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Artist: Various

Title: Custom File

Label: Exogenic

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'21" Sienis : Flum Gum

02. 07'49" Salakavala : After Party

03. 06'25" Eraser And Yojalka : Hattivatti

04. 08'13" Squaremeat : Pro Purenta

05. 04'02" OOK : Worried Walrus

06. 06'52" Huopatossu Mononen : Always New

07. 05'18" Matkatoimisto : Matador

08. 05'01" Outolintu : Dance Of The Dirty Dust Diva

09. 08'28" Kiwa : Rahat Mulle

10. 06'27" OOK : Wool Fields

11. 04'58" Texas Faggott : Back To Mad

 

Review:

 

Hehe just received this comp as promo from Exogenic in my mailbox :-) Anyway I

don't want you to think that won't make my review objective. This comp can be

resumed in 2 words : original, crazy. But I think that's what Exogenic label

tries to make us discover in each new release. I also got the Haltya album and

it also was original and crazy. Of course here you have more variety as we're

talking of a compilation. Why original ? Simply cause most of the Tracks here

use samples of instruments you're not used to listen in psytrance stuff.

Sometimes jazzy, sometimes groovy, lots of styles are mixed with psychedelic

sounds. Track 1 contains a very fast & psychedelic crazy melody, with a not

too loud bass & battery in background. The snares are more present to your ear

than the kick actually, and I think it's better for this Track. Track 2

contains more snare & crazy sounds breaks, not as fast as the first one. On

this Track the sounds themselves make the melody, but you never hear lots of

sounds at the same time as in a GMS Track for example, that's more

scando-oriented. Pretty nice track, but nothing outstanding. Track 3 contains

more spacey sounds, with lots of high-pitched samples, as vinyl scratches you

hear in rap but sound manipulated to be even more high-pitched. Very crazy

tune, maybe a little too crazy sometimes. Track 4 has a louder kick, still

with high-pitched sounds, claps & few vocal samples ? the sounds in the last 3

minutes make you think you're playing to an old arcade video game while

listening to psytrance ? I like it :-) Track 5 is one of the craziest ones.

Very psychedelic (as Track 1), few samples that seem to come from cartoons,

not bad but not long enough & still with a little lack of variety imho. Track

6 starts with guitar, seems you're hearing a classic rock intro. The groove

that follows makes the whole thing sound very nice. Then a soft kick starts,

later in the Track you hear a voice sample you generally are used to hear in

more commercial techno tracks, and a jazzy melody then appears, and a flute to

finish ? the whole thing still keeps a psychedelic rhythm & pretty fast

melodies, but that's not usual psytrance, for sure. One of my favourites one

here, as it's very original and I like when different music styles are present

in a same Track, that gives it more depth. Track 7 (my favourite) has a "

Blues Brothers " style ? yes, you're wondering how a psytrance Track can sound

like that, but it really does :o) You can hear a trumpet, a flute in

background, a very distorted guitar, an harmonica (or sthing like that), an

electronic keyboard in the " Doors " style accompanying, and sometimes a man

speaking ? that's really original & still fast & psychedelic. Really nice

Track imho, but, of course, you have not do dislike " Blues Brothers " style

to like it :-) Track 8 is less original than the 2 previous ones, but still

has a nice melody. The kick is irregular, the sounds very fast and more

low-pitched. There are tribal drums too at the middle of the Track ? original

too, not bad, but very fast. The ending melody also makes you think to old

video game musics. Track 9 ? nice bassline & kick but ? I don't like the main

sounds chosen, don't think they well suit the bassline and ? lack of

originality & work ? really sad cause the bassline is very nice. Track 10

seems to start old-school & psychedelic at the beginning, then becomes much

too fast ? that ruins all ? some visitors talked about the future of psytrance

that might be at 180 BPM, I really don't hope it will ? you suddenly have a

nice slow violin melody, and then the fast line starting again ? some tribal

sounds in background too, but the melody is really much too fast. Track 11,

from the Faggotts, is not for me ? I don't know the Faggotts style that much,

but I don't like this Track, it sounds too crazy too. Very high-pitched

sounds, with an even faster melody than the previous Track. Then some hard

rock style guitar melody, still very fast. This guitar melody is quite nice,

but what I don't like in this Track is this "Everybody grooves to the music"

sample, which directly comes from a commercial dance song but still has been

sound manipulated too sound crazy, a little like in some Infected Mushroom

Tracks ? and this too fast rhythm. Overall an irregular compilation, with some

really good tunes and some much too crazy ones ? Rating : 5.5/10 (remember a

5.5/10 for me is the same as a 7/10 for many people here, I rarely put notes

over 7/10)

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Nice new sounds from Finland (and from Sweden by Sienis), but I would have

expected something newer and a bit more interesting since most of the tracks

are just-well- your plain everyday-psytrance and don't offer a lot of the

unexcpected, but i must remind, that there are a few good tracks also :) A

reasonably good compilation anyways if you're just getting into the finnish

techno/trance music scene.

