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Home Page: http://blog.eskolaah.org/ Member Since: Jun 10, 2004 Rank: 1605 Average Vote Received: Correct (4.05, 161 votes) last 10 days: Correct (4.00, 26 votes) Rated 1564 releases, average: 4.05 Location: Finland Profile: Unfortunately, i also carry this mental disease or should i say endless moneyhole where i try to maintain my music addiction on certain level. Yep. It's a failure from the start... And oh yeah, i may have some kind of sick obsession with video game soundtracks (as you can see from my submissions). V4 moderator or should i say access to vote since 14-05-2008.  | |
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Doug Laurent - Half-Life - 28-Jun-08 01:53 AM
Warning! This release has nothing to do with Half-Life or original soundtrack of Half-Life (which btw. was composed by Valve's Kelly Bailey). Doug Laurent's version is just a cheap knockoff which tries to use the name of Half-Life and even logo to sell poorly produced trance. I even wonder and seriously question why synSONIQ bothered to release this garbage and trying to sell it like it's a legit thing.
So yeah, you all have been warned. Don't even bother to track this down because quality of this release is just mindnumbing awful. You'll thank me later.
Lacunae - Collapse - 11-Apr-08 09:53 AM
If i remember correctly, one of my favourite trip-hop projects, Saltillo lead me to terrific Broken Nightlights compilation which also had Lacunae's "Stars Burn Out". This was one of the highlights on the compilation and of course after hearing "Stars Burn Out", i had to track down their album which contained this song. First thing you can't miss is how "Stars Burn Out" borrows familiar lullaby song that is made for babies (or similar kind of tune) which is spliced to small glassy fractured pieces and put back together with a twist, and then moving it towards tense and hard illbient/trip-hop background. With similar spliced procedure to the spoken word vocals, it adds the final and nice touch to this track. So it's a bit unheard way to build a track but it shows ingenious way to bring fresh air to this modern day trip-hop genre by adding a glitchy feeling to it. When i was ordering this album, naturally i was also looking for some information about this project and noticed fairly quickly that this isn't typical three member unity. Namely because the three members of this project have never seen each other face to face, so this means all the work is done in three different location. Internet is the one common thing which unites them and via internet they process their tracks. While browsing the information, i saw the usual praises but i also noticed that many buyers who have bought this album, announced that this is the next Portishead or Massive Attack. Personally i wouldn't go that far but then i remembered Massive Attacks' latest album (100th Windows) which was quite different what they used to do. If the main song-writer 3D had tweaked the experimental knob all the way up and transferred their music to more glitchy-side, result may be this kind of stuff what Collapse represent. Eh, who the fuck knows.
Anyway... So is this worth of every praise what i encountered? I can say from my behalf, this album didn't bring me disappointment or any kind of regret. "Stars Burn Out" may be their best track which still have a very strong grip on me, but Collapse offer so much more. With similar formula and constant microscopically accurate movement, Collapse' heavily manipulated sound and with deep in the core injected execution, this album brings emotion from side to side. "Rebuild In Black" represents discipline and very mechanically way to desire the darkness inside of us. "Eight Zero One" brings melancholly yet somewhat positive feeling with piano and cello, and in the other side of perspective, "The Loneliness Of Lovers" finally adds lively, smooth motion and powerful spirit from 80's synth backgrounds. Here's a project which name you should start remembering because playing their cards right on next album, they may become one the intresting acts in this genre or have they already passed that phase? We'll see.
Various - Wipeout 2097: The Soundtrack - 11-Nov-07 10:43 AM
Whoah. What a memorylane this soundtrack has become. This compilation catches perfectly the exciting atmosphere from 1996 and in the same time this release contains few of my favorite tracks from certain producers. First there's "Loops Of Fury" - a fearsome and hard banging track from The Chemical Brothers, very futuristic drum and bass work "Petrol" from Orbital (which btw. still sounds awesome today) and very different sounding version of "Atom Bomb" which you won't find on any singles. Almost like a slower alpha version which was mistakenly leaked for this soundtrack. I still prefer mix 1, 2 or 3 from the singles but this is still a good tune and shows how well Fluke can twist and turn their tracks on different type of angle. And then there's Photek. This soundtrack was my first touch with this drum and bass producer and back in 1996 i was mindblown away with his unusual sound. Alienlike atmosphere and intelligent drum programming which still kicks massive ass in today standards? Come here and listen yourself. Both included tracks are one of the best works from mr. Parkes and these two tracks also serves as timeless evidence why he is one the top dogs in drum and bass scene. What else? FSOL's classic "We Have Explosive", Prodigy's "Firestarter" - although it's just an instrumental version, one of my favorite reworked Underworld track "Tin There" and even Daft Punk's house work "Musique" fits perfectly on this techno-big beat-drum and bass landslide to your ears. After 10 years, this soundtrack is a testament for 90's electronica which holds time perfectly.
Cliff Martinez - Solaris: Original Motion Picture Score - 04-Oct-07 10:34 AM
Bold, groundbreaking, beautiful, mindblowing. Those are the first of the few synonymous that comes through my mind everytime i listen to this motion picture score. Solaris is warm, subtle and sensitive - the way the orchestral and electronic parts starts to melt together and same time unravel a bit by bit, minute after minute so it's almost awe-inspiring experience and i especially love it how it seducts the listener in to the deep unknown part of dark space or should i say state of mind..? Anyway. Whereas Vangelis' Blade Runner is still today inspiring work and man himself is pioneer on soundtracks that rely on ambient textures, i personally think right next to the Blade Runner is Cliff Martinez's Solaris. In both cases the music catches the atmosphere so perfectly and leads the viewer to the point where the music itself becomes essential part of the film. Like someone said before, this is ambient for adults.
Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory - The Soundtrack To Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - 26-Aug-07 05:32 AM
"Chaos Theory" is easily my all time top 3 video game soundtrack and this was also my first full album encounter with the 'slice, dice, cut and rearrange the samples the way you have never experienced' audiochef named Amon Tobin. Since then i have wandered through his entire discography, from early days with his alias Cujo to his (current) latest work "Foley Room". Most of his stuff are good, some rise to pure awesomeness, some records still requires little bit more attention to understand his 'niche' but in the end, i always come back to "Chaos Theory". Why? Maybe because it's his most tight, all-around well crafted work today. Like the liner notes says, he dedicated 110% to this project and went so far just to find and get all the right musicians he wanted for this one time opportunity. And don't forget the way he fully converted his sound so it suited perfectly in dark soundtrack format and still keeping his recognizable, yet abstractly constructed drum and bassish touch from start to finish. Or maybe because this was the first Amon Tobin album i bought and therefore any other record from this man will not pass this one. Simply put, to me "Chaos Theory" is one those record from truely innovative artist which i'll cherish and keep close to my heart for the rest of my life.
