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Here's a short one I wrote about Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious in Japanese インフェクテドマシュルーム．ヴィシャスディリシャス みんなさんはこのCDを疑うですね？ みんなさんはこのCDは糞中の糞だねを思ったね？ インフェクテドマシュルームはお金持ちになりたいだから。 ね？ このCDの質問があるよ サイ．トランスですか？　いいえ サイ．トランスの影響ですか？　少し ギターある？　うん ギターは上手？　たいてい 声楽ですか？うん 音声は糞？もちろん 音声が歌を台なしこするの？　うん POPみたい？うん 楽しさ？　うん POPみたいでもいいと上手ですか？　ちょっと オードスクールのファンはこのCDが好きですか？ううんぜんぜん みんなさん用？ううん アベイシオ好き？　はいー １．ビカミング．インセイン ２．アーチェリー ３．ヴィシャス．ディリシャス ４．ヘビーウェイト ５．スリマン ６．フォーギヴ．ミー ７．スペシャル．プレイス ８．イン．フロント．オヴ．ミー ９．イイト．イト．ラー １０．チェンジ．ザ．フォーマリチー １１．ビフォー １．ビカミング．インセイン スペインのギターと電気のギターと悪い音声がありますけどこの歌はいいよ。夏にビーチパーティーみたいときれいな女の人がいっぱい、ダンスをする ２．アーチェリー コンヴェーチング．ヴェジテリアンスのCD2の歌みたいけどこの歌がもっと好きです。クールと素朴な！このCDに一番好きです。 ３．ヴィシャス．ディリシャス タイトルの歌はすごいよ。メロディーとペースとエネルギーとサイトランスの音と面白いベースラインがある感情なでもちょうPOPみたい。多分この歌はちょうバカですけど好きよー。 ４．ヘビーウェイト ギターと変な音声がある。人がいっぱいは「この歌は一番好き」を言ったでも俺は思うじゃない！OKだけとこれからこのCDはもっともっと悪い。終わりの近くにギターはちょっと困らせる。 ５．スリマン B.P.エムパイヤーみたいでももっと悪いです。OKだけ 　 ６．フォーギヴ．ミー ヴォコダー　：（ 短い　：） CVのCD2みたいでももっと悪いです ７．スペシャル．プレイス POPみたい！始めからちょうちょうちょうー悪いです大嫌い！！！ ８．イン．フロント．オヴ．ミー もっと音声ありますけどこの音声歌が似合う。シンガーは上手です。すごくないとサイトランスじゃないとPOPみたい。　フェスタにヅデヴの歌を歌うを怖がる。 ９．イイト．イト．ラー スリマンみたい、POPみたいけど面白い １０．チェンジ．ザ．フォーマリチー ダメ！ダメ！ダメ！ダメ音声！！！超嫌い！！！ １１．ビフォー いいじゃないけど三回からOKですびくりした！ インフェクテド．マシュルームはプロジェクトを二つじゃないはなんで？サイトランスとPOPけど違うアルバムの中でお願いしまう。 終わり

Yeah, I got it! It's cool Hoping to right a review in the next few months. Been really busy with work this month though

Hey Faze How's it going? Been a while! I see you have some good music to listen to especially... edit: it was cheap too wasn't it?

Nice! Trying but failing to be skeptical is a good sign np been listening a lot to this one

Cool Glad you enjoyed it. I haven't been mixing for a while but I have a live set coming up next month so I'll need to practice a little

Maybe he never heard Blue Planet cause if he was expecting full goa trance then he was deluding himself. BPC have always been IMO really lush (trippy) trance. Not Goa or even Psy (although psychedelic). I guess this will meet my expectations at least.

How do you like it?

Aye! I thought so. All were pretty cheap. The most expensive was 14.5 Euros (plus 10 Euros postage I wonder if it will come packed in gold!)

