V/A - Origins

[Guest Slidingtrancer]

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.

[Guest Stormbringer]

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.

[mars]

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.

[danger]

Are You crazy???? It's one of the best compil in this year!!!!!! I easily give

it 10/10....

[Guest jsb]

I agree, psyside track is the best on this compilation

[Guest front[at]netc[dot]pt]

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.

[seraph]

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

[Guest yonyon1979[at]hotmail[dot]com]

PSYSIDE!!!!11/10

need i say more?

the entire compilation:9/10

Boom Morning!!! and electric sun-ds