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Get it!! If you like Ultimae releases then this is a must have compilation.

That was tame but maybe it was moderated because radi's reaction to it was so strong. Anyway RADI, if you want to get into melodic downbeat then try some releases on Liquid Sound Design. It might not be the Specific that you're looking for but it's all Quality stuff

Fantastic

Gaudi vs Tripswitch - Sundown Good but not half as good as I would expect from a collaboration between these two. Maybe some people work better alone.

Zen Lemonade Lemon Soul Dragonfly Records 2002 1 Super Panam Calling (2:43) 2 Juicy Science (8:16) 3 Dark Star (7:43) 4 Zodiac Guns (7:58) 5 Cloud 19 (6:30) 6 Brazil Mon Amour (8:13) 7 Pussy Galore (10:29) 8 Spinning Metal (9:50) 9 Midnight Basso Nova (8:02) 10 Motherland (3:31) Zen Lemonade are Gus Till and Super Cozi. Both have released pretty good solo work but for me this album is the best stuff by either. 1 Super PanAm Calling We start of with a twisted sample. It sounds like the old PanAm airline flight announcement but supersized for interstellar travel at light speed. Some funky metallic beats a hint of a melody but that's about it. It's an album intro, a cool one too. 2 Juicy Science Nicely following from the intro is this cheeky number. It's got quite a driving monotonous beat and a cool baseline which twists and turns without actually changing much. The beats become more complex as the vocals drift by. Super Cozi has a wonderfully mysterious voice which they use to full effect. No singing but well timed well placed twisted snippets really do the trick. The main body of the track is kind of repetitive but all the subtle changes make this a really interesting piece of music. Juicy indeed. 3 Dark Star A flawless jump to the next track, a slight break from the beat but it quickly comes back as if this is a continuation of Juicy Science. A very indistinguishable sample actually sounds like Cozi's vocals from the last track but muffled more. Just as driving but more acidic. The baseline is the sort that drills into the seratonin in your head. Around 5 minutes it begins to Klunk (in a Green Nun kind of way) before it changes direction but keeps going straight, if you know what I mean. 4 Zodiac Guns Kicks in straight away with a strong 4/4 and nice metal souming beats lying underneath. Long slow synths float in and out and then become integral. They lead into a melody, it's made up of very twisted and distorted string sounds with more of a chime to them than seems possible. Anyway it's a pretty cool melody but it's sporadic, it doesn't continue seemlessly but comes and goes. Some more long slow synths, almost like waves, give this track a lot of atmosphere. It feels quite dark at times (not scary dark, cool dark) quite industrial. 5 Cloud 19 A seemingly dark scary voice (not actually scary, but when it was spoken you know it wanted to be, it's the sort of voice that makes my kids squeal with laughter). One of the most amazing baselines I've ever heard. Then SINGING. The singing's good though and it fits in well. It sounds like it could be Cozi again and it's distorted trippily in parts and echoed over bubbly sounds. It really is the baseline that makes this track though. It sounds like smoke city if smoke city was cooler. 6 Brazil Mon Amour Another nice baseline starts this one with a very ringing (like a triangle) beat which gets over ridden by the 4/4 but is still very much in the background throughout but does get drowned out at times by other sounds. The baseline and background effects keep this one alive and while the baseline doesn't evolved at all, everything around it seems to be moving so randomly that it works having a monotonously steady spine. It disappears breifly without me really noticing but I really notice the absence as it comes back. Well Done, good track. 7 Pussy Galore Is it about cats or something else? It's so cool. Really good synths drive this track faster than it's BPM. Loads of nice sounds in the background, bells, wierd stuff a muffled, techy vocal, plucked electric strings and now long slow synths under the really cool fast ones. The track changes direction a number of times but always stays on track. Always feel it is building to something. Amazing violin sounds come in briefly along with a host of other sounds which all really well arranged. It's busy but not too cluttered. Absolutely awesome tune, well worth it's 10:29 8 Spinning Metal How much of your body is original? I love this tune. I love the samples. It samples a lot from the anime classic The Ghost in The Shell which was such a trippy movie to watch that hearing the samples in a trance track is awesome. All the sounds have the same atmosphere as the movie and it leads to a dark, mysterious, acid ridden track. Enjoyable lady sounds are quite prominent at times and a really twisted vocal sounds like chanting without chanting in a really techy sort of way. Another awesome track! I especially like Motoko's sample 9 Midnight Basso Nova Well this is the track that MEOWS!! Very metallic again with a spacey atmosphere. A little cluttered at times but it all works together quite harmoniously. Sort of sounds like the Bossa Nova that is very popular in Japan (from Brazil?) but I haven't heard enough of that genre to be sure. It's quite cool track with some nice breakbeats that trip along nicely. It's a bit random but still seems more like organised chaos than just thrown together shit. Not the strongest track but allright. Cozi's voice at the end again is really cool, sexy almost. 10 Motherland What the fuck!! First time I heard this I thought that I had skipped onto the next CD. A much different style to the rest of the album. It's hip hop. Slow hip hop but hip hop non the less. Raw simple beats and some guy rapping about the motherland. As hip hop goes it's obviously really good but it doesn't go at all with album and it would have been a lot better if this just wasn't on it. So to sum up this album is really good. The 1st 6 tracks are good, 7 & 8 are absolutely mind blowingly good, 9 is okay and 10 just shouldn't be on this album. Pretty good going then. I would recommend getting this if you want something a little experimental but not too off the cuff. Favourites 7(!) 8(!) and a picture of Cozi & Gus for good measure

