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Kalilaskov As - Killas 2008 - 11-Oct-09 03:56 AM
Geomagnetic.TV (+ family) is one of those labels who spew out way too many albums and may/has become a victim of their own releasing quantity. What I have learned after getting to know some of their releases is that sometimes you will find masterpieces in their catalog, a release that has been swallowed by a label releasing impressive quantity instead of immortal quality (Also counting the releases of brother, sister, cousin and great grandfather labels and whatnot like Geo Israel, Goa Records, Digital Drugs etc). This album by Kalilaskov AS is one of those noteworthy releases and it is for sure one of the strongest and most fun filled albums I’ve heard to date from their massive catalog and I’m eager to tell you a little bit about its sound, vibe and power!

Note: This is a album release of single tracks by Kalilaskov As’ which has been released on varies compilations around the globe.

So what is there to be said about this best of, I mean singles album by Kalilaskov As? There’s absolutely nothing groundbreaking or classic about it. It’s for sure to be forgotten faster than is fair.. But still Killas 2008 managed to surprise me by offering a lot of variation in its dark killer candy like party atmosphere for gothic minds waving lollipops in the air with fluoro-clothing’s on their escalating bodies. There is something about the colours that this music drives out of the speakers; it sort of reminds me of the tricks done by Overdream’s Wonderwise release (Avatar records), but with an even more evident take on the darker side with more play and change of landscape. I’m not saying they make the same message and vibe of music or that this is better than that album, because they are very different from each other and I prefer the Overdream album - Still, they both sort of manage to go inside my temptation of emotional delusion in bright colours reflected by the moonlight while dancing until the legs got no more juice to pump. May I say that Killas 2008 feels innovative and fun?

The style used on this album should be easy to label I think; its dark psychedelic trance music with trippy patterns and at times, a sense of humor with a lot of good’ol party smiles. It’s not meant to be taken too serious but still manages to lay an impressive impression on ones tripper mind where creative innovation is expected and appreciated. The downside of this release is the fact that it’s a gathering of single tracks instead of an album with a theme and .. purpose. So if you own most of the compilations that these tracks are presented on (which I doubt you do), I see no reason to buy this release. However if you’re a huge Kalilaskov AS fan, then this is a good opportunity to own his discography, because some of these tracks is said to be obscure and hard to find … Other than that, for what it is and what it’s not, it’s a good selection of killargh tracks for the crazed stompers of the party-party whoo-hoo scene!!

I think the artwork on Killas 2008 is almost totally awesome! I dig the neon pink colour theme with a very sexy and dangerous lady wearing a gasmask crouching with hefty energy rays behind folding out like angel wings of sort. Or maybe she’s taking a dump and the bright pink illustrations is actually a fancy variation of her stink (no wonder she's wearing a gasmask), because I think a lot of people will find this albums sound to be highly comparable with pink crap farts from a sweaty yet sexy ass. Yes I’ll repeat myself, it's tacky and for me personally this artwork together with the music screams candy raving Goths with sugar sweet sounds covered in darkness and imagination for the wicked people of flips.

What does Kalilaskov AS mean? It’s a strange name for an artist but yet good as any, I guess. I would say it’s a take on the word kaleidoscope with a darker twist to it since Kali (Hindu goddess) has been inserted in the beginning of the name. And ‘AS’, what’s with the ending AS? Well, in my region of the world, AS is something a firm would place behind the company name to mark that the company is a Stock Company (Aksje Selskap). Then again, I’ve been very wrong about these things before, hehe!

As far as I can gather, Vadim is a Russian brain who immigrated to the Israeli nation in the beginning of the 90’s. Here he had a massive psychedelic experience which like most, change his life and made his ears and mind open up to the more twisted and fun filled side of PsyTrance, and the sounds he presents on Killas 2008 seem to be bleeping in a good way and the overall structure is satisfying to put your ear against while drifting inside its soundscapes of candylicious destruction.

Recommendation: This album is in all honesty a lot better than properly 83% of the dark killas out there. So if you’re still hyped and happy about rolling basslines with variations and at times, surprises with cute enough effects and a mood to drive and pump you through a lot of emotions and imaginary places, I would highly recommend you to get this album, because it’s true, this is defiantly Killas 2008, ready to die U on Da dance fluoro.

