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Here are mine. not in order Sienis - Form Another Perspective Best track on the whole album. It all comes together. The grim fairy tale feel, the nuttiness, the ambience in the background & yes yes yes the bassline is so amazingly fantastic that when it comes in I can do anything else, I can't talk I can't walk straight I can't see. All I can do is smile & dance. Every part of me wants to move. Even when I'm sat down I can feel myself dancing! I think this is probably my favourite track of 2007. It's so infectious. I just want to listen to it again & again & again. I could probably have this on repeat at a party & be happy for hours I only wish it was longer. Prosect - Dr. Ivan & The Mad Peyote With a track title so unbelievably shit you know that the music is either going to be undeniably shit or so fucked up & crazy that you just can't get enough.....so....which way is it? Well, the answer is thankfully the latter. This is some crazy psychedelic, technological madness. Trippy, acidic, strange, fun, weird, better make sure that nobody's watching you dance to this crazy stuff are all worthy adjectives. I've not heard this on the dancefloor but I'm sure it would be a challenge. It stops & starts without any constant rhythm but it keeps going. I don't see any psy lovers leaving the dancefloor when this comes on but I don see a lot of confused bodies at least from those not entirely wasted! Crazy craziness with a degree in crazology from the university of south madsley in craze london! Asura - Golgotha A soft dreamy opening with a lush drone & a drawn out ethnic melody leads into a heavy tribal beat. The melody continues & evolves then around the 3 and a half minute mark a long synth gives this track a vast feel. I feel like this track belongs in the sound track to some epic. I feel as if I'm stood on a hill watching an army charge towards me but safe in the knowledge that I can't be hurt. The melody changes from flute to voice almost noticeably. Asura - La Chanson De Carla Love this track! A Beautiful melody & gorgeous vocal. It seems lovely & lonely. It reminds me of nostalgia for an old girlfriends I mistakenly left behind on my journey in life & is now lost to me forever. At the same time it keeps up the celestial atmosphere of the rest of the album Life2 & is a great and to a great album. Sync24 - White Pixels Whatever choice we made this track makes us feel like it was the right decision. It takes us & wraps us in it's warm embrace. The most melodious so far & is quite beautiful in a melancholic kind of way. A female voice gives us the message The shadow of Earth can't block the radiation. White pixels shimmering as dying stars. Like thin Smoke trailing through the memory of someone still alive. Even now, white does not equal death. before a steady beat comes & takes us on another stage of the journey. Leaving behind the stark countryside into something more vibrant & alive. (val)Liam - Perfectly Rational I'm really looking forward to hearing more from this guy judging from the strength of his 2 tracks on Intermittent Memories. This one has a nice relaxed natural feel. The use of piano seems to Earth this track giving it a much more terrestrial feel. Like awaking from a dream about alien worlds to a warm Earth autumn morning. Solar Fields - Air Song (Androcell Remix) I wanted to see what Androcell could do with one of the greatest pieces of music ever made. It is basically everything a remix should be. It sounds very different from the original while still keeping some of the core aspects (in this case the slight melody) to make it recognisable. The beats are bigger, there is more energy & there is a vocal in it. A good remix, incomparable to the original because they are so different. Well done Androcell! Vataff Project - Plasticine Bird Love this track. The longest on the comp at over 10 minutes & we've made the transition from downbeat to more ambient sounds. There are still a few beats but they are very minimal & the ambient drone is at the forefront of the track. A minimal melody is very nice and interspersed with little 'plop' sounds. A very nice track. I especially like the waaaaahhhh drones later on Spielerei & Mantacoup - Between Hope & Fear An irregular beat & an irregular melody from the darkness both sound like hopeless hope from an uncertain future. This track oozes dark, bleak despair but offers hope at every turn. Of each turn of hope though, fear & despair grab at my boot heels & try to pull me down. The beats pull down, the piano pulls down, the drone pulls down & there is no hope left, only fear until out of nowhere comes our saviour. A melody almost lost in the sea of negativity but bright & sharp enough to push up with new life. An acorn sprouts from the earth & tries to grow, just to chopped down by a nuclear fallout, never to stand tall! Spielerei & Mantacoup - After The Shockwave Something is trying to grow in the wasteland. Something from nothing but still the nuclear wind tries to destroy