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Name: Ziv Member Since: May 28, 2006 Rank: 1497 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.00, 1 votes) Rated 447 releases, average: 4.61 Location: Haifa, Israel Profile: Fav Genre(s): Electronic, Rock, Reggae. Fav Styles: Goa Trance, Psy-Trance, Ambient, Drum N Bass, Jungle, Experimental, Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Dub, Reggae, Ska. Since Oct, 2007: | |
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James Reipas - Uwaga - 15-Feb-07 08:01 PM
2001’s "This Is Not in Fashion" was a long time ago, and back then I remember loving it and wondering quite how most Psytrance could call itself psychedelic with a straight face. But maybe this is psychedelic in the same way that Emerson Lake and Palmer is; or something. Live instruments combine with midi, possibly inside a washing machine… you can’t tell, it’s that sort of album.
We Are Not Intelligent is a creeping, slomo stomp knee-deep in paranoid electro. It puts me in mind of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, although with more elves than zombies. Baltic Sea is a fucking corker – sounding like Kraftwerk on Finnish mushrooms. The production is pure 80s, sheeny shiney psychedelic music. It’s just gorgeous, and one I intend to play out whenever I have an excuse to do so. Rightto edges it to a more conventional psy pattern, but still maintaining this glorious electro sheen that sounds very, very good right now. Kashahum sounds like it was lifted from Jean Michelle Jarre’s subconscious while he was asleep after having a bit of a heavy K session. The sounds are just off the scale here, seriously.
It sounds like the theme tune to one of those morbidly utopian post-Tron films in the 80s. Staggering. Rauma is a more stuttered approach; as though the soundtrack to Warriors was being recreated by R2D2 and his mates (they play the Mos Isely Cantina every second Thursday, 8pm till 10.) Nopsakka is unbelievable, I can’t even think of anything to liken it to. Think the digitally downloaded brains of The Prodigy and The B52’s, collaborating to make music that bits of old computers can breakdance to.
Then, it turns into the love theme from Bladerunner as retold by Speak N’ Spell and BigTrak. None of which quite prepares you for the somewhat unsettling Creatures. Twisted vocal spouts twisted words, while a persistent bottomend pumps along. Screams and whistles and funk wash in over the top… its ker-wality, but one hopes Mr Reipas doesn’t have any children. Nature of Reipas Part III is in a similar vein… think young Gamma Goblins on a school trip to Chessington World of Adventures. The music shifts from quirky laugh-along-a-reipas to a sort of “house piano riff with special needs”, all gleefully sounding, like the first album did, a bit like the music on the Rainbow Road level on Mario Kart. Why Does It Always Have to Be New? sounds like fin-de-cycle, closing time music… or the end of a rather bizarre film in which Pingu and Mr Bean join the Finnish football team to thrash Brazil 16-1 in the final of the World Cup.
And then things go weirder still, with the 168,000-BPM Midnight Valssi, another shockingly shocking tune that has no regard for your wellbeing, no regard for your sanity, and no regard for your Auntie, which it recently defecated on after a date went wrong. Despite this, you like it for being a manically psychedelic tune with a muted trumpet lead, a scando-folk-waltz midsection, not forgetting the thrash metal stab at the end. Syntikkaihme sounds like Finland hosting the Winter Olympics and the Reipas man in the house providing the soundtrack to some ghastly opening ceremony, meanwhile my neighbours think I’ve finally gone fully bonkers with this Clannad-on-DMT coming out my windows. With Return at the end starting out Tangerine Dream and then morphing eerily into a full-throttle electrofunk workout, you feel that something of a milestone has been reached.
Gneuinely psychedelic, genuinely fresh, genuinely essential. And I had fun reviewing it.
• Favorites: 3(!), 6, 8(!!), 10(!), 12(!!)
• Rating: 10/10
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ConBrio* - KIKI/ILL & CONBRIO - 24-Jan-07 02:50 PM
Kiki.ILL & Con Brio now and again something genuinely interesting comes this way, and here’s something that’s definitely worth a sniff. It’s not psytrance, but Kiki/Ill is an incarnation of Phill Thomson aka The Nam Shub Of Enki, who released on Demon Tea and no doubt various other places known only to rampant trancespotters and industry illuminati figures.
