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Ah that one, yeah, I've see it before hehe *thanks anyway

Except me (?)

Chill tribe Records came as a surprise to the relaxed trippers in 2005 when they/he (PKS) released the very first CTR release. People got their eyes and ears open to his compiling skills and had wet dreams about the artists being involved. This is the third release in his pleasurable VA series and this time he topped himself with names known from the earlier Goa-Trance days and other acts that had managed to build a steady reputation as serious trippers with musical skills worthy of the respect they gained. Here we are about to dive inside a new chapter of Chilladelic sounds from all over the globe with mature beats to woggle your cradle and creative sounds to tickle your aural organ. V/A - Ear Pleasure (Chill Tribe Records) 2007 (CTRCD03) 01 Robert Leiner - Beginning Of The End 7:32 02 Blue Planet Corporation - Gengis Khan's Reverie 7:34 03 Kris Kylven & Syb-Sonic - Forgotten Souls 12:08 04 Cosmosis - The Himalaya 6:59 05 Digital Mystery Tour - Nemo 6:03 06 Slot Machine - Quick And The Dead (Snake Thing Dub Remix) 6:34 07 Kiwa - Inside 6:59 08 Highpersonic Whomen - Free Space 6:51 09 Bluetech - Embrace 6:12 10 Zen Lemonade - Island Of Forgotten Dreams 7:47 Some track by track words: 01. From silence sneaks a musical piece with sounds crumbling up your ear passage to inner drum of reflection in dedication. The beats quietly build around static frequencies with background sounds and voices to be raised into delightful elements of pleasurable sounds and subsonic echo of a dubby bass with strange summer breeze. 02. Playful sounds blimps while strings of comfort and expectations jumps in the lap of a leftfielders tune where the build strongly and firmly gets toward a dub realm of escalating sounds and humming shamans with sitars and squinty effects . The vibe and feel is as strange as one can expect from experimental ChillOut delivered by a set of acoustic audio freaks with chillums. 03. Ambience of space revived by dreamcatchers sets the mood with mountain callings of the Great Spirit playing didgeridoo. The setting is nature filled with a lot of nice details (like all of the tracks represented in this VA). As the bassline kicks in I get a feeling of masters at work, its bleep dives deliciously inside my ears and the visions are getting fat while tribal elements surrounds my being of light and comfort. What a beautiful melody, the universal travels in this one is mighty and euphoric with chanting voices raising the spiritual level. Beautiful work like this leaves me feeling blissful and competent yet eager to reach even higher levels of consciousness because this is inspirational and divine for you and me to be and see hidden worlds of forgotten magic. 04. Swaying wind from the Himalayan peaks caresses a void as the deep dubass with chanting prayers fills the air with their blessing of love to be and feel. A beautiful blues guitar joins the play with melodic strings to stroke your chakras from where Gods rest and watch while feeling sort of amused and pleasant by our humanitarian sanity. I’m very much a fan and an appreciator of Cosmosis’ work of delightful layers and acid lines that sets a perfect trance to your meditational aspect. This track is beautiful in all its vision and belief, but I have some problems connecting to the crying man chanting his beautiful love and devotion. 05. Feelings are getting more wired, the elevator to stars and cosmic relations gets a massive dance boom of tribal filled gardens and volcanic depth. The melody is lurking and strangeness as the track evolves with space and drum. The feel and vibe isn’t exactly what I crave but it works well enough. This is defiantly music for the Serengeti with mystical creatures roaming around like festive jumpers of time. 06. Funks the word, dub’s the bass and levitation is the effect. A beautiful layer with heightened blues play gets a powerful addition from a woman’s voice that seems to truly raise the level in dedicated musicality. This is for me one of the highlights as this funk is groovy and heavy like slick slot machines ready to dingding’sing you into vivid colours of emotional delight. These feelings for me are bliss, and defiantly not piss. 07. Strong techno dub for the groovy ones, creative effects for the drowsy clowns. It’s a pleasure to ear the strong and immense tracks by people with musical gifts. Quality is evident as the (again) blues guitar with crunchy sounds and funky melodies strikes your headspace of a creative race. The flute touch is truly pleasant and swings the hoolahoops into a rotating fresco without the waterbus fundamentalism. 