V/A - Pulse 9

[Guest Acidhive]

V/A - Pulse 9

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Pulse 9

Label: Sub Terranean

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 07'55" Genetic : Gala

02. 08'05" The Rootsman Meets The Gab : Friday The 13th

03. 07'30" SBK : Treibsand

04. 06'25" Spirallianz : Shaolin Shuffle

05. 09'14" Massimo Vivona : Over

06. 09'18" Feuerhake : 3 Tage, 4 Nachte

07. 07'05" Disco Slickers : It's A Feel

08. 08'16" Masun : Masun

09. 06'44" Synchro : Next Stop : Oblivion (Y2k Rmx)

 

CD 2

01. 06'23" Menis : Hamburger

02. 09'48" Element : Jesus

03. 08'28" Koxbox : Geomancer

04. 06'30" MOS : My Baby

05. 08'47" Johann Bley : Dream

06. 10'50" Hallucinogen : Mi Loony Um

07. 06'14" Morphem : Hypnotone (Cydonia's Remake)

08. 10'16" Noma : Soon

09. 07'48" Tarsis : Melt (Imagination - Instrumental Version)

 

Review:

 

Another Pulse comp. hits the stores and again it is filled with the fairly

minimalistic style we've come to be used to of european Goa Trance. CD1 starts

with a rather old song from Genetic called Gala. I like it, although this is

more electric trance than Goa in my opinion. Next up is Gabriel Le Mar with a

dark and atmospheric kinda track which flows along really good. After that we

dive into the minimalistic and really dark visions of Sebastian Kruger, a man

who gets around these days. (he's one half of tarsis and stars in many more

cooperations like Disco Slickers) This song is really good if you like this

style. It's dark and it rocks along real good. Some more minimalism with

Spirallianz who produce a track here which is a little different. Not so dark

as their usual offerings. This track is perhaps too minimalistic and it

certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea. After that we get treated by another

one of those great Massimo Vivona tracks. He always uses hard kickdrums !

and strings most of the time, to produce his well known hypnotic effect. No

different here and this is one of the best tracks on this CD. Feuerhake is

next, with his great non-minimalistic style which serves as a breather here.

After that you get pounded again by Disco Slickers. Hard bass and great hihats

and some blips. Only thing that's not so cool is the voice sample which does

not belong in a goa track in my opinion. But, it's not a bad offering. Next is

Masun with a really minimalistic track. You have to play this in a big

soundsystem with lots of bass, or put on your headphones and try to sink in.

When you do, it surprisingly works really well. To round CD 1 off, there's the

GREAT remix from Next Stop Oblivion. Synchro works a miracle with this old

track here. CD 2 starts really good with the weird track Hamburger from Menis.

Really hypnotizing this... I like it!! The funky track Jesus from Element is

next. Element rocks as usual. They are one of the best new Goa acts in!

my opinion. Koxbox twists your brain with Geomancer and this track is just the

style Koxbox does best. Next up is a really dark track from MOS., which has a

great sample from some sort of horror movie. Excellent production here. Johann

Bley follows with one of his better tracks, called Dream. The title of this

track is good, because you can really dream when listening to this. More

reminiscent of the old style goa, and I like that...Hallucinogen is next with

a GREAT track!! This is what Hallucinogen is all about! You have to listen

this to understand it fully. Next up is a great (and more melodic as well!)

version of Morphem's well known track Hypnotone. Cydonia rebuilt this by

leaving out all the samples and producing a more mysterious version. Great

work! Noma is next with a really ambient minded track. Great work here, it

consists of the same melody over and over, and still it doesn't get boring! CD

2 ends with the great instrumental version of Tarsis' track Melt. You co!

uldn't round of a compilation better in my opinion. Overall, DJ Alex supplies

us with a whole lot of great tracks again. Be warned however, if you don't

like progressive Goa, skip this one and get one of the older Pulse volumes

instead. (I reccomend number 5.. that's a great one as well!!) I like

progressive as well, so I give this 8/10

[Guest sk8walk[at]hotmail[dot]com]

That track by MOS [my baby] , contains such a scary sample... its even becoming

more scaryer when it is revered [dome reverb echo] , damn its freaking

scary!... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!...

cd 1 is pure crap (except track.2) cd 2 has some reasonable tracks, but i

dislike minimal progressive goa... i prefer the older pulse i give this 4/10

[Guest Mascok]

really bad one though some good tracks here on cd2 and disco slickers - its a

feel with bob marly talking samples. so does noma - soon and mos - my baby and

menis - hamburger ofcourse .. pulse 8 was way better!.

u can do it better Sub Terranean... 3/10/

[Guest doesDJalexeverreadthis?]

wow great marketing at novatekk, they included a FREE(!) frisbee!... (disc 1)

cool keep it up like this 'DJ Alex' (NOT!!!!!)

[Guest [Anonymous]]

oh my god this cd sucks so hard i feel a draft every time a open the cdbox.

There is no inspiration no evolution, no nothing. There's just lame beats,lame

beats and lame beats and after that you get kicked in the face with some more

completly lame beats.

[Guest Le Lotus Bleu]

for me, it's worth buying this volume only for the cd2.

cd 1 is decevant because tracks are very irregular in their qualities.

good job from gala and gab+rootsman with tracks quite cool and melodic.

boring minimal tribal track from sbk.

quite interesting music from spirallianz even if it's not what i prefer in

trance.

quite good over of vivona but surely not his best track,better listen to SECRET

or older IMIJ,DROP.

always good sounds from feuerhake,it's the case with 3tage 4nachte.

Disco slickers and Masun in a minimal style which isn't

what i prefer.

Synchro in his special and rconizable style , quite good track.

On cd 2 , nice energic jesus from element, same thing with geomancer of koxbox

(i prefer The Great Unknow in the same style a little bit funky which appears

on tantrance 9).

MOS definitively not for me.

Excellent music begins now from johan bley till tarsis.

dream is a track which hold well his name.

Very funny , some celtic tradionnal music influences at the beginning then

evolution in most normal postford style.

awezome remix by cydonia of morphem.

the two last tracks are very trance ambient kindy and very appreciable.

[Guest zyrkon[at]caramail[dot]com]

cd1 have minimal and some progressive tracks, so the tracklist doesn't have a

logic following. what a pity.

rating cd1:4,5/10

Cd2 have a better tracklist construction, tracks are more melodic, some are

progressive (on the end),more psychedelic on start.all tittles are very good

here except MOS, Menis is just a bit weak.

rating cd2: 8/10

rating compilation :6,5/10

[lysergic]

quite dissapointed.

very very minimal 1st CD. and not very good at that..

best track Disco slickers - its a feel. most of this stuff i wouldnt even call

psychedelic trance!

2nd CD - nearly as bad, but Johann Bley - Dream, is alright.. quite 'dreamy'

sounding hehe. and Hallucinogen - Miloonium is a fun track.. with a very

weird beginning, and some nice twisted effects. Morphem - Hypnotone(rmx), isnt

as good as the original, but still a good track.

overall 4/10

[Guest Dj Portugal]

it´s a nice compilation, But it could be better! My favourite tracks are in CD1

(t6 and t9) in CD2 (t7) t2, t5, t6(it´s funny, but i hear better from simon

posford), are also good but are not so good like 7.

I give 7.5/10