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Planet BEN - Trippy Future Garden

 

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Artist: Planet BEN

Title: Trippy Future Garden

Label: Polytox

Date: 1996

 

Track listing:

 

01. 10'31" Welcome To The Future

02. 07'25" Screwdriver

03. 09'30" Questionmark

04. 09'01" Scotty's Name

05. 12'24" Ant Invasion

06. 21'57" Trippy Future Garden

 

Review:

 

Planet BEN immediately entered the Psychedelic Hall of Fame of with this huge,

massive and perfect album. While your hearing the first track your mind begins

to travel to another planet, a lot of music can do this but believe me this

goes a lot further. Ben really knows how to mess with your head and entertain

you every second with a bunch of noises and drums coming from nowhere. ANT

INVASION already know by many its a GIGANTIC track almost frightening. The

album finishes with a whole symphony, it has a long intro that explodes so

magically that you will not believe what you are hearing. Do you think his

frindship with the guys from X-DREAM its just a coincidence? NO WAY, HE'S A

FUCKING GENIUS 9.5/10

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Guest Psylent Buddhi

I just got this, and I'm speechless! This is one of THE best albums I've ever

heard. Now, when listening to this, I realize that Planet BEN is up there with

Simon Posford and Koxbox. This is fantastic. I mean, the production And the

depth of this album is beyond anything I ever imagined. A lot of percussion,

darkness, madness, weirdness, noise and psychodelicious riffs constitutes the

sound of Planet BEN! And the way everything is glued together, in a hypnotic

chaos of sound and melody just knocks me out. I wonder what Planet he's from

(that's a retorical question...:). Anyway, "Welcome To The Future" immediately

sets the mood for this album, dark, weird and extremely hypnotic and trance

inducing. After that, 3 wonderful, driving tracks follow. But "Ant Invasion"

is simply an amazing track that takes away your breath. Wow! The title track

is, like Pit-Ufo remarked, a symphony that is just pure, psychedelic bliss!

Damn, this is so good I can't really find any words,!

that will do it justice. I bought this record because of the reviews here at

this page, and I will encourage everyone else to do the same. A milestone in

the history of psytrance in my humble opinion. G E T - T H I S - N O W!(!)

Plur - Psylent Buddhi

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Guest djonanis[at]hotmail[dot]com

JUST DELICIOUS. This is what I call an excelent album. The delay on it is

amazing. Check tracks 3 and 6 they are master pieces. I dont agree with pit

UFO: Ben is not A genious, he is THE genious. BEN, see you in mexico.

Psytrancers... get this album NOW!!!!!!!

10/10

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I agree with all the above opinions. This album is a full psychedelic mind

travel! My favourite is the first track but all of them are fantastic! 10/10

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Guest Globalsteez

Ok, I've got to sort this out cos I meant ro review this ages ago but just

plain forgot about it. It has been one of my favourite albums for years. It

took me a long time to track a copy of this down and I sympathise with anyone

else who is struggling to find it. Above I notice only LaGoaTrance commenting

in a negative way saying that it's basic with poor melodies and all the same.

This is what I would expect a lot of Goa Trance fans to think of it because

they're used to such drivel that has sounded the same for years. Sorry. Planet

BEN's sound is much more subtle and I think with his newer stuff, groovy, with

a sound that really does manage to get inside of your head. To think that this

guy brought this out to very little acclaim (that I know of) way back in 1996!

I mean for fucks sake.. I've got my hat off for that fact alone. I want most

of all to see this guy live, hopefully at Boom2000? I'm coming from Scotland

where (surprise-surprise), Ben is not a regular on the club scene. Saying

that, I'm sure he would fit right it in and if I ever start myself a

psy-techno club, he'd be the guy I'd like to have play the most. If you're

trying to find this CD, try Chaos Unltd. in Brighton and buy the 'Pulse' 12"

on Flying Rhino cos it's bloody immense. All that I can say is nice one Ben,

I'm hearin' you and keep on fuckin' up my head the way you do because no one

else (with the possible exception of X-Dream and definitely Eat Static) evens

come close on the headfuckometer... Respect Da Selecta!!! This should be

staying in my top 5 albums forever kind sir...99.9%/100% for 1996's

effort...Now hurry up and bring your new one out eh? When it comes to waiting

for albums, you're worse than Leftfield sir!!! ps. I enjoyed the honest

interview, good stuff...

