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V/A - Kumharas compilation...

Try e-mailing Wirikuta... They must know! /DP

V/A - Footprints (Digital Structures 2001) Kick-ass compilation!

Though I never really got deep into Finnish trance, I like the occasional freak-show... Texas Faggot, Haltya, Kiwa and Squaremeat are my fav'es and I also got immense pleasure from the Luomuhappo album Pog-O-Matic Pogómen 3000000 ... Definitely worth a listen! DP

Well, it is an interesting album and notable part in the evolution of trance... It's not amazing or groundbreaking in any way - but still... I enjoy the track "Spiritual Healing" ... It's very emotional and has nostalgic value for me... ;o)

Bagginz! Thanks for bringing us all this wonderful music! It's an honour to have you on our board!

Sweet... Now I wished I had forked up the extra £6 and done that too... The wait is horrible! Oh and yes - I want that... Please reserve it for me... DP

Did you get it directly from Twisted then - or some Japanese store? I have it pre-ordered @ play.com... Hurry up already you lazy bastards! DP

Twisted Sessions Vol. 1 - Mixed by Tristan Whatever happened to the next sessions?

* Total Eclipse - Access Denied (Blue Room Released 1999) http://www.discogs.com/release/16140 * V/A - Twisted Sessions Vol. 1 (Twisted Records 2002) http://www.discogs.com/release/35865 DP

This site will answer most questions... Here's a list of some of the early tracks... All are obviously open for discussion as there was no distinct "goa" sound back then.... Pink Floyd - On the Run (1973) Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974) Liasons Dangerouse - Los Ninjos De La Parque (1981) The KLF - What time is love (Pure Trance version) (1988) Laurent X - Machines (1988) SFX - Monster Mania (1989) The Overlords - Sundown (1990) The Age Of Love - Age Of Love (1990) Electrotete - Anjuna Dawn (1991) The Infinity Project - Hyperactive (1991) Kode IV - Insane (1992) E-Rection - Suck My Dang-A-Long (1992) Astral Projection - Allah Acbar (1992) Juno Reactor - Transmissions (1993) Eat Static - Abduction (1993) More discussion about this very topic to be found here, here and here! DeathPosture

I'm pretty sure it's a proper track... Perhaps it's a spoof on/ bizarre hybrid between Razorback and Rotorblade? DP

