RAH

we are seriusly hyping that album these days huh? im going to wait until i have it in my hands and my ears to make judgements like that, lets not forget sigil weaver is coming out too... there's tons of stuff coming up... to early call out judgements...

wait... wait... if psytones can't really surf psynews what is the point of replying to this thread again?

3d ear in collaboration with g'wa farkin hell what a party: sat 12th nov 2005 Gappeq sun control species OZZY Sam i am _ _ _ _ _ > mistery guest (mystery int.) = hired goonz scozbor kaneda franny (sundance) = electro booth and chillout i am too lazy to type out more info: www.opoeia.com.au www.thirdear.net

euhmm.... & this is already pwned

i have heard they take up to a week to add your order, you should receive and email saying your order has been processed... but they don't answer email's apparently... this all what i 'heard' i hope they come through with your order, it would certainly suck if they didn't...

nerdcore might have a better shot if they team together with killarghh 'spliff music' artists and make something totally dance floor-oriented... man that would be massive...

ughh.. i just finished my first track on dance ejay (gold edition!) my dog loveeddd it!! and my mom did too... but she is deaf on one ear and she has tinitus on the other, you think i got a chance?

oh... ops... i did a search for 'metalogic' on 2005 and nothing popped up sorry

Artist: Metalogic Album: Magnetic Influence Label: Boshke Beats Web: www.boshkebeats.com Year: 2005 Format: CD Songs: 01. Intro 02. Ultraviolet Shock [137 BPM] 03. Turn On [138] 04. Magnetic Influence [136] 05. Time Catcher [136] 06. Secretskipper [138] 07. Broadband [138] 08. Photon Flux [138] 09. Expander [136] 10. Irrational Impulse [138] 11. Mastermind [120] 12. Decadance [138] 13. K.O. [135] What's this about “My body cannot hold The secrets that inside; My soul is bursting out To reach beyond the light! The light, that burns within. Impossible to breath! The only thing I want- Unreachable relief!” – Yulia Bluez Metalogic is Fred Hatsav from Canada and his debut album has been out for a while now. Sadly it fell under my radar and it wasn't until recently, I had the opportunity to feel the Magnetic Influence in full force. Having stirred clear from most tech-trance albums so far the Boskhe beats tick has started stinging in my ears and my stereo lately, making this is one of their most promising offerings so far this year. The album is filled with grace in the minimal touches focusing on the subtle changes. The output is fat, inspired and reasonably sundry, with a twilight jubilee of funkiness. You either love it or hate it, but if its tech trance smeared with a metallic undertone you are after, this stuff goes a long way. Per-song break-down 01. Intro There is not much to chew here from a minute long intro except a filter sweep and fine entrée of good things to come. My favorite track! Haha -just joking… 02. Ultraviolet Shock * Ultra Violet opens easy breezy with tweaked percussive arrays slipping off the drums as the mysterious pads simmer like the smoke of cigarette. Vocodic-robotic blips appear more as complementary effects, than voices in itself…building on the intricate web of groove. The pace of the track moves on its own well, but you can feel Fred is holding on the energy, using “Violet Shock” as tension builder. 3. Turn On (with Sergey Smaglo) ** Tech-trance with a spice of lounge a-la Thievery Corporation (on the days of Mirror Conspiracy), minus the duple meter, counting congas, snare's and the wobbly, staticky effects. Possible candidate for the night's highlight in some lounge were people are just too cool dance, so they bob their heads for a bit and continue sipping their cocktails. It feels like track taken out of a Saint Germaine Des Press Café compilation. And finding this kind of stuff in tech/trance album is nothing short of revelatory. 4. Magnetic Influence (with Michael Lawrence) ** We swiftly leave the lounge club, entering the full-bodied nigh-time grooves with marching drums the size of a mini cooper. The pads dabbing once again on dusky atmospheres, accompanied by a synth line slipping from some dark corner, with incredibly detuned angles. Serious groove time sweltering with ingenuity and an impressive sample roster, demonstrating minimal can be quite complex when done right. 5. Time Catcher (with Michael Lawrence) This one sounds like a departure from the previous song, there really isn't much difference except the drums feel a little muffled and you might find a small assortment of differing metallics … and on that note I think I liked the previous one better. 