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Seriously?

It's been a damn good year. I've managed to fill top fives in Trance, ambient & chill Trance 1. Sienis - From A Nutter Perspective (Gi'iwa Productions Feb 2007) 2. Solar Fields - EarthShine (Ultimae Records Nov 2007) 3. Sattel Battle - Sounds Cool (Gi'iwa Productions Jan 2007) 4. Various - Mainspring Motion (Par-2 Productions Jul 2007) 5. Gus Till - Best Of The Rhino Years Vol.2 The Missing The Unreleased & A Coupla Classics (Sonic Dragon Records Oct 2007) Ambient/Chill 1. Cymphonic - Strataradialis (Databloem Sept 2007) 2. Shulman - Endless Rhythms Of The Beatless Heart (Aleph Zero Oct 2007) 3. Various - Oxycanta : Winter Blooms (Ultimae Dec 2007) 4. Evan Bartholomew - Caverns Of Time (Somnia Nov 2007) 5. Krill.Minima - Nautica (Native State Records Dec 2007) Runners Up Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot (Absolute Ambient 2007) Asura - Life² (Ultimae 2007) Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War (Silentes 2007) Mathias Grassow & Thomas Weiss - Insights (Databloem 2007) Jason Corder & Opium - Autunno Sync24 - Source (Ultimae 2007) Takagi Masakatsu - Private/Public (Epiphany Works 2007) Various - Midnight Soul Dive (Aleph Zero 2007) Various Artists - Twist Dreams (Suntrip Records 2007) Scorb - Ipso Fvcto Eat Static - De-Classified edit: while my trance side stays pretty much fixed, my chill keeps changing depending on my mood. Right now I'm in an ambient mood so more downbeat has had to make way. edit: changed my trance side slightly & my #5 chill suddenly shot up to #1 as I realised I play it just about every day & love it so much

Marijuana is on there 1st album. The albums progressively get worse culminating in this awful piece of rectal sputum. What really pushes it as the worst though is the stupid mix track at the end which is a real waste of anyone's cash. I almost want to urge people to steal this & then delete it. So they can feel like they are screwing 1200 Mic's how they have screwed us with this album. Of course I wouldn't recommend actually listening to it.

Well peruse this thread and get an idea what to steer clear of

Well the year is up! 2007 is now history. People are thinking about what were the best releases & I'm sure there will be an official best of 2007 thread & poll etc but what about the flip side. What were the most pathetic excuses of music you were unfortunate to hear from 2007? Which were the laziest, devoid of anything other than cut & paste whatever else was popular? In short what were the worst albums of 2007? Note 1 This is not just pure negativity, don't come in here with your hippy bullshit about only focusing on the good aspects of everything & threads like this bringing the mood down. There are crap albums out there that people need to be made aware of. The biggest danger is when an artist that once was good has started releasing pure generic garbage. Just if you are saying something is bad at least try to say why you don't like it. Likewise if you disagree with someone who hates an album instead of having a go at them why don't you just explain why you like it. Note 2 I know there was a similar thread around october last year but it was premature & had a poll with not enough choices in, including my choice. So with that said here's mine 1200 Mic's - Magic Numbers Here's my full review clicky here's my summing up

