DeathPosture

Don't tell me the ripping groups got to the Tsunami Benefit CD too?

Squaremeat - Astronomical Coffee Break album

Well, first of all it's pretty damn good... Tsunami sure has some nice tracks too, but most tracks on there were already released... Also, the petition has ended and the money it raised has been given to the charity organisation... /DP

Apsara!

V/A – Lo-land Hi-tech Hi-res cover: front + back Artist: Various (The Netherlands) Title: Lo-land Hi-tech Format: CD (digipack) Label: Sonic Dragon (Hong Kong) Cat. #: SDREC-04 Distribution: Arabesque Date: July 2005 Track listing: 01. 08’45” Liftshift – Contracting Waves 02. 08’26” Drexl – Eating Movies 03. 08’34” Zen Mechanics – Dolly Dots 04. 06’15” Cyrus The Virus & Sono Loco – I Robot 05. 07’20” Loki - Lagomorph 06. 07’03” Rev Particle - Scheldezoi 07. 07’41” Synchro – Star Spangled 08. 08’53” Zebra-N - Souperman 09. 08’39” Jocid & Psychobit – Global Control .m3u-playlist: http://tinyurl.com/8ubmv (all tracks!) Review: Toit like a toiger! Dutch psytrance? I’m sure everyone agrees that The Netherlands is far better known across the world for its liberal, open-mindedness and general tolerance concerning drugs, alcohol and pornography – than for its vast psytrance scene… But the psytrance scene is indeed very much alive and kicking in Holland – and this compilation from Sonic Dragon is here to showcase the Dutch psytrance producers currently active… Let’s find out what this is all about… Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Liftshift – Contracting Waves First track is by Eric Bijl who has his debut album signed to Gplus Records due for release in late 2005… And by the looks of it, that’s an album to look out for – this is some deep, serious shit… In the best possible way! This is deep, funky, progressive trance… Starts out rather bland and yeah – pretty boring actually, but luckily things shape up as the track progresses… I’ve always been a sucker for the good old FREq-reverb effect, and that one is cleverly used here… Don’t expect big wall-to-wall madness – this is a clever little tune packed with morphing sounds and little cool, naïve melodies… I’m impressed by just how trippy this is – with so few elements… Funky minimal trance! Cool track! #02: Drexl – Eating Movies “Check it out Butthead, this chick has three boobs… How many butts does she have?” Bart Matthias is both a DJ and a party promoter in Holland – and he also compiled this CD along with Jocid… And now he’s a producer too! We stay on the same path – deep, simple progressive trance – though we’re approaching a more psy-trance edge here… Reminds me of some of the early Candyflip stuff really… The rhythm-section, the experimental intro and the subtle climax-part are down-right brilliant and it works perfectly with the naïve, uplifting melody… This took me some time to fully get into, but now I adore it… Simple, but oh so addictive… What a charming little track! #03: Zen Mechanics – Dolly Dots “This shit is starting to freak me out man!” Wouter Thomassen is the first artist on this compilation, which I’ve actually heard of before… I really, really enjoyed his remix on the recent Iboga compilation Set/5 and I’ve also really enjoyed his chilled tracks lately… His debut album is signed to Neurobiotic and should be out some time next year… Looking forward to that one too – as this is another pretty damn good track… It fits in perfectly after the two previous tracks, as this is also highly addictive, deep progressive trance – with rich psy-trance influences… Very full on’ish in structure and with big phat reverb FX all over the place… The pads here are huuuuuuuuge – wall-to-wall groove… Also the climax is spot on - will work absolute wonders on the dancefloor! Kick-ass track! #04: Cyrus The Virus & Sono Loco – I Robot Cyrus is GMS-padawan Jan-Willem Bot who released his debut album Subliminal on Spun Records in 2004… So, as you might have guessed we’re heading toward formulated full-on here… Epic melodies and over-the-top full-on basslines… Bleh – we had such a great progressive thing going, I wasn’t hoping for the transition into full-on to sound like this… It’s not a bad track per se… I’ve heard much, much worse full-on coming out of Israel… But still… #05: Loki – Lagomorph Loki is Alistair Johnson who runs trance.org… The style of this track is not easily categorized – it’s a hybrid somewhere in between progressive and full-on… Though with more full-on in the