everything that might be. Can anything prevail after the nuclear winter has descended? Still, something wants to grow but it's not organic. Industrial growth is all that prevails & it needs no organic help. The nuclear winds have stripped the earth of it's weak organisms & left it with only machines that have a strong desire to survive. They picked up on our final wishes, our desire to continue our life no matter the cost. But with no human life left it's up to our technology to survive, rebuild, evolve & fight each other. A cold dead world alive with nothing but the shadow of mankind. This is all that is left after mankind's need to protect itself. Younger Brother - Psychic Gibbon After the greatness of the first track on The Last Days of Gravity then the disappointment that followed I wasn't expecting this. This is exactly what I would have liked the whole album to be. Interesting & psychedelic without relying on crap samples from past movies. Instead it relies on melodies & structure. It builds it's way up to the vocal which (is not a sample) fits in naturally to the track. Very good stuff, the sort of track I replay after it's finished. Fizzy - Hymn in Honor of Symphonics I'll forgive the lazy spelling of Honour in the title & say that this is much more like it! Yes there is a baseline again but this time it fits in much better with the rest of the track, I don't feel like I've heard it a million times before & it makes me want to move & most of all it's not the main focal point of the entire fucking track. It's great to see someone nowadays who is able to make a 12+ minute trance track & have the skills to keep it interesting throughout. A slight breakdown followed by a sample "Hisashiburi dane" It's been a long time. Then it kicks in proper with such an angelic melody, random though it is a first it gains cohesiveness as it goes along and manages to melt my brain each time I hear it! After the melody comes driving synth lines that just poke red hot acid into my already melted brain! When an artist you've never heard of with such a silly name makes a piece of music good enough to put a smile on your face and give you optimism for the future of the scene it has to be a good thing. I just hope he becomes more well known within our small scene! Younger Brother - Happy Pills A nice chilled out melodic piece dripping with lovely psychedelic nuances. The beats are big but relaxed. Lots of space to move. The more intricate sub beats are nicer & an Indian melody gives way to a really nice 60's lounge melody. The whole track has the feel of a 60's smokers lounge just not crap. Sienis - Watt Duh Hekk?! The bom bom bom seems to have a resonance echo & the sounds shift from left to right in an off putting random way that makes you think your headphones are broken until the sounds fly around so much that they fill both sides. An incredibly infectious bassline which has made me look stupid at the train station trying to hold my desire to dance while waiting for the train. It's a small world after world is butchered by some weirdo freak in the breakdown before kicking back in with a completely different track. What the Hell happened? The Bizarreness is compounded by the return of the oscillating sounds from the right to the left randomly. Oh well 16% of the time it works everytime Eat Static - Brassneck The sample seems to describe Eat Static well, if you listen to the static then it fucks you up. Truer words have never been sampled. Another high octane track full of trippy alien weirdness with melodies that really take my brain to other dimensions. Dimensions of pure light, dimensions of energy & sound & back again. Solar Fields - Cruise A sublime ambient drone with a touch of melody in the background makes me feel everytime like this is going to be an ambient outro but as the beats trip in, that feeling drips away & is finally broken when the heavy bass stabs in & the beat, which now seems to have the foot eased off the pedal kicks in. The sound is back to the best heard on the album with the old school trance influences again. The synth build ups & the rave like break down putting me in the mood for some huge outdoor party 12 years ago but the melody rooting me right into 2007. Imagine a melodious rave track minus the cheesy cartoon sample plus modern production & you have this cruise. Bloody brilliant it is, the build ups are actually tense while being relaxing. Like waiting for something you really want while experiencing the next best thing. Sitting on a bean back waiting for someone to pass you the joint type stuff. This manages to sneak in the energy. You wait for a drop & suddenly it has just gone nuts without you realising it. Solar Fields - Brainbow The intro has little short stabs of acid bombarding the now crippled defenses of my cynicism. I have to admit that now I am in love with this music & want to have it's babies. As the beat kicks in I feel a small drop in my appreciation but when that melody comes in I just want to fall to the floor in joy. It's difficult to