Lemmiwinks

I think you should REALLY try out some different synth presets before submitting your promo

ok just gave it a listen. The first thing that comes to mind is that I hear the drum... but where's the bass? IMO for d&b to work you need that loud brutal "wahwah"bassline. Also there are not enough (any?) FX in there, the different loops just "kick in" and then stop. other than that, there are some interesting ideas in there

the point was that he was having a psychedellic experience!!! And when you keep in mind that it was written in the 1920s that's like THE grandfather of psychedellic litterature

discogs link A Anjuna (Twilight Mix) B Anjuna (Dark Mix) This one is for Transwave fans This is actually Transwave in disguise because aparently they had to change their name at the last minute because of label contract issues. You can clearly hear the (old) Transwave sound, especially that trademark 303. That said, there aren't any of the catchy melodies that made their classics , it has a driving darkish feeling to it. I guess that this is what they called trance for the night hours back then. A nice collector's item but not really classic material (I'm not saying it's not good though )

I don't get this... only a few days ago you put up a topic saying "Psyreviews is coming back! " and now you put this??? I think it takes more than 3 days to put a site back up to date...

ummm I don't understand... what does Hishiryo's album have to do with my stuff??

So has anyone here read Steppenwolf by Hesse? I just love that description of the magic theatre and always toyed around with the idea of having a psy party venue like it. I mean the entrance sign has psychdelic written all over it : MAGIC THEATRE Entrance not for everybody For madmen only Price of Admission: your mind Just imagine: one room called "heaven" with morning trance, one "hell" with dark trance and little rooms everywhere, each decorated in a different way, some playing soothing chill-out, others playing dark glitchcore and whatelse... So what did you guys think about the book? And the whole Magic theatre concept?

well generally speaking I prefer an album that has 2 killer tracks and the rest average to one that has only good but not great tracks

1. Uplifter 2. Cycles of life 3. Rising High 4. Fuel On 5. The Rezwalker 6. Trashish 7. Master and Servant (Wiplash rmx) 8. Land of freedom 9. Organic YAY so finally after years and years of waiting the much anticipated "Transwave IV" album with all new material is FINALLY here!!! Hmm now when I say "new material", a quick look at the tracklist will show you that this is only a half-truth cause most Transwave fans will recognize many of their classics in there. Basically it goes like this: most of the tracks are simply full-on remixes of their well-known former glories and I guess this will put off most oldschool fans like myself. But anyway I'll make a track-by-track commentary since I guess a lot of you have been looking forward to listen to this. Uplifter is one of the handfull of 100% new tracks here and well it doesn't sound very promising. It is basically starts out as an Absolum track and then continues like a Deedrah track, and add to this a trademark full-on rolling bassline... Cycles of Life is a dumbed-down full-on remix of the classic, I suppose that most purists like myself will frown when listening to this. If there's something I absolutely hate in this scene is tampering with much cherished classics. That said, that main melody is still present and still makes miracles after all those years. Rising High is another all-new track but brings nothing exciting, this one sounds exactly like any other generic full-on track out there, although the melody in the end is quite good. Fuel On is a remix of another oldschool god Koxbox. Not being a big Koxbox fan I must admit that I've never listened to the original so I can't really say how it compares, but it is full-on that's for sure The Rezwalker is my personal favorite from Transwave (the original, I mean) so I was REALLY suspicious before pressing that play button... well, as you'd expect it is a dumbed-down full-on remix of the original although I must admit it has its moments. Again, that main melody is just timeless and I admit I'd have a blast on the dancefloor if I heard this in a morning set But this version doesn't hold a candle to the original, and even compared to most mixes like the Wizzy Noise mix they made a while ago. Trashish is yet anther remix of a classic, although I didn't like the original much so I guess it bothers me less to hear a remix of this. The first thing that comes to mind is that there are some guitar riffs in here, but they have little to do with the ones in the original version, it sounds more like 1200 Mics Acid for Nothing. Master and Servant is actually a Transwave remix of Deedrah's remix of Depeche Mode... it is basically a full-on track that uses the sample from Master and Servant we all know. Again, nothing to really get your hopes up... Land of Freedom is... you guesed it... another remix of a classic... It has its moments although even the Deedrah 2001 remix sounded better IMO. Then the album concludes with Organic which is new material AFAIK and is the one that comes closest to a modern Transwave sound, I mean not Absolum meets Deedrah but a distinct feeling that this is a continuation of their old sound bought to new standards. Although it isn't great either... THE GOOD: I guess the biggest merit of this album is bringing those classic melodies to a new audience and making it possible to hear them in a "modern" full-on set. THE BAD: making dumbed-down full-on remixes of oldschool classics is sacrilege in the minds of many old fans so I guess that Transwave will completely lose their respect for some. Conclusion: The ONLY reason that some tracks sound good is because they use the already familiar main hooks of the old versions, otherwise this would simply be generic full-on crap... It reminds of the craze not long ago to do dance remixes of well-known 70s and 80s tracks: people didn't really like the songs themselves but they enjoyed them anyway because they reminded them of the originals. The exact same thing is happening here. Personally I'm VERY dissapointed to see this after all the years of waiting for an album with new material, and some might wonder whether it's not a scam since it isn't really new material after all. That said, I admit that in spite everything I'm happy to hear new versions of some classics for the reasons I just mentioned, so it's not all bad. 5/10

to be honest that cover makes me think of some electro like Kraftwerk

well that should narrow down your hunt because back then there was basically one group making that type of dark trance: Parasense... maybe it was from the time they still went under the Paranoic Sensations name?

