Colin OOOD

Every time you use Megaupload, your girlfriend calls me for phone sex. So don't do it. It was fun the first time but she's got no imagination. Like the clip btw. I've passed it on to Chris Organic, he said he'll be getting in touch soon. sike

www.excessionmusic.com (his but no site yet) He's also doing stuff as Skein: www.myspace.com/skeinmusic + http://www.skeinmusic.com/, and runs the online music label 4Digital with James Monro: www.myspace.com/4digitalaudio

It is Mike Indidginus And he doesn't post here any more because he's not had a fantastic internet connection since he moved to Cape Town. Apart from that he's unable to log on for some reason; he's contacted Mars but had no reply.

Review by Axis Mundi: Hailing from the South African hub of Cape Town, UK artist Michael Martin, known as Indidginus, has been making waves and dancefloor shakers for ever a decade. For even longer, Michael has been an avid musician and multi instrumentalist, and has made quite a name for himself across many genres and industries of music, having played alongside, and collaborated with, many respected artists, from the legends OOOD and The Orb to Ishq and Eat Static. Michael has the talent, experience and drive to make his recent release, 'Feast or Famine', a dancefloor booster built also to be enjoyed in more relaxed settings as well. With professionally expert mastering by Colin Bennun of OOOD notoriety, Indidginus has obviously put great amounts of effort and time into his collection of musical creations, and the result is remarkably noteworthy. 'Feast or Famine', simply put, is a masterful collection of ten solidly arranged masterpieces displaying unique talent found nowhere else on Earth, which will be evidenced to the listener from the first rotation in your players ever onward. Funky Town » Indidginus launches the listener straight into a mojo-filled, old-timey disco groove in his cleverly appealing remake of the classic anthem Funky Town. His unique take on this hit is a perspective refreshing journey into the soul of funk interpreted through the lens of 21st-century audio synthesis and digitalism. Tau Ceti » A haunting, cybernetic zen-approaching into curtains the entryway into a realm of groove. Bass as ripe as a red apple pumps out foundations of crisp, percussive rhythm hits and eerily bobbling melody and pad arrangements. Touches of ancient tribalism collide with futuristic musical technology and innovative technique. Tokalosh » Bouncy ethnic percussion accompanies thick, key-changing basslines at the outset, and as the sound progresses, more and more pleasing layers filter in. Soothing washes of pads and glitchy foreground rhythms wend their way about the soundscape, with a surprise twist of moods midway through. Law of One » Indidginus picks up the pace with this nighttime full on stomper which ressurects the old school Ajuna sound with acidic innovation. Breakbeat basslines timed by four on the floor kickdrums keep the flow moving with serpentine precision. Between the percussive elements and Indian raga vocals, 'Law' imparts unmistakable feelings of sound come to life. Lotus Eaters » This funktastic thumper serves up heaping servings of churning, warm bass, kinetic kickdrums and srisp, slapping snares. With plenty of glitchwork, melody and vocal segments, Indiginus' energy lends itself well to the uplifting buildups of positive dance vibrations which characterise this sound so well. Surya » With 'Surya', Indidginus has crafted you a sonic transport vessel taking you to previously unknown dimensions of digital sound. Pulsating rhythm stacks atop foot tickling bass and is in turn the strata for vaulting melodies. Each arrangement opens doorways for sequentially edgier and more aggressive, piercing layers. Substrata » Taking you to heavenly realms found seemingly within the hidden cavernous reaches below, these masterfully arranged layers of ear-tickling waveforms postulate new scientific fields of geomusicology. Panoramic percussion and bouncing leads play your senses like a violin and keep the dancefloor in motion. Cosmic Trigger » Indidginus lays out a superbly pleasing morning rocker fueled by multicultural musical influences infused with a newly defined sound. Each layer, crisp and distinct, grips you and adds to a track that is as much a timeless journey through Earth's timeline. 'Trigger' is a masterfully synthesized six minute fusion of ancient and modern traditions. Faerie Tale » An intro of crystalline, temporally altered glass sweeps cascades straight atop thumping bassbeats and a baseball team's worth of synth arrays which play their parts in seemingly hive-mind unison. Melodies made up of this many sorts of sounds stay fresh for many rotations, and topped with plenty of dancefloor funk make this a must-have for energy ressurecting playlists. Gene Swarm » Indidginus' finale track to his latest and greatest album to date packs every inch of the artist's experimental intuition and knowhow until the very end. A chilled out, downtempo beat diverges away from the accepted norms of trance music and explores this artist's true sense of diversity and musical imagination and potential.

