Goa Bill

Messages in Dark Psy album? I heard that if you play a Kindzadza album backwards you hear the satan talks

Nice movie and great music

D-Nox (Christian Wedekind) & Beckers (Frank Beckers) are 2 seasoned players in the Electronic music scene. Although their first steps can be cautiously called Psy Trance related (D-Nox as the person behind the success of Plastic Park, Tatsu and most recently Sprout Music and Frank Beckers behind his old alias, Space Safari, Export Audio and recently simply Beckers) their current output is very loosely Psy Trance related . Both of them are amongst the most stubborn infiltrators of the Progressive House and Minimal Techno into the Psy Trance scene, a crime that many dreadlocked party goers will swear to never forgive. For the rest of us mortals they brought many interesting directions into the somewhat stale lately Psy scene. Beckers’ Switch 12” was one of the biggest dust raisers in 2005 a surprising success of which was followed by a myriad of remixes ranging from excellent to simply horrible “replace the bassline and raise the BPM bar full-on remixes”. D-Nox in his turn became one of the most demanded DJ’s and became a top crowd pleaser in any respectable summer festival. The two at first collaborated on Air Bureau’s We Shine remix and soon afterwards released a few 12” hits, notably My Number One, You’re a Star, Memory Cell with Amo and Navas and Naked Punch. With this album that followed the great success of the singles I am guessing they had 2 options. One is to continue their well established sound and release another album that will copy the hits and will staple their already prominent presence. The other and the harder option was to try to create something new. Luckily they have chosen the second option and attempted to create something more minimal, more abstract and deeper than anything they have created before. My first impressions from this album were quite disappointing to say the least. The album sounded like a bunch of loops that move along with no visible progression and on top of that a few tracks had some of the cheesiest vocals I have been exposed to since I have stopped listening to mainstream electronic music. But… for some reason I just couldn’t stop listening to it, little by little understanding the little things that actually evolve, the little but fat grooves and those typical German percussion tricks just made me want more. After few weeks of raping these tracks over and over I came to the inevitable and fair conclusion that this album is the shit, but not for everyone. This album has almost no connection to Psy Trance and as such this review’s appearance on Psynews is unusual to say the least and misplaced to be fair. Yet, since those guys’ music is a very frequent visitor in our parties and tracks from this album are already shaking the dancefloors as I type, this review shall appear here, and also shall be hailed as it is the best non Psy Trance album that you’ll probably be hearing in all the best parties this summer. Favorites: All the tracks are bloody brilliant. Recommendation: Get it from Beatport if you are a DJ and prefer the full tracks or from other online shops as a CD if you prefer the superbly mixed version. PS, special thanks to Mr. Ventura for not resting till I liked the hell of it.

For the living room: Like those but 1 element less For the studio:

Ordered these on e-bay a few weeks ago. Should arrive soon :posford:

Pixel - Black in Black Out (VA Pure MDMA) http://www.discogs.com/release/213961

Oh fuck, silly me

Overrated? Alien Project? You gotta be kiddin'

Nothing like a quick buck

1. Red Robin (9:03) 2. Ak Is Burning (9:20) 3. Circade (8:00) 4. B.H.D. (6:53) 5. Flock (10:09) 6. Blew (7:13) 7. Seven Seas (9:38) 8. Forward (8:14) The Kiwi Strom brothers who are better known as Antix are back after 2 excellent artist albums and one Remixes album that was personally a bit of a let down. Obviously the expectations were very high and considering the fact that Antix changed their style every album I’m sure had a lot to expect. “Wanderers” presents us a bit more minimal and gloomy side of Antix, much like the debut album but perhaps a tad deeper and on a more subtle side. As the album starts the first thing that you’ll notice is that the brothers indeed re-invented their sound. Their trademark complex percussion sound is still there but it sounds much more minimal a bit like the recent D-Nox & Beckers album but I think they’ve done a much better job in creating complex grooves with very few sounds. The first 2 tunes are a clear example of the new Antix sound and if you liked their previous output you’ll feel home here. Circade, the 3rd time goes even deeper with lots of fun sounds in the lower frequencies, the stuff that shakes festivals in the afternoons. BHD (4) takes us into more Electro’ish realm and for some reason it didn’t really work for me. Flock (5) is in the same vein and it's a little too long and also the melodies sound a bit too cheesy for my taste. Blew (6) was previously released and it has the more familiar Antix sound and although I wasn’t much impressed with that track before it still delivers and sets the mood for the last part of the album. Seven Seas (7) is another Electro’ish tune that for some reason reminds me of Beat Bizarre circa Lewd days. Probably it’s the vocal samples in the back. The album finishes with Forward and it has that big Antix reminiscent sound that I learned to love in their previous album. Although it provides a very decent closure to the album, for some reason I expected something in the lines of the Fjord track from the previous album. Conclusion: Although my huge respect and appreciation for the Antix boys for their previous artist albums and countless compilation appearances I can’t deny the somewhat empty feeling that I’ve had during not a small part of this album. It clearly lacks the coherence and story telling the previous ones had. By no means it’s not a bad album and even not an average one. Antix can do and did much better and the standards that were set previously were probably unbearable. Still, a few excellent tunes and a bunch of average ones. Fair deal to me. Favorite tracks:1!!, 2!!, 3!!, 8! Score: 7.5/10

:lol: Good one

Can somebody remind me the purpose of this topic again?

Piano Contrabass Reaktor Flute Acoustic Guitar

What's so funny Regenald?

LOL ok i get it. Well whoever will buy it is either not so well informed or a moron

What problems? Are you guys commies?

1 question. Have you ever done a proper blind test?

Heck this, in most of the parties you can't even get the Stereo image from the speakers. I donno to what parties people here go to but where i go it's mostly loudness over quality issue. With all my years of listening to music and actually studying sound and training my ears to do proper mixes and eq while partying i make sure i am properly fucked and enjoying the music AS IT IS and if there are people that prefer to debate 320Kbps MP3 VS WAV in the party than well they have a problem. Loosen up people, you drive many miles to god's forsaken place and you trouble yourself with such minor issue?

Check above you :drama: I am not a woman but i'll make you a few babies. How much will you pay?

I find it cool and refreshing. Very cold and digital.

Hey guys thanks, no need to thank me, thank the artists. Bert, the Minimal Progressive set has a couple of Extrawelt tunes i think...

Awesome mix Mike, I really enjoyed it, even the Ka Sol tune. Imagine that!

You look a bit emosexual yourself as well

The hell will freeze twice before They'll release a good album again

Arghhh this EP is awesome. Some tracks take time to get appreciated. Son Kite and Ticon doing full blown tech trance tracks. Who'd believe it today? 9/10