describe just how this melody sounds but it feels like it is covering me. All around me is a beautiful fog of music representing this music. It hums & chimes & rings & echoes through the smoke rings of my inner being & far out into the ether of the universe. When it leaves I feel the darkness with the light acid sounds lighting up the black sky. The melody creeps back in however with the re:emergence of the beat I had not noticed for the last few minutes. The times with the melody are almost orgasmic & those times when it's not there leave you waiting for it, wanting it, desiring it to enter your mind again & bring you the light & the colour that has been missing from your life. Am I getting across just how good this melody is? It is a pretty simple melody but damn it's infectious & if it was a woman I think I would already have proposed. The bassline in the final part of the track is a nice driving one & fits round the melody while the spacey goodness of all the other sounds just blow my mind deep into the wondrous hyperspace of music created by Solar Fields. Mind Blowing!! Solar Fields - Kick Back Straight in with the beat & straight in with little melodic runs which sound, I have to say, magical. Some of the best melody I've heard in ages & the fact that each time it comes in it's so short & then goes, it feels like I'm being teased. I sit here waiting for it to come in next. I'm so busy waiting that I miss, the synths starting but when I finally hear them & the bassline I am once again in awe. This is really how psy at this pace should sound. Beautifully spacey with a lot of space for the sounds to breath. The steady 4-4 is not oppressive which is such a relief as I was worried that a too heavy kick would be the downfall of this album but Magnus in my eyes is a genius when it comes to music & he's produced a bloody brilliant track here. When the melody morphs into a what reminds me of an old school trance (not psy) classic but yet not, I feel a sense of nostalgia while being so happy with the state of modern music. The atmosphere created in the final run sees this track move so incredibly deep I almost weep with joy. This, without a doubt must be one of the best tracks released this year, in any genre. Zero Cult - Part Of Rapture I can't imagine a more fitting title. The rapture that encompasses me with the melody on this track is utterly amazing. The Emotion driven into an electronic body is very impressive & above all the melody just rings out class. Mathias Grassow & Thomas Weiss - Language of Silence Sounds buzz & twinkle in this track, under the drone seems to be life in the outer reaches of nothingness. In the vastness of space between planets there is not much but in this track there seems to be at least single cell life. Something that the light bounces off of. A very nice floaty track, feels like I'm orbiting a huge star at a distance of over 100Au. So just in the distance can I see one light just brighter than the rest, but not obvious. Very cool Spacey ambient. Cymphonic - Unfoldment From nothingness unfolds into beauty. The track starts with minimal ambient drones. Adds extra sounds & static from nowhere as it evolves & eventually produces a melody that is worthy of a spring flower. Simple & soft but beautiful. Easily missed but worth catching. A track I wish was longer so I could enjoy the beauty more. Cymphonic - River Styx This really does manage to sound like a river on fire separating me from the lost souls damned to all eternity. The water seems to drip upwards like flames & from beyond these flames the cold wishes from the long deceased cry out in joyous anguish. As we float along though they fade more into the background and the longer this goes the closer to the bank we get until I feel like I'm just sitting on the shores of hell, listening to the sea of souls lap against my ankles. Amos - Fläktsystem This track is stunningly beautiful. The melody is one of melancholic ecstasy & the beat vibrates as it rolls through the track. If you are a fan of melancholic chill then you will more than like likely fall in love with this track. Makes me feel like I'm in the part of a movie where everything in my life has fallen apart & all I can do is wander slowly around the city & see all the people going about there business totally unaware of my inner pain. Beautiful stuff. Subgardens - Asleep Clockmaker Well, I had some really high hopes for this track after the brilliance of listen to the flowers grow & Subgardens manages to keep their hundred percent record with this track. Weird slick beats & rushes in the background make room for a lovely cold melody that falls all around me. It feels like standing in the middle of my field with snow all over the ground and a gentle snowfall coming down. I like the beats that Subgardens keep coming out with. Something different from you usual beats. More glitchy with echo, reverb or something damn good done to them. Would love to hear more from these guys. I've not heard everything so I'm sure it will change anyway

