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I don't know. From your earlier post it sounded like your main criteria for making it a classic was if people would remember it. So you tell me! I am sure however that I will remember many albums from these times. I may not listen to them as regularly as I do now but I'm sure when I put them on 20 years from now I'll get this warm fuzzy feeling like I'm listening to a classic

I think I just crapped myself in excitement

Kettel My Dogan Sending Orbs 2006 Tracklist 1 My Dogan (4:47) 2 Dogan 9247 (1:02) 3 Mauerbrecher (6:07) 4 Billiton Beruh With Cleo&Wouter (2:09) 5 Little Tongues (4:16) 6 Meeuwuh (1:20) 7 Halt Him (5:34) 8 Mannschaft (2:32) 9 Follow Me! (4:57) 10 Peeksje 1994 (2:00) 11 Sekt I Sing (7:16) 12 Ok Norah (0:52) 13 Sylvia (3:02) 14 Afwezig (3:31) 15 The Second 2006 (5:06) 16 Escape From ETA Th2 (1:41) 17 Choo Choo India (7:26) 18 He's His Own Man (6:33) I kept seeing this beautiful cover & I knew I had to buy the music lat was lying underneath. I'm fortunate that the music was a lush melodious roller coaster of an album. A very nice IDM gem, the best I've heard from Kettel so far 1 My Dogan We start off with the title track. Nice random IDM beats under an equally random couple of melodies. For it's randomness though it does have a very well structured feel. Like someone has taken some nice sounds, thrown them up in the air & they have formed into a lovely loving sound by themselves and landed here in my ears to my delight. Good Start. 2 Dogan 9247 A wee track here. Squelchy pads & a fluctuating drone obscure a muttered vocal. It's so quiet, wear headphones. 3 Mauerbrecher A really funkily nice melody right of the bat. It's melodies like this that this album is made of. It's short & stabbing sounds making up & nice twisting melody. The beats are a little more danceable & the the second melody that comes in after a few minutes seems to match the beats perfectly. Add a long underlying drones that moves up & down tunefully and you get a damn good track. Lovely. A lush piano melody acts as a transition into the next track, like it's a track of it's own but just about 15 seconds. 4 Billiton Beruh With Cleo&Wouter A slower melody and soft piano cords form this wee 2 minuter. Softly stabbing synths form the melody & the lack of beats make it a nice chilled but busy atmosphere. I'd like to have seen this made longer to see what he could have done with it. 5 Little Tongues The melody is made up similarly to the previous track with short sharp sounds but it's the bassline that really makes the track. The bassline plays it's own melody that compliments the other melodies which are more obvious. Slower beats than mauerbrecher but just as intricate. Ends on a twisted piano straightened out. 6 Meeuwuh Another wee track. Very random sounds forming a melody somehow No beats at first just a melody or two then about 10 seconds of big beats & back to just melody. Weird. 7 Halt Him Birdsong & distant human chatter for an ambient intro. The melody slowly teases in, starting off soft but getting more & more prominent as we move forward. The sounds of lapping waves heard in the background eventually morph into more mechanical sounds, like the ocean of a machine world. At the end comes in a piano melody, it's soft & melancholic. Under it are softly spoken words. Too soft to infer meaning but enough to get the feeling. A really nice sad ambient track. 8 Mannschaft The melody is uplifting but after the last track seems subdued in it's high spirits. Like a facade, happy for our benefit but it has an undertone of depression. No beats here either but little stabs of bass act as a percussive element. 