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  1. FREAKCLUB @ Mass

    Friday 14th October 2005, 10.00pm - 6.00am

    Freakclub : Psychedelic Trance

    Voice of Cod (Organic Records) UK (live)

    Chris Organic (Organic Records) UK (live)

    Kristian (Phantasm / Psygate) Gibraltar

    Kalimamboh (Chichime) Italy

    DJ Meciu (Pangea) Poland

     

     

    SYNCHRONICITY : Progressive

    Deep Psy (Chichime) Gibraltar

    Phil Chichime (Synchronicity) UK

    Darxien (Wonderland) Russia

    Mr Egg (Inner Visions) UK

     

     

    @ Mass, St Matthews Church, Brixton Hill, London SW2

     

    Door £5 before 11.00pm / £10 after

    Advance Tickets £5 + booking fee

     

    Come and join the fun...

  2. fishing for compliments are we mr OOOD?  :lol:  :P

     

    (your gonna have to get that changed by the way. its too similiar to OD. my lawyer says i have a strong case.)

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    Yeah, I was, actually... it gets lonely out here sometimes as you'd be surprised (or not, maybe) how many people leave OOOD off lists like these. All that probably means is that at the time we weren't as influential in real life as we thought we were, in our little bubble! (and no, I'm not fishing now, just holding my hand up to a bit of ego...)

     

    As for the name, you can zarking farwark off. :P I'm not quite as Out Of My Depth as I used to be... but the OOOD is here to stay! :lol:B)

  3. It is hard, I know but what would happend if I haven't named them all ?

     

    I already forgot about Eat Static and was flamed.... ;)

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    Might I suggest... er... no, actually, it's ok... um... this is the way out, yeah? Ok, I'll see you later...

     

    <trips over doorstep>

  4. guys, can you cut the chit-chat here and just post REVIEWS?

    there is only 1 real review here, DP's.

    Here's a couple more:

    Voice Of Cod

    We Are Free

    Organic (UK)

     

     

    UK duo Voice Of Cod made serious waves with their We Are Free track in 2003. “That Drop” was talked about in hushed tones and caned at loud volumes, and while this album’s been a long time coming it certainly doesn’t disappoint. Bubbles Of Nothing kicks off, and instantly you remember why those early tracks got you so excited. The kick is smooth and chunky, less cumbersome than the bottomend on a lot of standard fullon. Here as elsewhere on the album, there’s a lot of yummy phasing on the sounds: they pan all round the room and beg you to crank the volume up. And, in true Cod style, the drop is breathtaking – from a clear, shining breakdown it plunges into the motherlode, an awesome riff that’s simultaneously clear and kicking, driving and smooth. The Unknowns hooks a Donald Rumsfeld sample and builds up a squelchy, spacious orb of sound around it. Once again the panning and filtering is top-notch; most noticeable in the breakdown, where a clean high-end synth is anally raped by a kicking, angry riff before dropping into pure London psychedelic goodness. The Art Of Funk Shui is one I’ve played so many times it’s like an old friend – but remastered here it sounds even more (cue bad kungfu pun) “punchy”. The lazy pitchbends drive it along, amid more comedy soundbites than the Montreal Just For Laughs festival... and THAT trouser-tightening melody that runs into the breakdown never fails to get the hairs on the back of the neck standing up. Go Downtown eases the foot off the gas a little, and takes its time to build itself up into a very wobbly, very m.d.m.essy trooper, which at +5 sounds like it could be released on a Parvati compilation. Misinfotainment sounds a little like a cleaner Cosmosis, with a great upward progression running up to a break that gives way to an unbelievable run. It’s magnetic – just… gah!! It sucks you in, it’s clean and it’s got that ‘plateau’ feel to it that’s so rare in psytrance these days. Bakelite Satellite is a cheeky one as well, more in keeping with the Voice Of Cod sound from previous compilation tracks that you’ll know. The mini-collapse into Star Spangled Banner, followed by a GW Bush sample, certainly gets the dancefloor giggling, and the electro-ey slowdown sound of the main break is smashing stuff. We’re talking silky-smoochy dancing here people, before it’s powerup time again and the launchpad flings you out into the chunkyverse: great samples, great acid, great stomping power. Fark. Slysis Me has a lumbering, pissed-dinosaur feel to it. Languid groove meets plinky percussion and holds the attention well, and the final riff is as big as the tits on a trucker’s wife. Just A Ride gets a remix here from Zuloop, and if you thought that Voice Of Cod’s high-watermark couldn’t get any higher, then think again. All the best bits of the original have been preserved and tweaked, but in such a way that when it’s mixed in, people will recognise it in phases. Additional topend melodies are spot on, and it just… well, you know what the original did. This one does it better. Finally, Heart Of Gold (again, nothing to do with Neil Young, dad) gets the cremaster muscle on overdrive once again, a great fusion of shitkicking at the bottom and fluid-melodic at the top. Which kind of sums this album up really – on the strength of this, they deserve to be promoted from the Championship to the Premier League. The sound may not be instantly accessible to those dancefloors hooked on music made by Israeli teenagers, but the depth and variety (not to mention the comedy) means this deserves to do rather well.

