Guest Mascok Posted April 25, 2000 Share Posted April 25, 2000 V/A - Ethnobotany Artist: Various Title: Ethnobotany Label: Iboga Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 07'47" Reefer Decree : Mr Gekko 02. 07'53" Logic Bomb : Bomb-Olej 03. 09'07" Beat Bizarre : Brain Drain 04. 09'25" Martian Reefer : Glow Of Dawn 05. 07'50" Reefer Decree : Gubbitrap 06. 08'20" Shazbatt : Velociraptor 07. 10'18" Lurifax : Etlerandet 08. 08'50" Human Blue : Inpulse Review: After the first Iboga Compilation on 98 i was amazed, when i heard there should be another one released on 2000 i expected a lot, but not that much!!!. This compilation starts up with a track from Reefer Decree called Mr.Gekko.. starts with a very jumpy kick that leads a weird background bassline after it. a few voices are added meanwhile. very crazy track. hard for me to describe, not very danceable but good!. Track 2 is a bit weak track called Bomb-Olej by Logic Bomb (half HuxFlux), very weird track you have here, not very danceable. but very strong bassline and a lot of nice background samples, i think they could make this track more groovy and danceable.. but after all its a very dark and scary track, and thats how i like it.. after this all weirdness,(Track 3) Beat Bizarre brings you more!! (half of Martian Reefer). very slow track, not very groovy but it 100% pure dark psychedelic trance!. nice vocal sample on the start which i dont know what it says. but after a few seconds the kick as entered and craziness has come!. after something like 30 seconds, there is silence which in the background you can hear the vocal sample from the start and i lovly wind sample, after that comes a very beautiful bassline which leads it a nice kick drum. very nice start, though its a very hard, dark, scary track!. i like it a lot!. 4th Track is called Glow Of Dawn by Martian Reefer. amazing track!!!. gotta love the high bassline that goes up and up and down and up etc.. in the start!, a lot of nice background voices and boom the kick is coming!. make you wanna dance even at home or a party!. nice Tom drums in the background, one of my favorite tracks here!. Track 5 is made by Reefer Decree (which are same as Martian Reefer, just witout M.S.Zimmerman). more groovier then the tracks before, lovly background strings, very scary and dark atmosphere in this track, very kick ass drums! . and gotta love that melody which starts in 2:03 and goes on!. 6th Track is made by Shazbatt and called Velociraptor. very weird and dark track, lovly drums. and a lot of weird samples flying around, nice vocal sample, nice beat. CRAZY!. 7th track starts with a nice beat and after something like 30 seconds a nice bassline join it and thats how it keeps going which in few seconds a lot of other small but weird:) samples lead it. after something like a minute or 2 the kick is coming and after a min a nicer beat is added. pretty weird track, very spooky atmosphere when you hear a lot those weird voices which goes up and down in you speakers, but though all that, its a nice track!. Last track here is from one of my favorite scandinavian groups called Human Blue. a very lovly track. starts a beat wicked but when you hear the happy drums there, you feel happy (like that scartch). then comes a very nice melody which goes up and brings you into a calm world and after few minutes a very beautiful melody comes and just make you smile all the way!. very good ending here. gotta love the melody in the end and the tom drums in the background with those beautiful strings!!. This compilation is one of my all time favorites, nice combination of tracks here. enjoy the journy! 9.8/10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Infected Max Posted April 25, 2000 Share Posted April 25, 2000 Burk...don't like it!! 1/10 Boring Scandosound....i like minimalistic stuff but no to that extrem point... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thorosm[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted April 25, 2000 Share Posted April 25, 2000 on of the best compilations this year but still haven't heard electric kool aid but even though still one of the best compilations all tracks kick ass!!!!!! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted April 30, 2000 Share Posted April 30, 2000 The track by lurifax is the best......... the rest ..... mayby!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psy[at]persogo.com[dot]br Posted August 30, 2000 Share Posted August 30, 2000 Please, Ibioga stuff... I want my money back too! 0,1/100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psy[at]persogo.com[dot]br Posted August 31, 2000 Share Posted August 31, 2000 I heard again... and this is total shit!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest janr[at]adam.com[dot]au Posted September 11, 2000 Share Posted September 11, 2000 This is the best again. If you like new sounds, subtlety, powerful tribal kicks, and something with a bit of originality go listen to this. Othewise pull out you old order odonata and first flight and listen to 303's and cheesy samples for the rest of your life. