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Planet Ben - Test

 

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Artist: Planet Ben

Title: Test

Label: Hadshot

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Compact

02. Sept.Love

03. Third Avenue

04. Gravitation

05. Cattle Beat

06. Straight Ahead

07. Rotten Lung

08. Domestic Dirt

09. Hi-Fi

10. Screwdriver

 

Review:

 

Hmmm nice! Huge deep tek trance. The best album in this style for a long time.

If you like your X-Dream, Spirallienz, Midi Miliz etc, you will absolutly love

this. Still with that typically fat sound you would expect from Ben, epic

atmospheres, huge bass, and the best high hats in the scene (Just dont know

how, but they just keep comming!)I prefer it to the X-Dream album and the

other two, and they are great albums. "Straight Ahead" is classic, would

devastate any dance floor. "Sept Love" also from his latest ep, was the tune

that got me so excited about this release, slightly different from his usual

style, this is morning trance, but with the planet Ben sound, sounds wierd

dosent it, but it works soooo well, it will be played everywhere for a long

time to come!!!! This is a very good album, esp if you like it techy, 8/10.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Mainly, I bought this one because it comes with the elusive 'Trippy Future

Garden' on the 2nd CD for free. I've been curious about that one for years.

The front side is quite like 'Silver' - competent, capable and well-executed.

It has several flavours of cuts on it, and pretty much each track has

something good about it. High hats are a highlight indeed. 8/10.

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  • 4 weeks later...

I totally rate this album, great stuff from Planet Ben. Stonking techno kicks,

silvery high hats, swirling spacey atmospheres, big portentous moody melodies,

sprinklings of interstellar space-ice. I get the feeling that we have a

classic here, as it is more consistently good than releases in the same vein

from Midimiliz et al. These tunes will last. 9/10 ~*~

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I should add something to my review above, although it does not change the

review substantially. That is that "Cattle beat" is far too bovine for my

tastes; a meaningless foray into progressive house territory that is just

boring. Not mooooo, but boooo. Still, apart from that a very good album. ~*~

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  • 4 years later...

Great album, as always from Planet BEN. Funny thing are the high-hats, I've noticed it too! From the times of Ant Invasion, his high-hats have always been exceptionally good. It's not those things you usually notice, there has to be something to it :)

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  • 10 years later...

Hit and miss. I reckon Silver had a more appealing dark touch. That being said, some cold sunless tracks like Hi-Fi and Rotten Lung do it. 
 

On 6/29/2003 at 12:00 PM, Guest Dr G said:

That is that "Cattle beat" is far too bovine for my tastes; a meaningless foray into progressive house territory that is just boring. Not mooooo, but boooo. Still, apart from that a very good album. ~*~

Lol, I don't mind house but this track sounds a bit out of place here, still decent track. Favorite: probably Straight Ahead, together with Rotten Lung.
Domestic Dirt is pretty nice too.

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