Tristan - Substance

By PKS.

ally Tristan Cooke is out with his second album on Twisted Records. His
debut album Audiodrome, came also out on Twisted, in 1999. Tristan is without
doubt one of the leading trance djs out there. He plays on festivals and
parties all over the world. He has his own way of serving the crowd a voyage
on the dance floor. But he is not only good at djing. He has also made his own
music for many years. The first track is a kind of morning track. Drifting
progressive sound picture, with floating sounds. Not very varied, but pleasant
at the dance floor for sure. Track two goes faster with more darker and
psychedelic sounds. One of the better tracks on this album in my opinion.
Track 3 goes fast and dark too, but I sort of get a little tired of these
sounds. He is good at making a trancey vibe for the dance floor, but the music
easily get a little boring for home listening. Track 4 starts with an audience
screaming and some vinyl crackling. Then we get some tribal house influenced
rhythms and a little female voice. Is it house or trance? You decide! In track
5 we go back to smooth morning trance vibes again. Stumping trance with a
little melodic sounds above, which makes it pleasant. Nice one in the sunrise
after a night of full on dark music. Again, not varied music, but a nice dj
tool. Track 6 goes full on again, with more cool sounds and heavy rolling
rhythms. Track 7 (Brazilica Psychedelica) is really Brazil influenced. Again
very influenced by tribal house! Tristan is for sure one of those artists who
push borders between music styles a little closer to each other. Track 8 is
full on night time music again. Rolling rhythms pushing all the way through,
and a few dark sounds swirling around. The last track is a chilled down tempo
track, with some pleasant echo effects and groovy sounds. This music is for
sure a really good dj tool, but for the regular home listener, this will
probably get very boring after some listening. All the music released on
Twisted Records is so different from this, so why are they releasing it on
that label? He sort of doesn`t fit in that label. Just take a look at the
Tristan track on the Unusual Suspects compilation released earlier this
year... That track had nothing to do among those other masterpieces on that
compilation...