Antix – Twin Coast Discovery High res: cover Artist: Antix (Australia) Title: Twin Coast Discovery Format: CD (jewel case) Label: Iboga Records (Denmark) Cat. #: IBOGACD30 Date: 25 April 2005 Track listing: 01. 08’26” FREq – Return to the Master (Antix Remix) 02. 07’56” Antix – The Inkling 03. 08’46” Antix – Forever Changing 04. 08’47” Antix – Cold Night 05. 08’18” Antix – Little Honey 06. 09’05” Antix – Le Lascard 07. 08’49” Antix – Quiet Is The New Loud 08. 09’11” Rhian Sheehan feat. Jess Chambers - Hiding Place (Fiord Remix) Review: Lush, plush, antics… Antix is the brain child of Australian twins Barton & Hayden Strom… The debut album Lull was released by Iboga Records in 2003 and is still holds a leading position among the most acclaimed progressive trance albums ever released… That’s quite an accomplishment and the expectations for the long-awaited follow-up have been enormous… But if anyone can pull it off, it’s Iboga… Let’s find out what took them so long… Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: FREq – Return to the Master (Antix Remix) Australians remixing a fellow Australian… This track was originally released on my all time fav’e prog album: FREq’s Strange Attractor released by Iboga in 2004 – and this remix was already released on the Playground compilation… So why release it again? It’s not a bad track at all; I would just have preferred more Antix… #02: Antix – The Inkling Prior to looking up the word ‘inkling’ I had no inkling what the hell it meant… *sS* Anyway, this is pretty much where there album starts – and we’re immediately exposed to the rich, phat, progressive Antix sound that we have come to love so much… Stripped down at first, but slowly more FX are added until the track is full-blown funky-ass progressive trance… I can’t wait to play that breakdown + take off bit during a hot summer day at the beach while sipping margaritas… And this track is dying to be mixed into a Buzzmonx or a Kooler track… Sexy choon! #03: Antix – Forever Changing Again we start out with a pounding rhythm section – tribal drums, rich percussion and an overall ass-wiggle-friendly atmosphere… After a couple of minutes we head towards more housy territory which leads us to the break… Reminds me of Krüger & Coyle in some aspects… The build-up creates tension sure enough, but the climax isn’t really a climax… Ah rats! Well, it’s still ultra-smooth, groovy progressive trance with almost epic qualities… Good but not amazing – I could’ve wished for more edge here… #04: Antix – Cold Night We’re definitely still in club-land on this very housey number… The basslines is super groovy – rich, deep and pounding… And the percussions works wonders… Actually everything is fine and dandy – and no matter how much I try to convince myself that this is too cheesy, I can’t help but like this track… There’s something hypnotizing about it… Very mesmerizing… Somewhere in between 12 Moons and the Saiko-Pod house remixes… Sweet! #05: Antix – Little Honey This track really shows how talented the Strom brothers are in the studio – I mean, just listen to the first couple of minutes… What the hell are those sounds used as percussion? Native American chanting? Some kind of filtered bell-sound? A frog? Whatever it is, it sounds very original – and very nice! The accordion & string arrangements are cool and so are the cut-up voice samples… This is highly melodic, multilayered progressive trance – with all kinds of cool FX thrown in… When I listen to this, I just wanna close my eyes and drift away… By far the most uplifting Antix track I’ve ever heard… ;o) #06: Antix – Le Lascard This is the obvious hit of the album – it has the widest appeal and it was the first track I really took notice of when I first listened to the album… It’s not as uplifting as Little Honey, but its close…The soundscapes here are wall-to-wall… Drenched in an equal amount of prog and melodies… Absolutely massive! The undecipherable voice-samples are strangely familiar and the dance potential is evident… Knob adjustment executed to perfection – the filtering and morphing is indeed impressive! Sweet track! #07: Antix – Quiet Is The New Loud Let’s turn the epic meter down a notch or three… This track takes a more minimal approach and gone are the flaring, epic melodies… The impressive rhythm section is still very much present though and I like the electro-tribal feel halfway through… This is a little darker and more introvert than the previous tracks – and I embrace that… I wouldn’t mind grooving to this tune in a dark abandoned warehouse somewhere… Nice! #08: Rhian Sheehan feat. Jess Chambers - Hiding Place (Fiord Remix) We continue down Epic Street, and take a left on Crossover Drive… This track was originally released by Kiwi Rhian Sheehan on his 2004 album Tiny Blue Biosphere – and the Fiord remixing it, is a more commercial Antix outfit… I haven’t heard the original, but I’m guessing that’s where all the cheesy elements stem from… The female voice-samples are a little over the top as are the overused strings… A little too Balearic for my taste, but besides from that this is a pretty nice track and the phat percussions save the day… Loads of people have already dubbed this the best progressive house/trance crossover album of the year so far… I don’t agree… This album is indeed very good, but personally I prefer the more edgy Tegma and Beat Bizarre albums over this… But this comes in as a close third so far… As always with Iboga, the quality level is extremely high… Personally I could’ve wished for more edge here – sometimes it gets a little too epic and well-polished for my tastes… But overall, it’s a nice album. The production is flawless and the cover-art stands out as highly original… Well done! I can’t say I like this album better than Lull – it’s equally good and they complete each other nicely… Fans of rich, groovy, well-polished progressive trance/house with immediate crossover potential will most definitely get pleasure from this… Enjoy! Favourites: 2, 4, 5, 6(!), 7 DeathPosture External links: Iboga: http://tinyurl.com/bwd9n CDx: http://tinyurl.com/be5ga Loud: http://tinyurl.com/aamth Chaos: http://tinyurl.com/cw7hk Psysale: http://tinyurl.com/77zqu Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/cl9ew Discobole: http://tinyurl.com/anf53 Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/8pks7 Radiokiosk: http://tinyurl.com/83omv Trance Shop: http://tinyurl.com/c6nxf Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/bah4e

Just completed a trade with with Toni... Fast, secure shipping - and items were exactly as promomised... All in all a pleasant experience... DP

* V/A - Iconoblast (Symbiosis 1997) http://www.discogs.com/release/165597 * V/A - Kamaflage (Dragonfly Records 2001) http://www.discogs.com/release/23342 DP

