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Did that last week! it was PERFECT np The Infinity Project - Flying. Would love to be floating high among the clouds listening to this

The Infinity Project Mystical Experiences Blue Room Released 1995 Re-released on TIP.World as a 2CD with Mystery of the Yeti in 2004 Tracklist 01. When Sound Becomes Clear 6:14 02. Mystical Experiences 10:34 03. The Answer 10:35 04. High Insert 0:06 05. Mortioso 4:54 06. Flute Line 2:21 07. Flying 6:21 08. Blue Aura 3:19 09. Alien Patrol 6:24 10. Under The Overtones 19:58 11. Blue Aura (Weird Meeting) 2:38 It's difficult for me to agree with the oldschool freaks who spout that only pre millennium music is worth it & all post millennium music is awful, as so many of my favourites are post millennium. There are some albums though that shake that conviction. This album is not only a piece of psychedelic ambient history it's also an album that remains an enthralling spacial journey through the stars, beyond the planets & into the mind. Every time I listen to this the better it sounds & the more I lister the deeper it goes. I'm not sure that if one day it will stop getting better but with close to 100 listens both awake & in dreamland these mystical experiences still get better & better. The time of writing this review was the best yet & I'm sure it will get even better. 1. When Sound Becomes Colour Slow launch sequence chatter & the beats to match. There is no lift off but such alien voices have already surrounded us & even the human voices seem distant & incomprehensible. This is an amazing intro that manages to instantly transport the listener to a far away galaxy, around a planet of ultimate beauty & splendor. Amazing stuff. 2. Mystical Experiences Wherever I was on the alien planet I've been transported into another dimension. The same physical space but shifted along slightly so that everything seems the same but different. Soft beats & heavy stabs. Very alien singing can't be tribal it feels so other worldly, or do they? Hard to tell they're so twisted. No me, no you, no nothing. Exactly! You can easily get lost in this track, everything can drive you deeper in this track. A tune so psychedelic that there are no psychedelics needed for it to take you away past your outer limits & into the outer reaches of your unimaginable imagination. 3. The Answer One of the best tracks ever created. I once fell asleep & was lucky enough to wake up to this track. In the world between consciousness & dreams this crept. This oozes ancientness, everything about it feels like some alien relic from billions of years ago. Like a piece of music from a distant galaxy that's been travelling through the emptiness of space to our tiny planet. It had been drifting for centuries through the inner solar system so how long has it been since it's source? This could be from a civilisation from way before our reckoning. This is one of the spaciest tracks I've ever heard. It conjures up vast empty spaces as well as intricate inner thoughts. The simple melody barely changes for 7 minutes but when it does it gives out a rush of emotions. Suddenly the floating is flying as we enter the Earth's atmosphere. The flutes try to bring us down to Earth but just in fact lift us higher, never landing. This track will never land. In this moment I knew the answer but as it ended it escaped me once again. 4. High Insert It's 6 seconds long, what can you say? It's high among the sky! 5. Morfioso It seems to me that this track was way ahead of it's time. The beats are reminiscent of trip hop some years later. The ambience & melody were many years ahead of the creation. Morfioso manages to sound like a 2005 piece of space ambient with that early nineties psychedelic edge. Well, it is a track from the early 90's but the production is so neat. Re-masters of albums don't sound as different from their time as this does. A classic pioneering trendsetter. 6. Flute Line Well, it has flutes & spacey ambience. That's it but it does manage to create a really amazing atmosphere. It's only 2 minutes long but it could be much longer. Dense. 7. Flying Very earthy yet free. This track is high among the sky. We are in the Earth but not on the Earth. Very much up among the clouds! A soft floating feeling on the smooth cool northern breeze. As it picks up pace it starts to feel like falling but falling upwards. Now we really are high among the sky. Amazing atmosphere! 8. Blue Aura I saw a real alien, with a blue aura! Repeat this over and over again & you'll sound like a sci fi nut job put repeat it over a tripped out alienesque atmosphere from the outer reaches of space and you have a damn nice ambient track. 9. Alien Patrol A very apt track title. I'm instantly put in mind of a small alien spacecraft scouting out an enemy base in the dark of the night. The atmosphere is one of dark, active swiftness. It moves about a lot but it has a definite objective that it must achieve. 10. Under the Overtones This is almost an album unto itself. The Beatles - A Hard Days Night is only 10 minutes longer and not half as psychedelic or as good as this. But probably more catchy. This is of course in no hurry to get anywhere & it takes it's time doing anything. This is a really good thing as it has the time to explore tribal sounds, natural sounds, spacey sounds, secret sounds & a mysterious undercurrent. It builds & builds & builds but does so gradually so stays interesting through it's 20 minute duration. The atmosphere shifts from dark to spacey to vast to light to earthed electricity to night time festivities that are drawing to a close. All the way through this oozes the sort of class that doesn't have a clue about reality. Great!! 11. Blue Aura (Weird Meeting) God damn crazy hicks always bring you out of your calm with their crazy rantings about being abducted. You can't believe the lonely drunken idiots with nothing better to do than make up stories. The music though leaves no doubters, this guy has definitely met a real alien, with a blue aura.

