Manmademan - Love Technology

[Guest Mascok]

Manmademan - Love Technology

 

 

Artist: Manmademan

Title: Love Technology

Label: Flying Rhino

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. 06'49" 1920

02. 05'54" 1947

03. 07'25" Won't Belong

04. 08'20" Breathless

05. 07'31" The Religion

06. 07'56" Down In Earth

07. 07'20" Closer

08. 05'44" Circlemakers

09. 08'55" Bad Seed

10. 07'47" Lunar Lammas

 

Review:

 

Welp, I waited for this cd for over a year, and when i got it a month ago, i

wanted to cry.

i couldnt believe that this is man made man. well it is. Its a totaly change

in styles from the old worx and this one. well i didnt gave up on this album

and at the first couple of listenings i though it was totaly suck, but after

10 listens i though it KICK ASS!!!.

its not psytrance, its the style that a lot of artists around europe are

getting into.

i dont know why it took me so long to understand what a wonderful cd this is,

well i guess all that time i listened to it, was worth it...

First Track called 1920. it starts really nice with a female choir vocal and

an electronic string. and after a min a weird bassline is in and after a few

seconds the beat i coming.

that bassline lead all the track with in the background there are a lot of

fx's and vocals.

2nd track is 1947, which is kinda the same idea as in 1920, but that diffrent

is those tribal drums that lead all the track, great track as well.

Track 3 (Won't belong) is a diffrent from these first tracks. and still

bassline is leading all the track,

a lot of vocals and fxs in the background. I WONT BELONG!!! . one of my

favorites here.

Forth track (Breath Less). is faster from all those track befour. more

dancable and the atmosphere in this track is very happy, reminds me Electric

universe... (?). i love that "Ehhh" vocal hehe.

5th Track is called The Religion, it is a really weird track, the hihat open

is the master here. weird effect, weird hihat line, weeeiiiirrrddness!! hehe.

liked that one.

6th track is one of my favorites here too. its a bit groovier from all those

tracks b4.

same bassline all the way as well. still a lot of fx's and nice vocals here.

7th track is called Closer, which is kinda dark but those strings in the

background make it sound like a dreamy track. pretty weird bassline for this

nice kick. the hihat open is the master here as well. very good track!.

8th is my favorite track in this album it called CircleMakers. and it starts

with an ugly kick and then .. boom a crazy beat is appeared. this track is

actully build by that beat and make it a very kick ass track . very groovy

one. with the same bassline who leads all the track as well hehe.

9th track is a good one too. called Bad Seed. gotta love that electric melody

in the end (7:00+). and those kick ass drums. and all those background fx's,

vocals and melodies. a lot of crazyness!.

Last Track is Lunar Lammas is a great chill track starts with a beautiful

melody and a lot of fx's, very lovly bassline and drums, great melody in the

end (%:10+). great ending track.

This is an amazing cd, very well built, wrote and mixed. though it was hard

for me in the start to like it, now i think its one of the best albums this

year (though they arent many), i will give it 8/10. i would give it 10/10, but

its was a bit hard for me, to understand this cd. well i guess you like it.

very recommended. enjoy.

[Guest lifeforms[at]bluelight[dot]nu]

this voice from album,

very hallucinations

[Guest pugachev[at]cs.msu[dot]su]

Hrmm, this is yet another Rhino's deviation from the classical psytrance sound,

and that should make it great for ones.. and crappy for the others.

Personally, I think this album is far from being the best in my collection,

but things may change with further listens.. Don't know how to characterize

that sound, but yes, it resembles house a lot.. I'd say, psychedelic house

with trancey feeling or vice versa? Those 2 people definitely know what to

do with a sampler.. I'd recommend this, wicked stuff.

[Guest nderu[at]goatrance[dot]com]

Besides Bad Seed, all trax on this album do it for me... there are some very

covertly sexual voice samples, excellent percussion and funky trance rythms,

that doesn't sound like anything else out there @ the moment. Kudos for that

alone, but it sounds great anyway - 8.5/10

And the melody that kicks in in the last track - Aplus

[Guest [Anonymous]]

The very great album!Halluci-sounds in my mind!

[Guest TRISTAN]

Excellent CD!

Psychedelic, lots of percussion and minimalistic in times. Takes a few listens

to understand the real meaning about it.

EXCELLENT JOB FR!

8.5/10

(10/10 for the last track, Lunar Lammas)

[Guest AlexG]

i absolutely looove the last 3 tracks: 8 and 9 are great dancefloor stompers,

and 10 is one of my favorite morning tracks! the rest of this cd is,

well...boring (sorry guys); so 6/10

[Guest psy61[at]home[dot]com]

Yeah, when I first got this, I was very, very dissapointed. I was looking for

an entire album of "delerious," and "athalon" style tracks, but after a little

time, it kinda grows on me... oh well, I guess my self-made comps. will have

to satisfy my old-skool psy tastes...