6. Secretskipper * Skippy comes filled with housy overtones and a caustic disarray of beats. The presto pulsations hooked with a laser-shot sample, drown the voices in reverbs barely hearable. It's not a bad piece, but it does not catch my attention as much as other tracks in here, and the final mastering might have something to do with. 7. Broadband ** It doesn't take long for the kicks to start raising the dust, with a deep in your face quality that's hard to pass unnoticed. The rhythm eventually progresses to industrial surfaces scraping, looped in the background almost like recurrent bass line, orbiting and swirling around in such a complementary hypnotism; is hard to imagine the track without it. The snares climax unrestrained like a drummer on one too many lines, accompanying the pads in between hints of blues and somber eeriness. The great thing about this track has to be funky splashes Fred seems to have cultivated throughout the album, not loosing any of the rough edges around the production. 8. Photon Flux (with Tao Nahn) * The photon flux is a groove monster comparable only to Godzilla… in the Japanese versions. Shake-your-ass double dare of drummalism with synthetic & organic measures in perfect harmony. There's a complex beat, hints of ambient and stop counting… for what is worth it works. 9. Expander * Expander is a no-fuzz, no glory piece extending through sea of uneventfulness was it or for the bleeps timidly bubbling like a stale beer. As usual what seems to ooze out of the speakers is a strong rhythm, but this time around a little something is lacking in the minimalism… maybe some sort of melody. Is not necessarily a skipper and it might work well on the floor, but is nothing special. 10. Irrational Impulse (With Tao Nahn & Boris Michailov lyrics Julia Blues) This chapter has a break beat feel and warm recurrent bass that does not seem to end. For the first time it becomes apparent the inspiring quote I took the trouble of writing up front is actually sung with a vocodic distortion. Don't mind it too much, since the words are barely understandable. I was little surprised to find it is actually a girl singing… anyway… 11. Mastermind ** A wispy analog bass resonates on top of a double compound meter, bringing back strange flashbacks a-la “George of the Jungle” theme song. If you had the misfortune to catch the movie, kindly insert a fork in your skull and pray to god the neurons you killed contained those memories. If you can still see/hear go watch the cartoon, is hilarious… coming back to the track: a cow bell with a heavy delay and violins… yes, violins with faintly Arabic spice peaking and coming back down with so much gut-wrenching emotion, there is no point in comparing this stuff with what you hear in the kebab shack. Class all the way and a good doze of originality. 12. Decadence * First of all, my copy starts this track after the first minute of silence for some reason (o.O) … so, this a bonus (if you got the first print) of minimadelic industrial, in a sized doze of techno with an intro of claps and a synthadelic delays, bubbling and cursing at time in ripples. Nice… 13. K.O (With Michael Lawrence) Just to be sure the previous 12 tracks didn't do the job properly, they placed this one last. The beat is nearly syncopated and so fuckin nitty, gritty, you wouldn't think about touching it with a 12 foot pole. There's a rather simplistic line in there with minimal interaction on those synths, but as usual the harsh, original rhythms stand out. * Favourites All and all I'll be damned, I had not been this happy with tech trance since Moonflower decided to release Electroscopic. Nearly every other song ringed a bell. Just to get it clear, this is music for the legs and not a head-trip, in the peaks it is mindless stomping at its best and slowed down it shows a good hybrid of different influences. The house/lounge experiments work and overall I'm quite happy I got this one. I am not completely satisfied with the mastering all the way though, I am not sure if there it is just too much scrapping metal at one point or it's just me. Don't really comment on the artwork that much unless it stands out personally, and receiving a carton box was a little perplexing at first. Disregarding the fact it is a stylish recycled-cardboard looking box, the artwork is great! Very original like half of tunes in this cd… for the samples and all > http://sonic-energy.net

