Beyonder26

Name: Christian Mell
Member Since: Mar 18, 2005
Rank: 4414
Average Vote Received: Correct (4.01, 1052 votes)
last 10 days: Correct (4.00, 26 votes)
Rated 649 releases, average: 4.01
Location: Kassel, Germany
Profile: Born in 1978, I came in contact with electronic music through KLF and Twenty 4 Seven in the time, when the new MTV started.
Through Jean-Michel Jarres and Mike Oldfields Music I came to the "Thunderdome"-Series and the famous HR3 Clubnight radiobroadcast by a friend of mine. My club life began in Kassel in 1994. I hold this up until ca. 1998-99 as well.

I was to be found annually at the Hessentag-Clubnight. In other aspects as far as partys are concerned I go out very rarely. Minimal and boring uninteressint music is only one reason... From the very beginning my motto was: "No drugs! Just music". I have kept this until today.

I never had pleasure in extremely commercial electronic music just as little as in the most freaky Hype-Minimal-Techno in "150th
special edition". Those who browse through my collection, might understand this quite well.
Music which I like should have a certain artistic value, a certain "half-value-time" and something like a "soul" and "warmth". If the music contains
this things it doesn't matter how fast or "hard" a title is. It should have just the "special something" that touches me.

Main-styles: Ambient/Downtempo, Deep / Progressive/Tech-House, Progressive/Melodic (mainly Classic-)Trance, Breakbeats, Oldskool Techno. I'm generally open-minded for everykind of good music, but Black Music and/or Rap/Hip Hop have never been a part of my musical socialisation. I just don't like it.

If you have records listed in my wantlist to offer , have questions about my collection or just want to get in contact, feel free to write me a mail :-)

I'm always looking forward to learn new similiar-minded people know!

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Chris

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Platipus - 09-Nov-08 01:45 AM
Platipus was one of those labels from the middle of the nineties until the end of the century you could buy records buy nearly blind from and you were as good as never really disappointed. Without a doubt this label has a special place in the heart and mind of many musiclovers and has also left his remarkable and unique sound to the (Hard)Trance-Scene: Classics from Union Jack like Cactus or Two Full Moons And A Trout as well as Art Of Trance - Kaleidoscope or Octopus or the famous Libra pres. Taylor - Anomaly - Calling your Name.
Brillant and simply timeless.

Humate And Rabbit In The Moon - East (Remixes) - 18-Feb-08 11:50 AM
The words at the end of "South" are spoken by Holly Hunter in the film "The Piano" by Jane Campion:

"At night! I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep.
...
There is a silence where hath been no sound /
There is a silence where no sound may be /
In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea."

Again, the last three verses are taken from the poem "Silence" by Thomas Hood (1799-1845).

Jay Ray - Nightvisions - 03-Feb-08 03:57 AM
If you like earlier Parks & Wilson or Chris Cowie's Records on Bellboy you should give this record a try.

Its not the typical MFS-Trance-Sound as you would expect like Paul van Dyk, Cosmic Baby or Mijk van Dijk Projects, this more "advanced" (somehow): Hypnotic, minimal but danceable, it can be listened at home as well as in a DJ Set.
To me this records was influenced by the likes and sounds of Joey Beltram and Dave Clarke. Solid work.

Offer, The - Cover Me - 29-Jan-08 05:10 AM
I've found this record 13(!) years after its release and i'm excited that not more people know and like this record!
There must have been a tragical error in the marketing sector of the record company, way back when Torsten Fenslau played this tune in his clubnight radio show in may 1993 for the first time.
Doesn't sound not a bit dusted or out of date after all this time, esp. its atmospherical piano-part and the vocals take their part it sounds timeless, organic and "natural", simply a kind of tune for which the repeat-button on you cd-player seems to be designed for.

Especially when driving on highways (at night!) be careful: This tune hHas a nearly hypnotical effect, slightly pitched up to 3-4%, in the Extended Mix or the rare Razormaid-Mix!
Brilliant work!

Parallax (10) - Arctic Wind - 17-Oct-07 08:55 AM
For me music has something to do with emotions.
When i heard Arctic Wind (Feel Mix) for the first time in 1994/1995, it caught me that much, i was short before getting tears in my eyes. The melancholy was and still is that simple but fantastic.
For Petar Dundov (the producer), i guess, it was more a sideproduct. But even today, years after release, this title has the special something, that other music can't offer.
A shame, that this beautiful piece of music isn't more well known. One of many unknown classic pieces of music, that never really left insider-status.

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