08. There is no free space and we are all waiting for some sort of contact. Funky groove is still strongly present as PKS, the compiler and record label boss has been building the mood and setting us up for an upraised chillization dancing behind staggering beats and dubby civilizational distress. For me this is quality music straight through, but I got some problems really enjoying its vibe because of personal taste and feel of groove. 09. Abstract journeys of selfish liberation, beautiful tingling strings swing their emotional tears around a wide open eye of non-judgementalism. Or so it can seem. Bluetech is a talented soul with his own divine dub of soft play and technological landscapes. One can argue that if you’ve heard one Bluetech tune you’ve sort of heard them all, and this is defiantly no exception. I embrace the blips and beeps coming out of Bluetech’s imagination and emotional being, though I’m sure I’ve heard this beautiful track many many times before with minor variations. Still, it’s good Bluetech sounds that I think we all love and adore to some degree of agreement. 10. A baby is born into a world of hope and endless possibilities, we all hold the key to realize that heaven is here, right now – never far away. There is no reason to not smile when the sun hits your face and there is no reason to not giggle when water splashes on to your body. There is so much beauty in this world of ours, all of us, animals and plants, humans and rocks. Our compassion, our gift to love and care for each other is something to remember and practice, and there is hope in a smile and knowledge in a beautiful aliening eye. Care for your mother like a mother cares for her child. Care for a child like a mother cares for you, deep inside. Heaven in your thoughts, divinity in your hopes – When will we all realize that we are already here, surrounded by bliss of our mother Gaia’s warm and safe womb. I would like to remind us all; don't pick the scabs or you will never heal. Recommendations: Dub is the word with experimental and psychedelic atmospheres for ants to crawl and giants to listen and create. Some of the tracks sort of seems to have been built around a theme and doesn’t really lead anywhere except to a pleasure of receiving sonic vibrations to the ear and beyond. I have owned this release since it was released in 2007 (It’s now end of 2009) and it took me time and growth to truly appreciate and understand the music presented inside Chill Tribe Records Ear Pleasure. I knew when I first got and listened to this VA that I was in possession of something utterly creative, psychedelic and funky. I respected and liked some of the contributions on it, but I for some reason couldn’t manage to really flow with it as the vibe is and was sort of experimental and dubby, sort of strange I think. I see now clearer then before that this is music made by highly creative musicians with years of musical experience and that it is compiled by a person who has a lot of inner respect and love for what he transmits out to the listeners. Unfortunately I’ve never had the opportunity to hear a DJ-set by PKS, but as I’ve said before in a previous review of one of his releases, I would trust my trip-experience in his magic any day or night. I am extremely happy to own this release and it’s a proud feeling to see so many great and respected names on the track list. Only thing missing in my book is an Altitudes track (Which was presented on both previous VA’s), and a Norwegian contribution.. As always the VA's released by Chill Tribe Records is with a booklet filled with goodies like words about the artists and pictures of their beings. The artwork by Marmelade is beautiful and thought lingering as usual and PKS' skills in giving you a ride through sonic visions and beautiful revisions is as masterful as one could hope for. And it’s worth a mention that the mastering is done by Tim Schults and Detlev Funder @ 4CN Studios, Germany. I guess I would like to sum this review up with a couple of key words: Sophisticated in dub, experimentalism in groove, funk and trip factor in jazzy atmospheres. It’s ChillOut for mature listeners wanting something else then light and easy accessible down-tempo music with trance flow. Favorite Tracks: 1(!), 2, 3(!!), 4, 5, 6(!!), 7(!), 8, 9(!), 10(!!) Where to buy and other links: CTR-home: http://chilltriberecords.com CTR-Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/label/Chill+Tribe+Records CTR-MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/chilltriberecords Psyshop.com: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ctr/ctr1cd003.html Saikosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=6393 Play.com: http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3356804/Ear-Pleasure/Product.html Beatspace: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=3332 Juno.co.uk: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=3332 More relaxed reviews: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic

^lol *and for the record, I'm not a fan of that Cher/Hawking/Duvdev voice decoder thing ..

Well I don't want to get Offtopic here and I’m sure Hexa can reply by himself fine if he feels an urge to explain his words, but let me try to express what I think he means with that line since I have sort of the same feeling (i think). He didn't like the new infectious album by IM and his dislike of this (and the last?) album sort of ruins his feel on the three first albums, which he likes and admires, because if he listens to LotBS too much*, he will recognize stuff in The G, CM & BPE that he can hear on this album, eventually making him dislike IM's three first albums because it will remind him of what he dislikes about IM’s music and sound/feeling. Sure IM always has been infectious in their sound, but never as mainstream directed as they are today! good or bad, don't really care any more. Or smth *maybe this album will grow on him with time if he actually took his time and ear to listen and understand it properly? It took me years to truly appreciate the beaty of IM's Trance Side, and today I do like almost half of the VD tracks, still struggling to really feel the depth of IM the Soupnazi though. Exept for their melodies I think this album is terribly boring and shallow (pure dunk party album with some nice euforic superhero melodies here and there). Did I mention I'm planning of owning this album as well (I own like all IM albums to date and a lot of compilations with their tracks present), because no matter how bad, tacky or cheesy IM's music will become, it will always have their infected soul in it (infected or disinfected, same same but different). And to be honest I sort of like and secretly route for them to make it big, to infect the world with their strange sounds, because their sound IS fucking weird, especially compared to the chart-music out there. I hope other people liking IM's older stuff and psytrance in general can manage to see realities outside their own bubble of despair. If I was 16-17 again and I heard this music, I think it would make me very curious (also if I heard it today in another reality where I don’t listen to psychedelic and weird music) IM is and will be in the future when they hit the real masses a great doorway for people to get to know real psychedelic realms. I hope thas their agenda exept for money and fame, I hope the cosmos sort of has these great and noble plans for IM. hehe

It's very nice so thanks for sharing. It instantly reminded me of , for some reason ..

Yeah, good luck on the Futurised release, its going to be interesting to hear its story of mortal glory Jeg elsker dette albumet, kan ord ikke formidles all sjarmen hans), Dmitri, ser frem til din sledushchej ambient album.

^ I don't think he could have written it in much better English than that. What he's saying is that their new album is too mainstream. infectious = easily spread But then again, wouldn't it be funny if IM got the innovative status like Daft Punkt etc, working together with Kenya West hehe ..

Hey Spook, thanks for the compliment I couldn't find any information about the creator of the art, is it your work? .. And is she really taking a dump or what? pietones

Ja helga, moi 2. Please post more strips Mattman, no matter how mucho they sucko or notto. PLZ! *one of the best I've seen (thinking about Ultimae) is the one Psyoynes (or what his nicjname is) signature where people are melting because of ambient music hehe

I voted No. .. However!! I think the kick was sort of fair, and let me tell you why. The guy pissing should have been forced to clean up his own piss, and if you watch his fall you can see that he landed on his own piss and hence, his clothes dried up much of the piss and after, the pissing-guy can enjoy his own filth and smell and force himself homer and awayer for all eternity. Yes, but remember this; A idiot person like that pissing on the dance floor is not going to be easy to persuade into drying up his own piss. If he's drunk and like high on chemicals, the guy would most properly be an ass and become stubborn and hard to deal with, you know what I'm trying to say? (donno if he was tripping hard and felt a cosmic reason to do so - maybe the guy is super nice and just had a very unlucky moment of brain activity). Agree. And that kick could have caused some real damage to the guy being a dick, pissing on the floor. But luckily (for him, and the kicker I guess) the pissing guy was so intoxicated that his spine and all is like spaghetti, so it's hard to cause any harm It was poop a piss-party anyway and +1 oon curious about what happend next. e. it totally looks like a poop party.

^ Progshop.com FTL !! wow that open blotter window is amazing, at first I didn't notice it, and when I did, it started to move/wave around

