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    prodigy

    in Other Electronica

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    Exposure to prodigy is probably inevitable, much of their music was on TV back then.

     

    Music For The Jilted Generation is by far the one I like most and I rate it high even compared to other music. The diversity and consistency of the music holds a really good standard and I still enjoy the album.

     

    The 'Prodigy' Experience (nobody ever read the title like that?) hasn't aged too well but there is a lot of funky fun stuff going around there.

     

    Fat Of The Land was their last real album in my ears, lot's of groovy breakbeats and loads of atmosphere.

     

    Always Outnumbered and Invaders Must Die, is to me just forced and awkward punky electronic beats. It gets very tiresome very quickly. Only track from Invaders that I sort of like is Warriors Dance, the rest is pretty lame.

     

    90s poptrance

    in Other Electronica

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    The problem with these ones very quickly surfaced as being pop... that is 3 minutes of catchy radiomusic.

     

    Though antiloop did have one seriously long acid track that I remember listening to a lot.

     

     

    Mirandas feel the effect also got a radio pop remix from Earthbound

     

    Digitalis - Soma Junkies EP

    in 1998

    Posted

    Artist: Digitalis
    Release: Soma Junkies EP
    Year: 1998
    Label: Matsuri Productions
    Cat-#: MP36
    Rating: 3/5

    Tracklisting:
    A1: Telepresence
    A2: The Improbable Voyage
    B1: Soma Junkie
    B2: Dr Sembei

    1998 saw the last releases of Matsuri and at this point they had ventured into what is usually called psy-breaks. Matsuri wasn't the only label dabbling in such an area, TIP Symbiosis 21-3 and several more I'm not aware of.

    This 12" is a bit all over the place. A1 being a pretty generic psy-track with the later Shakta sound. A2 is a slow dopey track with lots of sounds just dragging around and being distorted.

    I'm not too impressed with the a-side but the b-side certainly picks up the pace a bit. B1 does the ordinary Digitalis breakbeats which are really good and B2 is a drum n bass track with all the psychedelic fix-ins. Groovy positive vibes on this side alright.

    Syrinx - Tremolo Heaven EP

    in 1997

    Posted

    Artist: Syrinx
    Release: Tremolo Heaven EP
    Year: 1997
    Label: Matsuri Productions
    Cat-#: MP30
    Rating: 3.5/5.0

    Tracklisting:
    A: Tremolo Heaven
    AA: Slippin' And Slidin'

    Tremolo Heaven rolls right on just like early Cydonia and The Delta and it's certainly groovy. Dark heavy bass and a sampled guitar layer being manipulated. Slippin' And Slidin' skips the guitars but keeps the psychedelics and heavy bassrolling. Whatever happend to this kind of music?

    Nervasystem - Stardust EP

    in 1997

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    Artist: Nervasystem
    Release: Stardust EP
    Year: 1997
    Label: Matsuri Productions
    Cat-#: MP27
    Rating: 3.5/4

    Tracklisting:
    A: Stardust
    AA: Matter Transfer

    Dressler always makes completely ridiculously long tracks. Both of these tickin' in at about 11 minutes. On top of that this is '97 and Matsuri said bye bye to goa a couple of releases ago. So what we're up for is 20 minutes of dark psychedelic dungeons.

    I'm kind of liking this, it's not peak time ass kicking trance music but it at least sounds and feels like the music has some purpose. Stardust has a main synth stab lead which is manipulated throughout pretty much the whole track. And Mark is doing it in a mentally unstable tricky way which propels the track in the right direction. Matter Transfer follow pretty much the same recipe.

    Endora - Joy EP

    in 1996

    Posted

    Artist: Endora
    Release: Joy EP
    Year: 1996
    Label: Matsuri Productions
    Cat-#: MP17
    Rating: 4/5

    Tracklisting:
    A: Joy
    B1: Macrosoopix
    B2: Fusionium

    Another favorite from matsuri. The Joy track has been quite the compilation-fodder, but it has an edge that I never get tired of. Lots of bass and groovy percussion. There's an abundance of atmosphere and acidic melody layers.

    We shouldn't forget the b-side... absolutely not! Macrosoopix is a new one for me, never seen it anywhere else. This one is a really good energetic trance track, reminding me somewhat of johann bleys stranded. The melody layers really do take the lead here.

    Fusionium I've heard before but this time I'm actually listening to the original vinyl and not an MP3. It's a bit of an breakbeat electro (the 80s-type electro), and of course the jelly-jiggling-acid bouncing along the rhythm.

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