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Aphid Moon - High Diver

 

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Artist: Aphid Moon

Title: High Diver

Label: Dragonfly

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. A Lot Of Radio

02. Disco Biscuit

03. Boo

04. Spectra

05. Reactor

06. Dunno

07. High Diver

08. Zak Stardust

 

Review:

 

Nice to have this release in this modern time. The old sounds makes appearance

in this CD. I gets me to think about Chi-AD. I like the way the combine strong

bass with old sounds. You know what I mean with old sounds. But all tracks

don't have that sound. Some more old than others. The weird thing is that

there isn't much melodies, if that is weird. Hard to describe but it's more

like a pattern. But this CD is nice if you're sick of TIP, 3D Vision stuff,

like me.

Final Verdict: 7/10

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Jules Hamer is finally out with his debut album. He has already released a few

tracks on compilations on Dragonfly Records.First out is a monotonous track

which is somewhere between house and trance. The kind of music Dragonfly has

released a lot the last couple of years. Pretty boring if you ask me.

Dragonfly has really moved far away from the great quality trance they used to

release. Track 2 is harder techno influenced trance. Still very monotonous and

in my ears just boring. Why not do something more out of it? This is boring

listening to and dancing to! Track 3 is a bit more psychedelic, but still, it

sounds pretty simple. This is not psytrance, but bad hard house. Track 4 is

more stumpy. Still monotonous and not very original, but better than the first

three tracks. This one builds up a little and becomes a bit more melodic.

Track 5 sounds like a mix between hard house and trance. Noisy sounds all the

way, and rolling restless rhythms pushing all the way through. Track 6 sounds

a little better, but still you get this awful hard house feeling. Track 7 is

very techno influenced again. You get some guitar sounds above, but away from

that it sounds pretty boring. The last track goes the same direction. With

this album, Dragonfly proves that they have moved away from psytrance, and are

now heading towards hard house and tech house. Dragonfly was once one of my

favourite labels, but what has happened now? I just can`t understand it. This

release is so disappointing.

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For a chunk of last year, it looked like psychedelic London in 2002 belonged to

Aphid Moon. A couple of storming singles, some contemporary-legendary live

sets in east end venues... the wrapping didn?t stay on this CD for long. But,

and it pains me to report this and I only do so out of duty and global

compassion, apart from the singles there?s not much else to get excited about.

A Lot Of Radio sounds every bit as good as it did when I first heard it and

got so excited I almost dropped my sheep, the wonderfully restrained synth

line is just as effective as the first time you heard it. Likewise Disco

Biscuit carries on the chuggy, 21st century, slightly dirty sound that Aphid

Moon made his mark with. Boo is messy and hectic and while it pounds with

great effect, it lacks a little direction to get your brain moving in time

with your feet. Specta has a nice punch, and a good synth hook though some of

the hardhousey elements would alienate the outdoor party crowd. High Diver is

a couple of shots over par (has anybody else used a golfing analogy in a

psytrance review? Psyreviews thinks not!) and while its Hendrix finale

crunches and crashes away, it doesn?t quite grab you by the genitals and fling

you at the wall like you want it to. I still maintain that Aphid Moon has a

classic album in him, but folks this ain?t it.

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Artist: Aphid Moon

Title: High Diver

Label: Dragonfly

Date: 2003

 

01. A Lot Of Radio
02. Disco Biscuit
03. Boo
04. Spectra
05. Reactor
06. Dunno
07. High Diver
08. Zak Stardust

 

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"Quick put his hand in warm water!"

 

"Nah, let's shave his eyebrows!"

 

"Uh-uh he'll wake up. Just draw a dick on his face."

 

 

 

Sh*t on a cracker this is boring. Makes Eye to Eye by Astrix sound like the f*cking London Symphony Orchestra. There are some sinister leads he works in there, but it's smothered by the crushing weight of monotony. He got better as the years went on (like all of us), but looking back at the debut it's almost unlistenable.

 

Cover is pretty sweet though.

 

Mdk

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