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Shit cover but damn I am looking forward to the music! The first one was
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What music are you listening to right now?
abasio replied to Sputum Rotgut's topic in General Psytrance
Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku :clapping: -
What music are you listening to right now?
abasio replied to Sputum Rotgut's topic in General Psytrance
Sweet np 1. Artifakt - Viagra Bastard Spawn 2. Filteria - Birds Lingua Franca 3. Crop Circles - Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) 4. Tamlin - Playtime Adventure 5. Jikkenteki - Symplicity 6. Pan Electric & Ishq - Being There 7. Orbit Constructions - Thirteen Kings 8. Colourform - Diving Into Sun 9. James Murray - Where Edges Meet 10. Distant System - Astropolis -
Distant System - Astropolis :posford:
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WTF? That has to be the weirdest spam ever edit: spam's gone As for the Heavy Metal Goa, I quite like it. Not really my style but pretty cool none the less
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It is not Rowan Atkinson that you want to kill but all the stupid fucks that venerated his worst ever character Mr. Bean. Black Adder is and always will be one of the best comedies ever.
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I think so. Daylight is so much creepier mainly because it's where you usually feel safe so when there is something wrong about the daylight it feels much scarier
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This is nice I like the words too, music of the spheres, very spacey
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Florian Sériot mixed lumin's album ketri Gilbert Thévenet had a track on an Avatar Spirit compilation a couple years ago. I think a lot of the artists simply started making music that we don't listen to that much so don't delve into who it is. This has always been a genre with a million aliases so it can be hard to follow what people are doing.
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abasio replied to Sputum Rotgut's topic in General Psytrance
Mystic Beats - Medit -
Trance 1;Jikkenteki;Flights Of Infinity;Par 2 Productions Review 2;Tamlin;Spectrogram;Faerie Dragon Records/Gi iwa Review 3;Crop Circles;Tetrahedron;DAT Records Review 4;VA;Opus Iridium;Suntrip Records Review 5;Artifakt;The Magus;Timecode Review Chill 1;Distant System;Spiral Empire;Celestial Dragon Review 2;James Murray;Where Edges Meet;Ultimae Review 3;Colourform;Visions of Surya;Virtual Musical Reality Review 4;Orbit Constructions;Androneda;Demon Tea Recordings Review 5;Pan Electric & Ishq;About Time;Absolute Ambient Dot Com Review Such a great year it was very difficult to narrow it down to just 5 especially in the chill department. Would have liked to do downtempo & ambient abasio;27;Japan;Asia;1993 Mix with 1 track from each in my top 5 lists No real flow to it though as everything is in reverse order 1. Artifakt - Viagra Bastard Spawn 2. Filteria - Birds Lingua Franca 3. Crop Circles - Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) 4. Tamlin - Playtime Adventure 5. Jikkenteki - Symplicity 6. Pan Electric & Ishq - Being There 7. Orbit Constructions - Thirteen Kings 8. Colourform - Diving Into Sun 9. James Murray - Where Edges Meet 10. Distant System - Astropolis
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Artist: Crop Circles Title: Tetrahedron Label: DAT Records Released: 19th December 2008 Tracklist 1 Lunar Civilization [Pleiadians Remix] (10:47) 2 Antonomasia [Lotus Omega Remix] (9:36) 3 Daffy Duck [On The Comet] (10:01) 4 Cerealogy (10:22) 5 Pentagon (9:03) 6 Classic Process [Hale-Bopp] (9:14) 7 Full Mental Jackpot [Etnica Remix II] (9:28) 8 No More Singles (10:21) DAT Records the label opened up by Draeke during late last year (2008) with the intention of releasing oldschool Goa Trance music previously available only on DAT. DAT Records’ first release is Crop Circles – Tetrahedron and what a first release for a record label. The sort of release that is such high quality that it has you aching for more to come out. The joint project of Etnica/Pleiadians and Italians Lotus Omega had some E.P.s released way back in 1996 & 1997 on Auracle Recordings the label went bankrupt before the album could see the light of day. More than a decade later that album has been found, dusted off and given a fancy new shine having been remastered by Tim Schuldt. The result is everything you could possibly hope for, fantastic oldschool sounds with up to date masterful mastering. This is a very psychedelic, spacey journey with lots of harsh abrasive and acidic sounds that never sound unpleasant. There are melodies & synths galore and in many of the tracks the number of different sounds used and the changes in the melodies is fantastic. In Antonomasia (Lotus Omega Mix) there must be over 10 different melodies throughout the track. Some of the tracks are not as melodic as others but all have that spacey extra-terrestrial feel to it that always made me get goosebumps when I first got into Goa all those years ago. Of course after listening to so much this could never have the same impact but it does give me so many nostalgic feelings. None so more than Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) which I think is a great remix of one of my favourite tracks that I used to dance & dance too while going absolutely crazy. As with many oldschool albums this is incredibly layered and what I hear on my 10th listen was