Jump to content

yantra

Members
  • Posts

    1321
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by yantra

  1. Check out track 10 and you all have your answer Final CountDown They did it again, run away
  2. It could be also the Bulletproof track - Tainted Love BulletProof - We Speak Alien
  3. I´ve heard the Bulletproof track.... it´s really not my thing!! I can´t see myself dancing to that!!
  4. wisely said I have to check some of your recent tracks to see what you´re doing now. I´ve order Quality Relaxation, hell of a tracklist in that comp... But is seems that the old goa music has a lot more spirit that the psymusic of nowadays... maybe this have becomed a industry that releases stuff to stoneheads and only thinks in profit. Sorry for this , it´s only my opinion.
  5. That´s exactly my point. I think he deserves some credit by his work in Tip , but not has a dj... Talking about credit in the psy scene, i think you deserve lot of respect... Guess what im hearing now
  6. Infected Mushroom - Bust a Move I guess it´s very hard to an artist rmx that
  7. I don´t have any doubt that Raja Ram deserves some credit, but has a nowaday dj.... i really don´t know!! If anyone have seen his dj set, knows what im talking about.
  8. yantra

    V/A - Hunters

    Label: Red Cells Records Media Format: CD Catalogue No: REDCR001 Release Date: June 2005 Hunters is the debut compilation by Red Cells Records, a brand new France based label, with quite a refined taste in music. For this first bomb, Red Cells reserved an amazing selection of tracks by some of the hottest artists currently in the psytrance scene, paying particular attention to the French scene. Names like Silicon Sound, Chromatone, Artifakt, Phyx, Triskell and Digital Talk, among others, are the names responsible for making this album an absolutely smasher! Ok so from the outside the album is quite appealing. It's not exactly a ground-breaking state of the art cover, but it does look nice. Once again, goes my personal rant regarding album booklets. Seems like no psytrance album these days has anything to admire besides the music, which is sad. This is a culture highly associated with other forms of art besides music, and asking visual artists to give their contribution, wheter in the form of paintings, digital art, video (no one seems to care for multimedia tracks, heh?), or any other form of art that complements the music and actually gives people a reason to buy the real thing. Well, with not much to say about the artwork (simple trendy 3D), let's go on to the music... 01. Silicon Sound - Modulate Long before even pushing the CD into the stereo, I knew this first track was going to be a slow-paced, proggy track. The 138 BPMs were a huge clue and, come on, it's Silicon Sound opening a compilation, what would one expect? Well, I'm not much of a fan of progressive trance, I find it hard to digest and so it's hard for me to do an impartial review of this track. Nonetheless, this is the kind of proggy I can take, in small doses. The first three minutes are quite boring, in my humble opinion, but things eventually turn out ok as these morning uplifting melodies and pads come in. Johannes never gets off track here so don't expect any huge pulsating synths and rolling basslines. It's just a regular progressive track, which I find quite hard to describe and distinguish from all the other progressive tunes around. Well actually, the best way I have to describe this track is this: it's the kind of track you'd easily listen to at home, but would hate to listen to sober on a dancefloor. Kinda' something like that... 02. Chromatone - Automagic A few second spent on the intro, not too much time to loose (is 12 seconds ok?). Once the kick paves is way through the ambience of the intro, you get the feeling the transition between these two tracks could be a bit smoother. It's a huge change of style, but you easily forget about it once you're into the rythm. Well, I've never been the greatest fan of Chromatone, probably because I know very little of his work. However, I'm quite into this track. Its pumping bassline, the well defined drums and the scratchy synth lines remind me of the more melodic side of Artifakt - you know how he manages to create an amazing atmosphere only from one-hit effects? You get some of that here too. The bassline work here is great. The bass starts in a monotonous rolling style and slowly evolves into a great melodic piece of bass madness. At around 2:30 it's when it really scores some points. I love this style and Chromatone does it quite well. The pads on the background also help out marking the pace and the entire track just gets quite groovy and dance-friendly. Synthlines pop-in from time to time, always respecting the natural order of all the elements on this track. When Chromatone tries to blend the best of two worlds, the result is a melodic night-time track, in a style that many have tried before but few have succeded. Most times the soul of the track gets lost in the way and you don't really know which way to turn. Chromatone found a way to go around the problem and everything is well-defined and hits you in the body and in the head, but also in the hearth. And when you manage to do that, much respect is in order. For me, it's a monster track that will surely make me keep an eye out for more of Chromatone's stuff. 