I've been wondering about this one. Is it any good? I love this comp Rasmus - Tonto's Release on the chill CD is ace

Bought all except Boyd In The Void but only because the seller hasn't gotten back to me yet

The first I think was Green Nuns Of The Revolution - Optimum Creakage I heard it at an after party at some guys house, I remember looking at the cover and memorising the label name and symbol. Then went out and got anything resembling it, ended up with Project II Trance. I often get my dates mixed up. Guess it was around 1995. Always thought I listened to Project II trance when it was first released but probably didn't seeing as I can clearly remember hearing the creaks of GNotR track first and freaking out with how amazing it was. Also I never heard that track again until it was released on Dragonfly Classix (2?) and wasn't so impressed

Sniffing out these on Discogs.... Nuclear Ramjet - Music For Spaceports (Ascend Recordings) Intermix - Future Primitives (Sun Music) Various - Boyd In The Void (Distance) Eat Static - Epsylon (Mammoth Records) Yasume - Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song (City Centre Offices) Etnica - Equator (Spirit Zone Recordings) been wanting these for a fair while

Yeah, people NEED different tastes For me a journey must be perfect with nothing to distract me so if there is something out of place then I can't travel. Usually with Simon P's work that thing is his samples. They grate on my nerves & so I find it impossible to get lost in his tracks. Only the sample in LSD do I like but I could do without even that one

I'd recommend Endless Rhythms Of The Beatless Heart, it's really where Shulman came alive IMO Review

I think Yagya is! So few replies in the review

I had never thought about it before. Thanks for the info

My favourite labels were always Flying Rhino and Dragonfly. Here are some for reasonable prices on Discogs. Slipstream Velocity Maelstrom Nightvision Elevation Singularity A Voyage Into Trance Project II Trance Order Odonata - The Technical Use Of Sound In Magick Order Odonata - Experiments That Identify Change.. Dragonfly Classix Dragonfly Classix II Red is for must buys

Up Singularity (Flying Rhino) Re:Evolution II - Time (Flying Rhino) Project II Trance (Dragonfly) Order Odonata - The Technical Use Of Sound In Magick (Dragonfly) First Flight (Flying Rhino) Slipstream (Third Flight) (Flying Rhino) Mælstrøm (Fifth Flight) (Flying Rhino) Down Oxycanta (Ultimae) Re:Evolution II - Time (Flying Rhino) Opening (Databloem) Butterfly Dawn (Liquid Sound Design) Beneath The Surface (Native State Records) Caribbean Eclipse (Flying Rhino Freestyle) Seeing as Time is on both lists I might have to go for that as the best comp ever

