psytones

Welcome to the first Maltese Psy-Trance ever released on the first Maltese Psy-Label. It’s dark and it’s twisted! Kemic-Al is a former Psychedelic%Hallucinogenic trance composer/producer from Malta. He’s a veteran in the trance trade, formerly known as Zaldonite and in recent time known as Dimension-Al as he is reaching out to other realm of his mind and closing down the Kemic-Al chapter. His label, Butterfly Records is an independent underground label based in Malta (Kemic-Al Lab Studio). The concept of creating the label is purely to release previously unreleased psychedelic music of Kemic-Al's own creation as well as underground music from their artist friends from around the globe. The label and its releases are dedicated to a long lost friend, Sharyn, who was lost in a tragic accident in 1999, Holland. Her nickname was Butterfly as she had a butterfly tattooed on her chest. May she rest in eternal bliss.. Kemic-Al - Twisted Parameters (Butterfly Records) 2005 (BTFCD01) 1. 1888 A.C. Train to Madness 2. What Lies in the Shadows 3. Piskumany 4. Wake Up Call 5. Peace on Earth Remix 6. Batidas Por Minuto 7. Twisted Parameters 8. Klassic-Al 9. Z.Zora as the album starts to spin we are greeted by a very mystical intro with sounds from an old amusement fair, then a massive baseline with a pumping heavy atmosphere rumbles out of from nowhere followed by a deep and rumbling voice that could have come from the underworld itself. A man speaks of the returned genius. What characterizes this album is the intense dark rumbling sound of Kemic-Al's imagination. It's a deep world of horror, joy, frightening sounds and beautiful pumping dark beats. The first track is really the whole essence of Kemic-Al - Twisted Parameters. What lies in the shadows? Whatever lies in your imagination, right? Kemic-Al seems to be pushing himself hard to make the listener move into his dark and trippy world of strange voice and sound samples that make the listener forget what heaven sounds like. This sounds odd, I know, but it works. This isn't your average album that follows a common structure. It plays with your mind, health and stability. It's bouncy and scary with high energy, massive hulking structures and complex multiple layers which at times can be too random and disturbing. For the sample lover there is more than enough to feast your ears on. There are so many different sound samples, like the simple, but oh-so-genius brushing your teeth on the fourth track. If you’re fond of lots of cool movie and sound snippets this should work for you. Actually, the sound samples in general used in this album are so enormous that it would take me days to write about all of them. Of course, we have seen many artists that abuse samples and unfortunately ruin their otherwise good albums. But Kemic-Al manages to use these samples in such a comfortable way, that they almost melt into the tracks. As the album spins in your CD player, you will get tired. Although it is a masterpiece of a dark twisted world, I do miss some light in-between the darkness. Some floating pieces of light in the tunnel would be great. Because this album will not let you go, it will not let you breathe. Its intensions seem to be that it wants you to crack your head open against the wall. It wants you to suffocate, to make you understand that it is lethal. And you are mere mortal. The second last track on the album is another twisted dark track that brings you into a more playful world of classical melodies and instruments. I am of course talking about the powerful Classic-Al. In this piece Cheech Martin, famous from the Cheech and Chong franchise, makes sure that if you don’t like Kemic-Al’s music, then you can kiss his furry little butt. And after that speech the classical piano jumps in, and the piano is just a tool for Kemic-Al now, playing with the buttons making the world of Kemic-Al go twisted and classic. After a hard pumping session Kemic-Al turns softer with a slow track of 90 BPM. Now this track isn't bad per se, but it doesn't speak to me as much as I hoped it would. It seems a bit too easily made and he seems a bit too carried away with the strange atmosphere that he has given us throughout the album. Yet as a finishing piece to a dark and epic album like this, it's acceptable! "You humans, sometimes it's hard to imagine how you made it this far" Overall this album is as mentioned dark, twisted and energetic. It's a massive psychedelic work with tons of layers, depth and atmospheres. This is an artist who does not care about appealing to everyone, about normal standards, boring beats and unoriginality. This is an album seemingly inspired by earlier acts such as Xenomorph, The Delta and the likes. The baseline is in the same style of artists such as Hujaboy, Fungus Funk, Bug Funk, Psykovsky and other PsyCore acts. The production is clean and very professional yet fuzzy and unclear which makes it come off as dark and dirty. Highly recommended for fans of the darker side of Psy-Trance! Where to buy and other links: Butterfly Records: http://www.myspace.com/butterfly_records Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/bft/bft1cd001.html Saikosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=4551 Beatspace: http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=1497 Wirikuta: http://www.wirikuta.at/web66/product_detai...howDetail=67823 Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kemic-Al MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic

Lets just call it trance then.