03. Artifakt - Razor You can't go wrong with Artifakt. Little doubt remains in my head as to who's the best South African artist. In a place where four out of five dudes are amazing ground-breaking producers, it's hard to pick the best one. However, if Rinkadink is the dude with the best production skills and Shift is the dude who knows more about shaking a dancefloor, Matthew is the guy who manages to combine both things best, and does it with a touch of class. His music is, indeed, original, innovative, ground-breaking and FUCK(!) it gets your legs moving! Well, there's a reason why Red Cells decided to request Artifakt's brain-smashing services, and they got one hell of a deal. I'd say the intro to this track is quite odd, if we weren't talking about Artifakt. There's this symphony-in-reverse kind of thing at the beggining, to serve as a taste of what's coming (the same distorted symphony comes in again later on). The track takes a whole to evolve but at around 2 minutes there's already much noise to dance to. Synthlines are always scratchy and acid, obviously, and there's not too much use of drums (who needs 'em right?). The first real break brings back the noisy introduction and a cool little melodic synth has a say in this. Ok, here's where Artrifakt scores a lot of points. I don't remember hearing an original build since, hum... Well, it was a long time, you can take my word for it. This track, however, has a greatly original build, that's always mutating. You know how some producers try to make breaks and builds in a way that the listener is not expecting what's coming, yet somehow you always know from the start how the track's going to evolve? Well, with this track you seriously don't know what's coming next, you can expect anything, really. Well, after a while you get once more break and this time there's the sweetest melody of the track (5:35, for reference). Not unlike other tracks by Artifakt, the bass is always very deep and fat, in a warming way, but with a melodic side to it for good measure. Well, I wasn't expecting anything less than a huge dancefloor smasher, and that's what we all get indeed. 04. Phyx - Ghost Blade I seriously don't know what software Phyx (the other South African act here) uses to produce, but Fruity Loops aficionados will certainly recognise the phony guitar sound of FL Slayer here. Although it sounds nothing like a guitar, a lot of producers decide to go with it. Probably not the best choice for Phyx, but the rest track is well worth it. You can't go wrong with SA acts, the bass and kick are quite peculiar here. I like the work Phyx did with the FX, all quite scratchy, just the way I like it. A lot of ripping sounds and noisy lines on this one, which kind of remind me of that track Retch, by Artifakt (huh, all good tracks - yes, all three that get released every month - remind me of Artifakt these days). Closer to four minutes, a real synthline finally pops in and gives the track some direction. Although until this point the track sounded a bit off the hook, without a real line to take control of everything, it never sounds boring - quite the opposite. And at four minutes things get right back on track, anyway. Yes, quite a good track and I'm relieved to see Phyx did not make too much use of the Slayer VST thing - it pops in every now and then, but it's not like it screws the entire thing up. I'd say it's a huge dancefloor bomb, that lacks some orientation at first, but it slowly finds its way and gets your feet off the floor. Near the end, it's the noise chaos (sweet, sweet noise). The last couple of minutes make up for any flaw the track may have and make it all worthwhile. This one's gonna make a massive hole in dancefloors all around the world. 