V/A – Electric Embryo High-res: front + back Artist: Various Title: Electric Embryo Format: CD (jewel case) Label: Yage Records (Sweden) Cat. #: YAGECD01 Distribution: Wirikuta Date: 1 June 2004 Track listing: 01. 07’22” Mechanix – Life Lines 02. 07’21” Toxic - Katarzis 03. 07’56” Electrypnose – 6th Debut Indux 04. 07’41” Baphomet Engine - Screams 05. 06’56” Wizack Twizack - Hallucination 06. 07’08” Psychotic Micro – Face of Fear 07. 07’13” Damage – Resurrection of the Nothing 08. 08’29” Dark Nebula – Melding Plague 09. 06’53” Procs – Jerry, Här Är Din Fremtid Review: Embryotoxicity… An embryo (Greek: έμβρυον) is an animal or a plant in its earliest stage of development – and Electric Embryo is such a well-fitting name for this first compilation from Yage Records. This is a new label operating out of Gothenburg, Sweden… It’s run by a group of friends headed by DJ Bröte (Mikael Löfgren) who also spins this kinda music at parties… If you haven’t guessed it already by looking at the track listing, I can reveal that the style here is raging dark, hard night trance – and that tracklist sure looks interesting from where I’m sitting… And with mastering by none other than Tim Schuldt himself, I’m putting this on with an optimistic mind… Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Mechanix – Life Lines “Unidentified aircraft. You’re ordered to descend to 20.000 feet. […] You have ten seconds to comply… Repeat: Lower your altitude to 10.000 feet. This is your last warning!” Mechanix is Eldad Ben-Ezry from Israel… He’s a Yage Records label DJ and has already released a number of compilation tracks and his debut album Illegal Dance was released on Doof Records in 2003… He starts his track with an archetypical movie sample and within 30 seconds the bassline is kicking hard already… This is a darkish track, though with a melodic edge… I really like the neat little acid twirls that Eldad so generously has sprinkled throughout the track… Nice! Also the there is a certain drive to this track that I dig – it keeps building and changing direction… The break is particularly well executed! Overall a very nice track and just as with Eldad’s track on the Peak Records compilation Peaking in Tongues this is funky as hell! #02: Toxic – Katarzis Toxic is Alon Atias & Avi Aboresi from Israel who’ve released tracks on classic hyper trance labels such as Timecode, Nabi and Parvati … I was pretty impressed with the techy track on Psychedelically Yours 2 released last year on Parvati… And this track is very similar to that one… The intro is brutal here – almost gabbaesque and very spooky! The pace is incredibly fast and basically this is a wall of sound … No-questions-asked hyper-trance that will repulse some and makes others cum in delight… Generally I like it, although it’s a little too intense for home listening… But a good track nevertheless! #03: Electrypnose – 6th Debut Indux Vince Le Barde from Switzerland released his debut album Brain Stretching on ResonantEarth.com earlier in 2005 – and the Swiss wizard has also impressed me with his compilation tracks on Peak Records… As always with Electrypnose the sound is very unique – though darkish and eerie, it’s also very well-balanced and has squeaky melodic elements… Darkish, yet uplifting – squeaky and bubbling… Nice track! #04: Baphomet Engine – Screams Fábio Aurelio S. Japiassu & Luiz Fernando Secchinatto from Brazil both derive from rock backgrounds, but eventually found psytrance. The duo has released tracks on Alkaloid and Nabi Records, but this is my first chance to listen to their music… The bassline here is pretty static – but is supported by a strong array of digital twists and turns… I think this is meant to be scary, but the freaky screams the title refer to are only introduced in the very last seconds of the track!?… A decent track… #05: Wizack Twizack – Hallucination WT is Tommy Axelsson from Sthlm, Sweden and this is his first track ever released… He seems to have picked up the let’s-sample-The-Simpsons trend – and he does that pretty well… I like a little humour in psytrance, and Tommy does that well for a n00b… He’s also a talented producer with his rolling sequencing-work and distorted melodies… This track has a very deep, raw underground sound… When you close your eyes you can almost feel the Swedish forest trolls crawling up your legs… Could easily have been released on Trishula or Stoneage Records… Tasty! #06: Psychotic Micro – Face of Fear Psychotic Micro is Mickey Lellouche & Kobi Stavi from Israel… They’ve released a number of tracks as Psychotic Micro and they are partly responsible for the tracks by Psycho Talk, Catla and The Chemical Mafia… A couple of very productive guys indeed! This track is just what you’d expect from these guys – dark, gritty psytrance to be played during the darkest hours of the night… With all kinds of weird twists and turns to accompany the minimal bassline… The first half of this track is good, but for the last couple of minutes it tastes too much like Skazi for my taste… #07: Damage – Resurrection of the Nothing Though Dean from South Africa is also a Skazi disciple, I like this track better than the previous one… It still has too much fluff to score top marks in my cool-book, but there are interesting ideas here to justify repeated listens… For instance, I like the sample of the old Neverending Story track that pops up suddenly from out of nowhere… Funny! But as a whole, this is simply too hectic and has too many fluffy elements… Decent track! #08: Dark Nebula – Melding Plague “Invisible mutant, eradication, extermination, annihilation, invisible mutant, eradication, extermination, invisible, unstoppable...” Aussie Luna Orbit has also been very, very productive over the years – with four albums and countless compilation tracks… We’re dealing with a true darkpsy veteran here! I’ve always liked his style and this is no exception… I dunno what’s in the water supply downunder (Well, GHB supposedly…), but those Australians are producing some of the very best hypertrance around… And this is a very cool track too: it’s fast-paced, humorous, relentless psytrance with darkish elements and a ton of psychedelia… The computer-samples are funny and my overall impression of this track is very positive! #09: Procs – Jerry, Här Är Din Fremtid Procs is Mikael Stegman from Sweden and he is know for his extremely psychedelic-slash-weird tracks on Shpastic Elastic, BooM!, Digital Psionics, Altitude and Sonaton… And when I say weird, I mean weird… This track here strays very much of the beaten path – it even stands out on this compilation – the closest would be the Wizack Twizack track… This is extremely psychedelic, hectic, multilayered, unstructured trance… You can’t get much more underground than this! If I had to compare it with something it’s somewhere in between Finnish/weird Australia – with a big splash of Schlabbaduerst… The title translates into “Jerry, this is your future”… I foresee Jerry eating a 4.000 kilo shroom/LSD cocktail in the future – be careful Jer! …Very original, and very trippy! This is certainly a very interesting first release by Yage Records – and this is a label I’ll look very much forward to hearing more from in the future. There are at least a handful of very good tracks here – and I’m sure even the tracks I personally like less will find their audience… Perhaps the general flow of the compilation is a little off at times, but generally I like it and I’m sure Yage will find its way once more experience is gained… A very solid foundation has been laid with this compilation. The cover art kicks major ass, though the spelling errors could have easily been corrected with an extra proof reading… I will not hesitate to recommend this to fans of the darker/weirder realms of psytrance… If you’ve enjoyed Parvati, Trishula, Ketuh, Gi’iwa, Digital Psionics or Schlabbaduerst releases I’m sure you’ll find something here you’ll like too… Enjoy! Favourites: 1(!), 2, 5(!), 8(!!), 9(!) DeathPosture External links: Yage Records: http://www.yagerecords.com Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/cm27d Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/7qjco Wirikuta: http://tinyurl.com/b4x63

