DeathPosture

Yeah - good job Full_On... Glad to have you have - you're like the godfather of sample indentification...

Very nice interview there man... I'm looking forward to more Duck Off tracks - oh, and of course I'm eagerly awaiting the Procs debut album... This statement made smile: /DP

Audioslave - Out Of Exile album ... Very mature - very rock n roll - very nice! /DP

Sweet mother of Jesus!! Good luck with that!

* Frechbax - Frech (Ajana Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/494181 * V/A - Hunters (Red Cell Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/468405 * Audioslave - Out Of Exile (Interscope 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/469724 + more über-funny DVD boxsets: * Curb Your Enthusiams complete series 2 + 3 /DP

36.11 to be precise... But it was supposed to be like that - it's part 1 of a 2 part CD set... Next one is released in a couple of months AFAIK... I'm glad I only paid £6 for it... It's totally worth it... Not a single bad track... /DP

Yeah ... For the last two hours, I've spun the new System of a Down album "Mezmerize" album 4 times... Good shit!

S H O P P I N G - S P R E E: Rock: * System Of A Down - Mezmerize (Columbia 2005) * V/A - Wired Up (Universal 2002) * INXS - Definitive (Mercury 2002) * Liquido - Liquido (Virgin 1999) * D-A-D - Everything Glows (EMI 2000) Electronic: * Goon - Panic EP (Mega Records 1995) Psy/prog: * V/A - Movers & Groovers 2 (Tip.World 2001) http://www.discogs.com/release/305495 * V/A - Destination Goa vol. 11 (Why Not Records 2002) http://www.discogs.com/release/165779 * V/A - Tantrance vol. 7 (Sub Terranean 1998) http://www.discogs.com/release/60423 * S.U.N. Project - Paranormal (Sector 2000) http://www.discogs.com/release/27191 + a couple of dupes to trade away: * Process - One Drop Or Two? (Creamcrop Records 2000) http://www.discogs.com/release/188412 * Koxbox - The Great Unknown (Liquid Audio Soundz 1999) http://www.discogs.com/release/40913 All but the S.O.A.D. + Process + Groovers are second hand... /DP

Conquistador II

Never... To reduce prices, you can only buy it straight from the source => http://listen.to/Schlab /DP