TIP The Story np Doof - Mars Needs Women

Artist: Planet B.E.N. Title: Trippy Future Garden Label: Polytox Records Released: 23 September 1996 Style: Goa Trance Tracklist 1 Welcome To The Future (10:31) 2 Screwdriver (7:25) 3 Questionmark (9:30) 4 Scotty's Name (9:01) 5 Ant Invasion (12:24) 6 Trippy Future Garden (21:57) Planet BEN, German composer Be swchufddrju was quite the big name in the Psy scene in the mid to late nineties thanks mainly to his debut album Trippy Future Garden. I didn't get to here it when it was first released, I didn't even here about it until around the turn of the millenium. I read a lot of reviews of it around then that praised it so much that I knewe I must have it. But alas it was nowhere to be found. I managed to track it down in a German shop in 2002 and I was excited to say the least. Here I was with a seminal album. 5 tracks of imagined bliss including a 21 minute symphony of psy at the end and all I had to do was push play... Bitterly disappointed are not the words. This was probably my first experience with excessively high expectations. On the first listen I couldn't focus, I was too bored andas it went on my resentment at having searched so hard for this album grew and grew and the music seemed to get worse as it went on. It is so repetitve and the cheesy sample in Questionmark left me ready to heave. Even the last track in which I had imagined myself getting lost didn't do anything for me. I left it on my shelf and didn't listen to it again. When I moved to Japan it got put in a big box with all the other CDs I was leaving behind. 5 years in Japan and I couldn't listen to it. Fast forward a few years to December 2008. I flew back to England to visit my parents up there in the North. I was reunited with old CD collection including almost complete Dragonfly and Flying Rhino catalogues but for some reason I was drawn to Planet BEN - Future Trippy Garden. I put it in my father's stereo, pressed play and was taken on a deep space voyage through nebulae, hyperspace and trippy alternate dimensions. This time I had basically no preconceptions, no hype and my previous listens had been forgotten, so I could appreciate it in its purest form. The thing about this album is that it is repetitive with its more obvious parts and the variation comes in subtle ways. Slight key changes, the inclusion of an extra layer of melody among the many that were already there, background noises that are almost undetectable to the casual listener and atmosphere. When I first listened to this I was a party goer listening to an intelligent album at home. I had yet to get into ambient and thought of anything slower than 120bpm as ambient. I had no real idea of an album creating an atmosphere that can take you on a journey without the aid of psychoactive substances. The main selling point of this album (available now as a re-release) is the atmosphere created. Sure it is a trance album that can work well on the dancefloor but it is also a great home listening album with a lot of subtlety and ambience. I never gave it the chance but I reckon this would be a perfect after party album, not straight away when people are still arriving and getting comfortable but once everyone is settled but still "up" then this would be perfect. It is insanely trippy, can take you on a beautiful ride through different spaces in our multiverse and you can really lose yourself in it. So, don't do what I did and expect something like Dragonfly's releases at the time with a lot of catchy hooks, chord changes and trance rolls building energy to smash it up on a dancefloor. Instead imagine a precursor to progressive psy that tends to be more repetitive and subtle. Mix those too and you have Planet BEN - Future Trippy Garden. Repetitve but varied, minimal but maximal, trancey and ambient, danceable and intelligent. It is a great album and one that I regret missing out on due to unjustifiable expectations, wrong mood/setting and probably wrong age. This, apart from the cheesy sample in Questionmark, is very mature and maybe as a young man I was unable to appreciate its brilliance. Maybe at that time it needed drugs but now I have grown I can appreciate it without the need for such things. Now I can understand that it is a real masterpiece.

