S-Range - 2001

[Guest iNFiNiTi500]

Sweet melodic progressive trance from S-Range here. Although hardly challenging

due to an overdose of all too familar synth sounds it is always flawless in

execution. The title '2001' is a bit ironic I guess since most tracks share

early German techno from around 1993 as influence (Sven Vath, Westbam etc.)

and that makes this release more accesible and 'listenable' than the current

flow of progressive/minimal releases since it gets nowhere ugly or annoying.

Track 7 and 8 deserve definately a mention since these pumping full on

stompers sound as if they escaped straight outta the Atmos Headcleaner CD, yep

they are that good. All-in-a all a convincing cross-over CD since S-Range

mixes a more accesible melodic sound with the monotones and rhythms we all

hate or love so even stubborn old school GOAheads like myself may enjoy a spin

of "2001"...7.5/10

[Guest leon-p[at]zahav[dot]net[dot]il]

S-Range - 2001

 

 

Artist: S-Range

Title: 2001

Label: Spiral Trax

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Re Entry

02. Yellow Base

03. Reality Check

04. Complete Delete

05. DOS

06. Darwin Project

07. Morning Star

08. 2001

09. Maser

10. OFF

 

Review:

 

i wrote this review before i went to the desert for three days, and i listened

to it while

i was there and it amplified the whole experience, really cleared my head .

there is one bad thing about this cd, you don't feel the time go by while

listening to it,

i put it on and it was already over and i didn't even noticed .

i want more !!!!

right from the first track it hits you with unbelivable power and energy

sends you to an outer space, and don't let go untill the end .

most of the cd has bright and uplifting sound, with a couple of darker vibes

for the night,

but all of it is full on with no compromise .

except one chillout track i didn't expect to find here .

tracks 1,7,8 all very good, keeping the energies high, with nice atmospheric

feel to them,

will be definately heared on the dancefloors a lot this summer right from the

first ray of the sun.

tracks 2,4 pretty dark and brooding, hitting hard and low .

tracks 3,5 start as one thing with hard dark basslines but turn into something

different later,

those effects and sounds that come later give both tracks a lighter feel .

the opposite thing with track 6, it starts very floating and atmospheric but

shifts in a different

direction later.

it's a really good cd, good for dancing or mind traveling, got in it elements

for any

mood you might be in .

keeps you in anticipatiom for more, too bad there's only one cd .

i liked all of it, but favorite tracks are 1,4,8 .

it was an effort for me to get it but it was worth it .

very recommended

[freak51]

I thought this one a bit overproduced though, too glossy for my tastes. If you

were hoping for something minimal, I wouldn't bother. Good call on the Sven

Vath-type influence; I'm really sick of this sound. It's a very good work of

what it is though.

[Guest not My email[at]hotmail[dot]com]

so THIS is minimal .... please !!!!!!!!!!!!!! all of you

minimal producers go to a piano techers and learn to write some music

!!!!!!!!!!!! 4/10

[Guest Stormbringer]

Melodic, harmonic and boring. If you liked ATMOS album "Headcleaner" you just

have to get this one! This is the kind of trance that put half of the crowd to

sleep but the other half will be ecstatic about all the positive energy on the

dancefloor. I would be one of those who fall asleep but my dreams would

atleast be pleasant :-D (5/10)

[GaySatanicHippie]

Atmos had sex with an Israeli Woman...and nine month later, a son was born:

S-Range Thats at least what this release sounds like in my opinion. Not as

effortless as Atmos is but with nice sounds, lots of positive vibes and cool

samples and Space effects. Nothing Groundbreaking, but good accesible

feel-good Trance that anyone can like, melodic and minimal people alike. Even

the mainstream Trance scene can dig this, the Track 2001 feels like System F

sat in on the production with that epic break, but not too cheesy, just right.

My favs are tracks 6 and 7, 1 is good, too. 7.5/10

[Guest Arthur]

very nice morning sound 7/8 i think that both minimal techno ppl and trance ppl

should enjoy this release

[las22]

GOSH!!!