     

     

     

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    Top Tune

    Voice of cod                We are alive                                Organic records

    For me this sits proudly as one of my featured tunes of the month. An album full of the finest music this year.  Combining the thumping elements of Psy Trance with the deeper tones of Progressive are a winning combination. They have created their own unique sound. Bloody awesome!!!  (5/5)

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  5. Jon - it's Voice of Cod, by the way, as in the fish. We considered Voice of God when we were deciding on the name but thought it would be a little presumptuous.

     

    And DeathPosture - thanks a million million for such an awesome review!

  6. It was recorded live in hot sweaty clubs; a lot of the instruments went out of tune badly during the course of the gigs, in particular the 303 on Cosmic Ripple and in Kundalini where the Silver Machine (Nigel's home-made synth) came in not only out of tune but in entirely the wrong place, played for a while then stopped responding to pitch information entirely - at which point I muted it on the mixer. There are other major blunders in there too. The main point of that album was that I think it managed to capture some of the (unique, I think) vibe that we generated on stage with that particular line-up and stage setup. To this day I'm still very proud of it for that although aspects of it make me cringe at some points because, to my ears at least, parts of it just sound wrong. :D I realise that the artist is quite often their own worst critic though, and I'm very glad that many people have enjoyed the album for what it is - a celebration of live music made because it was really, truly the only thing we wanted to do with our lives.

     

    Still is, too.

  7. my profile doesn't say "Transylvania". who told you? or how did you find out? you did some master search? :)

     

    i don't know what blue officially represents. i just see it that way. and many people should. many people like the colour blue, so it surely doesn't represent misery and depression. blue is the good, positive thing in our eyes. it's the clear sky, it's the pure blue of the sea, it might be the eyes of your beloved one that make you loose yourself.

    why do you like blue? think of that.

    bla bla bla. it's also my favourite. :)

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    It was the cheeky girls wot did it. ;) I just wantet to prove myself to be worthy of your groupiedom.

     

    Maybe because it's when we lift our eyes up in thanks for a sunny day, we see blue...

  8. "sultry manner"?

    i was serious colin. i work in economics field, aaaand i kinda know when to speak and when to shut up about some stuff (usually :)). but i use humour sometimes :)

    anyway, you can figure out my country from my profile. if you can't, then you don't deserve to have a groupie like me.

    YOU better shave and shower or else!

    (the question is .. do you want a bossy, meanie groupie?)

    can we negociate?

     

    are we getting off topic here?

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    Transylvania... and I do believe I've just been told off! For you, Moni, I will shave, shower AND brush my teeth. How's that?

     

    Glad you like the cover too. I hadn't thought of the blue as being the colour of 'happiness and freedom' though; it's just my favourite and I tend to use it a lot.

  9. thanks for your participation Colin. it's really nice when artists get involved.

    BUT

    we haven't even started to comment upon your cover YET.

    we were still debating on Squaremeat's cover.

    now ...

    the right thing to do is to actually wait for your album to be released, and then throw ourselves in the battle. this is all pavel's fault and he will be BANNED. ok just kidding :)

    i'd say your cover is a "successful, original, doggy style" cover.

    sure, it's silly, but it's charming and well done. the marketing suits&ties will agree.

    i'll keep my coments for later :)

    ps, i still want to be your groupie, so please tell me where i can submit my application.

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    Well... one person made a comment, anyway!

     

    And when you use phrases like "successful, original, doggy style" to me in that sultry manner you have, it's pretty obvious that you're already well on the way to being a successful groupie. What country did you say you lived in? Woof!

     

    Colin

     

    PS. I haven't left my room for nearly a week now except to eat and use the toilet, as I've been working very hard getting the artwork ready for the deadline. I haven't shaved since last Thursday. I don't smell nice at all right now. Still want to be my groupie?

  10. Hi there...

     

    I guess we couldn't expect to be able to have an album cover as different from what has gone before and still be able to please everyone - but I'm very glad that the critical comments about it have been over a matter of personal taste rather than originality!

     

    As Pavel has said, the cover art he posted is final (although I'm still working on the art as a whole and until I go to bed tonight it could still be changed) and sets the theme for the rest of the package. The dogs were drawn as a doodle by an artist who is a friend of a friend; the original drawing is about 5cm across, and I first saw them enlarged to about 1 metre across in a picture frame on my (ex) girlfriend's lounge wall. At the time Andrew Humphries and I were just starting work on the Voice of Cod album; I fell in love with the drawing instantly, and knew from the beginning that I wanted the dogs as the cover art for the album. To my eyes they have so much personality - they seem to be leaping off the paper, and each one shows different aspects of both of our personalities: friendliness, assertiveness, openness, and a certain degree of both agression an wilful naivety! :) But whatever it is they are doing, they are leaping out into the world to do it together, just as Andrew and I are doing with the album. To me, those dogs represent us.

