RAH

no... i'm always right didn't you know? didn't they tell you?

perhaps you concentrate too little?

very nice interview, i guess the moral of all this is there is a small part of NHJO inside all of us... treasure your inner NHJO, embrace it

hey otto check this one out, i think it's what you were talking... Scrambled Hackz neat article anyway http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70664-...?tw=wn_index_22

yeah i saw that, once really late at night, little 'dreamy' and... i still i thought it was pretty crappy... it had no real meaning, or valid excuses or ideas for anything, and... i dunno... pretty home-made style... if you catch the drift

this is one of the few CD's i lost of off my radar and i regret it a bit, seems there was a couple of gems Hasta Las Patillas (for those non-spanish speakers), Patillas means sideburns... so, when someone says <estoy hasta las patillas> he usually touches them with the expression "i'm up to here with you" in an annoyed look... - hope that was useful for somebody -

Artist: Electrypnose Album: Le Tireur De Ficelles Label: Peak Records CAT: PR008 Web: http://www.electrypnose.ch SE.net: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/211/2/ Interview: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/37/25/ 01.The Handler [148] 02.Gidi Fake [146] 03.Niapo [148] 04.B2P2 [147] 05.Elendil - Oz (Electrypnose RMX) [149] 06.Stupid Moods [149] 07.Disfunction [148] 08.Cerebral Factory [150] 09.Le Tireur De Ficelles [150] 10.Brain Surgery [151] 11.Bas Les Masques [96] What's This About If we stop to consider Electrypnose has been in the spotlight –for most of us- roughly since last year, starting with the release on Resonant Earth. The name has quickly escalated to a staple of quality passing through rosters in Peak, Trishula, Doof, Yage, Woodroom, Devil’s Mind, Kabrathor records and so the list goes. Where exactly did he come from? Switzerland. No I mean, where was hiding before? Most probably in the studio, working his ass off to perfect the trade up this point. This progression can be traced from the gazillion albums for download at his website up to this point. Le Tireur de Ficelles shows his best work so far, offering such an intricate level of detail you can loose yourself in haphazard fits of abstraction, paired with really coherent moments of lucidity… when he sees fit to pull the strings. Per-Track ( 1 ) The nursery rhyme envelopes disturbed, puerile thoughts flashing down memory lane. Once the bridge has been lowered, a grinding orgy of distraught scratches assaults time and consciousness. It’s all mashed in a complex interaction bent on thrusting a story with unexpected turns at every corner, as to keep you guessing where is The Handler taking you. In the meantime, the rhythms blurt out a mutation of breaks and glitches in perfect unison. * ( 2 ) Gidifake is a ‘successful fusion reaction’ of fractured leads, grating the typical corroded melodies. Bass-wise it reminds of EVP, with bouncy stabs and funky edge (think ‘Digitalkin’). The progression is very entertaining all the way through, until the voice announces with both arms raised: ‘hey, buddy time to switch tunes.’ Obviously with different words, but still just as amusing. * ( 3 ) Niapo begins with a really cool set of notes before the kicks start assaulting you, with a refined meter that keeps scratching effects, coupled with the methodic clarity of a madman at work. Really funky, directionless, traversing a jag right through different themes with ease and ultimate confusion. * ( 4 ) Doesn’t B2P2 feel like a last minute name change from R2D2? Anyway, this one carries a lot more screechy content than I can normally handle. I don’t know why it has something South African about it, maybe it’s the short recurrent leads that bring out the association, truth be told I haven’t heard anything from that region in a while. The last stretch is most rewarding though and the chromatome helps it shine with the mastering. ( 5 ) The whole concept of calling a track Oz is a very ambitious endeavor in itself. It wouldn’t really come as a surprise if these two cats were neighbors. The whole thing is so well put together, starting with that line before the third minute rolls around. From that point, it just keeps upping the ante unleashing the last vestiges of sanity, seduced by the intricacies of delicate musical rhymes. How can those crungy leads make the brain fart and the neurons wallow? Shining like beacons before they blaze, exulting their last and most glorious rapture. Needless to say this one has been [on] with the repeat button for a few days now. * ( 6 ) As a perfect example of build up, Stupid Moods gently walks to more menacing scenarios with such a paced evolution, it’s a joy to listen how the distraught voices and the shrilling lines, build the final peaker from a seemingly calmed tune. * ( 7 ) In an attempt to keep things more abstract and utterly Dysfunctional, we stumble upon night time breaks with all the daftness of a machine drowning its circuits before it collapses. The poor thing seems to be communicating something in the whirlwind of tonal incoherence with little success. Is that a bad thing? Not if you’re talking about twisted music and I do believe we have reached that point in the album. ( 8 ) Brain Factory is a collaboration between some other folks called Karash, Noon and Vin’s collaborating with the intend of releasing bubbly, dangly metallic beats and more simulated errors, exploding in a timely fashion as if the compound had suddenly taken a life of its own. Creating a jumble of sounds from all those minuscule effects you don’t expect they could amount to much, but they do. The melodic factor is well disguised behind the symphony of noises and abstractions. * ( 9 ) The Cherokee war drums rumble behind a stampede of buffalos. Suddenly I’m expecting an Indian pop out from my left speaker and chop my scalp off. Shortly after, I do end up loosing part of my head when things dissolve in a trail of effects, erupting with a different noise for every note. Before we loose ourselves completely, a lead throws reality back in our face with a series of flangy tones. Le Tireur seems be enjoying dangling our ficelles on this one. * ( 10 ) Brain Surgery stands as a flutter and gnarl of insipient effects, pouring down relentlessly with a final purpose, Bio-programming. By this point though, I have grown a bit weary of the constant sonic overload of machine malfunctions and yearn for something slightly more… earth-bound. ( 11 ) Bas Les Masques in theater terms conveys the time at which actors remove their masks, and from there term has taken a connotation along the lines of ‘no more pretending now’. Music-wise it is a sort of jungle/trip hop/DnB experiment with the lower ranges muffled, on top of a beautiful sonic scenario guided by a piano. Le Barde enjoys making this particular type of melodic fusions, that don’t really depart from the beats but form a different juncture altogether. At one point or another I would like to see what could come from a less beat-oriented track to explore the ambient vein completely. He has the musical aptitude to make interesting things happen. * And in All Electrypnose works opening a party, in the middle, or the morning after just as well for me. There was so much great stuff to offer, the only problem I anticipated was choosing material to jam-pack the plastic. And apparently I was right, a couple tracks did not fit in the end and one can be downloaded. This shows that even though the sound does not change much from his stylistic development as the scratchy-glitchy wizard, there’s enough knack to keep the ears busy. If you are still stuck enjoying the ‘previews’, it is probably good for your music collection and your karma to swing by the store and show support. At this point, things can only keep moving forward anyway. Extras Bonus Track: Electrypnose - The Day Has Come ( download @ http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/211/2/ ) Where To Buy Saiko Sounds > http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=5540 Psyshop > http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/pea/pea1cd008.html Beatspace > http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=2651

