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Recently my ISP upgraded one of my forwarding accounts (goa-trance.com) to a full-fledged hosting account, for free... which means i have roughly ( a bunch )of bandthwith to spare monthly/bi-monthly i'm not using. If anybody knows or has a project (legal that is) that needs hosting, i would be willing to provide service granted it might be of some use. Please PM me if you have interesting proposals. I beleive the deal lasts for year...

that is totally class

what i said... VVVVVVVVV

i include BPM count in most of my reviews, so you won't have to

Compilation: Light From the Depths of Chaos Label: Manic Dragon Records Year: 2006 Web: www.sonic-dragon.com CAT: MDREC04 Sonic-Energy: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/182/2/ 01. Kulu - Twilight of Fear [150 BPM] 02. Baphomet Engine - System Failed [147] 03. Kemic-al - Illuminatus [150] 04. The Replicants - The Self Revealing Boris [150] 05. Kalilaskov A.S. vs Natinel - Beethoven's Dragon [147] 06. Alien Mental - Take a Break [149] 07. Blisargon Demogorgon - Leaving the Real World [148] 08. Kerosene Club - Baba Cannibal [148] 09. N3XU5 - Mass Meltdown [146] 10. Talk Sick - The Title [144] The Baba's return after the versus-only Multiple Personalities, with a fresh batch of tracks from the international circle. The concept behind the compilation is a transient journey from the dark corners of the psyche to a skewed version of lighter tunes, promising a number of highlights along the way. 1- Kulu – Twilight Fear * Kulu is back after the beating last year in ‘Unbelievable’. Dimitry spend some time with Metallaxis in his studio again, so it has that minimal touch to the madness. Unbelievable, was a monster though, setting a high precedent for me and this one is not half bad, but is not all the way there, Strangers is missed. Twilight Fear sets the mood with a pitch black groove exposing ‘no light, only sound'…. It’s dark out here folks, bring a flashlight. 2- Baphomet Engine – System Failed The Brazilian freaks explore a darker and moodier atmosphere, delivering one of their heavier pieces so far. System Failed feels claustrophobic, heavily delayed, strangled by its own juice, as it melts with heavy riffs amidst the surrounding voices. 3- Kemic-Al – Illuminatus * As usual Aldo works a beat that turns the word syncopated into a misnomer. As infectious and delicate as T-Rex eating a cow. If your idea of Psychedelia means entertainment to the point of relentless kaleidoscopic abstraction, the man delivers. Fluttering those metallic wings against the wind as the ship takes flight, while crowd roars below… get on it, quick! 4- The Replicants – The Self- Revealing Boris * Imagine this for a second, if you hadn’t already heard: Quasar, Dylalien, Alien Mental AND Dejan all lost in some parallel universe full of dissonance and echoes, as the Self reveling Boris tries to materialize... In no other than the infamous Blue House in San Francisco, where the MoE crew unwinds sonic distortion, including the job Ghreg on Earty, did down there with his shindig. While it does feel hella cluttered, it works with eight hands on the sequences soemhow… 5- Kailaskov Vs. Nataniel – Beethoven’s Dragon A bit of classical music a-la dark psy, with bits here and there squinting in some unholy liquid. Nati Reboh and Cherkashin Trencev have interesting ideas, but I’m looking forward to hearing something without Beethoven in it for a break. As a general note the classical touches are minimal and they have adapted the notes well so, it might hit a sweet spot for other people. 6- Alien Mental – Take a Break * Take a break is rough. I had run into La earlier last year with "Nukem" and my opinion was a bit dangly, not great but good. This one comes with the description included and will work great to wear the edge off menacing beats, as it turns absolutely liquid. Spaced out wouldn’t quite cover it, so we can just refer to it as deep trance state. It looses all cohesion by the mid break as things go to a weird, weird place… very psychedelic. 7- Blisargon Demogron – Leaving the Real World * Turn the engines back on with a peaker for the first two minutes before take off. The rest is a wavy, whimpering of lines and plenty of sauce on discordia. Especially pitchy, rumbling with deconstructed chaos and harsh synth’s. It’s a step in the right direction as Valentino’s work can turn into to something of filler on occasions. Well not this time around. 8- Kerosene Club – Baba Cannibal * Dj Brian that has been profiling strongly since last year, with standout tracks on all the ones I have heard, leaves you wondering when is Temple Twister’s releasing his album? The Baba Cannibal has scratchy melodies like Kemic-al does beats: one broken mumbo jumble of goodness, which despite all the incoherence is jolly good fun to dance. A versus of these two could potentially induce dementia, and would personally bring a huge smile to my face. What you waitin’ for Baba? Star chewing that arm before the poor bastard wakes up and tries to hide again. 9- N3xu5 – Mass Meltdown By this point the general pace of the album is looking a little less cluttered. Miguel Lopes does manage to bring energy in the interim of complete darkness and the lighter trance. The pads by the second part make the track for me, and the little riff isn’t bad; but it’s the first half that brings hard house images to mind, I can’t reconcile with. 10 – Talk Sick – The Title Avi Boresi & Alon Atias AKA Toxic close the book with the most full-on-ish track in the compilation. In theory this supposed to be the furthest from the depths of chaos, so with that in mind I guess you could fit ‘The Title’ in there. Truth be told, Talk Sick has never really been kind of trance. Not because it’s poorly produced, because it isn’t… but because I feel like have heard this stuff before and it doesn’t really move me. On their favor this the most melodically coherent track. All and all It’s hard to pin this one in a general basis. Most of the tracks will kick butt for any self-respecting fan of the darker realms, and of course few names stand out that deem the plastic as listenable material. Others seem a bit of place. Personally, it will not be gathering dust too soon, i think there's several pieces you can work with, but like you can see I’m not raving about the overall thing. Check what interests you here, might be worth a listen -happy fishing. Where to get: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=5313 http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=2526 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/mdr/mdr1cd004.html

