Shiva Chandra - Subsonic

[Guest Mijis]

Shiva Chandra - Subsonic

 

 

Artist: Shiva Chandra

Title: Subsonic

Label: Spirit Zone

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Splud

02. I Never Have

03. Loops

04. The Rip Fx

05. Turn About

06. Family

07. Alien Reminder

08. Tinware

09. Modern Acoustics

 

Review:

 

My opinion : one of the best minimal progressive music such as beat bizarre

and others , great studio work , new crazy psy sounds, reminds me a lot of

what hux flux did a few years ago (effects and sounds , not music) , the only

problem is that not all the tracks are that good , the good ones are Splud ,

Turn about , and family (in my opinion) i rate those 3 tracks with 10/10 but

i rate the cd with a 7/10

[nervgaz]

I'm agree with the review before me, this is a good minimal cd with strange

sampling sounds, etc... But as he said, not all the tracks are excellent !! I

love splud very much, but some of the other track are more "cliché". Not from

any other artist, but these track are average from an artist like Shiva

Chandra. Maybe it should sounds better whit a less 4/4 beats aproach and

little less fast bpm... Anyway, this is a excellent album after all, but not

the best of Shiva Chandra, I prefer GECKO...

 

And yes, about the video Cd : This is cool, but you need a DVD player capable

of reading VDC, or a Pc with a VCD player (you can download it from the net,

but it's not free ...Anyway, good psychedelic video, and a bonus movie of

shiva playing at an outdoor party...

 

So final Verdict : 8/10 (not the best of Shiva, but excellent cd compare to

many other artist)

[freak51]

By now one has to acknowledge Shiva Chandra as one of the most prolific

psy-trance producers, and he has his own minimal-progressive pumping style

with meticulously crafted, hospital-clean sounds. I'm not personally a fan,

and I don't think this disc will make any new converts or lose any of his

existing fan base. But that's OK, he's recording for his faithful audience,

not me. 7.5/10 if you're dying for more Iboga-like sounds; 4/10 if you aren't.

[Setsuko]

Nice , very nice ... Subsonic is a real masterpiece , ofcourse not accessible

for every psytrance freak like Freak51 mentioned . This is organic minimal psy

... but still very unique and full of crazy ideas .. the way Daniel Vernunft

creates tracks using samples by filtering them into wacko sounding loops is

quite astonishing ... it's the kind of trance that provides the listener with

abstract emotions , very deep and tribal . like you're dancing through a

trippy futuristic jungle full of crazy sounding animals . My favourite tracks

in here are 1(!),2,3,6 and 9 ... I love this music 8.5/10

[Lemmiwinks]

yes it's minimal, but it's morning-oriented (not dark) so it's not that bad :-)

Actually there are some tracks like Splud which I really like!! 7/10

[Guest Tchankov I.V.]

As the faithful auditor of Daniel Vernunft's brew all I have to say about

Subsonic - this album is really tough. Each track has its moments as expected

but...tracks 2 to 8 form a kind of solid dense flow which is hard to really

dig into. I mean there are perfect elements but they are served overly

complicated. At the same time the structure of the compositions is not as

subtle or rhythmically elaborated as I could expect. There is something

unnecessary appeared which steals quite a bit of efforts put here by Creator.

After all, maybe the name Subsonic stands for it but it does not explain me

why or what for. Organic minimal which leans towards plain minimal. Having

said that I really appreciated tracks 1 & 9 which do a good job of keeping the

vibe alive. I consider this to be transitional work from Daniel: it well shows

he still has some treats to offer in the near future but the mold in not yet

properly programmed to put them right away in da mix. So I eager for hearing

more "Modern Acoustics"-alike organic psy-jazz from this truly talented artist

in the future. 7/10. Tchankov I.V. (civ604@mail.ru)