Anoebis Posted October 4, 2000 Share Posted October 4, 2000 OOOD - Breathing Space Artist: OOOD Title: Breathing Space Label: OOOD Date: 1999 Track listing: 01. 10'25" Heliopause 02. 09'58" Ciderspace 03. 09'55" Find Your Mind 04. 09'37" Spangled 05. 08'41" Sandoz 06. 06'58" The Unwinding Mind 07. 07'25" Jot Bodom 08. 08'33" Hartley's Ambient Jam Review: This is a mediocre CD... The first song is fast but ok with many 303-sounds... After that you have 4 songs that are all the same fast style! But I mut say song 4 stands out for me (really very fast with some cool melodies...!! Number 6-7 And 8 are different... Some more experimental stuff and not dancefloor-orientated! I don't like song 6 And 7 much, but I think song 8 is really fantastic Ambient!! So best songs 1,5&8. I would give this CD about 7/10, so it could have been better!! Bom Shankar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomble Posted November 7, 2000 Share Posted November 7, 2000 Out of our depth don't pretend to be anything they're not. This is a fun-lovin' outdoor free-party kinda thing, with plenty of psychedelic excursions into the mad world of the minds of these Oxford boys. Plus some lovely ambient feeling in the latter tracks - keep smiling 'cause OOOD probably are (one problem - the cd is self-produced and the copy I got is a bit glitchy.... anyone else suffer the same ?) 8/10 bomble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted December 8, 2000 Share Posted December 8, 2000 my cd is fine and the tracks are a blast to listen to. The way this albums changes song to song keeps it from getting boring. Its pleasure to play. Creative music! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted April 11, 2001 Share Posted April 11, 2001 High speed, peak of the night psy-trance that is lovingly crushing on the big sound systems it was meant to be played on, tracks 1 & 4 are instant classics 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deviantdidg[at]yahoo.co[dot]uk Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 I have never heard anything like it - surely OOOD have redefined the boundaries of all things psychedelic. By the way, I have never met Colin or Steve and I am therefore not biased in any way. This review is purely objective (and probably objectional)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuko Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 this is gOOOD !! very good... this is real underground music, just perfect... If you're looking for some hard twisted underground psytrance I recommend you to give this album a try.. my favourite tracks are 1,2,4 and 5 and especialy track 5 (Sandoz)... hmm... all I can say about 'sandoz' is that it is music to play in a basement-party just freakin awesome... psychedelic rating 8/10... get this !!! if you can... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest extra_terrestrial[at]goatrance[d Posted December 11, 2001 Share Posted December 11, 2001 VERY GOOOD ALBUM. The first half of the album is twisted, cheeerfull and happy and other half gets into the other, ambiental,melancholic and dubby relamz. It is quality and fresh album .If you liked Otherworld from Trance, Dance And Magic Plants, you will like this one too.. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khogg Posted January 7, 2002 Share Posted January 7, 2002 Hey guys (who made this), if you read this, VERY NICE WORK! I ordered "A Live" and got this instead. I'm keeping it. What a cool CD. Tracks 1-5 are upbeat groovy trippy (driving trance) music. Just how I like it. Puts a smile on my face : ) In fact, today I was walkin down to the local pub with this blasting on the headphones and a huge smile on my face. This other guy walks by and looks at me like I'm nuts. I laughed so hard. Anyway...the last three tracks are..."ambient." The undwinding mind: starts off mellow and winds up sounding drum & bassie (very nice). Jot bodom: is downtempo groovy with a cool vibrating sound that floats in the background, with a (non-cheese) melody in the foreground...NICE. Hartley's ambient jam: starts of dubby and winds up truely ambient with dreamy sounds floating around. I find myself wondering why I haven't heard more about this album before now. My review doesn't touch on the exact nature of tracks 1-5, but rest assured. They are solid. Give this a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted November 28, 2006 Share Posted November 28, 2006 I dug this out today, because I couldn't get hold of 'Free Range' as of yet and I longed for some OOOD's music... Man! Is this a bomb or what?! All tracks ooze with quality, lots of thought must have gone into arrangement and sound creation. At the same time it's fun & serious, psychedelic & musical, dance floor friendly & home-listener friendly... It's the perfect example, that psy-trance can be intelligent, without resorting to experimental sound & structures (nothing bad in it, too - vide Process "One Drop or Two?"). This is still dance music, but it has that something which positively distinguishes it from the other releases of that time. It is very musical - most psy-trance are just reoccurring patterns of short loops. This on the other hand is a complete musical piece; it doesn't sound as linear as most other CDs. This is just good music, made the psychedelic way I love it to bits. No bad track here, though I have to especially mention 'Heliopause', 'Spangled' and 'Jot Bodom' as they seem to be a notch above the rest. 4.5/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossi126 Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 antic you got it right there. This is just unbelievably gOOOD!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Artist: Oood Title: Breathing Space Label: O.o.o.d. Records Date: 1999 1. Heliopause 2. Ciderspace 3. Find Your Mind 4. Spangled 5. Sandoz 6. The Unwinding Mind 7. Jot Bodom 8. Hartley's Ambient Jam Bit of a close talker aren't you? Would a tic tac kill you? We all need our breathing space. And after this project released the absolute classic Alive maybe they needed some space to explore their sound. Always eclectic this album is nothing like its predecessor. Case in point? Hartley's Ambient Jam. The last track is part dub, part ambient journey that sounds nothing like their previous stuff. Maybe mushrooms are needed to really "get it?" Nope, still don't get it. But why does the ceiling have arms and legs? And it's dripping. Slowly...so slowly. Omigod! It's gonna fall into my mouth. Can't...get...away. But the whole album is different and I mean that in a good way. The uptempo first half is a blend of psy and goa that shows their creative depth. Heliopause sets the tone as a psy/goa hybrid with continuous evolution. Ciberland is a quality psy track. There is some growl in Spangled and Sandoz rips and soothes during the break. The last three were exercises in experimentation moving between downtempo, ambient breakbeat, dub...you name it. They didn't thrill me as much as the upbeat stuff, but kudos to them for throwing something different out there. So it's not Alive II, but there is still a lot to like. Mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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