V/A – Schlabbaduerst 007 Artist: Various (Sweden) Title: Schlabbaduerst 007 Format: CD-R (jewel case) Label: Schlabbaduerst ReKkords (Sweden) Cat. #: Schlab 007 Distribution: listen.to/Schlab Date: July 2005 Track listing: 01. 07’47” Battle Of The Future Buddhas – Amor & Psyche 02. 08’26” Ka-Sol – Fucked Up 03. 09’41” Battle Of The Future Buddhas – AM Radio 04. 08’10” Ka-Sol - Whalebacktrack 05. 08’35” Battle Of The Future Buddhas - Natt 06. 09’23” Battle Of The Future Buddhas – Sick Circus 07. 07’57” Exakt Abstrakt - Hellraiser 08. 11’09” Ridderna Av Döda Hundens Kyrka – Jetta Power 09. 08’48” Duck Off – Mozart Firefox Review: We’re on an express elevator to hell… Going down! After waiting for more than a year since last year’s ambient compilation, the new Schlabbaduerst offspring is finally ready… And this time it’s 100% hard-core night music… D-Dave has carefully selected a bunch of tracks from his deranged Uppsala mates – and the track list looks impressive as always… With four new Battle Of The Future Buddhas tracks, this is as close as we’ll come to a third BOTFB-album for now… Oh goody! Alright, enough with the chit-chat – I can’t wait to dig into this… Let the freak flag fly! Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Battle Of The Future Buddhas – Amor & Psyche [146 BPM] “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass – and I’m all out of bubblegum!”… D-Dave kicks things off on this deep, wobbly forest anthem… This is hardcore night-time music – just as you’d expect – with haunting arpeggio melodies and sick, frantic pads… A monstrous track – designed to fuck you up… I love it! #02: Ka-Sol – Fucked Up [145 BPM] Blimey! Christer ‘Lulle’ Lundström blew everybody away with his monumental track on the Suntrip Records compilation Apsara released a couple of months ago… And I’m happy to say, that Lulle stays on the same path here… Oh yes – this is equally raw, distorted, frenzied night-music from the deepest forests of Uppsala… The twirling acid-lines, the pounding bassline, the haunting synth lines – all so ultra-dark and über-trippy… Fucked up indeed! Smashing track! #03: Battle Of The Future Buddhas – AM Radio [146 BPM] “We’re on an express elevator to hell… Going down!” More no-questions-asked-full-power from the get-go here… D-Dave is a relentless nihilist that doesn’t waste time with long, boring intros… The radio-theme is expressed through various well-fitting voice-samples adding to the overall trippyness of this tune…Add a trademark demented Schlabb-melody, and you’ve got a winner… #04: Ka-Sol – Whalebacktrack [145 BPM] Another intense track by Lulle… This time with spacy electro bits and pieces – kinda industrial, but still drenched in psychedelia… The demented synth-melody here is constantly evolving, seeking new directions… The synths go hand on hand with the eerie FX creating a truly haunting atmosphere… As always with KAsolarium – this is a HUGE track – a big wall of sound, designed to scare the living shit out of you! Yeah, this is one scary ass ride on the back of a whale… So dreadful it’ll make you sick to your stomach… Brilliant! #05: Battle Of The Future Buddhas – Natt [148 BPM] Well, if it wasn’t night already, it definitely is now… This is one of the fastest tracks here – galloping away at an incredible 148 beats per minute… The bassline is blunt and downright mean – kicking up some dust alongside another batch of haunting, freaky melodies… Hard-core night music to be played during the darkest hours of the natt… What the hell is that sample in the lead anyway? – Some bizarre cut-up, spooky voice sample… What ever the hell it is, it freaks me out… And we all like getting scared, don’t we? #06: Battle Of The Future Buddhas – Sick Circus [147 BPM] “What do you see when you’re in the dark and the daemons come?”… As the title suggests, this is another stroll down Bizarro Street somewhere in Uppsala… Though this is also a fast-paced, darkish track the bassline isn’t as shredding here – but the surrounding FX take care of that… An array of weird, twisted, haunting FX guaranteed to send shock-waves through any trance-floor… This is like the soundtrack to some perverted clown porn movie… Sick circus indeed! Maybe even a little too sick for my taste… Naaaah – it’s still miles above the vast pool of generic music out there… But be careful out there – this shit is intense! #07: Exakt Abstrakt – Hellraiser [145 BPM] Exakt Abstrack is Lulle from Ka-SoL hiding under another one of his aliases… And he’s raising hell here… Seriously, this is horror-trance – guaranteed to scare the living shit out of you… An impressive rhythm-section is messing with your emotions on many levels – whilst the trippyness is kept intact by the squelching sequences of synth-galore… So fucking dark, yet so melodic at the same time… A melodic full-on nightmare of sound and colour… Fuck me, this is AWESOME! #08: Ridderna Av Döda Hundens Kyrka – Jetta Power [145 BPM] Fucking aye – it’s time for the oddball track… By the aptly named ‘Knights Of The Dead Dog’s Church’… Apparently some of these sounds were recorded from Marchaos’ VW Jetta – fan, doors, engine, radio, vipers + the knights themselves screaming like madmen… Add some Skinny Puppy samples and industrial mayhem, and you’ve got Jetta Power! A very, very experimental track – truly underground – just like we’ve come to love it from Schlabbaduerst… Sick shit! I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but a part of this gets too hectic for my taste – for a while there its pure industrial noise… There are some very interesting elements here though – I’ll give the freaks that much… ;o) #09: Duck Off – Mozart Firefox [150 BPM] “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a fist stamping on a human face - forever!” Duck Off is Dj Ifan and Procs - the first non-Uppsala artists ever to be included on a Schlab compilation… What an honour – but if anyone can pull it off, it’s them… I’m especially impressed by the works of Mikael ’Procs’ Stegman and can’t wait for his upcoming album on Trishula Records… Anyway, this is one hell of a track – the fastest here… Insanely fast, pumping away at an incredible speed… As the title suggests, this track incorporates the structure of classical music into a frenzied mayhem of forest trance… This is the shiznitz – true psychedelic trance in its most underground form… I mean – just check out the “Fly me to the moon” surprise ending… Amazing! 100% Shroomadelic… A monstrous track! Sweet mother of Ghandi – this is the sickest, most repulsive, hardcore bastard-child ever to come out of Sweden… Seriously, words don’t do this justice – this is a powerhouse of a compilation… Packed to the rim with hard-hitting, gut-wrenching monumental tracks… It’s doesn’t get any more underground than this – phew, what a ride! This is by far the most intensive compilation I’ve heard all year… And I can’t really imagine what can top it… The Schlabbaduerst crew have their very own, unique take on psychedelic trance and IMO this is the best they’ve released so far – and that’s really something, ‘cause these guys have released some absolute corkers! Anyone into darkish, deep, demented night music straight from the underground does not want to be without this compilation. So do yourself a favour – go to: http://listen.to/Schlab now and order this baby – satisfaction guaranteed… Enjoy! Favourites: 1, 2(!!), 3, 4, 5, 7(!), 9(!!) DeathPosture External links: Schlabbaduerst ReKkords: http://listen.to/Schlab Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/487104