Phill's tracks are meaty throwdowns, a dancing, revolving mess of sound and snare, ideas coming at you as though fired from a tommygun. Plastique Surgery features a cassetteboy-esque mashup of Michael Jackson songs and interviews, and it’s hilarious. Bezerkey (with Bezerker) is megadeath n’ bass on ultracrack, with a delicious sweeping bottomend that’s only slightly friendlier than a daisycutter.
The remix of Nottkea Rotta’s Kisottaa is an instantly loveable two-step peppered with indecipherable rap acapella that cascades into a glitchy dreaminess, and Naked Meaty is a ragga-infused workout that combines more or less every electronic genre into one heaving mass, before using it to blow up the Hard Rock Café.
More meditative are the tracks from Con Brio aka Dan Millar. They pitch droned, reverb-heavy melodic loops in the background and showcase some deft, ever-changing percussive work over the top. The way in which he can make music that is essentially noise-based, yet still have a melodic sensibility strong enough to make you feel that you might cry – 2secs and Lanesra Seat being the two leading culprits here – is a staggering achievement and proof positive that there’s more to this glitch/noise thing than many of us had ever expected.
All in all the nifty approach of two vastly differing artists all packaged up into a gloriously underground package makes this something worth inviting over for a cup of tea.
• Favorites: 2, 3(!), 5, 6
• Rating: 8.5/10
Mood Deluxe - The Tangent Universe - 26-Sep-06 03:18 AM
Cameron Leonard-Schroff aka Nagual Sound Experiment the Psy-Breaks of Brighton. Cameron back to the UK Psy-Trance scene after a period in California there was working as an engineer sound. Mood Deluxe the debut album was produced at LA, London and Brighton.
this album fusing two dancefloor strands of Psy-Trance and Nu Skool breaks. Mood Deluxe has taken the best threads and ingredients from many genres and styles and has woven a tapestry which cloud very well be the foreshadowing of a new generation of electronic music sound to come.
What exactly are you listening to when opening track Causal Loop drops Hiphop, dub, breaks all fused together with a psychedelic-something asthe mesh. Episode sounds less like a track than a pay-TV syperhyped boxing match. Seriously large. And if you doubt that B-Boy breaks can melt into psychedelic sounds, this’ll set you straight.
Closer contains some truly wonderful sounds, unbelievably deep layering and this wondrous spirit that makes you completely forget what it was you were supposed to be doing. It is That Good. When it drops at around the six-minute-mark, you will thank me. Something Like Remember is closer in its spirit to conventional psy-chill (wailing goddesses, squelchy low-set acid, distant ethery in the pads), but with breaks, nice. Phantom Technology is the high-watermark of the genreclash thus far,and this is before Phantom Technology thwacks in, a deliriously tasty tune, and likewise The Tangent Universe. Hefty, the peak and drop on this will have you grinning from ear to over there, and the slide back down to earth is pure electronic music at it’s best. Zeitgeist is a pacey bit of attention-deficit-disorder-simulation,pausing momentarily in the break before coming back with one hell of a bang. You notice, on this one, that Mood Deluxe fits effortlessly into the music he’s making, as though it was an already-established genre rather than something new.
The Living Receiver is some alien-mutated form of two-step on rather large amounts of 2CB, Wrong Way is (shocker) a 4-4 bit of oldskool psytrance, and bloody nice it is too, even if it does mean I have to try very hard indeed not to use the word “Goa”. Lucid Juice throws us back to breaks, in a manner and style broadly in keeping with the sort of stuff Giiwa or Demon Tea might throw at us.
What strikes me here is how full the music is – there’s simply so much going on, and simply so much going off, you can’t help but fall in love with it for the sheer immersion factor.
Finally, Amber doesn’t seem to have quite the energy or Wow-factor as the rest of the album, but we can forgive this.
This is a wonderful, wonderful release. The depth, the clarity, the confidence in the changes is precisely what is missing from identikit shit-u-like psytrance. Where people look back to Hallucinogen’s Twisted as the start of psychedelic trance, or to Shpongle as the start of psy-chill, one day they may just look back to this as the
start of whatever the hell Mood Deluxe has just invented.
• Favorites: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11
• Rating: 10/10