 

i love this album:)

 

good good track sometime

[Guest masada[at]trance[dot]net]

Great album. Once again Sweden proofs to have a lot of talented artists. I love

this album. The best swedish psytrance-skater

[Guest hmmm[at]aha[dot]com]

Yeeaaahhh...this album is a stright 10pointer...

Wish all could have the oputunity to buy this album...

Sweeden have done it again..

 

/PsycaDeliC snoK

[Guest Jonny-Jukebox & SyNtAx ErRoR]

The music on this record are sooooooo great, it's hard to tell how good because

i had listen just a few times, but allmost all Swedish acts(only in this

category of trance).

Like one reviewer above tells: The cover sucks!

[Guest HAch]

This is not psychedelic... just boring repetitive stuff 4/10

[Guest hm1979[at]planetaccess[dot]com]

The Swedish definetly know their trance.... And yes this is an excellent cd, my

favorite tracks must 1,4... I still think that there are some track which have

got as much attention as others... But worth spending money on ? YEAH

[Guest s-range[at]kiruna[dot]se]

Facts , S-Range is actually the name of Sweden's only space base, where u

launch rockets and such.

[Guest Sannepanne[at]zonnet[dot]nl]

I saw S-Range at Lovefield, what an amazing morningset!!! Felt so happy that I

had bought his CD a few hours before! Being back home now, I can't stop

smiling when I hear the ppl shouting of joy in track 1!! Wonderfull how one

can be so happy with a new album!

[Guest Acidhive]

This is great stuff! From track 1 to the last track this is pumping Psytrance,

done in such a great way.. Melodies shift about, strings (unusual for

psytrance nowadays) and yes, those people shouting in track 1 and 7 are also

nicely done, but is this really a live recording?? As I said, all tracks are

great, but Morning Star is the best IMO... That one does it for me everytime.

I can listen to this track three times and not get bored with it!! Overall,

Great stuff from Mr. Sillfors here...!! 9/10 all the way!

(and it's official now... Spiral Trax IS my fave label!)

[Guest lifster[at]hotmail[dot]com]

I bought this on the back of the sensational set that s range played at

BOOM2000. Although this is not quite a Hux Flux or an Atmos, it still has

those messy 'helicopter' bass lines that make s range so amazing. Worth a look

definitely....

[Guest the dank man]

This CD FUCKING ROCKS! Look, you all, who say this is not psytrance - forget

you! What do you know? With this hard a bassline?!!!! This is very

psychedelic to me! It's changed people! This is what semi-minimal stuff

should sound like. I saw S-Range at 550 Barneveld here in SF this past

Friday. 5 days later he was playing in a very small club here in SF; there

were about 30 people in that place, but it sure was rocking with some hardcore

goa people. I saw zero "traditional" ravers, get it?! All goa people, no

glowstick bullshit, etc. I gotta admit the place was packed though... so

there wasn't too much room to dance. I don't usually write long reviews like

that, but Anthony definitely deserves it this time. He's a great DJ by the

way,too. I may have played a remix of his own of Klein Aber Doktor, I might

be wrong tho, I was hella stoned and on hte music, you know what I'm saying?

[Guest thedankman[at]hotmail[dot]com]

great stuff! 10/10. Semiminimal, extremely danceable. I totally agree that

this kind of stuff will put exactly about 1/2 crowd to sleep. But those who

are into that hard psychedelic bassline, those who like e.g. Cosmosis for that

bassline, will love it for its energy. I also don't agree at all that this is

not psychedelic: what about all the funny noises and sounds and voices? come

on.... very nicely balanced with typical mellowness from progressive trance,

but not too much. all in all, very danceable. I you like hippie flipping to

hard beats like that, you'll love it. 10/10.

