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Orion - Metamorpheus

 

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Artist: Orion

Title: Metamorpheus

Label: Phantasm

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'37" Spider Monkey

02. 08'51" Pot Alert

03. 08'10" Solid

04. 08'23" Metamorpheus

05. 10'22" Future Funk

06. 09'03" Lamfighter International

07. 09'52" Area 51

08. 07'46" Blue Point

09. 08'21" Neu

 

Review:

 

Quite frankly I am amazed that I'm the first to review this album on this

server because it deserves huge attention. In short, these are just high

quality, intricate, stomping, tuneful and genuinely psychedelic tracks.

 

Each tune oozes production quality and timing - I thought Orion's last album

(Futuristic Poetry) was very creative if somewhat lacking in dancefloor

power...... this keeps the mental activity levels up while giving the feet

plenty to do ! Jean Borelli (Orion) has been one of the most consistently

powerful DJ's for many years, and it looks like he's going to be filling

dancefloors even when he's not there with these gems.

 

I wouldn't say that any of the tracks are bad - they all have an unrelenting

beat signature and plenty of high pitch tweaking to put you into trance in

the true sense of the word. Plus you get your money's worth with a full 78

minutes. Why on earth (or anywhere else for that matter) do so many

producers just turn out a 50 minuter and hope we won't notice....?

 

I suppose that stand out tracks for me would be : Future Funk (because it is

funky surprise surprise), Lamfighter int. (I pity the fool who doesn't want

to dance to this) , and Blue point (for it's tasty tribal drums). But

frankly it's a joy from start to finish (or should that be 'Danish' ?)

 

This won't appeal so much if you only like minimal tunes (Yumade etc.)

because there is quite a lot going on here - though it's definitely not

cluttered. If you liked Orions last album, or think highly of Mindfield,

then you'll be a happy hippy with this in your collection.

 

8.5 / 10 (atleast)

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Guest AlexG

"all the same & too conventional"...blah! =) all i know is this is good TRANCE,

and that is something we haven't seen in quite a while. sure, it's good to

experiment and try different things and all that, but the music I first fell

in love with was TRANCE, and still, most of of all, I love TRANCE, and anyone

who is still making quality TRANCE in this age of "filtered synthesizer farts

layered on top of shuffeled beats" deserves to be praised. 8.5/10, get this

now!!!

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Guest Cpt_Shiner

it is good... luvs it and stuff... reminds me of double dragon, hmmm wonder

why... that is a good thing i like it all... what the fuck is with ppl sayin

shit that sounds a year old is dated??? who gives a shit how old a album

sounds? 12/10

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"filtered synthesizer farts layered on top of shuffeled beats" -- Amen, Alexg!

I agree that Orion is a definite stand-out. There's a nice array of sounds on

this album. It has impact. Feeling. That's more than you get with most of

today's progressive psychedelic trance. "Area 51", for instance, has a great,

haunting breakdown. "Lamfighter International" swtiches gears midway though

(granted, a Koxbox track will do that 4 times before a track's through, but

it's nice to see other artists rapidly altering the direction of their music

while it's in progress) making for a more eventful listening experience. Cool

acid lines abound, and variation of percussion on "Blue Point" rounds out the

album nicely.

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Guest ArchNemesis

Again my danish countrymen surprise me with this type of psytrance. This is

much better than koxbox (who has seriously lost their grip), but only the two

first stand out so far. Full of great sounds and dark melodies. Orion: I

styrer. men pas på, bliv ikke for ensformige og bløde, ligesom koxbox r blevet.

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Guest Chai-Whaller

Yeah I agree completely with what is being said above-flawless production, lots

of trippy sounds, that nice big fat beat we just dont hear anymore and lots

and lots of layered sound. A nice breath of fresh air in this era of minimal

trance bollox. This is what Double Dragons would sound like if he had more

continuity in his production. Cant wait to hear this outside on a big fuck-off

soundsystem!Keep up the great work Phantasm!!!

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Guest Epic Automata

This is a good album. I'd put it around the 80th percentile (better than most).

It's very well produced (always a plus), it's original and creative, and more

fun than it is challenging. My favorite track is 9: Neu. I give it an 8/10.

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Guest [Anonymous]

Very nice album! Fresh funky beats. Jean borelli knows how to make music. I saw

him play at Arvika festivalen and his set was veeery goood! Lår basen få

knulla!!!!!!

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Guest Antic

It seems like this is the album I've been waiting for since one year or so...

 

Jean Borelli is well known for his dj-ing skills, but here he shows the other side of his talents. He's music is hard to categorise, so I won't even try but I'm sure it's neither minimal nor melodic one - it's something right between those two, taking only the best elements of those sub-genres. I think in one of threads in forum Dieznyik called this kind of music simply 'psychedelic' and this term fits perfectly! Orion's music is dark and one of the most alien (along maybe with COP's "Urban Alien") I have ever heard! There is not a single trace of happy goa-trance melodies, only out-of-this-world sounds, weird samples and lots of hard acid, but those sounds create wicked and alien-like melodies. The word ACID is what is this record all about. And I don't mean acid - LSD, but acidy sounds which Orion brought to perfection and twisted them in every possible way. He?s sound can be best described as a combination of Cosmosis' "Synergy", Koxbox' "Dragon Tales", Process' "One Drop or Two" and some recent Shakta's stuff. Sometimes it is funky, more often it's hard and

grinding. Lot of hard bass lines and acid-like sounds make this perfect dancing album, though it's also a great listening pleasure as many of the melodies are hidden deep under unearthly voices, noises and effects. What is also worth mentioning is the drums - they're so juicy and groovy, made of many different loops and weird samples. The best tracks so far seem to be (in order of appearance ;-) Spider Monkey, Metamorpheus, Future Funk, Area 51, Blue Point and Neu. Others are close and probably not enough listened yet. Not one of them is crappy nor bad.

 

Anyway it's a great album, so true psy-trance lovers will be happy with this CD in theirs collection. 8.5/10

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Guest -Shroom-

This is a great album. You dont see much of trance like this these days, and i

think Orion (Jean Borelli) is one of the best trance artists ever. If you

really look inside the tracks you notice that its not minimal, it has alot of

wierd effects that fits exactly to the track. This album worth the money, and

ill give it 9/10. Keep going Jean!

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Guest Diepeveen

I've bought this cd here Wedensday, and whoooow... Sooo psychedelic! - I love

the sounds Orion use, and the dark and groovy style is there, with all those

"klik klak, blip blop"... Love it! I don't see any standouts, i like'em all!

This album is just... =) - 9.5/10

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Guest like old orion stuff always fant

eXellent

(btw: i hate people who think the can give an album

more than 10. Its is the limit firends!!!!#@@)

 

 

i give this album:

10.0000000000000000000001/10

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Pretty good album from start to finish,but took a while to get used to.It does

definetly remind me of Double Dragon though.Best tracks are 2,4,6 and is

pretty good to chill out at home with some snacks.7/10

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