abasio

Classical Mushroom Still LOVE this album.

Hallucinogen - E

Kemic-Al - The Dark Journal A nice moving concept album feels like one big long track. Dark but better than any other dark releases I've heard this year. Androcell - Efflorescence Nice, relaxed, quite organic and interesting. Listened to it loads of times so far this year.

I'm listening to that track now. At the moment I really like it. The retro bleepy stuff makes me feel like I'm in some 1970's 2006 It's late here, I had a long tiring day and it just suits my needs. I can see myself not being in the mood for it sometimes though. It's good but not suited for all occassions.

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Sounds good!! I think I'll like this then.

A very cool chilled out album

Best Track I heard today was Phreaky - Over the Moon closely followed by Technossomy - Kozmotron

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i307/abasio/Bob.jpg I bought this today and I like it!! I would definately recommend it if you like reggae and ambient. There's no singing from robert though, just the background singing.

Interesting release. I love Mr Marley & these ambient translations of his work are very nice. Very different to the originals while keeping the same feel.

Phreaky - Over the Moon is indeed a damn good track. The way the melody U-Turns near the end is FANTASTIC!!!

Saw this down the shops today. Looks like I should have picked it up. Oh well... there's always nextr time.

Today I wanted to get the new Liquid Sound Design release but alas I could not find it so I bought these instead... Trancental Five a Sonic Initiation This has an awesome tracklist Funf D - No Promises Mellowgrounds Bob Marley - Dreams of Freedom and Namlook - Atom

Just played Phreaky - Over the Moon

It's FRIDAY & away I go

Sticking witht flying rhino boys

Downbeat CD

I've given this album quite a few listens and while it's nice enough I've never really got into it. I feel like I'm missing something with this album

Androcell - Effllorescence

Get it!! If you like Ultimae releases then this is a must have compilation.

That was tame but maybe it was moderated because radi's reaction to it was so strong. Anyway RADI, if you want to get into melodic downbeat then try some releases on Liquid Sound Design. It might not be the Specific that you're looking for but it's all Quality stuff

Fantastic

Gaudi vs Tripswitch - Sundown Good but not half as good as I would expect from a collaboration between these two. Maybe some people work better alone.

Zen Lemonade Lemon Soul Dragonfly Records 2002 1 Super Panam Calling (2:43) 2 Juicy Science (8:16) 3 Dark Star (7:43) 4 Zodiac Guns (7:58) 5 Cloud 19 (6:30) 6 Brazil Mon Amour (8:13) 7 Pussy Galore (10:29) 8 Spinning Metal (9:50) 9 Midnight Basso Nova (8:02) 10 Motherland (3:31) Zen Lemonade are Gus Till and Super Cozi. Both have released pretty good solo work but for me this album is the best stuff by either. 1 Super PanAm Calling We start of with a twisted sample. It sounds like the old PanAm airline flight announcement but supersized for interstellar travel at light speed. Some funky metallic beats a hint of a melody but that's about it. It's an album intro, a cool one too. 2 Juicy Science Nicely following from the intro is this cheeky number. It's got quite a driving monotonous beat and a cool baseline which twists and turns without actually changing much. The beats become more complex as the vocals drift by. Super Cozi has a wonderfully mysterious voice which they use to full effect. No singing but well timed well placed twisted snippets really do the trick. The main body of the track is kind of repetitive but all the subtle changes make this a really interesting piece of music. Juicy indeed. 3 Dark Star A flawless jump to the next track, a slight break from the beat but it quickly comes back as if this is a continuation of Juicy Science. A very indistinguishable sample actually sounds like Cozi's vocals from the last track but muffled more. Just as driving but more acidic. The baseline is the sort that drills into the seratonin in your head. Around 5 minutes it begins to Klunk (in a Green Nun kind of way) before it changes direction but keeps going straight, if you know what I mean. 4 Zodiac Guns Kicks in straight away with a strong 4/4 and nice metal souming beats lying underneath. Long slow synths float in and out and then become integral. They lead into a melody, it's made up of very twisted and distorted string sounds with more of a chime to them than seems possible. Anyway it's a pretty cool melody but it's sporadic, it doesn't continue seemlessly but comes and goes. Some more long slow synths, almost like waves, give this track a lot of atmosphere. It feels quite dark at times (not scary dark, cool dark) quite industrial. 5 Cloud 19 A seemingly dark scary voice (not actually scary, but when it was spoken you know it wanted to be, it's the sort of voice that makes my kids squeal with laughter). One of the most amazing baselines I've ever heard. Then SINGING. The singing's good though and it fits in well. It sounds like it could be Cozi again and it's distorted trippily in parts and echoed over bubbly sounds. It really is the baseline that makes this track though. It sounds like smoke city if smoke city was cooler. 6 Brazil Mon Amour Another nice baseline starts this one with a very ringing (like a triangle) beat which gets over ridden by the 4/4 but is still very much in the background throughout but does get drowned out at times by other sounds. The baseline and background effects keep this one alive and while the baseline doesn't evolved at all, everything around it seems to be moving so randomly that it works having a monotonously steady spine. It disappears breifly without me really noticing but I really notice the absence as it comes back. Well Done, good track. 7 Pussy Galore Is it about cats or something else? It's so cool. Really good synths drive this track faster than it's BPM. Loads of nice sounds in the background, bells, wierd stuff a muffled, techy vocal, plucked electric strings and now long slow synths under the really cool fast ones. The track changes direction a number of times but always stays on track. Always feel it is building to something. Amazing violin sounds come in briefly along with a host of other sounds which all really well arranged. It's busy but not too cluttered. Absolutely awesome tune, well worth it's 10:29 8 Spinning Metal How much of your body is original? I love this tune. I love the samples. It samples a lot from the anime classic The Ghost in The Shell which was such a trippy movie to watch that hearing the samples in a trance track is awesome. All the sounds have the same atmosphere as the movie and it leads to a dark, mysterious, acid ridden track. Enjoyable lady sounds are quite prominent at times and a really twisted vocal sounds like chanting without chanting in a really techy sort of way. Another awesome track! I especially like Motoko's sample 9 Midnight Basso Nova Well this is the track that MEOWS!! Very metallic again with a spacey atmosphere. A little cluttered at times but it all works together quite harmoniously. Sort of sounds like the Bossa Nova that is very popular in Japan (from Brazil?) but I haven't heard enough of that genre to be sure. It's quite cool track with some nice breakbeats that trip along nicely. It's a bit random but still seems more like organised chaos than just thrown together shit. Not the strongest track but allright. Cozi's voice at the end again is really cool, sexy almost. 10 Motherland What the fuck!! First time I heard this I thought that I had skipped onto the next CD. A much different style to the rest of the album. It's hip hop. Slow hip hop but hip hop non the less. Raw simple beats and some guy rapping about the motherland. As hip hop goes it's obviously really good but it doesn't go at all with album and it would have been a lot better if this just wasn't on it. So to sum up this album is really good. The 1st 6 tracks are good, 7 & 8 are absolutely mind blowingly good, 9 is okay and 10 just shouldn't be on this album. Pretty good going then. I would recommend getting this if you want something a little experimental but not too off the cuff. Favourites 7(!) 8(!) and a picture of Cozi & Gus for good measure