Congrats man! But number 2 was Talamasca

Oh yes! So bad Read my review here

1200 Mic's Magic Numbers TIP.World 2007 Tracklist 1 The Magic Numbers Theme (4:07) 2 Numberstruck (6:07) 3 Let's Get This Party Started (6:32) 4 God Of Rock (6:40) 5 This Is A Joint (6:56) 6 Double Helix (6:19) 7 Numbers Are Alive (24:51) Well, the master of cheese are back again. In my opinion their cheese started off really well with their drug themed album 1200 Micrograms but got progressively worse over their next to albums with their sound sounding lazier with more predictable sounds & the cheese got from fun to a little bit shit. In 2006 though they released a track called Dances Between Worlds on Raja Ram presents Evolution of Expanded Consciousness which made me think that these guys actually had some talent and were capable of making a good album again. So when this was released with only 7 tracks, my interest peaked. I thought there might be some lengthy intricate tracks. When I got the CD I found that the last track was a near 25 minute monster I really thought it might be great. One. The Magic Numbers Theme We start of with quite a funky beat & some cheesy sample about magic numbers. Following that sample are some twisted vocals saying Magic Numbers & then some guy just saying numbers. Not a bad track but it's boring, gets a little better towards the end with some nice melody & some flute but as it's so short it never develops into anything. Two. NumberStruck Starting off with guitar chords & sounds of a crowd is never the best start in my book. The beats are full throttle & the bassline extremely familiar. It moves a little bit but not in a particularly interesting direction. This is basically your typical thought free fullon that has plagued the scene for a few years. Trance by numbers. It has energy, may sound okay on the dancefloor but not for home listening. It would have been nice if they had kept with the beats they use on the breakdown instead of coming back in with the heavy beats & had not used the sample This is our tribe, our time is now, dropped the awful guitar cords & the crowd noises & the lalalala. Basically this would sound a whole lot better if it was 6 minutes of silence. Pure shite! This cheese could easily be in your 8 year old sisters pop collection in it's lack of anything interesting or innovative. Three. Lets Get This Party Started This actually starts with some pretty cool sounds. Slow flute & some nice dripping sounds. Then the beat kicks in & there are some fun sub beats but the bassline is another retrodden & dominating piece of crap. To be fair it's different from the awful NumberStruck with nice synth work & I'm sure this would sound pretty good live. The bassline manages to have a little bit of energy & the trance rolls probaly make crowds go wild. An OK fullon track ruined by more guitar cords & a cheesy cheesy sample repeating the track title. Drop those it would be OK but they are just too much for me to take. With 2 and a half minutes to got they introduce some kind of Hawaiian part melody that just takes the cheese to whole new levels. This one didn't start off to badly but it descends into god awful cheesy pop shite. It's horrible by the end. Four. God Of Rock I guessed by the track title that this would have guitars in it. I was not though expecting lyrics. The guitars amazingly don't appear in the first two minutes but that plus point is nowhere near making up for the terrible vocals. Usually when I hear female vocals, I don't like them but think the woman can sing. This one can't, well not very well. The slight mysticism that can be obtained is completely lost here. Around 2 minutes in the obvious guitars come in dragging this nightmare down a little further & then a comedy (stand up) sample including the laughter drags it passed rock bottom, through several layers of shit & into a realm of pure crap. Amazingly the God of Rock manages to drag this down even lower than I thought was humanly possible. I am at this point wanting to have my ears plugged up forever in case I ever accidentally have to listen to this again. Five. This is a Joint Points must go to this track for the worst track title of the year. This is a Joint. Well thanks for telling us. Well, track in itself starts of quite well with some alright acoustic guitar, flute that sounds mystically eastern & some pretty cool beats. When the fullon stuff kicks in it doesn't completely ruin it either. The foot is off the pedal a little & there are a lot more cool & interesting sounds used. The bassline moves in a fun way but the we don't need no control & This is a joint samples which are repeated are pretty shit. The sort of stuff that appeals to young teens just getting into Weed. These guys probably think, Awww awesome dude, they talk about drugs & taking drugs, they are