[Guest the dank man]

listen to "Re-entry" esp. at ~ 1:08. This is not shroomedelic? Say no and

die! To acidhive above: you can clearly hear it's a live recording on

"reentry" at around 4:14 and later: people in the crowd ecstasic about all the

positive energy. Great album. Best tracks are 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10. Track 1 is

very, very danceable, maybe a tid bit progressive-sounding, not minimal, with

a lot of interesting psy-sounds, voices too. Track 1 gets unbelievable

energetic and danceable after 5:30, yet stays very psychedelic with the

background sounds. Track 2 is pretty positive, without a lot of base, so I

can see how one can say it's progressive, but 1,3 are definitely very

psychedelic and the "forest-like" sounds. And how about those "light" tribal

drums on track 3, around, say, 2:34. Very dark yet uplifting track with

ghost-like sounds thruout. My favorite... Track 5 is great too -- made me

wanna dance like a robot ("no offense, but... you are a robot, aren't you?"

-- Shpongle) ... very energetic

6 is quite psychedelic, but extremely danceable; similar in energy to track 1.

#6 is probably the most technoish, and there is definitely nothing from

melodic progressive trance here (as in most other trax as well); it is very,

very goa. He played it yesterday at that small club, 839 Geary St., SF.

Track 7 again quite psychedelic and spacey, but with that hard monotonic beat,

perhaps too unvarying in that track. But still a great semi-minimal track.

#8 is an absolutely awesome chill-out track.

#9 is great! Very nice mix of melodies from the very slow one for tired

people, yet with energetic beats for those who want to jump around. Very nice

mix to choose from if you're tripping out on crazy drugz.

#10 is pure genius, no less.

[Guest Cannibal]

To those of you who think this is minimal: You obviously haven't heard of Big

Wigs. Having said that it's ok, tracks 2 & 5 are nice & hard & not too busy.

It's interesting crossover stuff between the hard Euro psy-trance sound and

the more twisted Israeli stuff.

 

I wouldn't call it seminal, though; it's nothing I haven't heard before, it's

just hard trance with a bit of fizz. I'd say it only just creeps under the

'psychedelic' wire.

 

A good start for people trying to make the switch from uplifting trance or

classic Goa into hard psy-trance, but a bit dated in style and certainly not

in the cutting-edge Tromesa/Auricular/BLT league. 6/10

[Guest sonofmankind[at]neurophoric[dot]]

I'm fucking tired of you all saying ahhh its minimal, OH no its seminal or

germinal. Ahh a psy-euro-funky-techno-trancy track. Get over it!!! This is

S-range sound and all electronic artists in the world have their own sound and

their own way to progress them. stop trying to classified them its stupid and

worthless, you will just destroy what I like in ''psy-trance'' music. And this

is originality, spirituality and intensity.

[Guest Mescalinium]

I've been a big S-Range fan for a while now (ever since I picked up the Serial

Overtypes 12" on Spiral Trax to be exact!) and I have to say I'm a little

disappointed. I like re-entry, yellow base, morning star and particularly

2001 (that sample near the end gets me everytime) but for the life of me I

just can't get into any of the other songs. I realize that he's trying to do

something different on an album than just make a bunch of dancefloor fillers

and I completely respect that. I just don't think a lot of it works in this

case. I guess I'll just have to stick to all his earlier singles for now

Seriously though, check out the aforementioned Serial Overtypes (my favorite

S-Range song), the b-side Firewire kicks as well, and the Prex single

R.F.N./Mandrake (Prex = S-Range + Noma = Anthony Silfors + Magnus Andersson).

Back to the album: 5/10, but I'm still looking forward to more (esp. the

upcoming Prex album) because I know this guy is talented.

[Guest Szandor]

Not a bad album,it's definately one for downloaders, i'm not quite sure if it

deserves a 7 but i'll give it one anyway.

[Guest Goa Spirit]

This Atmos style music is right up my sleeve,... morning star is amazing with

its helicopter basslines and light floaty ATMOSpheric sounds... these sounds

are key in s-range's work... i really like this album, but its still missing

the mark. The evolution once the track gets going is lacking.. the ideas are

great though, and the start to Darwin Project is really pleasing to the ear...

lot of energy. But the problem is that it does not develop too much.. this

problem is recurring in the entire album.. morning star being the only one i

woulkd play whole at a party... nevertheless the ideas are great, and one

could play these tracks till the break and then cut them with another song. SO

for those of you who like to spin morning music, i would recommed this. In my

book this album is at times amazing, but it could have been better,,, compared

to the xvk release, spiral is back on the right track,, peace