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Pan Electric & Ishq - About Time - 26-Apr-09 11:34 AM
I bought this because I'm following the output of Matt Hillier for quite a while now and know Matt Coldrick from my goatrance days too. I'd place this somewhere in-between ambient, dub and chillout. It has solid bassline work and percussions, but nevertheless a very floating and light touch.

The albums starts a bit odd with "Clox" (which could be classified as some sort of synthpod) but its getting better and better from there on. I skip the first track and play the album over and over from track #2 on lately.

Its not really comparable to anything what Matt Hillier alone created recently but his unique touch is very much present, and compared to the solo releases of Matt Coldrick this adds just the touch that is needed to really lift both the music and the listener to a higher level.

Rush - Vapor Trails - 30-Mar-07 02:36 AM
I have a lot of Rush albums in my collection that I have rated 5/5 because I consider them really essential, and I couldn't possibly give them any other rating. But if there would be something like SIX of 5 points, it would be Vapor Trails! For me, this is the best Rush album in maybe 10 or 15 years. Ever since "Presto", I haven't listened to a Rush album that repeatedly and that often, and its amazing from beginning to end. There's no fillers, each track is a hit and a gem on its own.

Its so different and yet its so typically Rush. The freshness and raw power blows me away, the fuzzy and distorted guitars are GREAT! That, and the drumming and the surprisingly fat and dominant basslines, all combined with their wonderful songwriting, with catchy melodies and variation, its Rush in BOLD, they know their stuff - and when I listen to this album I more than ever have the feeling that there's simply no competition for this band.

Oh and, I've heard quite often now that people don't like the thick production of this album - which is a lesson that you should never listen to other people when it comes to music, but hear it, try it yourself. Its the 21st century and this is produced like a modern rock album, and its simply DAMN good at that. Wow.

Rush - Feedback - 14-Feb-07 11:45 PM
When I originally bought this I wasn't fully aware that this is a tribute album. I only saw a Rush album not yet in my possession. :-) After a couple of listens, and despite (or perhaps because!) of the fact that I don't know most of the original songs that are covered/interpreted by Rush here, the album has quickly become one of my favorites.

What you get here is soundwise a raw, but nicely produced piece of typical Rush sound, but at the same time its a very easy, joyful and straight ahead sound that lacks Rush's typical progressive, sometimes straining ambitions. You can really hear how much FUN it must've been to play these songs!

The opener is turned into a steaming piece of rock; "Heart Full of Soul" has such a beautiful, catchy and haunting refrain that keeps echoing in my head; the bassline and the drumwork in "Seven and Seven is" is simply amazing; and how Alex Lifeson blasts these guitar solos in "Crossroads" to the sky probably makes some grunge guitarists pale (and I get the feeling that "Crossroads" only exists because of these two awesome and way-too-short guitar solos at 1:30 and 2:10 into the track - simply terrific).

I have the feeling that most of the tracks may not have been that rocky and/or up-tempo in their original version, but what Rush made of them is simply great sounding music. The clever basslines, the driving drums, the noisy guitars and Geddy's soothing voice are an excellent mixture.

Montauk P - Def=Lim - 09-Feb-07 06:24 PM
Think of all the colourish and fluffy goatrance people that picked this release up because it was released on Blue Room (a label mostly known for its quality goatrance output back then) - and promptly getting a kick in the groin by "Lizard Man" after the intro track. Makes me think "ho-ho-ho, gotcha!". :-) This might be an explanation for the comparably low average rating of the album.

This is probably best classified as "Eternal Basement on steroids" - in a positive sense. Frankfurt trance back from the future. Hard, driving, kicking, partly insane, but the brilliance of the E.B. trance stuff shines thru just as well (Elektroid, AV Unit and Understood could've been on the first E.B. album just as well IMHO). The cover art works as the herald of the music - deep red, rendered and artificial, glowing flames on black.

This stuff is "in yer face", but at the same time the production is terrific, deep and sophisticated, it never ceases to amaze me. The first break at about 3 mins into "Lizardman". The ear-killing, mind-numbing noise of "DEF=LIM". The restless drive of "Elektroid" and "AV Unit". And so on. Of all the output of Michael Kohlbecker (lets not forget that he's a Saafi Brother as well!), this album and the E.B. album "Nerv" mark the peak of his techno/trance works for me. Highly recommended!

Psychonavigation - Psychonavigation - 04-Feb-07 09:46 PM
What would be an otherwise nice release is completely, and I mean completely, destroyed by lacking material from Bill Laswell - in the first track its something like 15 or maybe even 20 minutes (if you combine it) of one and the same bar/beat that plays a simple bass-line. And this happens in all of the tracks. The same bass-line, some 6 or maybe 10 notes, repeated over and over and over and over (and over). The nice and lush pads and effects from Pete Namlook are completely drowned and destroyed in this meaningless and irritating repetition.

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