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I'm sorry wPe, but I 100% agree with Protex Midget ... maybe u can send us the final long version on the next contest, that should start on next February 1 ;-)

Well Tracks may be in 128 kbps, but Tracks below that rate can't be part of the winners for sure ...

Well it should work ... try again and be patient, it should load after a while ...

Yes we already thought of that, but ther's missing something to me : time ...

Chi-ad - Infinitism Artist: Chi-ad Title: Infinitism Label: Our Of Orion Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 08'39" Beyond The Singularity 02. 11'00" Sub-Atomica 03. 09'02" Celestial 04. 08'44" Eye Am The I 05. 10'42" The Flame Of Eternal Life 06. 10'38" C12 Ohm 07. 09'24" Animatrix 08. 07'38" Purity Review: GOOD album ! Varying between melodic, soft & psychedelic sounds, that kind of stuff Chi-ad made us discover along the years ... I first advise you that most of this Tracks (except Tracks 2&7) have already been released (in 1998 for most of them) , but most of them are pretty hard to find now ... that's why this album was built and I can say you that here you have a good overview of Chi-ad stuff ! I would say a kind of "best of", waiting for his incoming new album :-) Track 1 starts with a very soft melody & a strange background, then snares ... and the heavy kick & bassline start with these music lines already installed in your head ... then a psychedelic melody increases the tempo, maybe it could have gone in another way to be even better at 4'00", dunno ... but the whole Track is pretty nice. Track 2 is the first unreleased one : very fast & psychedelic, maybe not enough various anyway ... Track 3 is really good ... sometimes we hear influences from the famous "Eye Am The I" in the melody ... you'll love it if you like this Track (and who doesn't like "Eye Am The I" ?). it starts with a not too fast beat, and a slow melody builds up the atmosphere needed by Dave Young to launch his psychedelic sounds ... the melody never goes fast, but is pretty awesome ! One of my favourites Tracks here (maybe the best, didn't know it before). Knows how to combine intelligent melodies with a psychedelic background and a not too regular rhythm (I mean there are some breaks to breath ;-)) Track 4 ... should I really present it ? If you don't have it and don't buy this album, you're missing something ! Most of the people agree to say it's the best Track from Chi-ad. But I thin I should present it anyway, as it has been remastered ! It starts with an hypnotic bassline & very fast snares, and takes its time to reach the "explosion" : first, at 2'16", the main melody quietly presents itself to your ears that you already say "don't stop it !" Then a long changing high-pitched note breaks it, and all the background becomes very psychedelic ... then you say "something is preparing" and can't wait to hear it ... 4'55" ? 4'57" ? 5'04" Dave is playing with your nerves :-) At 5'35" all stops ... well actually it doesn't stop, it seems like the melody is "waiting" ... and explodes at 6'11", the faster part of the Track. maybe the Track stops a little too suddenly anyway, but that doesn't make it bad :-) Track 5 starts with a soft voice then a heavy kick ... the melody is still hypnotic and pretty simple, not too make it the main part of the Track, but to give more importance to what happens around it, in background ... Chi-ad is one of those artists who use background sounds more than it is usually used ... anyway, I don't like this Track that much cause I don't like the variation of tone of entire melodies in a Track ... and there is one many tone variations along this one ... I also think the voice is a little too repetitive ... but that's my opinion. Anyway, the quick transition at 8'06" is that kind of transitions that made me love psytrance music :-) Track 6 sounds less old-school, and this time the effects alone start the Track. The bassline following at 0'58" is really good. That's the kind of rhythm you have to wake up with to be on top form ;-) A more psychedelic transition appears at 3'13" , with the same effects that started the Track. The melody breaks at 5'01", then is even more psychedelic at 5'14", to break again at 5'56". Track 7, the second unreleased one, quietly starts with kinda tribal drums and hypnotic background effects. This Track represents Dave's new style according to the cover, so prepare yourself to that kind of sound in his incoming new album. A good bassline starts at 2'44" while all the previous effect stop and new ones appear with snares. All stays fast but relatively calm. New tribal influences appear at 3'52" with a discrete melody that doesn't break the bassline. The melody continues alone at 5'41", with very fast snares appearing at 6'08". The bassline & kick continue at 6'36", but the scale variations starting at 7'30" make it not as good as this Track could have been for me :-( Anyway, that's a pretty good one, particularly if you don't hate scales variations as much as I do. Track 8 is still melodic & psychedelic, but more hypnotic than the other ones. The instrument used for the main melody made me think to a "Faithless" Track named "Salva Mea" I listened to ages ago, that started with a violin and used this futuristic instrument in the main melody :-) Overall a good example of how we can make a kind of "compilation" with a single artist, not like things like Astral Projection's "In The Mix" for example, by putting rare and good Tracks, coming from compilations, without mixing them ! Good point to new Out Of Orion label to have decided to release such an album ! By the way, this same label is looking for some new music acts (I'll speak them about the "Tracks Contest" thing), so maybe some people could be interested in mailing them at outoforion@inwind.it :-) Rating : 7/10

