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Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation

Label:
Catalog#:
BR015CD
Format:
2 x CD, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
24 Jun 1996
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Goa Trance, Ambient

Tracklist

1.1   Virtual Terminal Energised 7:19
1.2   Area 51 7:36
1.3   The Furnace 9:01
1.4   Teknophobia 8:14
1.5   Chaotic Circus 7:46
1.6   Absolute Zero 7:43
1.7   Pulsar Glitch 7:41
1.8   Space Clinic 7:27
1.9   Blue Galaxie 8:19
2.1   Espanolizer 9:22
2.2   The Pendulum 9:33
2.3   Black Body Radiation 8:21
2.4   Diamond Ring Effect 10:01
2.5   Time Drops 7:31
2.6   51 Pegasus 8:12
2.7   Gravity Mirage 9:40

Credits

Artwork By [Total Graphics And Design] - Simon Ghahary
Producer, Programmed By, Written-By - Total Eclipse
Written-By - Loic Vanpoucke* (tracks: 1.1 to 1.3, 1.8, 1.9, 2.3, 2.4) , Serge Souque , Stephen Holweck* (tracks: 1.1, 1.2, 1.7 to 2.3)

Notes

Recorded at the Total Eclipse Studio, Bordeaux, France.
Published by Hanseatic Music GmbH.
EFA 69015-2

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Rated 4/5
Review by kentandrew Aug 07, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
I hate the fake trancey stuff offered on this long double album. Chunky sounds and choppy synth sounds show little effort on the 140+ bpm tunes. The slow paced ones are listenable day in and day out. Diamond Ring Effect was instantly given repeated listens. Blue Galaxie had to grow on me. The album starts out violently fast and gradually relaxes to nothingness. This stuff is not really goa nor is it psychedelic. It is more like happy trance into ambient trance.
Rated 5/5
Review by Josephschembri Sep 09, 2005 (edited 14 days ago)
The second and the best album ever from Total Eclipse. Side one delivers the mind-blowing music you would expect from Total Eclipse back then, chaotic yet melodic, stomping yet warm Trance. All tracks on this disc are heavy except; “Blue Galaxie” which is a downtempo song, also a teaser of the second CD.

Side two opens with the 10 minute long “Espanolizer”, my favourite on this side. It samples a guitar and a piano. The journey continues with the more uptempo “The Pendulum”, and the tempo seems to increase gradually with every song. None of the tracks is pure Ambient yet there is no breakbeat either. All tracks are 4/4 except the closing track “Gravity Mirage”. This track has a very tricky beat. When you think a 4/4 beat is coming it is broken again.

In my opinion this is another essential on your shelves. Normally this CD shouldn't cost much like some other notorious sought after classics but if you want a new copy this album was reissued by Avatar in 2003, so there's no excuse ;)