nice, d00d cheers.... here's one of mines: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=36803 dolly parton here i come

Did you get it from trance shop moni? i got that one too i got v/a - Gnothi Seauton (deja vu) today

god damn that's a wierd monster you spawned, like a cross between kid606 and autechre or something like that... haha wierd, man, wierd and half, and for what is worth is pretty fresh

if you would like to book Nukelear Ramjet, please contact visine sorry, bad joke... great description... i'm even more tempted to buy it now

i'm torn between getting this one and the nuklear ramjet

donno what might be wrong... just tried and it was a bit slow, but working fine maybe switching navigators migh help?

what strange jumble influences you got here... first time i hear one of your tracks and your own style is very palpable. Post-idm, type of... *sighs* i dunno... anyway.. interesting stuff

wear and tear aside i preffer a good digi pack like is the case with the kill fuckin bill compi. Double sided carton, looks neat. the albedo cd from ultimae is another example they're all really gorgeous packages from ultimae... cd cases are starting to look too... 1990's for me in the end i don't really care, i don't keep the box for longer than year before i chuck it in a cd slip-mat...thing...

You know Aldous B is making music as Celsung? him and Tony are both signed with Nabi nowdays, veer in that direction if it's of any interest...

nice more Cybernetika... 8) not going to dwell in suggestions, that's not my forte here.. but i like what i hear... a remix would be interesting too...

check out Bodhissatva 13:20 - Excurssions Through the Ancient Future (thanks again for the heads up lepton ) hmm... it pays to keep an eye out for Datakult... if you haven't heard the Dmt: the first gram... there's some sick stuff there... the rest i'm sure you have heard... ohhh and keep an out for Troglodytes as well.

agreed, the samples sound really yummy, another progressive label on the sure-shot to buy list...

you're right baba, i think matt is Fine Diner... i made that mistake once too

where have all the good minimal artists gone? this farkin class... cold, menacing, groovy, detailed, structured, complex, superb...