9 Follow Me! The percussion is back & so is the crazy melody. Crazy beats plus crazy melodies equals strange twisted crazy track. The piano in it is faster & although very well done hints at someone just smashing a keyboard. At times you can hear that two keys have been hit instead of one or 3 instead of 2 & it just doesn't seem perfect. It's this imperfection though that gives it the charms. Structured randomness. 10 Peeksje 1994 Another soft wee track here. One of the most beautiful melodies of the entire album. It really is heart moving in it's lushness & I wish it was longer. I'd love to see this progress but it's over before you know it. 11 Sekt I Sing A really fun funky track that makes me bounce along whenever I hear it. It beats, the energetic melodies, the twists & the overall atmosphere make it difficult not to move. 12 Ok Norah A tiny track, less than a minute. It's just a short melody, a nice sturdy one at that that fades away into a sample. If you're happy & you know clap your hands, If you're happy & you know clap your hands, If you're happy & you know then you face short surely show it, if you're happy & you know it clap your hands. Yeah! 13 Sylvia A really sharp crisp melody sounds like a winters morning. Beats try a few times to kick in before aided by an amazing bassline that shakes your body for you & a melody for higher up & one from the Earth the beats finally make it although only for a very short time. 14 Afwezig A faster track again with quick beats right from the start & a driving melody. A nice little track with cool trippy beats & another vocal that can't quite be made out. It's understandable as a conversation between a man and a woman but nothing beyond that. Pretty trippy stuff. 15 The Second 2006 Quicker again with quite drum & bass like beats. The track just buzzes with energy & the melody is a slipstream of aural pleasure. I'm happy that this is one of the longer tracks as I have the time to enjoy it. Great stuff. Was the first 2006 this good? 16 Escape From ETA Th2 Another short track, I want to say transmission tracks but they all have a life of their own that they are more than just transmissions. This one is deep & dark. Like a triumphant night in midsummer with a victory over something you knew was right. 17 Choo Choo India A slow ambient start with some more mutterings of those humans. The mood is very slow & relaxed. I'm put in mind of a calm spring night. Warm enough to not need a jacket but brisk enough to need a sweater. The stars are out & the moon casts an eerie light on the ocean as I stare out at it's vast depths & mystery. The laughing of a child is like a passer by & tries to divert my attention & afterwards I can hear half of peoples conversations in the background, my mind in two places. 18 He's His Own Man We finish with another ambient track. I think a lot of people will not like the end to this album but I think it's a great end to a great album. Soft melodious drones in the background. A heart beat of percussion & softly spoken speech. A soft melancholic ambient journey to end on kind of makes me want to put it on again. Quality. So the pace of this album is incredibly random. It jumps from breaks to chill, to steady beats to ambient to drum & bass to breaks again & ends with ambient. The layers of the album are also very varied. I'll hear new things everytime I listen to this. The melodies are for the most part stunning in their beauty, strong & well made. The piano that comes into a lot of tracks is very nicely done each time & I especially like the melancholic edge of the ambient tracks. So as a lit of adjectives I'd say it's varied, melodic, melancholic, random & beautiful.

