V/A - Pulse 8

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V/A - Pulse 8

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Pulse 8

Label: Sub Terranean

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 07'48" Intact Instinct : Orchestral Offender

02. 06'50" Voodoo People : 240 V

03. 10'22" Son Kite : Knob Adjustement

04. 07'25" Koxbox : Six Cells

05. 07'44" The Delta : Delter Skelter

06. 07'04" Spirallianz : Fast Forward

07. 08'50" XV Kilist : Vielleicht

08. 09'49" Etnica : The Dominator

09. 07'15" Tarsis : Millenium

 

CD 2

01. 07'33" Earth : The Quest

02. 06'57" Jupiter 8000 : Saturn

03. 07'40" SUN Project : Luna

04. 08'37" Noma : Nothing Was Working

05. 09'55" Atmos : So Nice You Name It Twice...

06. 08'25" P Rex : Spectrophonic

07. 07'09" Tristan : Dreamtime

08. 09'17" Human Blue : Travelling

09. 09'34" Element : Believe

 

Review:

 

I'm very disappointed by these CD, only few tracks are quite good!! There are

no wonderful tracks on Pulse 8! The sounds are bad!! I really prefer Pulse 2,

3, 5 and 6!! So I give it only 2/10! Bom Shankar!!!!

[Guest [Anonymous]]

I´m not disappointed with this compilation but I can understand that people who

are used to the old goa still have a little bit problem to accept the new

progressive music and this compilation is full of progressive tracks.

 

If you like pumping and progressive music you really should listen to this.

(7/10)

[Guest Psylent Buddhi]

I agree, it's no revelation! but there are some nice tracks scattered on these

2 cd's. On cd1 it's Koxbox's funky and very psychedelic "Six Cells". And later

Tarsis brings us an extremely dark, almost orchestral piece of psytrance. Epic

is what it is! On the cd2 Atmos takes on a very hypnotic journey, but the

track still doesn't reach the hights of his eminent "Klein Aber Doktor". Human

Blue delivers the most beautiful track on this compilation. A very nice

journey. But besides these tracks, it's just boring minimalistic psytrance!

The other Pulse compilations are much better!

P.L.U R. - Psylent Buddhi

[Guest Andreas_h80[at]hotmail[dot]com]

WOOW best from Pulse so far ,great progressive psy trance but if you like goa

don't buy this one .All trax are really good

[Guest Acidhive]

Pulse eh? Well known to me, as I own almost all parts except 2 and 7. (Because

I could never get a hold of them) Anyway, my review. I'll take it from track

to track. CD1 starts with an incredible dark song from Intact Instinct, filled

with lots of bass. Excellent start, I must say. Voodoo People kicks in, and

Paul Jackson (Genetic) shows he's still pretty good. This song actually is a

bit repetive, but you never notice it, because it fits together so well. Next

up is Son Kite with a wonderful other version of Knob Adjustment, this one is

longer than the original and also more in style of their Minilogue album.

Great, Son Kite know how to perform minimalism without getting boring. Up next

the funky Six Cells, with those incredible drums in it. Thumbs up for Koxbox

once again. Next up is The Delta, and somebody commented me because I said

this was goa. Allright, it sounds more like Psychedelic Techno, but it still

is pretty good, especially if you like it dark. Spirallia!

nz is next. Hard, this one and it shows you a thing or two. XV Kilist follows

with one of his quirky tracks, full of bass and weird blippy noises, just like

his other tracks. Next up is a somewhat dissapointing track by Etnica, it's

not bad, it's just that their old style was much, much better. Tarsis rounds

CD1 off with one of the most inpirational songs to date. Orchestral sounds,

this is an epic track. CD2 starts groovy, with Earth (DJ Sangeet And Boris

Blenn) Next on the list is another Psychedelic techno track by Jupiter 8000.

Kicks ass, if you ask me, although I think the Jupiter 8000 song itself is

better. Up next Luna, by SUN Project. They seem to be heading off the guitar

path nowadays. Nevertheless, groovy as usual and great for parties. Noma

sounds just like Hux-Flux does. As I like Hux-Flux I also like this. Atmos

follows with one of his faster, harder tracks to date. As usual, Atmos stands

out from the crowd here. Excellent. P Rex follows that with a dark song, !

which sounds a bit like Noma does. Tristan produces one of his usual style

here, although with a little less madness. Human Blue takes you on a journey

with his finely tuned sounds, so the title is right. Element rounds Pulse 8

off with a groovy song. Overall, a pretty good compilation. Only track I'm not

really fond of is the Etnica track, and even that one isn't bad. (Although

that awful old school house sample shouldn't be in here...) 8/8 from me,

although I do want to warn those that don't like Progressive Goa. This CD is

full with it. So, my advice is to look elsewhere for melodic stuff, cause you

won't find that here. Only pounding, dark tracks! And I like that! :-)

[Guest robgoatrance[at]libero[dot]it]

Pulse 8 isn't a good cd! Only 2 track are interesting: cd2 trax 4,5! Atmos'

track is very hard and loud. Fantastic drum!

Not buy this cd!

Rating 4/10

[Guest titiknar[at]caramail[dot]com]

don't like this style. Since the 7, pulse is a bad compilation. The Sixth was

wonderful

[Guest reflekshun[at]mail[dot]com]

When i first listened to this comp, at first I was VERY dissapointed.. very

very dissapointed.. dunno if it was the system i was playing it in or what,

but anyways after only a couple more listens, it's very decent.. I definitely

wouldn't agree with titiknar that pulse is a bad compilation after pulse 6..

it's just different. Once you get used to it, and get into it's groove - wow

it's actually pretty damn good. Not mindblowing I admit, but by NO MEANS bad.

[seraph]

Pretty good compilation...Nothing extraordinary here except SIX CELLS, THE

DOMINATOR, SO NICE YOU NAME IT TWICE...Those are stunning songs...Good songs

are : ORCHESTRAL OFFENDER, KNOB ADJUSTMENT, SATURN, NOTHING WAS WORKING,

DREAMTIME, TRAVELLING...others are rather or minimal, or too progressive and

repetitive at the times...CD 1 : 7/10 and CD 2 : 7.5/10...