V/A - Open

[Guest pseudoperson[at]cannabismail[dot]

V/A - Open

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Open

Label: Surreal Audio

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. Big Green Pleasuremachine : Buggin Out (Ab Rmx)

02. Kiwa : Fancy Medical Experience

03. Squaremeat : Do It Square

04. Pelinpala : Oota Ei Oo

05. Overflow : Thingamajig

06. Texas Faggott : One King

07. Spaztech : Depression

08. Possible Apple : Dady

 

Review:

 

And now for something completely different.The second release from Surreal

Audio is definately not for everybody, and it certainly cant be described as

only trance either.Its 8 tracks that are all completely different from each

other, and all quite out there in their own way.Funky, jazzy, trancey,

pornhousey and plain insane.

Dancemusic for the terminally bored.8/10

[Guest steechhazzle[at]hotmail[dot]com]

Dancemusic for the terminally bored of life. A collection of sounds more than

music and those sounds sounds like they've been made with a commodore C64.

Avoid even if u don't know what music is.

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Hmmm... I think these might all be producers from Finland... at least Texas

Faggott, Squaremeat and Pelinpala certainly are from Finland. I haven't heard

the tracks, so I can't comment on that, but I have heard some stuff from Texas

Faggott and Squaremeat and it definately is pretty crazy, not unlike much

Swedish psytrance, I think.

[shahar@isratrance]

Ah, those nutty people from Funland... A joy!!! Trance it's not, at times it's

not even psychedelic, but it's delicious electronic dance music, and it's

nutty as only the Finnish can make it be.

It all starts with the Ozzie-Finnish connection (has anybody figured that one

out already??), with AB, Nick Taylor & friends in an AB remix- a funky breaky

psychedelic tune to shake your ass to. We go on with Kiwa, the only track here

that can fall into my very broad definition of trance, still funky and mad as

hell. Squaremeat Do it Square (T3), which means funkadelic with a big F and

psychedelic with a big P. The 70s are back- spray your afros with UV colors!

When the track ends you think: what now? Can they go further?

Well, they can. Pelinpala with Oota Ei Oo (T4) with another 70s jazzy funky

piece- Acid Jazz is what they call it. I think Ray Manzarek would have liked

this one. This is so hot, it would defrost an Igloo in Lapland!!! Overflow's

Thingamajig (T5) is a naughty knotty jazzy track with caressing funky

Zappa-like melodic lines, sprayed over crazy rhythms. Texasfaggott with a nice

little one, but the sound... The fact that people are having fun doesn't

penetrate my brain if the sound is bad, if you get my drift. Didn't like this

one. The sound remark goes for Spaztech (T7) as well. It's a nice drum'n'bassy

track with some flashes of brilliance, but the sound is so low-tech that I

just can't listen to it. A shame. But if you go through these two, you'll get

a real treat- the cream on the top of the hot pie- Possible Apple's Daddy- a

sexy funky piece of music that will make Austin Powers wet his pants (and I'm

not talking about drinking too much beer baby)!!! Need I say more? Well, I'll

just mention these old Deep Purple keyboards- I'm in love with this one!!! I

want more!!!

 

Bottom Line: The funky Finns will buttrock ya!!! For everybody with a butt to

move and an open mind- buy this one NOW! Favorites: 1, 2, 3(!), 4(!!), 5,

8(!!!).

[Guest SYN]

A full album by Possible Apple called Botanical Zoo has just been released by

Cool Front Recordings (a division of Surreal Audio www.surrealaudio.com). It's

NOT psytrance although couple of tunes are have some psy-appeal. Very

crossover and genreblending. From some kind of ambient via breakbeatish

grooves and acid lines to vocoder singing and electropop, with a goove! Check

it out if you are OPEN to other styles of electronic music than psytrance. The

album has a hidden bonus track...in finnish.