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Name: Steve Eagle Home Page: http://www.heavy-industries.net Member Since: Oct 29, 2002 Rank: 203 Rated 155 releases, average: 4.57 Location: Los Angeles Profile: personal: steve trax: fabriknos label: heavy industries Click here for my 'When Trance Was Good' mixes. What do I like? Techno... Oldskool Trance... Goa... Electro... Industrial... EBM... IDM... Ambient... Tribal... Classical... Alternative Rock... Metal... Experimental... you get the picture.                                                                              | |
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Mark Nicholas - Duchess 33 - 30-Aug-08 08:30 AM
This album is good. Really good. Often hilarious lyrics, extremely clever songwriting, clean sparkling production, and an insatiable danceability in many of the tracks. With music like this, you can leave the genre tags at the door, and just get your ass on the dancefloor and get down. While Mark Nicholas is better known as Cosmicity, a more traditional synthpop act, this second project is in my opinion so much better. I've listened to this album at least 10 times and haven't gotten tired of it yet. A near perfect release and I'm very excited to hear what Mark comes out with in the future.
Aqualite - Aquaplant - 26-Aug-08 08:13 AM
The one thing Aquaplant suffers from is that it is almost completely unknown to most trance fans. I always knew Aqualite as a "compilation artist," and never got around to hearing this full-length till recently. I have to say I'm impressed. This album should have been on Eye Q Records, certainly not Hypnotic. A fast paced, polished, melodic sound is in full force here and would fit perfectly alongside material by Arpeggiators, Resistance D, Brainchild, etc. While I couldn't exactly call any track on here a classic, the entire album is very solid, and I would be happy to use just about any of them in an oldschool trance set. If you like the Eye Q sound, track this one down!
Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser - 18-Aug-08 09:08 PM
Dead Can Dance's last studio album might also be one of their strongest, most mature, and most melancholy. Like any band towards the end of their peak, the last songs generally have a certain wistful feeling about them... the feeling that great things can't last forever. Although I get that feeling somewhat when listening to this, even more importantly I get the feeling that this amazing body of work Dead Can Dance has created over the years lives on into the future. This is the perfect parting gift to the fans, a sublimely awesome ethnic, ambient, tribal journey through the world with some of their most biting lyrics yet courtesy of Perry. Although this was the last album, it is still a perfect first album for a new DCD listener. This is really one of those albums that demands full attention, from start to finish, no pausing! Let this amazing music play out and over your senses and relish one of the best bands to ever grace our speakers.
Information Society - Don't Be Afraid - 15-Aug-08 09:36 PM
Completely under-appreciated, overlooked "solo" album of InSoc frontman Kurt Harland, released five years after InSoc released their last album as a trio (Peace & Love, Inc). The reason this album is so strange to some people is it leaves catchy synthpop in the dust and goes headfirst into tough, dark, industrial territory. While Kurt couldn't completely rid himself of his synthpop tendencies, it is a very impressive show of diversity to be able to produce an album like this. Steven Siebold of Hate Dept. lent his production skills as well, giving the album something of a grinding quality. Purist fans of the old InSoc sound will probably not enjoy this album too much, but if you listen to it without any preconceptions, and you like this kind of music, you'll love it.
Information Society - 15-Aug-08 09:30 PM
When "What's On Your Mind" came out in 1988, I was 7 years old, and to this day it is one of the first songs I can remember listening to. Obviously, being so young, I couldn't fully appreciate the song, but I was fascinated by that mechanical, drum machine sound. Years later I rediscovered InSoc and it hit me how much of an influence they really had on me. I don't know what I'd be listening to now if I was never exposed to them at that age. Thank you InSoc!! In the late 80s and early 90s, InSoc was one of the more original synthpop acts, but never really achieved long-term mainstream success. This led to a certain underground appeal and many of their tracks were played out by freestyle, new wave and electro DJ's, with plenty of remixes making their way into the market. 1992 was probably the pinnacle for the band as they released the seminal "Peace & Love, Inc." and found moderate success with a more polished, produced synthpop sound. While it seemed like InSoc could do no wrong at this point, unfortunately, the band didn't do much after this release and eventually went their own ways. Five years later, Kurt resurrected the InSoc name with the out-of-character "Don't Be Afraid" in 1997. This album alienated many one-time fans for its completely different and more brutal sound, but I think it's an incredible release personally and went totally underneath the radar. 1999 saw a bland remix album appear on Cleopatra, but that was it - InSoc as we knew them was over. However... 8 years later, when it was least expected, Paul Robb announced the rebirth of the band, with a new vocalist and an updated sound appealing more to the freestyle/electro crowd than the traditional synthpop/new wave crowd. It remains to be seen how this new incarnation will fare, but it is an exciting time to be an InSoc fan, because they are touring again and hopefully will get Kurt back into the lineup for new material.