05. Triskell - Tensegrity Next is the french act Triskell. First time I've ever heard anything by Triskell was not too long ago - Aya (Exciter Mix) then Here Knows When, both on Timecode Records, the first from compilation New Blood and the second from cult album The Turning. Not being a fan of either one of those tracks, anything more than mediocre here would be enough to surprise me. The intro is really in-your-face, with the bass rising alone, breaking in through a few minimalistic FX until the kick breaks in along with it. Doesn't take too long to find the South African influences here and the drums bring to mind anything by Shift. Takes a while for the track to evolve but when it does it manages to surprise me. It's not exactly heaven down to earth, but it's a nice track, full of rythm (the tribal drums now and then help out a lot). Here comes a nice litle sample: "The Experience is..." is in order. Triskell tries to finish the sentence with the music, but he could have done it a lot better. The synthline that pops in around this time is quite psychedelic, but it shows lack of harmony. That's cool though, 'cause the line that takes its place is a lot better and can seriously make your shoulders move. There's a break a bit later and this is when the track starts. It starts off very simple and it quietly grows into a blend of really fine psychedelic. All and all a nice a track, quite surprising for those who, like me, are not big fans of Triskell. 06. Phatmatix vs Audiobrains - Sonic Machine Here we go, get ready to enter Phatmatix and Audio Brains' Sonic Machine. This is clearly one of the heaviest tracks on the album. It doesn't get off the path, in relation to the previous tracks. Rolling bassline, this time a bit heavier, with some dark scratchy synthlines and FX. A few minutes into the track and I'm already liking this one A LOT! The synths never come in off key and they always pop in at the right time. It doesn't get much more psychedelic than this, believe me. At the third minute you're given some time off to rest for a bit and get your act together and the journey starts again 45 seconds later. This really acid FX comes in and the melody will easily get into your head, it's seriously appealing. At this point I can honestly say this is the best track on the album so far, and from two producers I don't even know that well: I never heard anything by Audiobrains before, and I only knew a couple of tracks by Phatmatix. At 5:43 the track surprises me quite a lot with some sampled voices of some ethnic chant. It's not the kind of thing you expect to hear in a track as heavy as this one and, truth be told, the voices don't really fit. Especially because the voices last like a minute and you don't get anything even closer to it through the rest of the track. Which led me to think these dudes found some voices they liked and wanted to put them onto a track, regardless the fact that they could not fit. If nothing else, serves as a distraction and possibly some dancefloor-meditation (the concept's been around forever, but I just came up with the name right now). Deffinitely a monster tune, the best up to this point (and when you manage to beat Artifakt at what he does best, it's a serious deal!). 07. Digital Talk - Mathematrix What can I say, this is my kind of album. I've always admired Digital Talk (hell, Droidsect - DT's older project - is one of my favorite acts ever; Poltergeist always makes me smile). It's not like Digital Talk is what it once was (at least under the name of Droidsect), but I still think it kicks some serious ass. Well, don't expect anything new here, unless you've never heard New Age Surf. If that's the case, I'll try to explain Digital's music in a few words. It's a fast-paced, full of rythm, digital sound, that tweaks a lot of knobs. With a warm rolling bassline, very dance-friendly and no real line, you're left with effects after effects, which is also a good thing. The effects keep on changing and the background "lines" mutate their way through the track. However, after 6 minutes of the same bassline melody, it starts to get on your nerves a bit. The feeling I get from listening to this track is that Digital Talk are running out of ideas, 'cause their work is sounding all like the same lately and, although it's one of the biggest names on this album, it's deffinitely not among the best tracks of the compilation. It's a huge bomb, just like most tracks by Digital but, also like most of Luc and Julien's tracks, it sounds exactly the same as everything they've ever done. In the end, it's the shadow of all it could have been. 08. Phatmatix - Back to Earth I seriously cannot understand the name of this track because listening to it I deffinitely do not get the feeling of returning to earth. I get the feeling of leaving it, instead. It's a really heavy track, you can tell that just by its heavy, heavy bassline. I now understand the reason why Ananda (Red Cells label manager) chose to include two tracks by Phatmatix on the album. This one is another smasher, full of (truly) psychedelic effects and a lot of interesting looped melodies for good measure, just like in his previous track with Audiobrains. Production is really good, the style is just perfect for night time dancing and Phatmatix