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This album is really too cheesy for me.
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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.
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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.
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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
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this albim was released a long time after but you're right, those are very old tracks, before the ones above.
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maybe also Transmissions / Juno Reactor (NovaMute 93)
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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
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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 musicand 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.
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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 !
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V/A - ZMART
in 2001
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 usa Giant which is a killer.
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Some good tracks that look like oldskool ones. psychedelia...melodies...not too cheesy...cool.
Big problem: When you have heard one track, you have heard them all.
so 5/10 !
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I agree with children. te descriptions are quite right, but I wouldn't compare
this with older productions.
There are lots of influences though... but the main ideas are original. Lots of
trippy psychedelic layers, and never commercial.
Oldskool psytrance lovers, get ready to buy this pearl !
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Midi Miliz evolves on the good track of minimalism. This is less minimal than
what they used to do. Anyway I got tired of this album very quickly, except
for Restore My Soul which is really a good minimal mysterious track
6.5/10
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This album is good. there are several tries in different styles. A good
production, good ideas, typical northern styles melted, just in roder to make
a casual album.
It doesn't try to surprise you but at least it's cool.
7.5/10
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You know Pelinpala ? This one is the same.
Silly melodies and disordered beats.
To me this album is bad. 4/10.
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V/A - Program Change
Artist: Various
Title: Program Change
Label: 3D Vision
Date: 2001
Track listing:
01. 06'27" Nomad : 2001 Nuits
02. 08'05" Talamasca And GMS : Mutation
03. 07'58" Talamasca : Come On !
04. 07'30" Nomad : Another World
05. 08'40" Talamasca And Space Cat : Armageddon
06. 08'03" Talamasca And Nomad : Password
07. 08'06" Talamasca And Nomad : Psycho (Tribute To Infected Mushroom)
08. 08'30" Talamasca : Robotic Planet
09. 07'19" Nomad : Blue Nights
Review:
I don't know what program changed, but I know this could have been called
"Talamasca & friends", or "Talamasca vs Nomad" as well...eheheh
The first track is just cool. It's psychedelic enough, and that's what saves
it. The production is good, but the music is repetitive (and strangely we have
the very same samples as in every Absolum track).
The second is far more powerful. Typical Talamasca rolling bassline and psy
noises going happily into your ears! Then the track looks more like a GMS one
with all those popping sounds. The track is very good and will make you jump
on a dancefloor.
The third track is a monument: very simple, but super-powered !!! first a few
samples & voices and...COME ON !!! Then THE bassline from outer space .
With a big sound system it is amazing ! Then there is a totally
distorted-silly-killer-noisy-music to get you uplifted. Then we have some
different phases in which Talamasca varies some themes of psychedelia...and it
restarts again at the end to make you crazy. Wow awesome! More more !!
The fourth track is also good as it's casual, with the same style as in Day One
(on the latest 3D vision EP). The music is ok, always with a very good sewing
up. Another form of funky-psytrance ? Anyway Nomad gets better.
The fifth track is another killer. It's casual at the begining, it sounds like
an usual Spacecat track, it even sounds like Deep Rising, but after a break,
it's totally different and introduces an hypnotyzing music that fits over the
rest of the song. It's really..well..Masterful. Effect granteed on a
dancefloor !! Anyway it reminds me of another older track (?) (can someone
remind me which one ?). It would be cool to see Avi play in some parties in
Paris again as he may compose other tunes like this one with Lestat
The sixth track is another delirium by Lestat & Mael. There are lots of samples
over the psycedelic music & distorsions everywhere, which gets into your ears
immediately and blows your head off (bOoô, like this...). The end of the track
is very funny (but it reminds me of an older track again, which one plz?).
Great.
The seventh track is really a tribute to the madmen from Haifa as the original
theme is still present and unchanged... Mael & Lestat just added lots of "End
of Days" samples. The track becomes less various than the original, then comes
the break...Wow what break ! The track is now a total 3DV production except
from the "You hear me - you psycho" sample : a Nordlead spits a violent
powerful music. It ends on the original theme. My point of view is that the
Infecteds'Psycho-remix2 is better than this one, but I can't deny this french
remix is especially shaped for the dancefloor.
The eighth track shows a calmer Lestat. The track is intelligent and quite
happy. The style is ok, the violent sounds are replaced by uplifting trippy
melodies here and there. Great.
The ninth track is a dub track by Nomad. A very good choice in the sounds &
samples again. The effects are just in the good place. Keep going.
Overall ? Just buy ! The quality of the music is here, as well as the quality
of the production/mastering. This is really not usual nowadays and deserved to
be said. I am amazed. Well done 3DVision.
This is evidence that true psytrance can still rule! 9/10 for Psylovers.
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A very good compil for oldskool lovers. Here is some pure Goa from 1998. All
tracks are just well balanced, good melodies. Favourites: 1,3,5,7,8. This gets
8.5/10 for psychedelia fans only (who haven't bought every cd those tracks
come from).
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This album is ok for people who like a few melodies. The artist needs to
improve a little bit because the thing is a bit repetitive (less repetitive
than other albums, yet!). The influences are mainly from GMS/Israeli artists.
Overall it's good for a debut album. it must be crazy to hear some parts on a
dancefloor. 7/10.
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I prefer tracks 5 6 7 8 rather than nb 1 2 3 4, but it's a good compil. The
style remains hard, but not minimal. 6.5/10
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This album is hard to find, and it's a good thing, as it's a bad one. Okay this
is psychedelic, but this is so silly... 3/10.
V/A - Assassi-Nations
in 2001
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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 !