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yes i'm charge of the site till the 16th, as i did in february. don't worry, but be careful to send your reviews to me, and not children during that time . thx

Akira : you're right, i had thought about this issue and i'm looking for a solution..it isnt easy at all

i like both styles with a preference to melodic/psy stuff actually i think some minimal tracks are as strong as some pure full on tracks, but they dont occur as oftenly...examples : spirallianz - onewayltd, midimiliz - cream, tegma - satanic wars, tegma - quel cimetière, tegma - x-calibur, some auricular tracks, and more...

debate closed

express review of the 13 skulls : Great Great Great Great Great especially for the "30% ambient - 70% psy" Shpongle track !!!

Thanks Bor ! eheheh! we are on http://www.psyhead.net/plur2/MVC-385F.JPG (me : gray tshirt; my friend : small guy aside) We met Anoebis, Isis, Bor, Lizzy, Psilo, and many people i had seen at the Senseblender festival. I think i saw Moondancer, but i'm not sure. By the way, we saw people from Strasbourg and Lille (FR). They were friendly, and they told me that they had known the party thanks to this site. Cool to hear that ! (if you read it, can you contact me please ?). They are on some of the photos too. As for the party, oldschool tracks like the ones we heard don't exist anymore in France. I enjoyed them a lot, especially when Joske played 'Vimana'. I really think it would have been a mistake not to go to this party !!....no dealers, no problems, cool and vast place, good vibes, Anoebis+Isis always smiling... We were 4 but one of our friends has ear problems and he had forgotten his earplugs (!!), so 2 of us stayed in the car....too bad for them. We left at 8AM, completely tired. Thanks Joske !

some tall blond man, living in bordeaux, in touch with some famous israeli people (!!!) told me that...he was told that...Ofer has an album ready. the problem for us is still the release date

Bio Tonic - Elektrik Colors Artist: Bio Tonic Title: Elektrik Colors Label: Solstice Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 06'57" The 3rd Link 02. 06'47" Stream 03. 07'43" Zoological 04. 07'30" Ayauesca 05. 08'04" Intersideral Meeting 06. 07'09" The Ghost Show 07. 07'29" Sanctuary 08. 08'13" The Ultimate 09. 06'54" Peacefull Perception Review: The 3rd Link(1) starts quickly, progresses nicely, on a psy style. It kicks and drives you high directly, but it's not exhausting. the breaks are pleasant, the psy touches are ok. there are voices at the end while the tracks rolls a lot to reach the end. it seems it's too short while its ~7 minutes! Stream(2) is a kicking track that grown nicely and drives you to dance. Hard, and happy on a dancefloor. Zoological(3) sounds like rhythm and bits of psy sounds around. not various enough. Ayauesca(4) pumps while small sounds behind try to excite your brain. There are also drums. nice work, but not enough. Intersideral Meeting(5) takes a moment to start but it peppers you with some little notes. After the break there is no real change but the track is ok. The Ghost Show(6) is dark and inventive. I'm not sure but i think people would really love it on a dancefloor. there are several breaks and touches of darkness and guitar that make it enjoyable! Sanctuary(7) is a bit industrial, a bit psychedelic, a bit whatever, but it seems it never really starts, never catches the listener. Too bad, this could have been a bomb. It's ok but....once again there is a small thing missing here! The Ultimate(8) is a downtempo track. It's very linear but it gives a break. nice synth lines. Peaceful Perception(9) is another calm track. the rhythmic is more dubbed. it drives you during a cool moment, with evanescent notes, voices, and it becomes a bit more psychedelic with more smooth acid loops at the end. Overall this is a good quite good album, better than many this year, BUT with a big flaw. Biotonic guys -while very good technically- have concentrated too much on the rhythmic to such an extent that many tracks sound the same (imagine gms minus the psychedelia or darksoho minus the wild guitar parts...). A kick and a bassline don't make it anymore, because it's too common. Anyway i think many of those tracks are valuable on a dancefloor....With more work it could have been far better........6.5/10.

Actually it is a good revival because the tracks are well chosen. For people newly involved into psytrance, this is a good summary of what israeli artists are able of. For the others (who own most of these tracks), there is far less interest in owning this compil.

I found those tracks boring while i had loved the previos tracks from Walhalla. It seems those have been done in a hurry. too bad coz the potential is here! Something around 5/10.

