Mood Deluxe - The Tangent Universe
Label:
Catalog#:
LRCD001MD
Format:
CD
Country:
UK
Released:
Jul 2006
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Breaks,
Psy-Trance
Tracklist
| 1 | Causal Loop (Mood Deluxe Intro Edit) | 2:41 | X | |
| 2 | Episode | 7:14 | X | |
| 3 | Closer | 7:11 | X | |
| 4 | Something Like Remember | 6:37 | X | |
| Vocals - Emma Frost | ||||
| 5 | Phantom Technology | 7:47 | X | |
| 6 | The Tangent Universe | 6:22 | X | |
| 7 | Zeitgeist (Naked Weapon Mix) | 7:36 | X | |
| 8 | The Living Receiver | 8:54 | X | |
| 9 | Wrong Way | 8:47 | X | |
| 10 | Lucid Juice | 7:38 | X | |
| 11 | Amber | 8:36 | X | |
Credits
Notes
Dedicated to Robert Anton Wilson and Bill Hicks.
"Something Like Remember" (track 4) is written on the back cover and in the liner notes as "Something Like Rememeber"
"Something Like Remember" (track 4) is written on the back cover and in the liner notes as "Something Like Rememeber"
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Reviews & Discussion
Cameron Leonard-Schroff aka Nagual Sound Experiment the Psy-Breaks of Brighton. Cameron back to the UK Psy-Trance scene after a period in California there was working as an engineer sound. Mood Deluxe the debut album was produced at LA, London and Brighton.
this album fusing two dancefloor strands of Psy-Trance and Nu Skool breaks. Mood Deluxe has taken the best threads and ingredients from many genres and styles and has woven a tapestry which cloud very well be the foreshadowing of a new generation of electronic music sound to come.
What exactly are you listening to when opening track Causal Loop drops Hiphop, dub, breaks all fused together with a psychedelic-something asthe mesh. Episode sounds less like a track than a pay-TV syperhyped boxing match. Seriously large. And if you doubt that B-Boy breaks can melt into psychedelic sounds, this’ll set you straight.
Closer contains some truly wonderful sounds, unbelievably deep layering and this wondrous spirit that makes you completely forget what it was you were supposed to be doing. It is That Good. When it drops at around the six-minute-mark, you will thank me. Something Like Remember is closer in its spirit to conventional psy-chill (wailing goddesses, squelchy low-set acid, distant ethery in the pads), but with breaks, nice. Phantom Technology is the high-watermark of the genreclash thus far,and this is before Phantom Technology thwacks in, a deliriously tasty tune, and likewise The Tangent Universe. Hefty, the peak and drop on this will have you grinning from ear to over there, and the slide back down to earth is pure electronic music at it’s best. Zeitgeist is a pacey bit of attention-deficit-disorder-simulation,pausing momentarily in the break before coming back with one hell of a bang. You notice, on this one, that Mood Deluxe fits effortlessly into the music he’s making, as though it was an already-established genre rather than something new.
The Living Receiver is some alien-mutated form of two-step on rather large amounts of 2CB, Wrong Way is (shocker) a 4-4 bit of oldskool psytrance, and bloody nice it is too, even if it does mean I have to try very hard indeed not to use the word “Goa”. Lucid Juice throws us back to breaks, in a manner and style broadly in keeping with the sort of stuff Giiwa or Demon Tea might throw at us.
What strikes me here is how full the music is – there’s simply so much going on, and simply so much going off, you can’t help but fall in love with it for the sheer immersion factor.
Finally, Amber doesn’t seem to have quite the energy or Wow-factor as the rest of the album, but we can forgive this.
This is a wonderful, wonderful release. The depth, the clarity, the confidence in the changes is precisely what is missing from identikit shit-u-like psytrance. Where people look back to Hallucinogen’s Twisted as the start of psychedelic trance, or to Shpongle as the start of psy-chill, one day they may just look back to this as the
start of whatever the hell Mood Deluxe has just invented.
