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Artist: Gus Till Title: Dub Shadows Label: Cyan Music (Sub Label of Psy-Harmonics) Released: 2004 Style: Psychedelic Ambient Dub Tracklist 1 Photogenic 2 Something Dub 3 Re-entry 4 Inamorata 5 Life of Flesh 6 Chain of Daiquiri 7 Never Give a Sucker an Even Break 8 Monkey in the Black Sky 9 North by Northwest 6 (Midnite Sake Dub) 10 Atahualpa I must admit that I love Gus Till, he has made some of the best trance released in the Golden era of amazing trance and has produced a string of great downtempo releases too. He is such a versatile artist & picking up a Gus Till release virtually guarantees it’s quality, psychedelic goodness & its ability to last through the ages. So a retrospective of Gus Till’s downtempo tracks. Being called Dub Shadows you may think that this album is very dubby and you’d be right on the money with that assumption. This is the kind of psychedelic dub that is not psydub. There is no clichéd psydub ethnic crap in this; it is just pure dubby goodness with a twisted psychedelic edge. Right from the start there are solid beats, thick basslines & mind twisting background psychedelica. Photogenic starts of more conventional dub that psy but Something Dub brings in a lot of trippy noises to slice through your brain. Re-entry really brings down the tempo into a more ambient dub sound and focuses more on atmospheric background drones to set a trippy mood of submersion. Inamorata featuring Paul Jackson is a little more normal, not so dubby but not so psychedelic either but a nice balance of neither. Life of Flesh featuring George Barker and with Matt Coldrick on guitar is a trippy piece of electro dub with a real acoustic feel. Matt’s guitar work sounds really nice and summery but the rest of the track adds a “bongo out of my mind on the beach while party people surround and consume me” kind of feel, it is a brilliant track even by Gus Till’s standards. The short Chain Of Daiquiri has a more tribal beat but an insane melodic synth that just seems to drip down the side of my mind. I am instantly put in mind of a tribal ritual invoking spirits from beyond the veil of reality. Shame it’s so short. Never Give A Sucker An Even Break is not exactly a standout but it is a very nice psychedelic dub track in the same vein as the start of the album with a tight bassline and trippy background noises. Monkey In The Black Sky deserves its own paragraph I think! This id definitely one of the best tracks Gus Till has put out and seeing as Gus Till is one of the best producers I’ve heard you can tell that I am going to be saying great things about this track. I fell in love with this after I first heard it on Flying Rhino’s 3CD Time – re:evolution II. From the insanely trippy voices at the start to the extraordinarily trippy vocals that seem to cascade in a trans-dimensional bleeding through the walls kind of way this track is just psychedelic to its core. The voices sound trippy but when they make sense their content is the sort of content that will send am addled brain over the edge of incomprehension & lush joy. The synths and melody make this feel like a trippy oldschool track slowed right down beyond anything artists used to put on the end of their albums. The bassline is so slow but drives the track with a diligence that belays the rest of the sounds. This track is easily worth buying the entire album just to own. Just when you think it’s over it completely changes with the tolling of a town square bell and all the sounds that have been prevalent over the last 8 minutes to shift 90 degrees into such a bizarre but great ending. Fantastic! The last two tracks, North By Northwest 6 (Midnite Sake Dub) featuring Raja Ram and Atahuala are both great tracks with a lot of dub & psy elements. North By Northwest 6 manages to graft out an almost orchestral feeling with some big instruments while Atahuala finishes off the album with some fine tribal ambient dub with a trippy atmosphere and a feeling that it is raining outside. Neither track reaches the dizzy heights of Monkey In The Black Sky but they are a fine end to a great album. A must for all dub fans, ambient fans, Gus Till fans, psy fans and to be honest I reckon most electronic downtempo fans, even those that just see it as 8am after party music would really like this album. It is worth getting just for Monkey In The Black Sky but the rest of the tracks make this a must buy in my book. I’m glad I did!

Fair enough but I still have no idea what albums or comps or EPs are being discussed. discogs.com/image/R-355945-1171642199 is not a fitting title Seriously, it doesn't take too much longer to write in the name of the CD you are linking to

Nothing at all? All those links led me to an empty page! Maybe it's my computer but I have no idea what you got :drama:

VA - Air :clapping:

Just ordered :posford:

Kwook - 30 Times The Speed Of Sound :clapping:

Lustmord - The Place Where The Black Stars Hang

But not with the fancy graphs & stuff

Offthesky - Geist Heist of Tomb Room 18

Nice that the best of 2008 results have come out before the best off 2007 Still waiting for those ay? I guess they have been binned I'd like to give a special congrats to DAT Records & Par-2 Recordings for filling the number 2 & 3 spots for labels despite only releasing 1 record each! Amazing records they were & deservedly high rankings

What you could have done is edited your original post to include you rnew thoughts instead of creating a new post to tell us your new thoughts then editing your old post into redundancy :drama:

Nice, I though Soul Sleeping was a very under appreciated album!