Sure! recent albums that have not had the time to become classic but that you think will be many years down the line.

Vangelis - Bladerunner

Kattoo Places Hymen Records 2004 Tracklist 1 Place1 (5:15) 2 Place2 (4:32) 3 Place3 (5:59) 4 Place4 (5:12) 5 Place5 (4:51) 6 Place6 (6:23) 7 Place7 (3:34) 8 Place8 (4:30) 9 Place9 (6:00) 10 Place10 (4:47) 11 Place11 (7:44) 12 Re-Place7 (Rmx By Flaque) (4:46) I remember someone telling me how great this album was so when I saw it cheap in a shop I picked it up. I'm glad I got it, it has some nice stuff, but I'm glad I didn't pay much for it as there is some really bad stuff too. 1. Place 1 From the vocal over the loud speaker to the squelchy beats to the subtle melody & long soft drone in the background this track sets a nice warm summer atmosphere. Feels like dew on a summer morning. 2. Place 2 A siren, the scene of a crime, the panting of a criminal & the sounds of a chase ending in a shooting. Instantly we are in a new place miles from the last place. This place is an urban ghetto. The beats are much more street & the vocals much more in the turntablist vein. I like the bass in this track, it carries what would be an average track into an urban dream. 3. Place 3 A much darker place now, a very sinister sample & drone like the dark ages. All the sounds here are grander & I'm put in mind of a secret underground hall used by a secret & sinister organisation. The mood changes as the people fill up the hall, the mood is serene but always with an undercurrent of bad intentions. This is a little slow to get going but when the melody comes in halfway through it turns into one of the best downbeat tracks I've heard recently. In the first few listens of this CD, this track always passed under my radar but as I focused on it, it's sheer magnitude shone. Great track. 4. Place 4 Transported again miles away. To a windswept moor in the middle of the night. Dark bolts of electricity come from the sky, once, twice then the scene explodes as this track turns into some hideous metal nightmare. I don't like this at all, it's noisy & crap. When the metal beats go it is much better but they spoil the whole thing for me. To harsh, not intricate just too much. Poor Track 5. Place 5 Sings Nightingale with the pitch control being messed with. This continues as the beats come in & some nice windy drones in the background. Soft guitar & shuffling beats are so much nicer than the place we went before. Towards the end the beats increase into a breakbeat & a good one at that. The melody at this time is really moving too. I like this place. 6. Place 6 Another harsh industrial place. The beats are utterly random & don't get into any kind of rhythm for a while. When kattoo does this it doesn't really feel like music to me. Just crap annoying noise. When the beats do even out it's a bit better & there is a melody hidden in the background which is pretty nice but the beats go all shit again & I have to say I don't like this track, it's pretty poor. The end is the only really decent part of it. 7. Place 7 A dark oppressive drone & sinister industrial noises. The intro is an impressive example of dark ambient. Suddenly there are fast hard beats. Random but ordered it seems that they fit even though they shouldn't. Sounds like a lot of the venetian snares' material that I've heard. Fast paced changes with no story or point. The dark ambient in the background is easily the best thing here & I'd like to have this track without the beats. 8. Place 8 The Batman The Movie samples add a dark (in a Tim Burton way) touch to this whereas the melody is a beautiful melancholy & the sounds of children playing in the background really sets the reminiscent mood. When listening to this track I feel like I should be thinking of my past with a big grin on my face & it does conjure for me many happy memories. This track is worth the purchase of this album alone. This is a fantastic track, very emotional, melancholic & nostalgic. 9. Place 9 This next place is darker again, a garden at night somewhere in Asia. I can hear the wind chimes sounding in the wind & the creaking of a wooden walkway as someone comes out to the garden. There tries to be a beat but it doesn't really materialise into anything more than a random nuisance. This would have been a lot better without them. This could be a really nice ambient track but those attempts at beats ruin it. 10. Place 10 Now I'm standing on the shore, listening to tide come in. The beats come in and chase away the atmosphere. It's still noticeable in the background & gives the track a nice outside air to it. When the organ comes in & I can hear the plane screech overhead I feel the track has taken a step deeper & when the melody comes in it a lush melancholic one. Very nice how it evolves as with the evolution of the whole track. Like a miniature fable in music. Very nice track. 11. Place 11 Okay, this is just awful. It's just a German guy talking. That's it, no music. No melody, no rhythm, no beats not atmosphere. At nearly 8 minutes, it is also the longest track on the album and is just.... Pointless crap. 12 Re-Place7 (Rmx By Flaque) The 1st few listen of this album I assumed that the drivel of place 11 was the end & turned it off & I completely missed this Remix of place 7. Now I wasn't too impressed with Place 7 so how is the remix. Well, it's everything I wish place 7 had been. A nice dark atmosphere with chilled beats that are ordered & intricate. Well this is really a mixed bag. As an album it doesn't have any flow. Some of the tracks are really good & Place 8 is worth the purchase but there are too many poor tracks to make this album one to listen to all the way through. If you want to make an IDM mix then buy this as there are some good tracks to put in one but if you are looking for a nice album then don't bother. There are 5 really poor tracks & they ruin the album. I skip whenever I play this & the album ends up being hard work rather than enjoyable. Good Tracks #1 #2 #3 #5 #8 #10 #12 <- all these are little psychedelic journeys Crap Tracks #4 #6 #7 #9 #11!!!! <- these are just crap

I am here Guess who I chose! Jikkenteki seems to make music that is suited right to my tastes OOOD makes quality stuff too though.

I only listen to talk radio. I don't want to hear anyone else's music when I can choose my own

I don't know. From your earlier post it sounded like your main criteria for making it a classic was if people would remember it. So you tell me! I am sure however that I will remember many albums from these times. I may not listen to them as regularly as I do now but I'm sure when I put them on 20 years from now I'll get this warm fuzzy feeling like I'm listening to a classic