• Favorites: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11
• Rating: 10/10
this album fusing two dancefloor strands of Psy-Trance and Nu Skool breaks. Mood Deluxe has taken the best threads and ingredients from many genres and styles and has woven a tapestry which cloud very well be the foreshadowing of a new generation of electronic music sound to come.
What exactly are you listening to when opening track Causal Loop drops Hiphop, dub, breaks all fused together with a psychedelic-something asthe mesh. Episode sounds less like a track than a pay-TV syperhyped boxing match. Seriously large. And if you doubt that B-Boy breaks can melt into psychedelic sounds, this’ll set you straight.
Closer contains some truly wonderful sounds, unbelievably deep layering and this wondrous spirit that makes you completely forget what it was you were supposed to be doing. It is That Good. When it drops at around the six-minute-mark, you will thank me. Something Like Remember is closer in its spirit to conventional psy-chill (wailing goddesses, squelchy low-set acid, distant ethery in the pads), but with breaks, nice. Phantom Technology is the high-watermark of the genreclash thus far,and this is before Phantom Technology thwacks in, a deliriously tasty tune, and likewise The Tangent Universe. Hefty, the peak and drop on this will have you grinning from ear to over there, and the slide back down to earth is pure electronic music at it’s best. Zeitgeist is a pacey bit of attention-deficit-disorder-simulation,pausing momentarily in the break before coming back with one hell of a bang. You notice, on this one, that Mood Deluxe fits effortlessly into the music he’s making, as though it was an already-established genre rather than something new.
The Living Receiver is some alien-mutated form of two-step on rather large amounts of 2CB, Wrong Way is (shocker) a 4-4 bit of oldskool psytrance, and bloody nice it is too, even if it does mean I have to try very hard indeed not to use the word “Goa”. Lucid Juice throws us back to breaks, in a manner and style broadly in keeping with the sort of stuff Giiwa or Demon Tea might throw at us.
What strikes me here is how full the music is – there’s simply so much going on, and simply so much going off, you can’t help but fall in love with it for the sheer immersion factor.
Finally, Amber doesn’t seem to have quite the energy or Wow-factor as the rest of the album, but we can forgive this.
This is a wonderful, wonderful release. The depth, the clarity, the confidence in the changes is precisely what is missing from identikit shit-u-like psytrance. Where people look back to Hallucinogen’s Twisted as the start of psychedelic trance, or to Shpongle as the start of psy-chill, one day they may just look back to this as the
start of whatever the hell Mood Deluxe has just invented.
• Favorites: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11
• Rating: 10/10
So with no expectations I put this in my cd-player....and what a pleasant experience! Not that all the music can be classified as pleasant (as soft as bunny) but as and musical surprise, some tracks are soft'ich but most tracks have a rough edge! I wound'nt classify this as psy-downtempo though it to fast imo, maybe Closer (track 3) but its still fast though, the album blends in between psy-break/psy-dnb and psy-trance.... This is a real cocktail and if you are not in for that.... thats too bad for u!
For me this is a fresh of breath air into psymusic, there is not many artists producing psychedelic breaks/dnb so I welcome Mood Deluxe!
The album starts out relatively slow a lot off deep beats and weird voices, Closer (track 3) is really beautiful! Around track 4-5 it starts to pick up more tempo, a lot of power and dnb elements, now it starts to be fun! I really like The Tangent Universe (track 6) the beat its kinda oddbeat and a lot of crispy sounds and a dnb'sh bassline, a lot of fun!!! Next Zeitgeist (Naked Weapon mix)(track 7) is more psy-trance'ich, nice but not as fun as the previous track. Track 8-10 is a real blend of both breakbeat and psytrance, very interesting! The finishing track Amber is like a finishing track normally is more slow and landing the album again after the journey, a very nice nice and dreamy track though still quite a fast tempo, really good closing track!
So all in all I recommend this to anyone who would like to listen to something different, off course you would have to like the break/dnb sound, and if dont know if u like this check it out anyways. I really like this abum, what a debute!!!
And a very high level of prodution skills for sure very well done!!!
Fav's: 3, 6!!, 8!, 9!!!, 10!