Is that a remix of Born In a Tropical Swamp?

To be fair that post has been edited. It was not originally three full stops but a negative comment on the album that was retracted by the author of the post, hence the 3 dots.

The problem we have when we are sitting here in our towers of superiority (and I don't mean us as Psy lovers specifically but music = art lovers everywhere) is that we have delved deep into our chosen styles & we have discover the art there. We have not looked deeply into other styles and then we judge them based on what we know, which is usually the mainstream apadptation of said styles. For example I don't like rock, I find it boring and shallow but I bet you that there is a lot of great rock out there that is intelligent & artistic. I just have not heard it, all the rock I have heard has been mainstream (pop) rock. Also, think of people who don't listen to Psy, if they have heard of it they have probably only heard Skazi and then they will judge from that, that Psytrance is shit! Who could blame them? But I am sure that a lot of us here are guilty of this concerning other genres (except modern Jazz, that is just shite )

Kaya Project - ...And So It Goes

Already put it on my saiko wishlist Should be getting it this month or early next month depending on finances

'tis a mix I made a while ago 1. Cymphonic - Scimerian Silence 2. Sense Project - Cimbalan 3. Senzar - The Red Water 4. Robert Davies - Dragonfly Hollow 5. Mathias Grassow - & Thomas Weiss - In 6. Spielerei & Mantacoup - Pigs Bay 7. Krill.Minima - The Sea Horse & The Soft Coral 8. The Circular Ruins - Immer Du 9. Trentmoller - Moan 10. Spielerei & Mantacoup - Sfunato 11. Minilogue - Six Arms One Leg 12. Lammergeyer - Atonement 13. Kwook - Lorikeet 14. Mystery Of The Yeti - A Welcome To All Extra Terrestrials 15. Orbit Constructors - Abandoned Tombs 16. Vataff Project - Kalitz 17. Nostalgia - The Plain Of Silence 18. Atrium Carceri - Victim 19. David Bickley & Tom Green - The Great March 20. Spheroid - Imbedded Neptune 21. The Circular Ruins - Standing In Violent Golds 22. Kettel - A French Composer 23. Vudim Hondurenk - Smoking Zone I 24. Cymphonic - Submersion 25. Legiac - Elvers 26. Jason Corder & Opium - Fade To Rust 27. Secede - Hospital Requiem 28. Matt Hiller - Diving Into Sun 29. Gus Till - Amber 30. Matt Coldrick - Base Red Patience 31. Ishq - Arc 32. Rena Jones - Firefly 33. Solar Fields - Nea 3 34. Cyscape - Elumina 35. Off The Sky - Geist Taxi 36. Ian Ion - We Could Be Housewives 37. Robert Davies - Hidden Colors Radiance 38. Spielerei - Restplace 39. Mathias Grassgow & Jiri Mazanek - Inner Path Part II 40. Blamstrain - Frame Math 41. Atrium Carceri - Crusted Neon 42. The Circular Ruins - A Forgotten Divinity 43. Lull - Just Below Wixford 44. Svartling - Afraid Of Silence 45. Off The Sky - Lite Raining 46. Netherworld - Kall Part 3 47. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden 48. Amir Baghiri & The Wee Bandits - Mystic Lights 49. Solar Fields - Air Song (8am Version) 50. H.U.V.A. Network - Access To Long Fields 51. Hybrid Leisureland - Strawberry Planetarium 52. Sync24 - Biota 53. The Circular Ruins - A Little Different From Reality 54. Pete Namlook & Mix Master Morris - Hymn but only 2 hours long

Impatient Ambient

The problem is, while we see music as art, most people do not. They see it as just a bit of fun. If you are not viewing music as art then there is almost no way you are going to enjoy instrumental music. Singing is fun! I know, I love karaoke & can sing my heart out for five hours straight but there are not many songs I sing that I would consider art (Bob Dylan and a few more only) most are shallow (fun) pop songs. I never buy such music though as I really can appreciate the art in a 60 minute track with no beats at all. Not many people appreciate art in music so fun shallow music is always going to be the mainstream. One other point, does it annoy anyone else when people talk about psytrance songs? They're not bloody songs as there is no singing!!!

Yes, and Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland is the fourth

Cool! Nice one

With graphs & stats?

Good speakers or good headphones, both are good but I think good headphones are cheaper

who is doing the results?