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Guest fluodelik[at]hotmail[dot]com

Hello ....

 

Planet Ben .... AmaZing !!!!

I'm just looking for his e-mail adress to ask him to come in Montreal ... Can

you help me ? My name is Jeff MK-Ultra, i do psy-trance party here in

Montreal, and many people knows me around the psy-world ...

So, Thanks for your help

You can go and check us at http://www.surf.to/fluodelik

Boom Spirit, and Shiva Om

 

Jeff

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Guest madcat[at]post[dot]cz

one of my best CDs, ant invasion is like watching a horror movie, a real

experience, on of the best psy-trance tracks ever made!!!! a must for every

psy-trance fan!!

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Guest burrito land

REALLY GREAT ALBUM!! Well, the best track here is definately the first one,

"Welcome to the future". Every single sound simply get the spot(?). It's very

imaginational and atomospheric. A lot of focused moments are inside this one.

It's MAD!! I REALLY appreciate what they put at the end. It's either

believable or unbelievable at the edge of the same line goes like 0 or

infinite....(But it's actually 0. he,he)

Should listen to this one.

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Guest Banco_de_gaia[at]hotmail[dot]com

I got this album way back in 1997, I could still remember it was

file under trance section sitting together with MFG's The Prophecy. I was

crazy about goa trance then, so I picked up both. I happened to know about

Planet Ben and MFG through Transient 4 compilation which I had bought earlier.

I could still recall the listening to Hallucinogen's Twisted, Total Eclipse's

Violent Relaxation and Transwave's Phototropic which sent me straight to

euphoria and total bliss. But it was different, the moment when Planet Ben's

Trippy Future Garden arrives. It has a very distinctive sound different from

all other goa bands at that time. A total isolation. It was as if the musician

was writing those music for other genre and it happenned to suit well on goa

heads. It was just like a revelation on how far goa music can stretch its

genre to the limit. The sound palette was cleverly chosen and beautifully

arranged. The track- Welcome to the future will explain that. The third track-

Questionmark, is simply awesome, it starts with pounding 4/4 beat and halfway

through the 303 acid release out into deep rhythmic psychedelia, an

enlightenment experience. Ant Invasion starts with deep dark percussion and

shift into a marching 4/4 beat, you can almost feel the goa ants marching in

your head. The last track explains it all, clocking to a mammoth 22 minutes of

the most atmospheric, ambiantic, triptic goa experiecne. Its like smoking

weeds and drifting into deep space. I don't listen to goa that much now, as I

was strayed into other music genre, but once a while I put on my headphone and

listen to Planet B.E.N and lost into the Trippy Future Garden.

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Guest suntech[at]bezeqint[dot]net

Wow ... i think i know why it's so good...Maybe because Simon behind this...All

the things from Simon it's masterpieces.

Yallla Balagan

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Guest frustrated Järsimähäiriö

This album really keeps giving me pimples... I mean it appears that I'd stand a

better change finding a bowl of ice cream from Sahara... And mind you I've

been looking for this for like what, three-four years now? Geesh.

 

And yes, JC, I can assure you that it's a great great piece of art, one of the

best ever.

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Guest Blue Penguin

i usually don't listen to minimal trance, but seeing the reviews above, i have

downloaded the first track...and it's BRILLIANT!!!