How about a review then Artist: Sphingida Title: Origin Label: Sentimony Records Released: 20th December 2007 Style: Trance/Downbeat Tracklist 1 Sunset Sign (8:31) 2 Submerge (8:45) 3 Spaceward (7:51) 4 Toxic Memory (8:31) 5 Fountain Of Youth (7:29) 6 Gigs Faka (vs. Roof Raiser ) (8:30) 7 Springled Planet (7:55) 8 Alone In Aqua Endless (7:05) 9 In The Algae (9:59) 10 New Age Lullaby (5:06) Sphingida are Igor Orlovskiy & Yulia Levchenko from the Ukraine and they present to us Origin, their debut album. Origin is a mix of slow (ketamine) trance and downbeat, touching on progressive and with a lot of ambient atmospheres. It is a triumphant debut for this Ukrainian duo, the quality of every track is very high, it’s different from most other stuff out there and it is packed full of atmosphere. People often ask me to recommend them some upbeat music that has the same atmospheres that it seems you get more with ambient and chillout music. Well, this is a perfect example of that. The more upbeat tracks retain a lot of ambience, with soft background noises, drones and space for the music to move. The music is very visual and descriptive and right from the first few notes it painted a story in my head. Sunset Sign (T1) starts with an ambient intro and it feels like I am standing on a cold seashore, gulls flying overhead and watching the waves crash against the shore. When the beats kick in it does nothing to shake this atmosphere which is quite impressive as they are very strong beats. The rest of the album is similar, strong beats that don’t ruin the atmospheres lovingly created in the background. The stories painted in my head are numerous, ranging from standing on my own sea shore on a grey drizzly day watching the ocean go in and out to floating through space being surrounded by ripples of energy tearing through the fabric of space, to standing on an alien planet and floating through the air among the clouds. All the tracks are very involved, deep and hypnotic. A lot of the melodies used are fairly simple but they gain their dreamlike power from this simplicity, creating atmospheres you can get lost in rather than shouting look at me I’m a melody. Subtle might be a good word but they are still quite noticeable and enjoyable for the people who need melodies in every track they listen to. The synth work is very impressive, sometimes being very slick and smooth sometimes being rough and abrasive but always being very acidic and trippy. My favourite tracks are Spaceworld (T3) which makes me feel like I am floating above some alien world not dissimilar to our own but still with that feeling that things are just not right; Toxic Memory (T4) which is a fantastically descriptive track and makes me feel like I am standing in a war torn world with brown skies and the synths feel like the acid rain falling down from this polluted sky stripping me bare; Springled Planet (T7) which also makes me think rain but this time it’s a cascade of sonic downpours, big fat alien rain that manages to fall all around me but never on me and In The Algae (T9) which is more downbeat but feels like solar bubbles rippling through space and time altering the reality of the fabric it touches. Recommendation: People looking for atmospheric trance or trancey ambient should definitely check this album out. It could be that this album has passed under most people’s radars as it is on a fairly obscure label without any particularly famous artists I myself only got it a short time ago but it has been out there for over a year and a half already but I think a lot of people would enjoy this album. It is deep, trippy and very high quality stuff. I will definitely be keeping my eye out for more from this Ukrainian pair and highly anticipate future output from them. Favourites: 3,4!,7,9 originally written for www.isratrance.com Track By Track 1. Sunset Sign Sunset Sign starts us off with a soft ambient intro with sounds of wind blowing in the background. It feels like I am standing on a cold seashore, gulls flying overhead and watching the waves crash against the shore. When the beats kick in it does nothing to shake this atmosphere which is quite impressive as they are very strong beats but amazingly they don’t dominate the rest of the music. The main melody is a nice warm sound quite in contrast to the other cold sounds in the track. I think this feels more like a sunrise with the music getting warmer as the track goes on and the sounds of birdsong (twisted alien birdsong) appearing later in the track. 