Colin OOOD

Did you used to tuck your t-shirt into your pants? I did, and here's 54 minutes of visual proof, in 320Kbps MP3 audio quality: http://vimeo.com/17306995 Set list: Two Dawns Over Baleshwar Cobra Karmic Suture Silence Other World Kundalini Fluorostani Transcendance

I hope so too! We're open to offers Thanks so much for your kind words. FYI, our live shows incorporate much more live percussion than our recordings; we make our tunes in the studio in much the same way that many other acts do, and then add the liveness on top when we perform. Also, the way we perform now is very different from how we used to do it in the 1990s; I'm making a new thread for a video of a live set from that time, just for the nostalgia.

High all...I posted this in the thread that Insejn started about our Oddball release, but I thought it would be worth putting here too. You can now download or stream OOOD's live performance on the main floor at Boom Festival 2010 from my Soundcloud page. I don't know if you can embed the Soundcloud player here, but here's the link: http://soundcloud.co...m-festival-2010 Blurb: The first 30 minutes of this recording is the live soundtrack to "Grow Your Own", a film by Anita Shukla - www.anitashukla.com .This version plays at the correct speed! Track listing: 1. Oddball (Original mix) - Broken Robot Records 2. Little Big Life - Unreleased 3. Eye Of The Beholder (feat. Ott) - Organic Records 4. The Tube (Grow Your Own mix) - Unreleased 5. Frogology - Frogadelic Records 6. Durka Durka - Phar Psyde Records 7. Inner Inca - Unreleased 8. The Philosopher's Tone - Unreleased Keyboards/Mix - Colin Bennun Guitar/Keyboards - Steve Callaghan Percussion - Ryo Potier Playback/FX/Samples - Ramsay Melhuish In conjunction with the filmmaker Anita Shukla we're very pleased to be able to include the 30-minute film "Grow Your Own" as a part of the OOOD/Voice of Cod live/DJs offering to festival and party promoters looking for something eclectic and psychedelic beyond the Industry Standard rinse-and-repeat. If you're an event organiser and you want something special to engage the eyes as well as the dancing feet, and to make people think as well as feel, please contact us for more details.

That's pretty bloody amazing - inspirational, in fact. But I'd like to see them keep it up over a 2-hour continuous live set, with proper variation.

Ah, the good old days! Maybe this time, whoever is in charge might want to use the whole of the little essay I wrote, not just part of it? Fabien, your dedication to this site and the constant work it has involved over the past 11 years has been amazing, and a lesson in discipline; I can imagine that these feelings have been strong in you for a long time now, for you to finally want to make them public and start the process. I hope a take-over team can be assembled from people who still post here regularly. Any music scene needs a variety of viewpoints for there to be a proper discussion about it, and although traffic here may not be huge, the organic nature of Psynews has made it the home of a unique perspective. As one of the few truly international psytrance forums that is aware of the history of the genre, Psynews is irreplaceable, and I'm very glad that whatever happens, the worst-case scenario is that that history will be preserved in a read-only form. I've got my fingers crossed for more than that though. Big love.

We're Not Worthy. But we will just carry on doing Our Thing, whatever that happens to be, and in the process I'm sure we'll disappoint someone, much though I hate the thought. And I want to release a CD too, if only so I can stack it next to the others on my shelf and think "I made that!"

Not yet... sometime in 2011; we have 7 tracks I think. Plenty of time. We're not even sure if it will come out on a label as such this time, although we're open to approaches from interested parties.

Hey guys! Glad some of you like Oddball. It's a bit of an odd one for sure so it's not surprising you're not all jumping up and down in joy It's not a new direction for us as such, I think we were just lucky to find a label who was actually up for releasing one of our experiments. They're mainly a tech breaks label so we wrote them a breakbeat track too. But we've always known that psychedelic music comes in all shapes and sizes, and we've always written more than just psytrance; it's just that now we're happier with that other side of what we do as it seems to be more like what many people want to dance to, so we're less shy about showing it to the world. We played our first non-trance live set last weekend, at our own little party here in Bristol. It was interesting, and fun! For those of you (like Antic, maybe) who are worried that we're leaving trance behind HAHAHAHAHAHA fear not, we've got lots of new 143-145bpm psy for the next album including a couple which we're extraordinarily pleased with. To hear clips of some of them, listen from 9:51 onwards (starting with the slightly slower 'Frogology') in our latest little demo... the beginning of it is our non-trance stuff so some of you may wish to skip ahead 9:51 The purists amongst you listen to the first part at your own risk. http://soundcloud.com/colin-oood/oood-in-order-of-bpm-new-tunes-minimix-october-2010-1 Our live set from Boom Festival is also online in my Soundcloud, if anyone's interested. Again, the first half is non-trance (apart from Eye of the Beholder, the track I did with Ott), because the first half of the set was a soundtrack to an animation that Boom commissioned, and banging psytrance wouldn't have worked with it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/i76wzn ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chDuFkuVFig

