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Killing Joke - Wardance - The Remixes

 

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Artist: Killing Joke

Title: Wardance - The Remixes

Label: Dragonfly

Date: 1998

 

Track listing:

 

01. 06'49" Love Like Blood (Deedrah Rmx)

02. 08'59" Savage Freedom (UX Rmx)

03. 07'24" Democracy (Nine Inch Nails Rmx)

04. 07'27" Four Stations Of The Sun (Hallucinogen Rmx)

05. 06'16" Pandemonium (Man With No Name Rmx)

06. 06'48" Jana (Hallucinogen Rmx)

07. 10'19" Black Moon Rising (California Sunshine Rmx)

08. 07'04" Intellect (JohannRmx)

09. 07'30" White Out (JohannRmx)

 

Review:

 

The most of us know that Killing Joke is an rather old Electro group!! But as a

tribute to them some famous Psychedelic Trance-producers remixed their songs...

That gave some nice songs but also some fucking bad songs that sound like

hard-rock!! Specially that Nine Inch Nails-remix!! What is that doing here???

it sounds like Metal!! The best track is the UX-remix, it's really dark... :o))

Also nice are Jana and Intellect... But the others songs are not my style...

Sounds too rock-ish!! So everyone who hates guitars, DON'T buy it, but if you

are an old rocker who just became Goa-lover... You should buy this!! 6/10! Bom

Shankar

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Guest Mascok

didnt like this album much. as anoebis wrote, sounds too rockish!.

and some tracks here are real stupid like this nine inch nails remix, i mean,

what are they doing here?, they make heavy metal and, never heard a heavy

metal remix to a psychedelic track, in my opinion it sucks big time.

nothing else except of both hallucinogen remixes and johann's remixes.

3/10.

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Guest vezounet[at]hotmail[dot]com

i think it's a good album...and by the way..nine inch nails are not a heavy

metal band..they are an industrial band and do work with synths so they

deserve their place on this cd.i think they just did this cd to have fun doing

songs with guitars...so it nice! :o) i give 7/10 take care dudes! :o)

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Guest Dr Rhythm

This is a largely pointless collection. Killing Joke had their day but it was

twenty years ago and although their first two albums were pretty influential

this one is hardly going to increase their reputation. Straight to the bargain

bin I think 2/10

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Guest arm_ageddon[at]ifrance[dot]com

General case :I Hate remix. Only "original" songs are good.

This case : I love Killing Joke, but i really hate their remix songs: sounds

like techno music... ;o)

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Guest dreamweb55[at]yahoo[dot]com

i LOVE it! dark trax...pure energy...NIN rmx is great...be more open

minded,dont expect tipical goa tracks here (intro,then first build up at

3:30,second build up at 7:10 :)) ..btw,for those of you who hate guitar

trax....why the hell do you listen to this CDds when you know what kind of

trax are on them and then you are writing a rewiew and you say that the CD

sucked??? if you dont like guitars,then dont bother to listen...its like you

hate gutars,but you buy a sun project album....you see any logic here?? :) my

opinion

9/10

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Very very good album. Very dark and rockish too... But I must say I agree that

the NIN remix doesn't seem to fit in there. While the other tracks have at

least something to do with trance, that one is pure industrial rock and

there's even a hardcore beat! Not that I don't like it, but it's just not

trance. For the other tracks: Savage Freedom, Black Moon and Intellect are

awesome!!! The Hallucinogen remixes are good too... 9/10

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Guest grunt[at]goran[dot]org

This is the album that brought me close to goa, before I even really realised

what Goa was, I loved this album, and unfortunately I am old enough to

remember when 'Love like Blood' came out and killed everyone, so good it was.

The songs are very varied as befits the very varied gathering on the album.

Very cool sounds, very well made, presumably Black Moon California Sunshine is

the one that sticks out. Jana is incredible. Democracy is probably the weakest.

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Oh my God, I saw all these stupid reviews about

this "rockish" album...Doesn't ANYONE know ANYTHING about Killing Joke? Killing

Joke is (was???) a pure rock group that started during the 80's. Two of their

members were Youth-founder and owner of Dragonfly (playing bass-guitar), and

Zodiac Mindwarp (Zodiac Youth). Wardance was a pure rock release, having

nothing to do with trance. Youth however, started releasing music at the early

90's with Dr. Alex Patterson under the historical name of Orb. This is how

Butterfly Studios in London started gathering all these "strange" people like

Simon Posford, Ollie Wisdom, Ofer Dikovsky, Avi Algranati, Paul Jackson,

Martin Freeland, Pete Martin and so on. In 1995 all these people started the

Dragonfly project, created by Youth, a project which created the whole

psy-trance scene as it is known today. The biggest kicks were the early 90's

Dragonfly parties throughout Britain and, of course, the Order Odonata

compilations... Regarding to this very album, it is a remixed version of the

original rock album viewed in a psy-trance aspect by these artists who were

there from the beginning...

Regardless to what you think of guitar-trance it is a really good album and

deserves, above all, MAXIMUM RESPECT

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