V/A - Echoes

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V/A - Echoes

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Echoes

Label: Moon Spirits

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Sonicsurfers : POD (Talamasca Rmx)

02. Silicon Sounds : Nexus 6

03. Soundfarmers : Speed Freak

04. Polaris : Clear

05. Nomad : Physical

06. ESXS : Electric Flower (Rmx)

07. Talamasca : Speaking Robot

08. Sonicsurfers : Crafty Species

09. Echologic : Evolution Command

10. Toires : Bessma

 

Review:

 

Echoes is compiled by Sonicsurfers.

 

Things start well : Echoes includes 10 tracks (over 75 minutes of music), a cd

really fill in !

 

P.O.D ,first track from SonicSufers (Johannes aka Silicon Sound +Dj Pulsate ) ,

very cool , you easily feel that?s a Talamasca?s remix through the rolling

bass. Their second track Crafty Species is excellent ,a morning psytance stuff

(Logic Bomb alike).

 

Silicon Sound - Nexus 6, goes on mixing positive energy and melody with a

cosmic hint added , good one.

 

Speed Freak (Soundfarmers, a GMS?s project ) merits his name, sure it?s fast.

For the Freak side, it?s GMS?s style without as flashy tones as usual but with

darker ones.

 

Thes dark side continues and hardens with Polaris- Clear, the rythmic is more

present and worked therefore the melodic aspect vanishes, not my cup of tea.

 

Nomad delivers something good for the brain , when it?s good for the brain ,

it?s also good for the body ; normal the track is called Physical.

 

E.S.X.S knows how to wake up your eardrums : jerky trickling electric guitar

riffs provide a punchy melody and a fucking nice vitality, awesome auto-remix

!

 

Here comes the original of Speaking Robot ??? from Talamasca which develops an

interesting idea through this title.

 

Don?t expect a minimal track from Echologic (= Echotek) here, Evolution Command

is a strange production, quite rich and varied sounds. The problem is the

harmony, very difficult , not obvious.

 

Toires- Bessma, ends up briefly, just what is needed of chill out.

 

Highlights : 8,2,6.

Good ones:1,7,3,5.

 

 

Mark :8/10