mix than progressive… The energy-level is impressive – but I can’t help feel that this is a little too chaotic… It lacks somewhat structure and an overall sense of direction… It has its moments though – the staccato rhythms are pretty cool and so is the melody that swings in, in the last half - I just wish the rest of the track was as intriguing… Good, but not stand-out good! #06: Rev Particle – Scheldezoi Rev Particle is Troy Leidich of Fungus of Light fame… And that connection reveals it all – gone are the fluffy, full-on tones – enter the hard-core, nocturnal hyper-trance! Yeah – this is dark, hard-hitting stuff – So damn powerful and hypnotizing… Music to be played in the darkest hours of the night! The groove here is fucking immense… I can vividly imagine dancing my ass off to this one in a dark, abandoned warehouse somewhere… Crackling, bubbling, bursting with energy… What an absolute smash of a track! #07: Synchro – Star Spangled “Where is he? I dunno – your guess is as good as mine!.. What’s wrong? What the hell – where am I?It’s the million dollar question…” Woow – good old Synchro is back! Jeroen van Garling has been in the game for over a decade and has released four albums… The oldest ones being the best! Anyway, this is also deep, darkish trance – though not as dark as its predecessor… I really like it in all its forest-like madness – the trip factor is fucking high here, and this reminds me of why I like the old Synchro albums… As the title suggest, this track has a bit that uses the old American national anthem – executed by Hendrix guitar… Kinda cheesy yes, but it doesn’t ruin an otherwise brilliant track… Cracking, atmospheric stuff! #08: Zebra-N – Souperman “Presenting superman! Look, it’s a bird; it’s a plane, its superman!” Paul Elferich is another familiar face… I’ve pretty much liked everything he’s released on Ketuh and Trishula Records compilations… He’s got a certain dark, twisted style that I seem to enjoy… And sure enough, this is as dark and twisted as I could have hoped for… The changes in paces are very well executed and will freak people out… Nice! There is a bleak moment or two here, which prevents me from giving this the double thumbs up… One thumb up is pretty nice too though… ;o) #09: Jocid & Psychobit – Global Control Jocid (Joshua Gablan) just released his third album Sonic Addiction on Manic Dragon Records – and he’s working with Psychobit (Rolf Bussink) on the next… A productive guy for sure! Anyway, just as this very compilation, this track is very diverse… It starts as soft, floating morning trance – but something is lurking under the surface… Slowly penetrating, bubbling with life… And before you know it, this track is in full effect… Holy shit! Eventually this is an acid-ridden, full-power night-time bomb… Extremely twisted and trance-inducing! Stellar! Flying, floating, trippin’ Dutchman! Who would have thought that there was so much talent lurking in The Netherlands? I’m really impressed here – both by the scale of obvious talent, but also by the sheer diversity of this compilation… We go from deep, minimal progressive trance – over full-on – to dark, acid-driven hypertrance… In nine easy steps! …And the best thing is that is actually works as a journey… I don’t care about CDs having to stay within a certain genre – this compilation has loads and that’s brilliant! Also the mastering by Xenomorph sounds pretty damn good to me, and despite the tacky cover-art I like the cool artist bios inside the digipack… All in all, this is a pretty tasty compilation. It took me completely by surprise, but I really like being surprised… Especially when its positive surprises like this one… Check it out, if you like a broad, diverse spectre within progressive/psytrance… This one crossed over successfully! Enjoy! Favourites: 1, 2, 3(!), 6(!), 7, 8, 9(!) DeathPosture External links: Sonic Dragon: http://www.sonic-dragon.com Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/bg4kv TranceShop: http://tinyurl.com/78l9p Discobole: http://tinyurl.com/9j7s7 Wirikuta: http://tinyurl.com/aux5p Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/cf272 Wakyo: http://tinyurl.com/cxfpz Juno: http://tinyurl.com/9bv4f

50 Cent - In Da Club (Sub6 Remix) is pretty fucking awful too... I voted for Sweet Dreams though as it's one of the worst pieces of crap I've heard... I've heard most of the Prodigy remixes which pretty much all suck - and I'm happy to say I haven't heard the rest...