Fugpuggler - sorry, can't help you with the CD... I've been looking for years and years for that one myself... But I just wanted to compliment your swearing... You swear like a pro - without crossing the border! ;o) Best of luck with finding that record! ;o) DP

I second that... Would be awesome if you dropped that in a tribal set... DP

Where oh where did you order them man? Both are on my wantlist... Perhaps we should have extended our trade a little... Oh well... DP

Come on man... Read the guidelines before you post in the review section... First off all this album was released in 2004 - secondly it's already reviewed... And thirdly you didn't provide any tracklist or info about the label... The same goes for the other "review" you posted in the 2005 section earlier today! DP

One CD bought off Ebay arrived today: * Koxbox - A Major Problem In Australia EP (Liquid Audio Soundz 2000) http://www.discogs.com/release/35078 My old copy had seen a little too many parties and was virtually un-playable... But now I have a brand new copy... It was still sealed when I received it this morning... ;o) DP

I've traded with Scott twice in the past... Both times without any problems... A friendly guy - hardcore trader and very pro... Recommended! DP

I've done two very succesfull trades with Rennis in Japan... Both times I got some really rare CDs from him, and I'm very happy about that... Secure packaging and great communication... Recommended! DP

I've traded with Barbara twice in the past... And I would do it again any day! Fast communication, secure packaging and mint CDs... Highly recommended! DP

I've trade with Moty one time... I think it was his first trade ever, so the packaging was poor damaging the CDs... But from what I've heard from others, he's improved his packing skills lately... ;o)