Favorite tracks: 3, 4, 7, 8

Score: 7+/10

Various - Forest Frequencies - 09-Aug-09 04:00 PM
Lost Theory Records from Belgium gives us in the summer of 2009 their own contribution to the forest frequencies out there by releasing their debut with acts ready to distort your mind and twist your imagination all around and throughout your blinking chakras. Lost Theory has set them self out to bring you their view on today’s psychedelic swamp music, and it smells and looks nice. Represented by well established artists as well as upcoming talents, Lost Theory is giving the world a strange tale from the forests that they themselves have experienced and loved. The Lost Theory crew compiled this debut album keeping the muddy dance floor experiences in mind where they start out with deep and confused forest sounds with groovy basslines and colorful soundscapes to twist your tits, and manages to evolve the sound into hi-tech psychedelics to give the story a proper ending. Best of all, the fusion works perfect and it feels like it was meant to be.

Recommendation: So, in an enchanted forest of colorful imagination and stellar confusion, the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area are swaying over your nut to delightfully spin you around and feel the fresh breeze of swamp-infected beats to the higher technology of modern time sound pools. The mood is quirky and it’s mysterious as to reflect the vivid imagination a dusked to dawned forest can imply on your delirious mind. This lost theory from across the green planet is about tentative explanations of some aspect of the forest world where you easily can lose the bearings of one’s confused time, place and personal identity. It’s an organized chaotic system of accepted and unknown knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to imagine a specific set of a demented phenomenon, which seems to live inside us all.

The Forest Frequencies by Lost Theory is basically the ratio of the number of observations in a confused yet connected category to the total number of ten magical artists being observed while they play their mental delusions upon your effected membrane that woggles along a forest trail of swamps and technology. It’s a beautiful and mental journey and you should check it out if this is your style of forest groove. Recommended!

Favorite Tracks: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10

Various - Acid Transmission - 30-Jul-09 05:05 AM
Various - Acid Transmission

wi']['ch (T1) starts the journey good with playful sounds and funky basslines with unstable jumping kicks and some samples to make the noia creep out from the para. Most of the tracks got nice drives and deranged atmospheres covered in fuzzy a sound image which makes the Acid Transmissions compilation sound old, actually, the whole VA has this pre-2005 feel to it with a lot of stuff going on to melt and to be felt. The clue in music like this is the sound effects that are dropped all over and it has basslines that varies and plays a lot of tricks. The Danish act Zoolog (T2) brings some super Hottentotten beats that sort of wiggles your pants off while distortion starts to spin your frail mind apart. Zoolog is walking along the forest trail sending out radioactive vibes with quirky moods in an obscure swamp. Again, as most of the tracks here, it got some good variation in store for you, like raising and lowering the tempo, flabbering the effects while bending and trending your head around to catch all the visual goodies flying around. When it comes to the variation inside a track, no one does it more active then Purosurpo in Multi Range (T3) who truly pulls out a stellar start for open spaces inside your imagination. It’s sturdy and steady beats manages to pump the party to higher multi ranged grounds. Purosurpo is Jens who should be well known for most dark heads with his Derango and Hallucinogenic Horses projects. It has a lot of effects with trance and trip powers that when unsettling the beat flow, will grind your wide mouth to insane behaviors. Variation is the key, and chaotic is the door. OIL who is represented twice here (T5&7) has this touch that is quit interesting, dreamy, pleasant and absolutely cool where it works, but can get boring where it doesn’t. Escaping the Bubble, btw, has a very disturbed closing sample where a man from South Park is screaming out help calls because he is being mentally raped by Attoya and OIL, which isn’t my idea of a good sample as it could do harm to a person under the wrong circumstances. As the tracks run along, you realize how much the music represented goes together hand in hand, with samples and effects that connect the different tracks. Acid Transmissions has a good flow of selected tracks and they work in harmony, well, in their own type of harmony that is. You’ll love some tracks more than others for sure, but if you like this style of dark Psy-Trance music, you will probably dig them all. Personally I love the first three and the last three tracks the most, especially the Purosurpo (T3) and Olien (T8) tracks. The middle part of the compilation starting with Arabali is good, but lacks something extra to turn me on.

