marsh

Name: Marsh
Member Since: Aug 19, 2003
Rank: 118
Average Vote Received: Correct (3.50, 2 votes)
Rated 61 releases, average: 4.72
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Profile: All items listed in my collection are originals, and just a very few are available for sale or trade. Contact me if there's something in my collection you've just gotta have, and more importantly you have something in my Wantlist you'd be willing to trade for it. :)

In my record-buying heyday (circa '97) I picked up a few acid techno records and even some hardcore/gabber. My collections of each - quite small in comparison to my psytrance collection - can be found here:

marsh_techno
marsh_hardcore

Buyer Rating:

100.0% positive (8 ratings)

marsh's groups (1)

Goa / Psy-Trance

Reviews:

Shorn Doda - Red / Merky - 14-Jan-06 03:42 PM
This record is nuts. It's the only "jungle" record I own, and I really only picked it out of the bin to listen to it because I'd suspected the Germinating Seeds of Doda connection. Maybe all jungle from around this time sounded like this (I dunno, I'm a psy-head) but holy moly - both of these tracks are KILLER. Dark, rippin' basslines careen through both, and the energy generated is just unbelievable. Again, I'm not claiming knowledge of d-n-b in the least, but take it from this goahead that this is one piece of vinyl you should seek out!

Lotus Omega - The Lighthouse - 21-Nov-04 03:35 AM
Lighthouse: funky, yet driving. Waldorf Salad: funky, yet driving. Somehow L.O. manages on both of these tracks to convey both that driving foot-stompin' feel while retaining some funkitude. Both tracks are two of Lotus Omega's best, and have quite a bit more character to them than those on their full length album Recycle Bin on ZMA. In contrast to Recycle Bin's more aggro, full-on feel, we have hints of ass-movin' tint in these two gems. Lighthouse is my favorite of the two, and to this day has what I think is one of the coolest basslines ever created. It keeps itself together a tad more than Waldorf Salad which leans further toward the somewhat disjointed flavor of the album tracks. If you get the chance, get ahold of Lighthouse and check out that bassline - so unique and so signature there's just no way it can be imitated or copied without being completely obvious, hence its true one-of-a-kind status as far as my feeble mind is aware.

Solaris (4) - Out There / Extra Mundane - 16-Nov-04 09:41 PM
"Extra Mundane" isn't exactly mundane, but is so overshadowed by the absolutely stellar and over-the-top melodic monster "Out There" that I don't know if I've listened to it more than once. On the other hand, "Out There" is - in my opinion - Ofer's best work to date. This track is one of the most full-on old-skool goa tracks ever created, and next to Transwave's "Anahata" they're still two of the biggest floor-burners out there. It's neo-fullon before there was a neo-fullon - and better.

Talpa - The Art Of Being Non - 16-Nov-04 06:41 PM
This album sounds like Infected Mushroom *on* mushrooms. Older I.M., that is - none of this singing stuff they have coming out nowadays.

Sometimes a tad campy and goofy, but taken as tongue-in-cheek this album definitely fun. The whole disc is really damn psychedelic and doesn't sound all cookie-cutter like so much of the stuff releasing nowadays. There's a few parts that just playfully fondle at my cheese-o-meter switch, but oddly (and thankfully) it never quite gets flipped all the way.

Recommended if you're looking for something a bit different, yet still danceable and heavy on the psy. Or, if you wanted a cool I.M. album after "Classical Mushroom" and were disappointed by "BP Empire" and everything thereafter, this is your disc.