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Any items for sale can be traded for items I miss (in a reasonable way). Also miss some Thunderdome items, help is welcome: - AUDIO (see my wantlist) - POSTERS (Thunderdome, ID&T, CD commercials, On Tour events, etc...) - FLYERS (all Thunderdome and old ID&T) - T-SHIRTS and LONGSLEEVES (good condition only) - MERCHANDISE (thunderdome flags, chains, etc...) | |
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Outside Agency, The - War In The 8th Dimension - 05-Sep-07 11:23 AM
If this is not TOA's best vinyl, it's not far away...
740Mhz has a beautiful melody that blends perfectly with the powerfull kick and overall harshness of the sound. Never boring to listen to it.
Black lectroid is indeed somewhat creepy, but gets a bit boring sometimes. Above average for sure.
The Shocktower is overall a good track.
but...
Oscillation Overthruster is my favourite TOA track ever... and I must say it's probably one of the best Hardcore tracks ever produced. The melody is astonishing and gives the ideia of something dark and transcendant, something lost in time, yet futuristic... the kick and patterns are amazing, and altough the track takes a while to "build up", it sure brings it down with fierce power... and leaves with a sense of something dark and distant hidden away...
If not for the other great tracks, Oscillation Overthruster is surely worth it. For me, it's simply brilliant!
Various - Mystery Land - The European Dance Festival - 23-Apr-07 08:47 AM
Well, what to say? Amazing cover and artwork, good packaging.
CD3 has good drum n bass, CD2 has a couple of good trance tracks. CD1 has 1 or 2 really good gabber anthems, a couple of ok tracks, rest is very dull and boring, cheap 1998 newstyle. In fact, the recording of CD1 is not very good and lacks power and volume.
So basically this compilation could be awesome, but it's simply below average.
Stunned Guys, The - SHE (Stunning Hardcore Elements) - 25-Apr-06 11:10 AM
Not entirely my style of Hardcore, has far too much mainstream stereotyped 1997-99 hardcore. Still, one note for the "Hymn" track. It was baes in the awesome melody + lyrics of Cabballero's "Hymn" released in 1994, based by it's turn in UltraVox's "Hymn" released in the 80's. The original by UltraVox sounds odd and does not even show the potential of the lyrics and melody... Cabballero does an outstanding remix, altough very mainstream, and in his trance version, he catches the melody just right along with a female voice. Stunned Guys give the final touch in turning this simple track into an epic: they add some "warcraft/LOTR-styled" samples, epic Hardcore synths and a kicking gabber beat... Still, not perfect, with more delevopment nowadays, this track could really end up something out of this world... let's way for a proper remix/re-take.
Various - Thunderdome - 15-Apr-06 11:22 AM
I'll tell you a little story about this record. I heard of it in 2004, when a person in the forum of my site told me he had a Thunderdome LP with the Dog. I did not believe at first, but after another sighting of a similar talk, I got the impression this could be true. Only after the first copy ever showed up on ebay I got really convinced. There was no picture, so I asked the guy to send it to me. Proof: it does exist and it's a Spanish edition! I put the picture in my site, which was the first site ever to show this record. The auction was weird, apparently the seller wanted to sell each of the 2 LP separatly (duh!!). I did not bid because of that. The whole record was sold to the person who put this record on discogs afterwards. Meanwhile, I could get my hands on one copy of this amazing 2LP.
The music is "almost" the same as in Thunderdome III 2CD, except for the bonus tracks, specially Thousand from Moby which I miss so much here. Riot Squad, Lenny Dee, Tumor, Zekt, you name it... this is a record filled with classics from other records hard to find. A real treat!
Anyway, the music is indeed very good, and despite the mediocre cover (also a classic by the way!) it manages to give this album a special feeling... both very hard industrial hardcore and almost mellow hardcore co-exist, just like they did in these oldskool days.
A great record!
Section X - Galaxian / X-Fly I - 28-Mar-06 05:45 AM
This record has one of the best Goa trance tracks ever made... if not the best: Galaxian! It's very hard, fast, and altough a bit repetitive (that was the ideia tought!), it will blow your mind. It will take you in a mind trip out of this universe for sure! It's super envolving, and the melody is always subtly mutating, altough it remains basically the same, bulding up as the track progresses... The track starts with a really nice entry, and the transition to the progressive, nervous beat is awesome. In fact, progressive is what defines this track... psychaedelic to the max!
The other side is also nice, an atmospheric trance sound, quite different from the previous, but still worth listening - a nice relaxing track.
Carefull when you hear Galaxian in your car, you'll probably end up hitting over 150 km/h without noticing, pure adrenalin! ;P
Now seriously, this is an awesome record, which every electronic music lover will probably like, from the Gabberhead to the Trance fan to the IDM freak. It's a great classic, that will never die with time, unique.
The record is not very easy to get, but you can always find this track in Tantrance 1 (where I first heard it in 1996 and got addicted until today).
