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  1. Liquid Dub Volume 7 A great Chill Out comp on Liquid Sound Design
  2. Now listening to Kino Oko - Lost Entertainment This Album gets a lot better after Colors of Black, I'm not so keen on the 1st few tracks but the rest of the album is great.
  3. Oh my god that's awful, no wait, it's disturbing. Aaaaarrrrghhhh I can't find the words to describe how distawful that is.
  4. My dad likes to see a show. That's because with the music he likes, when you see it live without a show you might as well be listening to the CD in a bar while looking at the cover so they talk to the audience between each song to make it worth the money. All the psy I've seen in my time, the best acts were when they fed of the crowd, knew which style of tunes were moving the crowd more and playing a set for the crowd. The worst was when you got a DJ who had prepared his entire mix days before (how the hell did you know what the crowd would be like?? oh you didn't. It showed) and usually the guys who looked like Twats (like in that video of the ginger eskimo somewhere on this forum). Seems like Ticon is getting both, looking like a twat while doing a great set. More power to you.
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    I always kept the first 2 northern exposure CDs in my chilled out collection and the second 2 in my progressive collection. If you like the 1st 2 I would definately look into psy chill as for many years better and better stuff just keeps coming out. Check out Liquid Sound Design (records), Androcell, the 1st shpongle album. If you like the 2nd 2 what was reccomended above is all good + atmos.
  6. Now there's a conversation killer. In addition to a lot of what was said above, I also liked Khetzal & Slum which are pretty full on.
  7. Youth - A new Chapter in Dub Vol.2 : The Secret Language of Ordinary Objects. Liquid Sound Design is so good. I hope they release something this year.
  8. M-Sphere - Electronic Relaxation M-Sphere Electronic Relaxation Isolation Chilling 2003 Tracklist 1. In the Sea (9.33) 2. Pulsar (7.53) 3. Eyes of Blue (7.31) 4. An Old Dream (9.34) 5. In the Heat (8.50) 6. Melancholic Senses (10.25) 7. Paraglider (6.23) 8. Pulsar II (Noisy Rain Mix) (15.55) This album basically does exactly what it says on the tin. It's dark, atmospheric, chilled and melancholic. I bought this album randomly and it is one of my favourite nice surprises. Still always near the top of my CD pile after a couple of years and I don't really own or have heard much else in this style. So relaxed and dark and sad. Very emotive stuff by Markus Kaiser. 1. In the Sea A nice dark, opener to the album here. It has a lot of atmosphere created by some very electronic sounds. A long intro topped of by a sample of a self destruct warning leads into a nice slow, solid beat. The beat gets more intricate as it progresses as do the back ground noises. A melancholic melody and similar sounding synths kick this tune and give it more energy around 6 minutes. It's a great opener and it's pretty varied so doesn't get boring even after 9 and a half minutes. 2. Pulsar Birds tweeting give this intro a very natural feel as do wave sounds so that when the electronic sounds come in they somehow sound natural with it. I think this is an aptly named track as a Pulsar emits electronic radiation and is natural. It takes a while for the beat to kick in. It keeps threatening but when it does it sounds quite tribal. Once again the atmosphere is dark as in night time (not scary). There are some quite upbeat funky sounds but underlying everything is a very drawn out, sad sounding melody. Nice Stuff. 3 Eyes of Blue A very disappointed intro (not disappointing, I think it's great but the feeling I get from the start is like it's trying to portray failure). The melody in this one too has that feeling for me. The beat is slower and I can picture a beaten athlete with his head in his hands while this track is playing in the background. As the track progresses it feels more like it's striving to succeed, whatever it's aim after the initial failure. The track builds, and while the bpm stays the same it gains energy and momentum until... it ultimately fails again. Should be on a soundtrack to something. 4 An Old Dream His father Plays the trumpet on this track and while the trumpet is usually an instrument I can't stand to here the sound of, it is used expertly here to help create a masterpiece of a tune. The intro starts and you can here children playing far in the background. Very spacey, dreamy sounds are all around and then the beat and then the trumpet comes in. The melody on the trumpet is very simple and so it fits in really well to tell you a sad tale. A little chimney melody runs along side it, supporting it really well. This is my Favourite on the album. 