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Artist: Chromatone Title: Chromaconnection Label: Vaporvent Date: July, 2006 1. Chromatone + Random + Helos - Merciful Error 2. Chromatone + Christine - Existentialist Detectives 3. Chromatone + Earthling + Random - Biiiiig Stickey 4. Chromatone + CPU + Random - Strengthen The Strange 5. Chromatone + Digital Talk + Random - Spiritual Reality 6. Chromatone + Freaks of Nature - Glow-Stick Armageddon 7. Chromatone + Hyper Frequencies + Random - Laser Wax 8. Chromatone + Neuromotor/E.S.X.S - Electryk Chromama 9. Chromatone + Rob-Ot + Psytony - Green Power House I assume this was what it looked like when Chromatone went into the studio to make his debut album. Uh, minus the methadone clinic, but I dunno, I wasn't there. That's a lot of clowns on heroin. I have an idea...how about making your own f*cking album? As the Beatles said it's ok to get by with a little help from your friends, but at some point momma's gotta push your ass out of the nest. With all these clowns at what point does it stop being an album and become a compilation? Why not just form a collective and call it The Sh*tty Full-On Nebula? So Chromatone is Lawrence Hoffman from my side of the pond and he apparently put out a Craigslist ad for studio help. Ever heard of too many cooks spoil the broth? Well they did. They peed in it. I've liked stuff from this guy, but the problem is that it's too much of the same thing. Acid-laden high tempo stuff is great, but the track structure is too linear. Not enough nuance. Strengthen The Strange harkens back to a time when the night-time full on ripped. On its face it's a good album of night time full-on, but some variety would've been greatly appreciated. I suppose if you were in need of a full-on fix you could get it pretty cheaply on Discogs.
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Artist: Various Title: Advanced Options Label: YoYo Records Date: July, 2006 1. Fluffy Puppy ATOMIC CULTURE 2. Basic BASIC 3. Insight ONYX, PTX 4. TNT TIMELOCK 5. Droid save da queen (X-Noize rmx) SUB6 6. Iron Man ECHOTEK 7. Limit Air DOUBLE IMPACT 8. Breakdown QUANTUM 9. 2nd episode FATALI 10. Shellshocks BWICKED If you had to pick a compilation that encompassed total full-on immersion in its hey day this would be it. Look at that track list. It's like the FBI most wanted list. Every artist on there screams full-on. Now it's easy for me to sit here and snipe them seven years later, but in 2006 this was the state of psytrance. Ibiza wave your hands in the air give me a glow stick trance. Like the dark times of minimal the sunny happy times of full-on didn't leave much for trancers to chew on. Sorta like a pop tart for dinner. The title of the compilation is a misnomer. It is neither advanced nor is it an option. From the awful vocoded vocals of Sync to the repetitive and unimaginative bass lines of...well, all of the tracks this is a rocket ship to the bottom of a port a potty. Only it's not the bottom apparently because they made parts 2 and 3. I'll link to it, but only because I'm supposed to. Psyshop Mdk