for me it is more than music, it is sensorial experience that when done right can be much more entertaining and engrossing than any movie or any 'recreational' experience (on your own ) i listen to this music because i can get lost in it and in that respect i do belive it can be active meditation in some small way. Not mention hearing a great song puts a big smile on my face the scene in general is open minded, relaxed and has very refreshing outlook on life, of people that refuse to conform to the benchmarks... and lead their lives like everyone else subjected to the same standards... call me naive but i think the people involved have more depth than your tipical gucci-shoes, prada-shirt and latest hip-hop flava... and if you don't have a benz don't even utter a word to me. in essense a refreshing sub-culcure that in deed is turning into full fledged world-wide cultural phenomenom... we have seen the bad things in music and the not-so hip people that it seems to drag, i say is time to keep those values and ideals, that originally attracted us and show everyone how and why these scene is different... if it works, there might a slight chance of making the world just a bit better hope that was not to tree-hugging of me to say

so that's how a goa girl looks like... need to keep an eye out for them babes...

not if the shit freezes and you die of contusion

v/a - contact lense (cosmic conspiracy)

cumbia, a bit of salsa and classical music...

i think this thread is dying to be locked.... *yawn*

i know your message was not even directed to me, but i fell compelled to talk how my experience has been personally... mike looks like you got stuck with the wrong end of the deal there buddy, why would want to get promos of music you don't enjoy to begin with? and did they seriusly harass you online (woah!). In the very limited experience i've had writting stuff i enjoy and don't particularly enjoy i took the liberty of mailing the review to the label and i was very straight about it - "look unfortunatelly i did not enjoy this one, in my opinion it was not up to par with the first album, blah, blah... mailing you the review cause is definatelly a negative one... it's your choice if you want me to post it or not..." never heard from that label again and i don't blame them. So now i don't go out of my way to get freebies. If i really like a cd i ussually get it, when i'm broke i might ask the label, hey... 'i have been listening to samples and this looks kick ass... i might get myself, but if you want throw your money and send a promo that'd be cool' - every now and again they say yeah, some don't even reply. I mailed a label i review consitently just let them know i was reviewing their stuff and they couln't be bothered to answer me back, with 'hey, thanks'... that did not change the fact im still buying a lot of their releases and reviewing their stuff cause i consider their music good... that is what is all about

amazing CD, got this today and i haven't been this happy with a parvati compi since voices of madness... great stuff... already been torturing the neighbours

i might just switch to "two thumbs up"... rah gives this release two thumbs up... and then charge a standard fee... i would say 50 € ? how much do rogert and ebert charge you think?

im so turning into a psy grupie... errmm...

where's the ego please show me, cause i seem to have lost that part once again (maybe check the dictionary for the right word? ) when you say one or two new comers that have started to review stuff i take it as myslef, cause yeah lauryn (and to be honest i have no clue who tigo is, never seen that name) review stuff here and there she hasn't pulled more than... i would say 10 reviews this year... whereas if you check in the reviews section here or at isratrance my name might pop up a bit more often. That has nothing to do with ego is just numbers. Perhaps if you would have a been a bit more explicit it would have not been so confusing. And yeah a i tend to jump on my guns at the first sight provocation... not because of my 'ego' but, because i want dispell any rumors or hidden plots behind the reviews, you seem so on intend on bringing forth...

i guess one or two of those new commers would me... well i have reviewed well over 30-35 releases since the beginning of the year and if i got more more than 6... or 7 freebies that was probably too much... i write reviews so i can share what i personally consider good music with other people... and i have no problem writing bad reviews, several labels don't speak to me anymore for that reason... i am not really sure if that is what you were implying since, to be honest, i don't really understand what you are saying half the times...

ditto especially, since i translate legal documents as part-time job...

wow folks... please stop crowding my thread with comments, i can't read them... is too much...

have ever ordered from anywhere else?

wirikuta is awsome, they go beyond the call of duty, recommended