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Guest [Anonymous]

Tje music is crazy, but I can't agree on what somebody wrote.. This is not

everyday music for sure.. u can't get it/hear it everyday everywhere :)

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Guest everydaytrancer[at]givetranceach

I listen to cust-OM phile EVERY DAY! :}

 

Even though it really sucks and im forbidden to pay attention on finnish trance

because im supposed to be better because i listen to i.m. & GMS also & the

blissbunnies from shpunkleland rather.. ..THEM! go wet myself

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Guest smokethiscarrot[at]eatitaftertha

My opinion is that with a track name like that. the outolintu gives away their

never at parties.

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no-name label, no-name artists, no-name compilation, always the same crap,

always the same formula : 1 bassdrum and 1 redondant bassline with shitty

noises over that, you're a whole bunch of bastards

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what ibotenic said.

 

don't you even listen b4 slagging jsb?

 

excellent comp from an excellent label... this is the way i like my trance

these days - wacky

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Guest neomenia

mmhhhh...

guess i'll have to wait more to hear a good compi of what some people says' the

future of trance. or if this is fin-tech...tsssssss

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Guest [Anonymous]

I haven't heard all the tracks but some veeery good stuff here! Definitely the

better side of Finnish stygetrance.

Omituisten Otusten Kerho must be the best partymusic ever made in Fine-Land!

Huopis kicks ass too with his naivistic tracker-tracks. Wool Fields is soooo

good it almost makes me cry.

Altough I don't see what is the problem with stupid ennglish tracknames this is

Finland and we speak suomi here so who R U trying to impress in the outworld

Exogenic täh?

 

No this is not technotrance, recommended to those people too who always whine

about no melodic/fun/ältsikivaa musaa released nowadays ;)

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If you would get off your stoned ass once and actually listen to the record

sober you would sooner or maybes later find out that except for OOK,

Huopatossu Mononen and Matkatoimisto, this stinking record has got nothing new

to offer!

 

SURE it's finnish but who gives a shit about where it comes from if it's crap!

Exogaynic records has put up some great stuff earlier but I think that this

time they hit their IHKUAXES into the stone.

 

Finnish psytrance is in complete RECESSION LAMA eli total crap jesus christ

allmighty maybe next exogenic release will bring something actually surprising

and refreshing instead of the $1

lets-eat-mushrooms-and-escape-from-the-harsh-reality-that-this-music-is-crap-tu

nkkaantunut-homesoundi

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Guest BlueSpectralMonkey

play this for grandmas before you slam them with yumade.

2 salavakla . salamakrandaka! mandarakasanapalama!

araknandraknansavalakradaknavanaklavas!

salamandaralmandasanapandramiggggoooooooooooiz-zoom!

3 and 4 and 5 are floor-tweakers, good for all those foresst nooka sooka and

cranny-sizzlers, head scratching twisto-funk. (except i reallly want EVERYONE

to stop sampling tv shows and movies, it shifts my focus drastically, the only

thing that keeps me on this world... they could remove matrix samples, and i

would zoom off into space...)-

ahem-

6 is wanker, complete slop, are they trying to make me cry? someones non-goa

girlfriend insisted on this one.-

in 7 the horns and atari grindy acid is absurdly delicious. -

why do some people say stupid shit when nothing is more important? somtimes

when i go to trance party i forget english and become a wiggly fuzz

magnetospore reactor. -- please change the focking bassline up a bit now and

then will you dammit. -

inside the juicy-fruit goodness of my overall favorite songs is a burbling

ambient flux, some tracks on here are sky-mother-F'ing-high, in a continually

new way, freakin stir it up, BOSS. scribbly friction groovies fill up the

underneaths and complete willy-nilly silly shakedown massacre! zip-boing!

aarrrrrrrrrrgh!

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Omituisten Otusten Kerho !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh god! all of them are perfect. the

Huopatossu Mononen track is weird, something really new for me. the texas

track i had it for 1 year and it is killer oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

custom file every day from now on!

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Guest Aqua Mental

Huopatossu Mononen and Matkatoimisto deliver us two wonderful ultra groov-e

traxx. Great work!!! OOK is very good when playing live (like last saturday in

Metsänhenki party, Otaniemi). One of his tracks has the most beautiful and

touching melody I've ever heard, better than the melody in Wool Fields (it's

great also). Finland the Funland rocks (in it's own way)...

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Guest enrooth[at]sfp[dot]fi

Bad compilation shows the way this music goes in

Finland... Just as it artists, more sad everyday :(

Buy this if you are a rich swedish speaking fin and

have nothing better to do with your money

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Guest unik_hp[at]hotmail[dot]com

i think that this compilation kicks asz and is the kind of muzik i want to hear

from now on because it is fresh not boring and psychedelic in a weird and new

way

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Guest Stormbringer

hmm... am I the only one who really like this CD? This is great stuff! So long

time after the release no one would read my review if I should write one so

this will be very short. It´s great!!!!!!

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