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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

because....it's not a DJ mix!!! Kinda obvious question

Something to look for in the new year then. Cheers guys

That's good stuff right there! Try also Interior horizons. That's if you can find any of these that is

I'd just put FOL on repeat

Well I must admit I'm being very selfish here. I thought that I want my favourite artists would make more music in the style I liked best if they got more recognition & sales for that style so if I got other people to hear just how good they were they might buy some CDs so said artists could keep producing music so my future is that much happier. Very selfish in the end

what do they sound like?

Butterfly Dawn

No I never listened to Amber. Tri Repetae & all the horrible compilation tracks put me off & Autechre albums here are always really expensive so I've never been tempted to part with my (now) hard earned cash for something I'm sketchy about.

Hahaha Fantastic

There was none in Oxycanta : Winter Blooms either, but I was not too upset, the music on both CDs is top drawer stuff

I thought it was easier as everything you could buy sounded so good Now there is so much to shift through

Nice, definitely one of my picks of the year Never got into Autechre

Play really underground shit like britney spears & Eminem

Yeah but it doesn't save any music, just a php file that doesn't play any mp3 or wav downloads?

Scorb - Tower of klorox

I want to hear that

The Orb The Dream Traffic Inc. 2007 Tracklist 1 The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (6:25) 2 Vuja De (5:45) 3 Something Supernatural (0:36) 4 A Beautiful Day (6:48) 5 DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) (5:03) 6 The Truth Is... (6:43) 7 Phantom Of Ukraine (0:30) 8 Mother Nature (6:30) 9 Lost & Found (6:19) 10 The Forest Of Lyonesse (1:09) 11 Katskills (5:55) 12 High Noon (6:03) 13 Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown (1:09) 14 Codes (8:13) 15 Orbisonia (5:47) 16 Let The Music Set You Free (7:01) The Orb's latest release has been out for some time in Japan but I still see no release anywhere else. This is definitely one for fans of Alex Paterson. Fusing ambient dub, reggae, ragga & psychedelica in with nice basslines and some cool melodies. Interspersed with Orb style samples. The opening track The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) has a very Orb like spoken female vocal reminiscent of Little Fluffy Clouds & Apple Tree in My Backyard. The rest though is a very tight little psychedelic dub number, the ambience floats your mind while the vocals my it trip away. Vuja De meanwhile is not so dreamy, much more urban in style. Closer to pure dub but with some trippy little sounds & a female singing like it's 1990 again. Think early 90's rave infused into modern dub. The short track Something Supernatural is just a collection of samples put together. Quite a trippy especially the Ohayo Gozaimus backwards one. Following that comes my favourite on the album, A Beautiful Day has a tight little beat, bassline that hums through the track and some really nice singing. I'm not usually a fan of lyrics or samples but both here are very well done. It's hard not to smile at this one DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) borders on damn right cheesy. The lyrics Honey Honey Honey Hooooney Honey! & come on y'all, lets go we're going down to the disco are almost unbearable in their cheesiness and it seems an odd inclusion to an otherwise good album. Much more musical is The Truth Is... which has well placed samples laid subtly, melody & capable female singing. The melody comes from all different sources, guitar, piano what sounds like a harpsichord while the bassline gives it all a nice danceable quality. Phantom of the Ukraine is just a sample without a song. I guess they really liked it but couldn't fit it into any tracks Mother Nature is a Ragga track & as that it's quite good. Imagine that hot chick shaking her ass at super human speed as you stand behind it mesmerised. The melody played in it is actually really good. Majestic at times and better than the track around it. Back to dub with Lost & Found and it's a nice track reminding me of dub clubs in London on a sunday night in summer. The girls swarming around, everyone talking & laughing with each other. The singing in the last couple of minutes is really good & gives this a special atmosphere of detachment from the world. The Forest of Lyonesse is a short interlude again. A thin flute melody makes it sound very much like in a forest in some 1970's martial arts movie. There is more eastern sounding flute in Katskills. The bassline is a fat one the vocals come flying at you & the beats are like relaxed D&B. A pretty cool track but very shallow. No depth, no layers. High Noon digs a little deeper with a lot of psychedelic sounds flying about & a subdued bassline buzzing in the back of my mind. The piano melody is soft & dreamy and the vocals flutter nicely adding extra trippiness to the track. The track evolves very nicely with good progression keeping it interesting on repeat listens Another interlude, Sleeping Tiger & The Gods Unknown is more musical than earlier interludes. A soft ambient track with a beautiful warm feeling to it. Why oh why only make this 1 minute long? The sort of stuff I'd love to hear a full album of. Codes seems to follow on for a while with a nice ambient intro. Then soft beats & a softer bassline come in creating a nice magical feel. I imagine a warm summer evening just on the edge of a forest, watching the sun sink behind the trees. Such is the feeling of the music that I'm actually feeling warmer just listening to it. Really great stuff. A very psychedelic piece of ambient dub just right for chillin' in the evenin' Orbisonia is ambient in the old orb style. Sample heavy making it sound random in a well organised way. Bizarre & cool stuff as always. Let The Music Set You Free is a bonus track only for the Japanese release so if you want it you'll have to get the import. Seeing as the release date elsewhere seems to be nowhere in sight that might be a good idea. It's a good track as well. So damn British. It puts me in mind the early 90's. The beats, bass & repetitive lyrics all give me a nostalgic feeling. Very cool indeed with nice melody under the bass and punchy, crunchy synths There is some good stuff here. As a dub album it's really good & the best I've heard from the orb in a while. There are hints in a few tracks that they could make a new fantastic ambient album which would please me no end. The dub/reggae tracks are cool. The singing is good & the samples as always are well placed. Only does DDD (Dirty Disco Dub) let the show down & it does in a very big way. Way too cheesy and needs to be skipped when I listen to it. Other than that though this is one of the tastiest dub albums I've heard over the last few years & the ambient tracks towards the end are superb.