V/A - Holographic Memory

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V/A - Holographic Memory

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Holographic Memory

Label: Solstice

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Crunchy Punch : Enjoy

02. The Antidote : Voodoo

03. Mexican Trance Mafia : Aquario

04. Dino : Narco Sleeping Desease

05. Etnica : Starship 202

06. Quadra : Vociferious

07. Orion : Halluweired

08. Eat Static : Race To Space

09. Alien Project : Nitro

10. Bio-tonic : On The Rox (Gms Rmx)

 

Review:

 

Crunchy Punch opens up this cd, i was naý×ely thinking it would be a new comer

act but not at all. Behind this name are hidden two of my worst top ever

trance producer : Alien Project & Orion. The track is a typical boring crappy

stuff, a pure fill?in one.

 

Voodoo from The Antidote, sounds interesting to me, its name says it all.

Different tones used here by Serge (compared to his latest album Close

Encounters), i would even tell that?s he puts more effort than usual.

The leading melodic synth is kinda vibraphone. Voodoo is a nice idea & new

diversified attempt from Serge therefore he doesn?t exploited it at the

maximum, indeed according to me not enough Voodoo tasty .

 

Mexican Trance Mafia are Mario Garza (aka Inoxia) & Daniel Gradilla from

Mexico.

An ever kickin? rythmic coppled with jerky & hammered melody is the main

musical content, the tones are quite soft, nothing really brainblasting but

quite pleasant.

 

Dino (Psaras) aka the leading member of Cydonia, comes back here with a

monotonous UK clubby trance stuff.

It's dissapointing from someone like this which provided by the past such great

tracks like Freakshow.

 

Etnica seems to encounter big difficulties escaping their old succesfull goa

formula, Starship 202 is typical old school goa and resulting very puffing &

dusty.

 

I think it?s the first time i heard about a Quadra production (Ido Liran).

That?s a good surprise, with a good floating break around 3:00, the best i?ve

heard since a long time ago.

Otherwise, Vociferous is nicely energic and got some funny slightly sour sounds

at the end of the break. Tones & harmonies aren?t so far from some Logic Bomb

tracks by moments.

 

Second pure fill?in crappy shit, again Orion is involved in this one imho.

Okay, some people could love it but only if you?re kinda people that doesn?t

like any change and always want the same thing, having a very mechanical way

of living without zero surprise.

 

Second good track of Holographic Memory comes from Eat Static (Merv Peppler),

Race To Space explain it well by itself. Habitual raving spirit & funky

madness from this artist, you can also expect some cool samples voices « On a

mission ? Computers ? Cyclotrons ? Explorer ? » or « Stopping ? Starting ?»

that directly put you in the atmosphere of a racing championship. The majot

problem Mr Eat Static is how must i do to participate to your Race To space

coz i would really like , tell me !

 

The 2 last tracks are unfortunatly, one more time pure crappy fill?in.

First one from Alien Project, typical stuff from this guy except the presence

of Raja Ram playing Flute.

 

The Gms remix is the awfulest remix i heard this year and btw the crappiest

track of 2003.

How is it possible to butchered so much a so beautifull original track like On

The Rox from Biotonic, I ten million times prefer the original to the remix.

 

Highlights by order :8,6

Bullshits by order :10,1,9,7

 

I was expecting more quality from Solstice?

Mark :6/10