quite different from what I heard on my 1st and probably on the 100th listen it will still surprise me. Listen to Classic Process (Hale-Bopp) allow the melodies to wash over you and focus on the dimension of sound that lies behind, it’s vast and incredibly beautiful. This is a twisted brain scrambling album that will have you gibbering in joy in no time. When listening to Pentagon with no distractions I can actually feel reality shift sideways so that everything seems just slightly wrong, a very trippy feeling. There are a few different versions of this going round on with a yellow fluorescent jewel case, one with a light green one and another with a dark green case. All come with a gold CD which combined with the slick artwork on the cover gives this release a very high quality look that goes very well with such high quality music. Thank you DAT Records and I hope to see a lot more releases from you in the future. Track By Track 1. Lunar Civilisation (Pleiadians Remix) This is pretty much everything you’d expect from a track by Etnica & Lotus Omega remixed under the Pleiadians name. It’s energetic, trippy and has lots and lots of great synths. These synths have a really sharp acidic edge that seems to cut downwards through the melodies which also have a sharp acid like quality to them. They move & shift about through the whole track with the melody twisting from sharp acid to wet and squelchy old school hyperspace rushing passed on every side kind of style. This is a great track to really get you excited and anticipating the rest of the album. Although over 10 minutes in length I think it would be impossible to get bored while listening to this, the progression, the subtle key changes & twists & turns make for an interesting ride from beginning to end. 2. Antonomasia (Lotus Omega Mix) A weird sound like an alien yawning & straight into a beat, another yawn and the bassline kicks in. The melody joins shortly after and the alien sound twists into a synth line lying in the background. The track slowly picks up more elements, sharper synths, sci-fi melodies and weird trippy sounds along the way into one intense aural sensation. The number of melodies that play along the way is quite impressive, different styles of melody from clever synth lines to twisted high pitched mayhem. This is nearly 10 minutes long and with the melodies changing so much throughout that they must clock up at least double digits. Great stuff. 3. Daffy Duck (On The Comet) This has a strange start with a weird sample that may or may not come from a popular cartoon. It is twisted enough to be indiscernible but very, very trippy, have it come on when you are coming down off a hard night sat in you most comfortable arm chair & it will have you sweating acid from your eyeballs. Very much helping this, the synth line that follows which always seems to be rising but forever stays at the same level like M.C. Escher’s Castle Stairs. The melody half way through becomes quite high pitch & piercing so that it feels really penetrative. I really enjoy with this kind of music melodies and synths that can stab you in the head and mince your brains. The wet sounds at the end just manage to rub the minced brains around for added effect. Great! 4. Cerealogy After a start where everything seems to shuffle around each other the beat comes in with one of those beautiful Goa beats that just refuses to mix with anything else. The beat that is steady for 8 beats then skips a little then is steady for 12 skips a little again has and tiny little roll then keeps steady just long enough for you to attempt blending it with something else on for it to skip & roll just at the worst possible moment. Although it may be a DJ’s nightmare (or challenge depending on your attitude) it is always very nice to listen to on an album. Combine these cool beats with clever key changes with the bass and nice synth lines you get a cool spacey acid track with brain scrambling ability. 5. Pentagon The start of the track feels a little darker than the previous tracks, with some sounds like the wind blowing around in the background and little horror clicks under the synth line. The wind warps a lot in the first few minutes until it sounds less earth bound and more like how I imagine solar wind to sound like in other dimensions where sound is much more of a priority. The beats of course come in and a very active synth line that really breathes life into the track. The melodies fly about in a very other worldly manner & while the other tracks always gave me a deep hyperspace feeling on this one I feel like I am on a planet of sorcerers with their twisted magic filling the air at unfathomable speeds. This is a great track, very colourful, energetic and head twisting, especially in the final run where everything feels like it has been shifted sideways & reality is not all as you expected it to be. 6. Classic Process (Hale-Bopp) This one starts with a much lighter, high pitched sounds flittering about like a glow bug running around on the floor in front of me. A strange whoosh seems to bring more and more before the whole of the ground is covered in dancing light. This dancing inevitably leads to a danceable rhythm & when the beat comes in the bassline jumps up & down like a proper party track. This track definitely has the most dance floor energy of all the tracks on the album but it also has enough psychedelica for the average home listener. I particularly like this track on headphones when I am out and about at night as it seems darker when you have the background sounds pushed so close. The melodies are nice but look passed the melodies and there is a whole other dimension of sound to enjoy. 