Kiwa - Dreamtime Enhancer
Artist: Kiwa
Title: Dreamtime Enhancer
Label: Surreal Audio
Date: 2002
Track listing:
01. Cricket In The Ear
02. Trans-Electronic
03. Rally Spirit
04. Digital Hangover
05. Neutralize
06. Dramatic Display Of Insanity
07. Alpha Sector
08. Kiva Runner
09. Deceptive Antiseptic
10. Divider
11. Nasty Drop
12. Lahti Skyline
Review:
Alright I guess most of us have heard about Kiwa. Well this is their first real
Album that is not a mp3 release, but the real shit. Before I start I just want
to say, that there will be lots of misspelling on this review, however I'm too
lazy to correct them.
Track 1. "Cricket in the head" A cool breakbeat starts out this track. Some
wicked effects join it pretty soon. At 00.40 we get somekind of bassline and a
stronger beat. At 01.10 it's possible to recognize the kicks and a solid bass.
The tr icked noises. At 05.00 there is a breakbeatish part, where the track
almost falls apart.. I love it. There's a small groovy part in the end. Great
track indeed and it makes you wonder what is to come.
Track 2. "Trans-Electronic" Weirdness starts this track. Some spacey
soundscapes and then a suprising start of a extremly hard driven kick. At
00.50 The kick gets a solid beat next to it. This is somehow very melodic,
although there are no real melodies. It's like the melody is build up with the
weir ovy or anything like that, just groovy.
Track 3. "Rally spirit" A Spacey slowly spinning 80's synth effect starts this
track. Then a tribal well.. voice joins it. at 00.50 the beat and at 01.10
groovy bassline. A few seconds later effects that are sort of part of the
"pattern". The bassline becomes tribal. Everything is somehow building up
around it. Streams pass by. Messages from above?
The effects somehow play part of the beat. Once again the kicks hold the track
together. At 02.50 you could e 1. At 05.00 the beat is the beast itself. It's
made from samples and a kick somewhere far far away. But a second after second
the track becomes more and more digitalized. At 06.10 the synths are back for
a little while. And the beat.. well.. WOW. The Syth returns.. and it's all
over.
Track 4. "Digital Hangover" What a great name for a track after the last track.
At 00.18 we get the beat. All the effects are shaked and definetly disturbed.
At 00.50 it all just makes sense. The synths seem to play is something wicked
to come. At 04.00 everything is quite normal. Just the kick beating the track
up. Well the synth fights back. Also the hihats. Actually it's once again
groovy, hallucinogenic..? Violet Visionish perhaps? Great stream of synths and
wicked wicked effects. A violin? No, a bagpipe? Well it's gone.. At 06.00
some1 tells you to "dance, dance, dance"? Maybe it's just my imagination?
"Dance, dance, dance, switchstance?" Well once again I somehow feels
shpongled, perhaps there is something sim o be a part of it too. At 03.20 a
great break, and a change of tempo. Junglish? Kick is dissapearing. Chilled
part again. Kick comes back. Nice synths. Very danceable. Doesn't matter what
you do, it should suit the needs. Well the kick tells you to dance, the
effects tell you to concentrate and try to reach the inner core of the track.
You decide. Okay fine, I DANCE! Oooooh yeeeaaah!!! Dance baby, DANCE! Lift
those feet, come on! HEh it tells you to dance, but in the finnish way. Well
at 06.33 every1 shou ll love this, that's for sure. This is no 4 x 4 garbage
that's for sure too.
Track 7. "Alpha Sector" You can feel that it's the beat, but it's digitally
manipulated, but then it starts. And it's very digitalized indeed. Yes, this
is what electornic means. Everything is crystal clear. At 01.15 some
breakbeats, and after that a powerfull bassline, that bites the edge of the
beat. But behold, the beat is getting stronger. There's definetly a symbios
between these two. The bassline gives the beat some room to play around, then
vica versa. Even the synths get some room. And then the awesome. Soooooooo
Psychedelic, I might repeat myself, but yes multilayered. At 6.46 some bongos
join the masterpiece. The track becomes more rational. The beat and the
bassline are definetly stronger. 07.44 a small break, fill your lungs, dance,
fly, YELL!! Aaaaaaarhhhhhgghhh!
Track 8. "Kiva Runner" Didgeridoo begins this track, and some very tribal
drumsjoin in notime, also some other distant noise can be heard. The kick
becomes part of the tribe. Also the synths, and the horn,strings, well
something? Bulding up lasts till a small break. After the break the building
up continues. At 01.44 the track is extremly tweaked and twisted. Something
you wouldn't have expected. Well I'm still waiting for the blast that will
make me dance like a madman, lift my arms in the air and yell
Track 9. "Deceptive Anticeptic" Bouncing sounds and a breakbeat start out. Some
build up going on? OOHH yeah. This is 100% pure freestyle. I love it.
Melancholic synth bouncing aroung, very strong kicks every now and then.
Strong beat. Strong pitched hihats. Cool break and at 01.45 the track becomes
synth driven. Once again somehow tribadelic. Just keeping my eyes closed and
concentrating on this makes my fly. Well.. makes my mind fly, wonder and
wander around the digitalized multiverse of
shpongledelic happyland. Creating this sort of music sure requiers great
talent. What a song!!
Track 10. "Divider" Great build up in the beginning. It's like they throw
everything in, but keep it on the leash. Well soon the beast will be free.
It's still held back at 01.00. Suddenly one instrument at time, 1st the kick
then the bassline, and the synths are released. This is not for dancefloors
either. Dancefloor music is made for physical flying, this is made for mental
flying. There's so much going on in this track. Bongos, 100 different synths,
a melody is hiding behind it all, concentrate and
Track 11. "Nasty Drop" Once again a beat starts out. It's getting louder and
louder. It gets a backing hihat at 00.20. Rolling drums. And suddenly a groovy
bassline. Very danceable. Somehow I get the Shpongle feeling again. Very
creative ideas are used here. Somehow hallucinogenic. A little tribal again.
Well I just keep on dancing. Trying to get 100% out of this celebration of the
geniosity of human mind. Very clear track somehow. Allthough there's a lot
going on this track is very "general" style. Not . But ending soon, you can
hear it. Once again.. WOW!!
Track 12. "Lahti Skyline" Well this is a nice ambient ending for the madness.
Very emotional. Echoes. Long and even longer
synths. A weak beatish thing that grows into a beat at 00.45, soon joined by a
bassline at 01.00. Very emotional indeed. At 01.15 this is just brilliant.
Echoes, some wicked synths. Dark? Am I alone? Once again emotional is
definetly the word to describe this. Somehow It feels like I'm back in
Thailand. Don't know why.. Then some sounds interrupt the track. It returns at
03.00 but 100% changed. Is this the end? I wish not, but yes it is. Too bad I
could have listened to this track 20 more minutes.
Final Thoughts: Well 1st of all this album has a great copying shield. It would
require atleast a 1000Kbps mp3 stream to make it sound as it sounds on the cd.
2nd of all this album will make most psy albums sound like minimal music and
feel like if they were made
with just the simple "copy & paste" method. 3rd of all this is for me definetly
the best album this far of this year. Maybe the best album since Shpongle 2
(maybe I can tell after a few weeks). Well I recommend this to everyone. This
album will stay fresh for weeks, months maybe years, cause the amount of data
in the stream is just incredible. Everytime I listen to it through it sounds
so different. Well I could probably
write a book of this album but I wont. Definetly 10+/10. BOOM!