Kettel My Dogan Sending Orbs 2006

Not by you obviously, but that doesn't mean they wont become classic for some people. I still remember Doop by Doop but I don't think it's classic.

Because he doesn't like solar fields. He said this was a disappointing album in his earlier post.

Therefore you probably wont buy it. I never ever listen to samples anymore. Music always sounds bland and uninspired in a sample. Especially really good, deep music. The number of albums I wouldn't have bought if I heard the samples but love so much is high indeed. I'll wait until I have the CD in my hands before commenting on the music as I just can't tell from samples

Many parties I've been to recently have had no back room After a few hours in the main room I really want to chill out somewhere cool with nice breaks or ambient or something.

It's a year! Okay, I'd rather wait for a good album than have an album rushed any day. I put Nighttime Lullabies on after not having heard it for a while. Still damn good

Omnimotion - Omnimotion

Androcell Efflorescence Celestial Dragon Records 2006 Tracklist 1. Process Of Unfolding (9:10) 2. Neurosomatic Circuit (7:39) 3. Atmos-Spheres (7:58) 4. Spectral Processor (7:37) 5. Aes Dana - Natti Natti (Androcell Remix) (6:54) 6. Efflorescence (8:51) 7. Gnome Dosed (7:21) 8. Dub Crickets (7:02) I had just gotten into Androcell's 1st release Emotivision by the time this came out & I thought that this might need similar time to sink in & have me enjoy. However this I enjoyed straight away so I thought I would get tired of it quickly but more than a year has passed & I still enjoy it so I must conclude that it is a really good album. It manages an organic feel pretty well but it's like a psuedo organic feel. It doesn't feel like any nature I've encountered on Earth but more like the natural environments on other planets I've traveled to. 1. Process of Unfolding We start the album with a trippy sci fi vocal & it instantly creates a vast mood like an early universe. The sounds seem to run down the walls of my mind like water & the quick but light bamboo beat continues the alien nature feel. When the beats kick in properly they are nice damp intricate beats. I love beats like this, they really add something to the track instead of being predictable. The layers slowly get layered on but it never becomes too dense & remains an enjoyable journey through the greenery of outer space. 2. Neurosomatic Circuit A bit slower this time with more of a bassline. Very much more a track to get lost in. The vocals are half prominent but occasionally muttered so your mind switches gear trying to understand & lets the rest of the trippy atmosphere in past the blockades. I'm put in mind of the sky in early evening just before the suns about to set. Walking through a green field towards nowhere in particular but just enjoying the late summer breeze. A very nice relaxed summer track. 3. Atmos-Spheres Continuing the feeling of bright blue skies but a little higher, the soft percussion gifts this a lift & the melody to my mind makes me feel like birds flying around. You truly belong with us here among the clouds confirms my sky high feelings. I'm floating along in a surprisingly warm atmosphere. It's bright & should be cold this high up but it's a lush feeling all over. This is probably my favourite on the album. The intricate beats & the little squelchy pads under the melody on the flute really make my soul float away. 4. Spectral Processor A nice soft intro builds an atmosphere sounding to me like standing by the edge of a rainbow glowing lake on an alien world. Think of the universe as an enormous computer is the sample just as the beats kick in and the mood changes to that of an approaching storm. The more sounds circle round the more I feel like the elements are rushing & the storm breaks and drenches me in sound. A sonic downpour on a shore far from home. If the universe is an enormous computer then this track is small program cleaning the drives. Very unnatural nature here. 5. Aes Dana - Natti Natti (Androcell Remix) A familiar melody & lush bassline over a cascading drone build a more earth atmosphere. The regular Aes Dana beat is steady & the vocals sound like an earthy goddess calling to me. When listening to this I can't put my finger on what Androcell has done to this but it definitely has his stamp on it as well as Aes Dana's. Best of both worlds & fits nicely into the album despite the fact it's a remix. If the other tracks feel like outside in an alien summer then this is definitely the nostalgic look back at what it was like on Earth in those late summer days. 6. Efflorescence The intro leads off with a flute like melody & some nasty middle eastern instrument played in the usual tuneless fashion. The rest of the track, the beats, the melody the sounds are all really good but I think though this would be much more enjoyable without it. I'm happy when it goes but it's in the back of my mind that it'll re:emerge & my enjoyment of the rest is lessened. It does come back & I'm put in mind of my time in the middle east which in itself was fine but wherever I went I heard this tuneless drone on this crap instrument. Take it out of this track & it would be great as it stands though it just bugs me. It finishes off the track too 7. Gnome Dosed At the crossover I can hear the sound of crickets in the background. The soft chords & decrepit alien vocals sound cool along with the brief bits of melody on the flute. It all sounds pretty lovely knowing it's not going to get ruined by a mijwiz or whatever that was. All in all it's a nice track if not a standout but it's nice to be back to the strange alien world after the memory of Earthly delight followed by the nightmare of being hounded my market sellers. 8. Dub Crickets I'm put in mind of being in a bamboo forest slowly dancing to the sound of the wind against the trees. God plays a tune with nature & he's outdone himself this time. The slow bassline, the understated melody, the wet sounds of the percussion & the ethnic vocals are a great way to round off the journey that has been unfolding over the last hour This is probably one of my favourite chillout releases from 2006. It would be higher in my list but I'm afraid it's ruined a little bit by the title track. It's not even the track but just one element of it. Don't listen to me though I just really hate that instrument & that sound. The rest of the music is natural in an alien way with loads of psychedelica & melody. Some dubby elements & some really nice intricate beats. If you like your music chilled & you want something a little different but comfortingly familiar then buy this now.

It's pretty good! Not as good as his chilled stuff but it's some of the best trance I've heard recently. I need some more time to focus on this but I can see already that I'll get lost in a few of these tracks