so cool & rebellious. This stuff is awesome! They push the boat & sample stuff our parents would find offensive What you little kids don't understand is that your parents were probably into much more drug related music in their time. Ever heard Bob Dylan's lyrics? Now there is some drug references with music that is way more trippy than this could ever be. Just putting cheesy as drug shit in a track does not make it cool or anti establishment, it just makes it cheesy & shit. Six. Double Helix This track actually starts with nice melody & a really nice beat. The bassline kicking in doesn't ruin it & actually adds some decent energy. Nice enough synths drive it. Nothing special, nothing great or even good but after all that has preceded it, it's a joy to behold. There are no guitars, there are no terrible samples, there is just music. And nice bland uninspired music that wont be etched on my brain as the worst thing ever. Such a shame that this bland boring track is by far the best on the album. Seven. Number Are Alive Now this is the track that really really pissed me off. This is the track that proves that 1200 Mic's are lacking in ideas & just want to release an album & make some quick cash. The near 25 minute monster is nothing more than a mini mix of their older tracks played live. Incorporate some sounds of the crowd & you have the laziest damn piece of music to have been released in a long time. This is the reason I will never buy a 1200 Mic's album again. This is the eppitomy of pointless crap. If you don't have enough new material to release on an album then why the fuck did you bother releasing an album? Could you have waited until you had enough new material to fill a CD. Do people really want to hear the same track that appear on your previous albums mixed together with crowd noise? Well looking at TIP.World's website, yes they do. But I don't think much of these people's musical taste if they are blown away by this laziness. I would guess if they are not the teenagers I spoke about earlier then they are the 20 somethings that take too many e's wear short sleeve shirts 6 go to trendy club/pubs where they'll turn you away at the door for wearing Trainers. None of this is about the music. It's about a scene, about drugs, about money & shit but it's not about the music. If it was, then this megamix wouldn't be here. Obviously this music is not my cup of tea & people will tell me I'm bitter because I'm just not into it. But I know here that I am right. Releasing an album where almost half of it is just your old material show no respect for the fans. The music as it is there old stuff is actually not too bad but for fuck's sake I've already got it!!!!! The worst part, yes it gets fucking worse is that they actually at the end of this mix include NumberStruck! Yes track Two from this album. We just heard it you stupid mother fuckers! Did you think we had forgotten than cheesy ass bassline & horrible sample that makes me want to rip out my eyes & pour lemon juice into the wounds just to distract me from the pain of having to listen to it. To include it twice on the same album is pitiful. Pitiful! Well, this whole album was just a cheap marketing ploy designed to ensnare weak minds like myself with their competition to solve their magic number puzzles & win an Ipod with the whole TIP back catalogue on it. I didn't play. I have an Ipod & I have the good TIP releases anyway. I just hope that whoever won the Ipod was able to delete this piece of shit album from it. The opening track has potential that it never reaches, the next four tracks are god awful guitar & sample ridden nightmares, the sixth track is a pleasant enough bland fullon track with nice melodies but it's the last track that is the worst thing 1200 Mic's have ever done. Just adding 25 minute live mix is lazy & disrespectful to anyone stupid enough to buy this CD. I truly wish i hadn't spent my hard earned money on this. CDs are expensive in Japan & all I got was a short track, a bland track, 4 terrible tracks & a mix of music I already own. Thanks for nothing 1200 Mic's I will never part with money on your lazy half baked crap ever again. Do us a favour & stop making this crap. If I hear this at a party you were not advertised as being at or it comes on the radio I will consider suing you for emotional distress. My advice to anyone who wants to buy this album is DON'T!!!!!! Don't even bother downloading. It's the worst album of the year by far. Worse even that Bamboo Forest's Revival album released in 2005. At least that was an album in a style someone might enjoy. This is just lazy shit that should never have been released. This is the lowest TIP have ever gone. I had hope after Raja Ram presents Evolution of Expanded Consciousness but this has made me lose all hope with the way TIP are going.

