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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.

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.

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 !

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 !

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

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

You know Pelinpala ? This one is the same. Silly melodies and disordered beats. To me this album is bad. 4/10.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

75 minutes of rhythm...This album is absolutely, totally, horribly boring! Usually i like XVK a lot, but not this time. Minimal trance has limits, XV Kilist went beyond them. Even the wonderful Kante has been disfigured! 3/10 for Spaziergang, not more.

The begining (01-06) is Midi Miliz-like, that is very minimal, big rhythm & noisy sounds everywhere. Perfect to kill the neighbours, but not psychedelic at all! The rest (07-11) is more Psych-o-funky. Only this second part is *really* psychedelic. sometimes it looks like late sixties Funk, sometimes it's like thriller music, and sometimes it's like Dub ! My favourites: Operatik, The Horning, Air, Preamplified Dub...the whole second part, actually. Special distinction to Operatik which will remind you of your last visit in the purgatory...Aaaahahah! So 5/10 for the first part, 8/10 for the second part.

I didn't like it. The sound quality isn't very good and the whole thing is all the same. As for the music itself...mhhh...that's fast-repetitive-minimal ? There are rare good surprises in that album. 5/10.

It's all the same & too conventional..i mean it did not surprise me at all. I think the dormer album was better. 6/10 (not more)

I think it's freestyle...and random, definitely. Sorry Anoebis but this seems to be a DOWN. I could not understand one song (maybe a bit the last one). The sound is flat, the melodies are silly. This cd is meaningless. It's nice to give it 4/10.

This is too minimalistic, but the authors have found a good receipe. Beverly Hills Cop & Crystal Overdose are the best tracks. The whole album is too monotonous but it's far better than zounds of other sh**s released in 2000. 7/10.

It's a bit too psychedelic. Anyway it deserves 6/10.

I do agree! 8/10.

Very Good EP. The style doesn't change, but the tracks look like no other from this group. I prefer Errorhead, but Lex Rex Perplex is also great. Stunning 8/10.

S-Range - Boom Artist: S-Range Title: Boom Label: Acid Casualties Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 09'38" Boom 02. 07'10" Broadcast Review: Boom is a track which begins with a loud & very linear rhythm and bassline. Then comes a small bewitching melody that repeats over & over. After 2:30 we are allowed to breathe and the whole thing restarts suddenly followed by more psy sounds and ryhthmic stuff. After 5:00 it changes, gets darker, without compromise...and a little lay of melody dares to come again and the music restarts after 7 minutes. A beautiful trip. Well done S-Range. Broadcast is more conventional with a good rolling basline. The sounds behind are mainly rhythmic + nordlead's...all that is overlayed by an enigmatic little music, that comes 'nearer' of the listener and becomes more trippy after a while. Too bad it ends too fast. Overall, again a premium EP from S-Range. 8.5/10 for the whole thing.

Vibrasphere - Mental Mountain Artist: Vibrasphere Title: Mental Mountain Label: Spiral Trax Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 08'20" Mental Mountain 02. 09'12" Cactus Point Review: Two tracks in the typical Vibrasphere style. The EP is not minimal, but casual and that's fine. Mental Moutain is also on the album. It is fast & mental (indeed). This is a good track. Cactus Point is a bit the same with some more touches of psychedelia. The track is interesting because it allows the listener to breathe. This EP is a short but good journey. I think the album would be a better investment. 6.5/10.

Midi Miliz - Starkstorm / Tube Artist: Midi Miliz Title: Starkstorm / Tube Label: Twisted Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 08'21" Starkstorm 02. 06'22" Tube Review: This EP is very special and paradoxal: it sounds horrible but it's a good one ! The sound itself is horrible. It's noise noise and noise again. It sounds like an earthquake! The music itself is far better: everything is in the good place at the good time, especially in Strakstorm. The listener doesn't get bored, there is a cool break...very dark & industrial music indeed. This time, the Spirallianz-Midi Miliz freaks have pushed the receipe of 1WayLtd to its limits! Rhaa...They sure live in the north of Germany to produce tracks like that...They even included samples of bombing attacks!! So to summarize: your ears say "stop this right now" and your brain says "waw, never heard such a thing!". The 2 tracks look a bit the same but if you like minimal music...i mean: almost tekno, you'll be pleased to have this EP. 8/10 for Starkstorm. 6/10 for Tube

Right, this is some compil of released & not so stunning tracks.4/10