Recommendation: I think this is a good compilation but it’s not on my favorite list. It has some very good moments like the strange and pleasant harmonics of Attoya Vs. OIL (T5) and the liquid drops in Karash’s contribution (T6), but unless it’s played on the right moment or state of mind, it gives me little but loads and loads of effects thrown with intergalactic manners, which kind of hurts when I’m not ready. If you like your music marinated in mud from the forest with heaps of variations and effects thrown at you in weightless conditions and hard as a nail in pain while sucking on a piece of moss, I say go for it, this will rock your world. It has a sound that sort of blends the Swedish deranged forest with the sound of San Francisco’s darker corners (think Mistress of Evil Records) and the disturbed and suppressed Russian moist cellar where freaks with huge eyes wander around. Overall the sound is fuzzy and strange, a little bit messy. It’s music covered in mud.

Favorite tracks: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10.

Review by psytones originally published on Isratrance com

Indepth - ΣerØ Sumº - 23-Jul-09 06:27 AM
Indepth - ΣerØ Sumº

The trend these days in clubs around the globe seem to be strongly directed towards minimal techno with its playful acid feel and minimal sound approach. In my home town it's very hard to go out clubbing without encountering the sounds of minimal techno blasting from the speakers with tokkitokk sounds following the kicks, hi-hats and bassline. Indepth has created something very faithful to the minimal techno sound in his Zero Sum. The album has some nice trip factors scattered around, as well as more sublime stuff going on without turning all maximum. Its drive and posture all looks and feels like your average minimal techno and after listening to his art with deeper bass and clearer speakers I've realized how much work he's put into it with crisp sounds that near a surgeons precession without the clinical approach, and a bassline that compliments the minimal techno kick with pleasure and surprises.

Zero Sum contains some surprises at times, adding traces of trance, progressive house and hallucinogenic distortions. The production is crisp with vinyl effects to create that extra electric feeling on your pumped up body and gives you groovy themes to make the dance floor turn blissful while grinding teeth. In some tracks like the The Crack (T2) and Sum = Zero (T3) Indepth pushes, or lifts the music to put the clubbers head on the edge of a mental crack, and it tends to become irritating and annoying when listening. When it comes to the Gintaton (T4) he adds nice breaks and sneaks in melodies. He also adds some melodies with extra cuteness on Everyone I Know has Paws (T8), while at the same time stepping slightly away from the straightforward minimal techno feel and injecting us with some friendly emotions. The only track originally made by another artist is the 7th track by Itaitaiko, better known as Kukan Dub Lagan. This track has a super cool sample going 'Ohm', 'Bom.

Recommendation: Spiral Trax records who for the summer season of 2009 is focusing on more techno influences in their releases give us an interesting album from Indepth, but for me personally it's not interesting enough. It has all the tricks needed to turn on the party goers, plus Indepth adds some minor variations here and there like trance themes, dirty electro pads and bassline changes. But as a whole it starts out boring, turns interesting while again changing back to become something boring and with time, forgettable(?).

This is one of Spiral Trax's debut release on this field since they reopened their office in June 2007, and we can expect more music like this. I just hope they keep raising the bar. I have never heard the earlier work by Indepth, but the word around the block said that throughout the years, Shahar has experimented with different styles from progressive, breaks to techno, and it has all been with a pinch of psychedelics and a hefty dose of clubby influences in mind.

Key words: techno, minimal with acid and electro.

Favorite tracks:1, 3, 6, 8, 10.

Original review published on Isratrance

Phonic Request - Skulls & Bones - 20-Jul-09 06:23 PM
.. I would also like to mention that although I've compared this and PoF's Chaos Opera album a lot in my review, it should be mentioned that the overall sound image is extremely similar (track 4 to 9). What separates them is the fact that the Chaos Opera album has more classical elements in it, different and maybe more emotional leads, a story feel and more of a full-packed and busy sound image. While this Skulls & Bones album has a more open space to its tracks with a steadier techno vibe going on in its Full-On realm. Also according to my knowledge, Skulls & Bones is a collection of single tracks that were supposed to be scattered on compilations here and there but went into one album to form Skulls & Bones instead.

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