Guest Slidingtrancer Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 Mars, why the hells is your review kinda negative about the first songs and the compilation still gets a 8.5? I expected more when I listened to this online, i'd give it a 6/10. Some nice elements in this compo, but not enough to fully enjoy it, too many mediocre tracks (1,2,3,5,6) and a few good trax. The GMS-track gets a 7.5 from me, the psyside a 7, the BPC one a 8 and the TIT one a 6.5 .... This all adds up to about 54/9=6 Mediocrity all over, BPC and GMS-trax stand out, just like you'd expect viewing the songlist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stormbringer Posted July 24, 2001 Share Posted July 24, 2001 1. Mama Diolat "Cameleon" (5/10), boring! 2. Silicon Sound VS. Walhalla "Funky Droid" (5/10), boring. 3. Hyper Frequencies A.K.A. Gil "The Lost Generation" (6/10), nothing new under the sun. 4. Psyside "Virtual Reality" (9/10), very energetic stuff in the same school as 3DVision, really good! 5. Biogradable "Spikadelic" (6/10), Heard it before! 6. Neuromotor "Crazy Crooner (7/10), another very energetic dancefloorfriendly track. 7. GMS/Growling Moons Spirits "Ex-Whales" (5/10), Zzzz... boring. 8. Blue Planet Coorporation "Cargo Cult" (6/10), slow but quite nice. 9. T.I.T. "Tit For Tat" (3/10), slow crap! This is not a collection of tracks in my taste. The tracks are energetic but I think they sound like old (and forgotten?) 3DVision stuff. The Psyside track is really good though!!! (6/10) for the whole compilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted July 25, 2001 Author Share Posted July 25, 2001 V/A - Origins Artist: Various Title: Origins Label: Turbo Trance Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 08'44" Cameleon : Mama Diolat 02. 07'29" Silicon Sound And Wallhala : Funky Droid 03. 09'34" Hyper Frequencies Aka Gill : The Lost Generation 04. 08'29" Psyside : Virtual Reality 05. 09'19" Biodegradable : Spikadelic 06. 08'06" Neuromotors : Crazy Crooner 07. 06'10" Growling Moon Spirits : Ex-Whales 08. 10'24" Blue Planet Corporation : Cargo Cult 09. 07'47" TIT : Tit For Tat Review: This is an almost 100% French compilation Turbo Trance recs have released here. We can hear new talented artists from Paris & the South of France. --01-- The track is a collaboration betwwen DJ Ninja and 1/2 Bamboo Forest. The drums are just like in 'Fireworld' by Ninja, so it's groovy (!), the track remains very minimal at the same time, and i think it could have been better. Yet it's not bad at all. The minutes pass and the theme and everything behind remains the same, except a few drums and a growly line added. A typical Bamboo Forest theme starts after 4:30 with some poppy sounds, samples and distorsions, so it saves the track quite well. --02-- An usual track with a fast drumwork, overlayed by kind-of funky sounds sometimes in the first two minutes. Then you can really hear the bassline and the sounds are far more synthetic and the whole thing is quite groovy. Yet i'm not convinced by this track which ends on being psychedelic. At least it's more refreshing than the flow of minimalistic things released this year, but i think there is something missing. Too bad as i've seen Wallhala live and it was really good. --03-- After the wonderful Running Time EP, Gill is back with a less impressive track, in my opinion. The track is made up of a monotonic beat, 4 layers of bassline, different sounds and little sounds plus some distorted notes that raise over all the others instuments at the middle of the track, just before a break. then the track becomes more plain and psychedelic but we're already at 5:20. The end is an evolution of the begining and it even get uplifting, but too late. To summarize, there is everything that is needed but it shouldn't have been so long. --04-- The 2 Psyside guys have improved a lot in the last months and it can be heard. Now they are quite masterful with their equipment, the music is here, everything is in place and we have a great great oldschool-like track. The rhythm, drums, snares are really full-on oriented, fast and jumpy, there are psychedelic sounds & effects everywhere, the breaks are just in the good place, the main theme is cool and, honestly, the style is now as good as some former talented great psychedelic groups. A real good track. Keep on this way Psyside! --05-- In the begining it's a fast, flat and dark track with lots