MattMan

Curb your enthusiasm, guys and gals! The release date is pushed forward to May 4th on amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hallucinogen-Dub-L...1837&sr=8-2

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.

Let me.... TELLYOUSOMETHING. Can't wait.

Let's not forget Celtic Cross - Remixed and Remastered! 2009 is shaping up very nicely, yes. Could use a new Infected Mushroom album, though.

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/twi/twi1cd034.html Samples are up at psyshop. Allow me to ;posford; :posford:

For anyone with the Twisted 2007 DVD, he explains this. Ott, written "Ott", rhyming with "snot".

Great movie in many ways, but as always, the neo-con christian right portrays the heroic europeans as the saviors of the Americas. bleh.

The cool thing is, the samples that were available last time it was in the twisted store are so awesome I'm excited just to hear THEM again.

I saw this movie a few months back, and I struggled, to say the least. I'm sure I will give it another try, and I can humbly say I have at least some degree of understanding movies, but this was a nut to crack. Great visuals though, and I understood the message, but not throughout the movie itself.. Somehow.

Ok, let me get really angry, reveal my difficulties with distinguishing between objectivity and subjectivity, drawing pseudo-philosophical connections to something as abstract as personal taste in music. Whoops, I was beaten to it. :drama: An objective truth involves no judgements whatsoever, it's a truth that is discovered (such as the molecular structure of an atom). Everything else is subjective. An objective review of an album would be nothing but graphs and sine waves. I know it sounds fancy to have an "objective opinion", but there is no such thing. Why should we want to get "all scientific" and somehow remove ourselves from subjective interpretation? The pure subjective impression is the very idea behind art.

The strangest thing is.. I remember the nickname "bwhale" from somewhere else, although I can't remember where. I never liked FSOL, and I love being heavily intoxicated while listening to Shpongle, sober or not, so I'd have to vote for them.

I dream of wearing ragged pants with red suspenders, a straw hat, long messy hair, and churning Digajigg loud at an Alabama barn dance full of yokels. It's true.

Got this one today.. I really want to love it, but I just really can't - to the fullest that is. The MC / Reggea / Carribean samples are absolutely horrible, and they destroy every track they're on. Tracks 1(even though it's ruined at the end) 5 (this one is REALLY good) ,6 and 8 are really good, the rest are not even OK.

Yeah, I got this today aswell. #5. HiD is so awesome! It says May 23rd in the ID3 tag here.

Oh Jon, this is A+ if you speak my language. :drama: :posford:

Celtic Cross - Hicksville Remastered & Remixed (Liquid Sound Design) 2009 1 - Mundis Imaginalis (Tribal Dawn Mix) (10:40) 2 - Khatmandu (Iona On The Ganges Mix) (7:49) 3 - Jade Gates (Beauty Knows No Pain Mix) (11:51) 4 - Mundis Imaginalis (Flowercolouredpowerchild Mix) (7:02) 5 - Schwazz (Until Nothing Can Reach Us Mix) (7:57) 6 - Straight For The Jiggular (Crystal Journey Mix) (5:34) 7 - Mundis Imaginalis (The Acoustic Mix) (7:34) 8 - Khatmandu (Short Cut Mix) (6:46) 9 - Digajigg (Babba G Mix) (7:43) Our friends Simon, Saul and Martin has released a set of remixes for our enjoyment. Not before hearing this release, and viewing the beautiful album cover have I realized the humorous undertones in this musical creation. Make no mistake, this is the perfect combination of Posfordian magic and Rednex music (at least towards the end). I don't normally comment on particular tracks as that makes absolutely no sense giving you the ups and downs of a romantiscized, heavily metaphorical idea of what the music sounds like, but I'll give it a go. First of all, it is important to read Youth's ideas and concept for this album, explained in the sleeve, and here. Second of all, the remixes on this album are all new, although some of them are similar to previously released ones, such as Mundis Imaginalus (Tribal Dawn Mix) which is another name for Lapis featured on LSD's compilation Liquid Dub Volume Seven, and Mundis Imaginalis (Flowercolouredpowerchild Mix) released on the compilation "The Warp Experience" from the beforementioned label. Enough of this, let's get to it. This remix album is awesome. Awesome, you say? Yes, awesome. Starting off with Mundis Imaginalis (Tribal Dawn Mix), we're introduced to a version of Mundis Imaginalus without that screeching high pitch sound at the very beginning featured in the original one. Then it gets better. "Lapis" is a good enough reason to pay the 50 dollars or whatever you have to in order to get Liquid Dub Volume Seven. A bubbly version. The second half of the track goes into a much more beat-oriented screechy sound that is very enjoyable. Track #2, Khatmandu (Iona On The Ganges Mix) is naturally a remix of Khatmandu. Not too much changed here, some vocals and different mastering. Still enjoyable. Track #3 Jade Gates (Beauty Knows No Pain Mix) is one of my 3 favourites. Excellent, excellent guitar play, extended from the intro of Jade Garden, the beat is rearranged and more percussion added. It's longer and features some extremely well played violin parts, and some really great samples are used. Goodness, this is a great remix. Track #4 Mundis Imaginalis (Flowercolouredpowerchild Mix) is a stripped version of the original, more primitive and emphasis on the synthline we know very well from the original. A good remix here too. Track #5 Schwazz (Until Nothing Can Reach Us Mix) is a slight remix and re-arrangement of the original Shwazz (which is my absolute favourite Celtic Cross track). It's safe to say this is rearranged somewhat, and put together in an odd way, making it longer, but not very different. Some odd choices here leaves me puzzled. For the better, I think. On to track #6 Straight For The Jiggular (Crystal Journey Mix) which is an energetic remix of the track Hicksville. It's more primitive and features some heavily Posford-chopped sounds and vocals, and an extension of the guitar play. Track #7 Mundis Imaginalis (The Acoustic Mix). This is my second of 3 favourites. The acoustic parts of Mundis Imaginalus stretched and amazingly etched together with a 3rd guitar playing over it. Towards the end we're introduced to familiar synths and melodies. Great stuff. What a remix! Track #8 Khatmandu (Short Cut Mix) is remastered heavily, and rearranged in a very interesting way. Synths added and eerie vocals here too. Jummy. Track #9 seals the deal with Digajigg (Babba G Mix), which is the third favourite of mine. This is something very, very, very different. This is a Darshannon remix. Extremely trancey, this sounds like something that could come out of "The Lone Deranger" hadn't it been for the hicksville of it all. This is, ladies and gentlemen, Rednex featuring Hallucinogen. We've got the Hallucinogen baselines, the "chicki-chicki-chicki-chicki" Hallucinogen percs we know so very much twiddling in the tweeter area, the redneck yokel "yeah yeah yeah yeah" in between the beats, we've got Posfordian chopped vocals (oh, how we love them...), we've got Darhsannon Violin play, and the rest needs to be experienced first hand. What a track. This is the crown of the album, and I can only imagine the laughs the guys must have had while making this track. There you have it. A set of mature, well produced, well mastered, well psychedelic remixes to our fantastic Hicksville release released 9 years ago. This is great from start to finish, and a very, very worthy set of remixes of the near untouchable experience that is Hicksville. All I can say is get this, and get it now. http://www.discogs.com/Celtic-Cross-Hicksv...release/1704172 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/dra/dra1cd089.html

Both are out, check psyshop! I got the remixed one today.. It's just an amazing album!