me 2007 jobbie

:lol: Yes that's a triple

Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? It was playing as I woke up. What a joy, I think I had forgotten just how good this album is np Divine Moments of Truth

All AP albums are cheesy IMO but this is not neccessarily a bad thing. They know how to make cheesy fun & interesting without going to far into kiddie pop! The runs, the melodies, the samples are all examples of good cheese IMO

Nice Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice :):):):)

Good luck with this mate! I look forward to hearing the fruit of your labour

Trentmoller - The Last Resort

Electrypnose Where Do we Go? Digital Psionics 2007 Tracklist CD1 1 Go Back To Mummy (6:50) 2 Fini La Plaisanterie (7:02) 3 Intellinoise (7:58) 4 Discogil (8:39) 5 Swiss Clockwork (vs Airi) (7:54) 6 Push It (6:48) 7 Try To Hold It (6:13) 8 Overtripdose (6:03) 9 Secret Weapon (8:00) 10 Give Me Some Fun (5:31) CD2 1 Pensées Douteuses (4:00) 2 Lost In Peace (7:05) 3 A Little Bell In The Night (9:45) 4 Negative G's (7:36) 5 Sunny Heart (7:22) 6 Erimesa (9:34) 7 Cerebral Factory - Creamfield (Electrypnose Remix) (8:35) 8 E(30fz%-#) (6:17) 9 Electro Tonic (7:17) 10 MyDRM (vs Airi) (4:39) Well, Electrypnose sure makes a lot of music and he's produced a double CD here with where do we go. The concept is meant to be one CD of hard banging dark night time trance & one CD of hard banging light daytime trance, depicted in the CD art work as a Devil & Angels respectively. So was Electrypnose able to keep up the quality level when he's releasing so much? CD1 1. Go Back To Mummy This starts off sounding like some kiddies TV program but quickly gets a beat & a bassline then a cheesy nasty sample naming the song. After that it's all dark twisted night time stuff. Nothing mind blowing but pleasant enough for home listening. I couldn't imagine dancing to it though as it stops every few seconds & I think I'd get pissed off on the dancefloor. 2. Fini La Plaisanterie More standard darkish fullon here. The bassline & beat are all pretty basic non thought out examples but the hints of melody & trippy noises give this a great sci fi edge, a feeling which is accentuated by the really acidic metallic synths. Once again though it doesn't manage to build much energy with it's relentless stopping for brief seconds just to ruin the energy build up. 3. Intellinoise The sort of computer static you expect to hear in some sci fi horror movie leads into a pretty decent track here. Lots of well placed trippy acidic sounds manage to build into a melody of sorts. The sounds get more chaotic as the track gets on but they all seem to work well together. Best are the sounds near the end that remind me of a panicking computer 4. Discogil A slightly more atmospheric number with some nice background ambience. Thankfully the flow is a little better here & it doesn't keep stopping and starting (quite so much). The twisted sounds are still evident as are the bog standard beat & bassline but there is something in the background that manges to build more energy & atmosphere than any of the previous efforts. 5. Swiss Clockwork (Vs Airi) There's beat & bassline some nice sci fi noises & hints of melody in this one but this falls victim to the stopping & starting syndrome that is singlehandedly ruining the experience of this album. I can't quite understand the appeal of it. It destroys any energy that might be built up. It's annoying on the dancefloor & when done as much in this track it's bloody annoying to hear at home. It actually sounds like they don't know what they're doing & while all the production sounds crystal clear it does have a cut & paste gone wrong feel to it. 6. Push It A better effort here with some nice cascading acidity in the back ground. This actually does manage to build energy (despite the stopping) with it's very nice synth work. The mid section is a bit sketchy but it ends well. 7. Try To Hold It A fatter bassline starts us off with some nice building sounds that actually release a bit of energy when it all kicks in. The beats are better, a little more intricate than your standard boom boom boom with underlying beats that you can actually here. Nice bell sounds occasionally & wet synths add a decent feel & the stop starts are complimented this time with samples which helps the flow a little. 8. Overtripdose As a stand alone track this might sound pretty good but on the album it just seems to have taken a few of the preceding tracks & cut & paste to make a new track with the same sounds & feel but with just a slightly different progression. Same beat, same bassline, similar sci fi sounds as in many tracks. Same scratchy synths as in the first track & the same stopping & starting as in most others. Not bad just lacking any originality. 9. Secret Weapons The samples are pretty cool, the synths are excellent, the beat is fine but the same tired bassline is recycled again albeit with a little more vigour this time driving the track a lot more than previously. Probably the best track on this CD with a decent amount of energy, some nice melodic sounds which seem to trickle through the music. It's the synths though that make this track great though. Very nice work. Falls foul again of losing it's energy with poor stop starts littered throughout. 