managed to keep the melodic side of trance alive at some points, without sounding a bit cheesy at all. There are some breaks that, although sounding off place, are certain to make you smile in the dancefloor. There's this high background effect at around four minutes that I just loved. It sounds like a pinch, it's hard to explain, and it could easily go unnoticed. It really got to me though, and I think it makes all the difference here. Later on things get even heavier with a dark, low-key synthline that later on collides with a really high-pitched line. Calling is Psychedelic Madness does not make it justice. Right when you're ready for the track to start dying, a new synthline (one of the best on the entire track) comes in. The entire track is brilliant and, even though it's far from being the absolute best of the album, it's deffinitely the most psychedelic, hypnotizing even. 09. Blue Planet Corporation - Groove on the Moon Much respect to Red Cells for taking the risk of including a chill-out track on the album. This is something which is not done nearly often enough and Red Cells risked it right on its debut. A big thank you to them just for that! Blue Planet Corp is the extremely well-known French act. Gabriel has been around since I can remember, has released loads of tracks on many compilations, has seen his work remixed by names like Wizzy Noize, and released an album through Flying Rhino called Blue Planet, back in 1999. He's really well-known for making some of the most ground-breaking Goa Trance, but has recently turned his attention over to dub and chill. This track starts off suddenly, very in-your-face intro. It's deffinitely an ambient track and it's more of a dubby slow-paced (132 BPMs) breakbeat than exactly chill-out. It's really spiritual and the ambience it creates around the listener is an amazing experience. Just the perfect way to close an album like this - in fact, it's the perfect way to close any other album too. The drums provide a really good rythm, which results in a big amount of positive vibes all around. Although I'm more of an ambient and no-beat-chill-out fan, BPC haven't failed to impress me here. Highly reccomended! Ok so the album's a proove that the French psytrance scene is alive and well, kicking with some of the hottest dancefloor tunes I've heard in a while. If you're a fan of Timecode Records and Nexus Media's work, this won't certainly disappoint you. It's an album that easily grows on you and that, aside from the huge gap there is between the first and second track, is a really enlightening psychedelic experience as a whole. Plus, it presents a big, big surprise: Phatmatix, who I'll be keeping an eye out for in the future. This guys is the next big thing from France. I'd say Red Cells deffinitely has a bright future ahead of them, although I'd reccomend they start searching for other acts outside France as well. Globalization is one of the most powerful features of the trance culture and getting an album out almost entirely made of French producers will only contribute towards the destruction of that globalization. We certainly don't want to see this faction of the music industry break apart like all other styles, where it's really hard to get your music out in smaller, less-evolved countries. That being said, I'd like to wish the best of luck to everyone at Red Cells on behalf of Psylosophy and keep up the good work. For potential buyers, I hope all your doubts are undone and you go buy this album, if you're into the style. A debut in style into the scene! Ed Nunes ( Delusional ) Review
  9. Get ready for Jörg debut solo album: Oracle
  10. Skazi is gay Just kidding , i respect him
  11. That´s deffinetly from the last 1200 Microlálás album - The Time Machine !! one of the worst albuns i have heard,but it´s all a matter of taste the track name is: Rock into the Future (Raja Ram samplers ahahah)
  12. Do you like to murder psytrance ? Why do you have changed your style so much? ... im asking this because i liked his first album - Animal
  13. That´s a pitty to know that a great artist like Sandman was converted to the israeli pop-full-on...always the same formula.
  14. hey dudes, this is a psychedelic forum, why you guys keep posting eurotrance producers all over it
  15. Divine Moments of Truth ( a classical ) And the Day turned to Night ( a journey ) Around the World in a Tea Daze (one of my favourite Shpongle tracks) My Head Feels like a Frisbee ( got to love those tango influences) Schnitzl´d in the Negev (those piano notes in the end it´s just amazing) The Stamen of the Shaman (some jazzy and reagee influences )
  16. I will catch you guys in Boom 2006
  17. wtf?? they copycat Roll us a Giant from Infected and Mwnn - Teleport , i´ve never seen anything like this
×
×
  • Create New...