I think I just crapped myself in excitement

Kettel My Dogan Sending Orbs 2006 Tracklist 1 My Dogan (4:47) 2 Dogan 9247 (1:02) 3 Mauerbrecher (6:07) 4 Billiton Beruh With Cleo&Wouter (2:09) 5 Little Tongues (4:16) 6 Meeuwuh (1:20) 7 Halt Him (5:34) 8 Mannschaft (2:32) 9 Follow Me! (4:57) 10 Peeksje 1994 (2:00) 11 Sekt I Sing (7:16) 12 Ok Norah (0:52) 13 Sylvia (3:02) 14 Afwezig (3:31) 15 The Second 2006 (5:06) 16 Escape From ETA Th2 (1:41) 17 Choo Choo India (7:26) 18 He's His Own Man (6:33) I kept seeing this beautiful cover & I knew I had to buy the music lat was lying underneath. I'm fortunate that the music was a lush melodious roller coaster of an album. A very nice IDM gem, the best I've heard from Kettel so far 1 My Dogan We start off with the title track. Nice random IDM beats under an equally random couple of melodies. For it's randomness though it does have a very well structured feel. Like someone has taken some nice sounds, thrown them up in the air & they have formed into a lovely loving sound by themselves and landed here in my ears to my delight. Good Start. 2 Dogan 9247 A wee track here. Squelchy pads & a fluctuating drone obscure a muttered vocal. It's so quiet, wear headphones. 3 Mauerbrecher A really funkily nice melody right of the bat. It's melodies like this that this album is made of. It's short & stabbing sounds making up & nice twisting melody. The beats are a little more danceable & the the second melody that comes in after a few minutes seems to match the beats perfectly. Add a long underlying drones that moves up & down tunefully and you get a damn good track. Lovely. A lush piano melody acts as a transition into the next track, like it's a track of it's own but just about 15 seconds. 4 Billiton Beruh With Cleo&Wouter A slower melody and soft piano cords form this wee 2 minuter. Softly stabbing synths form the melody & the lack of beats make it a nice chilled but busy atmosphere. I'd like to have seen this made longer to see what he could have done with it. 5 Little Tongues The melody is made up similarly to the previous track with short sharp sounds but it's the bassline that really makes the track. The bassline plays it's own melody that compliments the other melodies which are more obvious. Slower beats than mauerbrecher but just as intricate. Ends on a twisted piano straightened out. 6 Meeuwuh Another wee track. Very random sounds forming a melody somehow No beats at first just a melody or two then about 10 seconds of big beats & back to just melody. Weird. 7 Halt Him Birdsong & distant human chatter for an ambient intro. The melody slowly teases in, starting off soft but getting more & more prominent as we move forward. The sounds of lapping waves heard in the background eventually morph into more mechanical sounds, like the ocean of a machine world. At the end comes in a piano melody, it's soft & melancholic. Under it are softly spoken words. Too soft to infer meaning but enough to get the feeling. A really nice sad ambient track. 8 Mannschaft The melody is uplifting but after the last track seems subdued in it's high spirits. Like a facade, happy for our benefit but it has an undertone of depression. No beats here either but little stabs of bass act as a percussive element. 9 Follow Me! The percussion is back & so is the crazy melody. Crazy beats plus crazy melodies equals strange twisted crazy track. The piano in it is faster & although very well done hints at someone just smashing a keyboard. At times you can hear that two keys have been hit instead of one or 3 instead of 2 & it just doesn't seem perfect. It's this imperfection though that gives it the charms. Structured randomness. 10 Peeksje 1994 Another soft wee track here. One of the most beautiful melodies of the entire album. It really is heart moving in it's lushness & I wish it was longer. I'd love to see this progress but it's over before you know it. 11 Sekt I Sing A really fun funky track that makes me bounce along whenever I hear it. It beats, the energetic melodies, the twists & the overall atmosphere make it difficult not to move. 12 Ok Norah A tiny track, less than a minute. It's just a short melody, a nice sturdy one at that that fades away into a sample. If you're happy & you know clap your hands, If you're happy & you know clap your hands, If you're happy & you know then you face short surely show it, if you're happy & you know it clap your hands. Yeah! 13 Sylvia A really sharp crisp melody sounds like a winters morning. Beats try a few times to kick in before aided by an amazing bassline that shakes your body for you & a melody for higher up & one from the Earth the beats finally make it although only for a very short time. 14 Afwezig A faster track again with quick beats right from the start & a driving melody. A nice little track with cool trippy beats & another vocal that can't quite be made out. It's understandable as a conversation between a man and a woman but nothing beyond that. Pretty trippy stuff. 15 The Second 2006 Quicker again with quite drum & bass like beats. The track just buzzes with energy & the melody is a slipstream of aural pleasure. I'm happy that this is one of the longer tracks as I have the time to enjoy it. Great stuff. Was the first 2006 this good? 16 Escape From ETA Th2 Another short track, I want to say transmission tracks but they all have a life of their own that they are more than just transmissions. This one is deep & dark. Like a triumphant night in midsummer with a victory over something you knew was right. 17 Choo Choo India A slow ambient start with some more mutterings of those humans. The mood is very slow & relaxed. I'm put in mind of a calm spring night. Warm enough to not need a jacket but brisk enough to need a sweater. The stars are out & the moon casts an eerie light on the ocean as I stare out at it's vast depths & mystery. The laughing of a child is like a passer by & tries to divert my attention & afterwards I can hear half of peoples conversations in the background, my mind in two places. 18 He's His Own Man We finish with another ambient track. I think a lot of people will not like the end to this album but I think it's a great end to a great album. Soft melodious drones in the background. A heart beat of percussion & softly spoken speech. A soft melancholic ambient journey to end on kind of makes me want to put it on again. Quality. So the pace of this album is incredibly random. It jumps from breaks to chill, to steady beats to ambient to drum & bass to breaks again & ends with ambient. The layers of the album are also very varied. I'll hear new things everytime I listen to this. The melodies are for the most part stunning in their beauty, strong & well made. The piano that comes into a lot of tracks is very nicely done each time & I especially like the melancholic edge of the ambient tracks. So as a lit of adjectives I'd say it's varied, melodic, melancholic, random & beautiful.