10. Give Me Some Fun We finish the nighttime CD then with a more atmospheric intro. Starting with a long spacey drone the mood is set for what could be a great track. As soon as the beat & by now very tired bassline come in all atmosphere is lost & we are left with a pretty standard nighttime track. Not particularly offensive but nothing special & with the promise in the intro completely destroyed you can't help but feel that it's ending on a real low note. The cheesy vocal just makes it worse. So to sum up CD1 it's pretty decent nighttime fullon with some cool twisted sounds. Some of the synth work is really good and there are some nice acidic moments that sound very spacey & metallic. The main problems are; 1. The lazy use of the same bassline throughout & 2. The energy that could have been built is all destroyed by to many stop starts. It's really annoying & I think this CD could have been really really good with more flow & better basslines. CD2 1. Pensées Douteuses A brilliantly deceptive opener. A nice downbeat number filled with lots of acid making me think the whole CD would be downbeat or ambient, maybe in the vein of Subliminal Melancholies. The track has some nice light melody & interesting trip hop like beats. Long drones almost sounding like a choir lead into a tasty bassline & funkier beats getting more breakbeat in style. Pretty cool overall. 2. Lost In Peace The intro to this kept my hopes alive for a few seconds at least but under the nice tech sounds & light melody I can hear the beat & bassline creep in. It works better here though as with the foot off the pedal the music develops a little more fluidly. The melody is really quite nice on the ears & stands in contrast to the harshness of the last CD, much nicer, more atmosphere & although slower manages more energy due to a much nicer flow without as much stopping an starting. 3. A Little Bell In The Night Another ambient intro, really manages to build an atmosphere of a little bell in the night. The bass line & beat kick in & once again the beat is slower & the bassline thankfully is a little more dynamic. It moves differently than those on CD1 is not having much variation unto itself. A very spacey track with lots of interesting alienesque & nighttime sounds but given a nice melodic touch by the melody that rings like the bell. 4. Negative G's This starts with a nice floating ambient intro with a nice melody flying around & a lovely sounding voice sample adding extra "air" to the track. A very nice open feeling & when the beat & bass kick in it seems very natural & well done. The feeling now of racing through the sky rather than floating through it. Probably one of my favourite tracks on the whole album. Excellent stuff, funky & fun, dreamy & nice. 5. Sunny Heart A slightly harder track now but with lots of atmosphere. Nice background ambience under the strong beat & bassline. The bassline is nothing special but does have the quality of not dominating proceedings which I like. An interesting electro sounding melody kind of whines rather than plays & towards the end of the track the beats become much more interesting with slick sub beats adding an extra dimension to them. 6. Erimesa Another nice track with a bubbly melody which works very well in my ears. The pace is a little slower again & it allows the track to breathe & breathe it does. A very nice progression with lots of melodies in various styles. The twisted noises really sound involved in the track not just randomly layered but integral. Good stuff all round. 7. Cerebral Factory - Creamfield (Electrypnose Remix) A pick up in pace & a drop in quality here. A pretty standard fullon track with nothing to make it stand out positively. Too many stop starts like in the 1st CD and a boring bassline that only puts my in mind of someone farting. Never heard the original so I don't know if Electrypnose has ruined this or made it at least bearable. It's not terrible it's just boring. 8. E(30fz%-#) Points for the most bizarre track name I've heard in a while. I am left wondering where the inspiration for it came from. A mathematical equation? Randomly hitting the keyboard? Going by the music it could have been either. There are a lot of random sounds but there does seem to be an overall cohesiveness to it makes it pretty enjoyable. Some nice synths and acidic sounds too make this feel quite warm. 9. Electro Tonic Yeah it's cheesy but in a fun way. You can actually feel like the artist had fun making it & it comes out in the track. The samples are quite enjoyable in a cheesy but not overly so way. Less cheesy lets say than the Orbs recent track DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) which was unbearable. This though is just fun & nice. the rest of the music is cool too. My favourite bit being the high pitched cascading vocal from the start & the melody is probably the most enjoyable on this double CD. 10. MyDRM (vs Airi) It sounds like we are going to end on a dreamy ambient number to close but some painful breakcore beats ruin the whole thing for me. I've decided that I don't like Airi. He appears twice on this album & it's crap both times. At least now I have a name to avoid. To be fair there is some nice ambience & melody (I guess from Electrypnose) but that's spoiled by the breakcore beats for the brief time they are in. A decision I wish they could go back & change. So then CD2 in my opinion is much better than CD1. It's more melodious, has better flow, more intricate beats. Sometimes the bassline is better sometimes just less dominating & overall has more atmosphere. This album is worth getting for CD2 alone. Despite two tracks not to my liking, the CD holds up pretty well & there is some decent stuff on the 1st disc as well but that CD is pretty much plagued by the annoying stopping and starting almost constantly something that is relatively absent on CD2 which was quite a relief. Electrypnose shows that he definitely has the skills to make good music. I think my negative comments probably come from me not liking that style so much. That said though, in your dark stuff sir, try & experiment a little more with basslines. The ones you've used here are pretty boring & sound like a cut & paste job. The ones on CD2 are better & the crazy sounds you use are cool. I'd definitely like to here more downbeat stuff from Electrypnose. Note Before anyone tells me of my error in the track titles, I got this from Electrypnose's website