[Guest ir0nm0nk3y]

Very nice album. The last four tracks will take you on a wonderful journey.

Tracks vary in their intensity and mood with some being noticeably lighter

than others but, they are all good. 7/10.

[Guest Goa Spirit]

Very average in my book,,,

[Guest dj_auryn]

hmmm - nicely produced throughout, but some tracks work better than others. I

especially like lunar lammas, which is a total psych-phunk freakout, but most

of the other tracks don't seem to have stuck. I wish they'd record another

track like gold dust though - that one was really the bomb!

[Guest Goa Spirit]

O.K. i am human, and i overlooked this one.. two great tracks on this one..

breathless and lunar lammas... not average as i said earlier. Notthe nest, but

definitely worth listening to.

[Guest [Anonymous]]

This was one of the first psy cd's I ever bought (cost me A$5 brand new =) and

although it took me a while to get into it, since up to that point all I'd

been listenning to was the likes of Astral Projection, now I really love it.

Most of the tracks really roll along on nice well-constructed basslines, and

there's a definite psychedelic feel on most tracks, but not the usual

psy-sounds like electric zaps etc, this stuff is much more "organic", lots of

twisted voice samples, not used for what they say but more the texture of the

voices, which makes for some really great and complex sounds. Highlights for

me are track1 - 1920 (cool slow roller)track4 - breathless (still one of my

all-time favourite tracks, love that vocal "uhh" =) and track10 - lunar laamas

cause it's different to all the other stuff with a nice powerful melodic line.

Very nice.

[Guest cambodia]

all those people whno love the track lunar lamas by manmademan, listen to

"snarling rmx" by hallucinogen, notice any similarities?? =)

[Guest puzzled]

Blinding cd mate--but does anyone know the significance of the dates 1920 &

1947?

[Guest starspine]

Absolute masterpiece - a crossover of house influenced sounds with trance which

usually results in the housey stuff sounding strange and hallucinatory way - a

brilliant synthesis of two divergent stlyes that knocked my socks off from the

very first listen.

 

Only Manmademan have this sound and I think it has to go up there with other

seminal trance albums such as Quirk's Machina Electrica simply for it's

refusal to be pigeonholed and for all those people who whine about GMS all

sounding the same - this sounds like nothing else and just grooves but in the

most intense and psychedelic way.

 

Isn't that what makes strange things even more strange - when it's all

contrasted and juxtaposed and out of context that it makes your head swivel

360 degrees??

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Good if you're stoned & have listened to all your other stuff too much

already... Otherwise, VERY ho-hum! To me, this album was a tragically

over-hyped disappointment, in a long string of such disappointments over the

past couple of years. Golly, I hate to use the term "sell-out", buuuuuuut...

[Guest Kapten Fruktkaka]

I got the record mainly because there were so many old ManMadeMan-tunes I used

to love (Delirium is still one of my absolute favorite pieces of music) and

also be very impressed by the complexity of the MMM sound. When I got this I

was quite dissapointed, because I didn't like the new progressive wave of

trance music. Eventually I started to enjoy progressive trance and realized

that Lovetechnology isn't at all a progressive trance album, and I didn't like

it because it wasn't dark and percussive and trancey enough.

 

Today I felt like I really had heard every good tune on the planet a couple of

million times to many, and desperately started searching my record collection

for something at least a little bit interessting.

 

This record is actually very impressive. It's an original style, a bit hard to

define, but who cares - it's funky and psychedelic and musical at the same

time! At least not boring, and that feels like a very unique quality at the

moment :-) Especially the slower tracks have a very warm and housey sound

without sounding anything like house. I really like this one.

[Guest timothy yarret]

i love this album to pieces, idon't know if this is progressive

or minimal or whatever but it doesn't bore like other minimal/progressive

stuff, its just bass heavy groovin music

[Guest Davidtolsn]

bad, bad, bad. can't quite so far as to say horrible though. at first, this cd

sounds interesting. track 1 has a nice beat, with too many samples, and track

2 has a really cool beat. track 3 is back down to track 1 style. then the

rest, save for track 8, is pure and utter shit. way too many samples thrown in

there! it's disappointing because this artists shows real talent but it sounds

too mainstream for me, with all the annoying samples. and it is

ultra-repetive, none of the "ear candy" you expect from good goa. so.. 2/10

(tor tracks 2 and 8)

[abasio]

This is definately worth getting.

Maybe not worth paying a shite load for it's very enjoyable IMO

Got under my skin right away. Not in the usual way psy does but in a very different but still very psychedelic way!

All the way through this album does something I can't quite describe that keeps me interested & brings me back to it again and again!