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Haha, yeah, like that's a complete list... As if!

Well said Antic! =D

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* V/A - Oxycanta (Ultimae Records 2006) http://www.discogs.com/release/669595 + one DVD from CD-Wow: * R1: March Of The Penguins /DP

Thx... I'm here to help!

Certainly... Here you go... <-- My latest...

Ahh, what the hell - I *do* need Archipelago desperately, so I'm in... Do you need links?

In times like these, who better to ask than Google Fight?

Read up - especially track #5... Anyway, I'm still waiting for Amazon to re-stock this...

Psyfactor – Endless Universe Cover: front + back Artist: Psyfactor (Russia) Title: Endless Universe Format: CD (jewel case) Label: Ajana Records (Germany) Cat. #: AJACD004 Distribution: Arabesque Date: 27 March 2006 Track listing: 01. 07’58” Eye’s Reflecting Universe 02. 09’20” Walk On The Milky Way 03. 08’22” Synergy 04. 08’18” Freefalling Upwards 05. 10’04” Early Morning 06. 08’24” Underwater 07. 09’25” Molecular Design 08. 06’45” Venus Seven 09. 08’22” Steps Leaving (Dedicated to Zoolod) .m3u-playlist: http://tinyurl.com/zluo5 (all tracks!) Review: Stale... Dmitri Korablin from Russia is best known for his ventures into darkish, nocturnal psytrance – most notably presented on his debut album Evil Inside released on Trishula Records in medio 2005… An album that really surprised me positively… Later on Dmitri also ventured into psychedelic downbeat with his track on the 2005 Ajana compilation A Magical Journey – and to be honest, I liked his party-music better than his dark downbeat experimentation… But he got a taste for it – and decided to make a full album in that style… So let’s check it out! Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Eye’s Reflecting Universe First up is a highly digitized piece of evil ambient… Synth voyages drifting back and forth in outer space accompanied by some twiddling FX and digital trickery… Not much is going on, and as far as beatless ambient is concerned I’ve heard much better than this… There are neat moments for sure, but generally I’m not a fan of this kind of eventless and hollow type of music… ;o/ #02: Walk On The Milky Way The next track continues where the previous left off – but we’re soon leaving the cold recesses of outer space and we’re back on Earth with some digital birds and waterfalls… The nice ambience is shattered by static distortion and a heavily filtered, sequenced bass-like sound… Nice! Oh yeah, this is much cooler than the previous track… Darkish, nocturnal downbeat… Neat! #03: Synergy As the first part of the previous track, this track has somewhat of a more upbeat nature… It’s still chilled, but there are faster parts here… Sharp, highly digital electro stabs make out the percussion in the first part of the track – and there’s even a bassline here, albeit it’s pretty laidback… This is not bad at all – but it’s not revolutionizing either… A ‘beh’ track… #04: Freefalling Upwards The first part of this track is dominated by some old school synths – analogue I think… Anyway, it’s not until halfway thru that anything interesting happens – and by then it’s too late… Kinda! Hmm… Yeah, as the previous tracks this sure has interesting moments (like the IDM and breakz) but as a whole I’m just not too impressed… #05: Early Morning Halfway thru the album we encounter the longest track – which intro sends a few friendly nods to Ultimae stuff… Beatless ambient at first, but eventually the track unfolds into a hectic, almost dream-trance like piece of music… In that regard, I think the story telling works better here than in some of the previous tracks – and this is pretty nice. Not amazing, but nice… #06: Underwater The title hints at water, and I guess with a vivid imagination those digital drops can be perceived as watery – but besides from that, there’s not too much going on here… It’s extremely digital downbeat music which could really benefit from some more organic sounding elements… This kind of stuff bores me too easily… #07: Molecular Design Luckily the next track is funkier – and this is a weird hybrid of laidback progressive grooves and upbeat beats, breakz and trance… Finally some edge… and it’s trippy too! Seems like the most well-produced and best thought-out track here… Nicey nice! #08: Venus Seven Sadly the next track doesn’t continue the same trippy style… This is mostly numb, sterile, clinically digital synth lines which eventually are accompanied by some beats… Looks pretty good in writing, but in reality it’s painstakingly predictable and… Yawn, boring! #09: Steps Leaving (Dedicated to Zoolod) The last track is dedicated to Dmitri’s fellow country man Viktor Zolotarenko (Zoolod from Parasense) who died on January 4th 2006… A beautiful thought – but sadly the track is nothing out of the ordinary… It’s the same bunch of melancholy synth melodies and mediocre digital FX… Yawn! Hmm… I wanted to like this album…I really did! I tried and I tried, and then I tried some more. I’ve spun this album over and over again, but despite the repeated attempts I never really got into it… Sure, there are a couple of decent tracks here, but in total it’s mediocre at best. What a shame! The endless stream of predictable synth lines gets boring real fast, and sadly the decent moments are too scarce… This album could really benefit from some more organic, acoustic bits – and some more… Soul! In short: Psyfactor should stick to making dance music… The cover art is pretty dull too and once again Ajana excels in having track list errors. The Back-cover only lists 8 tracks, abandoning tracks #6+7 and includes a mislabelled track called Useless Planets. Is it that hard to proof read stuff before going into print? I’m sorry to say this, but this is the worst Ajana release thus far… But I do not despair, as the upcoming A Magical Journey 2 tracklist looks pretty tasty… This one however, was a disappointment as the few nice bits totally drown in the vast, endless universe of fluff… Come again! Favourites: 2, 7 DeathPosture External links: Ajana Records: http://www.ajana-records.com Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/652456 Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/ebmmt TranceShop: http://tinyurl.com/htd7x Amboworld: http://tinyurl.com/f7szu Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/zpj3y Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/zawlh Ajuca: http://tinyurl.com/k3bdj Chaos: http://tinyurl.com/j75hz Juno: http://tinyurl.com/ezwdl

