Guest Cnt97 Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 Uhm, some very nice tracks and some really shitty tracks here (some even done in trackers, sorry but I'm judging as I would with "real" releases). I'm into minimal stuff alot, but the best track here is Agalactia - Awkward Lightrate, which is not minimal at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Candlejack Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 Damn, why isn't Prosect on here?? The Station was one of the better tracks IMO. I found that non-experienced artists were quite sad at making Minimal tunes... Leave that to the real masters ... Like those artists at Iboga... Hmmm well, salutations to the winners at least... and glad to see Blue Djinn - Light Without Heat is on this at least... Cuz he's one of the guys that sounded the most professional... Good bass, heavy beat and clear noises. !! Way to go!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insejn Posted October 31, 2001 Author Share Posted October 31, 2001 V/A - Psychedelic Sparks Artist: Various Title: Psychedelic Sparks Label: Psynews Date: 2001 Track listing: CD 1 01. 05'51" Neurotoxin : For Red 02. 08'26" Psychopat : Spiral Landing 03. 07'29" De-Fect : Bouncing Shrooms And Giggleing Gnomes 04. 11'53" Andromeda : Amiga 05. 07'42" Synsun : TNC 2001 06. 08'42" Asura : System Babel (Code Eternity Rmx) 07. 09'14" Artha : Controlled 08. 10'54" Epsilon : Cosmic Vortex (Creepy Mix) CD 2 01. 08'25" Promon : Throbbing Hobbits 02. 08'02" The Bastard : Crispy Crunchy Buffet Beast 03. 09'26" De-Fect : Germs, Germs, Psychedelic Germs 04. 07'16" Amygdala : Synaptic Misfire 05. 08'15" Synsun : Replycant 06. 07'45" Vax : Protoplasma 07. 08'20" Agalactia : Awkward Lightrate 08. 07'16" Torakka : Greasy Fingers 09. 04'42" Solstice : Ricochet Review: I have done this review with no thoughts that they are not pros (all of them). Of the artist would be Infected Mushroom it would get the same rating. Which means I compare this to all the psytrance I have heard. What else to do? It might seems that I always has something to complain about. oh well... :/ 1-1 Review :Woha! The bas reminds me of Shiva Shidapu-bas. Harch and "snappy". The track really catches me around 2:00 when some drums come in. The break in the middle is enjoyable as the whole track. What to say more? The psy-sounds is good and the sample fit in very good. Rating : 7/10 1-2 Review :hmm...Minimal has never impressed me. This guy seems to know what he is doing though. But I'm not sure about it Argh...I'll leave this track to the minimal dudes. Rating: 5/10 1-3 Review :This one is better. It's scando alright With some hard dark bas and bassline, squeeking 'melodie' and a little hi-hat on that. Sweet. To bad the squeek sound starts to get annoying later in the track. A little variation would be good. Rating : 7/10 1-4 Review :This could be early SFX stuff The melodies are constantly coming on and on and on. Anyway...The track never really drags you away. Just a few times the tracks has a nice "mood". Rating : 6.8/10 1-5 Review :This is a hard and fast track. Belive me. Many sounds in here and the melodie 5:00 really freaks me out. Good! After the awesome melodie the beats changes and...oh my God, it's so good. I can't write more now Rating : 7.8/10 1-6 Review :Ok, you can notice these guys done this before. Maybe the best track so far. Melodic and sweet. With a Alien Project - Electro bas. hehe... Oh well...Too cheezy at sometimes for my taste. Rating : 7/10 1-7 Review :This track would be really great if it would be darker. When the 'synth' sound is gone the track sounds very cool. The effects put in when the melodie is off is good and fits in perfectly. Make this track darker and it will gain a few points. Rating 6.5/10 1-8 Review :Creepy indeed. Much echo/reverb or what it's called. Maybe thats why the track gets "flooded" at some points. The scary party is kinda good but...I better not. Rating : 4/10 2-1 Review :What a perfect name! This one throbbs very much. This one is the more psychedelic of the tracks so far. A little bit like GMS. iiih...The throbbing sound is almost to throbbing for your ears But this is good anyway. I good suprise in the end of the track. I litte melodie of some kind. Rating : 7.2/10 2-2 Review :Well choosed effects in this. This is more like Hux-Flux. blipps and beeps. Which I like very much. The track goes nowhere...and dissapears. *giggle* Rating : 7/10 2-3 Review :Man! This is even better than his other track. Hard and dark with some blipps A cool melodie lurking in the background. This is the one! So far that is. I really enjoy the 'high' tones in this one. Creates a cool twist to the otherwise dark mood this track has. Rating : 9/10 2-4 Review :It's getting better and better. Nice groovy beat. Some effects. A melodie once in a while. Some drums/hi-hats/snares. This equals a nice stompy track. Rating : 8/10 2-5 Review :Once again he delivers a hard and fast track. Very weird drums and bas. Sound so floppy somehow. And then he trows in an a short melodie perfectly. To bad the melodie is layered under all the other sounds. He know how to create a good melodie indeed. To bad he don't do it more often. Rating: 8.4/10 2-6 Review :Also a little SFX-spirit in this one. It's fullon all the way. It's very good sometimes but the end is just to much. A little break from the melodies would be nice I think. Rating : 6/10 2-7 Review :Isreali