drug like rushes.

Dancefloor killers...

[V/A - Experience]

A friend said about the Earthling track: "a floorfiller by GMS without the help

of Bansi & Riktam" and "track by Celli & Cushi from Ibiza".

[Atmos - Medical Trauma]

Bad Lieutenant is a film by Abel Ferrara with Harvey Keithel as a bad cop that

does lots of drugs and abuses teens (US, 1992).

Evil stuff is everywhere, anytime. Psytrance is only a little better then the

rest of the world, in fact, its full of drugs, arrogant DJ's and promotors

that run off with the money.

If you don't want to think in the morning about things that might upset you,

get your self some Britney Spears to listen to.

Or simply only play the track at night. ;-)

[Bonky And Fungus Of Light - Bonky And Fungus Of Light]

Yep, all of these guys live in Amsterdam. Ramamurtu is a German, Troy is an

American and Joshua and Onno are Dutch. And, true again, this music is great

for partying. Fungus of Light played at the VooV 99 and 2000 and at Antaris

2000 and together with Bonky they played at this year's Boom! festival. Their

live acts rock!

And Fungus of Light has an new album coming out soon.

[Shakti Twins - Psychedelic Family]

Two of these tracks, 'Time Zone' and 'Re-Evolution' were downloadable for free

together with a third track ('Moon Palace') from the Shakti Twins website when

it was still up. These tracks are melodic indeed. But the Twins are not

Belgian and for sure not Dutch, they are French. However, they do live in

Holland, in The Hague. They gave parties there where they used to sell their

CD. "Join the Psychedelic Family! Take the vibe home! Buy our CD!" A lot of

fun those parties were...

Oh, and I give 'Re-Evolution' a 9 for its catchy tune and 'Time Zone' also a 9

because it is so creepy.