The review above sais everything but here are my comments: 1-very good. seems GMS remix everything they hear 2-should have been called Reload remix2...is it a joke ? ayway its a very danceable track. 3-this one is very good, typical GMS overtwisted style. only one remark: they should have put less RajaRam gossip within. 4-well, good one 5-funny one, well engineered...it must be listened to because its hard to imagine what's some cowboy-psytrance 6-To the limit of cheese...but efficient...and twisted. 7-awesome track with all the imagination and style of LB. poerful & smooth. 8-Serge delivers us a masterpiece of psy-modern-TE-like-trance 9-grooaaaaarrhh what a track !! It will steal your soul. Now Deedrah knows how to make minimal crazyness. Definitely THE compil of the year so far !

This album is really too cheesy for me.

Snug As A Bug - Imitate People Artist: Snug As A Bug Title: Imitate People Label: Hadshot Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. Couple Of These 02. Flat Freddy 03. Free Haze 04. Imitate People 05. Piphonic 06. Beware Of The Baboons 07. Second Level 08. Fools On Fancy Dress 09. Big Block (Rmx) 10. Smuggling Beat Review: Fools on Fancy Dress is a dark piece of music, fast and industrial. the bassline is very good and some voices seems to cross the music sometimes. There are touches of psychedelia thru very dark sounds. the breaks are in the good place. I think this is intelligent minimal psy. Beware of the Baboons attacks very hard from the begining. It sounds like some Auricular stuff. It's linear in the rhythmic but the rest changes a lot and tends to evolve in some scary sound association. Ouargh it doesn't let you take a breath until the middle of the track. What strange sounds they use! Big Block Remix looks like some track of Authentik...like a run in a thriller. Then it becomes more basic with a great play on bassline and drums. then it becomes more psychedelic with two more layers of plastic notes and drums. Yet it's very basic and should be played in the middle of the night. Second Level is very linear, still full of industrial sounds...quite jumpy but may be boring at the end. Couple of these is fast and full of bass. I guess people would dance on this one with energy. Yet it has little stops and additions of dark sounds along the track. After a big break it restarts aggressively and one more line of bass gives more depth to the track along with small sounds that seem happy compared to the rest. There is a really beautiful play with the basslines near the end. Wonderful track. Free Haze gives you the feeling you are in a medic laboratory in an asylum beacause the sounds are weird. After the intro, a layer of growly dark sounds and a layer with a calm smooth melody is added to the rhythm. After a break, it becomes more mental, very fast bassline, indus sounds...at the end its really spooky, but not noisy. Perfect music for an horror movie! Piphonic uses the same receipe as before. The rhythmic rolls a lot, but the sounds seem to give it a funky touch. A few notes and the reverb are well used to give more depth. After the middle of the track it's more aggressive but the content remains the same. I wonder how they did the ghost-voices... Smuggling Beat is very minimal, with a big beat and terror sounds again. Some little plastic notes take place progressively and your atention is caught by a big snare. It is really very industrial but the rhythmic makes it very groovy. too bad it becomes a bit rough and boring near the end. Overall don't forget your strait-jacket before listening to that album. It's a very good one. I'm not a minimal expert but i'd give it at least 8/10.

i think this is noise...oh actually yes this is very good in THE party with THE sound and THE djs...but at home...damn!! this is noise.

