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What a nonsensical first post.

Wow. New heights of awful! Maybe a bit offtopic, but I have to mention the supremely bad lyrics too. The chorus is a really bad, cliche pickup line!

Interesting difference of opinion. I'm surprised you find it lacking in tranciness. I should qualify my...exuberance...by saying that I was a little drunk when I wrote the review, and I tend to get passionate about things when I drink. I still love the music though.

Sorry dude, beat you to it: http://www.psynews.org/forums/index.php?/topic/60832-liquid-jungle-high-toxicity-ep/ This is fucking incredible!

My first review. Deal with it. Announcement just posted today: Liquid Jungle - High Toxicity EP Artist: Liquid Jungle Album: High Toxicity EP Label:Acid Chemical Plant Records Date: February 12, 2011 1. High Toxicity (7:03) 2. Ethanol (7:26) 3. Overflow (6:58) 4. Wasteland (7:09) High Toxicity Nice blend of acid and psytrance. The acid lines build and evolve over an amp-sequenced vocal pad that gives that great spooky, haunting vibe. The middle part builds up energy as it focuses on the acid leads, and the last couple minutes bring back the haunting sound with the vocal pad as it comes in again after breaks. This song mixes the best of both worlds - the familiar acid sound of multiple layers of 303, some high and screeching and some low and growly, with what to me is the essence of classic trance - repetitive parts that evolve slowly over time and build energy until they put your mind on pause so the body can flow and the soul can bask. An amazing mix of darkness and euphoria. A+ Ethanol This song is much more on the acid techno side, but with trance's beat and tempo. It starts out aggressive and doesn't stop. There's really nothing to this song other than the 303 parts, and that's a good thing. There's some breaks in the usual trance fashion, but framed by full-on acid. The evolution of the 303 loops is masterful. A Overflow This song is pretty typical acid techno at a higher than normal tempo. I don't really have anything to say about it; it's not terribly interesting. It still draws my attention because of the screeching 303 lines (I'm a total sucker for them!) but overall there's not much to this song.C+ Wasteland This has a real old-school trance style, and even the 303 lines conform to it. While "High Toxicity" and "Ethanol" combine an acid techno-style 303 with trance, this is all trance which uses acid-sounding 303 lines that fit into a trance paradigm. A I've listened to some of Mr. Santos' music as he's announced various releases here on Psynews, and I've searched out a few things elsewhere. As I said, I'm a total sucker for acid. I've liked most of what I've heard, but after listening to this EP, I have to unequivocally say that Filipe Santos is an official Jedi Master of the TB-303. Seriously, with the exception of "Overflow", this EP made me want to dance in my living room like I was still 20 and at a rave no matter what my roomates thought.

I'm gonna vote Astral Warrior. Eye Am The I is also great but I haven't had Infinitism very long so I'm not sure how that song will stand up against Astral Warrior over time. I haven't heard anything from Earth Crossing or Eyes of Gaia, though.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to see many live psy acts. Infected Mushroom and Astral Projection about 6 years ago, and Infected Mushroom once a year or two before that. As much as I hate to say it, Infected Mushroom was much better than AP. AP showed up like an hour late and I'm pretty sure they just stood up there acting like they were doing something while playing a mix. Too bad, since I like their music so much more. Party I'm going to this weekend is supposed to have a live act, but they're listed as techno. Maybe it'll be psy tech.

While most people tend to point toward LSD, Dark Magus and Shamanix as their favorite songs on this album, mine is definitely Orphic Thrench. Those others are great, but something about that kind of gritty, aggressive lead sound just grabs me. Similar sounds in other songs do that for me too, like Daft Punk's "Da Funk". Maybe it's the metalhead in me. Orphic Thrench just seems to have so much energy to me.

Actually I think it's just my DVD drive is dying. It had problems importing the last 2 tracks of another CD and keeps spinning up and down.

I just got this. I'm only about halfway through the 1st CD so far, but I'm liking it all. Is this CD really copy protected? iTunes won't let me import it. I don't 'share' music or anything, but I put all my CD's on my computer to listen to at home and make MP3s for my iPod, and put the CD in my car. I also listen to music a lot when I play a game that I have to put a DVD in for.

Yay they came today!

That sucks. My copy of Opus Iridium has a corrupted last track on CD1 (Ethereal). Damn thing froze my computer first time I tried to play it. I just decided to deal with not having that song instead of going through the hassle of trying to get it replaced. Don't remember where I bought it from.

Well it's been 2 weeks since I got Beatspace's order confirmation email and still no CD's. Since ordering psy always takes a long time, I don't start getting antsy until the 2 week mark. I just sent them an email asking when it actually shipped. Since the order confirmation came December 29 (30th Italy time), maybe it's just that it was right around the new year. Maybe they were closed and it didn't actually ship until later. Still irritating. Man I wish there were an American reseller I could buy this stuff from! I've thought about starting my own, but decided there's probably just not enough of a market here for this already small market music. Especially if I take my own city as an example; people here love their darkpsy and not much else in the psy arena.

Jeez, you've got a lot of money to spend on CD's!

Cool!

You don't. That's just voices in your head.

Right, but to stream music the drives would have to be spinning and the processors processing.

Got these a couple days ago. Only the first one is really psy; second one is acid and I'm not sure what to call the third. Hard trance?

Sounds cool!

I think I used Psyshop once or twice, but mostly it's been Saiko. I think I was wary of Saiko at first because if I remember correctly, the first time I ordered from them the screen where I entered my credit card number was NOT a secure page. But I had no problem, and it's secure now at least.

I don't even know how those relate to psytrance, so my drunken family-tree creation remains the most accurate ever! Do you doubt my powers?

I guess I understand that. Personally I'm not in to the whole super-in-depth review thing. I want at most a few words on each song, or better yet a short paragraph about a whole album (where applicable) to tell me if I should bother listening to samples or not. I'd rather hear the music and review it myself in my head. As far as this thread... Zeta Reticuli is good. I agree it might as well have been on IFO. I haven't heard Jungle Trax.

I took his comment to mean bass as an an instrument, not bass as a frequency range. I agree that the bass (instrument) could be more prominent. If you bring it up and the low frequencies are too much, do some creative sculpting. Consider "frequency spaces" - where you might scoop a lot of a certain frequency range out of an instrument to make room for another instrument that dominates in that range. When it comes to synth sounds, I have no problem doing some significant EQing to get things sitting right in a mix.

Wow dude...10 1/2 year old thread. You kind of have a review compulsion.

I'm no good at these games. I came up with a craptastic picture for Green Nuns of the Revolution for the artist names thread, but I couldn't guess anyone's pictures so that I could post it! However, I'm pretty sure I've never heard of an album named Drunken Stick Figure.