Woow - today started out pretty nice when the postman brought me all this: DVD: * Casino: 2 Disc Special Edition * Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete First Series CD: * Jaïa - Fiction (Digital Structures 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/477475 * V/A - Imagi:Nations Part 1 - Night (Tip.World 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/468484 * V/A - Imagi:Nations Part 2 - Day (Tip.World 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/484687 * Metalogic - Magnetic Influence (Boshke Beats Records 2005) http://www.discogs.com/release/469743 /DP

I haven't downloaded anything for more than two years... I get promos from labels obviously and listen to them... The other stuff I buy solely from recommendations in reviews and samples on Saiko/Psyshop... I also spend a lot of money on Ebay/Qxl/etc buying old-school - and I often buy solely based on my collective gene... But of course, I often know the artists/label/style...

* V/A - Unidentified Forms Of Sound (BNE 1998) http://www.discogs.com/release/264995

Psychedelic Dream Temple @ Stables Market in Camden... All you need!

Good call man.. hehe...

Skunk, badger - call it what you like.. I'm obsessed with the little bastards today!

Schlabbaduerst vol. 7 Wicked, wild FREAKY stuff... Two new Kasol tracks + four new BOTFB tracks + more deranged shit... Holy fuck - this is SICK! ^ All of the above is meant as superlatives... Review coming soon... /DP

Prooooooooooooooocs! Can't wait!