So what did everybody end up thinking about this? It seems to have been totally forgotten

Electrypnose - Where Do we Go? CD2

Electrypnose - Where Do we Go? CD1

Try Shulman's albums

Scorb Ipso Fvcto Trick Music 2007 Tracklist 1 Pareidolia (0:41) 2 Sol Invictus (8:58) 3 Yodyssey (7:52) 4 Rave From The Grave (6:41) 5 Apohenia (1:21) 6 Wobbly Matter (5:51) 7 P2P (5:25) 8 Pyrotechno (6:25) 9 Tower Of Klorox (9:07) 10 Angleterror (6:12) 11 Ipso Fvcto (8:14) 12 Aquiescence (5:53) 13 Supraliminal (4:16) Scorb is back with his follow up to his magnificent self titled debut album. That one was a twisted freakish album dripping with psychedelia so I was looking forward to this one so much & when I read the review from Psyreviews I nearly wet myself with anticipation. So did it live up to my sky high expectation? Let's see 1. Pareidolia 41 seconds of atmospheric ambience is just an intro into the real music here. 2. Sol Invictus Following on from Pareidolia this one has a soft ambient intro before the pounding beat kicks in with a crispy baseline & a synth line that disappears as it repeats. The sounds used around these are very much what I was expecting. Dark twisted sounds dripping with psychedelic goodness. The melody is excellent, at the start it echoes through the mind and the baby of it that continues manages to twist around everything very well complimenting as it goes along. It's a pretty complex track with a lot going on. Perfect to listen to at home, on the train, in the gym & I can see it working brilliantly on dancefloors the world over. The twists & turns, the timing of the breakdowns and the energy given by the synth line are beyond great. 3. Yodyssey Yodyssey has a more prominent bassline that seems to dominate the track which is a shame as the music behind it is oozing with trippy goodness. The sharp acid sounds & spooky ambience are delightful. After hearing the releases this year on Gi'iwa though I expect more from my basslines now & a standard pedestrian fullon bassline no longer cuts the mustard. That 303 is bloody amazing though and sends this from mediocre to well above average. Shame it's so brief. 4. Rave From The Grave Church bells ring out instantly giving this a dark eerie atmosphere. A slightly bouncier bassline and a thumping beat give more energy to the scene. The quality of Scorb's production is really evident here. The sounds are all pristine and when you have nice ideas coupled with great production the end product is always going to be good. The melody is dark and works well to create the party in a graveyard feel. Zombielicious 5. Apophenia Has a nice pokey melody at the start. Probing the mind like a scanner & really sounds nice with the light percussion accompanying it. Shame such a nice track is so short. 6. Wobbly Matter Apophenia seemed like it was just an intro for Wobbly Matter. The sounds are sharp & flitter about through my mind like bats on acid. The bassline thankfully moves a bit more than on Yodyssey & that adds an extra element of danceability to this. For a track that starts with a lot of energy this sure manages to continue building the energy. My only problem is that it never releases the energy it has built up. 7. P2P While I don't like the cheesy ass opening sample I do like the Drum & Bass beats and bass in it. When I heard that Scorb had made a D&B track I imagined the best D&B track ever with Scorb's twisted sounds under those huge beats. While this is a nice D&B track it's very much D&B track & the Psychedelic elements are lost in the glare of the coked up beats & overly confident strut of it all. This sounds like D&B through & through, it could do with more melody or more fucked up acid in it. Still it's a nice variation from your regular Psy fare so it's very welcome when it comes on the album. 