trance Good one! Melodies yiihaa! This one is not so packed with sounds as most of the others. Much more easy to 'follow'. Clean and crisp. The melodies are never booring either. And the sampled used is simply awesome. Very good one. Rating : 9/10 2-8 Review :Good nice groove in this one. Good work on the percussions. And the 'long-bas'. da daaa..da. You get it? The melodies fits the rest of the track good. The typical swirling melodies that goes upp and down. This works. Oh i forgot...Good start and ending in this track. Rating 8/10 2-9 Review :Vocals? Womens voice. Wunderful! The slowest track of them all. Sounds very proish I can't spell proffecional This one just.....flowing peacfully. Rating : 7.4/10 Overall Rating : 6.8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mckerron[at]yahoo[dot]com Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Great tracks all! A great work by authors and by admin... I expect to enjoy of more contests like this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 I dont think it is right for me to rate any of the tracks but I will make my comments. Overall I think that the artists have lot's of talent and love for the music. And most of the productions are very nice...... Good work guys and gals........ :-) I would though have liked to hear a bit more new things in the tracks. To me there's way too much isralie sound, fluffy music and 303's going on here... I think most of the artists still need to find their own styles and ways of expressing their talents. One band that stood out (in my mind) is Solstice... They / he or her do not follow the mainstream and is in my mind wirhout any doubt the winner !!!! Beautiful vocals... By the way... who is the winner????? all 17? I am sure that most of the bands will become much better in the future and I look forward to hear new stuff from them again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlueSpectralMonkey Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 hooray to our man The Bastard -- the only winning trancer from stateside! incredible... the 10 million hours working on the kicks paid off ! but congrats to all! keep bouncing. www.touchsamadhi.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mandalavandalz[at]goatrance[dot] Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 MOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMOREMORE!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best idea there can be. CHILDREN THEE ARE BLESSED!!! I luv thee!!!! )))) Happyhapppyhapppy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest random Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 great idea. why are there 2 tracks from both De-Fect and Synsun.. it makes me think about how this was voted for.. either way most but not all of the songs here sound like software trance and that is a bit dissapointing. they all end up having a dated sort of sound structure but there are some really good ones. i guess better mp3 quality will change everything about the sounds . I can't wait for the next contest. thank you psynews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slidingtrancer Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 I really miss Prosect here, who made an EXCELLENT song and was my number one when voting. The rest looks nice, but many songs are not that well-produced and brilliant, or it's just my headphones and speakers saying those nasty things. I think it's lousy to have the same artists on a compilation twice, only Hallucinogen can do that nicely. It kinda reminds me of the 'Goatrance'-albums that are coming out here in Holland. The songs are all made by Ingmar Veeck, under different names. I kinda feel sorry for the people in the contest who DID do a great job and don't get rewarded in the end. But all in all, it was fun judging and fun hearing all this stuff. I do feel a bit dissapointed with the outcome, but well not every compilation can be a classic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukiro Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 I haven't listened to every track from beginning to end (I couldn't stand most of them, thats why) but after giving each one a quick listen, Amygdala - Synaptic Misfire stood out as the most tasteful and well produced. Thats probably the only one I'd have bought if I found it as a 12". Most of the tracks sound waaay to old-school for me. Note however that I have a fair amount old goa stuff lying around at home that I play once in a while, but the combination of somewhat poor production, tracker-ish structures/buildups and the fact thats it's the year 2001 and not 1995 made me skip through most of these. Sure, there were some very nice ideas to be found and a cool sound or two, but that doesn't mean it's automatically good music, at least not to me. The solstice track was interesting but didn't do much for me. Give that one a listen though, after Amygdala, that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 To answer to some of you : The visitors were the only ones to vote, except that we made best ambient Tracks more prior than 14th to 17th psy winners in order to have various stuff on the CD, not only psy, and because a CD must finish with a more chill-out Track :-) We didn't decide to remove stuff from the same artists, cause the aim was to have a CD as best as possible, so, as it seems the 2 De-Fect and Synsun are very appreciated, we could not remove one of them