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Orichalcum - Live

 

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Artist: Orichalcum

Title: Live

Label: Creamcrop

Date: 1999

 

Track listing:

 

01. 06'24" Wicked

02. 10'37" Homes

03. 11'08" Are You?

04. 10'41" Egg Cracked

05. 20'48" Elevation

06. 11'59" Cosmic Pillow

 

Review:

 

The Psy Masters from Denmark are back with a live recording at Amager

Bio, Copenhagen, that is a MUST if you don't have their debut album,

like me. First 3 tracks are taken from 'Orichalcum & The Deviant'

but the live mixes are worth it even if you already have the originals.

Track 4 is also a remake of an older track (The Egg, never heard it

yet) and 5 & 6 are completely new. So let's start: The bassdrum catches

you right from the first second. Soon a certain sound appears in the

background, coming closer and closer, at the latest that moment you

notice that it's Wicked Mille (if you haven't yet guessed it from the

title;-)) and quite a good remix, with some new sounds, but

unfortunately it's a bit too short, the 'grand finale' of the original

has just been left out. How could they?! Anyway, right after that the

next track, Alien Homes, sets in, now just called “Homes”, and what a

Killer tune it is, like the original but ‘pimped’,

i.e. longer and with even some more sounds eating your brain with

the devouring mouths of millions of extraterrestrial nightmare

creatures, really, it is a very screechy track that makes me think

of a whole swarm of xenomorphs, contaminating whole planets

under terrifying screams and wiping out each little trace of life to make them

their new alien homes. Amazing trip! My favourite psy track ever!

Next is Where Are You?, now just called “Are You?”, originally produced

by The Deviant (=Orichalcum + Serge Souque from Total Eclipse), another

MONSTER of a track! Almost as good as Homes, pure psychoactice power!!!

While your head is still droning from the monstrous spectacle that tracks 2&3

are, the following track comes in with a pumping stomping bassline which

gets topped with some strange sound effects, the frightening melodies

are gone, however Egg Cracked lives from these strange noises, and I

like it very much because of its concentrated weirdness and trippiness.

Next one, Elevation, kicks major ass, with an uplifting beat which remains

throughout the track, there are weird nioses in it of course and it is

highly dancable. The best moment in it is the delicious melody from

about 3:30 to 4:30. The whole track may become boring because of its

huge length and you think there's always the same sounds but it's not,

you're just not aware of it cause you are in deep TRANCE! The magic of

this track is that all these strange (and brilliant!) sounds are arranged

in a way that creates imaginative melodies in your mind, i.e. the melodies

aren't there in reality! Elevation is also a very loud tune because

there are so many soundscapes layered on top of each other. That means it is

very complex and you have to concentrate on one of the layers not to

get annoyed by it. This makes a cool effect cause your mind changes the

layer to concentrate on so many times during these more than 20 minutes

(it's just like when you're looking at a near object and at another

moment looking at the same thing from a higher distance, but you do it

with your ears, so foreground and background change very often), that

you won't always notice it, and this is, as I said, the magic effect of

this track. All in all I would call Elevation the ultimate challenge

for advanced listeners and those who want to become one, because it is

not easy listening to it without losing one's concentration or falling

asleep or prssing the skip button after about 10 minutes. But if you avoid

these (you definately do if you dance to it) you'll certainly enjoy

it, apart from that Elevation is a real delight both for dancers and

home listeners. The last track, Cosmic Pillow, well.....it is beatless Ambient

stuff, and it works as a very long outro, to calm us down after all the killer

tracks before. The whole thing consists of one deep and relaxing synth

sound accompanied by some other quiet noises in the background creating

a warm but strange atmosphere. It doesn't matter if you fall asleep

during this one. All in all, this is a very good

live set by a group of gods and deserves a full 10/10 from me.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Hadn't listened to psychedelic for a loooong time but since I was always a fan

of orchalcum I picked this up.

I was not sorry! its blinding trance and bears up to listen after listen

(unlike alot of psy) 'cosmic pillow' and the tweaked 'wicked' really stand

out. 9/10 (would be 10/10 but for some awkward edits/mixes between the tracks)

One final thing: it really need to be listened to as a whole I reckon.

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  • 3 weeks later...

This is so damn good. Complete psychedelic madness, it never lets up and some

of the tracks really grind you into the ground. 'Full-on' is an understatement.

Since its live it is better to listen to the whole thing in one sitting so you

can really get into the music.

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  • 1 month later...

VERY VERY good!:) excellent trance...at sometimes transitioons are weak but the

melodies make up for it and some!^_^...definately one of my best CDs, i think

orichalcum might be my favorite artist, above hallucinogen, not in technique,

but because they convey a great vibe!^_^

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  • 1 month later...
Guest Acidhive

Really good, this deserves 9/10 !!

I listened to it and thought: Yeah, this is how Psytrance should be.. Just

banging along, with all those weird changing noises and shit...!! Great stuff.

Especially that track Elevation.. Damn, what a long track! And still it

retains that great orichalcum quality throughout... ! I like it very much! My

advice: Buy this if you're looking for some seriously good psytrance!! Old

style, but still sounding really fresh!

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  • 6 months later...
Guest Defbydelta...

this is raw audio!!!!

ohhhh yeahhhh, damn im bad in english i cant review nothing becuse i dont know

how to spell the shit..

so fuck it

____

(9/10)

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  • 5 months later...

Boring, IMHO. I bought both albums @ same time. A few inspired moments, but

largely boring unless dancing. I might change but so far...Boring

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  • 11 years later...

WOW!! that's the first time i am impressed with the last (ambient) track of a psytrance album.

This ending track really ends the CD perfectly!! so deep!

 

This is one of the most interesting psytrance albums ever made. Really impressed, especially by tracks 3, 4 and 6.

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