This is sheer quality. 10/10.

http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ Has anyone tried this? The concept is simple. Download the software, add any picture you like, and the program will chop the image up in how many A4 sheets of paper you like, create a .pdf file, ready to print! Here's what I made in our lounge: Pretty nifty, eh?! Check out the gallery here : http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/gallery.gas?cool

Yesterday browsing some Myspace stuff I found his myspace where it said that he's "working on Shpongle Live DVD" - that being from the Roundhouse - so that's very awesome. I saw Ott wrote that they're 99% done with the Hallucinogen In Dub Live from Brixton album.. but no release date yet. Should be pretty soon I hope. Celtic Cross remixed and remastered is out now: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/dra/dra1cd089.html other than that, I guess they're working on both Shpongle 4 and Younger brother 3 at the moment. From what I've heard from the new Shpongle, the Hallucinogen in Dub samples and the youtube videoes from YB 3.. It sounds frikken outstanding. Twisted Records productions have modernized drastically the last few years, and I love the sound of it!

The Kumba Mela Experiment - East of the River Ganges (Liquid Sound Design) £10 off eBay VA - Dr. Alex Paterson's voyage into Paradise (Liquid Sound Design) £12 off eBay

Main space standing is.. the main space standing, whereas the circle seated spots are quite a few rows of chairs in a half circle high up and around the stage. Some of the seats are blocked by pillars. And how anyone would want to sit down during a shpongle concert is beyond my understanding! In other words, choose the main space standing by all means! See you there!

Yup, I agree insejn. It was mighty good. Especially compared to the Twilight hype.

Really! Wow. That's cool!

Sunkings - Before We Die (Chill Tribe Records, 27 March 2009) 1 Brotherhood (3:59) 2 Mad Love (5:31) 3 Barleycorn (6:37) 4 Sonic Pigg (4:37) 5 Fallen Angel (4:04) 6 Starbuck Revisited (7:52) 7 Sunrise (5:58) 8 Micromega (Old Nicks Mix) (4:17) 9 Sunrise (Optic Mix) (7:23) 10 Some Fractal Mourning (Gumbo Mix) (4:39) 11 Homunculus (Brain Stem Mix) (5:56) Sunkings make a visit to Chill Tribe Records! After more than a decade they're back with full force. Striking, to say the least, Taz Alexander, the vocalist from our beloved Juno Reactor guides this album from start to finish through groovy, dubby electronica. Even tribal influences, together with her voice, makes for clear resemblances to the before mentioned group of musicians. Just listen to track #2 - "Mad Love"! Through Sunkings, Ben Watkins in Juno Reactor discovered Taz and brought her on board. This album carries that talent with extreme care. One of the reasons for that is the way the music is almost catered to the vocals of Taz, which makes the experience extremely rewarding. I dare say this is an outstanding album. The sheer quality of production and mastering makes for something out of the ordinary. I've recently taken a great interest in Dub music, and that makes it all the more exciting to have that collection diversified with Sunkings new album. Now, there is a more electronic / new wave touch as the tracks progress, and I can only imagine how seeing them live would be a great experience. The electronic parts makes for a really great contrast to the more ambient tracks. This shift between ambient / dub / electronic style caters to many different tastes, but what they have in common is a thoroughly presented theme that rings through the whole playlist. It is very exciting when hearing through an album the first few times, and each time confirming your suspicion that there really is a deeper edge to the tracks you're listening to. British electronica / dub is hard, if not impossible to overdo, as all the big names out there can confirm, and in my book, Sunkings takes a solid spot up there with the rest of them. This loungy, British touch to the tracks presented to us makes for a really good vibe. This is a diverse, extremely well produced album. The tracks are well chosen to bring the experience to different peaks as the hour flies by, and the real feat of ingenuity lies in the way Taz' voice has been sampled both as lead vocal but also as really eerie pads to lay a foundation for much of the theme of the album. There also a great obscure part to the experience that is "Before We Die". The artwork and scribblings inside the digipak makes for an interesting touch. You really get the feeling of receiving a complete story with this album, something every artist tries to accomplish. Fans of Juno Reactor will surely recognize the genius of this, as fans of ambient, electronic and dub. Chill Tribe Records has yet again released a superb piece of music. This is highly recommended. :posford: Get it: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ctr/ctr1cd007.html Samples: http://www.arabesquedistribution.com//inde...0&Itemid=20