5. In the Heat "Dance out to your Soul" The sample sounds a little to cheesy for this album but not overly cheesy as to ruin it. It actually begins to sound quite dark. The voice changes gradually and the melody is quite nice. While still pretty melancholic this track seems less melancholic than those before it with a much softer beat. Like happy melancholy, a much more upbeat sounding track. 6. Melancholic Senses There we go, back into deep melancholy. Much deeper sounds echo really nicely during the intro with a really ethereal background covering everything. The beat is more prominent again when it finally kicks in. What sounds like a somewhat twisted single cord on the electric guitar is one of many really rough sounding electronic sounds used to give this a very strange junk yard atmosphere from a bleak future. An interesting track with a very cool, dark atmosphere. 7. Paraglider Instantly has a wide open feel. The beat comes in much sooner and is quite a lot quicker than all the previous tracks. Long soft synths seem to float around the track, the melody is great and nice little sounds punctuate the air. It really does feel like flying free like a bird, as the title suggests, and looking down on the world from high above. Even though the beat is faster than the others the track has the same slow sad feeling to it. 8. Pulsar II (Noisy Rain Mix) A remix of track two, it has the same bird sounds opening it but the tune itself is slower and even more natural sounding. It's a long time before there is anything like a beat (nearly 5 minutes) and when it arrives it's a nice slow, lightly kicking one. It's a long track at nearly 16 minutes but for me it moves really well and the evolution of the track is good enough to keep it interesting all the way through when you are properly listening to it. The melody is slow, sad and quite intricate at times, simple at other times. The melody disappears to be replaced by slow but short synths and watery sounds sounds with a simple but effective bassline behind it. A simplified version of the melody attempts to weave it's way back in before the full thing comes back but a slightly different tune and higher pitch. So to some this album up. It's Great, it's chilled, it's quite dubby in parts, it's dark and it's sad! Most of the tunes conjure up images in my head of a landscape or a story and that's what I really love about good music. Good journey music that tells a sad tale throughout the album. The weakest track is #5 as the feel is just slightly not in keeping with the album. If you like melancholic but not depressing chill out music then you should definately give this a try. Favourites 1, 2, 4! & 7
  9. M-Sphere - Electronic Relaxation ...a journey into melancholic tunes
  10. Yes I'm listening to it right now. Electric Universe - Longing
  11. If you could collaberate with any artist from any genre, who would it be and why?
  12. 12:00 Abakus 14:00 Amethystium 16:00 Bluetech 18:00 Blue Planet Corporation 20:00 Atmos 22:00 KURO 00:00 Green Nuns of the Revolution 02:00 Deviant Species 04:00 Orbital 06:00 OTT 08:00 Ishq 10:00 Shulman 12:00 Solar Fields 14:00 Flexitones 16:00 Great Leap Forward 18:00 Astral Projection 20:00 Artifakt 22:00 Technossomy 00:00 Eat Static 02:00 Shaolin Wooden Men 04:00 Zen Lemonade 06:00 Shpongle 08:00 Tripswitch 10:00 Puff Dragon 12:00 Healer
  13. Healer - Higher Grounds Just starting off with The Answer
  14. Natural Born Chillers. The great Aleph Zero compilation, just starting of with a beautiful track by ishq, Alaya.
  15. I quite liked Save the Robot - Battle of the Mind It's not amazing but I think it's pretty good for full on.
  16. Trance The Secret of the 13 Crystal Skulls & The Mystery of the 13 Crystal Skulls on TIP records. Jaia - Blue Energy (+ Blue Synergy is easy to get on yellow feather) Dragonfly Records' Order Odonata Series (1&2 are my favourites) Green Nuns of the Revolution - Rock Bitch Mafia Planet BEN - Future Trippy Garden Technosommy - Synthetic Flesh (although it's difficult to find cheap) Chill Androcell - Emotivision & Efflorescence Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker Butterfly dawn compilation Liquid Dub 7, all on Liquid Sound design The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences The Mystery of the Yeti 1 & 2
  17. That is one of my all time favourites too (although I have many). I heard it first on Flying Rhino's Singularity (great comp!!) and always wanted (but never got) to hear more of there stuff
  18. Some dub from the 2000 eclipse festival in south africa. Now it's total eclipse - Elektrodub.
  19. Alien Protein was Okay, but that was it for me. Everything else just seemed a bit 'meh'
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