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And here is the review. English is not my first language, so I apologize if something is grammatically incorrect or seems weird. 1. Aces High. This is one of the weakest tracks I’ve ever heard from U-Recken. It has a nice goaish melody in the middle, which comes from nowhere and soon disappears, and a pleasant but not especially memorable melodic climax at the last minute. Everything else are random synth sounds, effects and samples in typical U-Recken style thrown over the beat in a seemingly meaningless manner. If there is a storytelling here I failed to follow it. Just a filler for me. 1/6 2. Carol of the Bells. This track starts with dark and mostly dissonant psychedelic patterns forming pretty hypnotic and captivating groove which goes through several small climaxes and then leads to the main one, which is built around nothing other than Carol of the Bells. It’s hard to imagine something less relevant to psytrance, so I have no idea why this sample was chosen – does it mean something personal for Yaniv or was it just a random acapella sitting on his hard-drive? Yet it works in the context and makes the track instantly memorable (like "yeah, that U-Recken’s Christmas song"). After the climax there are some interesting melodic twists and turns which sound pretty unconventional for psytrance. All in all, a good track, although not the best I could expect from U-Recken. 4/6 3. The Song of Seraphim. The good things come to those who wait. Here we have ethereal singing samples and beautiful melodies contrasted by mysterious and menacing effects and atmospheres. There is no single second wasted in vain in this one, no single sound which would seem to be out of place, everything perfectly works together to invite the listener into a deep sonic journey. The melodies are insanely emotional, yet they don’t sound cheesy even a little – they manage to be tragic and uplifting at the same time. Some of the synth sounds give me pure eargasm – I would trade my kidney to know what synths he used on this one and how he tweaked and processed them. The track lasts for almost 9 minutes but when it stops playing I’m like “how the fvck did it end that soon”. Well, this is U-Recken at his very-very best and the track gets its well deserved 8/6. 4. Shockwaves. The track follows the tried and tested formula of starting twisted and disharmonic and then progressing into the melodious part. It is a nice track, but not exactly memorable and I have the feeling that Yaniv has done the same things better on his previous albums. Still, there is proper story-telling here, the dark synths are dark, the beautiful melodies are beautiful, everything in its places. 4/6 5. Clouds of Smoke. Here we have trancey synths playing epic and tragic melodies contrasted by twisted effects which make me think of huge creaking trees and strange creatures hiding therein. At first I thought that this track is a pale copy of The Song of Seraphim, but it grew on me at repeated listens. It is not instantly captivating, but deep and meaningful. 5/6 6. Liquid Flames. This one is very melodious and filled with unpredictable turns. It starts with a triplet groove accompanied by epic melody and cinematic atmospheres and then progresses into fullonish beat. It flows nicely but I have the feeling that there is too much of everything going on without being really focused at anything. I guess, Yaniv could make two or three more focused and memorable tracks based on these ideas. 4/6 7. Broken Up. U-Recken and Zen Mechanics both have very distinctive style, so I guess on this one I can almost tell who made what part. This track is more groovy and dancefloor-friendly than the others on this album but is still good for at home listening. However for the most part of the track I feel that none of the guys actually contributed their best - but suddenly at the very last minute, when the beat stops playing, they drop an eargasimically beautiful melody (I guess it is Yaniv who made it). I wish it was introduced earlier and developed further, but anyway for me it puts the track from “good” into “great” category. 5/6 8. Eya Soala. Here we have a bit weird but edgy sounding tribal singing sample masterfully incorporated into a pretty complex arrangement, lots of beat changes (triplet groove, offbeat stomping, fullonish kbbb and some complex polyrhytmic structures), some weird psychedelic synths and a larger-than-life melodic climax. The complexity of the arrangement makes it a bit hard to digest at the first listen but it grew on me quickly, and that climax is a pure masterpiece. Another highlight of the album. 6/6 9. Lost in the Wild. This track is built around a stomping offbeat groove and contains some weird vocal samples. This is basically all I remember about it. There are some melodic lines trying to be nice but they should try harder. Another filler. 1/6 So, the overall score is 4.2(2)/6. May seem not especially impressive but I have to say that U-Recken has always been one of my most favourite psytrance artists – one of those rare people who don’t just “produce” psytrance in paint-by-number manner but actually write meaningful and deep music which just happens to be in the form of psytrance. He stays true for his unique style and still shows his potential to create amazing tracks, but I feel that he may be somehow tired of doing his things – for some of the tracks he seems to be copying his earlier works, some other are apparently done just because he could, without any idea or inspiration. Maybe it’s time to change the style – I’d love to hear a psychill/downtempo album form Yaniv, he is amazingly good at creating deep cinematic ambiences and soulful melodies. Anyway, if it were not U-Recken but someone with less impressive track record, I think I could give 6/6 mark to the album. If anything, I gave this album the first place when we voted for the best of 2015. And I could safely recommend it to anyone looking for something deep and intelligent, melodious and emotional yet trippy and psychedelic (but be sure to check out his Aquatic Serenade as well).

