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    OOOD - 'Deep Flight' album release

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

    Posted

    On 11/4/2021 at 5:35 AM, antic604 said:

    Looking forward to hearing it!

    EDIT: so, after listening to it around 10x I have to say this was the weakest, most boring and predictable OOOD album, paling in comparison to Free Range not to mention Voice of Cod albums that are still among the top-10 psytrance albums of all time.

    Shame you didn't like it, although it's maybe not surprising as if I recall correctly you've always been more a fan of the oldschool side of things, which this isn't :)  We can't please everyone, and as ever we weren't trying to.  In any case, thanks for giving it a solid try, I don't think I've listened through to the whole thing 10 times yet and I helped make it! :D

    OOOD - 'Deep Flight' album release

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

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    17 minutes ago, Paul Eye said:

    I guess you meant to say "Iboga/Beatspace Bandcamp page ;)

    https://iboga-beatspace.bandcamp.com/album/deep-flight

    Oops! Thanks, good spot! Edited.

    18 minutes ago, Paul Eye said:

    I'd really like to see an actual CD next to all your other albums in my collection, but I guess Bandcamp is the way to go.

    There's nothing we would have liked more ourselves, but sadly this time it was not to be. 

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    OOOD - 'Deep Flight' album release

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

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    Hello peeps, it's been a while :) Just thought you might like to know OOOD have just released our 6th album 'Deep Flight', on Iboga Records.  Here's the blurb:

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    It has been nearly 9 years since OOOD's 5th artist album "You Think You Are" was released on Vertigo Records, but the wait is finally over and Iboga Records is proud to announce that on Friday September 24th 2021, we will be releasing their 6th album "Deep Flight". With this album, OOOD have taken everything they have learned in 27 years of writing and producing together and distilled it into 11 deeply groovy, trance-inducing tracks. "Deep Flight" is slower and deeper than their earlier albums but is still unmistakeably OOOD, with each track standing as a unique and distinctive waypoint on the progressive leg of their journey through the mostly unexplored landscape of psychedelic dance music. Every location we visit on this less-trodden path has its own identity - its own geography, language, flora and fauna. The views are vibrant and crystal clear and although each environment is different, the band's characteristic voice and perspective links them all. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and listening to the album from start to finish is intensely rewarding, reminding us that – in life as in music - the journey is the destination. Nobody else could have written this album, and no other label could have released it. OOOD – "Deep Flight" album – released September 24th on Iboga Records.

    You can check out clips and buy the album on Beatport here: https://iboga.fanlink.to/gf45. You can also get the album on the Iboga/Beatspace Bandcamp page, but obviously if you wanted to buy at Beatport you'd be helping with charts and visibility and whatnot :)

    You can also listen to the entire album here: 

    Cover art by Onam Yahav:

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    Hope you like it :) If you do, please let us know!

     

    Lots of love,

    Colin

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    O.O.O.D. - You Think You Are

    in 2012

    Posted

    Discogs user Maroko left this review on the album release page in 2015:
    https://www.discogs.com/OOOD-You-Think-You-Are/master/497562

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    You know the movie "Crank" with Jason Statham? Remember when Chev Chelios, the lead character, gets juiced by a hit from a defibrillator, speeding his heart rate to the extreme and sending him into an adrenaline daredevil frenzy?
    If you do, "You Think You Are" is the musical equivalent of that experience.

    O.O.O.D. have been around and doing their thing for twenty years now, and while they were always heralded as a highly creative and talented collective, they were always a sword's edge away from delivering a full blown masterpiece. From "ALive" through to "Free Range", all of their albums unleash more quality than you could squeeze out of a kitchen sponge. Yet, somehow, when most representative albums within the realms of psychedelic trance are brought up, O.O.O.D. are frequently left out. Regularly praised upon initial release, with time their full lengths manage to get overshadowed by releases which at the time had more mass appeal, or for various reasons, struck a chord better with the audience.

    That said, "You Think You Are" is that album we all knew knew (hoped) that O.O.O.D. could always deliver, and here it is. Building upon two full decades of active music making and globe touring, this album simply absorbs the finest aspect of modern psy trance and combines it with meticulous production vaults, genuine melody work and a plethora of far out effects that put most to shame. It is pointless to do a detailed track by track review, as in my ears this album does not have a stand out tune. No lead singles here. This entire album is one gargantuan lead single, and that is its greatest achievement. No pigeonholing and style trainspotting here. These four lads dig deeply and expertly combine old schoolish reckless attitude with modern sound design and intricacy. Best of all, is that this album doesn't lose its dance floor friendly purpose for a single second. Where most sacrifice complexity and craftsmanship in order to succumb to current dance podiums, or dive so far deep into contemplative sound structures that they lose track of fun & funk, O.O.O.D. take no prisoners and unload both, densely twisted psychedelia and dance-away-like-nobody's watching beefed-up beats. It has seriously been a while since a psy trance album worked so easily on so many levels.

