Ace Ventura

awsome release ! really in a style of its own,a fusion of many techno genres(electro,tekno,idm or whateva) into a freestyle album which doesnt give a fuck about today's dancefloor "rules"... was surprised to hear track n.2 here(Tango de Color Mango) as ive had it for ages on an old TIP compilation...great track! recommended to everyone who's into electronic music

lol nice reply mr issac

Where is Chuck Norris in all this ?

yes indeed a very usefull thread

a recent example that comes to mind is EXTRAWELT - SooperTrack

YOU ARE ALL WRONG,FOOLISH EARTHLINGS!!! j/k,perhaps some of u are right. But from my personal experience,in the trance scene LIVE PA indeed means PERSONAL APPEARANCE(as some of u stated),but in reality, the meaning is that the party promoter was too damm cheap to pay the full fee for a "real" and full live act,thus making a deal with the artist to write LIVE PA on the flyer instead of just LIVE,and the artist would just spin his music from cd instead of "playing live". Never did a "LIVE PA" myself but indeed had a few chances to witness this lame phenomena.....

No,that was not what i was trying to say. I guess not everyone can get my over-sophisticated sarcasm sometimes. So just forget i said anything

Do as u wish Pavel but i would wait a bit with that one maybe 3 years or so hehe very nice joke indeed antic but u know what they say, Don't give up your dayjob just yet

if simon ever needs an ego boost,he should drop by this forum. another posford topic every other day. with all due respect (and there is alot) arnet there other artists in the scene?

well u know,this is the way it sounded to ME(and to Pr0fane too but only in 1 track or so as it seems). It doesnt mean these boys went and directly copy+pasted the name i mentioned. But after carefull listening, i would say the resemblence is in a few tracks only,in the mid-part of the album, and not the whole. Actually its diverse and doesnt have just 1 style,but its not all over the place either - maybe have a listen before u reply again.....

Great review as always Pr0fane.... i definitly agree,a very slick and cool album,and it feels like they took their time with it to finalize every tune. i sure dig their style,though i gotta say,regarding what you said about track 2 - i think most of the album is quite inspired by the progressive housey sound of Dnox and Beckers and not only this track.Which is a good thing .... the 1st track however is a really epic tune, with a very strong Goa-ish feel for a proggi tune!...what a delightful intro quite a lucious cover too... A great opener for 2006 from iboga without a doubt

Dude you are so right.... Orichalchum and the deviant is a big standout amongst the 90's releases imho, so psychedelic.... anyone who doesnt know it better give a serious listen to ALIEN HOMES from that album,now that was some scary piece of psychedelia....

1st of all yes i do know the guy. i didn't meet his "other" side though and like u said everyone has bad days and this incident may have occur indeed,yet i dont think its enough to make the conclusions Sherlock made,especially when he wasn't there.There are many ego maniac shitheads in the scene but from MY experience christian isnt one of them. other than that you are right though i'm not arguing and i thought we have settled this already,as i said perhaps i was abit harsh and will try to be a good boy in the future,for the sake of this forum and all mankind

i agree perhaps i wasnt too kind towards you, but the stuff u said just seemed immature to me and hence my post. but right you are.let's move on

i think you are the one who surely lacks respect here. of course its an open forum and everyone has the right to state his opinion. but the stuff you wrote based on that story is just wrong im my book. my opinion,of course.

and what exactly did u personally see and hear ? u cant just throw accusations in the air without being more specific - it just sucks man. i have met dnox a few times and he is NOT the person you are talking about. In fact,he is one of the nicest people i have met in this scene in a very long while. so i gotta say,grow up and dont talk crap,especially not on good hearted people such as in this case - or at least have some balls to let us know what the hell you are talking about.

