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Great album! Easily ranks up there with the Cybered album listed a couple posts above on Ektoplazm. More stuff like this would be Manifold, a Cybered project before he was Cybered. Manifold is more full-on psy but you can definitely hear that future Cybered approach in certain tracks.

Any comp with Globular AND Wolfen Technologies is worth the listen. Really, really enjoyed Volume 1, this one is sure to be a treat, too! Bioscape, Naturelement, Supersillyus, Narcose....whew, nice looking collection!

Have been turned on to a lot of great releases because of your site. Thanks and keep up the great work, you're a fabulous resource!

Just saying Ovnimoon got me interested, Hector has some great taste in psychedelic music and his label releases some gems. Will definitely get on this EP and the co-production between Rigel and Ovnimoon. Thanks for the review, taking a lot away from reading it!

Solid! Really looking forward to this one.

First, that Kiriyama track is lovely! Very happy listening there. Second, great point on this topic. Seems to me old-school had a bit of everything - for example, Blue Planet Corporation at 140+, anything from Tip being below that. It struck a very nice balance! It would be nice and refreshing to see that sort of distribution once again. Missing for me from the new-school is true trance. Put on vintage Total Eclipse and Man With No Name and they hit the mark with real trance-inducing works. Nowadays that seems lost in an avalanche of effects and high bpms, for the most part. Anyway, again, great post, Xander! In 100% agreement.

Haha, right on, no better way to say it! This album is superb, a nice blend of full-on and goa, definitely gets to those trance states consistently. Based on this album, my anticipation is wildly high for the release coming out on Ektoplazm.

That Metronome track is beautiful, thanks for turning me on to something new. My suggestion would be Elegy and E-Clip though the BPMs of those artists is a lot more constant than the tracks you have posted here. Still, they have that same style of beauty and hypnotism in their tracks. Elegy - The Panopticon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTDTG_56HfY E-Clip - Chandra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5lhvITP0A "The Panopticon" is from Elegy's "MindSoundTechnology" album. The whole is very much in the same style of this track. "Chandra" is from E-Clip's album "Shuma". There is just a whole lot of gorgeous morning psy wonderfulness in there.

Agree 100% that there were no stand-out tracks on this one and that's mainly why I found it disappointing. Not bad, just disappointing. No great DoHm tracks, no groovy Schizoid Bears, no ridiculously good Re-Horakhty. Honestly, I'll probably listen to nothing on this comp a second time - the other two volumes, though, have a few tracks that make it on regular rotation in my Ipod's playlist. As usual, great writing!

Wicked! Really looking forward to this one especially after The Cronics release, been listening to that EP quite a bit. If the quality of this compilation is comparable then we are in for a real treat: http://goagalaxy.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-nova-ep

It would seem that the Kinetik album by PhuturePrimitive is what you're looking for - intelligent down-tempo with that nasty dubstep attitude. It's a very, very quality release, a definite classic in my eyes. Got turned on to this project when he went on tour opening for Ott. http://phutureprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/kinetik

Just listened to this and I fall into the Trance2MoveU camp. It is not the worst full-on I've heard but it definitely straddle the line of cheese too much for my liking. I feel he's right in that things get darker, and better, later in the album. "Disturbing Silence" is definitely not the worst track on the album, as Darkill states, but it is one of the better tracks. In fairness, it's all subjective, though I do agree that "The Guide" is a great down tempo track. : )

Pretty good year for Goa compilations, right? I would add "Call of Goa" to that list, also, of great compilations that have come out in the last year. Each have more than one gem within and the overall journey is absolutely wonderful.

Great review, had a lot of fun reading that! These guys are on my list now, definitely interested, had not heard of them before this point.

"In Dubland" is a great album from beginning to end. Tara Putra's originals are superb and the remixes are all delicious, too!

"Space Of Power" is a stunning compilation - very much looking forward to hearing this one. Hope you're still planning on 4 new Artifact303, always a great journey there, and have been excited to hear another track from Kurandini. The artist list looks super-impressive, best of luck getting it all compiled, will drop whatever I'm doing when this is released to give it a good listen.

Thanks for saying it, I was just reading the "Live In Athens" reviews and felt like the minority since I don't see the point. I do very much enjoy "Alien Protein" though. My pick would be Filteria, too chaotic for my tastes. I used to feel the same about E-Mantra but his work makes more and more sense to me as time goes on. His remix of Crossing Mind, being the most recent example of his work, is superb, really loving that track, a great meeting of two great producing minds.

