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Kettel is great! Really. My Dogan, Myan James Part One, Whisper Me Wishes, Through Friendly Waters & Volleyed Iron are all the albums I have. All of them are good with My Dogan, Myam James & Volleyed Iron being great IMO. For an IDM artist though Kettel is talked about a lot here, you might find more discussion on IDM forums http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=10751

I wanted to vote both but I haven't been to a party I haven't played at in quite a while now & I really enjoy listening at home so a housecat I am

CBL are high on my watch list

What the fuck is that?

To be honest, I think it would be better for him to Troll forums than attack people on the street.

Well, yeah! If you hate ethnic sounds or have gotten bored of it then this is not for you However I am sick of all the fake ethnic stuff that has flooded the psychill scene & I find the stuff on Dakini so much more real & makes me nostalgic for the time I spent in Asia

While the music is of coures the most important thing I do really enjoy a good cover. I am the same in that the cover can influence my synaesthesia. I always saw the music on Technosommy - Synthetic Flesh as being really colourful while I always saw Dark Green on the tracks from Singularity. I love the covers on ultimae too, I do think that often the best covers have gone with the best albums

More from Gus has to be good

Artist: Principles Of Flight Title: Chaos Opera Label: Timecode Records Released: May 2009 Style: Really bloody good Psytrance Samples: Click Tracklist (chapters) 01 Into the Lands of Black and White 02 Chaos Opera 03 The Queen of the Dead (feat. Talpa) 04 Eleanor's Theme 05 Cerberus 06 Charon the Ferryman 07 The Tavern, The Rebels, And The Secret Oath 08 A Gruesome Plan 09 The Black Mass 10 Edward to the Rescue! 11 The Chase 12 A Colourful End It has been a while since I was first amazed by Principles of Flight when they released their debut album Night Time Lullabies back in December of 2006. Nearly 2 and half years later Pierre Delort & Remy Maurin are back with their follow up album Chaos Opera. When the debut is so good the second album can always be tricky. Stay with the same sound then people will call you boring, repetitive & lacking in ideas. Stray too far from your original sound and the people who loved your first album may easily hate your second. Successful artists in this reviewer’s humble opinion manage to keep the atmosphere of their first album but build on it with fresh ideas and more experience technically leading to better production. I believe that Principles of Flight have succeeded very well indeed. Chaos Opera has managed to keep everything I loved about the first album, the concept, the story telling feeling, the mix of up-tempo tracks and downtempo intermissions, the energy & the mix of beats are great. It has also managed though to build on Night Time Lullabies, the production seems cleaner, the fullon baselines while still integral, and fit so well that at times you’ll never notice them; none of them are dominant like many of the high tempo Psytrance that is released nowadays. The psychedelic level I believe has been raised as well if you are crazy chaotic sounds that sound like little monsters hiding just behind that tree then you’ll agree with me that the trippiness here is fantastic. At times I get the feeling that I am listening to a movie soundtrack, with the orchestral feel there & the progression of each track & of the album as a whole I can picture the story in my head. I listened to the album a few times before I read the story in the booklet to see what story my head created before my feeling was distorted by someone else’s words. I imagined dark lands full of dense forests, small towns and morose inns. I imagined traveling through this land with strange creatures lurking in the forest and in the bars, eyes on me all the time. I imagined a journey to find something lost, a journey with stranger creatures becoming more common and forbidden enjoyment working its way out. When I did finally read the story in the booklet I was surprised to see that although there were more details (and of course characters) the story felt like I had imagined, a sign I think of music well made around Pierre and Remy’s concept. “Once upon a time in a far distant land, a land where the only colours were black and white, a land where laughing and smiling was forbidden and where clowns were locked away into dungeons, a land where people had to follow strict rules and where amusement was controlled by a militia, lived a little girl, Eleanor. The day she turned eight, Eleanor had come to terms with the fact that she was going to die - not now, of course, but it would happen eventually, just as it had happened to her dog Woofy, a brave old dog that had reached the age of eighteen. Now you might find it odd for an eight year old girl to think of Death, but in the land where Eleanor lived, it was not an uncommon thought, as starvation and disease were both pretty ordinary.” The start of the story for me describes the atmosphere of the album very well. It is dark yet innocent, classical yet contemporary, mature yet it has a youthful glow. I am really enjoying the sounds used here and the number of layers. I notice new things on every listen, something I often find with ambient albums but much less often with trance albums. Someone once asked me for recommendations for trance with dark ambient atmospheres. At the time my mind went blank as I tried desperately to think of this album. Really this is the best description I can think of, great high energy trance music with dark ambient atmospheres. The best thing is that they probably never had that in mind and it has evolved naturally with better results than I could have imagined. I really can’t recommend this enough. Any fans of Principles Of Flight – Night Time Lullabies should really enjoy this, as I said above it is a brilliant follow up, not to similar to the debut with fresh ideas & cool new concepts but it still has that POF air about it that will have made you fall in love with Night Time Lullabies. If you have never heard Night Time Lullabies but you like conceptual Psytrance albums with a dark edge (I have called this dark a few times but it is so far away from what is known as dark psy) and a hell of a lot of psychedelic goings on then you would do well to get this & Night Time Lullabies at the same time. Listen to the debut first as this album is even better. As an album it is amazing as you really must listen to it as a whole to get the whole thing but even on such great albums there are standout tracks. If the first 10 tracks are amazing then The Chase is out of this world, mind blowingly orgasmic stuff! Combined with A Colourful End it feels like one long track which twists and turns throughout. For a track that starts out energetic it is amazing how it manages to build in energy throughout, the sort of paradoxical building that seems to build and build yet stay the same all the way. There are tracks that no matter where you are when you listen to them you have to pull that stupid “I’m loving this face” and do some weird dancing either head bobbing or something with your hands. The embarrassment of looking like a weirdo at the station is far outweighed by my enjoyment of this track. Dance like there is nobody watching no matter where you are. In A Colourful End the beats change into a drum & bass style and satisfies my hunger for a genre I love but which I feel always sounds the same. These I do believe will be the best tracks I hear this year. Of course I’d love to be proven wrong but it will take something really special to beat these 10/10 tracks. There could have been no better way to finish an album than this. My pattern so far has been to repeat these tracks then start the whole album again. This is my favourite album this year so far by a country mile. Not just in the up-tempo genre but of all genres, this like 2007’s Sienis - From A Nutter Perspective has reignited my love of dance floor music. Thank you Pierre & Remy for this inspiring album! Track By Track Analysis 1. Into the Lands of Black and White A nice intro here, soft strings and piano at the start create an old world atmosphere. Dark sounds set a dark mood and double bass like synths build & build the intensity in almost classical style. 