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Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa (Album & right now the Track too)

Dub Trees - Nature Never Did Betray The Heart That Loved Her

What is it a picture of? It looks fleshy...

Purple Om - Armageddom Dub Top Draw

Yep. It scares me somewhat

The Rasmus - Tonto's Release

Some very nice ones there, especially the bottom right. I don't like the middle right one though, looks.... wrong.

I am SO looking forward to this one. All Liquid Sound Design releases have been good. Most have been bloody excellent. Easily my favourite label. Hope they get their Illuminations comp out too.

Zen Lemonade - Die Ashanti

I really like the cover on Entheogenic's Spontaneous Illumination In a different vein but still IMO amazing covers are the LSD one's for example

The Orb - Apple Tree in my Backyard

Sounds From The Ground - Where the Wild Things Were

Other albums I would recommend you are Recently Puff Dragon - Sazanami Androcell - Efflorescence and from further back OTT - Blumenkraft I didn't get into this one straight away but when I came back to it a year later, it absolutely blew me away. Butterfly Dawn on Liquid Sound design also. I've played this A lot in the last 3 years. These are top of the pile albums for me.

I'm listening to everything on Liquid Sound Design now Tripswitch - Shamanic Tea brilliant

I agree. This album is a great concept album. I've listened to it a few times now, on my okay stereo and also on my kick ass headphones. I really got a lot more out of it on the headphones, I got lost in the layers and came out feeling very dark indeed. Definately recommended but as it says above you might have to invest some time in actually listening to it!!

and Family of Light and Planet Ben - Future Trippy Garden (just 6) and Deviant Species - Hatch and Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? and Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa (10 tracks on 2 CDs) and Liquid Dub vol 7 and and and..... a lot of my favourites have fewer tracks. Perfect for me is 8 tracks or less. When and album has 12 or more you know a lot of them will be too short. If you can't make a track last 8 minutes or more then it's often because it's not good enough. IMO

Has Western Rebel Alliance been released yet in Europe? Two months ago it was released here. I don't know if they're going to have more tracks on the non-japanese version but if it doesn't then they are just pissing about dealing with crap distributors not waiting for the album to be perfect before they release it. Maybe we'll get the OTT album here this Summer and it'll be released in Europe in 2010

A lot of my favourite albums have few tracks on them. Mystery of the yeti 1 & 2 only had 4. Both of them were great. Both Crystal skulls had only 7 tracks, also great. I Think I prefer TIP (and in general) when they have less (but hopefully longer) tracks.

That!! Is a very nice album I just bought it recently and it's already been listened to quite a bit and commented on by my friends (non psy / ambient heads) on how good it is. Probably one of my most listened to tracks is Skyclad (no 3) on Hi-Fi Companions - Swingers in Paradise. I quite like the album although not that much but that track is one of the best ever IMO My most listened to album...... that's tough. I listen to music for about 20 hours a day and a lot of it is background music while I'm working. Properly listening to though I would say that it's got to be Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker my comments on which can be found here It's been played a lot by me ever since I bought & I usually try to vary what I listen to. This one though remains at the top of the pile

That's lovely Amazing Album and Track NP Matenda - Energy Loader

Children of Paradise - Urban Alien

I thought it was going to be a double CD when I saw the number of tracks but when I bought it I was a little dissapointed. Why would you think it's a double CD? it's not even a particularly long single CD!