Many of you will recognise this name but not know quite where from, so here's a little back-story before we get into the reviews... Michael Martin aka Indidginus was one of the original members of Psynews, and was the one who introduced me to the site in the first place back in 2002. For those of you who remember the Offtopic section, I believe the Quacken came out of his brain. He and I made quite a bit of music together in the last 6 years, and have performed with each other's live acts a number of times - he's a virtuoso didgeridoo/slide-didge player and has a strong drive to express himself through music. His first album Align was a beautiful ambient affair; this, his second album, brings up the tempo but retains his unique voice and expression... I can't review it objectively because he's a good friend (and besides, I mastered it for him) but a couple of people have, and this is what they say: Review by Full Lotus Indidginus - Feast or Famine Artist: Indidginus Album: Feast or Famine Label: Micro Dot Music Catalog no : MDCD013 Released: December 2008 Cover: Martyn Taylor Mastering: Colin Bennun Tracklisting: 1 Funky Town (6:17) 2 Tau Ceti (7:00) 3 Tokalosh (6:49) 4 Law Of One (6:29) 5 Lotus Eaters (7:11) 6 Surya (7:04) 7 Substrata (Feat Gandalf) (7:04) 8 Cosmic Trigger (6:11) 9 Faerie Tale (6:16) 10 Gene Swarm (Feat Pablo Sandoz) (6:31) Indidginus is South African producer Michael Martin who has been actively making music in the scene since 2001 and playing didgeridoo since 1996. Feast or Famine is his second full length release and it’s a colourful journey into the down tempo side of psychedelic music with a unique Indidginus twist. Released at the end of 2008 on Micro Dot music from Cape Town, this is one hell of a fun album that can only be described, in my opinion, as accomplished clean sounding groovadelic music. Kicking off with a reworking of the classic Funky Town, the tunes take in a range of influences from ethnic sounds through to electro in places and beyond. It has an infectious funky feel permeating the tracks and keeps you on tenterhooks eagerly awaiting the next sound or groove and ensures that those feet keep on tapping away furiously. This has quality written all over it and is as refreshing as it is original. With the tracks ranging in speed from 113 to 139 bpm, this album is excellent sunshine music that should not be restricted to just the global psychedelic trance scene but should go and infect the rest of the global electronic dance scene. The album is a veritable feast, with the famine coming only when it ends. Available from the following reputable on-line shops: http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=4654 http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/mic/mic1cd013.html http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display...ase.asp?id=7660

Hey Karan, check out OOOD's last two albums "Free Range" and "Fourthought"... made to be just good psychedelic dance music. No darkpsy cliches here, but a wide variety of moods and tempos, and pretty trippy with it. The albums come from a psytrance angle but venture quite a way off to the side!

http://www.synthofmine.com/general-thoughts/qm-synthesis/ http://rekkerd.org/km-krebs-qm-synth/ ...possibly

It's 'Potslovia' actually, but that's close enough for jazz.

The guy on the left... he looks very left-handed, if you know what I mean :wank:

Ah, the good old open-minded psytrance scene! Accusations of Bill adding guitars because it's 'fashionable' are way off the mark; I've got footage of a party OOOD and Cosmosis/Laughing Buddha both played live at in 1997 and Bill's rocking it properly - and the dancefloor does seem to love it. He does it because he's good at it; guitar is just as valid a texture for psytrance as the kick drum and it all depends on what he's actually doing with the instrument. Writing off an entire album because you've heard it might have guitar on it is just... stupid. Personally I'm waiting to hear the music before I decide whether or not I like it... and just because he plays guitar in his live shows doesn't mean there's that much guitar on the album! $0.02

As far as I know it's not out there, yeah

-><- There's more than a few knocking around, I still have (almost ) all the DATs from our early days. But yeah, there's good reasons why many of them were never released! Perhaps I should add them to my collection on Discogs and see what happens

If this is a problem for anyone downloading the Ektoplazm release, I would be glad to refund 0.002% of the Ektoplazm purchase price.

Artist: Indidginus Title: Feast or Famine Label: Microdot Music Format: CD Release Date: 12th December 2008 Catalogue Number: MDCD013 Tracklist: 1. Funky Town 2. Tau Ceti 3. Tokalosh 4. Law of One 5. Lotus Eaters 6. Surya 7. Substrata (feat Gandalf) 8. Cosmic Trigger 9. Faerie Tale 10. Gene Swarm (feat Pablo Sandoz) Following hot on the heels of Indidginus' downtempo album Align, Microdot Music is pleased to present the 2nd Indidginus album Feast or Famine. Indidginus is the solo project of talented Cape Town artist Michael Martin. Michael has been active in the psytrance scene for many years, & is now a Vortex artist. He makes use of slide didgeridoo in his unique and eminently danceable live performances. Focussed on the funkier, groovier, slower side of psychedelic trance, Feast or Famine takes you on a kaleidoscopic journey through time and space, which will make your booty move & keep you coming back for more! The album exhibits a diverse array of influences & includes a masterful collaboration with Colin Angus (The Shamen, Pablo Sandoz). Sure to be a winner on dancefloors the world over.... More info & track samples - http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www...ine_mailer.html Mastered by Colin Bennun @ The Stooodio: www.myspace.com/OOOD