Good shit - good luck!

I have never met him, or passed more than one message with him on Myspace, but his music switched on lights in my head that have been unlit for years. Just remember that your opinion is only your opinion; not a 'fact'. Just like my opinion, Mike A's and everyone else who does enjoy what he does. There's a saying about how opinions are like arseholes, in that everyone has one but you need to choose carefully who you show yours to, and be aware that it smells just as much as the next guy's.

Without a comment from Bill to that effect on this thread, I would suggest that's a bit of an assumption to make; there are recordings of our live sets from that long ago that I wouldn't particularly like to be in the public domain because I don't feel they show us at our best, so to speak But you may be right

Rules of the competition aside, it seems to me that as these tracks were created as remixes of TAE, and contain melodies and samples from the track, Sheyba owns the copyright of them. Restrictions in the use of remixes (created for a competition or otherwise) are universal as far as I know, and not made at the whim of the organisers, but because this is what the law says. Things can obviously be negotiated but AFAIK, by default the remixing artist willvget paid the mechanical royalties earned by their remix, but the publishing (ie. the royalties earned by the track it self, not just that version) remain with the remixed artist. Even if not officially a remix, if a track contains a recongnisable portion of someone else's work, you need that someone else's permission to release it. This is just my understanding, and may be imperfect as we've never been that involved in the remix game at all.

I want my dirt-bike back.

Ok this is very embarrassing and I want to apologise to Mike, Artha and anyone who has had their listening experience spoiled by this. As I write this, I have Chaos up on my mastering system to make a new version without the glitch. An explanation... Because my mastering chain includes analog processes, the final master of each track must be recorded in real-time. That glitch comes as a result of my current studio computer (single-core AMD XP3200+, 1GB RAM) not being powerful enough to run my mastering chain for a whole track without crapping out at some point. This means I have to listen carefully for glitches as it is being recorded, and when they appear I skip back to the beginning of that section so that it replays, hopefully without any more glitches. I therefore have to do a lot of editing on every track I master, chopping out the repeated parts with glitches to make an unglitchy version. I just must have missed that one. There is no excuse for something like this creeping through into the final version as both Mike and I checked each track carefully before the album went to manufacturing, and I am very sorry that this has happened. It's a fantastic album in my opinion, and all I wanted from the moment I heard the first track was to do everything I could to make Artha's music shine, so it's incredibly gutting for me to have been responsible for what I sincerely hope is the only error of its kind on the CD. Although it won't help with Influencing Dreams, I have just invested about £1500 (more than every penny I have) into a new computer for the Stooodio (i7 930, 6BG RAM, SSD HDD, RME Hammerfall) which - when it's finally up and running! - will, I hope, make sure not only that glitchy mastering is a thing of the past for me, but that the final quality of my mastering is even higher. Once again, I offer my apologies to Mike, Artha and everyone who bought this CD for my mastering glitch.

Perhaps it was Cosmosis himself who asked for it to be removed?

They did the some of the filming for that episode at a Tribe of Frog night, apparently. Anyway that mention on Skins is one of the reasons why ToF attracts a larger and younger crowd on average than most other regular psyparties I've been to in the UK recently, and good for them as I can think of no better way to introduce new people to the music and the scene than at a party whose heart is definitely in the right place, and who put so much care and effort into their decor and programming.

