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Xervana - Samples From A Virtual Life

 

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Artist: Xervana

Title: Samples From A Virtual Life

Label: Tsunami

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 8'45" A New Life

02. 7'13" Specimen

03. 7'48" Frustrations

04. 9'07" Synthetic Body

05. 7'46" Neutralization Of Mind

06. 8'23" Behind The Hidden

07. 9'15" The Wicked Chosen

08. 9'24" End Of Life

 

Review:

 

Once I saw that Tsunami Productions was about to release a new album

from a new, unknown artist, I just had to check it out considering all

the great releases from that label lately. This is typical, classical

Goa in the genre of Astral Projection, sometimes it even sounds almost

like certain melodies was ripped of their material. Still, this is high

quality trance, which is the music I first fell in love with. What

really struck me is the age of the composer, only 18 years of age(!) I

won't dare to imagine what he will be able to create in a few years from

now... This is a very nice debut from a younger lad from Sweden. From

the spectrum of Goa, psy, heading towards some more commercial liked

tracks. A good use of mixed filters blending together, just as it

should. Track number 3 "Neutralization Of Mind", is my favourite.

Reminds me alot of Pleiadians, great stuff! The weakness of "Samples

From A Virtual Life" is as mentioned earlier, the non-innovative

melodies, maybe Xervana has looked too much on other artists work? The

Strength is the quality of the use of sounds and melodies and are all

very well composed. If you like isratrance then you should definately

take a look at this album. If not, don't. I, myself still love

isratrance so the choice of wether to buy this one or not was not too

hard (especially nowadays

when it seemes like almost everyone is going for the more monotonish,

technoish, in my opinion kind of boring trance). For being only 18 years

of age this is far better then Astral Projection (or anyone else for

that matter). I can't imagine that anyone has succeded in producing such

quality trance at that age. But still one has to bare in mind that

Astral and such was pioneers in the genre and so it took some years for

them to develope the Astralsound we are so familiar with today. Nowadays

they are copied by many and that's not so hard when you're able to refer

to thoose materials which has already been released.

 

But if Xervana continues releasing tracks and tries to go on his own

path of style, then I'm sure we will experience some extraordinary music

 

from him in the future, the quality is already here! 7/10.

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Guest [Anonymous]

My opinion: xervana is available for a while now on MP3.com, and it has never

hit my head during the listenings i've accorded to it...

Ok, nice soundz, but why do Tsunami release an album like this in 2001????

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Guest Syefone8

old school never die but in our memories not producing an old school alboom in

2002 please try to improve things and be much better than in the past

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Guest lunari[at]goatrance.zzn[dot]com

mixed ! .. i want both "ol'skool" and "nu'skool" psytrance and goa .. i dont

actually care .. aslong as it makes me dance i dont care what it is .. =d

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Guest budsjo[at]spray[dot]se

Xervana (olof) is a very good artist...ofcourse it´s oldschool...but it´s still

good as long as U can dance to it ...

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Guest sublunar[at]earthling[dot]net

You should check out some of this guys newer tracks, talk about hi quality! I'm

waiting for his next album!

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Guest Onyxura

People complaint about this being oldschool, and people ask why this was

released in 2001. Is it because it has melodies? Is it because it is not just

a bassdrum with some weird sounds put around them? I think this album is a

rare jewel theese days. Excellent to hear some nice melodies again. Might be a

little "Astral'ish", but since astral started making hardtrance and putting

out mixed "best of" comps we might need a new astral. Keep it up, and bring

us another album soon. Bom 8/10

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I really think this has to be looked at again. Very underrated! Because it came out in 2001, I believe it was passed over as old-schoolers looking for that magical past amidst the snoozefest that was minimal. All the tracks on this CD are beautiful melodic goa. I wonder what Olof Lönnroth is doing these days? I know that he had a track on the V/A Blissful Moments that was another great goa track. Anyone have any idea if he is still making music? A new album would really be sweet.

 

Mdk

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Hey. I heard about this album some years ago and totally forgot about it.

Now i bought my copy... and it really kicks ass IMO.

 

And yes i have gotten in contact with Olof recently and he said that:

 

There is many unreleased tracks from him that he think would be fun to somthing with.

Maybe put up a site.. that will feature downloadable old tracks.

 

;)

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I got a whole batch of unreleased tracks from him, they are easily to be found through P2P networks. I believe the guy is not into music anymore though, I remember he was doing something with web graphics etc :) ...

 

And yeah, the album contains some killer tracks, fo sho!

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really nice indeed, this sound is charming in a way because it sometimes sounds a bit amateur but yeah that's why it's charming.

Really really nostalgic track 6 made me smile it sounds so old : ) as said above the sound is vey israeli for most tracks, AP like. Very melodic. Only melodic actually melodies everywhere...

There is one track which sounds very Dimension 5 like it is track 7, amazing track. Unfortunately expensive to buy the CD I managed to get some mp3 but waiting to get the CD at a decent price. Too bad the guy stopped making music he had some great ideas. 7.5/10.

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