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. Kalilaskov As - Killas 2008 (Digital Drugs Coalition, Geo Israel, Geomagnetic.TV, Goa Records) 2009 (DIGICD006) 1 Kalilaskov As Vs. Select Project - Eliza Roza 6:48 2 Kalilaskov As - Passion 6:33 3 Kalilaskov As - Dark Psilosophy 6:32 4 Kalilaskov As - Crying Girl 6:30 5 Kalilaskov As - Dead Angel 6:33 6 Kalilaskov As - Bad Girls Go To Hell 6:17 7 Kalilaskov As - Airin (Remix) 6:38 8 StrezZ Vs. Kalilaskov As - Psy Dorados 7:18 9 Kalilaskov As Vs. Natinel - Beethoven's Dragon 7:23 10 Kalilaskov As - Radiation Defloration 6:39 * Kalilaskov As - Secret Track .. 6:02 1. Nice intro stuff, but the track bores *** 2. Has some nice dark rolling with cinematic stuff going through the background *** 3. Fatter bassline, cooler feel. Crazy stuff. **** 4. Messes with the Terminator theme and got some impressive arrangements that manage to keep my attention sort of hooked. **** 5. Stranger mood, weirder air and changing phases. *** 6. Ooh, what an orgasmic drop-bass in the intro, this track has driven and heavy thumping power for sure. *** 7: This one got a good flow to it but wears me out. *** 8. Funny intro. Some very cool guitar stuff, blasting! **** 9. Killas drive with some good breaks and hefty stomp. *** 10. Straightforward stomper with some ghosts flying around. *** * Bonus track is haunting in mood. *** 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 Where to buy and other links: kaliDiscogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kalilaskov+As KaliBookingSpace: http://www.myspace.com/kalilaskovas KaliMySpace: http://www.myspace.com/kalilaskovasmusic D.D.C.: http://digi-drugs.com D.D.C.Space: http://www.myspace.com/digitaldrugscoalition Geomagnetic.TV: http://www.geomagnetic.tv Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/ddc/ddc1cd006.html Saikosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=7717 Wirikuta: http://www.wirikuta.at/web66/product_detail.jsp;jsessionid=DFHOGFPPBPMC?showDetail=215143 Play.com: http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Album/4-/11286973/KillAS-2008/Product.html Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/home/detail/1/beatport#app=34e2&a486-index=3 Beatspace: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=4776

Ott is one of the Twisted kittens? Snowball is Simon's strangled cat? In between the two last frames I have a huge ? on top of my head. got more? =D

Cypher - iMusic

I totally forgot to mention the masterpiece of 1492 It's true beauty. Also I love the Wipeout OST's for playstation

What a good review antic, thanks for the read! . By councidence I heard the track which has nicked a sample from The Temptations. It's rox for sure but never reaches the emotional levels of ie. psykovsky. Well that goes for a lot of acts out there. A lot of great efforts but still in miss of something to top it in excelence. At least it seems Terranoise is one of those heading in the right direction of creativity and landscapes (using other elements to balance out, like ambience). And at least the album art promises something special, unlike the terrible yet funny art work of their debut album. =)

I would mention Fires of Ork and Biosphere. When Fires of Ork makes ambient it's heaven. Biosphere is optional to know when liking ambient. Some snipps, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1CQy02Cvpw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3rIWaYRaJU Not ambient but still a huge fav in my book of electronic music.

Re-realize thy self: A Night At The Roxbury Oh Yeah

Mortal Kombat OST Spawn The Album: Special Edition π - Music For The Motion Picture Animatrix The Album

