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V/A - Program Change Artist: Various Title: Program Change Label: 3D Vision Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 06'27" Nomad : 2001 Nuits 02. 08'05" Talamasca And GMS : Mutation 03. 07'58" Talamasca : Come On ! 04. 07'30" Nomad : Another World 05. 08'40" Talamasca And Space Cat : Armageddon 06. 08'03" Talamasca And Nomad : Password 07. 08'06" Talamasca And Nomad : Psycho (Tribute To Infected Mushroom) 08. 08'30" Talamasca : Robotic Planet 09. 07'19" Nomad : Blue Nights Review: I don't know what program changed, but I know this could have been called "Talamasca & friends", or "Talamasca vs Nomad" as well...eheheh The first track is just cool. It's psychedelic enough, and that's what saves it. The production is good, but the music is repetitive (and strangely we have the very same samples as in every Absolum track). The second is far more powerful. Typical Talamasca rolling bassline and psy noises going happily into your ears! Then the track looks more like a GMS one with all those popping sounds. The track is very good and will make you jump on a dancefloor. The third track is a monument: very simple, but super-powered !!! first a few samples & voices and...COME ON !!! Then THE bassline from outer space ™. With a big sound system it is amazing ! Then there is a totally distorted-silly-killer-noisy-music to get you uplifted. Then we have some different phases in which Talamasca varies some themes of psychedelia...and it restarts again at the end to make you crazy. Wow awesome! More more !! The fourth track is also good as it's casual, with the same style as in Day One (on the latest 3D vision EP). The music is ok, always with a very good sewing up. Another form of funky-psytrance ? Anyway Nomad gets better. The fifth track is another killer. It's casual at the begining, it sounds like an usual Spacecat track, it even sounds like Deep Rising, but after a break, it's totally different and introduces an hypnotyzing music that fits over the rest of the song. It's really..well..Masterful. Effect granteed on a dancefloor !! Anyway it reminds me of another older track (?) (can someone remind me which one ?). It would be cool to see Avi play in some parties in Paris again as he may compose other tunes like this one with Lestat The sixth track is another delirium by Lestat & Mael. There are lots of samples over the psycedelic music & distorsions everywhere, which gets into your ears immediately and blows your head off (bOoô, like this...). The end of the track is very funny (but it reminds me of an older track again, which one plz?). Great. The seventh track is really a tribute to the madmen from Haifa as the original theme is still present and unchanged... Mael & Lestat just added lots of "End of Days" samples. The track becomes less various than the original, then comes the break...Wow what break ! The track is now a total 3DV production except from the "You hear me - you psycho" sample : a Nordlead spits a violent powerful music. It ends on the original theme. My point of view is that the Infecteds'Psycho-remix2 is better than this one, but I can't deny this french remix is especially shaped for the dancefloor. The eighth track shows a calmer Lestat. The track is intelligent and quite happy. The style is ok, the violent sounds are replaced by uplifting trippy melodies here and there. Great. The ninth track is a dub track by Nomad. A very good choice in the sounds & samples again. The effects are just in the good place. Keep going. Overall ? Just buy ! The quality of the music is here, as well as the quality of the production/mastering. This is really not usual nowadays and deserved to be said. I am amazed. Well done 3DVision. This is evidence that true psytrance can still rule! 9/10 for Psylovers.

A very good compil for oldskool lovers. Here is some pure Goa from 1998. All tracks are just well balanced, good melodies. Favourites: 1,3,5,7,8. This gets 8.5/10 for psychedelia fans only (who haven't bought every cd those tracks come from).

This album is ok for people who like a few melodies. The artist needs to improve a little bit because the thing is a bit repetitive (less repetitive than other albums, yet!). The influences are mainly from GMS/Israeli artists. Overall it's good for a debut album. it must be crazy to hear some parts on a dancefloor. 7/10.

I prefer tracks 5 6 7 8 rather than nb 1 2 3 4, but it's a good compil. The style remains hard, but not minimal. 6.5/10

This album is hard to find, and it's a good thing, as it's a bad one. Okay this is psychedelic, but this is so silly... 3/10.

75 minutes of rhythm...This album is absolutely, totally, horribly boring! Usually i like XVK a lot, but not this time. Minimal trance has limits, XV Kilist went beyond them. Even the wonderful Kante has been disfigured! 3/10 for Spaziergang, not more.

The begining (01-06) is Midi Miliz-like, that is very minimal, big rhythm & noisy sounds everywhere. Perfect to kill the neighbours, but not psychedelic at all! The rest (07-11) is more Psych-o-funky. Only this second part is *really* psychedelic. sometimes it looks like late sixties Funk, sometimes it's like thriller music, and sometimes it's like Dub ! My favourites: Operatik, The Horning, Air, Preamplified Dub...the whole second part, actually. Special distinction to Operatik which will remind you of your last visit in the purgatory...Aaaahahah! So 5/10 for the first part, 8/10 for the second part.

I didn't like it. The sound quality isn't very good and the whole thing is all the same. As for the music itself...mhhh...that's fast-repetitive-minimal ? There are rare good surprises in that album. 5/10.

It's all the same & too conventional..i mean it did not surprise me at all. I think the dormer album was better. 6/10 (not more)

I think it's freestyle...and random, definitely. Sorry Anoebis but this seems to be a DOWN. I could not understand one song (maybe a bit the last one). The sound is flat, the melodies are silly. This cd is meaningless. It's nice to give it 4/10.

This is too minimalistic, but the authors have found a good receipe. Beverly Hills Cop & Crystal Overdose are the best tracks. The whole album is too monotonous but it's far better than zounds of other sh**s released in 2000. 7/10.