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Guest Davidtolsn

what can i say. this is the best music can get. i've had this cd for 3 years

and it's still one of the best cds i own (along with hallucinogen - twisted).

listen to this and it takes you to a strange alien world. everything about it

fits together perfectly. there are tons of layers, strange, twisted sound

effects, and it just doesn't sound human. it's unlike any other music i've

heard. amazing. 10/10

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PLANET B.E.N. - TRIPPY FUTURE GARDEN

1996

POLYTOX

 

1. WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

2. SCREWDRIVER

3. QUESTIONMARK

4. SCOTTY'S NAME

5. ANT INVASION

6. TRIPPY FUTURE GARDEN

 

Ben Wierzoh aka Planet B.E.N. made this FANTASTIC album back in 1996 and he had no idea how this would influence generation of old schoolers that for the first time heard first minimalistic maximal goa trance. His structure is so unique and he entirely produced experimental especially MENTAL album. This album is perfect for tripping as the name suggests.

No one before or after him continued this tradition of psychotic and smooth goa trance at the same time. I was also sorry cause he at least hasn't made another similar album to this and he switched to minimal trance almost directly with his second one.

 

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE is so cyber, psychotic and demented at the same time. Loads of effects perfectly arranged with insane acid melodies and sharp, rusty bass lines that dominates this track. Almost 11 minutes long journey is brilliantly arranged with huge level of psychedelic involved. Amazing track !

 

SCREWDRIVER goes slower and it is perfect mellow psychedelic goa track. It's generic structure and hypnotic beat goes on and on and you are swallowed deep inside the track. This track has been released as single and was on various compilations maybe because it is solid and smooth goa track without any psychosis as the rest of the album is.

 

QUESTIONMARK is faster but it is also very hypnotic, psychedelic and rough. It is also released as second big hit from this album cause it captures true goa spirit. Very psychedelic and for trippers for sure.

 

SCOTTY'S NAME continues in slower rhythm, like Screwdriver and it goes so smooth and delicate with acid bulid ups all the way. Great track for meditating purposes on trance. It is very spacey, exploring and travelling. Perfect !

 

ANT INVASION is simply outrageous ! Loads of deviant sounds and effects also perfectly arranged in 12 minutes long journey through the NETHERWORLDZ of Earth. Many consider this as the best track on the album, but to me is close second, right after the last one...hummmmm...last one....

 

TRIPPY FUTURE GARDEN is by far the richest, most massive minimalistic structure I have ever heard ! OMG ! This track, 22 minutes long just goes on and on, having amazing hypnotic indian drums floating all the way, in the air, hypnotising you perfectly before incredible enchatingly twisted melody comes in. It has fantastic break in the middle to prepare you for the GRAND FINALE at the end. A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. !!! I could swear that he used over 50 channels for this one, it has so much melodies, effects, drum machines and sounds that I even can't imagine how the arrangement of it looked like. One of the best tracks for tripping out hard...:)B)

 

This is truly one of the most psychedelic albums of its time. I am really sorry he didn't continue with this truly unique style with his other albums, but if you are a newbie or even old schooler that still doesn't have this album, find it, get it, cause it is essential in everyone's collection...without exaggeration...11/10 :D

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Some perfect tracks in this one!

Just noticed... according to.. http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=143228

..Welcome to the future is from 1991 ?!! Waaaaay ahead of it's time I must say :)

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Some perfect tracks in this one!

Just noticed... according to.. http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=143228

..Welcome to the future is from 1991 ?!! Waaaaay ahead of it's time I must say :)

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1991 ? No way ! I saw the discogs link but I still can't imagine any of that track made so early.

 

Maybe we should wait for Ben himself to confirm us this...it sounds too impossible !

 

But if it is correct then I bow to him, truly...:D

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Here i am wanting to ask a few things about "test + trippy future garden".

 

are the tracks excactly the same as on the original?

 

why are they arranged in a different order?

 

is the booklet from TFG included?

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What style are his other albums?

 

listened to this one for the 2nd time, today... it's really nice, unique sound, trippy , weird goa ! let alone that production is excellent for its age... ;)

definitely 10/10 release...

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His second one, SILVER was minimal and rather good but completely different from this one, and his third one TEST which I haven't heard yet but I know it is full on, so he has been changing style all the time and I am quite amazed that such talent only made 3 albums and few singles.

 

Planet BEN, come back ! :D;)

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