My god.. dont make your self look folish Cinos.. Your argumenting with BS. anyway.. Trance is what we would call the umbrella of it "all". Eurotrance is the more "softer" xtc trance that Tiesto (like Redeemer said) ruined. Why? Because eurotrance became (to) big with his name. So others wanted to make eurotrance, mostly people who seemingly should be making Eurodance. Lasgo ect ect ect ect.. are not making Eurotrance .. They are/where making Eurotrancedance.. It's like the same thing thats happening in Isreal and psytrance. When a music style is "underground" and it becomes big and popular, there will always be people out there making their own version of it. Like the new Full-On style. Made to fill the music floor, and most of all. Make money. Music for ......... people. Oh.. And Cinos is right in one thing.. Goa and trance are connected. No matter what you say Redeemer. And we see both in past, present and futhure that they are mixed in each other. They all have the same father. Called "Electronica"

Sorry man.. But your talking about "newer" Eurotrance. But your discription is more suited for "Eurodance". Good Eurotrance would be from the mid 90th's. Like the two first compilations from Tiesto, "Magik 1 & 2", Forbidden Paradise is also a very good compilation series. After 1999 things began to fall apart. Tracks became more commercial, kids started to "digg" the music. And lyrics became popular. Ero, Euro trance became more and more Eurodance. But artists like Armen Von Buuren keeps the "original" eurotrance spirit alive. See.. I think this is happening to psytrance. Full-On is the "new" psytrance. And it is apeling more to the wide crowd then Goa. Full-On is replacing "Eurotrance" as we speak.

aahh.. the memories! np: Ween - Chocolate And Cheese ::: great album!

Totaly agree! (tho i wrote something else on my review at trance.net) Streched (On the album "IM The Supervisor") is really boring to me now. And DWK is a genius and varieded track. But imo, "The Messanger" kicks it's ass. DWK is a track that I heard over and over and over again for many years. Right now i'm fed up with it. I also think that The "Other Side" album on CV is pure bless. Kindergarden? Who cares.. It's bloody original and fucking amazing as well. To bad CV - Trance side turned out to be such a... mmm. Boring album. But no doubt. Erez is a very good producer. He knows how to make "quality" music. Dont agree to the latest albums. But the quality is good.

Well... I'm not 100% shure about this. But...

Absolut fav. Must be "Tasty Mushroom".. "Noisemaker" (my god what a baseline) and "P.G.M" 3 "Killha" tracks in a row. God damn.. it's such an amazing album. I can't belive how original and phat this album really is. Unbalanced and Never Never Land is pure amizing as well.

what does the B.P stand for anyways.....? -------------------- Beats Pr. (minute) Empire... just a show off name for the increadble baselines that they use.

I can't name names right now (i'm at work, and my memory isn't that good). But the "closest" thing you'll get to B.P Empire would be some deep house (the right kind). Tho.. nothing is like B.P Empire.

Guess they wanted to make more "danceble, floor filler, good vibration, happy, airhead, xtc feeling music. You know, to catch the wider audience and the kids who are the future fans. The money, the fame and the ... plastic fantastic. To be honest.. I have tripped to The Gathering, Classical Mushroom and B.P Empire. But I have never tripped to IM The Supervizor. Guess it's pure inocent trip fun? btw. Nothing is as trippy as the solo works of you young Erez.. Especially SHIVA SHIDAPU - Shiva devotional. My god what a strange world he creates with this track! Sorry for beeing off-topic.

B.P Empire is Infected's "adult" album. I know I have heard something simular (tho there is no albums like this if i'm not mistakin') I would also check out Facing by Infected Mushroom, Deep mix of the track B.P Empire and the legendary, "Roll Us A Giant". Oh and how and why don't you like "The Messanger"? It is really far out trippy.

Ooooohhh.. it sounds really psychedelic.

You did? Wanna send it to me? Edit: Can I ask how much you payed/what album(s) you exchanged for it?

I really love this album, especialy because of IM's tracks ("Into the Matrix" and one of IM's best ever tracks.. "Classical Mushroom") As they wrote inside the sleeve: WARING!!! THIS IS NOT A "FULL ON" COMPILATION! :::.

mhm

I second that ... Good music for me is psychedelic

of cource you do you forgot the last F&L In LV sample. 'One of the things you learn after years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug.'

Nice words there Le Lotus Bleu, and to your question; "Yes.. Yes it is!"

Are you talking shit about my new (very proud) Sennheiser HD-25, mister!?! btw. I agree on the AKG K270S ...

yes.. i'm in a bad mood. Sorry for taking it out on you my friend, but your comment about Manga beeing BS really...

I wanna be a hippie and I wanna get stoned on.. mari, Marijuhana! (double post)

Nothings better then a confession, right.

:D :cant wait!!: (PKS is doing a great job)

now that was a bit unnecessary Cino's! I havent voted, because i'v only heard 3 - 4 tracks. But I really do like .::E.P's track with Space Cat on the "Life Is..." compilation. (i tripped on this track 2 nights ago.. (sorry E.P if your offended by that) "SPACE CAT AND ELYSIUM - Lquid dub connection"