of wobbling noises. The groove is good, just repetitive enough, but to my mind there is something missing. It looks a bit like a mass of psy-sounds that sound like psytrance From 4 minutes it gets better with a line of music and i'm positively amazed. At 5:30 the direction of the track changes and it's very good, the raise and the following long break are all right! However the end is botched up and repetitive... --06-- Neuromotors, on the rise, deliver us a tribal track that is hard and energetic. The begining is clearly tribal, overlayed by strange dark noises. Then it becomes more psychedelic just when the listener wants more. I've already heard this track live and it's a good one. After a break, the track becomes more creepy and it could be easily compared to DarkSoho style. At the end it becomes nervous and some growly sounds followed by the stranges soubnds of the begining are the main theme of the last part of the track. Well done. --07-- When i see Growling Mad Something somewhere, i tend to know how the track is going to be : a sudden begining with horror sounds, then a very fast track with a breakbeat-like rhythm and growling twisted sounds everywhere during 7 minutes. this track is a bit like that -indeed-...the classic break ending with the faded-in come back of the music over a short repetitive melody. Then there is a 'stop!', and the track changes a bit from there : it becomes more reasonable but with a gms background and a well done drumwork. Then it raises more and more to reach a point where a total psychedelic-gms'ed-music starts (5:10). Another break and this is the end. This is a classic GMS track, but this is a cool one. --08-- BPC gives us a long & quiet track but it's not ambient at all : flat beat, samples all of the same kind, nothing that hurts...nothing to say, it's like a Landing. everything is smooth, the style is good. In fact we don't realize it but hte track evolves all the time. It becomes more melodic near the end with some kind of cool raise and sounds that seem to overcome the others. good. --09-- the track begins with "listen to this sound" and it's right as the track is really wonderful! Full of layers with distorsions, raising, sweeping, twisting, but so calm at the same time because the drums background remains really simple. It evolves in the distorsions along the minutes and becomes really more psychedelic at 4:15, but still not nervous. Near 7 minutes it beginns to be repetitive, but as this is an end-of-warm-up track, it's ok. Overall this is one of the best compils i've heard this year. With only new or to-confirm artists, Origins is a really good piece of sound. It's what it should be : psychedelic, rhythmic, various, for every taste. I think that some artists in this compil really match up to lots of other confirmed artists (and i'm not chauvinistic), especially tracks 4,6,7,9. So i'm waiting for your albums on the Turbo Trance label, all you guys!! Without hesitation : 8.5/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danger Posted July 25, 2001 Share Posted July 25, 2001 Are You crazy???? It's one of the best compil in this year!!!!!! I easily give it 10/10.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jsb Posted July 26, 2001 Share Posted July 26, 2001 I agree, psyside track is the best on this compilation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest front[at]netc[dot]pt Posted July 31, 2001 Share Posted July 31, 2001 One of the best compils I´ve heard this year. Fast and powerfull. Even the last two songs, which are slower than the others, are very good and enjoyable. The only one I separate from the whole bunch is the GMS track. Why does every GMS track sounds the same? Well worth the buy. Highlights: tracks 1, 4, 6 & 9!! Easily 9/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted March 22, 2002 Share Posted March 22, 2002 Some kinda interesting compilation but nothing more than that...There are not that interesting stuff but those that are worth of some attention are : 4,6,7,8,9...the last song is best on compilation...6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yonyon1979[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted April 6, 2002 Share Posted April 6, 2002 PSYSIDE!!!!11/10 need i say more? the entire compilation:9/10 Boom Morning!!! and electric sun-ds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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