V/A - Chiller Waves

[Insejn]

V/A - Chiller Waves

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Chiller Waves

Label: AP

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Chi-ad : Sandestin

02. Zerotonine : Lunatic

03. Sonic Fusion : Heartbeats

04. Void : Chemical (Fingertwister Rmx)

05. Solar Fields : Blue Moon Station

06. Analog Pussy : Rug-C

07. Asura : Lost Eden

08. Fingertwister : Black Spot

09. Aztech : Mumine

10. Eargear : Slowsneekers/b>

11. Trancefeld : Darkside (Outro)

 

Review:

 

Compared to Module 1 this is a little more "gogo". It's faster and more

variations. Even if it's chillout some tracks has a steady beat. I don't like

that at all. The Analog Pussy track is just awful. Solar Fields do their job

and Trancefeld delivers a very dark track. The suprise here is the Sonic

Fusion track. Very spaced out sounds with werid percussions. Good job. Final

Verdict: 6/10

[Guest 1400Miles]

More chillout madness this time on the Analog Pussy label accompanied by a

superb sleeve. The subtitle 'State of the Art Ambient Beats' kinda gives an

indication what to expect as variation/experimentation is king here. CHi-AD

opens with an atmospheric dark mood, its definately good but I prefer the more

structured 'When the effect came' on Fahrenheit II but this simply is another

kinda track. Zerotonine follows with a great energetic track with a subtle

climax. Sonic Fusion brings some funky flowing track, really nice. Void is

more experimental starting of with a prodigy beat slowly morphing into some

distorted bass which subseqently is taken over by some tasty space synths.

Hardly downbeat but very good nevertheless. More space madness from Solar

Fields with a very hypnotic track, lacks real stucture but doesn't really hurt

here. Analog Pussy do Aphex Twin and its by far the most experimental track

here, a bit repetive though. Maybe it will grow on me. Next up is Asura with a

track which is also featured on 3DVision's Module 1. A nice melodic and subtle

break between the other trax. Fingertwister starts 808state-ish in a

progressive house mix. Excellent basswork and some housy percussion cannot

hide that the track itself is a bit thin. AZtech is kinda Amon Tobin on Dub

but the track itself isn't that memorable. Eargear is again experimental

central, some Aphex Twin distortion, some triphop rhytms and some piano but

the track itself is kinda repetive. Trancefield offers 2 and a half minute of

heartbeats and is a nice closing tune. Its always good to have some albums

around that don't follow the linear paths and 'Chiller Waves' is clearly one

of those although some tunes are a tad too experimental for my liking,

especially on the 2nd half of the album. 7.5/10.

[PKS]

(APL07):

Analog Pussy Records isn`t exactly known for chilling releases. Now they are

trying it out with a chill out compilation, just like most labels these days.

 

Dave Young (Chi-Ad) starts the whole thing with a very beautiful ambient track,

with a few careful sounds. Track 2 is by Zerotonine (Daniel Mondry). This is

also very slow and relaxing ambient. The track becomes pretty nice at the end,

when a melody comes in. Sonic Fusion (Thomas Herbst) usually makes very tribal

stuff. Here, he give us an ambient track, with very little evolving, but

pretty relaxing and it reminds me a bit of old Warp releases. Track 4 is by

Void (Rob Muller), but is remixed by Fingertwister (Daniel Skantze). This

track doesn`t impress me much. They have tried to be experimental, but it

sounds very industrial and noisy. Solar Fields is beginning to get a nice

reputation with a lot of good ambient releases, including his album Reflective

Frequencies that came out on Ultimae Records 2001. The track we get here is

not on the album. Really beautiful floating ambient with almost no rhythms.

Analog Pussy themselves give us track 6. Down tempo rhythms with some weird

sounds above. Not really impressive, because very little happens in this

track. Track 7 is a new track by Asura. This track is also found on the newest

chill out compilation released on 3D Vision Relax (Module 01). A pretty easy

digestible chill out track, with some vocals. Then Fingertwister (Daniel

Skantze) delivers a pretty nice track which reminds me a bit of the Gabriel Le

Mar style. Some housy rhythms and a pretty atmospheric sound picture. Track 9

is by Aztech (Tobias Lilja) who has made a really peculiar track with a lot of

noisy sounds. Very experimental and exciting, but not very nice. Then Eargear

delivers a jazzy track with a noisy sound picture. Trancefeld (Pilipp

Dransfeld) give us the last track on this compilation. A really short outro

track lasting for only two minutes.

 

Chiller Waves is far away from the best chill out compilations released 2002.

Again, maybe an example of the result when music becomes mainstream and

trendy, like chill out music has become the last two years. But anyway, there

are a couple of interesting tracks on this one too.