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blurryobject[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted September 18, 2000 Share Posted September 18, 2000 Ahh, so this is what is original!You put a kick and a hi hat together with a simple bassline and you have a killer track! Way to go stupid people who buy this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 17151930 Posted September 20, 2000 Share Posted September 20, 2000 Me thinx this has some pretty classy trax stretched upon its shiny surface. 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 all likeable. Just missed out on their new compilation first time round @ my local psy shop... it also rocks in that subtle, smooth, spacey way once again judging by the 6 vynl trax heard.... just what the doctor ordered... she says don't go with the general, obvious, overstated way, stay with the deeper, simpler, refined messages... it seems to me she was talking about psytrance, and it struck my musical heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nderu[at]goatrance[dot]com Posted November 4, 2000 Share Posted November 4, 2000 if you dislike this album then u will hate the new Iboga compilation "triptamine". Though by my opinion y'all should go out and listen as it has a smooth tweaked morning sound the whole way through without one bad track and a lot of tingly moments in between. Thats just a twisted aussie opinion for you all. "Ethnobotany" is great anyways... Im surprised many reviewers here hate it, as I have 100's of goa albums, and there is less wrong with this than most others. I guess some people cannot handle space in the music for a little imagination, or else the listener finds their style and rarely breaks out from that until a little evolution comes and kicks them in the butt. One thing is for sure, this album has more than kicks and a hi hat... and works suberbly in the morning after 10 hours of noisy, subtlety-free, overdone , cheesy, mind-numbingly derivative over the top goa... 8/10 - purely an opinion of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rmoench[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted November 12, 2000 Share Posted November 12, 2000 This is simply one of the best comps you can every buy on this planet. Enough said. But I should point out two other items before moving on. One, please, drop the word minimal. To regular reviewers on this site, minimal seems to mean one thing--anything not GMS or Infected Mushroom. Two, judge the music by what it is, not what you wanted it to be when you bought it. Not everybody, thank God, wants to make music that sounds like Infected or GMS. Even if GMS were good, there is no reason that their sound should be the benchmark. But especially considering that their present sound (as opposed to "chaos lab" which was awesome) is totally devoid of imagination, musicality, or care--in other words, is formulaic cookbook trance--it seems especially unfair to want all music to be judged along those lines. Free your mind. Buy a better stereo. Turn up the volume. Put your head inside the speakers. And listen to Danish trance, Iboga style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest f r e d Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 Let me start by saying, if I were a Dane, Iboga Records would mean more to me than the queen. If you see a compilation with an Iboga Records sign on it, buy it, don't even look on the back, just buy it. With great artists like Reefer Decree, Human Blue, Beat Bizarre, Lurifax, Shazbatt and many more this compilation is an excellent masterpiece. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damoneves[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted April 16, 2001 Share Posted April 16, 2001 After listening to as much trance as we have. Some find the constant acid lines and relentless squeaks a little much by say 10 am, in other cases 3am, it's at this point when you'll find iboga records opens other doors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Acidhive Posted July 21, 2001 Share Posted July 21, 2001 Great compil here, especially that dark atmosphere in the Beat Bizarre track gets to me everytime!! I do think the Lurifax track is a little too minimalistic for my liking though!! The rest of the tracks are very good, I also like the Martian Reefer track lots. I'd give this 8/10 (and guys / girls: CRANK THIS UP!! If you listen to this on lower volumes all quality flies out of the window and it just flows by without having any effect.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sonoro1[at]skynet[dot]be Posted December 2, 2001 Share Posted December 2, 2001 The best compil ever made since 6 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arnoldbogya[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted December 11, 2001 Share Posted December 11, 2001 Mega Phat... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest happy_monk[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted May 23, 2002 Share Posted May 23, 2002 The best Danish Music EVER........Maybe LEWD hehe and Lurifax drengen er OK.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ibotenic Posted July 16, 2002 Share Posted July 16, 2002 Martian Reefer: Glow of Dawn! ARGH! It explains something very important!? Listen to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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