Back to the topic, here's a rather long yet quite entertaining bio of Mr.DNox,that could shed some light on his carreer even before the old Tatsu days His career as a DJ and producer being in it's 14th years, d-nox became an international top-act who gained respect for his unusual and innovative DJ-sets among the clubbers as well as other DJ's. The style in his DJ-session expands over all the varieties housemusic provides such as progressive, techhouse up to techno and trance. His professionality concerning the handling of vinyls, his choice of tracks and his unique charisma is exceptionally convincing. D-nox is able to transmute a usual party into an electronic carnival. This characteristic gave him various bookings to the hottest parties and legendary clubs all around the world. Christian Wedekind also known as d-nox was born in December 1975 in a little town in the former GDR. Eversince he was a teenager he was a fan of the way of entertaining people as DJ's did. Apart from his first shows as a school DJ he used to play drums for a couple of years. But he never made it in this branch. 1989, shortly before the Berlin wall fell, Christian Wedekind and his parents fled GDR through the Hungarian- Austrian border. After some adventures his family eventually ended up in Düsseldorf, where he has lived till now. In his new home in the west of Germany he was basically flooded by new media. Longplays, CD's, computer and the right clubs and parties. All this participated in his dream coming true. Consequently, he could not resist music and djing. One day in the beginning of the 90's he got in touch with techno and everything around it. It was tracks like Moby's "go" or Human Resource's "dominater" which he could not withdraw from after some astonishment in the beginning. It was the clubs where there were no rules and it didn't matter who you were and what you did. It was the beginning of his career. The hip music shop "Studio One" greatly influenced the course of his career. This store was the best music dealer in the area and additionally a meeting point for all DJ's, promoters and everyone who was affected by the techno movement. Since he was trusted by some clubowners d-nox was offered the great to determine Celvine Rotane's pre-show at the notorious club "Amnesia" in germany. That was in 1992. His solid and convincing kind draw the attention of further promoters, who booked him on more parties and raves , such as the legendary "Collapse Parties", the "Exitus Parties" and many more. He got his first real show with the engagement as a resident DJ in the Poison Club in germany. There he was responsible for the legendary after parties from 1994 to1996, where many people came from all over the country. His first mixed compilation was released by the Dutch label ID+T in 1995. This CD mirrored his musical spectrum in those days and was very successful with more than 7.500 copies. After leaving the Poison Club in 1996 he toured with his DJ equipment all over Europe and made very important experiences. At this time the project Area Code was created, too. With this pseudonym he organised various parties together with the DJ's Sly Flynn (now Ryan Halifax), Noah and Sebastian Bach in the regional well known clubs like the Tribehouse in Neuss. 1997 area Code were committed in a weekly show at the first line radio station "Evosonic" which ran over 2,5 years every Friday from 7pm until 10pm and reached very high ratings. They released a compilation especially for the radio show and this, too, came out on the Dutch label ID+T. Through the radio show d-nox got very well-known and this gave him various international bookings. After the chapter "Evosonic" was closed, d-nox decided to discover the world and so he set out. India, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Argentine, where ever he was he left his musical marks. Apart from his journey he spent a lot of time at the recording studio, but the first results needed a long time to get finished, but a happy outcome is worth waiting. Meanwhile d-nox and his friend and partner sly flynn became the owners of their own recording studio, where they worked on new tracks as often as they could. Since August 2001 d-nox has been responsible for the musical events at the German progressive techno/ trance label "Tatsu Recordings". Beside the label work, he also creates with his friend Oliver Stark the most important progressive trance party series at the Rhein Ruhr Area. Due to their professionality and their creativity, the synaptic project parties gained a good reputation. www.synaptic-project.de In 2003 d-nox founded his own label "Sprout Music" www.sproutmusic.de . Sprout is a platform for innovative and genre spread club tracks, which you can't categorise within the genre of electronic music. Sprout found with Intergroove one of the best partner in the world for the distribution of this kind of music. Watch out for sprout releases!!!

Dude thats not entirely true. In the mid-nineties ZooB and Krembo(the older name of USTA) WERE THE FACE OF TRANCE IN ISRAEL.They had the krembo shop in the old telaviv harbour and that was the only shop who sold trance in israel,releasing some milestone releases such as the first psychedelic krembo compi,Chakra & Edi mis etc. Plus they had weekly club dates and such......with some seriously kick ass parties.So he definitly contributed to the development of the scene in israel and probably worldwide because he brought so many artists from abroad. Having said that,its unbeleivable how a man who ruled such a big empire ,has fallen so fucking deep.For years we hear so many stories about unpayed artists,lame commercial events and i dont even wanna start talking about the quality level of the USTA releases. Nuff' said

If u ask dnox and beckers what style they make,im sure they will tell you its NOT PROGRESSIVE PSYTRANCE. It sure ain't their fault that somehow their music got crossed over to the psy-scene,theyv'e been playing non-psy events for years(and still do) but now suddenly,they are all over the psy-scene. As a matter of fact,there's not a pinch of psychedelic in their music ,and i think they are even very proud of this fact.They sucseed in rocking huge dancefloor with a different sound than skazi,infected etc etc. Iimho their music doesnt fit in a full-range psychedelic party,but they do have a great spot in clubs and in outdoor festivals at the right time. And the production quality of Beckers,is one of the best today in the whole dance scene, as far as im concerned.

if you're in Tokyo then dont bother going to the big franchise stores(tower hmv etc) go to SHIBUYA and ask for SISKO or QUINTRIX which is a very cool shop with everyhing psytrance related(clothes cool cd bags etc etc).

its a track from Frogacult(iboga), i think the track that opens thier album or the 2nd ......

no idea,got the track from sandi himself....

btw,heard a new sandman track which quite reminds his good old days @ Matsuri amd witchcraft.His latest release on TIP "Taster's choice" wasnt good imo but this new track called NIGHT TRIPPER is a little dose of madness,i think ya'll will dig.

There are some other relativley new projects worth mentioning here- MORAX(half of Triac,which is also kinda proggy but much more Tech-Trancey) MANUEL DUEGO both morax and duego just released cool tracks on iboga's SET 6. other than them there are also AEROSPACE & LISH(which im surprised no one mentioned). i recommend checking the upcoming album of PERFECT STRANGER though,which is quite different from most israely prog material and gets closer to the scando sound

GAUDIUM rules and Nordic nature is an awsome debut imho... i don't agree with the folks who say it's boring,their tracks sturcture is quite minimal,but the production is full power and loaded with fat sounds. i've played some of it and in the right places it works very well....but indeed it flows greatly @ home as well,because it never shouts too much and its craftly mixed and mastered. what a nice return from the darkness for Spiral trax! Favorite track...walking in circles !