7. Full Mental Jackpot (Etnica Remix II) Ahhhhh, Full Mental Jackpot a track with such great memories attached to it. Even though it’s remixed I can’t help but get the feeling of dancing on a Thai beach under the stars for hours & hours surrounded by so many people having the same kind of religious experience from the music. That was the first time I heard this, when some unknown DJ played in the middle of a beach party with such mental music as to make everyone go crazy. The synths, the melodies the little runs of psychedelic madness that fall down like acid rain onto the partiers as they get more & more worked up and more & more of their stress is released and their good vibes are released into the atmosphere helping other people work themselves into a crescendo of joyous energy. The melody in the final quarter is just magnificent and feels like an orgasmic release. A great remix of a near perfect track. 8. No More Singles Ten minutes of twisted alien psychedelic madness to round us off with and what a great 10 minutes it is. The sounds jump about in a sporadic yet strangely ordered way. The beats are again beautifully unmixable (for me) and the melodies fly about as if not tethered to anything. I don’t quite like this track as much as the rest of the album but that doesn’t mean it is not a fantastic track, because it is, it’s just that the rest of the album is so mind blowingly amazing!! Still it’s a nice way to round off a fantastic album, this track has those falling synth lines that so often heralded the end of old school albums but uses them in tandem with rising melodies and wet acid noises. The overall effect is that the album is winding down but still encouraging the listener to give it another whirl.
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I love dark dreams
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Yours best chill-out/ambient albums ever
abasio replied to murphythecat's topic in General Psytrance
1. Solar Fields - Extended 2. The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences 3. Secede - Tryshasla 4. Mystery Of The Yeti II 5. Solar Fields - Leaving Home 6. Cymphonic - Strataradialis 7. Ishq - Orchid 8. The Mystery Of The Yeti 9. V/A - Oxycanta 10. V/A - Butterfly Dawn -
What music are you listening to right now?
abasio replied to Sputum Rotgut's topic in General Psytrance
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abasio replied to Sputum Rotgut's topic in General Psytrance
A mix of solar Fields I made last night 1. February 2. Levitate 3. Spectral Nation 4. Small Little Green Cubes 5. Summer 6. Fiat Lux 7. Sol 8. Electric Fluid 9. Discovering 10. Jeezlh 11. Sky Trees 12. Insum 13. The Sight Is White 14. Leaving Home 15. Good Times 16. Time Slide 17. H.U.V.A. Network - Rain Geometries (Solar Fields Remix) 18. Confusion Illusion (Abasio's Extended Mix) 19. Spiritual Ocean 20. Planet Zoo 21. Union Light 22. Swimming With Stones 23. Water Silence 24. Echoing Spectrum 25. Conbination (On/Off Edit) 26. Air Song (Abasio's Hyper Extended Mix) -
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Sounds like a great event, wish I could attend
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Artist: Ambientium Title: Fractal Philosophy Label: Kahvi Netlabel & Ambientium’s website (web release) Released: Early 2009 Tracklist 1. Hadron Era 2. Star Birthday 3. Infinitum 4. Another World Part 1 5. Another World Part 2 6. Europa 7. Fractal Philosophy 8. Touch Of Light 9. Home Ambientium are Lucie and Lubos hailing from the Czech Republic. This is the first and only release I am aware of and it is a free net release available from Ambientium.com and Kahvi.org. This is a release that shows just how good a lot of the free net releases can be. This sounds spacey and deep with a lot little psychedelic sounds, nice melodies and sci-fi imagery. This sounds a little like Distant System – Spiral Empire and could have appeared on Ultimae Records. The production is not quite up to the standard of the aforementioned musicians though and it would be nice to hear this remastered and have a few things tweaked. Occasionally the intro of a track doesn’t flow well into the rest of it and sometime the changes in direction are a little abrupt but overall I am very impressed by this album. It has what is more important to me than production, it has ideas and great ideas at that. This is a very visual album and while listening to it I am taken on a journey through outer space, passed dust clouds onto alien planets, being abducted by aliens & floating down along the length of a huge spaceship. This album also has a lot of different styles mixed in together, there is a lot that sounds deep and bassy like many Ultimae albums, there is also a lot of melodic tracks with even some glitchy ones, ambient ones, natural sounds and mechanical sounds and even one track that is a little bit on the cheesy side. Despite all these styles though this is best listened to as a whole as it’s a good journey better on headphones without any distractions. 