seraph Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 SASHA - AIRDRAWNDAGGER 2002 BMG INTERNATIONAL 1. DREAMPELS 2. MR. TIDDLES 3. MAGNETIC NORTH 4. CLOUD CUCKOO 5. IMMORTAL 6. FUNDAMENTAL 7. BOILEROOM 8. BLOODLOCK 9. REQUIEM 10. GOLDEN ARM 11. WAVY GRAVY Here is the first album by famous international DJ Sasha and comparing to his playing, this is completely different turn, he decided to make pretty tame, gentle album for chilling rather than dancing. This is pure home listening music. To me, this is masterpiece. It sounds like perfect mix between Earth Nation and Speedy J. He made that kind of album, in similar vein to Terra Incognita and G Spot, and while those 2 are from 1995, this one is from 2002 and production is very good and liquid. He made more of a freestyle album than course one. It starts with very cute intro DREAMSPELS that is very gentle intro, brilliantly followed by MR. TIDDLES, very dreamy, ambient perfection. This song alone with few more is worth the whole album with its cute melodies and gentle pads. It is perfect song for chilling. After which comes MAGNETIC NORTH which is also pretty dreamy track with some beat added and more distinctive atmosphere with of course trancey sounds and melody in ambient manner. Next comes CLOUD CUCKOO, faster and more energetic piece. It moves smooth and concrete and has also various trancey melodies to spice it up for better journey. After this comes one of the best on the album IMMORTAL. Huh, this song reminds me so much on early Harthouse music. It is ambient trance at its best. It reminds me a little bit on Orbital with its musical structure. Perfect song...After that comes second best one FUNDAMENTAL. Now, this is faster track, darker, and is done like a breakbeat, with lots of changing moods and melodies. He is really the atmosphere man, setting the mood right, preparing you for something, but not taking you there completely. BOILEROOM is in similar vein to Fundamental with its dark, breakbeat mood. It goes very good after previous one, making nice continuation. BLOODLOCK is first trance song here, sounds like a crossover between trance and progressive house. Very good track that is followed by ultimate ambient piece REQUIEM. Now this one is also one of the better ones here; very gentle, celestial sounds and melodies makes this track most easy to listen. It is the best track for coming down on some hard drug. It is very lyrical in its structure and should have been put as last one. Next one is housey GOLDEN ARM, pretty good track that would perfectly go after Bloodlock. It is entirely done like a club track and wouldn't be bad playing it at a club. It is very bouncey and clubby and completely different than the rest of the album. WAVY GRAVY closes the album and it is very good track...a little bit melancholic, yet very focused and concrete with lots of emotional melodies all around. All in all, this is very good effort by famous dj, and it is very stylish and personal album, especially for his first one...Very good...9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAH Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 heads up to this one, 11 and 3 do the trick for me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted July 10, 2005 Share Posted July 10, 2005 Great album.One of the best chill albums i've ever heard.Fantastic atmosphere,fantastic melodies. 9,5/10 "Magnetic North" what a track! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinos Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 Cloud Cuckoo = Pwnage. Overall it's a bit boring though, and some of the middle tracks like Immortal and Fundamental just don't do it for me. 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegma Posted July 12, 2005 Share Posted July 12, 2005 Highly Recommended! One of my fav albums 9.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 nice chill album, much better and more preferable than all new sasha crap, 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prio Alea Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 I love this album! As seraph says some songs are "cute".. I love the cyber-organic feeling to the album, soft, warm AND cold with some edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 I love the cyber-organic feeling to the album, soft, warm AND cold with some edge. 297252[/snapback] Agree 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted July 14, 2005 Share Posted July 14, 2005 this album grows on me - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kai-Q Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 I lost the hope of good classic trance like Earth Nation, Cosmic Baby and many more make. The moste trance music which we know nowaday, is commercial trash like DJ’s make on compilations e.g. Future Trance, Dream Dance, Gary D Trance, Tunnel Trance Force (the first 4 CD's was okay), DJ Networks, Trance Nation, Trancemaster/Wolrd of Trance (since 1998) etc. All these songs sound like the others. You can listen to many cover Rock/Pop Songs and this nerved Voice Trance (Where you hear singing a men or most women) too. But I listened the first time to Airdrawndagger. I was very happy that there are DJ's being able to make very good Trance music. I will not going in detalis, because this is CD is wonderful. I love this CD. The Xpander EP is very good too. I hope there will be more music like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopie Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Everything is said already. This is very harmonic piece of work. I love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabamaru Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 I love it too, just ordered for 5 pounds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0fane Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 One of my alltime favourite electronic albums, and a very complete piece of art. Funny that a "mainstream" DJ most psy-snobs wouldn't even consider listening to, has produced an album more psychedelic than the majority of the releases on the psytrance market today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ov3rdos3 Posted August 4, 2005 Share Posted August 4, 2005 i actually just bought this off amazon for £5 too. bargain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prio Alea Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 Funny that a "mainstream" DJ most psy-snobs wouldn't even consider listening to, has produced an album more psychedelic than the majority of the releases on the psytrance market today 307612[/snapback] I am in no way a "psy-snob".. That's just being stupid imo, when there's so much music to love out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin OOOD Posted August 7, 2005 Share Posted August 7, 2005 It's a great album - I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madpup Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 I have to go against the majority here. I found this album to be nothing special, I liked the darker breakbeat tracks, but the ambient type of tunes did nothing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 I liked the darker breakbeat tracks, but the ambient type of tunes did nothing for me. 311188[/snapback] Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeletonMan Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Thinking back of the Samothraki Festival in Greece 2003 I think it is fair to say that the most crazy experience music - and otherwise - was when I danced for about an hour and a half with a tree at the chill out stage one night. This is why I am sometimes not quite sure whether a certain type of music should be labelled chill-out, ambient, progressive or psy-trance. I mean, you are supposed to chill at the chill-out stage, right? But play the right, quality, down-beat / chill-out at the right time, and you'll have everyone going crazy. This is what happened at the Samothraki Festival. Down beat music on chill stage with everyone going at it like crazy, things even more wicked than on main stage. Sasha wasn't at Samothraki but Airdrawndagger represents exactly the sort of music I'm thinking off. I could hear this music in the afternoon at the chill-out stage, roll a splif, relax and enjoy. Maybe dance a little. Or I could hear some of the trax here at night and go dance berserk. My favourite dance track here has to be Fundamental. The kick-in at 8:05. What is this?! Progressive chill-out ...?!? But it's not fair to single one track out. Up-beat, down-beat, they're all fantastic! And I almost never got to hear this album! Only heard it cause a friend insisted I'd give this Sasha album a chance. "I think you'll like it", he said. Well, thanks buddy! Right on - I love it! I think it's a straight 10/10 and encourage everyone to check it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bahamut Posted April 23, 2007 Share Posted April 23, 2007 I've been listening to this one lately and I gotta revise my opinion. I used to like only a couple of tracks but now I like the whole thing. Great album. Love the sounds, atmosphere and slick breakbeats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandemonium Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 My first ambient album that I ever purchased, on the day it was released, and still my favorite to this day. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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