BLT & Danny Makov - Anything U Want

BLT has impressed me for many years now, I can remember when I first heard their album "Presence" back in 2000, just smooth sailing from there!!! So this colab with Danny Makov seems to be a succes with "Anything U Want".

Patterns Of... Is just pure bliss... it just takes me places: "Mathematics is the language of nature"! :)

BLT (Yuli Fershtat) is back with a new album, this time together with Danni Makov on drums. BLT has already released three albums and plays as a dj in Israel and many other parts of the world. Danni Makov has played in several rock bands as a drummer. They have been collaborating for two years now.

The first track start with some weird sounds and tribal drums. Then the beat starts pumping together with some guitar. A stumping progressive track with a very tribal vibe. In the middle of the track, the beat goes over to a more full on drifting style and we get some female Indian vocals. I already heard this once at a forest party, and it worked really well. Nice one. Track 2 starts with some drums building up to a pumping beat. We get a few breaks with atmospheric floating sound, and after a while they leads us into a very drifting rhythm drift, somewhere between progressive and full on trance. I like the way they mix organic instruments into the pumping trance vibes. Track 3 starts pumping from the first second. This is a totally stumping track with a really heavy pumping bass line. It is quite melodic too, with some old school vibes mixed with the modern heavy beats. After a while you also get some guitar in this one too, and even some weird vocals. Not among my favourites on this album. Track 4 goes to a darker, more full on level. This is better for the night. Mystic psychedelic sounds floating in and out of the drifting beats. It really builds up and become pretty massive. Definitely one of my favourite tracks on this album.

Track 5 has a very atmospheric floating vibe and some deep pumping beats. Totally drifting progressive track that builds up slowly. You also get some really crispy psychedelic sounds jumping in there. Some funny melodies sneak in too. Track 6 starts nice and floating with some funny voice samples. This is a really long lasting track, lasting for thirteen and a half minute. This is a stumping track with some really cool bubbling psychedelic sounds, but it could have been a bit shorter. Track 7 is a rolling monster track. This one goes back to the night time style. Dark sounds and an evil sounding bass line. Some of the sounds in this one remind me a bit Of Skazi, which isn’t a plus in my opinion. But it is definitely better than Skazi and some of the samples we get here are really cool. The last track we get on this album starts with some slow and mystic sounds and an evil voice sample, before the groovy rhythm drift hits in. This one has a pretty happy vibe with some funky sounds mixed in, but I didn’t need those vocals. Hard, progressive trance.

This is definitely the best album BLT has done so far. Not every track is top, but you get some really strong tracks here too, and a couple of them are really great. An album different from the usual full on Israeli style, but also different from most progressive trance, so check it out.

Like electric guitar sounds in trance and a fresh approach to the trance sound? Well, then try a dosis of BLT & Makov! Musicwise somewhere in the borderland between psy and proggy, I'm not sure how to characterize this album. Anyway, I would not deem this album appropriate for mainstage nor chill-out so let's see how the tracks do at home :o)

First up is Mind The Gap, a song split in a slow first half and a fast 2nd half. Well, in the first half the guitar doesn't do it for me, and in the 2nd the female vox is not my taste! And when the lead electric guitar kicks in at 8:27 ... AAAARRRGGHHH !!! What is this? Steve Vai?

Things get better with track two The Calling. Okay elements, but it's with this track as the album as a whole; it doesn't know where to go. And when something finally starts up, the track ends! This goes for a track like The Rain Song too. Nice parts, nice details here & there, but does it want to send me inwards or dance? It's neither fish, nor chicken :o(

Gracefull Dead probably could do at the chill out stage as a teaser for a deep trance set. BLT & Makov seems more sure what they want here; dark, spiralling, hypnotizing. Ok track followed up by Patterns off ... and now things start to work. More progressive, more repetitive and less confusing as the beginning of the album, it appears B&D now knows what they want. 13:31 minutes long this track as track one is split in two halfs. But this time both halfs work better. Ok track but a little long.

If you like something new and different based on psy and progressive you may wanna try B&M. If guitars are also to your liking this would probably do you very good.