2. Submerge Submerge has stronger beats and we are getting more into slow trance territory, ketamine trance as I call it. The beats are so strong but it is still very slow and plodding. The music itself is quite simple with ambient drones and a repetitive melody with a few nice little sounds punctuating here and there but it is very hypnotic and the progression seems to be constantly rising without ever going up. Like being trapped underwater and trying to swim up to the glittering surface but never being able to break the pressure that keeps you down. 3. Spaceworld Still very much in Ketamine Trance territory with strong beats and some nice synth work. This track has a very bright melody in the intro that kind of fades away in favour of atmosphere and light stabbing synths. The atmosphere is quite big and open and I do get a feeling of being up there in space, maybe on some alien world from orbit looking down but with no sun in sight. The melody comes back in and at this point I feel like I am gliding towards the surface, the alien landscape becoming clearer and clearly very similar to our own with only mild differences in perception. 4. Toxic Memory This track does indeed feel like a toxic memory, it seems a little harsher than the previous tracks and more acidic. The synths are trippier, the sounds more abrasive but it retains a sense of mysticism with the background ambience so that it feels like I am in some kind of lucid dream. It feels like a dream that is great when you have it and terrifying when you wake up with a start from it. The synths get more involved later in the track eventually feeling like acid rain falling from a war torn sky. This is a great track, extremely descriptive and less beat orientated. That is to say that there are still strong beats like the last tracks but they are somehow less obvious due to the strength of the rest of the track. 5. Fountain Of Youth This track starts off with a really ethereal melody, it seems attached to nothing as if it just floats through the ether without disturbing the air or making waves but somehow makes it into your mind’s ear anywhere where it takes root and lets you float away. More chilled out beats more in a breaks style than 4-4 and some great sounds that fly around almost magically. It progresses or seems to at least without ever really changing. This is an interesting track without being so obvious why. 6. Gigs Faka (vs. Roof Raiser) I can’t quite get a handle on this track. I either really like or just think “meh!” It’s a little darker than the rest of the tracks and very acidic in parts with strong K.trance beats with cool key changes, synths and nice melodies but I think it is a mood piece. When I am in the mood this track is great, when I am not it can be forgettable. 7. Springled Planet From the very ambient intro with birdsong and drones like wind come the big but not so heavy and still slow beats and a light little melody that feels like it is cascading down like a sonic downpour. Imagine standing in a field on a distant world with strange new colours all around you and thick rain that falls down like ours but doesn’t touch you or get you wet. Each drop seems to fall all around you and you still feel safe and warm. Nice break beats, cool melodic sounds and a chopped up vocal wail that seems to be coming from beyond a hidden veil round of a very nice track. 8. Alone In Aqua Lonliness We quicken the tempo again with this track getting up into the Progressive BPM range. I get a feeling of Smell Of Spräck by 12 moons with the constant breathing behind the music. It is all very creepy in a non scary way; it just feels like there is something lurking behind the music. The beats are about as strong as in that 12 moons track and in similar fashion seem to get stronger after the break down although I am sure it is an audio illusion. It’s a cool track but I like Smell Of Spräck much more and I can’t stop comparing them. 9. In The Algae A more downbeat offering here, the most chilled so far on the album however the beats are still strong but while they are punchy and still quite fast they seem to have a feeling that is not a powerful as the previous tracks. There are some fantastic bubbly sounds like solar bubbles rippling through the fabric of space and time displacing reality as they go leaving a trail of silver residue in the dimensions they pass through. Wet synths seem to follow them, slipping in and out of your mind like snakes in the ether. A nice melody is very simple a repetitive and quite far in the background creating a warm atmosphere. A very nice track. 10. New Age Lullaby The final track is the most downbeat on the album with the beats feeling much lighter and giving the music a lot of space to move. The melody seems like it comes from a child’s music box, either that or what you hear in a horror movie just before the child ghost stalks the protagonist. As childish as this melody seems, like the horror movie it seems very fitting. This is a nice track, a little too noodly in places for me but it rounds of a great album very well.

