V/A - Live In Germany 2000

[freak51]

V/A - Live In Germany 2000

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Live In Germany 2000

Label: Flying Rhino

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 08'15" Slinky Wizard : People Like Us (9am Mix)

02. 07'35" DPOD : Rapunzel

03. 09'31" Atmos : Random Landlord

04. 08'50" Planet BEN : TNT

05. 08'34" 4D : Invader

06. 11'21" Bumbling Loons : Omen (Reworka Mix)

07. 08'06" Killer Hertz : It Can't Hurt

08. 09'10" Son Kite : Fallen Angel

 

CD 2

01. 03'24" Max And Harvey : Harvey Shuffle

02. 06'18" Gus Till : Long Long Ago

03. 04'41" Red Seal : Chillin In da Zone (Live)

04. 03'53" Hax And Harvey : Up the Garden Path

05. 05'48" Red Seal : Dawn Salutation

06. 10'43" Healer : Speaking With A Def Man

07. 06'14" Boom Devil : Nothing To Be Afraid Of

08. 03'47" Woob : Pondlife

09. 03'58" Ivor : Guest Negative Yogi (Ambient Mix)

10. 16'05" ABA : Structure Erased

 

Review:

 

Flying Rhino takes out the trash for the year, and presses it onto CDs for us

sheep. The first disc is barely tolerable, with a few decent but not essential

tracks. Random Landlord stands out as not shit, but goes on far too long. The

Bumbling Loons track is also not bad. The rest is either boring or trite.

Slinky Wizard, you helped define a genre. You certainly don't owe it anything

anymore, nor do you have anything left to contribute. Now is the time to hang

up the skates before you do a collaboration with Astral Projection and

Miranda. The second CD is quite a bit better, with the ambient freestyle vibe.

I have no time for Max & Harvey, and why FR feels the need to re-release that

awful Chillin' in da Zone track over and over again I'll never know. Red Seal,

You Suck. For the love of all that is holy, quit. The rest is quite

listenable, from the Boom Devil romantic 40's influence that really works to

the weird-ass throat singing on Negative Yogi. Erased goes on and on and on

with the chanting, but it's the last track so it's OK to do this. You don't

even really realize anything's playing. Overall, I would rather have the 40

bucks in my pocket that this pap. Flying Rhino could at least pretend to try.

For a while it looked like this crew was recovering, but it appears it was

only a dead cat bounce. I am done with this label. 2/10.

[Guest iNFiNiTi500]

Flying Rhino must be on some serious stimulantia lately cause no tone or note

on this album is actually 'live' and whoever compiled the second disc truly

deserves the nick "TwiSTeD" since this is by far the weirdest psy-ambient

collection yet. That unfortunately cannot be said about the first disc 'cause

its "uninspiral" central despite some big names. Not exactly music to get the

German Beerfest on fire. But the second disk takes the crown as smoke

companion numero uno. The whole spectrum what ambient has to offer comes along

from dub to etnic to minimal to melodic to triphop to New Age...well u get the

point but only apply, though, if your tolerance level can handle a lot as this

ain't no straightforward Cafe Del Mar. The first disc can be excellently used

as a frisbee I heard so 2/10, the 2nd gets 9/10 with a bonus point for Rhino's

braveness and the HIGH flyability.

[Guest Seb Mullaert]

I'm sad to say that I agree quite much with the two above ... flying rhino

freestyle is the part that will keep the rhino flying!!!!

(2/10 was maybe a little bit to hard ... 5/10 from me)

Seb

[hujaboy]

I even more sad to say I agree with all the words you guys said 1/10

[Guest [Anonymous]]

its very good

[Guest ArchNemesis]

CD 1 keeps the psytrance genre hard and as I like it. Planet B.E.N. and Son

Kite & Slinky Wizard are great. But my rating goes extremely downwards, when I

hear the second CD. what a piece of shit!!! fucking hate that ambient shit.

Rating: 5/10

[Guest [Anonymous]]

what a load of old shite....the only good track on this CD is the wicked

breakbeat / trance tune by the Bumbling Loons.

 

I think that a lot of coke has been involved here....probaably no

psychedelics....

 

ABSOLOUTE BOLLOCKS

[abasio]

A lot of negativity about this album!

 

Slinky Wizard never dissapoint & this track starts of the album really well IMO People Like Us (9am Mix) is hard dark progressive niceness. DPOD - Rapunzel is even better & for some reason it does remind me of long long hair. Atmos - Random Landlord is one of my favourites from this guy. Nice sounds great beats. Planet BEN did his best stuff IMO around his Silver album & TNT is in that style & a good example too. 4D - Invader, Bumbling Loons - Omen (Reworka Mix), Killer Hertz - It Can't Hurt are all very good tracks if not quite as good as the previous ones & CD1 ends with Son Kite - Fallen Angel, another great track from Son Kite. Minimal or progressive I reckon that this is a fine example of the style.

 

CD 2 I also like, I think Super Cozi does a great job with this one

Max And Harvey : Harvey Shuffle is lounge style as are Red Seal : Chillin In da Zone (Live), Hax And Harvey : Up the Garden Path, Red Seal -Dawn Salutation

Gus Till - Long Long Ago, Healer - Speaking With A Def Man, Boom Devil - Nothing To Be Afraid Of, Woob - Pondlife, Ivor - Guest Negative Yogi (Ambient Mix) and ABA - Structure Erased though are very nice floating dreamy ambient tracks & all in all I think this mix works quite well.