Kettel My Dogan Sending Orbs 2006

Not by you obviously, but that doesn't mean they wont become classic for some people. I still remember Doop by Doop but I don't think it's classic.

Because he doesn't like solar fields. He said this was a disappointing album in his earlier post.

Therefore you probably wont buy it. I never ever listen to samples anymore. Music always sounds bland and uninspired in a sample. Especially really good, deep music. The number of albums I wouldn't have bought if I heard the samples but love so much is high indeed. I'll wait until I have the CD in my hands before commenting on the music as I just can't tell from samples

Many parties I've been to recently have had no back room After a few hours in the main room I really want to chill out somewhere cool with nice breaks or ambient or something.

It's a year! Okay, I'd rather wait for a good album than have an album rushed any day. I put Nighttime Lullabies on after not having heard it for a while. Still damn good

Omnimotion - Omnimotion

Androcell Efflorescence Celestial Dragon Records 2006 Tracklist 1. Process Of Unfolding (9:10) 2. Neurosomatic Circuit (7:39) 3. Atmos-Spheres (7:58) 4. Spectral Processor (7:37) 5. Aes Dana - Natti Natti (Androcell Remix) (6:54) 6. Efflorescence (8:51) 7. Gnome Dosed (7:21) 8. Dub Crickets (7:02) I had just gotten into Androcell's 1st release Emotivision by the time this came out & I thought that this might need similar time to sink in & have me enjoy. However this I enjoyed straight away so I thought I would get tired of it quickly but more than a year has passed & I still enjoy it so I must conclude that it is a really good album. It manages an organic feel pretty well but it's like a psuedo organic feel. It doesn't feel like any nature I've encountered on Earth but more like the natural environments on other planets I've traveled to. 1. Process of Unfolding We start the album with a trippy sci fi vocal & it instantly creates a vast mood like an early universe. The sounds seem to run down the walls of my mind like water & the quick but light bamboo beat continues the alien nature feel. When the beats kick in properly they are nice damp intricate beats. I love beats like this, they really add something to the track instead of being predictable. The layers slowly get layered on but it never becomes too dense & remains an enjoyable journey through the greenery of outer space. 2. Neurosomatic Circuit A bit slower this time with more of a bassline. Very much more a track to get lost in. The vocals are half prominent but occasionally muttered so your mind switches gear trying to understand & lets the rest of the trippy atmosphere in past the blockades. I'm put in mind of the sky in early evening just before the suns about to set. Walking through a green field towards nowhere in particular but just enjoying the late summer breeze. A very nice relaxed summer track. 3. Atmos-Spheres Continuing the feeling of bright blue skies but a little higher, the soft percussion gifts this a lift & the melody to my mind makes me feel like birds flying around. You truly belong with us here among the clouds confirms my sky high feelings. I'm floating along in a surprisingly warm atmosphere. It's bright & should be cold this high up but it's a lush feeling all over. This is probably my favourite on the album. The intricate beats & the little squelchy pads under the melody on the flute really make my soul float away. 4. Spectral Processor A nice soft intro builds an atmosphere sounding to me like standing by the edge of a rainbow glowing lake on an alien world. Think of the universe as an enormous computer is the sample just as the beats kick in and the mood changes to that of an approaching storm. The more sounds circle round the more I feel like the elements are rushing & the storm breaks and drenches me in sound. A sonic downpour on a shore far from home. If the universe is an enormous computer then this track is small program cleaning the drives. Very unnatural nature here. 5. Aes Dana - Natti Natti (Androcell Remix) A familiar melody & lush bassline over a cascading drone build a more earth atmosphere. The regular Aes Dana beat is steady & the vocals sound like an earthy goddess calling to me. When listening to this I can't put my finger on what Androcell has done to this but it definitely has his stamp on it as well as Aes Dana's. Best of both worlds & fits nicely into the album despite the fact it's a remix. If the other tracks feel like outside in an alien summer then this is definitely the nostalgic look back at what it was like on Earth in those late summer days. 6. Efflorescence The intro leads off with a flute like melody & some nasty middle eastern instrument played in the usual tuneless fashion. The rest of the track, the beats, the melody the sounds are all really good but I think though this would be much more enjoyable without it. I'm happy when it goes but it's in the back of my mind that it'll re:emerge & my enjoyment of the rest is lessened. It does come back & I'm put in mind of my time in the middle east which in itself was fine but wherever I went I heard this tuneless drone on this crap instrument. Take it out of this track & it would be great as it stands though it just bugs me. It finishes off the track too 7. Gnome Dosed At the crossover I can hear the sound of crickets in the background. The soft chords & decrepit alien vocals sound cool along with the brief bits of melody on the flute. It all sounds pretty lovely knowing it's not going to get ruined by a mijwiz or whatever that was. All in all it's a nice track if not a standout but it's nice to be back to the strange alien world after the memory of Earthly delight followed by the nightmare of being hounded my market sellers. 8. Dub Crickets I'm put in mind of being in a bamboo forest slowly dancing to the sound of the wind against the trees. God plays a tune with nature & he's outdone himself this time. The slow bassline, the understated melody, the wet sounds of the percussion & the ethnic vocals are a great way to round off the journey that has been unfolding over the last hour This is probably one of my favourite chillout releases from 2006. It would be higher in my list but I'm afraid it's ruined a little bit by the title track. It's not even the track but just one element of it. Don't listen to me though I just really hate that instrument & that sound. The rest of the music is natural in an alien way with loads of psychedelica & melody. Some dubby elements & some really nice intricate beats. If you like your music chilled & you want something a little different but comfortingly familiar then buy this now.