Artist: Kliment Title: The Perpetual Ritual Lable: Electrik Dream Records Released: 29th April 2009 Style: Shpongle like Downtempo Tracklist 1 Crystalline (9:40) 2 Ether Aesthetics (8:33) 3 Behind The Steps Of Death (10:33) 4 Reflexive Meditation (8:40) 5 Universe Alchemy (8:45) 6 Travels To The Infinite (7:43) 7 Arowana (9:01) 8 The Interstellar Orchestra (8:03) Kliment Dichev is out with his first physical release after a string of digital only releases covering Psytrance, Progressive and Ambient. Released on Electrik Dream Records it was not what I was expecting. I was expecting something a little more electro, a little more upbeat and to be honest not quite this good. A pleasant surprise all round then as Kliment has taken his influences and mixed it with his own sounds very nicely. You can tell from the music that Kliment has been heavily influenced by Simon Posford in that you can here elements that are easily related back to the big man’s back catalogue of chillout music. There are a lot Shpongle like flutes through just about every track, there are Celtic Cross like guitars in a few creating an atmosphere like being in the American countryside at night searching for UFOs and even twisted synths and samples along with dubby basslines like Hallucinogen in Dub. Kliment though has not just copied someone else’s sound and tried to pass it off as his own, no no no! He has mixed these elements with his own style. The atmospheres he creates are unique to him and there are elements that are not just from Simon Posford’s late nineties repertoire. There is more of an ethnic feeling to it that I heard in Shpongle, more of a spacey feeling than I heard in Celtic Cross and the sample work is very different. The samples are actually my main problem with this album; I just really don’t like the sounds of the voices that have been chosen. There is something in the tone of the voice that rubs me the wrong way; they somehow feel far too smug for my liking. Also some of the sounds are little too ethnic for my liking and Kliment borders on being Shanty Shanty psychill without ever crossing over into being cheesy (but close). The best tracks are Ether Aesthetics (T2) which has such a great melodic bassline that makes me just want to bounce along with it, perfect danceable chillout; Behind The Steps Of Death (T3) which feels like Celtic Cross 2 with a beautiful mix a space and earth tones; Arowana (T7) which could be on a Hallucinogen in Dub album if they wanted to go down a more ethnic track and The Interstellar Orchestra (T8) which has melodies played on many different instruments both string and wind, acoustic and electronic it seems. Recommendation: This is a very good album, if you don’t mind that a lot of the sounds used are heavily influenced by other artists so that you can feel other people’s stamps all over it. If you are the sort of person that screams copy cat at the slightest influence than you will probably not appreciate this. If you can enjoy music for the music itself and you like deep spacey, slightly ethnic tribal ambient/downtempo then you’ll like this. This is not pushing the scene forward in anyway but it is still a very enjoyable album. Favourite Tracks: 2,3,7,8 originally written for www.isratrance.com Track By Track 1. Crystalline Lots of nice piano, a nice female vocal seems to wail from the edge of eternity and a melody that reminds me a little of a time in a movie when the main character is reflecting on a past mistake. The vocals are quite a focal point but they are nice vocals with no (English) words so they blend into the music very well creating a relaxed atmosphere of melancholic reflection. The bassline that becomes more prominent in the latter part of the track gives it enough so that the listener doesn’t nod off towards the end making it worth in nigh on ten minutes length. 2. Ether Aesthetics A more tribal sound with Ether Aesthetics as there is more of a beat, starting of very tribally then settling down to a more standard downbeat. There are some Shponlish flutes that seem to blend into a female vocal without me being able to discern when one becomes the other. The main selling point of this track is definitely its very fun bassline melody. It just bounces along and really encourages me to want to bounce along with it. The main weakness in the track for me is the vocal sample as I just really don’t like the smug sound of the guy’s voice. 3. Behind The Steps Of Death A step back with the tempo it seems with this track, once again it is more of a melancholic and reflective atmosphere, the beats are strong but very slow and the melody, at times a little too high pitch for comfort, seems to come out through the walls in the minds ether to fill the space between the beats. The guitar fits well but sounds like it is imitating Celtic Cross. The whole track reminds me of Celtic Cross to be honest with the melodies, the sample about 10 dimensional space, and the slight country feeling mixed with a trippy spacey mood is very nice. 4. Reflexive Meditation This track doesn’t seem half as reflexive or meditative as the title suggests. The main melodic sounds in the first half get on my nerves a bit and it is not until the shponglesque flute comes in that it approaches such a state but even this seems to contrast the other sounds so much that I feel like the flute and the other melodies are fighting. It feels in my mind like a battle for the air waves. The length of each and between each becomes longer and I keep feeling that the deep relaxing flutes have won only for the other sounds to punch back in. 5. Universe Alchemy The intro is a really nice bubbling sound instantly setting the scene in my head of a laboratory with lots of beakers and test tubes filled with bubbling liquids. The music that trails it though is much grander with a tight melody; cool IDMish beats and a female vocal chant making it feel much spacier and more shamanic. I feel like I am in god’s laboratory where I cannot feel the difference between science and nature. The melody becomes a twisted brainteaser and the background sounds like the laughter and the sharp breaths give the nature, science blend a breath of realism. 6. Travels To The Infinite I am not too excited by the sample in the intro of the track as the sound and tone of the voice just rubs me the wrong way but once it’s gone we get some more nice Shpongle moments. Cut up samples that sound like twisted synth work (or twisted synth work that sounds like a cut up sample), flutes and a nice main melody that can wrap itself around your head and let you float away. Overall this is a very nice track with a few overly ethnic moments but it really has a sense of wide open spaces, floating and traveling among the clouds. 7. Arowana Arowana raises the tempo slightly with faster beats and a head nodding bassline and it reminds me of Hallucinogen in Dub. I can almost here the sample in L.S.D. ('World Sheet Of Closed String' Mix) ready to fly out at me at any moment. It’s a really good track with cool synths, nice beats, a bassline that rumbles through the whole body and crazy ass samples that make you go “wtf?....oh yeah, that’s cool.” Once more there are some Celtic Cross guitars, a few slightly too ethnic sounds and a female vocal chant to give it a sense of Kliment and not just a straight copy. 8. The Interstellar Orchestra The final track is a strong, slow plodding track. A simple bassline feels very hypnotic and sleepy as the flutes serenade you into a lucid dream and the vocals bring a warm human touch to the dream. The number of melodies is impressive with string and wind instruments, brass and electronic. This is one of the best tracks on the album as everything just comes together very well and create a dreamlike atmosphere that will have you starting the album again after it has finished.