Guest TRISTAN Posted March 18, 2001 Share Posted March 18, 2001 Authentik - Preamplified Artist: Authentik Title: Preamplified Label: Global Trance Network Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 06'20" The Fifth Colour 02. 06'12" Solid 03. 06'23" A 10 04. 06'13" Metaldust 05. 06'31" Hambourg Fever 06. 06'32" Airline 07. 05'31" Marakas 08. 06'53" Preamplified Dub 09. 06'23" Operatik 10. 06'05" The Horning 11. 05'18" Air Review: Hmm, It has been a while since my last review, But I'm back in business after a long time to review my favourite album lately. Authentik might be a new name, But the music beats most veterans easily. The style ranges from minimalistic techno, To psytrance, dub, drum n bass and more. The album is devided in two parts. First six tracks are minimalistic trance, The kind you hear from Midi Miliz, But sounds more evolved. Sharp percussions, Pretty slow (Avarge 130bpm) and top notch sounds that'll play with your mind and won't leave you untill stopped! The other part is the more ambient/dub/dnb style. And it works damn well! Especially my two favourite tracks on the album, Track 9, Operatik. The most wonderful mixture of styles I've ever heard. Good drum beats and the (like the 8bit warrior) piano, Then the opera voice (male) blands in, With spooky hollywood strings around.. Wonderful! My second favourite track is T11 - Air. That starts with wonderful Jimmi Hendrix style bassline, And drums too... There's even a clarinet, To ser you in the mood, And the right mood it is! Sounds like jewish folklore, But not cheezy at all... This is very very psychedelic indeed! You get those crazy twisted female chants... Amazing. There's no way on earth one could expect that kind of stuff from a new non veteran artist (As far as I know/concerned). If you manage to get hold of that album, Don't miss it! Buy it! 100% pure psychedelica ride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zhoro Posted March 18, 2001 Share Posted March 18, 2001 Great album indeed! And a very unusual decision to have two so drastically different parts in the same release. BTW, Authentik is part 3.Turn, so not really a new artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted March 18, 2001 Share Posted March 18, 2001 The begining (01-06) is Midi Miliz-like, that is very minimal, big rhythm & noisy sounds everywhere. Perfect to kill the neighbours, but not psychedelic at all! The rest (07-11) is more Psych-o-funky. Only this second part is *really* psychedelic. sometimes it looks like late sixties Funk, sometimes it's like thriller music, and sometimes it's like Dub ! My favourites: Operatik, The Horning, Air, Preamplified Dub...the whole second part, actually. Special distinction to Operatik which will remind you of your last visit in the purgatory...Aaaahahah! So 5/10 for the first part, 8/10 for the second part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexG Posted March 18, 2001 Share Posted March 18, 2001 very good album! it's 3.turn under a different name, so you know it will be minimal, but it's not at all like "by any means necessary": this is much groovier, with killer rhythm throughout. awesome production with lots of the usual minimal noises. maybe not too original, but still very enjoyable. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted April 1, 2001 Share Posted April 1, 2001 Very heavy and industrial until they get bored of it, way after anyone else would, then they diverge into random musical styles. As a whole, I find this record as annoying as 3.Turn, but some tracks are worthwhile for 4 minutes at a time. 4/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cnt97 Posted May 3, 2001 Share Posted May 3, 2001 VERY GOOD ALBUM! This is a NEW style, mixture between pure monoton techno and psychedelic trance. VERY nice indeed. Source Unknown and Authentik are "new" artists with this sound. Absolutely GREAT for the dancefloor. Very hard. This is not music to listen to with lousy speakers. This is pure dancefloor killers. Very driven music, melodies or standard basslines not needed here! This album makes me smile! I can't sit still! 7/10 for the whole album, 9/10 for the new and hard style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mescalinium Posted June 7, 2001 Share Posted June 7, 2001 After the 3.turn album, I was expecting something equally different. While the second half delivers, I find the vast majority of the first half to be utterly derivative and irritating. I mean if you're gonna do minimal, use some different sounds for god's sake! They make the same mistake that XV Killist did on his album; they use the same exact sounds in each song! Solid is the only track I actually like. But on to the second half. This is some really cool experimental stuff! A lot of it is drum n bass beats slowed down to 100-120 bpm with ambient sounds floating around on top. A nice combination in my opinion. I particularly like "Operatik" which has this killer (male!) opera voice sample. It's almost kind of creepy. I can't really give a rating to this album as a whole since its really two completely different parts. I guess I'll give 3/10 to part 1 and 7.5/10 to part 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest offlimits Posted June 30, 2001 Share Posted June 30, 2001 Great stuff for the tech-trance listeners ! 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Submitter Posted August 4, 2001 Share Posted August 4, 2001 "I mean if you're gonna do tech-trance, USE SOME DIFFERENT SOUNDS for god's sake!".....totally agreed with that statement (A10 and metal dust are killers though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest miss rose's musical wednesdays Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 as individual songs I really like these tracks, but i imagine that listenning to the whole thing as an album would get a little boring (although i'm yet to try), as has been noticed most of the songs use the same sounds...each track on its own is really stomping however, and I especially liked metal dust and airline. Any of these tracks would blow the heads off a dancefloor if dropped at the right moment... The 2nd half is also pretty nice, but definitly nowhere near the best stuff like this that I've heard. Overall this is a pretty nice album, dj's will probably get the most out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuko Posted December 16, 2001 Share Posted December 16, 2001 great album... although their track on the '9 pills' compilation is much better... but i like this one very much ... lots of heavy mavhine sounds and all this gives it an insane feeling... ( it reminds me of aphex twin - classics but now in trance form, great) the second part as many say is more experimental and it's very good too... nice one psychedelic rating : 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest st.balam[at]worldmexico[dot]com Posted January 8, 2002 Share Posted January 8, 2002 no is bad,but the sounds are very industrial.6.8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidtolsn Posted February 19, 2002 Share Posted February 19, 2002 i like the first have, probably anyone that likes minimal will. i don't care much for the second part... pretty dull, pseudocreative. 6/10 for the cd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gabrielperez[at]netcourrier[dot] Posted April 9, 2002 Share Posted April 9, 2002 The first part is very different of the second part so that you can listen to it in two differnt mood.If you feel tired check the last songs,if you want to break everuthings or before a party check the first one.8/10 and 7.8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 this is high quality, kick ass!! techno & downtempo album composed in authentik's unique style... looking forward to their future releases! good show 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 My review: http://www.ektoplazm.com/reviews/authentik-preamplified/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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