ha bummer coming up with a name that already exists lol And I used to be a big Ruffnecks fan, I should've known this lol OK, how about darkstyle? anyway, how do you guys think about the track itself?

OK I know that I'll sound like another amateur who will probably never release anything in his life but pretends to know a lot more than he does but anyway to me it's all a matter of applying random FX and sounds, and putting lots of them together. Like others said, once you analyze the tracks themselves you realize that there isn't much structure, you are just overwhelmed by the big loud bassline and many sounds that are thown in your face at once. Also don't forget to change the bassline pitch every now and then to make it sound really cool

1. Electric Space Phenomenon 2. Experiences Outside Time 3. Higher Realms 4. I Like It 5. The Mind's Eye 6. Sensory Overload 7. What Is Real 8. Pozitronic Brain Follow-up album to the great Electric Space Phenomena. Well like most follow-up albums you can't help feel a bit dissapointed by the result. You either get the feeling that either they're trying the same bag of tricks again or they make something different and then you don't like it cause it doesn't sound like it used to. So to tell you the truth I don't really like any of the tracks until the last 2 (please be patient and listen to the whole album before dissing it ). So the clear stand-outs here are the last 2 tracks: What is Real and Pozitronic Brain. They're not as good as Harmony Comes From Chaos but are still pretty good. In conclusion, this is a bit of a disapointement compared to their first collaboration album but there are still some stormers in there. 6/10

1. Sonic Ecstasy 2. Conscious 3. Peak 4. The Riff 5. Young Man On Acid 6. Holografic 7. Music Of The Spheres 8. Silence In Action 9. Psycho Acoustics 10. The Prayer 2009 My God I can't believe how incredibly cheezy EU's new style has become. If Boris Blenn's name wasn't specifically mentioned here I would've thought it was some other artist with the same project name. Sonic Ecstacy and Consious are pure generic full-on, press skip on your CD (or USB ) player... Peak is more interesting since it brings in some nice flute sounds, but still there's nothing to get too excited here either. The Riff is much better with some... guitar riffs as you'd expect by reading the track name. It is still on the commercial side of things, nothing to do with other guitar classics from EU like Meteor but still there is a nice feel-good vibe in there which I like. Young Man on Acid is more on the serious side of things, although still miles aways from his old stuff, I can't believe someone can mention the word acid and not put some 303s in there. Still, this is one of the better tracks here. Holografic is pretty interesting as it brings in some oldschool acid house piano melodies blended in with full-on, I must say I like this one a lot, too bad it tends to cross the cheezy territory a bit too often. Music of the Spheres is again some generic full-on that could've been made by just about anyone. Silence in Action... have some patience and listen until minute 4:00 AAAAAHHHH FINALLY some typical EU sounds in here!!! Too bad there is the trademark full-on basline on top which kindof ruins the feeling, still this the best track on this album IMO and fully deserves the dancefloor killa™ seal of approval Psycho Acoustics actually sounds like some Space Tribe, I guess some synth presets remained saved from their last collaboration. Pretty nice tune, more on the serious side of things. Last is a full-on remix of The Prayer... pretty bad result if you ask me, although I have to admit that I never was a big fan of the original either. THE GOOD: there are some definate dancefloor killaz in there... track 8 has one of the best climaxes I've heard in a while THE BAD: umm is this Boris Blenn or Sesto Sento or Melicia or DNA or Fatali or Astrix or Save the Robot or (insert the name of your favorite generic full-on band here)...? Conclusion fans of oldschool EU will be dissapointed by this one... most of it is so generic that you have a hard time spotting Boris Blenn's touch behind the cheezy melodies and trademark full-on rolling bassline. Still, the album does have its moments (track 8 OMG!!!) so in the end I guess this is exactly what you'd expect from an EU album: mostly average tracks with some golden nuggets in between. 8/10

just to say that there's already a thread on this album here...

