No Longer Human

Man, I was diggin this stuff a little. I'd have to say he over uses the samples. I absolutely love the actual music in Tommy is Dead, and in fact it does go with the flow of the story which is nice. But the story just ends up overshadowing the entire song. It's like I can't really get that much out of the music because of the sample. I like it though, probably would give it an 8/10. The thing is though, after comparing Consciousness to the Shen, I just stopped listening to them and started listening to Infected. Which kind of makes me like them a little less. I'm a big melodic psytrancer, and I think anyone who makes melodic psytrance has got to take some influence from Infected, but thats a little too much. He does difine his own sound on a few tracks well. But something like this would never happen while I listen to Talpa. You can compare Talpa all you like to Infected, but I think that comparison is just because they share the same sub-genre of a genre.

I got into psy/goa through Infected Mushroom. The only goa/psy artist I've ever seen is Infected Mushroom. I've never been able to find a psy event near where I've ever been, so I've never been. I'm not an expert is what I'm trying to say. However I have listened to what I feel is a good enough amount of psy and goa to say I understand the music, and the sub genres. From there I'll go on to say I understand the dislike for the vocals. I don't really hate them, but I don't see a need for them at all. They don't ruin it for me, but I think the overall experience would be better off without them. I get the feeling they're trying to break through to the mainstream. I don't however think they've lost the ability to craft a wonderful song because of that. They have layers. Layers upon layers upon layers. They have grooves too. I love melodic anything, especially psytrance. They have melody, a lot of it. Their music is never boring. Some of the songs with lyrics get very mildly repetetive, but overal, they are anything BUT repetetive. They craft songs from begining to end. Not something I can say a minimalist artist does. Basically I feel like all of the music they have ever made is something that one, keeps your attention from beginning to end, two always stays original, and three always makes you want to move. They keep it fast, and hard, and psychadelic, and melodic, and they do it better than anyone else. Let me start the second part here saying, I'm giving an opinion that I'm very passionate about, just like the rest of you are about yours. I feel that goa/psy is a very personal thing to people. It's such an unknown musical genre. The scenes not that big, and people who are into it take it very seriously. It is a part of all of us I guess, it's a very definitive part of me I know for sure. So I don't want anyone to feel like I'm attacking anyones opinion, because everyone is different, hears different, feels different, and reacts different to music. But what the hell is with the love for all of this very repetetive minimalist junk like Ticon? Someone here on an earlier post said this album feels like it was made in two days. I just don't understand. I feel like every minute of every song(to a lesser extent on this album however, the songs with lyrics aren't nearly as good as the rest.) that IM has ever produced was filled with something more, another sound, no another, another synth riff, something more here. It's like they never get tired of filling their music with more sound, more melodies, more everything! They sound like themselves as well. Their sound is their own, which is a lot more than I can say for most electronic artists in general. This is understandable though, because it's easy to use the same sounds as another with electronic music. So when someone stands out, like Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle, or to a lesser extent maybe Talpa or Dark Soho, even Penta has a mildly unique sound to them, they have really acomplished something great in my book. So why then, can someone tell me, do people like to listen to stuff like Midi Miliz, or Ticon(which I almost mildly like at times). To me, it sounds like they found a loop that worked, and thats it. Thats their song. Lets extend it, add some psychadelia here and there, maybe some strange animal, a sample from a sci fi movie, or a baby crying. Add some crazy effects, and we got a song! Not only that, but I listen to this stuff, and I really listen to, I am the music when I listen to it. But so many popular goa/psy acts out there that people give praise too, sound exactly the same. You give me a popular compilation, most likely the difference in sound between the artists wont be very big. I just don't like that, I don't like not being able to immediately knowing the artist just because their sound is unique. I guess to summerize, I love this genre, I live eat and sleep it. But I can not understand why Infecteds newer albums are hated so much by so many. I can't understand why people like all of these bland repeptetive acts out their, who are completely interchangeable with eachother.