The Antidote - Antidotcom Artist: The Antidote Title: Antidotcom Label: Solstice Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 07'54" Geometric 02. 08'04" Altiplanos 03. 08'10" Forbidden Planet 04. 07'21" Have A Drink 05. 07'47" Narco Airlines 06. 07'42" Antidotcom 07. 08'26" Balearic 08. 09'14" Transylvania 09. 07'29" We Come In Peace Review: Serge / Total Eclipse and his girlfriend didn't stay idle in Ibiza: in this hard moment for psychedelia, they prepared one of those albums that stay in people's memories. let's go: Geometric (1) uses the sounds that you liked in TE tracks, except that there are less melodies. after 3 minutes there is a high rate of psychedelic sounds. Then this psy-sequence remains and is melted with the rest of the music. At 6', there's another big rise of psychedelia! It's excellent, it's a killer, you have to listen to it! Altiplanos (2) has also those oldschool little twisted melodies everywhere over a big fat rhythmic. there are a few breaks but it remains the same all along. Yet it's still very good. Forbidden Planet (3) has this kind of different 'breakbeat' rhythmic GMS use all the time. Over that, there are several loops with small strange and amazing sounds that make you think about an ambulance siren...some sounds come over the others just before a psychedelic melody comes at 5' and makes you happy! Nevertheless it is a repetitive psychedelic track: it's only made of small changes all along the track while the ambulance passes! Have a Drink (4) has an enormous bassline and seems very flat at first, but some fat psysounds come after 3'...at 3'30 there is a break and the track degenerates from there : a little swwet melody...you want to dance...the rhythmic becomes more and more present...you start to move...the psysounds come back and climb into psychedelia several times, while the tiny melody comes back too! this track is like a fight of Good vs Evil. Narco Airlines (5) is very linear. the bassline rolls over and over, and that's all. There are cool breaks mixed with a few psy, but that's not that amazing. At 5' it becomes better, with a typical TE melody. Antidotcom (6) is based on the same model as the others : good rhythmic, small twisted repetitive melodies coming and quitting all the time. However this track is good and makes you move for sure! Balearic (7) also reminds me of the golden age of TE int he begining..this is a pleasant trip thru acid-treated sounds...at 3'30 there is only a light layer of cool sounds above the kick...just when needed (5') there is a psychedelic rise, just as if the cool sounds had degenerated all of a sudden...then it becomes very light again...and at 7'+ there is a big psychedelic moment that will make you all dance like hell ! wow! Just at the end it still manages to get higher out of psysounds. This track is full of surprises! Transylvania (7) is a big fast-trip into Serge's inimitable sounds. It's had to describe but it follow the same recipe as the other tracks. there are mainly 2 layers: the rhythmic one and the melodies all ove the track. It could be a morning song and make you smile a lot. We Came in peace (8) is very calm with sounds that trigger your brain sometimes...a bit like Deedrah does sometimes. This track seems to have been put there to make you calm down and appreciate the end of the album. Globally this album has no defect. It's really good and up-to-date as it mixes oldschool psychedelic melodies with the modern -more agressive- mood. This album is for sure a big hit of 2001...Yet there is one issue : it's really hard to find..I had to order it at Saikosounds (Hong Kong)! I hope it will be correctly distributed in the world very soon...or maybe it'll become one of those mystic killer albums that only a happy-few have. Someone told me Atomic would redistribute it. I Really hope for that, for you !!! 9/10

this albim was released a long time after but you're right, those are very old tracks, before the ones above.

maybe also Transmissions / Juno Reactor (NovaMute 93)

I don't think this is so bad. This can be listened to when you are relaxed, and it works fine there. Honestly some tracks are good journeys. The problem is that it's not psytrance, not ambient, just something hybrid. The begining of the album is not my cup of tea, but from track nr 6 it gets really better. It may deserve a try for those who like experimental psyweirdstuff. 6/10

