Guest Zhoro Posted September 27, 2000 Share Posted September 27, 2000 V/A - Transient 8 Artist: Various Title: Transient 8 Label: Transient Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 06'30" Elhad Vs Emak : Turbokaka 02. 09'01" Phony Orphants : Black Sheep 03. 10'17" Son Kite : Where's My Drum 04. 07'55" Mumbo Jumbo : Abdobz 05. 06'36" Mino : Gated Reality 06. 08'58" Ticon : Monkey Business 07. 07'55" Matenda : Spalata Trance 08. 08'28" Human Blue : La Scream 09. 07'59" Traumatribe : Hemlich Hund Project Review: Deep quirky tech trance with dark basslines and funky beats, minimal melody. This compilation is very original and modern sounding. As dark as it is, there is a sense of humor in these tracks ... you could call it black humor I guess. A lot of Scandinavian artists on the list - sign of the times. Highlights: Black Sheep - a weird but awesome track which is not very danceable but cool to listen to; track 3 by Son Kite - excellent psychedelic atmopshere; Monkey Business (Ticon) - the monkey screams are fun, good driving rhythm; the Matenda track - the tranciest one on this CD (appropriate title), minimal but very psychedelic; La Scream (Human Blue) - my favorite track - also very trancy with an underwater feeling to it and you have to see how these guys make a brass line sound very cool; Mumbo Jumbo is the weakest track - starts promissing but then makes a 180 and goes into an annoying vocoded line -electro is not my thing; the Traumatribe track is good. I recommend this CD but probably not to everyone. Overall rating: 7.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ktaadn Posted September 27, 2000 Share Posted September 27, 2000 My God, are we up to #8 already? Yet another installment in Transient's fantastic series, but it fails to match some of the others. High highs and low lows on this one. I really dig the Traumatribe and Mumbo Jumbo tracks but the highlights are too few and far between. At its best, you get some pretty full-on cuts like the very GMS-esque "Abdobz." At its worst, tracks that seem to have no direction or focus whatsoever. Lots of people think psy-trance is in a state of limbo, searching for its true sound again. If that's the case, this record goes a long way in proving it. So this one is suggested, not quite recommended, most definitely not essential. 6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaySatanicHippie Posted October 6, 2000 Share Posted October 6, 2000 I think this album is essential for anyone who is into the new progressive scandinavian sound. there are some really amazing tracks on here, i like all of them. I would definitely recommend this record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dandoo Forest Posted October 21, 2000 Share Posted October 21, 2000 I LIKE! a very cool dark and evil album some cool psychodelic toons in it..... dark menimalistic and it's a good cd 4 anyone who like the new psy wave or some this like that ahahahahahahaha if u like ds styl just BUY! ))))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zapzig Posted November 2, 2000 Share Posted November 2, 2000 none of this shit is nearly as good as transient's back catalogue.. i was extremely disappointed when i heard about what the content of their newest compilation was, but i decided to give it a chance and take a listen. at the cd shop the album was in the goa section but had a sticker on it that said "progressive european trance" [glad they aint callin this boredom-in-a-box goa!!]... snooooooore! put me to sleep will ya! didn't like a single track and i gave it many listens... booooo-urns to you transient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nope Posted November 9, 2000 Share Posted November 9, 2000 My god! this is the worst shit i've heard in years, i'd rather listen to n'sync. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nois Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 An excellent one, but rather for the progressive freaks... like me! I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest f r e d Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 This compilation is awesome, probably one of the best, with artists like Son Kite, Phony Orphants, Ticon, Emok and many more they can't fail. Every single track on this compilation is excellent, all you progressive fans (like me) will love this album! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomble Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 Progressive.... meaning with progress.... moving on ? What's it all about really ? I mean, psychedelic trance has been moving on ever since it's earliest days, shifting, evolving, growing up.... so why now do we call this shift towards minimalism and a blurring of the boundaries with acid techno 'progressive'. I'm not saying I don't like the sound of some of these tracks, because apart from the first two tunes they are pretty sound in my view - but I'd have to say that the amount of neural activity they generate in my brain is a lot less than some of the psychedelia of a couple of years ago. Tunes for the dance floor in the early hours in the heart of winter ! 7/10 and please don't call music progressive .... it's a meaningless word ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squid[at]born-on-a-pirate-ship[d Posted March 31, 2001 Share Posted March 31, 2001 i see this record in the shop nearly every time i go [and its not too far from where i work so i go there to kill time at lunch]... once in a while i think i ought to give it another listen; its TRANSIENT.. can't be all that bad! but then i put the records on and feel like minutes of my time are being eaten up for some worthless purpose listening to terribly uninspiring music... its all minimal without any kind of interesting catch, as far as i'm concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shagbagboy Posted August 20, 2001 Share Posted August 20, 2001 As you ppl say this is a FUCKIN' great album!!!!......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tchankov I.V. Posted October 10, 2001 Share Posted October 10, 2001 It may worth to listen to that thing while doing something, thereby creating some ambiance or such. But there's no hope to become immersed in this comps action - "no symbols, no images" It has its own style - very close to what Son Kite usually does. Actually this style is held constant all the way, though. Won't judge it - be it cool or lame - but there's not so much goin' on, all the tracks are monotonous, not intense & somewhat dark. This comp is also reminiscent of Tryptamin comp (from Iboga, jul'00 - Son Kite, Ticon, Human Blue, Phony Orphants, Emok tracks are there too) at times, but imho, quite a bit weakier - the second one I find definitely to my liking for its mesmerizing feeling, what cann't be said about this one. No highlights there, but ambience it creates - that's true! So, 6/10 from me (sooth-to-say, it sounds now a little bit better as the year have passed). Tchankov I.V. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vernon sullivan Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 I really like this cd, the tracks have a nice smooth quality. Favourites are the tracks from mino, mumbo jumbo and espec. son kite, but they're all good. Of course this judgement is coming from someone who is not locked into the prejudice that trance music has to be full of melodies and full-on "psychedelic" sounds to be great...so if you are one of these people you probably won't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr G Posted January 23, 2003 Share Posted January 23, 2003 This is a very nice compilation, however it is dark minimalism and tends to work much better in certain moods than in others. It is particularly great when listened to really late at night on your own with all the lights off, when it is hypnotic and sucks you in to a black landscape with occasional lights piercing the gloom - very Scandinavian. My favourite tracks are the Matenda and Mumbo Jumbo ones. Highly recommended if you like hypnotic rather than uplifting trance. 8/10 ~*~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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