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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 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.

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.