It's a bit too psychedelic. Anyway it deserves 6/10.

I do agree! 8/10.

Very Good EP. The style doesn't change, but the tracks look like no other from this group. I prefer Errorhead, but Lex Rex Perplex is also great. Stunning 8/10.

S-Range - Boom Artist: S-Range Title: Boom Label: Acid Casualties Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 09'38" Boom 02. 07'10" Broadcast Review: Boom is a track which begins with a loud & very linear rhythm and bassline. Then comes a small bewitching melody that repeats over & over. After 2:30 we are allowed to breathe and the whole thing restarts suddenly followed by more psy sounds and ryhthmic stuff. After 5:00 it changes, gets darker, without compromise...and a little lay of melody dares to come again and the music restarts after 7 minutes. A beautiful trip. Well done S-Range. Broadcast is more conventional with a good rolling basline. The sounds behind are mainly rhythmic + nordlead's...all that is overlayed by an enigmatic little music, that comes 'nearer' of the listener and becomes more trippy after a while. Too bad it ends too fast. Overall, again a premium EP from S-Range. 8.5/10 for the whole thing.

Vibrasphere - Mental Mountain Artist: Vibrasphere Title: Mental Mountain Label: Spiral Trax Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 08'20" Mental Mountain 02. 09'12" Cactus Point Review: Two tracks in the typical Vibrasphere style. The EP is not minimal, but casual and that's fine. Mental Moutain is also on the album. It is fast & mental (indeed). This is a good track. Cactus Point is a bit the same with some more touches of psychedelia. The track is interesting because it allows the listener to breathe. This EP is a short but good journey. I think the album would be a better investment. 6.5/10.

Midi Miliz - Starkstorm / Tube Artist: Midi Miliz Title: Starkstorm / Tube Label: Twisted Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 08'21" Starkstorm 02. 06'22" Tube Review: This EP is very special and paradoxal: it sounds horrible but it's a good one ! The sound itself is horrible. It's noise noise and noise again. It sounds like an earthquake! The music itself is far better: everything is in the good place at the good time, especially in Strakstorm. The listener doesn't get bored, there is a cool break...very dark & industrial music indeed. This time, the Spirallianz-Midi Miliz freaks have pushed the receipe of 1WayLtd to its limits! Rhaa...They sure live in the north of Germany to produce tracks like that...They even included samples of bombing attacks!! So to summarize: your ears say "stop this right now" and your brain says "waw, never heard such a thing!". The 2 tracks look a bit the same but if you like minimal music...i mean: almost tekno, you'll be pleased to have this EP. 8/10 for Starkstorm. 6/10 for Tube

Right, this is some compil of released & not so stunning tracks.4/10

A bit of XDream, a bit of Noma and you have SBK. That's quite good, some tracks have some groove...ok 7/10.

this is very VERY minimal. my favourite: "Witch Bed?" which has an excellent groove. The rest is too minimalist for me... 5/10. Album really for minimalism lovers...really.

V/A - Morning Of Magic Artist: Various Title: Morning Of Magic Label: ??? Date: 1998 Track listing: 01. 08'13" Syntezia : Heaven Gates 02. 07'05" Psycholoop : Many Voices 03. 07'45" Electric Bunder : Morning Of Magic 04. 07'37" Syntezia : Migroman 05. 05'53" Stargate : Hypnotic Flute 06. 08'59" Psycholoop : Dead Circle 07. 08'02" Stargate : Manikin 08. 07'33" Syntezia : DNA 09. 08'37" Stargate : Venus Review: I was forced to listen to this thing not long ago, so as a vengeance, here's an express review: It's a typical "Impulse-Tracker-for-dummies" Ptzatzot compilation. Since the very first track you want to runaway. More seriously, this is boring with those exagerated israeli sounds, those too fast rythms, those melodies that all look the same. I don't even think a ptzatzot fan would appreciate this. Yeah there are interesting things, but altogether, it's 5 seconds scattered all over the compil, so...bhwaaa I can add the 3rd tune is the accelerated twin of i don't remember what Mystica track. please forget this review or kill your neighbors with this CD!! 2/10.

Yes it's experimental. No i wouldnt even try to compare it to a Shpongle album...no no no.

Indeed that is bad. same mark.

This is a bit....too much. i heard this album once and it was difficult to bear it till the end...its main flaw is that it's a bit of anything that makes it a big nonsense (portnawak). With more work it would have been excellent..."as it", it's too unmethodical/disjointed. I must add that some other albums there were reviewed with a better mark, while they were worse. 3.5/10

Asura - Code Eternity Artist: Asura Title: Code Eternity Label: Infinium Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 10'18" Like A Summer Day 02. 10'07" Trinity 03. 10'24" Simply Blue 04. 08'07" Phoenix 05. 09'26" Code Eternity 06. 04'27" Territories Part One 07. 09'12" XP Continuum Review: -THIS is Ambient- I have tons of Ambient at home, and honestly this is one of the best ones. The style is not pure chill (with waterfalls or butterfly flutterings , this is what you can hear during a party's warm-up, when there is slow rhythm, but its still not time to dance, but Listen. On the first Three tracks, you have slow rhythm, ambient background, simple instruments on the front, surrounding hypnotic acid loops. The 4th is total ambient in some parts...relax...and powerful & kicking in some parts. ok. The 5th track gives a lot of energy thru lots of hypnotic distorted layers above lots of other smooth layers & cool kick. Territories is pure ambient with voices & flows...mmmh XP Continuum is another cool track..it makes me think about a heart that beats in a dream. What we got here is a nice nice nice album. 9/10 for Ambient lovers.