Review by Kazuku, first posted on Isratrance here. Artist: Various Album: September 2009 Label: Frogadelic Records Cat #: FGY1CD001 Cover: Frogadelic Records has its origins with the British party collective Tribe of Frog who are known for their indoor events and ellaborate deco work. The line-up which is unravelled upon us by Frogadelic Records is truly monumental, with plenty of big names present. Next to classics like OOOD and AMD we are also treated to artists which represent boundry pushing, cutting edge Psytrance such as Braincell, Scorb and Tron. 1. Frogology-OOOD 2. Material World-FLIP FLOP AND TRON 3. Roadshow-AMD 4. The big trick-BRAINCELL 5. Frog addict fearsome-FEARSOME ENGINE 6. What Happened-RASTALIENS AND VIRTUAL LIGHT 7. Soothsayer-ARCHAIC 8. TOF-U-EVP 9. Malevolent Intent-SUBLIMINAL SYSTEM 10. It's about time (Frog rmx)-SCORB 1) OOOD transport us into a rich jungle setting where we find ourselves surrounded by frogs (surprise, surprise!) croaking along rhythmically in the dusk, setting the scene for what is about to break through the trees. Over the years OOOD has always managed to create a sound which always has an organic feel to it, and this is also the case here. The track simply sounds rich and bustling with energy and life like the ecosystem it is letting us envision .A playful track which coils and uncoils, winds and rolls around, plays with us without losing direction and is always good for another surprise, while croaking its way towards a wild climax of luminescent frog sex around the seven minute mark. Definetly a track that can bring smiles to any dance floor while never losing power. Great opener. 2) Flip Flop and Tron pick up the place with their driving track "Material World". The combination works smoothly and the result could be described as intelligent Full-On. Yes, in many ways it lives from a full-on style formula, long breakdown all inclusive, and it is the "ride the baseline" vibe that pushes the track forward in essence, but it does not rely on this alone. The collaboration manages to conjure up enough atmospherics to cater to body and mind. Another interesting aspect is the lead that you hear from the 2.20 minute mark onwards. As this album has been created as a concept album with many songs being specifically written for this project, many sound elements seem to flow through the album, connecting it through these somewhat similar/reoccurring elements. The rotational saw (sorry for lack of better descriptive expressions) lead I mentioned is an example of this, but maybe that's just my fucked up ears. This track has a lot of twists and turns and positive energy throughout. What remains similar to the OOOD track is the richness of the sound. I am no expert, but am sure the production must be excellent. 3) I like the last AMD a lot and Roadshow did not disappoint me either. This track continues our journey through Frogland seamlessly. The most intense track so far, we are a constant influx of subtle crackling pulses, a determined baseline yet never losing touch for humour. Again and again the organic croak-calling of the frogs patches things together. This track unfolds itself in phases, each phase being ushered in by quirky leads paving our path through the frog infested jungle. Don't you love it when tracks are brim full with ideas and creativity that lesser artists may have created 3 or more tracks out of it? This is a great example of this. Vocal sample enhances the atmosphere and does not become cheese-laden in any way. 4) I might be a bit biased here, but Braincells music is amazing to my ears. Maybe the purest Psychedelic trance that can be heard 2010 AD imo. The way Ralph manages to create tracks that flow so smoothly, moulding old-and new-school elements together as easily as if they were play dough. The stuff on Temple of One was amazing, Transformation of reality was amazing, it just keeps getting better and better. His music knows only one direction, forwards into the vortex and beyond, the spirit of Goa hovering above it, ever present. The Big Trick is no different, absolute high tech wizardry. 5) Fearsome Engine are the combo of Tristan and Laughing Buddha. These names enjoy an immense amount of respect in the psychedelic trance scene and on Frogology they have managed to contribute a very unique track which almost defines a whole new style unlike anything I have heard that I can remember. I have not heard the Fearsome Engine album, I must get round to it if it is as special as this. It combines old school elements with a very organic sound, a funky base that you have got to hear for yourself and a kind of peculiar UK club vibe (in a strange but good way). Its definitely a track which sticks in your ear and has amazing dance floor potential. I bet this has absolutely driven some dance floors completely mad. It also has an innate playfulness which is again reflected throughout this album. 6) Rastaliens and Virtual Light come crashing in at 145 BPM with a twisted yet melodic night time tune. After a short intro we are being driven a seemingly optimistic future, but chaos begins to unfold as layer over layer of mysterious effects sweep in over a bouncy baseline that never loses its humour or takes itself too seriously, another coherent theme throughout the album. Not my favourite on this album, ´for home listening at least, but should wreck havoc on dance floors at 3am (or any other time for that matter), 7) Archaic continues in a night-time orientated manner and plays with tribal elements that work nicely and give the track a lot of its personality. The Organic sounds are back again, croaking and squelching as the track gains in intensity and becomes increasingly mystery-charged. After a brief phase of clarity the relentless chattering of natural and supernatural forest animals infiltrates our brains again. Our journey through the frog-forest seems to have taken us to a strange place. For my taste the track could have gone on for a bit longer, ends kind of abruptly imo. That tribal flare really brings something to the table, need more… 8) TOF-U continues by EVP continues nicely where Archaic left off, night time sounds with a strong tribal touch, a weird symbiosis of the organic and inorganic. Definitely the most twisted track on the album, taking strangeness one step further, like having a 1980´s arcade with pinpall machines and video games and a rocket launch pad in your head over a determined baseline rushing along at 148 BPM If you have heard some other EVP stuff you have an idea what to expect. Solid track but not one of my personal highlights. 9)Our journey through Frogland is nearing an end and this is signified by a return to relative clarity courtesy of Subliminal System, I had not heard anything from Subliminal System before this and I was almost blown away. Again we are treated to a very unique style shaped from several different influences. The sound is very clean and builds very nicely with some beautiful melodies, crystal base-lines and crazy effects which are in themselves rhythmic components. The baseline and lead around the 2.15 mark really kicked my ass. Biggest suprise on the album for me. 10) Scorb is known for his crystal clear style and his contribution is the perfect way to wind down the album, the frogs have gone for a well deserved nap and we are led out of the forest on a bright and clear note, perfect for dawn. Beautiful soaring melodies and dreamy sounds capes clear away the fog, and soon the frogs will awaken to lick psychoactive dew from the leaves. Conclusion In my opinion this is one of the most interesting releases the last year had to offer. It comes across as a very well thought out piece of art, covering a wide variety of styles without committing to one. It is impossible to identify any tracks that drag the album down because the overall quality is so high, almost all tracks are excellent and original imho, and the album should appeal to a wide range of psy-listeners due to this. 10/10