It's pretty good! Not as good as his chilled stuff but it's some of the best trance I've heard recently. I need some more time to focus on this but I can see already that I'll get lost in a few of these tracks

Scorb - Klangman

Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris Dreamfish Rising High Records & Fax Records 1993 Re-released on Avatar Records & Ambient World 2001 Tracklist 1 School Of Fish (18:26) 2 Hymn (28:09) 3 Fishology (9:25) 4 Under Water (15:18) This is a deep melodic ambient journey through the vast space that is our oceans. There is definitely a similarity between space & that black depths of the ocean. The main difference though is that the ocean is teeming with life. This album also has a lot of life to it. 1. School Of Fish A mesmerizing plunge into our deep sea world. It is very positive with warm melodies & kind sounds. The melody at times manages to sound like tribal drums without a beat. As it progresses the sound gets darker with some underwater surf & a deep aquatic drone. A dark bassline drags us down and the School Of Fish circle us in their dance. Amazing ambient track, I really am put in mind of the title when I listen. I can see the fish, hundreds of silver fish in a school all swimming in the same direction, round & round & round. 2. Hymn This is easily one of the greatest ambient tracks ever made. It's simple but infectious. At almost 28 minutes one might expect to get bored but I have never been bored listening to this track, NEVER! I am actually always disappointed whenever it's over. The same simple 8 note melody creeps through the track magnificently in different forms but always the same 8 notes over & over. A spoken sample The omniscient, omnipresent, wrathful, all knowing male deity comes in regularly giving this quite a dark trippy edge. The god of western civilisation has nothing to do with women. I have a desire to hear this track over & over & always wish it was longer. The feel is still deep sea with an underwater surf & all manner of strange creatures surrounding you, observing you, judging you. Deep, dark beauty at it's finest. 3. Fishology A much more technological track. Percussion & little blips move forward sounding like a submarine floating through the water, shedding light onto all the life down here, studying it but disturbing it so the results will end up twisted like the music. The crazy shuffling at the end feels like it's run out of steam & is destined to rest at the bottom of the ocean for ever more. 4. Under Water The most ambient of the 4 tracks here. No real melody or structure, just underlying drones & spacial sounds here and there. Little flutters come out of the darkness & this is more a live painting in the mind of underwater shoal with fish coming in & out of it. Fish swimming around your head as if you weren't there. The middle part is darker with more unpleasant noises but these pass & we are left with the calmness one would desire in this situation. A great tapestry of underwater life. The first 2 tracks are definitely the best here. Real masterpieces of music. I would recommend anyone to get this album & those 2 tracks alone make it worth it. The last two tracks aren't quite as good but they are welcome additions to the album. It's a deep dark look at the ocean floor with some godly treats thrown into the middle. Buy it, listen to it & then you'll be praising it.