i don't usually rip on names... but damn you honestly couln't think of anything better? are you part of the organization? n.p: Kerosene Club - baba cannibal

is that what i think it is?

digital manipulations...

i find that concept extremely funny, it's like german hip hop... from a very early age i understood i was a skinny white boy and no matter how much attitude i got and how many FUBU shorts i bought i would just never be as cool as eminem...

what is psychedelic, i mean you kow? hehe... to each his own if you like it go for it, that's why i pulled that other album with highko he did earlier, if you hand't checked it out figured you would be interested. taste is taste, no less or more...

i agree with the dude here.. i'm not very fond of his style either, i could see how the tracks work on the floor and it definately has vibe for that and it is mix-friendly, but is not my style either. not because is not 'dark' enough but because i don't feel much of a soul behind the banging and the random noises... that's just my opinion though

i would suggest you check this one too then > http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/npc/npc1cd002.html as far as i'm concerned that's the same cosmo...

and we will advertise it

great men think alike

works best if you listen while smoking a doobie, aye mon I'd recommend Burning Spear, but i always do so... check it out the man is great... King jammy, king tubby, is god too, Lee scratch perry and besides that, eum... eum... i listen mostly to the stuff that's devoid of lyrics a bit more... mad professor, a lot of the electronic dub genre. But there are newer labels making out good reggea, Different Drummer for one, i really like G Corp... and not cause my name starts with G only... but that definatelly help those are the ones i know most and recommend always, apologies for sounding like a broken record.

skint was good had it's moments, i liked Encepfalophagus more back in the day. did an interview with him last year, interesting guy > http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/32/25/ anyway, looking forward to this release as well...

personally i think the nicest bass line they have is "three lines in a row (rmx) in hocus peakus, man that triple line after the break is sweeettt, but i have to agree noname is pretty decent too.

errrr.. wrong

if you see psychedelic trance as listening at home genre then perhaps, if you consider as at another form of electronic dance music, meant to be played for people and whatnot... you might need more music

my old man also has all his classical music backed up to to a LaCie hard drive, 60 gigs and something like 800 cd's later... i have a small hard drive where i keep all my tunes backed up in 320 as well... but no reason to get rid of the physical media... at the end id better for the damn cd's if you use them less... you know... they scratch so easy...

aw damn i would have grabbed the odd harmonic, but i'm pretty sure antic already yanked it. eitherway i don't have IBAN and SWIFT :/ paypal i ain't much harder too handle

damn, had to put in the wait list, but i finally got a hold of it. i don't like the art work to be honest... i think is a tad bit freaky to have the man on the cover but whatever... they should have sticked with that dude that was doing the artwork before the music is great though, hard hitting stompers... and quality throghout

but, but... south african trance has been around for a while now man... not too long, but long to have their own thing going on. anyway, i tend to agree with Basilisk, i guess by now is just something else altogether and not necesarily dark or light or, whipped cream or whatever...

so how many beers have you actually bought to an artist? what's the count so far? that was my point...

if i had to choose between giving my money EMI, or any of those big megacorporations and any psy trance label, i know where i'm spending my cents down... cause i know who needs it more... Most psy trance labels don't work with the same numbers the smallers do. Nobody is twisting arms here to sign people for one label or another. Now more than ever artists are free choose what road they go with or if they open their own labels. Distribution for me is the big problem. but labels and artists here are working simbiotically to survive... so please stop kidding yourself it's ok download music, cause next time you see the artist you have already promissed to buy him a beer (or 5... that's just lame, sorry.) not telling what to do, you just making sure you are kidding yourself here.