Tripswitch Circuit Breaker Released on Liquid Sound Design Released April 2005 1 Exiled (Manta Mix) (9:10) 2 Shamanic Tea (7:06) 3 Indigo (8:39) 4 Roll Your Own (6:39) 5 Tachyon (2:37) 6 Cartwheel (6:04) 7 Silver (Robot Baby Mix) (8:06) 8 Tomahna (5:33) 9 Viscous (7:14) 10 Deer Park (10:21) This is a Fantastic album. The production for me is sublime and a lot of the ideas are out of this world. It kicks off with Exiled (Mantra Mix), The original is on Butterfy Dawn but this is better. It is a nice spacey dubby track. Some really nice percussion work (by gaudi) and ethnic vocals although I'm not sure where they're from. The track stops and starts creating a slightly disjointed but still floaty (on water, not air) feel. Next up is Shamanic Tea which for me is one of the best on this album and one of the best chilled tracks made recently. The beat is slow a precise and the background synth work is so ethereally beautiful and there is a nice soft baseline under it. A tech-y melody leads into some of the nicest vocals I've heard ever. The timing of this track is superb, all the elements work well together and are brought in and dropped just when you think they should be. Indigo follows bringing us a more spacey feel. A sample starts off talking about the stars and what not and it sounds like it's taken from an early 80's TV documentary. Soft distorted vocals float around and then a really nice soft break beat comes in. Faster but still chilled synths drive the track and give a more sci-fi feel than the 1st two tracks. More vocals briefly at around 6 minutes push this forwards again. Great progression in this track. A nice Journey that comes full circle with the opening sample closing too. The fourth track is Roll Your Own and it starts with accoustic guitar in a very redneck hillbilly style. Behind it though are some ethereal sounds and the contrast sounds really trippy and spacey. A nice baseline comes in with some long drawn out beautiful vocals floating around a nice chimey melody and all the while the guitar sounds prevail in perfect harmony. Next up is a short track called Tachyon and it is basically just a sample from the movie K-Pax when the doctor is talking to the alien (guy who thinks he's an alien) about space travel at light speed on tachyons. The sample is echoed and there are spacey sounds surroundind it all. It's nice and it's a good transition into Cartwheel which builds up slow in the first minute or so with slow sounds and just a half quick but very soft high hat then introducing a very electronic sounding baseline and a (harmonica?) sound. Then an absolutely amazing beat comes in and takes the track and the album to a whole new level. It feels so involved and it's hard to concentrate on anything else while you're listening to it. The beats drops away and it leaves you with an empty space filled by the lovely sounds at the beginning. Good Stuff! Track 7 is Silver (Robot Baby Mix) and it sounds like a baby's voice at the start, but not the annoying scream of a little brat, it's quite a nice laughing sound used well. This is slow with a heavy beat. It all sounds nice with a cool atmosphere but it's slightly out of joint with itself and although it ambles along pleasantly it doesn't really go anywhere. The next track Tomahna is better, the progression of the track is clearer there are softer beats which sound a lot more involved in the track and fit better. Not particularly a stand out but it's pleasant in a very summery way even sounds like I can hear a seagull in there somewhere but you hear it then it's gone The penultimate composition here is Viscous. It's a very deep track and has the feeling of falling. It's slow and chilled to start but also feels like you are rushing. The soundscape is very dark too, the beat kicks in and it's really driving this one fast, it's the fastest on the album and would fit quite well into a progressive set. Great atmosphere, dark but melodic and although it's faster it fits in very well with the rest of the album. Ultimately (and this is ULTIMATE) is Deer Park. This, is one of the best chilled tracks made in my humble opinion. It's starts of with some wierd fantastical conversation then drifts into slow beautiful vocals and slow accoustic sounds which create a warm atmosphere and you can tell it's building to something. Around 5 and a half minutes a slow soft beat comes in and it just sounds so beautiful and well timed, this leads into a more involved beat and more tech-y sounds buzz about along with slow dropping synths. The beat drops away then builds up again until it just drops in around 8 and a half minutes with a heavier beat and a really complex technical melody. This track for me is one of the most brilliantly produced tracks I've ever heard. The progression is sublime, the timing is great, the sounds are crisp and the ideas make you want to listen to it again and again. So to sum up. Buy this album, it's absolutely brilliant. There are some less inspired moments but the inspired moments are absolutely spectacular. The atmospheres created work well almost anytime. Pre party, post party on a hot summer's day or while chilling out at night. If you are a fan of Liquid Sound Design then I'm sure you'll like this. It's even better than the Abakus album. Favourites: 1, 2, 4, 6 & 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker

Out of Space was one of the 1st non house electronic I ever heard and I loved it. The 1st two albums are really really good. The 3rd one was dissapointing but still really good IMO. Liam is one of the best producers ever. His style is unique. For something that is so popular to have not been successfully copied is amazing!