V/A - Albedo Artist: Various Title: Albedo Format: CD (digipack) Label: Ultimae Records (France) Cat. #: INRE016 Distribution: Ultimae.com/network Date: 11 July 2005 Track listing: 01. 03’14” Carbon Based Lifeforms – Digital Child 02. 05’58” Between Interval – Wishful Thinking 03. 08’25” Solar Fields – Fiat Lux 04. 06’47” Ishq - Ra 05. 06’31” Ochi Brothers – Silver Shore 06. 07’03” Nova feat. Aes Dana – Kalaallit Nunaat 07. 04’56” Sync24 - Waiting 08. 06’01” Hol Baumann - Human 09. 08’59” Aes Dana – Aftermath #8 10. 08’22” Vir Unis – Light Curve 11. 04’19” Antonio Testa - Sunset Review: Kaleidoscopic, arctic chill… Albedo is the reflective property of a non-luminous object. A perfect mirror would have an albedo of 100% while a black hole would have an albedo of 0%... French-based Ultimae Records is out with their 16th release – following the gargantuan chill-blast Fahrenheit Project Part Five… This time it’s a conceptual compilation, hand-picked by Massimo Terranova showcasing albedo from different parts of the world… Put on your sunglasses – let’s take a ride with Nova! Let me take you thru the tracks… #01: Carbon Based Lifeforms – Digital Child Daniel Ringström from Gøteborg, Sweden is one of the leading acts when it comes to soothing, melancholy ambient… This here is also very, very mellow, drifting ambient… The melodic, naïve melody is incredibly beautiful – a dreamy soundtrack setting the pace for what’s about to happen… Amazing track – I wish it was longer… #02: Between Interval – Wishful Thinking Despite the fact, that this guy (Stefan Jönsson) has released two albums, this is my first encounter with his work… This is a very nice track that immediately stood out when I first listened to this CD… Radio-static and undecipherable voice samples mixed with dark ambient… And eerie orchestral pads and synth-stabs… This is some spooky shit actually – Icy cold, dark ambient…Beautifully executed! #03: Solar Fields – Fiat Lux The icy-cold journey through Swedens deep ambient territory continues with a track by Magnus Birgersson also from Gøteborg… One of my fav’e producers for sure… The H.U.V.A. Network album still sends shivers down my spine when I listen to it… This is a little more upbeat, though still in deep ambient territory… The melodic pad here is among the most beautiful I’ve heard in a long time… This is a truly wonderful, magical track… So hypnotizing and mesmerizing… #04: Ishq – Ra Matt ’Ishq’ Hillier from the UK serves up a dish for the sun god Ra… This is also an upbeat tune – though with enough soothing, floating elements to keep it chilled… The tight percussion is in focus here – kinda tribal, but then again not really… This is a nice little track with crisp production – but it’s not my fav’e here… #05: Ochi Brothers – Silver Shore This is my first encounter with these Japanese brothers (Yoshiaki & Yoshihisa Ochi) from Tokyo. And wow, this is heavy stuff – a deep, filtered bassline surrounded by rich, icy-cold, and metallic percussion… Close your eyes and you can almost imagine the digital water washing up on the silver shore… Brrr – freezing! This is interesting stuff for sure, but a little too experimental for my taste… #06: Nova feat. Aes Dana – Kalaallit Nunaat Let’s travel further up north… Nova who compiled this compilation is joined by Vincent Villuis on this track bearing the native name of Greenland... Started in London UK and finished in Lyon France – with arctic references… This is stunning music – huge orchestral, yet simple pads make out the lead here… Subtle voices beautifully surrounding the classical cello-pieces… Reminds me of the Theme of Rohan from LOTR Amazing stuff! #07: Sync24 – Waiting “Waiting people run around. I am here lying on the ground. Smiling because I do not agree, that running is more comfortable for me… ” Sync 24 is Daniel Ringström from Carbon Based Lifeforms again. Just as on Fahrenheit Project Part Five this is experimental fusion downbeat – a mixture of urban space-chill and soothing, organic ambient… Bubbling with life… A nice little tune… #08: Hol Baumann – Human This is the first track from Frenchman Oliver Orand outside the Fahrenheit series… His style is intact though, and we get more fusion downbeat here… An experimental percussion section with psychedelic bleeps and blobs is mated with a gargantuan orchestral background… The crossover potential is evident here, and yeah – I really dig this… Nice track! #09: Aes Dana – Aftermath #8 French wizard Vincent Villuis is with us again – now joined by Mahiane…Following the seven Aftermath tracks on their 2003 album…This is Opus 8 which is a tour de force piano-performance by Vince… After a lengthy intro we’re also introduced to some lazy, dusty beats – in perfect union with the chilled melodies… This here is very potent downbeat music – with enough spark to keep your head bobbing… Nicey nice! #10: Vir Unis – Light Curve Vir Unis is an American producer based in Chicago who among others has worked with Steve Roach… Despite his 20 album releases (!!) I’ve not heard any of his stuff before… This is synth-based electro-chill somewhere in between ambient and downtempo… Subtle bass and tribal drums in the background – and floating soundscapes in the foreground… Pretty standard chill to be honest… #11: Antonio Testa – Sunset Mr. Terranova brings in another newbie to finish things off… This time it is Italian producer Antonio Testa and he’s with us during the final sunset… Soothing, naïve piano keys – and crystal bowl sounds… All very relaxing and nice - will send you into dreamland easily… Nice way to finish the compilation! Another brilliant Ultimae release – taking you by the hand and accompanying you from sundown to sunset – in 11 easy pieces… The cinematic feel is very much present in most tracks here, but I don’t really know how much I picked up on the whole albedo-story… Maybe I’m not perceptive enough… Anyway, I really like this compilation – and especially the first half hosts some very, very good tracks… The rest is pretty good too, and there are no bad tracks here – as always with Ultimae… I also like the fact that we’re presented with a mix of the usual suspect + a variety of new, talented producers from around the world… Everything is high-quality, and the artwork and 16-page color booklet has beautiful pictures in it… My copy has a mistake in it though – the individual track-pages are in the wrong order. But that’s most likely a mistake made by the pressing plant – or it could be just my copy? Either way, it doesn’t ruin my experience of a nice, chilled downbeat journey - compliments of Nova and Ultimae … Very nice – any fan of intelligent downbeat and ambient soundscapes should check this out – you’ll not be disappointed! Enjoy! Favourites: 1, 2, 3(!!!), 6(!!), 8, 9 DeathPosture External links: Ultimae Records: http://www.ultimae.com Ultimae E-shop: http://tinyurl.com/a8b8t Saiko Sounds: http://tinyurl.com/dwedq Amboworld: http://tinyurl.com/dkj86 Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/73dxb Wirikuta: http://tinyurl.com/bmova Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/cg6ze Chaos: http://tinyurl.com/dhrw9

Yes, I do that... I give recommendations in my reviews... Trying to give an estimate of which people will like a certain review... What's the harm in that? I've never written a review where I said "everyone will like this"... I'm more like "this will appeal to fans of... " ... I don't see the harm in that? I actually see it as one of my obligations towards the readers, to narrow down the style - and then shape my recommendation from that... I do whatever I can to do just that... /DP

Well thanks again Mon... Much obliged! Well yes and no... I usually get the names of people involved in the music from the CD covers, but just as often I refer to Discogs/PsyDB or promotional texts for the info I include... Or I go back to older reviews I've written and find the info I need... I'm glad you appreciate it... ;o) /DP

Man, that sounds MAGICAL and pretty much like the description my buddy gave me when he was there a couple of years back... Sounds awesome, and I'm still gonna ask you about it @ The Psynews Gathering... Some druqckz will get you going... Hehe... /DP