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I loved the old Pleiadians, one of my favorite goa bands ever actually, but I think I'll skip this album, as I don't wanna ruin my view of them... Like many other bands, it seems they have jumped on the full on-trend.
And I still ask the same question that I asked back in 2000: Why?
WHY DID THE OLD GOA DIE?
NP: MFG - Why
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S-range - Space
Artist: S-range
Title: Space
Label: Spiral Trax
Date: 2003
Track listing:
01. Ten 4
02. The One
03. Freak Out
04. Test Tones
05. Space
06. Ilha Bela
07. Star Alliance
08. Dimension Jump
Review:
Second album from S-Range. Before this album I didn't like S-Range
and I didn?t enjoy his last album 2001 very much, thought it was quite boring
and low quality. But after hearing SRange live in December where he played
these new tracks I changed my mind. This is a very melodic album, some mixture
between 2001 and melodic/morning trance. At the same time it's pretty full on
in its style. Ten 4 begins directly with a 'pling-plong' melody with a full on
bassline. Very uplifting. The One is darker, but kind of the same style. Very
good. Freak Out sounds a bit like Human Blue, nothing special to say about it.
Test Tones is the highlight on the cd. A lot of space-samples used, including
?the five tones? from movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. At the end
this track sounds a bit old school, very nice. Space is also sort of Human
Blue style. First half of the track is pretty calm, but second half is pretty
cheesy with its kind of hoover-sounds. Ihla Bela (whatever that means) is a
slower track, which makes it a bit boring. Star Alliance is again a very good
track. Very uplifting. Dimension Jump is kind of cheesy, but not bad. It ends
this album with a nice anthem. Overall a very uplifting and melodic album,
which hopefully can help bring more melodies to the psytrance scene. The whole
album is very Space oriented (surprised?) - A lot of samples and spacey
sounds. Not overused samples though, they fit in well. Best tracks would have
to be 1, 2, 4(!) and 7. If you like Human Blue's last album or morning/melodic
trance, buy this one. But don?t compare it with 2001 because Space is a lot
better, especially the production quality which is great. I also want to
recommend the SRange track on 'Ease Division' compilation, which is the best
track on that comp. Hope for more from SRange in the future. Overall rating
7/10.
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Lime Structure. Track #1 I wouldn't call a real track; it's more like a long
intro and it suits well as that. It's just preparing you, a beat every now and
then; you can feel that something is coming. And at track #2 it does. A beat
begins, and an already a melody in the background. It's soon replaced by a
build-up though, a beat and some sounds. You can notice this very excellent
production. A few almost not hear able and incomplete melodies are heard and
at 02'42 there's a sample "This is about the ...great stuff" (I think) and a
wonderful melody begins. The beat has stopped, and it’s a long pause before it
starts again. At 03'40 it does and kind of you get an idea about this album.
For me the melody is doing everything here, and it makes me think it's a shame
there are generally so few melodies in psytrance nowadays. Track #3 is next
and it's the already famous Newport from Digital Emission. It has kind of the
same type of build-up as the previous one, a "cracked" melody in the beginning
built up, until it starts in the end, this time not until after 6 minutes. But
when it does... well, listen for yourself! Soon gone though, why…? Woah after
two such marvellous tracks, can the rest of the album keep up? Track #4 is
more proggy. Has no clear melody as the previous tracks, so I find it a bit
boring. Track #5 is Manzanilla and the chill-out track of the album. I loved
it already from the start. When I listened to it I just had to smile! :-) This
is what I call a great chill-out track! This sure makes my wonder, why doesn't
Vibrasphere make only ambient?! They have made many great ambient tracks, San
Pedro, 33000 Feet Over and The Big Sleep to mention a few. And now Manzanilla.
Vibrasphere, please make a downbeat album! Track #6 is again proggy and sounds
really 'naked' after the ethereal Manzanilla. After three minutes or so
something happens. There's a pause, and a really groovy sound enters. This is
progressive trance at its best. Track #7 Purple Floating is next, same proggy
stuff again, but this time with a little subtle melody. The longest track on
the album, and pretty good. Then we have track #8, Infusion. Begins with a lot
of percussion, and continues with that. Pretty good too, but not excellent.