Various Artists The Mystery of the Yeti 2 TIP.World Released 1999 Tracklist 01. Process - Under Mount Kailash 16:45 02. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden 14:37 03. Total Eclipse - Freefalling Upwards 15:21 04. Doof - High On Mount Kailash 13:26 After hearing the first Mystery of the Yeti album I must say I was a little over eager to hear the follow up. Due to my anticipation I was fully prepared to be let down by this album. I was not however prepared for it to be better that the first installment, but it is! Absolutely amazing! Instead of collaborating on every track each genious has written his own track under a general theme set down my the first album. The result is more individuality but the tracks manage to flow together as a cohesive journey just as well if not better than the first. This is a definite must in anyone's collection, really! Not just ambient fans but fans of music! This is the sort of album that can get you into downtempo music! Process - Under Mount Kailash This intros with a familiar drone from the first album, this really helps in setting the mood and I instantly feel like this is a continuation of the journey. Last time I had been dumped outside the mountain after being inside & now I feel like I'm in the middle of our world again surrounded by mystery & confusion. Big slow stabby beats give us a bit of order though & the random confusing part of the track gives way to a more structured if still rather random piece of music. Little stabs of melody come in & out & in & out again. The whole track leaves me with a sense of ordered chaos. Standing outside with my eyes closed listening as my imagination goes wild. When the flute comes in at the end it's transition is a little too sudden & it doesn't feel very connected to the rest of the track. Strange how the most structured part of a random track should be the least fitting. Hallucinogen - The Herb Garden Without a doubt, Hallucinogen's greatest track. This makes me think that Simon Posford should forget his upbeat stuff & concentrate on a full length, downbeat solo album. This track is way beyond anything on Twisted or The Lone Deranger & of course way beyond any of his disappointing compilations tracks after TLD. The utterly twisted vocal samples are his best to date. Very trippy and a focal point to fill the mind. The baseline, the beats, the melody and all the background cries add up to complete brilliance. The vocals are about finding the Yeti through trance but all the important parts are too distorted to follow. The effect is complete indulgence. My brain is torn apart trying to follow the music which involves some really nice acoustic guitars, and trying to understand the message about the Yeti.]The timing of the beats & the ambient parts and the vocal are just about as perfect as is the timing of the melodies & other sounds. This is a track that shows me just why Simon Posford is considered such a genious. His trance though for me just doesn't compare to his ambient. Total Eclipse - Freefalling Upwards The relaxed CD on Violent Relaxation was great but still nothing compared to this track. It not only has the shamanic feel previously felt in the Yeti chronicles but it also has that feeling of freefalling, upwards! Something I've obviously never done but have now managed to experience through music. Thank you Total Eclipse. The trip-a-long beats, the rising synth drones & every little sound add to an upward rushing feel but still feels grounded & earthy. It could be that while my body & vision are fixed firmly on the ground while my mind races higher & higher. The longer the track goes the more real the feeling feels. Just close your eyse & let your mind soar & you will rise above all your petty troubles into a world of enlightened bliss. It's a shame the track has to stop but Total Eclipse does it perfectly. Suddenly the movement stops & we are left with ambience. It feels like I've gone up & up & up into a big chamber filled with me but it slowly fills up with more & more souls it breaks releasing a familiar YETI drone as if I've broken through the top! Doof - High on Mount Kailash Standing on the top of the world has it's own atmosphere, even watching in silence is a feeling of disbelief at the incredibility of where you are & what you are seeing. Such wonderment always gives rise to fantasy & fantasy is what this track is brimming with. Any moment you can expect to see the Yeti from the corner of your eye but I'm afraid when you shift your focus on to it, it disappears from sight all together. When the music leaves & the darkness sets in it leaves a sense of bleakness, but a beautiful bleakness, like being all alone surrounded by God's work. When the baseline & vocals come in however it's almost eerie how such beautiful music can come from such bleakness. And in the midst of all this he stands, The Yeti! Finally after an epic journey, the enlightened stand before the shaman's god. He calls to me. The abominable snowman maybe uncaught, unspecified but not unhonored. We are here, we will honour him, we will praise the name Banjankri until we breathe no more. Doof has managed the perfect ending not only to this 4 part journey but to the 8 part journey that has been the Mystery of the Yeti.