Yeah I got it... Listened to it in the car yesterday driving back from the airport... Wikkid stuff.. I'll review it shortly... Thx again Moni... --- In other news, I got more stuff in the mail: * HIM - And Love Said No (Greatest Hits) (BMG Finland 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/501071 + One of the coolest DVDs in history: * The Criterion Collection: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=175 ^ This package is so frekkin' cool... Include tons of extras, including a commentary track by the man himself, Hunter S. Thomson... Awesome! /DP

Great, great stuff... You rule Rennis! Can't wait for the album... ;o)

Some shopping in Århus today: * Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine (Epic 1992) http://www.discogs.com/release/370022 * Incubus - Morning View (Immortal 2001) http://www.discogs.com/release/440327 * V/A - Travelling 2 (Visionary 1996) http://www.discogs.com/release/90917 * V/A - Trancentral Four - A Trip To Goa (Kickin Records 1996) http://www.discogs.com/release/130670 * V/A - Natural Born Techno 5: Psychedelic Trance (Nova Zembla 1997) http://www.discogs.com/release/76333 /DP

V/A – Inner Circle Hi-res cover Artist: Various Title: Inner Circle Format: CD (jewel case w/ 12 p. colour booklet + DJ case insert) Label: Tribal Vision Records (Czech Republic) Cat. #: TVRCD003 Distribution: Psyshop.net Date: 09 September 2005 Track listing: 01. 02’07” Mladen Glavinic - Intro 02. 08’09” Beat Bizarre – Corrosive Juices (Shaman Remix) 03. 09’23” POTS – Pole Position Club 04. 09’11” Parrket – Science In My Mind 05. 07’38” Kalimax - Demons 06. 09’42” Prosect - Sonified 07. 08’32” NASA – Sloppy Noodle 08. 08’43” Human Blue - Screwdriver 09. 06’39” Etnoscope – Fast Licking 10. 08’04” Tegma – No Time Review: Sleekness! Tribal Vision Records is out with their third compilation – as always it’s compiled by the label bosses Slater & Schwa, so we’re in good hands here… I was utterly impressed by their last compilation Lime Light which was released in April 2005… That was one funky, proggy cross-over bonanza with a high percentage of great tracks… This one is supposed to be a little darker, and once again I’m impressed just by looking at the track-list here… Let’s find out what the Czechs have cooked up for us this time…. Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Mladen Glavinic – Intro [110 BPM] This compilation is launched into orbit, by an emotional piece by Mladen Glavinic from Zagreb… This is the name of the Croatian producer behind the Parrket act – and he’s got a full track under that alias later on this compilation… This short track is spacey, melodic fusion trance… Interesting, but way to short…. #02: Beat Bizarre – Corrosive Juices (Shaman Remix) [136 BPM] Here we get a remix of one of the classic tracks from the Beat Bizarre album Pandoras Groove Box released in 2004 on Iboga Records… It’s reworked by the Swedish producer Andreas Henning under his Shaman moniker… The raw, corroded Beat Bizarre edge from the original is very much intact but Shaman adds a smoother, more straight-forward flavour to his remix… Floating, driving and with a very dancefloor friendly rhythm-section… But it seems to me as something is missing here… Some action perhaps? This is not a bad track, but I prefer the original… #03: POTS – Pole Position Club [136 BPM] German producers Thomas Wilhelmy & Joachim Luthje have been part of the progressive scene since it took of right around the millennium, but it’s been a while since I’ve heard new stuff from them… But their second album is due for release on Tribal Vision, and this track is a taste of what we can expect… This is comfortable progressive trance – crossing well over into plain psytrance… Yeah, I like hybrid-stuff like this… Gone are the grim, minimal outbursts from 4 years ago, and we’re left with rich, funky, psychedelic proggy trance… With a darkish edge! Brilliant! #04: Parrket – Science In My Mind [134 BPM] Mladen Glavinic from Croatia is back with a full track – I kinda liked his track on the Candyflip compilation Levitation released a couple of months back… That was crisp, laid-back, progressive trance… This however, is a little darker – as keeping with the theme of this compilation… But it’s still very much Parrket… After a breezy intro that lasts a little over a minute, we’re treated to a crisp, funky, bouncing progressive number – cruising at a comfortable 134 beats per minute… Very dancefloor and head-bob friendly… I like the little stereo-experiments and the pitched-up voice-samples… Sounds very futuristic! A classy track, with moments that are on the verge of being too clubby though… Borderline stuff, but good borderline stuff! #05: Kalimax – Demons [140 BPM] To my knowledge, this is the debut release from these Swedish producers…Magnus Forsberg is one of the leading forces behind the mandarin.nu portal and Thomas Comanti (DJ Faceless) is one half of the Moonflower Productions label… This is very much uplifting, futuristic progressive trance – of epic proportions… The vast, melodic pads are endlessly deep and the