V/A - Origins Artist: Various Title: Origins Label: Turbo Trance Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 08'44" Cameleon : Mama Diolat 02. 07'29" Silicon Sound And Wallhala : Funky Droid 03. 09'34" Hyper Frequencies Aka Gill : The Lost Generation 04. 08'29" Psyside : Virtual Reality 05. 09'19" Biodegradable : Spikadelic 06. 08'06" Neuromotors : Crazy Crooner 07. 06'10" Growling Moon Spirits : Ex-Whales 08. 10'24" Blue Planet Corporation : Cargo Cult 09. 07'47" TIT : Tit For Tat Review: This is an almost 100% French compilation Turbo Trance recs have released here. We can hear new talented artists from Paris & the South of France. --01-- The track is a collaboration betwwen DJ Ninja and 1/2 Bamboo Forest. The drums are just like in 'Fireworld' by Ninja, so it's groovy (!), the track remains very minimal at the same time, and i think it could have been better. Yet it's not bad at all. The minutes pass and the theme and everything behind remains the same, except a few drums and a growly line added. A typical Bamboo Forest theme starts after 4:30 with some poppy sounds, samples and distorsions, so it saves the track quite well. --02-- An usual track with a fast drumwork, overlayed by kind-of funky sounds sometimes in the first two minutes. Then you can really hear the bassline and the sounds are far more synthetic and the whole thing is quite groovy. Yet i'm not convinced by this track which ends on being psychedelic. At least it's more refreshing than the flow of minimalistic things released this year, but i think there is something missing. Too bad as i've seen Wallhala live and it was really good. --03-- After the wonderful Running Time EP, Gill is back with a less impressive track, in my opinion. The track is made up of a monotonic beat, 4 layers of bassline, different sounds and little sounds plus some distorted notes that raise over all the others instuments at the middle of the track, just before a break. then the track becomes more plain and psychedelic but we're already at 5:20. The end is an evolution of the begining and it even get uplifting, but too late. To summarize, there is everything that is needed but it shouldn't have been so long. --04-- The 2 Psyside guys have improved a lot in the last months and it can be heard. Now they are quite masterful with their equipment, the music is here, everything is in place and we have a great great oldschool-like track. The rhythm, drums, snares are really full-on oriented, fast and jumpy, there are psychedelic sounds & effects everywhere, the breaks are just in the good place, the main theme is cool and, honestly, the style is now as good as some former talented great psychedelic groups. A real good track. Keep on this way Psyside! --05-- In the begining it's a fast, flat and dark track with lots of wobbling noises. The groove is good, just repetitive enough, but to my mind there is something missing. It looks a bit like a mass of psy-sounds that sound like psytrance From 4 minutes it gets better with a line of music and i'm positively amazed. At 5:30 the direction of the track changes and it's very good, the raise and the following long break are all right! However the end is botched up and repetitive... --06-- Neuromotors, on the rise, deliver us a tribal track that is hard and energetic. The begining is clearly tribal, overlayed by strange dark noises. Then it becomes more psychedelic just when the listener wants more. I've already heard this track live and it's a good one. After a break, the track becomes more creepy and it could be easily compared to DarkSoho style. At the end it becomes nervous and some growly sounds followed by the stranges soubnds of the begining are the main theme of the last part of the track. Well done. --07-- When i see Growling Mad Something somewhere, i tend to know how the track is going to be : a sudden begining with horror sounds, then a very fast track with a breakbeat-like rhythm and growling twisted sounds everywhere during 7 minutes. this track is a bit like that -indeed-...the classic break ending with the faded-in come back of the music over a short repetitive melody. Then there is a 'stop!', and the track changes a bit from there : it becomes more reasonable but with a gms background and a well done drumwork. Then it raises more and more to reach a point where a total psychedelic-gms'ed-music starts (5:10). Another break and this is the end. This is a classic GMS track, but this is a cool one. --08-- BPC gives us a long & quiet track but it's not ambient at all : flat beat, samples all of the same kind, nothing that hurts...nothing to say, it's like a Landing. everything is smooth, the style is good. In fact we don't realize it but hte track evolves all the time. It becomes more melodic near the end with some kind of cool raise and sounds that seem to overcome the others. good. --09-- the track begins with "listen to this sound" and it's right as the track is really wonderful! Full of layers with distorsions, raising, sweeping, twisting, but so calm at the same time because the drums background remains really simple. It evolves in the distorsions along the minutes and becomes really more psychedelic at 4:15, but still not nervous. Near 7 minutes it beginns to be repetitive, but as this is an end-of-warm-up track, it's ok. Overall this is one of the best compils i've heard this year. With only new or to-confirm artists, Origins is a really good piece of sound. It's what it should be : psychedelic, rhythmic, various, for every taste. I think that some artists in this compil really match up to lots of other confirmed artists (and i'm not chauvinistic), especially tracks 4,6,7,9. So i'm waiting for your albums on the Turbo Trance label, all you guys!! Without hesitation : 8.5/10.

Deedrah - Far And Away Artist: Deedrah Title: Far And Away Label: Hadshot Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 06'14" Liquid Skies (GMS Rmx) 02. 07'57" Far And Away (Low End Mix) 03. 07'02" Reload (GMS Rmx) 04. 03'50" Land Of Freedom (Radio Edit) Review: One cant deny "Liquid Skies" is from Deedrah as GMS havent tortured too much the track that is still dreamy with some specific growly sounds over it. Imagine a melodic track with a smooth layer made of the specific Deedrah bassline/drumthing..then a beautiful little melody ending on a raising layer that comes and comes as well as more and more GMS music style...then the music restarts and GMS now lead the progress of it (in a very good inventive day). Another break and you can jump over the place : Deedrah bassline has restarted...but the growly sounds come to overlap it in a final raise...and this tiny melody lets you breath one more time before a final fire totally GMS-are-psychos-like. This is a wonderful track ! Far and Away is less fine as the sounds are more crunchy. First this is an usual track that goes up and down in its melody several times before really begining. The drums and samples have been worked really well to make you dance. Then...beware..We have some nice layers like in the previous track...just before the sounds get totally distorted and put loads of crazyness among the listeners. there, the beat is a hammer ! Now i realize Deedrah could have stolen some IM synths-settings to do that !! Break. To give you an idea, the bassline is like the one in "Coming Soon" from XDream. Deedrah alternates clear sharp sounds and distorsions with loads of echoes. The track has lots of little stops between its parts..like little stories that follow. The kick stays very present over more smooth layers...and the mad part restarts. wow ! The whole track could be less hashed to be perfect but it's great as its something of a NEW style ! Making a Reload remix is a though task after the success the original has had. It didn't stop GMS at all ! Same begining, then the first rush is overlayed with GMS wobbly samples. Then it's GMS everywhere...They must be awoken currently as the work is really good. The track timeline hasn't changed much, but the rhythm is more jumpy to try to make you take off more efficiently. In the last quarter, after the still wonderful violin part, we have the highest point of the track that has a machinegun as the rhythm, growly manic sounds as the melody and..."still looking very good"..before the last patterns cooked by the 2 mad men. LOF is a true uplifting classic..now its cut to 3:50...let's see : the melody is less goa-like. The sounds are very clear but didnt loose their meaning. It's more dreamy but so annoying!! mmmh thanks Deddrah to have mentionned this is an edit made for the radio... After the first half of the track, the second is almost a cut'n'paste faded out at the end. I don't like it. To conclude, we have 2 killers first, then a successful hard remix and a commercial thing...Distinction to GMS who seem to be on the good track again. So it's totally worth rewarding Deedrah and Hadshot. 9.5/10 for the first 3 tracks. If the forthcoming album is like that i can't wait to have it !