1. Hadron Era We start off with a spacey track, the intro is very ambient with just a few wet synths and big rushes of noise that sound like a deep space explosion. As the intro ends we get a high pitched noise that sounds like it’s from a 1970’s Dr. Who. The intro doesn’t particularly well into this section of the track but that is forgotten when the high pitch noise morphs into a slightly deeper more atmospheric drone. The feeling of floating through space comes to fruition when the slight beats come in and little light melodic sounds like stars twinkle fill the space in between. The feeling we have crossed over into the Ultimae universe comes with the lush long female voice and deep rumbling bassline. The inclusion of some brief tribal beats near the end just adds a touch of the ancient to the mix. This is a nice atmospheric opener. 2. Star Birthday We go smoothly into the next track with more of the bright twinkling ambient sounds but this time behind everything almost imperceptible is the sounds of a crowd, it sounds to me like a playground or somewhere with a lot of people having fun. The spacey feeling mixed with the faint sounds of Earth makes me feel like there is some blending of realities here. A place where the universe we find ourselves in here comes close and touches the Terran universe. The kids fade away though as we pass on our journey and soon with the arrival of a nice deep melody played on a few different planes they are all but forgotten. These melodies are nice, one sounds ethereal the other more earthly in an eastern kind of way. Another lush female voice chants slowly over everything towards the end and it reminds me some of Dakini records’ old material. It’s spacey with a slight touch of eastern ethnicity. Nice. 3. Infinitum A brief break in the atmosphere as this track starts but it teases back in with flurries of the melody that will play fully later. The beats also tease their way in quite a glitchy manner and the start of the track feels a little disjointed but when it all pulls together and the deep vibrating bass comes in with a funky melody & broken beats the atmosphere seems deep and powerful once again. The melody that teased in the intro comes in fully around half way through and with the little synths that sound like falling stars it really does feel like standing on the edge of a cliff on a clear night watching a meteor shower. The music shifts from smooth and lush with a few broken beats to glitchy again and then back to smooth ambient with a few twinkles to end on. 4. Another World Part 1 This starts with some scratchy sounding rain. Like a downpour of slightly metallic raindrops falling onto a slate roof. This feels like I am out in a cottage in the countryside late in the evening with all the lights in the house off, miles from the nearest town with nothing but the rain, the stars and the feeling of night. The music is beatless and there is a pulsating sound in the air almost like distant space ships. The Pulsating sound gets bigger and bigger until it’s a full bassline, beats kick in and some sharp melodies & I feel like I am surrounded by lights. The beats become a steady 4-4 like I am moving or being taken somewhere as the atmosphere becomes a little more mechanical. Gone are the sounds of nature to be replaced by these slick high tech sounds. It feels like I have been abducted by aliens and taken onto their spacecraft. 5. Another World Part 2 A deep melody and some glitchy beats follow on in this short track. The melody is melancholic the glitchy beats mechanical. The atmosphere is all still here and it still feels spacey but with the background noises screaming like a siren, strange alien sounds coming up from the floor and the sound of the wind outside it’s easy to feel the sense of melancholy that is emitted from this track. 6. Europa The wind takes us over into the next track which starts out just like floating in deep space but after a couple of minutes the beats and a sharp acidic melody come in and it feels like while floating in space a huge spaceship has snuck up on me and I am now falling down it’s entire length. Along the way I see all the little details on the outside of this space city. There are sounds that remind me of air venting, of crews working out side and chattering over the radio to each other. Others just sound like huge buildings rushing passed me but the sharp melodic synths sound to me like the release of fighter jets off to fight and only narrowly missing my strewn form. 7. Fractal Philosophy The title track is a short one and a very ambient one, glitch ambient to be exact. All that I can hear is the rush of some sound far away, traces of subtle drones and a whole lot of technical glitch. Like a robot gone haywire but with the atmospheric ambience behind it, it is quite pleasant. 8. Touch Of Light Right from the start there is a really nice light melody closely joined by a second light melody just a few notes higher. These melodies surrounded by some trippy spacey noise are soon followed by an energetic beat. Lots of little wet sounds fall like droplets on a smooth polished floor. The beats become a little scattered but when they kick back in to a steady rhythm the energy seems to increase as well. The melodies are light, the beats are quick and the sample at the end sounds like an announcement in an airport, overall it’s a little on the cheesy side but it’s still a pretty pleasant track. 9. Home The final track is a deep ambient track with the sound of falling rain throughout. It feels like it is taking me falling through the atmosphere. The sounds rush about like they are swirling in the air and the soft melody seems like it is coming from all directions at once. As we go on the rushing sounds leave and the melody quietens down and we can start to hear the birds singing from down beneath us. New rushes sound more terrestrial as if they were aeroplanes or cars on the highway. It is as if we were home.