It was a joke of course - as this cover is displayed at least 4 times in this thread...

Why has no-one mentioned this: ?

UPDATED dead picture-URLs June 2014 --------------------------------------------- V/A - Cryptology Hi-res cover: front + back Artist: Various Title: Cryptology Format: CD (jewel case) Label: Timecode Records (South Africa) Cat. #: TCCD016 Distribution: Arabesque Date: March 2006 Track listing: 01. 07’29” Hydraglyph – Mind Fuck 02. 08’46” Species – Digital Chaos 03. 06’34” Artifakt – The Idiot Song 04. 07’08” Phyx – Seventh Sword 05. 07’48” Multistate - HQ 06. 08’27” Twisted System - Razor 07. 07’47” Seroxat – Twisted Image 08. 07’20” Inner Action feat. Danger - Halloween 09. 06’45” Tickets - Babushka .m3u-playlist: http://tinyurl.com/npyyg (all tracks!) Review: Tales from the crypt… Timecode Records is the most visionary and quality conscious label on the African continent. Following the incredible and immensely popular albums by Artifakt and Twisted System, it’s time for a compilation… This 16th instalment is a blend of well-established Timecode-artists as well as newcomers… And judging by their previous releases my hopes are already lifted… Let’s dig deeper… Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Hydraglyph – Mind Fuck “If you need to find something out when you're in there, just calm down. The less you freak, the less you'll trip out. Yeah, but all this shit from before just comes tumbling... Yeah, but that shit is in the past. Focus on what you need to get now!” Prior to this track I’ve only heard a couple of tracks from the Nano-heads that are Hydraglyph… I liked their full-on, yet experimental take on psytrance… And hell yeah, this is experimental too – just as the title suggests. The voice samples from The Jacket are trippy indeed and they correspond well with the banging, full-power nature of this track… Chainsaw trance if there ever was chainsaw trance… Relentless, pounding and totally trippy! I dig it! #02: Species – Digital Chaos Species (Ahmed Hajdarovic & Eli Nesic) from Belgrade, Serbia are new to Timecode, but have released both an album and numerous compilation tracks on different labels… What we get here may sound like butt rock goa to the untrained ear, but this is easily much more refined than those Chemical Crew disciples… This is much more than the occasional guitar-riff – this is technoid, cream-of-the-crop party-minded psytrance… Banging, blasting and forceful… I like most of it, but I could have wished for some added variation in especially the first part of the track… There are a couple of too-techno’y passages though… Luckily it picks up as the track progresses and the break-down is particularly well executed… It’s destined to cause absolute havoc on the dance floors… #03: Artifakt – The Idiot Song “And now an appeal for sanity!” It’s no secret that I’m a BIG fan of Timecode boss Matthew De Nobrega’s output… His 2005 album Artifakts II was nothing short of a conceptual masterpiece – and following such a blast is an arduous task… But if anyone can pull it off, it’s Matt – and of course he doesn’t let me down here. I’m happy to say that this tune lives up to my expectations… As usual, this is multi-diverse, eclectic, genre-bending music – fusing tons of styles, samples and crack-pot ideas… Just like the title would imply! But don’t get me wrong – this is serious stuff too… Seriously trippy, dancefloor friendly, groovy as hell and just plain awesome! Hands down, the best track here… #04: Phyx – Seventh Sword Ian ’Phyx’ Summs is another old fav’e of mine… His acid-drenched, party-tool tracks have stood out on many compilations in recent years… His stuff on Ketuh Records has seldom let me down and I’m always excited when I see his name on a compilation… This track is another Phyx excursion into the psy twilight zone of darkish, acid-ridden, multi-layered night trance… Delicious! #05: Multistate – HQ “Go check out the trash collector’s homes. Cut the truck off at its next stopping point. It’s possible they’ve come in to contact with someone.” AFAIK Multistate is a debuting project from South Africa… And what we get here is trashy psytrance! That’s right – this is industrial-flavoured, nitty-gritty, raw and relentless psytrance… Oddball at times, but it never looses the general punch, drive or direction… Rich, versatile and extremely powerful… A ripping track! #06: Twisted System – Razor Twisted System consists of Ian Summs (Phyx), Chris Hoy (Shift) and Rabdom L – and they really, really impressed me with their second album Core released on Timecode in January… That album was a real intensive, well-produced piece of cluttered energy and Razor was one of the best tracks… I’m gonna copy/paste impressions from when I reviewed the album: Fuck yes; this is exactly what I was hoping for… Fragmented, multilayered, climactic, banging psytrance… Like a big, wide wall of sonic energy drenched in acid and with twirling melodies all over the place… Just like the many impressive Phyx tracks I’ve come to love… A smile-cracking track if there ever was one… Wonderful! #07: Seroxat – Twisted Image Seroxat is Offer Maoz from Israel is another producer who has yet to let me down with his trip-friendly, fast-paced, hands-in-the-air, shake-your-ass psytrance – and this is another healthy doze of just that… I mean, just check out the wicked intro here… Acid-ridden, full-power party-crunch right from the get-go… Maybe a little simple, but very effective too… Very, very powerful and twisted too… As the title suggests! Pretty good, but there are a couple of moments I find a little too simple… Generally I like it though… #08: Inner Action feat. Danger – Halloween Inner Action is a duo from Israel with one album + a bunch of compilation tracks under their belt… They are joined here by Danger from Procyon Records… This is easily the most high-pitched, most full-on track here… The computerized, robotic voices are pretty cool and this different approach to energetic psytrance is a welcomed change from the previous tracks… It has full-on tendencies, but luckily it manages to stay clear of the most obvious cheese pitfalls… A very nice and deeply energetic track… Great as a party-tool – and less great for home listening I guess… But when it comes to the level of energy put forth, this track is unsurpassed on this compilation… Cool! #09: Tickets – Babushka “What’s that smell?” This is actually my first encounter with Tickets (Joseph Summs) whom I’m guessing has some kind of family tie with Phyx!? Anyway, what we get here is a very South African-sounding full-power, full-on track… Not as much acid as in a Phyx-track, but it’s close… I like the many changes in pace and direction + the multi-climactic nature… Also the melodies are interesting here and the sampling is very original… All in all a nice track and a very worthy way to end this kick-ass compilation! Kick-ass indeed! Timecode Records have fast established themselves as the undisputed heavyweight psy-champion of South Africa… There are no bad tracks here, and the stand-out tracks are many… There are a couple passages in a couple of tracks that doesn’t really rub me the right way – but they are easily outweighed by the landslide of brilliantly trippy moments… It’s been a while since I’ve seen SO many fav’e tracks on a compilation… Well done! …Timecode – psytrance you can trust! The cover art is sweet and generally this is a pretty damn sweet compilation… A safe purchase for fans of the distinct South African sound – but also to fans of labels such as Ketuh, Digital Psionics, Shiva Space Technology and so on… Go check it out! … Enjoy! Favourites: 1, 3(!!), 4, 5, 6(!), 8, 9 DeathPosture External links: Timecode Records: http://www.timecode.co.za Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/663969 Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/lqera Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/rwmwh Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/mfawj Chaos: http://tinyurl.com/nq3a4 Juno: http://tinyurl.com/ow5x5

