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I recently bought both of these, I'm just getting around to playing them. Though they sound excellent.

You make it sound like a bad thing. This album is one of my favourites - as it's just so different and experimental. THIS is what I want from psytrance - innovation, atmosphere, and B.P. Empire delivers on so many levels. The best album from them, by far.

Emotionless? Try Consciousness Revoked...

Infected Mushroom - B.P. Empire

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You can't count AYS as goa trance, dude.

Androcell - Emotivision

There's your problem then. Go listen to Becoming Insane. I'll post it again... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3235496285614538874

Are you really sure you don't work for Play.com?

I should try that.

Traveller/Metatron thinks it's boring It's infact nice, dubby chill with great atmosphere. Dissolve has to be one of the most lush tracks I've heard.

Well not really all flutes... but check out Shulman's The Unexpected Visitor - the remix might also be to your liking too (that's on V/A Quality Relaxation)

It has Becoming Insane on it. That track alone warrants negativity for the entire album. But hey, they might surprise us

Why two? Presents?

Try these: http://www.discogs.com/release/600329 http://www.discogs.com/release/342962 http://www.discogs.com/release/249718 http://www.discogs.com/release/435128

Yes it is... Stunning track. By the way I was surprised that no-one had reviewed this album properly - I expected that DeathPosture would have reviewed it (he did give a nod to it in the Natural Born Chillers thread, but nothing more) - but he didn't... tsk... C'mon Martin!! We want a review!

I like this a lot. The atmosphere reminds me a little of B.P Empire - so congratulations! I hope you will send off some promos to record labels soon!

Shulman - In Search Of A Meaningful Moment Tracklist: 1. Inner Selves 2. The Unexpected Visitor 3. A Magnificent Void 4. Conciousness Revoked 5. Random Lifelines 6. Mushroom Therapy 7. Another Paradigm 8. Instability [ Discogs link: http://www.discogs.com/release/236012 ] Review: So, this is the second album from Shulman - released on his own label, Aleph Zero. Let's just jump straight into the tracks, shall we? 1. Inner Selves Starts off with birds singing, chimes and slow pads - slowly getting louder and louder. More layers build up and up, fractured melodies and effects envelope us, then a slow reversed cymbal leads us into a lovely, mellow chant. The track is at it's most richest here, and eventually leads you into a thick, groovy bassline and slow percussion. Effects are littered all over the place here, leading into synth lines, percussion - but the flow is excellent and this track is extremely lush - making it extremely appealing. Another thing that stands out here is the clever use of meter - although the track is written in 4/4 measure, we get a few bars that mix things up a little. All in all, amazing track!! 2. The Unexpected Visitor This track feels slightly faster, but there is no less attention to detail. Bubbling synth lines, heavy reverb and little reverses are the name of the game here. What's great about this track is that Shulman is mixing the electronic with acoustic instruments - there's a sublime flute line twisting and turning throughout the track - accompanied by only the sweetest grooves, arpeggios and pads. In fact if I was to comment on every single aspect of this track, this review would be several pages long! Other elements in the track that are amazing is a nice electric guitar that pops up later in the track. Great track! 3. A Magnificent Void Again, heavy use of effects, but this isn't a bad thing - as we get a lot of variety in every track. A soothing female voice this time fills out the track and takes it to a new dimension. Though that pad texture that comes in later on is equally lush, and compliments the half groove we have in the introduction. Eventually, two minutes, the track breaks into a proper groove - and surprisingly, it isn't 4/4! I also admire the fact that Shulman has packed so many layers into his tracks but it doesn't sound like a complicated mess - sounds very balanced to my ears. Again, the arpeggios here are beautiful, and the whole experience is top notch. Unbelivable! 4. Conciousness Revoked Lush pads and chanting here in the introduction. We get some timbales here and some playing around with the vocal sample. The drum beat here uses some lovely electronic percussion as the main focus of the track - heavily processed and mashed up of course - along with the chant, timbales and a fat bass guiding us along. The track then breaks down into a very melancholic electric piano section with some light pads. It's amazing beautiful here, but it's a shame that it only lasts as long as it does. It comes back a little later in the track though, along with some acoustic guitar playing some fast stabs. Lots of effects in this track make it very interesting to listen to. Gorgeous!! 5. Random Lifelines Well, the quality of the first four tracks make this one a slight disappointment. It's just a little random for my taste. Yes, we have nice use of percussion, bass and effects - but I'm thinking there's a little too much effects and not enough melody. But even though it's not quite my taste, it's still a great track in itself. OK track! 6. Mushroom Therapy After the slight disappointment of the previous track, this one makes up a lot for it. Again, we have the trademark Shulman effects. This track is very oriental influenced - with an ethnic instrument leading at least the intro, and quite a lot of the main bulk of the song too. The groove here is mashed up and processed - it seems different every bar. Of course this makes for a lovely track - coupled with subtle pads, sequences and other elements appearing and disappearing make this a very good track indeed. Thumbs up! 7. Another Paradigm This is a little bit of an oddity - although a great beatless track in itself, it could have easily been placed at the start or the end to create a better flow. This is entirely synth based - only the occasional vocal here and there. Nice track but I think it could have been better placed. 8. Instability If you haven't got the album yet, I recommend that you at least download this track from Shulman's website - http://www.shulman.info - it's free of charge. This is easily the best track on the album. Chants, pads and effects start up the track in the introduction. When the bassline enters, you get the feeling that this is going to be a faster track - but unusually, this track starts slowly and builds up. Shulman just maintains the slow pace but doesn't change the tempo - only doubling the speed of the drums later in the track - and when he does this, it breaks into an almighty drum and bass / psybient chill crossover track (or whatever you want to call it) - with perhaps the best synth melody in the entire album. This track stands out because it's just so varied - we even get a taste of piano here and there. Well... the trip is over. This album contains so many emotions, all sorts of weird special effects, ethnic percussion, chanting, subtle melodies, wonderful pads, rhythm manipulation - basically all you could want from an album in this genre. It's just so good! Now excuse me, because I think I'm going to go put it on again... Favourites: 1(!!), 2(!!), 3(!!), 4(!!!), 6(!), 8(!!!!) Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ale/ale1cd001.html

Yeah. But this isn't trance.

Dude, that was released on Dialogue Of The Speakers, not Golden Cap.

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Yes!

Androcell - Efflorescence