OOOD is very pleased to announce the re-release of our first album aLIVE, in partnership with Ektoplazm. http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/oood-alive/ This album was recorded in 1996/7, and released on the Brighton-based Cabbaged Records in 1996. The tracks were all recorded live at various goa/psy parties in the UK. In 1999 the original artwork (by Cabbaged and the ThikBreakfast Holding Company) was replaced after the original distributors went bankrupt, and a limited number of copies were sold independantly in the new packaging. Released under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ Tracklisting: 1. Cobra (8:33) 2. Karmic Suture (7:53) 3. Cthullu (7:58) 4. Cosmic Ripple (7:04) 5. Herbs And Spices (7:25) 6. Silence (8:30) 7. Two Dawns Over Baleswar (9:48) 8. Kundalini (9:52) 9. Rifa (6:46) Personnel: Colin Bennun, Stephen Callaghan, Nigel Bradbury For the geeks The equipment used in the creation of this album (MIDI only, no digital audio) was: 40MHz 386 PC running Cubase Score, 2 in/2 out MIDI interface Ensoniq EPS16+ sampler (1MB memory, stereo outputs) Roland TB303 (modified) Yamaha CS15 (modified) Roland SH101 (modified) Silver Machine (home-built analog synth) EMS Synthi Kawai K1 Korg DW6000 Studiomaster 16 channel analog mixer Mutronics Mutator (prototype and production versions) DOD digital delay guitar pedal Hope you enjoy this blast from our past! Please also check out our most recent album Fourthought, available now on Phar Psyde Records http://www.phar-psyde.com

You NEED this album

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM&...feature=related http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mAhf4C15AoI http://musiconvinyl.blogspot.com/2008/11/h...esto-black.html

Email Twisted, ask them. According to Napo, Pavel asked for the one on Isra to be removed; "he said it was something like unethical and smeling revenge", and I can see his point. It's certainly unprofessional, and I'm sure Twisted wouldn't really like the world to know that it costs €50,000 to book Shpongle for a live set (although you have to ask youself WHY they wouldn't like it known).

The guy's a nutter and works for Earthcore in Australia; we had problems on The Other Place with him when he was posting promo for EC before their recent festival, and he took exception to criticism from forum members who had prior experience of EC's tactics. His post above was posted on Isratrance and a few other places too but has since been deleted. Given that they speak English in Australia, I feel fairly safe in saying the confusion and poor English skills (much deteriorated from his posts on Psymusic) is due to the fact that he's foaming at the mouth. Here's how it looks to me: 1. EC organise a festival in November - about 70%(!!!) of the international acts cancel after being told their fee is being reduced to 20% of it's agreed level. Some acts cancel when their deposits are not paid. Some acts are then threatened with legal action if they don't turn up and perform anyway. Local acts and crew are apparently not paid at all; the festival sells out and no refunds are given: http://forum.isratrance.com/protoculture-earthcore/ 2. EC (trading under a different name) book Shpongle for 2 gigs in 2009. EC start promoting immediately, selling out of tickets for one of the shows, despite an agreement not to promote until the deposit for the fee has been paid. Deposit is not paid. Shpongle therefore cancel the booking as per the contract signed with EC. No refunds are given: http://www.inthemix.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=239889 3. Prior to this, EC announce a relocation out of Australian legal jurisdiction and an end to their Australian events. They've now walked off with pretty much the entire takings for both a major festival and a major cancelled gig. You do the sums and then consider exactly how much weight and respect to give to someone who defends the actions of this promoter with attempted smokescreen, misdirection and outright lies.

Quoted for sheer irony, and to express sympathy for obvious self-hatred.

No point, at best it would just make it twice as loud (and it most probably would clip if the track is currently peaking at -2.8dB, which is a good level); at worst you'd get stuff cancelling out and it would sound shit.