Ha ha ha! I need to stock up soon...

[Threads merged] No need to have two identical threads on the same topic... /DP

The second trade with the 'candyman' from Sweden went hasslefree... A real pleasure to do business with... =D

Or he was raising his own max bid before someone outbid him... Anyway, this compilation IS rare... It's supply and demand... Simple as that... /DP

Auch! Been there, done that... And since then, I use the 'save to draft' option constantly...

Can one of you guys add it to Discogs please?

Please don't post bogus reviews in the review forums... I've had to move it to offtopic in accordance with review guidelines... /DP

* V/A - Mechanophobia (Trishula Records 2006) http://www.discogs.com/release/666975 + one cheap-as-fuck DVD from CD-Wow: * Team America - World Police (R2) /DP

faze - you're the coolest! What a great idea - and what a great way to spread some positivity on these boards! You rock! Just wanted to say that... Oh, and I think I have enough new CDs as it is, so I'll politely NOT enter this draw - and wait for some interesting reviews to roll in instead! Get busy people... And good luck! /DP

Indeed... It was bought with a number of price reducing 'tricks' though... First and foremost the .us site mispriced it... Secondly it was purchased thru an affilate discount link - and finally a -$5 voucher was used... All that is impossible now though, as it's back to its original price... I just got 'lucky' with the help from a DVD bargain forum... /DP

* V/A - Cryptology (Timecode Records 2006) http://www.discogs.com/release/663969 * Somaton - Future Memories (Phantasm Records 1999) http://www.discogs.com/release/90909 + one VERY cheap DVD boxset: * Back To The Future: Ultimate Edition 4xDisc DTS @ an incredible $9.95 including shipping courtesy of CD-Wow.us! /DP

I'm impressed!