damn, so i guess i need to check this one out... comments to follow

Artist: U-RECKEN Album: Aquatic Serenade Label: Dooflex CAT: DFXCD04 Sonic-Energy: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/209/2/ 01. Lost Paradise [144] 02. Holly Waters [144] 03. Plastic [144] 04. Zoodoo [144] 05. Tania (2006 edit) [144] 06. Powerful [144] 07. The other Side [143] 08. Misery [143] 09. Pitch of mind [140] 10. Aquatic Serenade What’s this About Yaniv Ben-Ari an ex-dark head has been in part of the Doof family since 2003, blending styles in his musical quest to adapt Arabian deserts with gothic dungeons. The end result is very melodic conjuring of morning trance oriented by musicality and a lovey-dovey melodic doze of the Carmel Mountains, where Yaniv’s inspiration rests. Admittedly, this type of sound is not what passes through my speakers lately, i-recken good things might come from a little diversity. Per-Track (1* ) The Arabian Desert gets all the mileage possible in this paradise of well honed melodic full-on. The string instrument (which I’m not even going to attempt identifying) stands out for the most part alongside vocodic voices for satisfying end result. (2) Holly Waters maintain the overall pace with a smile-inducing sample in Mandarin, or some Asian language that escapes my vocabulary. The stabbing kicks are soon abundant alongside spacey pads with enthralling zing for the genre. The drums for breaks work really effectively when it’s time to start thinking of another tune. (3*) The title is a little deceiving, as there is nothing plastic about it to my ears. A lot of bare piano bits coupled with the mandatory gushing melodies and arpeggios galore, unraveling the very essence of over-stylized Goa. The piano obviously returns later and we close the shindig with a lot of musicality. It does get a bit too sweet-toothed for me, but we have to give Yaniv props on the end result… I can unashamedly call this music, without getting strange looks from other non-psy heads. (4 ) Zoodoo is the prime example of adapted psychedelic full on for friendly dance floors, that figured the best thing that could happen to Sub6 was incorporating an MC for their live performances. Very uplifting, tiesto-type of progressive that no matter how well executed… it just does not grab my attention anymore. (5) The abundance of breaks in Tania leaves me a little disoriented, as to when is this thing supposed to get going. In the meantime, the teases are well accompanied with effects & laughs, but no clear purpose. We continue gliding erratically in between breaks, confusing samples and shy lines. It is soon becomes apparent the purpose is just one big outburst with the girl peaking her voice high. (6* ) Powerful takes us to a near sandbar close to the shoreline, where waves brake and effects wiggle. The intro is really convincing, just like Yaniv’s attempt at creating something less cheese-infused, backed by a nice groove (It reminds slightly of Hujaboy’s work). The synth lines work surprising well in the overall commotion of textures, placing itself as my favorite tune of the bunch. (7 ) This one is slightly confusing as well, from the sound I seem to miss the other side of things altogether. Styled in the same melodic vein as the rest of the tracks with more arpeggios and several synths’s jabbed together with a good doze of Roquefort like it has been standard. Conveying nothing new from the tool box, enough elements manage to keep the ear entertained. (8 ) Another group of voices scattered throughout a collection of different breaks without clear resolution, dragging on until the fourth minute. Solid rhythms and melancholic pads, but no really misery. When it gets going, the theme does manage to save something out from the convulsing sweetness as the ultimate mandate. (9 ) The pitch in mind manages to spit out a pretty disjointed groove that reminds me at times of ‘Dear Daddy Drugs’, from Cujorius One. The synth action is painfully toned for my taste and when those vocals hit the speakers, it gets hard for me not start hating it. This is definitely not my type of trance. (10* ) The final run of this Aquatic Serenade, displays all the water samples possible before the first minute breaks. The usual pace is altered with a sweet-natured piano piece that remains on the down-tempo side of things, with measured breaks and involving dub slices. Personally, if the whole thing would have been about this genre I would found myself a lot more attracted to the overall thing. Mainly, because I enjoy my chilled out beats a lot more than any attempt at morning full on. If u-recken the story is different for you, then you have a strong package here. All and all One on top of the other, layers of perfectly tuned melodies bind an album that refuses to part from the naïve, emotional full on with a number of new elements. Not too many, but enough to deem it passable for all those interested in sweet-toothed tracks that get your soul singing. Comparing it to similar works in my case might be a bit difficult, as I haven’t really heard anything in this genre for a good while now. There might be enough goodness to get dance-floors jumping ecstatically. Unfortunately, I’m not in that crowd anymore. Where to Buy http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=5598 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/dfx/dfx1cd004.html http://www.wirikuta.at/web66/product_detai...owDetail=120582 http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=2672

tsk... i guess is up to taste, but this one is so far profiling for album of the year, i love it...

