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  1. I love it. I love the Aes Dana releases (although I didn't use to), Solar Fields is perfection, CBL is really gloomy and great, HUVA network is interesting, whereas Distances probably is top 3 ultmae releases, Hol Baumann is pretty good. I tend to enjoy the compilations a lot.

     

    I Awake

    Sync 24

    James Murray

     

    are okayish. nothing too spectacular.

     

    I haven't gotten around to buying the new Substans album from Circular. They're fellow Norwegians, so I guess I have to. Any good?

     

    Other than that, CBL are growing into something even better and better.. Very much the same from Solar Fields, just look at Movements.

    I hope we get CBL 3 in 2009!

  2. I just can't understand the track-by-track "descriptions" that are featured in most reviews here.

     

    "It made me feel like I was in a forest in a warm summer breeze as the base kicks in, with beautiful synths"

     

    I'd like to see people's imagination stretched to deeper levels than this, so unfortunately I don't read many reviews. Usually the most interesting things I get out of them are 1) if the artist have changed direction or not, 2) genre change, 3) comparison / contrastion to previous works.

     

    I'll do my own daydreaming track by track, thank you. :)

  3. murpheythecat: i agree with what you're saying.

     

    Melancholyman: did you by chance catch the interview where Duvdev 1) acknowledges the fact that they're *letting down* their old fanbase by making new bubblegum music, and 2) talking crap about them by suggesting that they masturbate so much that the skin on their hands literally will tear off? :lol:

     

    You tell me you're not going to feel pretty shitty when Solar Fields features Busta Rhymes and Nelly Furtado on MTV. Yes, he will let you down. It doesn't have anything to do with obligation. It has something to do with talent, and using it. Clearly our hebrew boys have thrown that notion away a long time ago.

     

    IM has disappointed... it's like winning the nobel prize then going to work in their lab for another 10 years and coming out with something stupid and worthless. Sure they contributed a few good tracks, but then they lost it. Of course they can produce whatever they want, but I would hardly call them great artists. I don't understand how their first albums were good anyways? The Shidapu albums were pretty good, but then just the odd track by Infected Mushroom.

    Huh? I though you loved the new stuff IM has put out. I can picture you chewing on a glowstick and throwing kisses at duvdev while the reflection of his bald head shines brightly in your heart. :(

  4. Unfortunately I found this EP to be way below CBL standards. It doesn't sound like anything they've done before. I'm not saying that makes it impossible for them to make interesting music, but outside their comfort-zone (as I think this EP is), they're not being able to channel their creativity. The samples from the new album sounds absolutely mindbowing, so thankfully we can forget about this hickup and look forward to the proper CBL sound.

  5. no passion, no inspiration, no tension. it's music like an air freshener, i notice it but it doesn't touch me at all. very, very disappointing.

    I agree. I can't tell where this album is going, and besides that, there's nothing else than the "plink, ploink" sounds bluetech's always had. It was never appealing to me, so unless he starts a completely new project, I can't get into it.

  6. My digestive system is much more sensitive to psy than to "ambient" if we can call it that. Buying a psytrance / goa trance album for me is a huge committment as I use a lot of time to get into it - I just got 2 off Anoebis, and it's still in my belly. Lovely taste.

     

    Anything from Ultimae / Twisted Records are instantly evaluated and (almost always) loved from first listen.. In that respect, seeing Twisted / Liquid Sound Design are on offense, 2009 looks smashing.

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