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Various - The Mystery Of The Thirteen Crystal Skulls
Label:
Catalog#:
TIPWCD16
Format:
CD, Compilation
Country:
UK
Released:
26 Nov 2001
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Psy-Trance
Tracklist
| 1 | Alien Project - | The First Revelation Part One | 8:59 | |
| Written-By, Producer - Ari Linker , Avi "Astrix" Shmailov* | ||||
| 2 | Cyberbabas - | The First Revelation Part Two | 8:57 | |
|
Vocals -
Hari Om Gorton*
Written-By, Producer - Benji Vaughn* Written-By, Producer, Flute - Raja Ram | ||||
| 3 | Doof - | The Second Revelation | 11:42 | X |
| Written-By, Producer - Nick Doof* | ||||
| 4 | Logic Bomb - | The Third Revelation | 11:04 | X |
| Written-By, Producer - Johan Kraft* , Jonas Bergvall , Jonas Pettersson | ||||
| 5 | GMS And 1300 Mics* - | The Fourth Revelation | 12:06 | X |
|
Vocals -
Isabelle*
Vocals [Additional] - Mariana (3) Written-By, Producer - Bansi , Riktam Written-By, Producer, Flute - Raja Ram Written-By, Producer, Narrator - Chicago | ||||
| 6 | Absolum - | The Fifth Revelation | 11:47 | X |
| Written-By, Producer - Christof Drouillet | ||||
| 7 | Shpongle - | The Sixth Revelation | 12:17 | X |
|
Vocals -
Michelle Anderson*
Written-By, Producer - Simon Posford Written-By, Producer, Flute - Raja Ram | ||||
Notes
The Thirteen Crystal Skulls:
"Crystal grows like a living thing. Vital in information technology, from computers to telecommunications satellites, crystal also has the power to interfuse mind and matter, to encode thought. Growing from a single seed, it replicates itself in a mystic structure that does not age, that does not change with time, a structure that can trap thought itself in its lattice. The power of crystal has long been known to adepts, who use it to heal, to learn, to explore other dimensions of space and time. Great is its power, and the power of The Thirteen Crystal Skulls is its greatest manifestation on Earth.
According to Native America legend, supported by shamanic lore and the insights of modern explorers, these mysterious, otherworldly, rock crystal, life-size skulls, thirteen in number, can speak and sing. The sound of the skulls, they say, is the unheard sound of creation, the sound that animates everything. These skulls contain vital information concerning the destiny of mankind. ...
Cont'd....
Storehouse of wisdom an knowledge, transmitted to the Maya people of Yucatan from the lost world Atlantis many thousands of years ago, the mystical crystal skulls have fascinated researchers since the rediscovery of the first them, the so-called Mitchell-Hedges skull, more than half a century ago. But today the singing skulls are scattered far and wide, and so they will remain until such time as we learn to share with one another, care for one another, and live in world peace and harmony with Grandmother Earth. When mankind is ready they will come back to reveal their knowledge".
Special thanks to James Huges for writing the text.
Special thanks to Chicago for Imagination.
Special thanks to Barefoot Doctor for inspiration.
All tracks P&C TIP.WORLD
Barcode: 5 030094 067028
Total time: 76:55
"Crystal grows like a living thing. Vital in information technology, from computers to telecommunications satellites, crystal also has the power to interfuse mind and matter, to encode thought. Growing from a single seed, it replicates itself in a mystic structure that does not age, that does not change with time, a structure that can trap thought itself in its lattice. The power of crystal has long been known to adepts, who use it to heal, to learn, to explore other dimensions of space and time. Great is its power, and the power of The Thirteen Crystal Skulls is its greatest manifestation on Earth.
According to Native America legend, supported by shamanic lore and the insights of modern explorers, these mysterious, otherworldly, rock crystal, life-size skulls, thirteen in number, can speak and sing. The sound of the skulls, they say, is the unheard sound of creation, the sound that animates everything. These skulls contain vital information concerning the destiny of mankind. ...
Cont'd....
Storehouse of wisdom an knowledge, transmitted to the Maya people of Yucatan from the lost world Atlantis many thousands of years ago, the mystical crystal skulls have fascinated researchers since the rediscovery of the first them, the so-called Mitchell-Hedges skull, more than half a century ago. But today the singing skulls are scattered far and wide, and so they will remain until such time as we learn to share with one another, care for one another, and live in world peace and harmony with Grandmother Earth. When mankind is ready they will come back to reveal their knowledge".
Special thanks to James Huges for writing the text.
Special thanks to Chicago for Imagination.
Special thanks to Barefoot Doctor for inspiration.
All tracks P&C TIP.WORLD
Barcode: 5 030094 067028
Total time: 76:55
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The Alien Project and Cyberbabas tracks start things off in downtempo vein, before Doof makes his appearance to make what is, in my opinion, the best track he has ever made. Its modern, yet still has the old goa style rolling synth lines along with some twisted vocal manipulation of the samples. Logic Bomb offers a nice solid track in the Logic Bomb style, but a bit more airy than usual.
GMS and 1300 Mics (a sort of misnomer as GMS is part of 1200 Mics, which is somehow turned into 1300 Mics here... another TIP World typo?) offers the best GMS track I have heard in years. It starts slow and ethnic and eventually takes the best parts of GMS' full on madness, mixes them with the ethnic and spiritual elements to make one of their best tracks to date. The Absolum track is a dark brooding journey into the darker side of psy, yet somehow doesn't seem out of place. Lots of deep, crunchy, distorted things going on, yet still atmospheric.
Shpongle closes off the album this their first actually "trance" track. While beginning still very much in the Shpongle vein (if you haven't heard them, description is futile), they go into a full on dance floor stomper that is handsdown the highlight of an album already filled with highlights. Many goa/psy trance fans have been lamenting the fact that its been several years since Hallucinogen (Simon Posford, one half of Shpongle) has released anything, but tracks like this can definately help make up for the lack of dancefloor output by great Simon in his other musical projects.
All in all an excellent comp.... Highly recommended