Artist: Drumatik Album: Peak Process Label: Peak Records CAT: PR009 Sonic-Energy: http://www.sonic-energy.net/core/content/view/208/2/ 1. The Forest Spirit [146] 2. Off Into Space [146] 3. Devil’s Door [146] 4. Simulations [145] 5. Killing 200 Remix [146] 6. Access Approved [148] 7. Psychiatric Symphony [148] 8. Revolution 2012 [146] 9. Face to Faith [146] What's This About Benjamin Klingemann, a 25 year old German-American has been enthralled with the drums since he was three, when he got his first drum kit. From an early age Klingermann has been involved in conservatories and a funk-rock band as the drummer (naturally). Fast forward to the end of the nineties, Dj Smart Side makes his appearance spinning psychedelic trance, by the beginning of 2004 the logical step as Drumatik is taken. Since then Drumatik has been playing live in France, Switzerland and Morocco with a fair share of success. Benjamin has been in the Peak family since his first appearance in Peak a Boo two years ago, time when he began working on the full album Peak Process. Besides exploring psychedelic trance, there is also a side project that features his drum set mixed with break beats / drum n’ bass. Per-Track (1* ) A short introduction sets the mood languidly with nature sampling, congas and dangly effects in the midst of a heavily populated jungle. Benjamin imagined it in the forest, let’s see where it takes you. (2*) Connecting smoothly from the previous track “Off into Space” gets the rocket going in a vigorous debauchery of fast-paced prototypical full on, and transient squeaks with ricocheting lines, bouncing all over the sounds cape. Emotional pads mix in the pot for an uplifting result, refusing to let the night beat your fears. (3*) A well calculated entry with nifty effects, you can hear the door closing into a different room, working nicely as a cue point. Ben at this point makes his name count with a drumming section that ends up saving the day. Interesting sample bits from the movie Dream Catcher can be found in the breaks. (4) The fourth chapter gets underway via growlings and simulations that confound senses and purpose. At this point in time is getting difficult to distinguish one track from the other, they all sound remarkably similar to me. That doesn’t mean the small differences aren’t there, like is the case with the guitar chops. Effects and coherence is on our side here. (5) Another well orchestrated intro with chants, water dripping and a number pitch shifters back to the movement. The intention to build mysterious environments within Drumatik’s style pervades throughout. Really nifty break, incorporating the drum set well. Once again though, the synth work is not deviating too radically from the previous tracks. (6*) Access approved brings into the equation a new beat with a great jungle-esque rhythm, which up to this point was starting to feel sorely needed. We return to the classic full-on affair on the mid run, with an eerie sample of a child talking about shoguns and decapitations. Like I’ve said before, I enjoy my kid voices and having the drums return for the last stretch of the track, combining all the elements certainly helps. (7*) The samples from Dream Catcher are back in a different context by the start. Symphonic madness galore mixing right into chaos. Lines melting, effects screeching as the rest moves on at the right pace. Throw in the new Naked Tourist, add some ice and enjoy irresponsibly. (8*) The revolution is boiling down here and the layers of effects keep adding up seamlessly with favorable results. New synth effects, new rhythms and a good doze of orchestrated madness. (9*) Facing the faith means you will run into great voice samples in the last run of the Drumatik trip. Inside: warped, jarring effects in the peak process, result in a the most detuned, speed-infused, brain-lagging, mimetic attempt at full on I have heard in a while -having no trouble digesting it as a whole. All and all So Drumatik might not win the artist revelation album this time around, but at least a solid precedent has been set. It does feel like a well coordinated journey and the live-gig scenario might be very refreshing. The individual tracks to my ears could have been aided by more twists and ideas that show something else outside the norm though. That said, you will encounter parts that challenge my words, and off course that works well for everyone. A great addition and clearly his forte are the drums in the percussion, Klingemann has been perfecting throughout all of his life. Like Picasso used to say, the rules must be learned first to be broken. The Peak Process shows a solid understanding of how things work; I guess the next step is to shatter all those preconceptions to create something new. Inklings of this new savoir flair can be picked up… only time will tell where it leads. In the meantime The Peak Process passes the time well if you are looking for a little coordinated psychosis, without sagging too low in complete darkness. Where to Buy http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=5560 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/pea/pea1cd009.html http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=2687