Last track #9 is Silver Sun, I get the feeling that it’s there just to fill
the album. Same style as before, nothing special I would say. Well this album
started out so great, but got a bit worse after track 6. Overall a good album
with an excellent production. Favourite tracks: 2, 3, 5(!)Final grade: 6/10
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V/A - The Delta Force
Artist: Various
Title: The Delta Force
Label: Phonokol
Date: 2003
Track listing:
01. Der Interpret : Wechselstorm
02. Authentic : Vampires
03. Spirallianz : Battlejuice
04. Midi Miliz : Aeromoda
05. X-Dream : Thorazin
06. The Delta : Low Level Format
07. The Delta : Send In Send Back (Atmos Rmx)
08. Midi Miliz : Intermediate
09. The Delta : Standby
10. G4 : The Final Conflict
Review:
I heard about this comp a long time ago, but only now it was released
worldwide. That's maybe the reason that it has 4 already released and pretty
old tracks. Anyway track #1 is from "The Interpret". It's only 3'49 long, and
can be seen as an intro. It's not really trance, it even has vocals - Marcus
Maichel singing (in German). I don't find it bad though, pretty cool actually!
Track #2 is from Authentic with a powerful track. It's pretty much the same
style as The Delta maybe a little more percussion. Track #3 is from
Spirallianz. I think we all know this track by now. It has been released on at
least five different records before, first time almost a year ago. It was a
good track. Track #4 from Midi Miliz, also already released. It's almost
techno, very hard and powerful. Track #5 is a one year old track from X-Dream.
Good, but I would have preferred a new track. Track #6 is from The Delta.
Finally a new track from them! Usual stuff - begins techno, ends trance. It
could have been taken from their last album. Best track on this comp! Track #7
looks very interesting, Atmos remixing The Delta! The "tech" feeling is gone,
replaced by a synth. Has not much in common with the original track, but still
a good track. Track #8 is again from Midi Miliz, also their usual stuff that
could have been on Passages. Track #9 from The Delta again. Probably the best
track from Send in Send Back. Last track #10 is from "G4" and it's sort of
breakbeat, I have nothing special to say about it. So this comp had 4 already
released tracks 2 non-trance ones. Remaining are 4 new tracks, #2, #6, #7, #8,
all of them very good. This comp should have had 10 such tracks instead. So
only 5,5/10 for The Delta Force.
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This is a long awaited album from Spirallianz. Since their last album 'Blast
Food', released 2½ years ago Spirallianz have only released three EPs - the
Silver Edition series. Not to forget though, that we have seen a lot from
their other projects - The Delta and Midi Miliz - Midi Miliz last album
released only one month ago. With Stereopark Spirallianz continue their
special style, often referred to as tech-trance. #1. Hide and Seek begins the
journey restrained. You can just slightly hear an aggressive sound in the
background. After three minutes it gets the upper hand, which makes me think
“evil” for some reason. It's a dark track, but in a groovy way. #2. Bitnapped
is next with a pretty strange bassline. You hear some 'pling-plong' sounds
that sound really cool but they are soon gone. Soon there's a robotic voice
that continues speaking during most of the track, it sounds really silly and
irritating to me. #3. Patchfinder is an old track but still a killer. This
seems to be a bit updated version, it sounds more massive to me. A really
aggressive track, hard slamming drums backed up with screaming horror voices
that creates a melody. To quote Psyshop, Patchfinder is a "ground shaking tech
trance monster"! #4. The Fuser reminds me of the Midi Miliz track Mrs. Vargas
for some reason; it's kind of the same style. With distorted drums, and a dark
string melody in the background this is a typical Spirallianz track. #5.
Battlejuice is the second already released track on the album. It has a very
long intro that sounds more like The Delta style - dark and scary. I love this
intro and it turns out so well, that I'm almost disappointed when it's over at
02:40. Massive drums enter here that continue to the end when they luckily are
merged with the intro and fulfil this killer track. #6. Stereopark is a groovy
track; it has a subtle melody through it. It's pretty much the same style as
Hide and Seek and it turns out well. #7. A23 is the strangest track on the
album. I find it very soft and 'thin'. It has some progressive feeling over
it. Unfortunately I don't find it good at all. They could have changed this
track to 'Spotrunnerz' which is a killer track previously released on the same
EP as Battlejuice was. #8. Neurosport starts by playing around with some
drummy sounds until half the track when they are accompanied by an organ
sounding melody, but it's soon gone. At the end it's back again and it seems
to finally give the track a meaning. But now the track is over. #9. Soulprint
is next with that dark and gloomy stuff I want to hear from the spiral
alliance. The dark strings and a pretty melancholic melody make this a pure
night track. #10. In.Out/Through ends the album with a downbeat track. It
reminds me of The Deltas track 'Basic Beat'. Well after listening to this
album a couple of times, it leaves me a bit unsatisfied. Where is the “One Way
LTD” on Stereopark? Anyway altogether the tracks here are pretty much the
same, except the last and A23 which also is very different. It disappoints me
that the best tracks on the album are the ones already released, 3 and 5.
Track 1, 4, 5 and 9 are pretty good too though. So far I've always liked
Spirallianz tracks better than the Midi Miliz ones and this album seems to
continue that trend. I give Stereopark 7,5/10.