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Various Artists Title: Raindrops In The Forest Label: Psybertribe Records Released: 29 April 2008 Tracklist 1 Vegetal - Fast Food Issues (6:34) 2 Phobosphere - Seperate Reality (7:23) 3 Bubble Elevator - Big Bright Bubble (5:45) 4 Ovnimoon - Fab My Sun (Extended Mix) (7:37) 5 Magman - Tjallberry (Phobosphere Remix) (6:30) 6 Unknown Cause - Utopian Landscapes (9:47) 7 Audiovoid - The Melting Woman (9:48) 8 Audiopathik Sour Soul Soup (8:37) Psybertribe Records bring us “an excursion into the realm of space and new found sound waves brought to you by new and familiar energies of the beautiful underground world of future sound culture” A collection of relaxed tracks covering psybient, dub, ambient and glitch. The result is a story that starts off exploring the wonders of the elemental forest and they slowly introduce more human and less ethereal elements until the last few tracks seems to exert humans dominance with their machines over the beauty of nature. I have no idea if this is the real theme of the compilation as there is very little information about this release even on the label’s website. If it is or not, that is definitely the ideas I get from this music. The first 3 tracks have such lush melodies and natural sounds that they all sound like they are in the deepest parts of the forest. The next track Ovnimoon – Fab My Sun introduces some more human elements in that it feels in the first half like it is in a park rather than the forest but by the end the city has all faded away back into the forest. The next two tracks have darker moods and start introducing more human elements whereas the last two tracks are the darkest by far and really feel like machine invading the forest and destroying the natural beauty that was built up in the first half of the album. One thing that really needs to be mentioned about this album is the fantastic use of samples. Apart from the opening sample in the first track all the samples are integrated brilliantly into the tracks. Even though some of the samples are close to monologue length they never dominate, they never spoil the music or divert my attention away from the rest of the music. In fact they I feel like they are important parts of the music adding to the feeling the rest of the music creates rather than detracting from it. For me this is quite a feat as I don’t feel like many artists manage to use long samples well in any of their tracks but there are many artists here brought together on the same compilation. So if you like nice natural psybient with a themed journey, great melodies and lots of atmosphere then you’d do well to check this release out. The cover might look like it is trying to hard to look like it is new age and hippy shit but don’t let that put you off turn the CD over and look at the back cover, it’s just the forest without the woman and you’ll start to get an idea of what the music (at least the first half) is like. Track By Track Analysis 1. Vegetal – Fast Food Issue We start out with quite a preachy message in the sample about only eating fast food after we have been bombed by Anthrax or if we are stranded on a deserted island. I mean really, where are we going to find fast food on a desert island? It’s all up from there though with a cool tribal beat and some lush strings creating an ethereal atmosphere. I really am put in mind of the forest near my childhood home but this time filled with Shakespearean trouble makers. When the beat kicks into another gear in the final third the energy is pushed up slightly giving me a feeling of running through this forest. This is a very nice track aside from the opening sample. 2. Phobosphere – Seperate Reality This track continues with the tribal forest feeling but here with a really beautiful melody. It sounds like it is being played on fairy bells or something equally as other worldly. The sample is muttered but adds a human element to such mysterious track. It sounds like some human explorer is walking through the forest, marvelling at the sites he has seen for the first time but still totally oblivious to the real beauty of the forest. A great example of a well used sample. The track progresses very nicely as well with different melodies coming in and out & a whole host of trippy little natural sounds, natural yet so unnatural at the same time. Brilliant stuff, the soft ambience of the outro is also just so sublime. 3. Bubble Elevator – Big Bright Bubble Here we have another example of how to use a sample. The length of the sample is quite long but somehow it really feels like part of the music and not disconnected like many long samples. It’s spacey which fits the music and thought provoking at the same time. As for the music I said it was spacey but not spacey like Distant System but like being the aforementioned forest at night with a trillion stars filling the sky. That sense of wonder at how small and insignificant we are. The music helps remind me though even though humanity is a tiny insignificant speck in the universe we have still made such beautiful things. The synths here are spine tingling and the flute melody is a damn fine example of how to use a flute in electronic music. This is another great track. 