and replace it by another Track ... But please don't start a debate here, that's not the aim, use the forum instead for that if you want to start one :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deviantdidg[at]yahoo.co[dot]uk Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Well done everyone I hope some good stuff comes of it for you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yorabora[at]gusco[dot]com Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 Now I know for sure, the only way a true artist can get promotion is by making GOOD music, and that's the reason I'd probebly give up on buying this CD since its mostly "impulse-tracker-crapper" sorry you goa-heads, but this CD will make you look even worse than you do now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trip[at]isratrance[dot]com Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 I appreciate all of you who voted for me. I don't know if the other artists here asked their whole tree of friends to vote just for them to win... I didn't ask no one to vote - I just wanted to see if my tracks could worth anything for ppl who never heard my music before. Awkward Lightrate was the one which I made and made nice impression on you. Thanx all I guess this track is 2 years old, since that one I quit making trance so much - just here and there - but this competition really makes things going better - proving to me that even 2 year old tracks I made can be good. thanx again. Trip- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rumz Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 I like Most of the tracks...I'm just having trouble downloading all of them :-S But im Gonna eagerly await the next competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 too many tracks in this contest.. i don't think anyone could have listened to them all. several gigs to download! needs to be organized better next time. anyway, congrats to all those who won Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tlacactoc Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 well. nice work, im a contestant too, and even that i didnt won, it was a great time and fun, very nice work from the winners, im already playing a couple of them at parties with my friends, and they dance and jump and scream and everything is nice and tripy, see ya in the next contest....peace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garraeth Posted November 1, 2001 Share Posted November 1, 2001 ...good stuff, but notice how everyone is starting to sound a lot like IM? I love IM, but "there can only be one." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garraeth Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Agalactia : Awkward Lightrate is crazzy! got any other stuff?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProSect Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 hello guys, i'm little bit unhappy because i didn't won (Prosect), but i knew it will be like that, the tracks i've sent were one of my first works (in beginning of 2000) without a good production, so i don't care know thank for everyone who supported me, working on my tracks now (wait for releases ). anyway about the contest, the Agalctia and Amygdala are good stuff. keep the frequency ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest baltazar_dr[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Well... Funny... Maybe a bit interesting... "wow, there's a squelching sound, wow, there was something popping up" and so on... What has happened to the world of good old full-on trance?! This suck! Sure there was some goodies from: De-fect, Andromeda, Vax and Agalactia here but most of the stuff was minimal and boring... Will we ever see the light of new masterpieces like the albums: Pleiadians - I.F.O or MFG - New kind of world? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chicha Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 To Baltazar: do you really really think that the trax of Asura is minimal and not fullon? are you deaf, man? To defect: don't listen to critics about samples. When your music is great (and your music is great), some guys like him who doesn't know the hard work to do a trax kill your work with this kind of reviews. "And you stoll it here" "and your music is good but a 3 second sample trash your whole album or discography" "and it is shitty music because it has a melody" or what is as ridiculous "it is shitty because it is minimal". Please, everybody, just put some intelligent and constructive feedbacks, please, or shut up, or just make music, and we will talk about it afterwards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zero The Hero Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 This contest was excellent idea, thanks for everyone working for it. Any possibility to get artists e-mail addresses to give feedback? I found some incredible stuff here.. thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slidingtrancer Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 I still think you did a great song Prosect, you'll win next one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProSect Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 thanks man i will do my best... soon my little homepage will be online and some of my new/old stuff will be there, don't miss Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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