overall feeling I get from listening to this is… Fluff! Sorry, this is a bit to joyous for my taste – and the name is misleading to say the least… Don’t get me wrong, this is all very nice and well-polished… But there is nothing demonic about this… More edge please! In all fairness I must say the second half of the track has some pretty neat moments – reminds me of Antix with a pinch of electro… But still – only a decent track IMO… #06: Prosect – Sonified [138 BPM] “It begins very simply, it begins with a house!” Ahh – much better now! Andy Yakovlev is a Ukrainian-born, Israeli-based producer on the rise… And this is one hell of a cracking track – a fusion of all kinds of musical styles, within a progressive framework… I really like how this track fusions progressive trance, psytrance and technoid influences… Very edgy – just the way I like it! That break + climax part @ 5’10 is nothing short of perfection… Holy shit, that one is guaranteed to cause havoc on the dancefloor… I simply adore those tribal steel drums – all in all the rhythm section impress me here… Kick-ass track and one of my fav’es on this compilation! #07: NASA – Sloppy Noodle [137 BPM] NASA is Mikkel Rasmussen (one half of Gnome Effect) from Denmark, and he has also been in the game since minimal was tha main thang… And the minimal roots are very much present in this track, though this can’t really be described as minimal trance… It’s more like deep progressive trance with a crisp bassline and trippy little FX… Not as funky as the NASA track on the Posse compilation released on Domo Records earlier this summer… This is very tight and with a digital-slash-tribal feel to it… Hard-hitting and trance-inducing… Something to be played during the darker hours of a tight, progressive set… Tasty! #08: Human Blue – Screwdriver [140 BPM] Human Blue is Dag Wallin from Gothenburg, Sweden – a very influential, experienced producer with an impressive roster of releases: 4 albums, 10 x 12” and 60 (sixty!) compilation tracks! This is pretty much the style you’d expect from Human Blue – uplifting, yet edgy progressive trance… The real gem of this track is the drum-programming with is something close to perfection… Reminds me of older Electric Universe – so fucking groovy! I can’t make out the words of the Swedish voice sample here, but apparently it’s from a 1960s instructional video about how to handle colour TVs… Haha! Funny shit! This is a brilliant, epic track – with enough edge to keep me happy! Sweet! #09: Etnoscope – Fast Licking [142 BPM] We stay in Sweden with a track by another legendary act – the percussion people from Etnoscope (Martin Colin, Rasmus Alanne & Ludwig Engelbert)…Their debut album Drums From The Dawn Of Time (Digital Structures 2003) is legendary and rumour has it that they are working on a follow-up… Cool! As you might have guessed by now, this is a percussion-driven progressive rhythm-bomb… Drums are everywhere! Mixed with a good portion of nightly, half-melodic trance – a joyous etno-tribal crowd-pleaser! We’ve got a winner! I’ll never get tired of this kind of music… Yummy! #10: Tegma – No Time [140 BPM] And blimey, more Swedish progressive royalty here… Omar Chelly & Jason Orfanidis released their second album 002: Avant.Garde on Candyflip earlier this year, and that album still rocks the hell out of my living room in all its funky hybrid-glory… One of the best albums of 2005 for sure! And I’m happy to say, that this track is just as good as what was on the album… Progressive trance mixed with psytrance, electro, acid stabs, teKkno, trance and house - A true hybrid-track if there ever was one! … So fucking energetic, so uplifting, so daring, so evolving… So amazing! The perfect way to end this compilation! Well, I’ll be damned if the Tribal Vision guys haven’t gone and done it again… Released another benchmark compilation of hi-quality music… There are a couple of tracks that doesn’t really do much for me – and track #5 is a total miss for me… But luckily the less-good tracks are by far outweighed by the large amount of brilliant tracks here… I’m really impressed – especially by the last half of this compilation… It is one kick-ass track after another – made by some of the heavy-weights of the genre… Hats of to Slater & Schwa for keeping such a high quality level! Again the artwork is simply stunning here… I really like the extensive booklet with info on all artists… The artwork by Quapim is among the best I’ve ever seen… Very classy – somewhere in between H.R. Giger and Terry Gilliam stylewise… Also the easy-rip DJ case insert will come in handy for the DJs out there… All in all a very impressive compilation… Darker than Lime Light, but equally good… Recommended to all fans of progressive trance with diverse cross-over influences! Enjoy! Favourites: 3, 6(!!), 7, 8, 9(!), 10(!!) DeathPosture External links: Tribal Vision: http://www.tribalvision.cz Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/ba5nl Wirikuta: http://tinyurl.com/bop55 Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/ch9ma Wakyo: http://tinyurl.com/c6bjm