You should hear Imba's remix from the Ten Spins compilation, it cleans things up real nice and focuses more on the catchy melody rather than the messy chaos that the original swims in.

Great news, big admirer of your work, mate!

Wolfen Technologies have really impressed me with their releases on Ektoplazm, everything I have heard has been top-notch. "External Encounters" on this compilation is definitely one of my favorites by him. I remember really enjoying the JP Illusion vs Waveform track, if I remember correctly it was a very, very pleasant journey. Just to point out an error, you listed "Coming Up In The Elevator" as track 3 & 4 in your review. Cheers!

Released three months apart - "Feuerfalter Part 1" in December of 2013 and "Feuerfalter Part 2" in February of this year - these two full-length album releases are a sharp contrast in techno styles. "Part 1", for instance, is best suited for the roaring Saturday night club party; "Part 2" is most definitely for Sunday's introspective come-down. "Feuerfalter Part 1" is good, quite good in some spots, and definitely at its best when listened to in small doses but definitely not great over repeat listens. Some tracks are barely even mediocre, though. Still, overall, a good release on the grand scale even if it feels like Boris Brejcha for a younger, less-experienced crowd. By contrast, the only bad way to listen to "Feuerfalter Part 2" is by not listening to it over and over and over. This album is beautiful, relaxing, sunny, peaceful, ethereal. It's an album that deserves to be listened to by discerning ears - Boris Brejcha for grown-ups, as it were. If one's definition of techno is white-noise and repetitive structure then avoid "Part 1" at all costs; it will only reinforce that perception. "Part 2", however, is where the idea of techno-as-art is personified, where every track is meticulously crafted and detailed with overwhelming beauty and emotion. To say that tracks like "Anthurie," "Prisma" and "Purple Noise" are the perfect embodiment of a near-perfect album somehow does not seem to sum up this experience well enough. .

Cheers! I have "Click & Fly" and "Full Moon" in my collection and have enjoyed both very much, especially the latter. Really looking forward to hearing this one.

Tracks 1 - 7 are bliss, bliss, bliss!!! I have not enjoyed anything else by these guys but, whatever, "Tales of the Coin Spinner" is one of the best down tempo albums in my collection. As StratosOZ said, "The Truth" is fantastic, a great opener and it just gets better and better from there, quite a magical journey!

These guys are Ectima?!?! Excuse me, I'm off to get this one.....

If you are at all familiar with Brit Morison Bennett and his Globular project then you should have an idea of how highly regarded his down tempo dub work is. Building a faithful following on some spectacular releases through Basilisk's Ektoplazm portal, those who appreciate his work are apt to quickly drop what they're doing to quick out his newest offerings. "Digging & Building" is a scant two tracks long but at a 30-minute total run time, 15 minutes of dub journeying on each track, it should be a journey worth getting excited over. Technically, both are new tracks though "Infinity Inside" first appeared a mere three weeks earlier on Ektoplazm on the "Ethneomystica Vol 1" compilation. Curious timing, for sure, but difficult to gripe about since both are free releases. Still, that leaves "Deeper Than Dirt" as an authentically new Globular track and at an epic 15-minutes long...well, there should be heaps of magic inside. All the familiar Globular traits are indeed within - the sweeping imagination, lush and sunny dub melodies, crazy-good chill-out vibes. Interestingly, on both tracks, for 30-minutes in total, there is something missing, though. That extra dash of old-fashioned Globular magic is simply not there. It sounds like Globular, it's constructed like Globular, it just does not charm like Globular. If you hear accolades for his full-lengths, most specifically "A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" and "Magnitudes Of Order," the hype is accurate and justified. You would be hard-pressed to find an equal where one in the down tempo world can sweep the listener away to another plane with such consistency, offering up lush and gorgeous and spiritually empowering aural adventures so effortlessly. "Digging & Building", though, is not on that level. Sure, it goes into many of the same areas that makes his past works unforgettable and for all intents and purposes, it is still a very good work and when compared to contemporaries in the same field of sound, it may even be an almost-great work. But this is Globular and it is only fair to judge him based on his own canon of art. With that, quite unfortunately, "Digging & Building" is mediocre at best. http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-digging-building For some truly great Globular adventures, check out these, instead: "A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" - http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy "Magnitudes Of Order" - http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/globular-magnitudes-of-order