Scorb - Klangman

Pete Namlook & Mixmaster Morris Dreamfish Rising High Records & Fax Records 1993 Re-released on Avatar Records & Ambient World 2001 Tracklist 1 School Of Fish (18:26) 2 Hymn (28:09) 3 Fishology (9:25) 4 Under Water (15:18) This is a deep melodic ambient journey through the vast space that is our oceans. There is definitely a similarity between space & that black depths of the ocean. The main difference though is that the ocean is teeming with life. This album also has a lot of life to it. 1. School Of Fish A mesmerizing plunge into our deep sea world. It is very positive with warm melodies & kind sounds. The melody at times manages to sound like tribal drums without a beat. As it progresses the sound gets darker with some underwater surf & a deep aquatic drone. A dark bassline drags us down and the School Of Fish circle us in their dance. Amazing ambient track, I really am put in mind of the title when I listen. I can see the fish, hundreds of silver fish in a school all swimming in the same direction, round & round & round. 2. Hymn This is easily one of the greatest ambient tracks ever made. It's simple but infectious. At almost 28 minutes one might expect to get bored but I have never been bored listening to this track, NEVER! I am actually always disappointed whenever it's over. The same simple 8 note melody creeps through the track magnificently in different forms but always the same 8 notes over & over. A spoken sample The omniscient, omnipresent, wrathful, all knowing male deity comes in regularly giving this quite a dark trippy edge. The god of western civilisation has nothing to do with women. I have a desire to hear this track over & over & always wish it was longer. The feel is still deep sea with an underwater surf & all manner of strange creatures surrounding you, observing you, judging you. Deep, dark beauty at it's finest. 3. Fishology A much more technological track. Percussion & little blips move forward sounding like a submarine floating through the water, shedding light onto all the life down here, studying it but disturbing it so the results will end up twisted like the music. The crazy shuffling at the end feels like it's run out of steam & is destined to rest at the bottom of the ocean for ever more. 4. Under Water The most ambient of the 4 tracks here. No real melody or structure, just underlying drones & spacial sounds here and there. Little flutters come out of the darkness & this is more a live painting in the mind of underwater shoal with fish coming in & out of it. Fish swimming around your head as if you weren't there. The middle part is darker with more unpleasant noises but these pass & we are left with the calmness one would desire in this situation. A great tapestry of underwater life. The first 2 tracks are definitely the best here. Real masterpieces of music. I would recommend anyone to get this album & those 2 tracks alone make it worth it. The last two tracks aren't quite as good but they are welcome additions to the album. It's a deep dark look at the ocean floor with some godly treats thrown into the middle. Buy it, listen to it & then you'll be praising it.