2. Chaos Opera This starts very soft, continuing from the opening track and sounds something like a child’s lullaby from a horror movie before they discover the baby is the devil or something. When the beats kick in they are accompanied by a tight little fullon on baseline which while noticeable doesn’t dominate the track but helps drive this very energetic track. Lots of weird background noise sounds like some monster trying to sing while wet little synth sounds morph into a very acidic synth line driving the energy even faster. There is creaking reminding me of some of the first psy I heard in GNOTR’s Optimum Creakage. The beat is heavy and throughout this track it has an amazingly oppressive atmosphere full of chaotic sounds and techy noises. When the track breaks down it shows some great melody that continues when the beat kicks back in but the feeling of the track is slightly brighter. This has been a very nice opening to the album but it gets even better! 3. The Queen of the Dead (Feat. Talpa) We fly into this track with some lush chimes before the beats kick in with sharp synths slicing through the background into the foreground like a swinging sword. Huge rushes of sound feel like something is rising up through the ground and the wet sounds that kind of plop really quickly make me feel like I am covered in some kind of ectoplasm while dancing like a madman in some huge empty auditorium. The feeling of being in auditorium is highlighted by the feeling of melody. It feels like it is surrounding me, as if it is echoing off the walls in such a grandiose space. The melody is very reminiscent of Talpa’s music but to be honest this is better than anything I have heard from Talpa going solo. The progression of the track is great, with nice leads, trance rolls just at the right places and energy kicking off enough to bring a huge grin to your face. It ends with the melody again then some soft classical piano and softer rain. 4. Eleanor's Theme The rain and piano lead us into Eleanor’s Theme a beautiful melancholic opening which kicks off but not straight into a danceable beat but more like some slow but heavy tribal rhythms. I get the feeling of bondage, capture & the promise of very bad things. This is a great intermission between the upbeat tracks that really adds to the atmosphere and the storytelling feeling. 5. Cerberus Boom! Straight into a fast beat and some oscillating synths sounds. When the melody comes in it is nothing like any of the ones before, the pitch is low almost like it is growling at us. A much higher pitched melody sounds like it is replying and when they merge I get a sense of accomplishment. Another wonderfully layered track with lots going on all over it and neat progression, the melody comes and goes, changes sounds but always has the same feeling. The music breaks down with glitchy chaotic sounds and then just some bizarre oscillation that somehow manages to act as a drum roll and lets the music kick back in. Somehow the energy is missed at this point but I don’t know if that was the point or not. 6. Charon the Ferryman A long dark misty drone starts this track with beats emerging from the fog and blowing it away quickly. This is more chaotic and glitchy than any of the preceding tracks with a lot more noises crammed into the foreground and less in the background. The resulting feeling is like being on a turbulent river, battling against the swirls and eddies. The track is certainly maximal with more optimum creakage like my raft is being torn apart in this maelstrom of sound. Going full pelt almost all the way through there is not much progression but it is perfectly placed in the album that it carries through nicely. 7. The Tavern, The Rebels, And The Secret Oath This track really does have a secretive feeling around the start. The strings and other orchestral sounds add that old world feeling again at the start and a high pitched sound in the build up like a spectral whisper. There are lots of weird sounds that in my head sound like deformed ethereal spirits speaking to me and wanting me to do something for them. These sounds build into a nice melody, which is as infectious as it is simple and when joined by a similar synth line just twists around my head spitting the acid later into my soft brain matter. From simple beginnings this track gets more and more intense, busier and more maximal. By the middle of the track there is almost an overload of sounds and the sensation it creates when it clears feels like some kind of urgent chase. The siren like sounds add to this feeling which continues right through to the end, cool stuff. 8. A Gruesome Plan Another great soft yet heavy, dark ambient intro from which emerges a twisted melody wound tight and rolling through the black air in front of me. The orchestral feeling comes back and without the heavy beat it still manages to keep a lot of energy. When it breaks down into just the piano you realise how much energy & tension was created from just those sounds. Later a tight baseline comes under the piano, nice cool beats that are as relentless as they are magically tribal. I can imagine mad shamans summoning dark powers when I listen to this track, picture Fantasia with a twisted monster and much more psychedelic offerings. 9. The Black Mass You can feel the intensity, which was pretty high in the beginning started to build now with the atmosphere becoming darker and spacier. Feeling more open but still filled with some intangible substance. There are more of the hyperspace type sounds I love so much in Goa but here they sound deeper, darker and when surrounded by haunting ghostly wails much more menacing. I can feel creatures from another dimension pushing against the walls of my reality both around my physical being and inside my head. The melody just adds to the intensity like these dark creatures are desperate for some depraved pleasure at my expense & if they come through I might just enjoy the sensation of being ripped apart. 10. Edward to the Rescue With the intensity building there is little in the way of a gap between the beats from The Black Mass and this. The beats here though seem quicker, the baseline more prominent but still never dominating and the spacey atmosphere has gone into a subterranean overdrive. If you can imagine a huge planet hollowed out so that you can have a spacey feeling while being underground then you might be close to understanding this feeling. The beats continue to change, with a tight funky beat emerging slightly before getting drowned by the dance floor stuff, like flying though a small tunnel into another equal planet sized cavern. The sense of urgency builds and builds even when the music breaks down, it feels like when you run into a room and you know there is something there you need but you have no idea where to look. You are pretty still but no less urgent. Important thing found and it’s time to run again, the beats of this track really make me feel like running & I can picture myself running on the ceiling of the enormous domed cavern I have found myself in. 11. The Chase Way to save the best for last, this track is the bomb!!! Along with the last track this is my favourite on the album, they act as a double climax to such a great album. The huge baseline, the twisted, incomprehensible synths and the massive beats just drive and drive and drive. The sample “Chaos” is I think the only word in the entire album and it is as effective as it is surprising; the fact that it comes so unexpectedly and is over so soon is perplexing and delightful. The utter chaotic craziness of all the synths, sounds and whatnots that follow is mind blowing. The high pitch synth line that follows the second and third utterances of “Chaos” is pretty much fit inducing. Be prepared to dance like nobody’s around wherever you hear this. This is crazy mental nutcase psy at its very best. 12. A Colourful End A top draw Drum & Bass track to end with, I love Drum & Bass but often feel that most of it sounds too much like everything else in the genre so it is great to hear some Psy & Bass. I would really really like to hear more of this sound. This is another climax so soon after the climax of The Chase. The strings, the atmosphere and the amazing beats just make me feel like going mental every time I hear them. This is a fantastic ending to a fantastic album. We are slowly brought down with some soft piano in the last minute drifting slowly back into the real world and wanting instantly to go back to Principles Of Flight’s.