V/A - Inner Circle (Tribal Vision Records 2005) Review should be up within a couple of hours....

I think he's Shpångul's twin!?

I haven't heard that one yet, so I can't really comment... But maybe the reviewer wasn't really into the very unique sound of Sigur Ros? The reviews on Metacritic are pretty damn good... /DP

I agree with Ola... ( ) is simply a breath-taking, emotional rollercoast ride of an album... Drenched in deep, dark, smiling emotions - more pain-staking than anything you'll ever experience... It's a journey of sound - and one of the albums I love the most in my entire collection... ---- In other news, I got a bunch of stuff in the mail today: * V/A - A Pinch Of Psychedelic (Space Tribe Music 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/476511 * Space Tribe - Thru The Looking Glass (Space Tribe Music 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/498937 * V/A - Inner Circle (Tribal Vision Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/518108 * Squaremeat - Astronomical Coffee Break (Exogenic 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/481476 ^ Reviews soon... /DP

How is it? As good as the first three albums? BangCD has it for £6.99 so I'm definitely getting it... /DP

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Coldplay - X&Y album

Have you ever heard of Paypal? That's really the way to do it nowadays...

Waahaaay - another one! The first mix was so damn tasty - and this one looks damn sweet too... I already see some fav'es on the tracklist... Looks sexy! /DP

Just use the San Marino option... That's close enough!

Actually I didn't write very soon - just soon... That means within the next couple of weeks... I haven't received the single yet, but I've talked to Liquid Ross thoughout the mastering process - it's all done now, and yesterday I got a mail from Robin Triskele saying the single was in the post... So the release date is very close - can't tell you the exact date yet though... Hope that clears things up? /DP

I'm really sad to see Liechtenstein so far behind in the poll...

Sounds cool... I'm hoping Anti is sending me this baby, so I can get a review on the go...

Mostly DJ tools: * The Offspring - Greatest Hits (BMG 2005) Not on Discogs yet... * The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan (V2 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/469515 * The White Stripes - Elephant (XL Recordings 2003) http://www.discogs.com/release/367211 * Keane - Hopes & Fears (Island 2004) http://www.discogs.com/release/404073 * Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (Virgin 1985) http://www.discogs.com/release/390681 * Coldplay - X&Y (Parlophone Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/468956 * The Doors - The Best Of The Doors (Elektra 2000) Not on Discogs yet... * Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc (Parlophone Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/458476 + DVD boxset: Band of Brothers http://www11.cd-wow.com/detail_results_2.p...oduct_code=5135 /DP

Bye Nemo... Fuck man, I'm gonna miss you... Have a blast with the wifey and the unreleased baby... Hehe... Godspeed my friend! /DP