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How nice with some combustion in this arctic temperature. :-) Dark Soho sure
have their unique style, full on / tech gothic trance. The ablum starts well
with The New Age, there's a really nice melody 03:22 in the track, but
unfortunely it doesn't last long. Why? DMISH (strange name) is a bit
techno-like track aided by guitars. The 14th is the best track on the album
but it's also already released (VA - Digital Tribe). It goes out hard and
evolves to a real gothic stomper! Kerberos also starts techno-like until about
half the track when the gothic strings comes in. Noise 6 is just... noise,
almoust tech-trance, unfortunely not good though :-( Combustion is the album
title track, it starts with a strange drum pattern that sounds really good, as
usual a melody joins in after about half the track, but this time it's there a
bit longer which makes it better. Save Me God (Remix), I haven't heard the
original, but this track actually have vocals. Sounds like Marilyn Manson or
something, but almoust whispering. I dont know if they improve the track...
The H is a little bit calmer, but nothing happens in this track. My Wish is a
short and downtempo track, wouldn't ever believe this is Dark Soho. It's
pretty nice and relaxed. Uring Saracoma (Live MPEG Video), the original was
one of the best tracks on Dark Soho's first album (though there it was called
"Uine Saracomm"), here's an updated version, not better though. Overall it's
impossible not to compare Combustion with Sun Spot. Sun Spot was much more
varied, on Combustion all tracks are very alike each other. This is not the
kind of music you hear every day though, as I said Dark Soho have their unique
style, so it's nice with some variation. Some killers on this album are track
1, 3(!), 4 and 6(!) The others just lacks in something. Final rating 6/10
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Juno Reactor - Luciana
Artist: Juno Reactor
Title: Luciana
Label: Inter-Modo
Date: 1994
Track listing:
01. 61'33" Luciana
Review:
Probably the darkest album ever made. At least I can't imagine anything darker.
This album tells us what it's like in HELL. Seriously. The album is only one
track, 61 minutes long. A 61 minutes long bad trip. The music is something
like dark ambient. No beats at all, but you can't say it's any melody either.
My advice is, don't listen to the whole album, then you will probably want to
kill yourself. But put this record on if you get a visitor you don't like, and
they'll be out in no time :-) 5/10
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Morphem - Ambrosia Remixes
Artist: Morphem
Title: Ambrosia Remixes
Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie
Date: 2002
Track listing:
01. 05'26" Ambrosia (AM Synaptik Rmx)
02. 08'43" Ambrosia (Prisoners Of the Sun Rmx)
03. 09'43" Ambrosia (Son Kite Rmx)
04. 07'05" Ambrosia (Bitcrusher Rmx)
05. 06'44" Ambrosia (Midi Miliz Rmx)
Review:
The well-known track from Morphem, Ambrosia is here remixed by 5 different
acts. Well I guess it could be good to start with the original track (from
Morphem's album Monitoring) so we know the source of this stuff. The original
track has one of the nicest basslines I have heard, and it's a good track. An
original sound, and a "melody" looping through the track the whole track until
you know it inside and out. Now to the remixes. AM Synaptik, I have never
heard of them but it's a decent remix. In the beginning there's some
experimental sounds and in the end you hear the well-known original melodie.
POTS Remix sounds a bit harder and sounds more stiff, right until 04:40, where
a soft "horn" or something enters. It sounds very relaxing which gives a good
contrast to the otherwise hard track. Son Kite Remix start with the subtile
anthem of the original track, but quickly a typical Son Kite tribal drum
enters. You have some time to enjoy it, but after about 4 minutes you get that
it's still a remix. At 05:50 there's some agressive sound I cant describe, I
dont get what it's doing in the track, but its soon gone. Bitcrusher (haven't
heard of) Remix sounds a bit cheesy, more progressive/clubby. But it still has
some of the original spirit left. Midi Miliz delivers a really good
tech-trance track, but it has absolutely nothin to do with the original.
Overall an interesting album. Remixes can be fun when the original is a track
you like, and this is such a track. The track I like best here is the one from
Midi Miliz, but as I said that track have just nothing to do with the
original. Son Kite gives a good production remix and POTS an interesting one.
Final rating 7/10
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This album Amen starts with the track Amen. Suits well as a first track, builds
up good and have a good melody. Then it's Chaos, with a taking melody and
groove, typical Astral style. Infinty Justice is a very melodic track, too
much for me. Pure club trance. Nexus is faster (and better), builds up to a
climax in about 4 minutes. Sticks and Stones begins with some indian (?)
vocals and then reminds me of Life on Mars, no real melody, it leads nowhere.