Aes Dana - Memory Shell

Mystery of the Yeti The Mystery of the Yeti TIP Records Released 1996 Released as a 2CD along with The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences in 2004 Tracklist 01. The Call / The Journey 15:32 02. Tribal Gathering 14:34 03. The Yeti Revelation / Sacred Communication 12:02 04. Welcome To All Extraterrestrials 14:55 What can I say about this album? A collaboration between The Infinity Project, Hallucinogen & Total Eclipse, who individually have crafted some of the most amazing, intricate, mind expanding psychedelic music. You might think that too many cooks spoil the broth which may often be true. Think of those hip hop "crews" that end up sounding like a bunch of teenagers jockeying for position, competing to be the front man. It sounds amateur, shit & pointless. But when all the cooks are top chefs, then it's different. Take the Wu-Tang Clan, loads of them and each one a genious. It's the same here. Each musician is a genious & they all bring something special to the broth & work it in well with what the others bring. The result, an hour long journey through the majesty that is our natural world & the intricate reaches of our inner space. Everything has a sci fi feel. When it's ambient when it's goa when it's in the jungle, up a mountain in outer space in your mind! The Call/The Journey It starts off cold with the sound of the wind blowing outside & hard dark jabs of sound with a low primal wail like some electronic beast which briefly morphs into a shaman's songs at times. All of a sudden it comes alive with bird song & some tribal chanting. A tribe is celebrating but it's interrupted by more familiar sounds. A Frenchman, a dog, a cow change the chant! Moving on is a new chant sung by children it seems with a nice little melody in the background. This track takes many different turns throughout, next is very watery like on a shore with tribesmen playing drums in the water, a nice wet beat with lots of shouting. But we pass that into another tribe which we pass & we're into a pack of feral wolves & strange animals flying around our heads. Among these creatures come ethereal voices coming from the darkness that whisper their intent before a storm hits bringing a god's wrath & an almost tuneless melody. It's an incoherent track, but it's a journey along the river passing many different things. Despite it's incoherence it sets a dark expectant mood. A very nice piece of ambience. Tribal Gathering Much more energy right from the start with a tribal beat & nice synths accompanied by a short repetitive melody. The randomness of the journey has passed & I really feel like we are on our way. I get a sense that the music is building & taking me somewhere. Some very subtle flutes come in here & there floating about effortlessly. Sometimes a little louder, sometimes barely noticeable. A great building track with the changes almost unnoticeable but the effects all to too apparent. It sits well as background music but if you immerse yourself in it you can end up lost. Especially when it calms down, the flutes & the melodies can fly your mind away to cold distant lands. The beats kick in again towards the end but they seem softer & more distant now as my mind has been transported away & I'm in such a state of calm. The Yeti Revelation/Sacred Communication The flutes dominate this track even when they are not in. I'm thinking about them, expecting them to come in at any moment & remembering what they sound like. To be honest they are (at least on the 1st listen) probably hidden behind other sounds, the drone, the synths the little stabs of melody but on my millionth listen or whatever this is, the flute fills my head. It's not until about halfway through that an equally engrossing melody tempts you away from the flute & dumps you into a climbing synth & a twisted tribal vocal, deep forest style. The flutes while not completely dispelled from my thoughts have taken a back seat & they allow me to be enthralled by the rest. Still though in the back of my mind I'm waiting for them to come back in & I can hear them in the other sounds, the wails, the melodies the beats all sound like they contain the flutes. True dominance. A Welcome to All Extra Terrestrials This has the same cold dark feeling as the opening track but it seems much higher like I'm standing on top of the highest peak of this mountain range. The flutes are much more prominent but less dominant than their previous incarnation. My mind is very much focused on what is coming next. A trippy vocal welcoming the extra terrestrial life comes out before a weird tripped out beat & alien sounds float about. Another building track, layered & tiered. The longer it goes on the deeper we go & when it changes suddenly like stopping the beat & introducing a long sample I feel like I'm falling deeper still. The crazy, random breakdown feels like a further fall and the re:emergence of the steady beat feels like a steady slide down the inner reaches. Deeper deeper until the flutes at the end flush you out into the open air gasping for breath back at the foot of the mountain marveling at the majesty of m\what has just happened. A perfect ending to a marvelous journey. A special mention needs to be given to Raja Ram's flute playing here, on other albums I've been left less than impressed but here, his simple style really added to the journey.

New Aes Dana? Cool, not heard any news on this since a rumour sometime last year How right I was Happy ears but I haven't been able to buy much

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