4. Ovnimoon – Fab My Sun (Extended Mix) A short sample, bright melodic synths & a slightly wetter beat starts us off in this track. A nice little melody & a tight bassline make this the coolest track so far, it is funkier and a little more urban in its feel than the previous tracks. Not urban like bars & smoke but more like sitting in the park surrounded by trees but being able to see the skyscrapers in the distance. The whole mood changes halfway through though and as the bass & beats fade out so does the city, birds start singing and the melody steps up to the front stronger than before and showing natures dominance. Some more flutes used sparingly here just adding to the lush green feeling that oozes out this CD. Even the synth work near the end manages to sound green but it is like a shade of green never seen before seeping through from another dimension. Thank god for the extended mix 5. Magman – Tjallberry (Phobosphere Remix) A darker track here with an intro that sounds like it’s going to break into Michael Jackson’s Thriller before the rumble of thunder and foreign sample (not sure which language) which seems to abruptly stop to make way for the lead into the melodic segment and the beat. The beat is slow & there are some reggae influences in the background. The melody when it comes in is a high pitch sound over lush deep ringing sounds that along with the voice with all his indistinguishable charm and the reggae rhythms adds up to a track that seems at odds with itself. It doesn’t quite have the beautiful forest atmosphere of the other tracks but it does sound natural just with much more of a human edge to it. It’s a nice track but not my favourite on this compilation. 6. Unknown Cause – Utopian Landscapes Another long sample (English) talking about the universe and life, again while I usually don’t like these long samples, it is used very well here & even after listening to it many times I still enjoy it. Maybe it is because it is used as in intro and it leads into the music so well that it is still enjoyable 10 listens in. Maybe it’s the tone of the voice or the content of the sample that makes it so appealing. Whatever it is it adds to the musical experience instead of detracting from it which I am glad of. The music itself is more ambient here with a simple repeating melody and a strong but calm undulating sound. That sound leaves but the melody stays much longer with natural sounds coming in and out culminating with a river sound that runs right through my head. Suddenly everything is gone & we are left just with some acoustic guitar. Now I’m really a fan of the sound of a guitar so I could have done without this. After 7 minutes of pretty much an ambient track some funky beats come in alongside the melody that chimes along energetically like bugs in summer. Apart from the guitars I like pretty much every element in this track but it doesn’t quite have the structure I’d like from this kind of music. 7. Audiovoid – The Melting Woman This track is a much darker one this time with a harder and harsher beat and much glitchier sounds. A lot of the glitch in my head sounds like machinery with things banging, spinning and turning. I am put in mind of the huge logging machines they use to clear the rain forests. The dark atmosphere surrounding the glitch forces the image of loss into my head like the elementals that live in the forest are losing their home to onslaught of progress and modernization. When the melody finally comes in I have a sense of relief like the forest is fighting back. What comes next sounds to me like an energetic fight between the forest dwellers and the would be destroyers. Ethereal voices cry out trying to stem the machine glitch but the machine fights back and the glitch in the end seems to over power everything. Shame, I would have liked the forest to win. 8. Audiopathik – Sour Soul Syrup Here we have a stronger beat driven track with a similar dark feeling to the last track. A woman speaks almost indiscernibly at the start and then we get the beats and her heavy breathing. It sounds like someone being pursued through a dark forest at night and coming out into a clearing dominated by the presence of giant machines. The energy is high but gone is the light relaxing beauty of the opening tracks replaced with a more menacing feeling. The music is still great though with sharp acidic synths scything down through the trees and harsh guttural voices grunting in tandem with the beats adding what is almost an extra percussion. Cool stuff in the end to remind me that no matter how much we fight, there is no stopping progress.