Scorb Scorb Ambivalent Records Jul 2003 Tracklist 1 Special Liquid (7:40) 2 13.5 Hours (7:40) 3 The Aquarium (2:56) 4 Oracle (6:29) 5 Mutoid (Extended Version) (8:30) 6 Drum War (6:51) 7 Klangman (9:05) 8 Metabolic Activity (7:52) 9 Psycore (9:28) 10 Stupid Science (9:19) This albums holds a special place in my heart. I have many great memories attached to this album. It was released in the month that I moved to Japan & was one of the first CDs I bought upon my arrival & I listened to it all summer, and the whole summer the year after & after that. The pace is just right & the psychedlica is one of my favourite brands of contained weirdness. 1. Special Liquid A nice crunchy acid ridden track. The sounds jump about & there is a feeling of acid running down the walls in the back of my mind. A nice dark atmosphere like at a basement party full of mad dancers going nuts. 2. 13.5 Hours Sweet medieval melody before an urgency comes in. The slow menacing bassline & siren like sounds build the urgency & by the time the beats drop I'm ready to dance. A hard pounding beats with an underlying crunchiness again accentuated by the twisted synths. A number of times the track breaks down & has to rebuild. Each time is a well placed sample be it a creaking door or a unfathomable vocal. The energy comes from more & more surprising places & it's really hard to describe some of the noises used in this weird powerhouse. 3. The Aquarium A random little ambient number (although apparently at 150 BPM which I just can't seem to notice). The melody is fantastic as are the watery sounds. This feels like a slow dance of fairies at the bottom of a lake. Not deep sea, deep but still able to see the glitter of light up above. Great track if a little randomly placed in the album, acts more of a transition. 4. Oracle From the little stabbed chords at the start to the soft ambient drone running through it to awesome breakbeats to the sounds all around this track screams modern mysticism to me. Remove the beats & a few of the harsher sounds and this would be one hell of an ambient journey. The presence of the up beat elements make this a really good crossover. The energy of trance & the mood of ambient. I love this track. 5. Mutoid (Extended Version) A more steady beat again and baseline to match. A lot of the tracks have basslines but they are quite subdues like this & rest in the back of the track allowing the random sounds, melody & synths room to move about & make themselves known. Where as the first few tracks were crunchy, this feels squelchy with a wet synth line & dripping beats. Although this doesn't start brilliantly it builds into a really top drawer track. Towards the end along the wetness there feels like a dark dank underground party with acid soaked walls and crazy faeries dancing on the ceilings & wall. 6. Drum War A more relaxed pace now with a more Deviant Species feel to it. Very dark nightmare trance. What I always hoped dark psy would be, dark without trying to be horror. Effortlessly scary without being evil. Twisted psychedelic enjoyable night time stuff Towards the end comes a mind blowing melody. You here it coming but it still comes as a surprise every time as it's released at the same time as a burst of psychedelic bubbles. Nice stuff. 7. Klangman back to full pace again with klangman. This is a little more off the wall weirdness compared to the straight edged strangeness of the previous tracks. This is little monsters camped in your brain waiting for you to fall asleep so they can set fire to your temporal lobe and lay eggs in the ashes of your charred brain weird. Gets very ethereal towards the end. Lifts your burnt brain up but then casts it down & stamps on it hard resulting in the agonised sounds at the last. 8. Metabolic Activity This carries on the same feeling as Klangman but is slightly less deranged and more structured dancefloor trippiness. Imagine standing at the front of the dancefloor in an underground club, eyes closed so you can see more clearly the music that's flying around you. That's where I imagine myself whenever I listen to this. Even when it slows down I still see myself in the same spot, eyes closed feeling the euphoria. But when the hard stabs of synth come in & it kicks off again my brain explodes & I must dance dance dance. 9. Psycore Fast paced right from the start. No messing about. A nice crazy tech melody & a driving baseline (still subdued) push this forward & the melody shifts up a gear my brain is really thrown into a slipstream, a nice comfortable rush! A really well used sample from The Hitch Hikers Guide just twisted enough to fit & to stay recogniseable! The melody that comes in halfway through is not seratonin releasing but pleasant & it's progression in the track is well done. I can't help laughing along with the evil laugh & smile at the final run. 10. Stupid Science I'm always expecting some ambient track like The Aquarium but I'm always wrong & we get another track in keeping with Psycore. Dark, structured, driving & with weird twisted melodies. Very cool end to a very cool album. This has a black metallic feel to it with spots of glitter on it as the melody tries to escape the surface. The final run of the album is possibly the best music on show here. The dark crispy sounds kicking off the beat for one last time is real end of the night please don't stop even though I know the end is imminent stuff. This album is a masterpiece of arrangement. The tracks are all perfectly placed here building what is a great work of abstract art. The tracks get crazier & crazier until Klangman where after the tracks build more dancefloor energy & trippiness while keeping up the twisted craziness of the earlier tracks. The theme gets darker & darker right through to the last track which has a black metallic feel to it. All tracks are between great & masterful and the music seems to get better & better the more you listen to it. This is one of the few CDs that after 4 years of listening to it still makes me want to go right out find a big venue a few hundred people a big sound system, put this on & dance the night away. I'm very happy that I have this album & I'm eagerly anticipating the follow up to it. Highly recommended!

Nope this is all I own from Scorb Read that last night, although I have been burnt by Damion's enthusiasm before I'm going out on a limb & saying this is probably spot on np

Must listen on headphones to not annoy my neighbours at this late time

This I don't understand. My girlfriend, pretty much like my previous girlfriends, is totally devoid of any logic. I am on the other hand far too logical. She's really creative though & can make anything if she puts her mind to it (she's really into animation & she's good at it). I think there are not that many women producing psy because there are not that many women that are really into psy! Whenever I go to a party it's mostly guys there & the women I do meet are there becasue of their boyfriends. Of course there are girls there who love psy but then again as lauryn illustrated the are women producing also. The percentage is smaller but I think it reflects the ratio of men:women that are really into psy! Personally I don't know any ladies into psy I'd love my bird to be really into it but she merely tolerates it

Enjoy the time you have left! It'll fly by Nice pics, I especially like the lights

A quality soundtrack, enjoy

Enigma - MCMXC a.D.

It's good? How does it compare to the 1st one?

Very nice I also like usually Ultimae have excellent covers though

Hope I'm still here in 6.5 Billion years to see that view