Techno Drome is a cool name and a dark track. Not much melody here either, but
a driving good track. This track does not sound like the usual Astral stuff, I
find this style better. 1.000.000 Years from Today is what I want to hear. A
fast beat, more sounds are added as the track progresses. A very full on
climax after 5 minutes, then a break and a climax again. Anything is possible
is already released, this one also (as track 3) too melodic for me. Heavens
Gate is also melodic, but in a lighter way, typical morning track. Electric
Blue is perhaps a silly name but it's typical Astral Projection and it ends
this album nicely. To conclude, on this album are a few old Astral style
(1,2,4,7), a few club trance (3,8,9,10) and two with a different style (5,6).
I hope Astral will continue produce music, but in my opinion, cut the club
trance stuff totally, and update your sound, as in Techno Drome. The club
trance tracks will perhaps be played by some club trance DJs, the others are
very good and will hopefully encourage to more melodic psytrance. Overall a
pretty good album, 6.5/10.
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This is the album of the year. I LOVE the track names and theme of this album!
If you dont understand the track names, search for 1200 Mics at Saikosounds
where they explain. All tracks have samples explaining something about the
drug. The theme is kept through the whole album. There should be more albums
like this one, with themes. Not compilations of some tracks by that artist...
Anyway this album is full-on style. Evolving from the GMS and Alien Project
sound, but this one has a little more melody. I hope melodies can become more
common in psytrance, that's really a big part of a track. But I dont like that
the tracks are getting shorter. At least 7 minutes is what you want from a
track. Not less than 6, like Ecstasy and DMT. The whole albums is also only
around 64 minutes. There would have been room for a 2C-B and Ketamine aswell
:-) There is not much to say about the tracks, they have all have the same
theme and doesn't sound so different. Best tracks are track 2, 4, 6 and 8, but
they are all killers. All tracks on this album are good, and that makes a pure
10/10 doesn't it? More albums like this one, and maybe we can get rid of that
AWFUL minimal/progressive stuff that doesn't belong in trance. This is the
album of the year, and the best album for a long time. Dont miss it!
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Evolution - Oscillating Phenomena
Artist: Evolution
Title: Oscillating Phenomena
Label: High Society
Date: 1996
Track listing:
01. 09'32" Riding High (Bullet 350 Mix)
02. 07'47" Fifth-Dimensional Craft
03. 07'53" Flower Of Life
04. 09'59" Water Spirit
05. 08'07" Genetic Engeneering
06. 06'38" Alien Phenomenon
07. 09'06" Warriors Of Light
08. 14'45" Akhunathon
Review:
Here's some old-school Goa/Acid Trance. Repetative bass and sounds, very much
acid sounds and lots of melody. Already from the start you realize what kind
of music this is because the tracks are pretty much the same. Except for the
last track, which is downtempo and also very long. However this is a 6 year
old CD, so you cant compare it with today's music. The sounds are pretty
simple, and some of the tracks are not so well constructed. The BPM could be
faster too. On the other hand, there are nicey-nice melodies and acid sounds
are never wrong. Rating: 5/10 (counted with that it's from 1996). For
old-school lovers only.
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I saw this album first in the Mushroom magazine, and I thought "Aztechno
Dream", what a cool name, and I was glad to find out that it's a killer album
aswell. Best album of 2002 so far, I must say! Together with GMS, this is the
best full-on you'll find these days. But I like this album even more than the
latest GMS album, because it has more melody and power. First track is
actually the remix by Astrix, it's not the best track on the album, but still
powerful. Track 2 (done with GMS) is very good, you'll notice GMS style here.
Track 3 I like VERY much, it has a strange sound that sounds so cool, but it's
hard to describe. Something like a watercreature that actually is a robot :-)
It also has samples from movie Lord of the Rings, cool. Track 4 is another
very good track. Track 5 sounds a lot like track 4, but more minimal (=makes
it worse). Track 6 is also a good track. Track 7, Skunk is the BEST track on
the album. I especially like this sample here ("do it, do it"!) and it has
such a mindblowing melody that I wish there more tracks like this one. I think
another name for this track is 1200 Mics - Marijuana which should mean it's
gonna be on the upcoming 1200 Mics album... if the other tracks on that album
is as good as this track and Salvia Divinorum... phew then I cant wait for
that one :-) Track 8, a remix of the old classic tune is not so good. I don't
think the original track is one of Astral's best, and the remix just uses som
of the melody from the original track and added another bassline and sounds...
It just doesn't work out. Track 9 is one of the weaker tracks, but it's not
bad. Track 10 with it's strange title is also good, but it's a bit calmer than
the others. As I said I find this the best album of this year so far, and as a
grade I would give it 9/10 (10 tracks, 9 good and one of them (8) which is not
good). Nicey-nice!
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Just got a flyer today, pretty funny, though I probably didn't get it right cause it seems a bit "tilted".