Hehe suspense ;-)

About the duplicate votes, we'll do as best as we can to detect that kind of fraud, but please be correct and don't vote more than once for the same Track, or such frauds could annonce the end of the contest :-(

Hogus : pretty good idea ... but I think I'll also add the Tracks that Mars & Me think good and will not be in this TOP 20 (supposing not enough people have dloaded them) ... Anyway I'm not sure we'll do exactly like this, but we'll probably follow your idea :-)

Mr Peculiar : mabe I can make an exception for u as it seems u have a low connexion ... send me a mail with the style u want to vote for and I'll send u a list of the corresponding Tracks

I don't think so, cause people would not dload minimal tracks if they don't like minimal that much and melodic ones if they don't like melodic that much ... and there is some good stuff as well in minimal than melodic stuff ... so I think it's better to keep the suspense in order to force visitors to dload all Tracks ... or the votes won't be representative enough ... Moreover a minimal Track for someone can be melodic for someone else ...

I decided to make them available for dload cause I think nobody would dload all of them (more than 50, certainly 75 on October 1) in less than 1 month (from October 1 to October 15, start of the vote) ... In this way everybody will have more time to dload all of them and listen to them carefully ...

We need some FTP space to upload the Tracks of the contest, in order to permit people to download them when it will end on October 1 ... I would say we need around 1 GB ... Is there anyone who could help us ?

Yes we already thought to that ... we'll try to contact soem artists/labels around, but we need the help of people who know them for such a promotion ...

But I hope many labels will check this contest & contact some winners ;-) And this "comp" of all winner Tracks will still exist, on our website ... like Solipse did here : http://www.solipse.com/2001WEBSITE/cd2001/cd2001.html As there are many people participating, maybe a "virtual" comp of 10 Tracks could already be done at the end of this contest :-)

We won't ... we would need a label for that ... that could release 1 to 2 comps each year, and whose Tracklistings would absolutely not be decided by him, but by visitors ... difficult to find ...

Actually I would say YES, provided that both projects are not exactly from the same authors ... For example SynSUN is Vax + another guy, but Vax also participates to the contest as "Vax" project ... as the group is not exactly the same, that's possible that 4 Tracks from Vax participate, as 2 of them have been done with not Vax only ...

Actually we think that we'll organize 1 contest which will last for 2 months, than will take 1 month for the votes ... Then another contest will start ... So there should be 1 contest starting each 3 months, for 2 months ... That's not sure yet, but it should work like that ...

Hum ... would say no, sorry ... But you can keep them for the next contests :-)

Actually we'll make them available on October 1, when the contest will be finished, because we don't want the Tracks currently uploaded to have an advantage compared to the ones that will be put in 1,5 month, as people would have listened to them a lot and have chances to appreciate them more during that time. But I still dunno if we'll make them available to download or stream them on our radio ... cause I'm not sure every author will agree that we put his Track for free download before it wins ... maybe I'm wrong ... your opinion ?

I also have Sennheiser HD500. That's true, they are more bass-oriented than melodies-oriented ) But the sound is very good !

Yes any help is welcome ;-)

Maybe this week-end :-)

To Crusader : Yes you can send 2 Tracks :-)

To Crusader : Yes you can send 2 Tracks :-)

You can send what u want, but please don't send it by E-Mail ... the best is to put it on a web server if you can ... or send it to me by ICQ