I'm listening to this now: It's very

V/A - FedX - Overnight Xpress (Geomagnetic.TV Morning Star) 2008 (GEOCD025) 1 Reactive - The Dune 7:00 2 Sinewave - Sunshine 7:18 3 Ovnimoon - Mind Creation 7:28 4 Te-Tuna - Atmotrips (Live Mix) 7:20 5 Tryptamind - Ruby 6:28 6 Skyloops - Modern Stimulation 6:56 7 Predators - Thug 7:18 8 Virtual Light - Concentration Camp 7:06 9 Atma - Distorted Reality 8:04 10 Static Nation - One 6:20 11 Micro Scan - Trance System Burnz 8:27 1. A thin and eventful kick builds its path to encounter a groove of spice which extends life. Tribal elements with mood setters swing the speed in high full-on gear with what eventually sounds like generic bliips and miips. The bassline however does have some changing that flow good as the story evolves. This tracks theme is floe bumping melodies with a star wars. It’s danceable...nice effort on the variation between fighting praying and full-boning. 2. Stars in same theme as the first track, building to something and gets it on with some progressive triple beats. Some nice skills on the production side are present. Sharp sounds in crystal – Its sort of progressive full-on. There are some nice layers and sounds and fun changes and a sunny feel of dancing with arms swaying in the air, feeling a nice breeze. Unfortunately the track as a whole feels boring and uninspired. ..A part with rougher guitar distorted sounds. A take offer and energy booster for sure. Because some of the parts are very strong. 3. CD is mixed and in a way that I like for home listening. Does it work for DJ’s wanting material, maybe not as good but that’s some of the intention of compilations, market music of artists so you can get their album. This track has a nice intro and keeps the bass in a steadier full-on flow then the previous. A voice repeating creation along the way is interrupted by a melody that builds (layers appear), but I’m not too fond of the simple and cheese like appearance. It’s nice and all but doesn’t give me a wow or anything. it’s like with the problem for me in most full-on trance, it’s nice dance music, friendly, fun, sort of different with pleasant effects but feels very empty to be placed in a psychedelic box of prudes. it’s just nice trance music for the party goers with some extra emotional values. To repeating in its boredom. 4. Nice floating around the air ears. Builds again and gets a steady beat with Christmas jingle’s’ish sounds. Fast forward full-on. I’m so bored, it’s not to stressing, doesn’t change theme so often and has a lot of that floating effect. It’s nice cheese but bores me to death. *** The pan like theme floating in the background is almost nice. As chill this would be very lifeless, and the beat only makes it better then chill because you can move your feet to it in total boring relaxation. 5. Ok time to wake up? Kick and rugged bass tries to swing it up, adding some more pirating sounds that for sure sounds almost promising. Funky but very generic walk and the sounds are getting more irritating. Hoping since I see huxflux's name that it will surprise and rearrange what I thought was real... Cute sounds with heavier effects but stings my ear. Not sure I get its magic. Surprising sample enters. There comes a twister with piong-phong shootings. This track is on the verge of working in its total lack of working. 6. Their album is hasty and energetic, has a lot of cool charm and works on a now and then basis, but it didn’t grow on me as much as i thought it would. The track is ok and a lot better than the two previous ones, so it almost feels like a highlight moment on this FedX compilation with its groove and humoristic feel of goa-trance without the Goa. 7. Rises delightfully into the seventh track of cave beings humming with a mystique vibe of hunting predators. Sounds sound cool and imaginative, the way their played with. interesting break and then the real kick and bassline runs ahead I got their album Cosmos, but still haven’t managed to listen to it more than a couple of times so far. It just didn’t catch my attention enough though I heard it had some offerings interesting to examine better. This track got some moves and kick to kick. Falls out of my vision because of its full-on production instead of psychedelic production, whatever that means. Good turns and twists but bores. Not enough predators. 8. Bassline works sounds the same as predators so the story continues and as mentioned, I like the pilot’s way of mixing. track though is extremely uninspired with the typical party full-on thing going on that I personally try to avoid because I’m not only in it for the party. It has some oriental melodies going on. So it goes from something serious like to some hope and then maybe liberation in the FedX journey? 9. Nice echoing voices and slandering wires caught on by a firm full-on bassline. Has some Psy effect in its composition but not enough to really wow. Still it’s one of the best. Also got some note worthy samples of light and space. If more to it, a gem. 10. Same sound effects as the previous one, then takes a huge lift-up and continues with its full-on party. A breakdown, what will come? I got a feeling it will be predictable and boring, oh, another lift, more massive this time, ah... yess, full-on. Evolves some happy accordion like sounds allá Mega Dance 1995 with a full-on trance production set of ideas and evolution. This is all just boring dance music and if one likes dance music for teens, then go for it. I'm not of need of these sounds, I’m too old and I demand more of people who are into and open about producing psychedelic dance music. 11. Starts with some jungle like feelings and sways your mind to peace only to raise the party mood with progressive full-on beats and mood. Has a heavier hit then i expected, sort of different but I don’t have any hopes. Melodic pieces are introduced and I yawn. The track is light and relaxed yet very boring with some skills. Nice and all with typical sounds and lifts with the same surprises as 90% of the X chewing party Full-On music. It got grooves in chilled vibe and turns to Euro-trance as it nears its end and landing on roof generic full-on delivered by a pilot with intensions unknown, except that he likes to deliver what the crowd wants and enjoys to create dancing people.. Recommendation: Of jeesh, what to say? It’s about generic and boring full-on that doesn’t really work in my tea-pot. Cover art + name seem to be indicating high travels in hasty speeds in nighttime or morning time full-on. Up high in the shallow sky where FedX plains travel it always follow the sun escaping the darkness by flying over its shadow. This is one bad release and I hardly see any value in it. Sorry. This is FedX-trance asking you to please exit. Score: 5/10 Where to buy and other links: Geomagnetic.TV: http://www.geomagnetic.tv Morning Star: http://www.discogs.com/label/Morning+Star+(2) Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/geo/geo1cd025.html Sakosounds: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=7638 More Reviews: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic

Ektoplazm keeps on pushing out electronic dance and chill music for the thirsty listeners, and this release is one of those that shows you that incredible gems can and will be found at Ektoplazm's homepage. At this music portal you will find tons of music released for free in optional qualities like WAV, mp3 and FLAC. And if you feel like using money to receive a original CD, you're also welcomed to do so. This is a review of the Xamanist album, and I recommend you to get it fast, because words will never be able to explain such complex beauty and vivid imagination! This is my humble trial of writing a review for its genius. Xamanist - Initiation (Ektoplazm) 2009 (EKTLP02WAV) 1 Machu Picchu 7:07 2 Dancing Samadhi 7:15 3 Truth And Beauty 7:28 4 Across The Universe 7:07 5 This Is A Warning 7:40 6 Intergalactic 7:46 7 I'm Just Amazed 8:21 8 White Magik 7:48 9 Atlantis 7:00 1. In deep rumbling thoughts of enchanting throats, voices are transcended out by Terrence McKenna’s understandable voice followed by a star striking lift in energy pulsations until the acid sounds roam inside a room followed by a simple yet very effective kick and bass which makes the atmosphere go Goapsy. The melodies are entrancing and astral travelling, the story varies and surprises as the sounds and effects play with angelic tribadelic progressive powers! 2. Weird moods, creative tones and smashing drums. The bassline is deeper and more movable inside the funk village. The melodies get’s trolled out inside a lively forest of frogs and funny creatures smiling while viewing their arms in hypnotic and lingering gestures. Charming stuff inside this track for sure, sneaky and mysteriously spooky with so much going on in weirdo control. 3. Nice intro with interesting words, the bassline play gets ready for work while speech expresses their brotherly words of wisdom, before it gets on running down the creak with flattering metal sheets and jumping harmonica. Exiting stuff appears to be building with sounds made in good spirit and intentional behaviors. 4. Guitars. Bassline with doped crickets and a kick that is more calm and affirming, the energy level is roxie with good effects. Cool scratching like sound that points the filling while voices sway inside deep atmospheres and at times, osculated guitars playing around somewhere in the Middle East watching the sky being filled up by power puffs. Noisy but in an authentic FullOn industrial Rock n’Psy context, intense as it pushes the sanity to subtle spaced out harmonies. 5. Electro-tech vibes in a sexy and dirty industrial environment with funk placed on the groove and progress on the beat manifestation. Shamanic elements while the hi-hat and clash comes to life to create life and devotion in its light bold. Midways it sonically flips your ears and air pressure into delightful madness of the stompers behind bushes with weird tangents on their keyboard and showcased moods. Some crazy magician is mood’eling the skies. The beat is defiantly more humping then the others. 6. Haunting white fog moods with running effects and a teller’s journey with an aim to reach a distant target. Trippy basslines with appreciated effects inspired by the real stuff. Some heavier old-skool Isratrance synths surrounded by falling swirling dense sprinkles and other fun sounds and effects. What a ride, like being inside Oz’s house, should get a remix by the Yggdrasil guys ? 7. Creepy stuff, the raw bassline chews and metal-piping echoes, beat stomps strong and heavily slow. Fun is about to get it on, synthesizers crunch and sounds fills a void and works your energy wide and far. Some 50’s sort of funk feel runs the state of drifting machinery which contains mood’lightening, jumping frogs and morbid time confusing realizations. The variation and technique of creating something trippy and adventures is perfectly done with the biggest smile of odd. As melodies floats you in mystery, shamanic thoughts return with ruff padding abiding it out of the blue into the green harmonic joy fest raggadi’da. This is totally dreamful, hypnotic delicious and very creative, always with a tripper’s laughter in mind. 8. Flickering state of seeing through our reflective eyes introduces a hard knocking bassline which develops and moves while creating. There is something about psychedelics that can scare. .. . .. . . . .. . . .Do you like to get scared? ... ... Weird effect usage in perfect tones to create wet and sprinkled feelings, it makes your mind think your skin is dripping star rain and, for sure... It feels strange and real