A n-th "bombombom" compil. This is ultra-minimal. I had no kind of pleasure while listening to it...No inventions, no trip, no enjoyment. only bombombom with 2 samples around. No i can't cope with this over minimalized minimal psy minimal tekno. I dont give it a chance, ZMA had used us to compiling better tracks....and i'm very fed up with nonsense noise. 2/10 for the cover art.

This is an old piece of oldschool psychedelic trance. it's made up mostly of melodic tracks. It may be a good ompil to know how it was int he begining. the AP track is very good and psychedelic, the Electric Universe is a melodic piece of art, the Joking Sphinx shows some french crazyness at work, the XDream is a good track that sounds very oldschool now.

a complete cd full of wwwwoooooooooô bzzzzzzzzzzzzz mmmmhhhhhhhhh without anythig that looks like music. any sample cd would be enough to do this...emptiness. you get down under by listening to those sounds. in other words, this is very bad.

This is a compilation like many others: some minimal sound, not so many new sounds..nothing REALLY inventive....ah yes the tracks are all average or good, but what can distinguish it from the score of other compils released lately ?? : Mainly 2 tracks: MOS - Komm Das and especially MidiMiliz - Cream which is a true killer. Its minimal but it's so well done and dark that i'd forget i don't like minimal !!! 7/10 for the whole compil, but remember the Midimiliz Track. the compil should be bought only for it.

Never Ever Land is quite cool, though it kicks. Its of the style i call casual psy: not overloaded with sounds, simple, but with psy sounds after a big break. Unbalanced is a killer: it kicks, catches you, it's various, has part in which you can breathe, lots of psy soundz everywhere. This is psychedelia! At a moment there is the melody of the original BabyKiller, and it gives you a chilly break before it restarts and gives you 2 full minutes of psychedelia. yeah! Spaniard is the best track of the album to my mind: it's very simple but has a part with powerful distorsions. It repeats 3 times in the track and sets you on "dance now" mode! There are strange voices, like in th previous track, and several little breaks which changes the curse of the melody. the last third is the best part and ends abruptly on those wicked distorsions. BPEmpire is very hard. Expect no compromise, this is a very good track too, full of little changes that makes you dont get tired of it. Funkamillion is also very good: a first part which loks like real psytrance, a second part made up with psychedelic funk, then a very chilly part with piano that ends on distorted sounds & the recalling of a previous part. good. NoiseMaker may be a try to make a more minimal track. It's ok but it shows no surprise. TastyMushroom could have been very good but its too repetitive. There is the psychedelic madness and it's effective in parties but you get tired very soon of this track at home... PGM is another killer with chants, psysounds, a dreamy part (still nothing surprising), and in the middle there is a climax that leads to a very very very uplifting melody with psychedelia everywhere. it's like a parenthesis. Not many groups know how to produce such a track. The end is made of madness and landing... Dancing with Cadafi is a track with lots of different themes. Its not really ambient, its just a lot of madness from Erez and Amit. the problem is that it looks like a videogame song in some parts, and like the production of true psytrance masters in other parts. thats strange. I've listened to the album at least 20 times now and in my opinion: The quality of the sound is impressive. I think it's still impossible to compare any album of the Infected with another. One regret: it seems to have been composed in a hurry. It rules because it delivers us many new ideas. Yes, it seems the inspiration is there but....there is the very little thing missing that makes i dont mark it less than the others 9/10. Please compete this album with the EP Roll us a Giant which is a killer.