Info from full_on @ Isratrance: We are proud to announce the first IsraTrance Forum FREE Compilation. The IsraTrance forum community brings these FREE unreleased tracks from many psy-related genres available for free in the highest possible quality. The tracks were produced by experienced artists which are IsraTrancers, the music speaks for itself in the languages of ambient, minimal, progressive, full on, dark and even goa, the diversity of this compilation reflects the diversity of cultures, tastes and opinions we find daily at IsraTrance. This is a gift from the IsraTrancers to the psytrance community. Enjoy! Track List: 01. OOOD - Alpha Relaxation (edit) 02. Aerospace feat. K-Pax - Drops - 132 bpm 03. Kino Oko - Skillfully Oratory - 135 bpm 04. N.A.S.A. - Addicted To Sin - 135 bpm 05. Minimal Criminal - Mr. Miyagi - 135 bpm 06. Sensient - 3rd Dimension - 137 bpm 07. Hujaboy - Too Much Too Soon - 140 bpm 08. E-Jekt - Commited - 145 bpm 09. Mubali - Line of Rationality - 147 bpm 10. Filteria - The Snail Keeps Crawling... - 145 bpm 2 minutes samples: http://www.fullonline.org/samples_mp3/mp3_2min_samples.rar E-flyer will be out soon. The music will be available for free in .wav, .flac and .mp3. Some words about the music: OOOD delivers an ambient/chill tune that sets the vibe of the compilation with a beatless journey... These guys are involved in two of the hottest psy acts these days, Voice of Cod and OOOD. Their Alpha Relaxation represents the peaceful moments in an otherwise thrilling compilation. Aerospace and K-Pax drop the first beat, bringing us to the realms of progressive psytrance. Their track is well crafted, nice bass and will please the dance floor whenever played. Very much on the lines of Aerospace's second album Elevation and this recent remix album Reformed, just a little slower. Pumpy for its 132 bpm. Kino Oko, half of the highly acclaimed Bigwigs and also well-known for his own project, demonstrate his Skillfully Oratory in this impressive track. Following the line of the I_don't_have_a_clue_about_how_to_classify_it trance, characteristic of his music, this track is sweet and lovely. One of my favorites. N.A.S.A. track is an excellent example of good progressive psytrance. Not too fast but steady, nice atmospheres and development, good taste in the choice of effects. Good one IMO. Minimal Criminal presents us Mr. Miyagi, who is probably not in a good mood, cause these bass lines sound very nightish, and the track is more packed than the usual minimal stuff. A really weird and wicked night tune that surprises by its effectiveness on the floor. The Sensient is faster than his usual, and also the longest track in this compilation. Displaying many minimal characteristics and the natural Sensient sound, this track showcases Tim's expertise in blending sounds together. The ending is very peculiar. We get into the serious full on territory with Hujaboy one of the most respected producers in the genre, and this track shows why. This beauty is a perfect example of how to bang the floor at low bpm. It has everything, straight bass lines, funny samples, smooth development, incredible build up, intense climax and more... Did I mention it is one of my favorites here? Definitely. The E-Jekt track keeps on a similar line: serious music relying on steadiness and well placed elements to keep the energy level. Not cheesy melodies or annoying breaks, but good flow. Mubali was the artist responsible to drop a pinch of darkness in the compilation, as his track is here to represent the dark side of psytrance. This night time tune grabs me for its flow and weirdness, but not randomness, which is very important. I like it. Filteria closes this compilation with The Snail Keeps Crawling..., a sequel to his debut's tune 'The Snuggling Snail'. Since we're talking about Filteria, this is definitely a GOA-like tune, possessing almost 10 minutes of melodic layers, uplifting vibes and even a change in key near the middle. This is another favorite track, I tried it at the dance floor and the crowd was like: WTF was that?!? Intense track and excellent closer for this album! All tracks in this release were mastered by Colin OOOD, a member of our community who took a special role in this project as the sound engineer who mastered it and a member of the OOOD project, which track was one of the first to be selected for this project. I also would like to thank Swaroop SGDesigns for the cover great artwork ( http://www.sgdesigns.co.uk ). Please check it! Cover small: http://www.fullonline.org/images/Isratrance_cover_512.png Cover full resolution: http://www.fullonline.org/images/Isratrance_cover_full.png I'd like to thank everyone involved in this project, particularly Rik who was mysteriously abducted during the course of this project. If anyone has news about him please let me know. This is a gift from the IsraTrancers to the psytrance community. Enjoy! Respect!

He spoke to me today, on MSN, and asked me if I knew Skazi. I nearly told him "yes, Skazi is tied up in my shed 'making friends' with Great Dane dog. We have live webcam. Want the URL?" but I didn't have the heart.

I've loved the Mr. Rogers stuff I've heard, really quirky and funny and gentle but still trippy as fuck and very danceable.

STFU you skazificator.