8. Pyrotechno The beat now feels very slow & plodding in comparison to P2P but with that the sounds are given room to breathe & I can feel the darkness creeping through this track. It's exactly what I was hoping from this album. Creepy in the extreme, insanity in the background and beat that allows you to fully appreciate the weirdness that is going on. Nice stuff, no wait nasty stuff, twisted nightmare type music. The wet squelchy sounds are my favourite 9. Tower Of Klorox This follows on similarly from Pyrotechno but has more energy to it. A more danceable less mongy track. The psychedelic elements can still be heard but they are not as foreboding as in the previous track & while good the first half lacks the insanity level of Scorb's best works. The final 3 minutes though have a lot more feeling behind the music. The darkness shines through (???) and it all seems to drip seamlessly down from the UFO infested night sky, down through the soil into the basement where it seeps into the minds of the party goers. Worth the wait 10. Angleterror This is the track that Damien of off Psyreviews in his infinite praise of music he likes described as evolution. He said he wants to have it's babies & stalk it etc etc and went on for some time about how good it was without actually describing it. It is not a bad track, the bassline is very crisp & has some movement. A fluttering synth is among the most trippy sounds I've ever heard & sounds like dark moths have gotten into my brain. Other than that though it's a very standard track with a cheesy star wars sounding sample. I'm not sure what is so evolved about this track. Nice but not that great. It seems like it's just about to get great but then ends. 11. Ipso Fvcto This is a wonderful piece of break beat psy. The intro is long & teasing & the beats come in, in cool confident fashion. Very smooth & twisted at the same time. The psychedelic level is kept high while exploring other sounds. Much more intersting than the D&B track and the variation adds another plus to this already very good album. The sample is actually pretty good & well placed to complement the track rather than detract from the greatness. 12. Aquiescence Starting to slow things down a bit now and the trippiness of this track is pretty high. Very nice psy track. Slow plodding beats & a lot of weird noises coming from the darkness. The slight touch of melody that rings out is so isolated at the start of the track that the brain reaches out for it, opening it up for the other sounds to permeate & confuse. Excellent stuff indeed but that's not it there is more melody in the second half which is really nice but you can still here the slight melodious touch from the start coming in & every time it does is like an ice pick of joy to the brain. 13. Supraliminal We finish on an ambient track. Nice melody & dark feeling to close the album with. Soft, slow percussion & weird sounds just like the rest of the album only without the energy. The atmosphere is among the best on the album & is almost medieval. Just a shame it's so short. Well to sum up I'd say this is a damn good album. Is it as good as his debut? No, but it's almost as good. Is it the best album ever? No. Is it the best album of 2007? No, but it is a damn good album that is definitely worth buying. It's crisp, clean, dark, twisted, psychedelic stuff with enough variation to keep it interesting throughout the whole album. In the future I'd like Scorb to listen to Gi'iwa artists & try & make his basslines a little more dynamic like theirs. Scorb's basslines here were a little flat and boring & I'm grateful the rest of the music was more than enough compensation for that. Not life changing but a very nice album here

Scorb - Ipso Fvcto