1. Turn me off 2. Music in my soul 3. Indigo 4. Move 2 the groove 5. In my mind (rmx) 6. Speed of sound 7. Restart 8. Where r u ? 9. Butterfly DNA is at it again with some über-cheezy full-on. The most interesting part in this album IMO are the collaborations: Indigo and Where R U are made with Melicia and both tracks are pretty good. OK, we're miles away from Running Out of Time but still some pretty potent efforts. Move 2 the Groove is made with Sesto Sento which I consider to be one of the best commercial full-on artists. This actual track is good but not great, I must say that I have heard better efforts from him. And then there is a collaboration with Wizzy Noise in Restart... there are some interesting djembés in there giving it a nice morning feeling, again this is a good track but not great. The album closer Butterfly REALLY sounds like some commercial trance, something Armin Van Buuren would've made. So yes as you'd probably expect, the cheeze rating of this album is off the scale, I think Electric Calm said it best with his expression "I'm-eating-cheddar-while-bathing-in-fondue cheesy". So yes, there are many melodies in there but not really my type of melodies. But I have to admit that this kind of album DOES have its value in the morning hours on the dancefloor, and even for some homelistening when you don't feel like taking things too seriously. 7/10

oh that track and were used in MANY documentaries about "future technology" in the 80s I remember documentaries showing how we'd all be having cars running on water and the drove themselves, and that monorails would be all over the place by the year 2000... it's almost 2010 and still nothing

Personally I HATE massive use of vocals, unless they're VERY well chosen and passed through many FX (which is not the case here...). So whereas I hear people rave about track 1 and 3, personally I find them cheezy as hell and quite frankly annoying. But luckily not ALL tracks have vocals... I had to wait till track 4 to finally come over a track of my liking, although not exceptional. Track 5 brings us back to over-use of vocals so I skip that one as well... The remix of Starbucks is pretty crap as well, granted I never was a big fan of the original either but this one is even worse. The Juno Reactor remix is the best version of this track (but it's not on this album). Then comes Sunrise... aaaah finally a really good track. Ok, there are some vocals in here as well but that oldschool melody is totally worth it IMO. Personally I prefer the Optic mix which has a more danceable feeling to it and has vocals limited to a strict minimum. This is the real gem on this album IMO. Micromega sounds more like a poem read over some beatless pads... not really music IMO. Some Fractal Mourning is next with a more "classic chill out" feeling to it. Nice but it sounds a bit generic to my ears. Then the album closes with Holmunculus which is VERY nice downtempo, my second favorite track on the album. So basically there are only 2 tracks I really like here, 2 good but not great ones and the rest I prefer skipping... not a pretty picture I know. So yeah if you like vocal-drenched ambient by all means buy it, otherwise I'd think twice if I were you... 5/10

this is REALLY oldschool: 1959!! -- didn't even know they made electronic music back then lol Also, listen to the part starting around 1:20 add a 4/4 kick and you have pure detroit techno!!! What I find even freakier than the music itself is what the hell did these guys use for sampling and recording?

like most people said here before me, these guys practically try to make a different style of music (and not necessarily electronica...) with each track. The good news is that this is varied enough for anyone to find a favorite track. The bad news is that you will probably just concentrate on 2-3 tracks you like and skip the rest which is not really a good recipe to a classic album IMO. Most people aparently like Pharaoh, but personally I hate it! OK, I like to have some oriental influences in my tracks (after all they didn't use to call this music goa for nothing ), but when the tracks turns out sounding like the kind of stuff you'd hear blasting out of a market shop in an Arabic country I give it a pass... On the other hand Dune Rider also has some massive arabic influences but is more on the electronic side of things. My personal favorite is Epoch Calypso. Granted, it sounds as if the Eat Static crew were hanging round in the studio, gave Shpongle's Dorset Perception a listen and thought "hey, we can do this shit too!". So yeah it's kindof cheezy with all those latin influences and all but it brings a big smile to my face when I listen to it 7/10

First listen to the album I thought "maaan this REALLY sounds like Lani"... turns out there's a reason for this: Tom Moons aka DJ Jharu is involved in both projects. So if you like the Lani-type melodies then this is one for you. Personally I love melodies in my music but find these too sugar-coated to be likeable. But ok, dismissing this as a Lani clone would be a bit too fast, there are also some hints of (old) Infected Mushroom like in Liquid Medium, some Nitzhonot in Dreamflight and even some (Dorset Perception-like) Shpongle in El Ritmo Now I'm not saying that it's all bad, I quite like Twisted Moons which is the clear stand-out here IMO and El Ritmo is pretty enjoyable as well. I also rekon that some tracks could be nicely used in a morning set. But overall this album is average at best... 6/10

killer artist name, crappy album... For those who don't know, Irukanji is the name of one of the deadliest jellyfish known to man. Now on to how it sounds... well, it is overall dark (as you'd expect from someone who takes the name of a killer jellyfish ). Actually it made me think of some midtempo dark psy rather than chill-out. Most of the tracks use the typical trance rolling bassline (Kbbb formula) and twisted forest trance sounds but the overall tempo is slowed down to some 90-120 BPM. And this is my main problem with this album, it's always in between styles without ever really deciding what it will be. It is too fast and agressive to be called chill-out, too slow to be called trance, it is dark but at the same time not dark enough. OK, I'm not saying that this album doesn't have its moments, I especially like track no. 2 Swamp but overall I'll give this a pass... 6/10

hum if that's his best then I'd rather pass...

ah yes now that you put it that way