Fvck, that's such an amazing track! Should check out the album.

Lead is usually a synth which plays the main melody or the main riff.

Indeed, in English vibrato refers only to pitch modulation, I was confused by the Russian word which sounds the same but may mean both pitch modulation and amplitude modulation (tremolo).

It's a vibrato Or may be a trancegate, hard to tell what exactly was used because of the reverb tail. Vibrato is a very fast steady pattern where the sound doesn't dissapear completely but smoothly fades between the loud pieces, trancegate is more abrupt and may have more compelx pattern. A trance gate in purest form is here at 1:57 (sorry for extreme cheese) Oops, I guess I'll now have to explain what is reverb tail

Great sound-design, great production, but melodies are a bit weak. This guy seems to enjoy the production aspect of music the most (he has made the awesome series of tutorials as Soundmagus), but from my perspective his music would benefit from more interesting melodic developments. Of the whole album I liked the closing downtempo track the most.

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Kick is a bass drum, in most psy/goa tracks you hear it hitting constantly - it defines the beat. Percussion is (broadly) all drums which are not the kick, or sometimes it specifically refers to ethnic/tribal or noisy/metallic/industrial drums

145 bpm full-on with some "goaish" synth lines. Intro is a draft, I think I'll rework or ditch it. Maybe I posted this a bit too early (I thought it is awesome when I bounced the final mixdown, not sure about this today ). Still, if anyone wants to comment, would be great.

While my comment may sound derogatory, I didn't want to depreciate your music. You have top production skills (waay above my amateurish efforts) and good understanding of your genre, that's absolutely obvious. Thing is, that while lot's of people today are caring about the production and about being genre-specific, much less are trying to make their music recognizable. I'm not saying everybody should, music which carefully follows certain genre standards but is well produced and arranged also has it's own vaule, but still, maybe I'm a picky listener, but I probably won't choose this your album over other neogoa albums. That's more an advice (advices from random internet guys surely matter, do they? ) - having such a solid basis you may try to develop more recognizable style. Btw, did you use your Airas on this record? Some of the acid lines sound super tasty

For some reason I thought that Talpa's second album is called "When SOBERNESS becomes a game", and sometimes this scarily accurately describes what is happening here. But it is actually "soMberness", this is not that relevant.

Yeah, got you now Mitochondria would make more sence here, indeed, and they also could fit a proper goa cover http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/82528000/jpg/_82528200_mitoc0156765-mitochondrial_structure,_artwork-spl.jpg

No, mitochondria look different. This is clearly a chromosome, but they look like that only when a cell udnergoes division (mitosis) (I see how much sence this information makes in the thread ) Really nice cover btw. @ Kitrinos. Yeah, I agree that there is annoying overall sameness in lots of prog/full-on as well.

Maybe I should ask the stems from him to make a remix

Yeah, in fact some of his melodies are really not bad.

Just listened to the preview. Well, it is soudns energetic, well produced and mixed, lots of layers and all that. But the thing which has killed uplifting trance now happens to goa - it all sounds the fucking same!!! Yeah, looks like a chromosome during the mitotic metaphase.

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Not impressed. I'm Cthulhu

You are really tough guys there in Serbia to drink this regularly. I remember one day in Crna Gora ... well, to be more precise, I don't remember this day at all Even our vodka is more ... dunno ... humane

Mystic Sound hits it big!

Thanks for the info! And also for all those years you've been providing us with good music for free

Btw. it was reposted at a Russian psytrance-related site (psy-music.ru) where people are literally raving about this release. Some of the comments (somehow loose translation as they are mostly written in very informal Russian, but you get the idea): "It is really rare to find such a music. Decent goa/suomi stuff is not released evary day. I especially liked Smoke&Mirror and Ignotrancer as the most goaish ones" (Nivinen Sky) "You can readilly tell that this guy knows his shit about proper music. It is literally the first time Suomisaundi really gives me a kick" (kalkidass) "It's a class of its own, properly mind-boggling" (Andrey) And 10 more comments, all very positive. http://psy-music.ru/news/sab_kuch_milegator_kauas_aikain_taa_2016/2016-05-28-12896-0-1

Great as usual. You have consistent style and very convincing production skills. Having thus said, I'm sure one day you'll make a track, which will be greater than your usual, if you understand what I mean I'm trying to say that I like your music but I have a feeling that you are not using your potential in full.