on your face. Well done on the effect usage, Dr. Xamenist! Get’s a bit weary as it goes but in all good sense, it got an olden and golden vibe to it. 9. Last track, metal drumming, effecting space-bubbles while deep bass and hovering static carpets fly over your head and tribadelic progression walks. Slamming whips your walls and cosmic synth-works complicates while being adored only to calm down in yet speed of attention and gymnastic Yoga in space. Drops are clearly presence. Water boarding, funny how it’s used as torture by a corrupt government, while in psychedelialand, it’s a massive trip’effector. Tension getting more lurking and bursting of lava like colour flows. Recommendations: This is PsyTrance, this is just bloody amazing! . I truly like the Xamenist’s way of telling complicated stories and progression of creating moods and strange pauses for the trip to exhale, inhale and exceed. It got loads of great power, great journeys, great fun and I'm sure, a great person! This album seems to have the authentic charm of creating something very interesting that should appeal to most people into this dunkadunk music we love. Both fans of older Goa-vibe tunes and trippy freestyle grooves and new power should be pleased by Xamanist’s Initiation album. The beats, kick, bassline and... Well, everything has been different and varieted throughout. Some of the key-words here are fun, energetic, space, trippy, intense, smiling, growling and much more, all under a feel and appreciation of not sounding too confused and not becoming boring. This is hands down a fantastic album, great feel and amazing journey! There is a lot of bending tricks and a lot of trials of being something very trippy, and it works. Maybe a clear identity isn’t totally achieved since it seems to be diving in all bags of tricks, but it for sure is something special and worth checking out. It’s as complex and fun as one could imagine this genre to be, it got a lot of inspiration inside with a sense of originality and to be honest, this music should be listened to, not read about. Check it out!! Any problems? There is a lot of stuff being pushed through the speakers and for what I love, is also where it falls. By trying to be too much. The arwork by Adam Scott Miller is very beautiful and the mastering by Akhentek seems to be near perfect. Favorite tracks: 1(!!), 2(!!), 3(!!), 4(!), 5, 6, 7, 8(!), 9(!!) Total Score: 9.8/10 Promotional text: Xamanist, based in Portugal, is Sérgio Ribeiro (Serguei) a PsyTrance producer born in 1977, the year they discovered rings around Uranus, Star Wars hit the cinemas and Elvis Presley, the king of rock and roll dies from a drug overdose in his home in Graceland at an age of 42. It is told that since childhood the Xamanist has been playing guitar, bass, and synthesizers, so it should be no surprise that he eventually became very interested in composing electronic dance music after discovering psychedelic trance at the Boom Festival, 2000. Followed by this life-changing event, Sérgio joined forces with Syul to form Swan X-1. Together they performed their PsyTrance live across Portugal until it got disbanded in 2007. With this reflection of life experience as a basic foundation, Sérgio established the Xamanist project to concentrate on developing his own original style of psychedelic trance inspired by the pool of collective knowledge and inner uniqueness. Xamanist defiantly aims to blend the old with the new, balancing darkness with light and melody with rhythm. So you can expect to hear classic Goa-trance influences mixed with progressive arrangements and with piches of FullOn, not the plastic. The energy, creative flow and storytelling are presented with beauty and might with a lot of weird corners to enjoy, and of course, it has high degree of psychedelism! Welcome, to the initiation Exam, I hope you have studied hard, because the Xamanist is a fair and determined guard who provides all the material for a successful experience. Xamanist performs LIVE on guitar and synths, bringing a human touch to every show. For booking information, please email xamanist[@]gmail.com. Where to buy, download for free and other links: X-MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/xamanist X-Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Xamanist Free Download + buy CD: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/xamanist-initiation Ektoplazm: http://www.ektoplazm.com Ektoplazm Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/label/Ektoplazm More Reviews: http://www.myspace.com/psytonesmusic