I reckon a lot of people here would agree with that. The guy can't sing. why does he insist on singing? Singing isn't bad if you're good at it. But dudev my friend...YOU SUCK

Aye Classical Mushroom is my favourite, followed by The Gathering and then far behind is BP Empire After that their albums became interesting but most tracks seemed to lack any feeling and in their last album (although it had a couple of good tracks) there was loads of really bad singing. OUCH!

I'm going to run a sweepstake at work on which will be the worst tracks. Judging by the track titles these will be strong contenders for the top spot

Astral sure have produced quite a few really good albums under a few different names (not heard rainbirds though ) but I don't think they are the finest in the genre. Early infected was better as were Pleiadians, eat static, x-dream, technossomy, green nuns etc. Some of these didn't produce as much but what they did release was really good. imFo

Aye! It's good Now Playing Was Slated in the review section but I'm quite liking it so far. It's sounding really fun. Now on track 3 - Valves It sounds old but I don't consider that a bad thing Edit: Actually it manages to sound older than 96 and more modern at the same time. COOL

I love Top Tens Here are my top 10 tracks at the moment 1. The Infinity Project - The Answer Magical, ultra trippy voyage. 2. OTT - Billy The Kid Strikes Back Very Melodius, powerful electro dub 3. Tripswitch - Shamanic Tea Hypnotic Ethnic influenced chill 4. Tripswitch - Deer Park One of the best produced tracks I've ever heard the build up and climax are amazing 5. Purple Om - Armageddon Dub Very melodius relaxed dub 6. Western Rebel Alliance - Slewake Cool celtic influenced, very relaxing tune. 7. Puff Dragon - Qi Gong Hypnotic ethnic Chill 8. Mo-Shic - The Kid, The Piano, The War Amazing track with piano and long drawn out vocals 9. Infected Mushroom - Dancing with Kadafi Beautiful in a really wierd way 10. Enigma - The Child In Us Cool, dark mysterious track My favourites change all the time though. At the moment I'm listening mostly to chilled stuff.

Why? Just because they've produced a lot (alone) doesn't mean they are the best. It just means they've made a lot. Skazi has loads of releases. Is he the best trance artist because of it? Saying that, I like Namlook he has a lot of good stuff but maybe too much which isn't that great. He produced too much maybe.

Today I got the CD version of I had the vinyl version but wanted the tip CD too & Ololiuqui - Valves

My Favourites among loads that I love are Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh Pleiadians - Family of Light Eat Static - Implant

Zen Lemonade - Lemon Soul

A fantastic album this one. I actually prefer it to his second album (which was the 1st one I heard). This one to me seems more wierd (in a good way). My favourite Tracks are Small Grey Creatures First Came the Stars and Avante Garden Everyone should own this.

You never know. It could be good. I'm not going to raise my hopes but you never know, it may be a nice surprise.

So far I'd say my favourite tracks are Tegma - I Wanna be a Robostar 1200 Micrograms - Dances Between Worlds Subgardens – Listen To The Flowers Grow (Aes Dana Remix) Cell – Floatation Retention Kemic-Al - Forest Of The Impaled Western Rebel Alliance - Falling Androcell - Atmo-spheres Shulman - OMG S>Range – Another Theory (Big Deal Remix) Hope there are more by the end of the year.

Difficult to choose one but it would be between Jaia - Mai Mai Technossomy - Kozmotron 1&2 The Muses Rapt - Spiritual Healing Phreaky - Over the Moon Genetic - Trancemission OTT - Billy the Kid Strikes Back The Infinity Project - The Answer Tripswitch - Shamanic Tea Tripswitch - Deer Park or Purple - Armageddon Dub Probably the winner would have to be Phreaky - Over the Moon. It's just sooooooo good & I've loved it for years.

I heard the new IM album's release date was pushed back so that they could promote it properly = shit new album

I always thought Son Kite was minimal but I'm not sure of the difference between minimal and progressive. Atmos - Headcleaner Son Kite - Perspectives of... S>Range - 2001 Planet BEN - Silver How would you all classify these? Progressive or Minimal?

Some cool choices there, especially the Total Eclipse album. That's brilliant

Hehe. He can download these for free