    Where many veterans got lost in the shuffle, either (un)successfully trying keep up with the ever changing trends and hold their own against a new breed of producers, or worse yet, are completely lost trying to regain former glory, O.O.O.D. keep growing from album to album. Don forget that, after all, this is dance music. When it is this good, and when it transcends styles and trends, coming across this fun despite the fact it's not a goofy full-on album intended to last half of a festival season, you slowly start to appreciate it for the sheer beauty it is.

    If the last few efforts of their were close but no cigar, then this is that masterpiece we've been waiting for. It took a while to get there, but who's complaining? Most artists can only wish to craft ten tracks this good in their entire recording career, and here you ave them laid out across a single plastic surface. You really don't have to be a psy trance nutter to appreciate an album of this caliber. Recommended to all who are into uplifting, powerful and challenging electronic music. What a pleasant ride "You Think You Are" is. The cover art is eye candy as well.
    In my opinion, this is a future classic, and undoubtedly the finest O.O.O.D. album to date. A tour de force of modern psychedelic trance, a celebration of blasting beats and spine tingling audio trickery. A psychedelic joie de vivre .

    Hop on for the ride or you're missing out on something truly special and unique. Yes, I said it, unique.

     

    PLATIPUS RECORDS - Union Jack - 'Cactus' 2017 Remixes

    in Artist News and Labels announcements

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    Union Jack - ‘Cactus’ 2017 Remixes [PLATMU96]

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    1. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Jonno Brien Remix)

    2. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Adam Kent Remix)
    3. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (OOOD Remix)
    4. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Airwave’s Dark and Long Mix)
    5. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Quietman Remix)
    6. Union Jack ‘Cactus’ (Original Mix Remastered)

     

    Originally released in 1994, ‘Cactus’ is regarded as one of Union Jack’s finest moments. 23 years on, despite a plethora of requests, no remixes have ever been commissioned…until now.

     

    Irish Techno DJ/Producer and rising star Jonno Brien originally got the ball rolling last year when he sent in his remix out of the blue. It was quite simply too good to be ignored. Carl Cox, who was one of only a handful of DJ’s to be sent the mix, hammered it worldwide and included it as one of his highlights at the Closing Party @ Space, Ibiza.

     

    Adam Kent serves up a driving semi-spangled tech houser.

     

    Psychedelic sorcerers OOOD remain faithful to the prickly original but slam it into the 21st planet and beyond.

     

    Airwave’s Laurent reappears with an extended gloaming exploration into Cactaceae cornucopia.

     

    After a long hiatus, Quietman’s Laurence and Wilf emerge from a shimmering mirage with a sublime slice of desert sunrise.

     

    ‘Cactus - 2017 Remixes’ will be released 12th June 2017 on Beatport. Global release 27th June 2017 on Platipus.

     

    https://www.beatport.com/release/cactus-2017-remixes/2029590

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    A question about (oldschool) goatrance

    in General Psytrance

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    So is the fetishisation of specific kick and bass combos or production styles as "proper psytrance".

    I agree.  My recollection is that a good part of the 'bad engineering' issue was due to the fact that many people, if not most, simply didn't know what was actually possible with kick and bass.  The release of X-Dream's 'Radio' reset the standard for many producers because for the first time we were able to hear and understand what was really possible in the low end of a trance track, and what this style of music really needed in order to reach its potential.  Prior to that, trance producers' ears simply weren't trained in that direction because examples that might have been used to reference a proper phat, punchy, defined kick and bass combo simply wasn't there for the most part, until the release of that album.  It took a good few years after its release until most producers gained access to production tools that would let them attain the same levels of quality, because equipment required to get that kind of sound in the analog world was financially out of most people's reach either to buy or to hire. It wasn't until DAWs started coming of age that it became possible for most people to eg. EQ the low end with the precision required.

     

    90s psytrance, compared to most rave music, received a great deal of criticism back then for being too clean and clinical.

    That's true, and this is a journey that goa/psytrance has always been on, as you can see from the fact that the criticism you mention did absolutely nothing to make producers end their quest for the ultimate production quality, particularly in the kick and bass.  Radio was a revelation in this respect, and the reason it had such a great effect on the scene as a whole was because it answered the question that I'm sure pretty much every single producer had been asking themselves since they started making trance, which was "how do I get this sounding as big and punchy and clear and powerful as possible?"

    A question about (oldschool) goatrance

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    If we, or any other Goa Trance producer in the 1990s, could back then have produced kick and bass combos that sounded as strong, punchy, defined, clear and distinct as those we can make today, we would have jumped at the chance.  This whole fetishisation of amateur sound design and bad audio engineering is utterly ridiculous.

    Help Bansi GMS !

    in General Psytrance

    Posted

    It's a shame that the Spanish national healthcare system he's been paying for with his taxes isn't able to provide him with the treatment he needs. And the same for you, Fabien, since you also had to get private treatment it seems. I wish him all the best in his treatment and recovery.

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