You think I should charge extra for this? [E] Actually, now I think about it, it's quite a complement for my own music, because the two acts you've picked out as sounding 'like OOOD/VoC' when mastered are the ones that came to me with the best production - the clearest, punchiest, richest and most dynamic-sounding unmastered mixes. So basically you're saying that OOOD sounds as good as they do, rather than the other way round, and for that I thank you! Also I think you've perhaps finally discovered and identified what proper production and mastering sounds like on your music system

Antic - with respect, until you've heard both mastered and unmastered versions of both these tracks and recent OOOD, you are in no position to tell me what I've made them sound like, as opposed to what was there already. I'd be interested to know if you think the same of Disco Hooligan's albums, or the Anakoluth EP 'Beyond Reach', or the Zenon VA 'Sea of Vapors', or the Devils Mind VA 'Wasted Brigade'. Do they sound like OOOD too? Because I did nothing to Artha's music that I didn't try to do to these albums and EPs too.

Hmm... to put this in context, the last OOOD album I mastered was Breathing Space in 1999 (the first time I ever mastered anything, as it happens!), and the last Voice of Cod album I mastered was the first one, in 2005. My mastering may not be the best in the world but on hearing what I did for the EP, Artha himself asked Cronimi to get me to do the album without knowing Mike had already asked me to do it... so if the artist and label are both happy then I feel I can't be doing too badly. Not to mention the other feedback I've been getting recently. There's room for improvement though, always A lot depends on the original production, too; perhaps it's Artha's sound you don't like, not mine! Don't forget the clips are only 128K as well, and encoding quality can vary with different encoders and different material; it's not impossible that if you heard the WAVs or the CD you might be pleasantly surprised.

Maybe you didn't understand the question? I hadn't heard any of Artha's music before I started mastering it so I was wondering what people here thought of the similarities between his stuff and classic-era Hallucinogen. Personally I really like it - it's like I've been waiting to hear something like that for years. What do you think? Or are you still hung up on how I'm not allowed to have an opinion because I worked on it?

Artha. Discuss.

Mastering now complete... this is an exceptional album IMO.