Scorb Scorb Ambivalent Records Jul 2003 Tracklist 1 Special Liquid (7:40) 2 13.5 Hours (7:40) 3 The Aquarium (2:56) 4 Oracle (6:29) 5 Mutoid (Extended Version) (8:30) 6 Drum War (6:51) 7 Klangman (9:05) 8 Metabolic Activity (7:52) 9 Psycore (9:28) 10 Stupid Science (9:19) This albums holds a special place in my heart. I have many great memories attached to this album. It was released in the month that I moved to Japan & was one of the first CDs I bought upon my arrival & I listened to it all summer, and the whole summer the year after & after that. The pace is just right & the psychedlica is one of my favourite brands of contained weirdness. 1. Special Liquid A nice crunchy acid ridden track. The sounds jump about & there is a feeling of acid running down the walls in the back of my mind. A nice dark atmosphere like at a basement party full of mad dancers going nuts. 2. 13.5 Hours Sweet medieval melody before an urgency comes in. The slow menacing bassline & siren like sounds build the urgency & by the time the beats drop I'm ready to dance. A hard pounding beats with an underlying crunchiness again accentuated by the twisted synths. A number of times the track breaks down & has to rebuild. Each time is a well placed sample be it a creaking door or a unfathomable vocal. The energy comes from more & more surprising places & it's really hard to describe some of the noises used in this weird powerhouse. 3. The Aquarium A random little ambient number (although apparently at 150 BPM which I just can't seem to notice). The melody is fantastic as are the watery sounds. This feels like a slow dance of fairies at the bottom of a lake. Not deep sea, deep but still able to see the glitter of light up above. Great track if a little randomly placed in the album, acts more of a transition. 4. Oracle From the little stabbed chords at the start to the soft ambient drone running through it to awesome breakbeats to the sounds all around this track screams modern mysticism to me. Remove the beats & a few of the harsher sounds and this would be one hell of an ambient journey. The presence of the up beat elements make this a really good crossover. The energy of trance & the mood of ambient. I love this track. 5. Mutoid (Extended Version) A more steady beat again and baseline to match. A lot of the tracks have basslines but they are quite subdues like this & rest in the back of the track allowing the random sounds, melody & synths room to move about & make themselves known. Where as the first few tracks were crunchy, this feels squelchy with a wet synth line & dripping beats. Although this doesn't start brilliantly it builds into a really top drawer track. Towards the end along the wetness there feels like a dark dank underground party with acid soaked walls and crazy faeries dancing on the ceilings & wall. 6. Drum War A more relaxed pace now with a more Deviant Species feel to it. Very dark nightmare trance. What I always hoped dark psy would be, dark without trying to be horror. Effortlessly scary without being evil. Twisted psychedelic enjoyable night time stuff Towards the end comes a mind blowing melody. You here it coming but it still comes as a surprise every time as it's released at the same time as a burst of psychedelic bubbles. Nice stuff. 7. Klangman back to full pace again with klangman. This is a little more off the wall weirdness compared to the straight edged strangeness of the previous tracks. This is little monsters camped in your brain waiting for you to fall asleep so they can set fire to your temporal lobe and lay eggs in the ashes of your charred brain weird. Gets very ethereal towards the end. Lifts your burnt brain up but then casts it down & stamps on it hard resulting in the agonised sounds at the last. 8. Metabolic Activity This carries on the same feeling as Klangman but is slightly less deranged and more structured dancefloor trippiness. Imagine standing at the front of the dancefloor in an underground club, eyes closed so you can see more clearly the music that's flying around you. That's where I imagine myself whenever I listen to this. Even when it slows down I still see myself in the same spot, eyes closed feeling the euphoria. But when the hard stabs of synth come in & it kicks off again my brain explodes & I must dance dance dance. 9. Psycore Fast paced right from the start. No messing about. A nice crazy tech melody & a driving baseline (still subdued) push this forward & the melody shifts up a gear my brain is really thrown into a slipstream, a nice comfortable rush! A really well used sample from The Hitch Hikers Guide just twisted enough to fit & to stay recogniseable! The melody that comes in halfway through is not seratonin releasing but pleasant & it's progression in the track is well done. I can't help laughing along with the evil laugh & smile at the final run. 10. Stupid Science I'm always expecting some ambient track like The Aquarium but I'm always wrong & we get another track in keeping with Psycore. Dark, structured, driving & with weird twisted melodies. Very cool end to a very cool album. This has a black metallic feel to it with spots of glitter on it as the melody tries to escape the surface. The final run of the album is possibly the best music on show here. The dark crispy sounds kicking off the beat for one last time is real end of the night please don't stop even though I know the end is imminent stuff. This album is a masterpiece of arrangement. The tracks are all perfectly placed here building what is a great work of abstract art. The tracks get crazier & crazier until Klangman where after the tracks build more dancefloor energy & trippiness while keeping up the twisted craziness of the earlier tracks. The theme gets darker & darker right through to the last track which has a black metallic feel to it. All tracks are between great & masterful and the music seems to get better & better the more you listen to it. This is one of the few CDs that after 4 years of listening to it still makes me want to go right out find a big venue a few hundred people a big sound system, put this on & dance the night away. I'm very happy that I have this album & I'm eagerly anticipating the follow up to it. Highly recommended!

Nope this is all I own from Scorb Read that last night, although I have been burnt by Damion's enthusiasm before I'm going out on a limb & saying this is probably spot on np

Must listen on headphones to not annoy my neighbours at this late time