He's still doing that? np The Circular Ruins - Before The Colors Deepened need to listen to some ambient after playing POF new album 20 times in a row

Someone started a thread in offtopic twice, just like another popular topic & he added a spam reply, obviously to state the spam nature of the thread. I guess mars didn't see it like that.

It's on the inside sleeve notes

I think this is even better

So who else thinks this album is the shit!!!??? I just can't stop listening to it! Easily the best album of the year so far for me & it will be a very very tough one to beat

Hell yeah I am enjoying this. Blew away my expectations!

His track on youtube sounds nothing like the one on treecreation! Didn't even register that I'd heard this guy before

I am wondering why psytones got a one weeks band when there are others just spamming away with non sensical crap. Psytones usually has something interesting to say but puts a spam reply in a spam topic and is banned? Sorry but why? I'm not pushing for anyone else to be banned here but I find it wrong to see a member who contributes given a one week suspension for something so little while other stuff (much worse) is tolerated.

Wow! What a random thread! I had never heard of Spoonbill before and don't quite see how it relates to General Psytrance at all. I quite liked it though, nothing I'd actually buy but I wouldn't mind hearing. Bwhale you might need to learn to understand that people have different tastes to you!

Principles Of Flight - The Chase :wub: :wub:

I'm loving that whole album :wub: :wub:

This is the best thing I have heard this year! By a long way too. As a fan of downtempo this is really something. I have only heard it 4 or 5 times but my god it's great. Loving it!