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    Shpongle Live in Concert

    in General Psytrance

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    Woooaaaaa!! This was awesome!!

     

    I've also got a story to tell.

     

    Woke up at 02:30 friday morning, walked to trainstation in oslo, got to the airport

    Landed 08:00 at stanstead

    Walked around in hyde park till 12 when our hotel rooms were done

    Slept till 17:00, took tube to chalk farm station

    met some incredible people before the show started

    digged the prometheus / younger brother warmup DJ stuff

    LOVED the gig, danced like a maniac, exhausted, shpongled, shpongled, shpongled

    got a t-shirt

    stood in queue for about 3 hours for afterparty

    danced to prometheus, green nuns, finally Ott

    £20 cab ride back to hyde park hotel

    slept 16-17 hours saturday

    flew back to Oslo tonight.. and I can't stop playing this clip

     

     

    My god this was awesome. Chills, goosebumps, adrenaline rushes, claustrophobia. great fun.

     

    ~~~~~~~~SHPONGLE 4!!~~~~~~~~

    V/A - Ease Division 3

    in 2008

    Posted

    Posted Image

     

    01 James Murray - Last man in the world (instrumental)

    02 Amos - Street lights

    03 I Awake - Life Cipher

    04 Carbon Based Lifeforms - Endospore

    05 Solar Fields - Feelings

    06 Vibrasphere feat. Irina Mikhailova - Meander

    07 Xerxes - Early morning crystals

    08 Illuminus - Dem Cowboys

    09 Chromosome - Evens Heaven

    10 Blue Planet Corporation - A Foret(e)st Of Paradise

    11 Kritical Audio - Yellow Blend

     

     

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    Ott - Skylon

    in 2008

    Posted

    This album is terribly boring. And what's even worse, it made me like Blumenkraft even less.

     

    Yeah, yeah - Ott and dub, yes yes yes, we get it. And it's horribly boring. It's the same thing over and over again. Rogue Bagel is the only decent track, but those exact vocals are used by many other artists.

     

    2/5

    Ian Ion - Gringo Locomotion

    in 2008

    Posted

    Ian Ion - Gringo Locomotion

     

    Tracklisting:

    1 Noises Of Us (2:50)

    2 Slappna Av (8:17)

    3 Postcards Are People (5:08)

    4 Monica's Hunger (3:36)

    5 Tablatronix (1:47)

    6 Scarborough Unfair (5:07)

    7 Ziggurat (6:04)

    8 We Could Be Housewives (2:22)

    9 Dim Summing (2:44)

    10 Coon Calling (0:30)

    11 Sunshy (4:15)

    12 To My Future Past (18:31)

     

     

    Read the digipak sleeve, and you’ll see this album has an interesting concept! We all know Ian Johansson from Koxbox and Saiko-pod, but music under his alias Ian Ion is new to me. A debut such as this, with an IDM / Ambient release is impressive. There is much about this album that reminds me of other artists. Elemental Journey (Matt Coldrick and Matt Hillier) is a name that pops up, and of course, there is a level of familiarity with previous work of Ian. The 12 tracks are quite diverse in terms of feel and sound. There’s a good balance between having to be relaxed listening to this and how much it relaxes you - and I also get the feeling that the album is doing a great job of surpassing the casualness and “let’s be experimental just to be experimental” feel that other IDM musicians might have a tendency to express. No, this album follows the exact same quality of production as other Chill Tribe Records releases have – and that’s impressive to say the least. The album is roughly divided into three parts, and everything is mixed in a way that gives great fluency. Vocals, live instruments and synthesizers are all working together, and with good headphones or a decent sound system, you’ll hear the impressive amount of work put into the effects of stereo sound. Most of the soundcapes are in the higher level of frequencies, and the level of detail is remarkable. This really is IDM on a very high level, and you won’t have to run through the album many times to understand the structure and sense of direction it offers. The middle part of the album is full of ear-candy. Really, sit down and concentrate on what you’re listening to, and you’ll realize the talent presented in the build of effects and layers of sound. “We Could Be Housewives” is an excellent example of this… I’ve never been a big fan of this kind of music other than ‘the greats’ within IDM, and this album is definitively one of those that jumped out at me to shake my frame of mind regarding my personal preferences. Stick this record under the Christmas tree and watch the holiday stress fade away in the blink of an eye. Interestingly, the last third of this album offers something completely different. Sunshy’s crisp guitar play, with a touch of Röyksopp, a voice message and a Casio-watch beep are all in store to change the mood to something else. And, for my part, the last track - To My Future Past - is what pushes this album from great to excellent. This is absolutely blissful music. By then you’ve stopped thinking about “is this ambient or IDM?” your head is soothed and you’re anticipating what this last, long track has to offer. It’s like a big cookie at the end, in contrast to the shorter (and at times very short) tracks in the previous two thirds. The lower parts of the levels of frequencies kick in, mid-base and even lower base. Ah, you simply don’t want this to end! I love this part of ambient music when you’re able to turn the sound up at very high levels without having to regret it when your brain starts to pulsate painfully… Instead, you’re enhancing the detail and the structure of the tracks that lifts the atmosphere greatly. This has definitively a Scandinavian sound to it; Biosphere is another name you’ll be thinking about throughout this hour. I can’t do much else than to tell you that this is some of the most impressive beat-less music in my collection, and any lover of IDM and Ambient should not be without it.

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