     

    As far as the rest of the cover goes, I was aiming for a simple, clean design that highlighted the drawing I like so much I also wanted a certain amount of detail in the background to satisfy the eye so I placed a warped and distorted circuit-board faintly behind the dogs to make it look as if they are leaping free from some piece of twisted technology. Perhaps the circuit-board could be a little darker and more obvious though... hmm... <tweaks Photoshop>

     

    Obviously as a creative person I would very much like what I do (whether it's the music or the album artwork) to be universally loved... however I know that's impossible, and that there will be people who dislike the music on the CD just as much as slyman604 dislikes its cover - in fact even though this is the first negative comment I've ever had on it (and believe me, I showed a lot of people that drawing before I started on the artwork!) I wouldn't be surprised if someone ends up posting it in the 'other' thread at some point! I would hope that it's not just the fact that it looks different to other album covers that have gone before it that made slyman dislike it - I would like to hear his reasons rather than just a blunt "that looks awful!" comment, as it might help me improve things for the next cover I have to design for the OOOD album.

     

    Finally I'd just like to repeat a quote I heard recently that (to me) applies in this instance: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got"... and if I see one more fractal bloody Shiva on an album cover, I'll...

  11. Hey Colin, great news ! Just tell me man that it won't be full on album...I haven't heard any of your recent stuff so I have no idea what is your new output...;)

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    I guess I'd describe it as funky melodic full-on, with progressive moments and vaguely experimental leanings. Best idea though is to go to the link in my signature and decide for yourself!

  12. LOL. OK :)

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    Still blue...

     

    I've got a signed CDR of the album (complete with an unfinished version of the most recent track) in my hand now, I just need to know who to dedicate it to. Pavel? Or my right hand?

     

    ;)

  13. Dunno if this has been posted yet, but you could do worse than check out our website:

     

    http://www.voiceofcod.com

     

    You'll need broadband to look at the flash site as it's quite a biggun.

     

    Our album "We Are Free" is due out at the beginning of July - you can hear clips of some of the tracks on the site.

     

    Cheers, hope you like it...

     

    Colin

  14. Wow... I don't know what to say... Never thought I'd write a collector's item. $38.50 for one of my records? That's insane!

     

    I wish I could help you out but I've only got one copy left myself... and it's staying here! CD, however, could be a different matter... ;)

  15. OK, all systems go! Really looking forward to this one, the first of our outdoor parties this year. the weather report is improving, we've hired the sound system, van and generator, we've got some first rate guest DJs... Can't wait.

     

    We expect to be starting sounds before midnight... if you've been to any of our previous parties, I should tell you that it's not in the usual place, but a little further down the path in a larger area that's set back a little more from the river.

     

    As usual, please don't park on the hill or on the curve of the road - last year when people did this a lot of cars got towed away! Also please don't drive vehicles down the path as it attracts completely the wrong sort of attention You can park without problems on the straight road at the bottom of the hill.

     

    See you there!!!

     

    Finally, all the best to the Liquid Connective crew for their party tomorrow night... hope y'all have a blinder.

  16. --==:: Monkibizniz Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse Party (oh, and it's Ryo's birthday too) ::==--

     

    Friday May 16th 2003 - Avon Gorge, Bristol

     

    John Phantasm (Phantasm Records)

    Chrisbo (Pagan, Return To The Source)

    Ryo (Unconscious Collective)

    Rama (Unconscious Collective)

    Stevie (OOOD, Unconscious Collective)

    Natzan (Tribe Of Frog)

    Geo (Entheogenic, Tribe Of Frog)

    Dr. G (Entheogenic, Tribe Of Frog)

     

    Situated in a secluded green space by the river, within walking distance of the city

     

    +++++ Plus +++++

    The usual free vibes, VJs, fireworks, chai, and lots and lots of friendly monkies!

     

    Watch this space for more information/info line

     

    IMPORTANT - No parking on site!

  17. --==:: Monkibizniz Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse Party (oh, and it's Ryo's birthday too) ::==--

     

    Friday May 16th 2003 - Avon Gorge, Bristol

     

    John Phantasm (Phantasm Records)

    Chrisbo (Pagan, Return To The Source)

    Ryo (Unconscious Collective)

    Rama (Unconscious Collective)

    Stevie (OOOD, Unconscious Collective)

    Natzan (Tribe Of Frog)

    Geo (Entheogenic, Tribe Of Frog)

    Dr. G (Entheogenic, Tribe Of Frog)

     

    Situated in a secluded green space by the river, within walking distance of the city

     

    +++++ Plus +++++

    The usual free vibes, VJs, fireworks, chai, and lots and lots of friendly monkies!

     

    Watch this space for more information/info line

     

    IMPORTANT - No parking on site!

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