V/A - 6 Stringadelica

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V/A - 6 Stringadelica

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: 6 Stringadelica

Label: TIP World

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Total Eclipse : On The Road

02. Oforia : Free Kick

03. Xerox And Psycraft : Adrenalin Rush

04. The Melovskys : Purple Haze

05. Eat Static : Chronic Horde (Feat Ed Ozric)

06. Manmademan : Contact The Living

07. Morphem : Whookys Wha

08. Psycraft : A Song For You

 

Review:

 

(TIPWCD23):

TIP.World is coming out with new concept compilations all the time. Here they

take a look at the more rock oriented trance style, with eight tracks

including guitars. First out is a new track by Total Eclipse! I thought they

had split up, at least Serge Souque (The Antidote) has left the band. The two

guys behind this track call themselves Alan Wilson & Floyd Jones. Are they

just kidding? Those two guys are probably Stephane Holweck and Loic Vanpoucke.

The track is really rocking, but not as varied as Total Eclipse used to be.

The track will for sure rock the dance floors. It sort of reminds me a bit of

Juno Reactor! Ofer Dikovsky (Oforia) from Israel is still releasing a lot of

full on stuff. Here he comes with his most rocking track so far. A lot of

heavy guitars and a massive sound picture. Full on all the way! Track 3 is a

collaboration between Moshe Keinan (Xerox) and the two Psy Craft guys (Alon

Algarsi & Nir Sidon). A really banging track with some voice samples, and some

really heavy guitars now and then, among the rolling full on rhythms. Track 4

is made by some one I don`t know about called The Melovskys. same rocking full

on style, but with much more guitar, which he has twisted around into some

really crazy sounds. Best track so far on this compilation! Track 5 is really

interesting. Merv Pepler from Eat Static together with Ed Winne from Ozric

Tentacles. A lot of guitars all the way, together with intense pumping

rhythms. the track becomes really nice and melodic after a few minutes, but is

not really great compared to earlier works from these guys. Track 6 is a new

track from the famous trance couple Sonya Bailey and Paul Baguley

(Manmademan). This track is very melodic. For some people this will probably

sound too cheesy, but I think it`s pretty nice. Very floating morning trance.

Manmademan once again shows their talent in different styles of trance music.

There are not much guitar in this track, so maybe it shouldn`t have bin on

this compilation. Track 7 is made by Segment (Raphael Stehn & Jens Buschhaus)

together with Daniel Dytert on guitar. It starts down tempo the first minutes,

with pleasant sounds and a little guitar. Then the progressive banging rhythms

starts pumping. Another happy morning groove. Nice one! The last track is by

Psy Craft. A really nice chill out track with pleasant chilling guitars, nice

sounds and beautiful melodies. This compilation is much better than the other

compilations TIP.World has released lately, but I feel that something is

missing here. What about the masters of guitar trance, S.U.N. Project and Juno

Reactor?? Another learning tool to get the rockers into trance...

[liarliar]

I think Alan Wilson And Floyd Jones made the original of this track. I am not

100% sure but i think under the name canned heat - on the road again. It's a

famous track. Anyway, i think this is a pretty good compilation. But the bass

in some of the songs sounds pretty similar to eachother. I'll give it 7 out of

10. Cheers!

[damion]

So there I was smugly thinking that guitars in trance were dead; that 1200

Mics’ Mescaline had taken the whole thing as far as it could go, and that the

global psychedelic consciousness had realised that if they wanted to lose it

to hefty guitars then Iron Maiden’s entire back catalogue is buyable for

pennies per album in your nearest second-hand vinyl shack. But then this came

in and completely fucked with everything. Total Eclipse kick off with a

version of Canned Heat’s On The Road, and while it sounds like the most

unlikely, and most ill-judged, cover version ever, it works. Total Eclipse’s

broken arpeggios lend a stellar quality to the shuffled, riff-based groove.

The Melovskys pull a similar rabbit out of the hat with Purple Haze, possibly

a hugely unnecessary cover version but it works well enough to get a smile on

your face. Eat Static and Ed Ozric’s Chronic Horde is simply awesome; sent

back from fifty years in the future, the cryogenically frozen Joe Satriani is

going into convulsions over an automaton solid groove. A big welcome back to

Manmademan, whose Contact The Living is right in keeping with their earlier,

classic sound rather than the stripped down future disco of the more recent

Flying Rhino output; beautiful, hardly-there, ephemeral morning stuff that

moves you in the way only they can. Morphem’s Whooky’s Wha has been about a

lot since release last summer, everything hangs together in such a way that it

almost sounds like your dreaming it... yummy. Finally Psycraft’s A Song For

You is sleazy post-goa copshow stuff – Hank Marvin Tastic. It looks like

there’s legs still left in the old guitars-in-trance horse after all.

 

4/5

 

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