Guest Tomvcarter Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Planet Ben - Test Artist: Planet Ben Title: Test Label: Hadshot Date: 2003 Track listing: 01. Compact 02. Sept.Love 03. Third Avenue 04. Gravitation 05. Cattle Beat 06. Straight Ahead 07. Rotten Lung 08. Domestic Dirt 09. Hi-Fi 10. Screwdriver Review: Hmmm nice! Huge deep tek trance. The best album in this style for a long time. If you like your X-Dream, Spirallienz, Midi Miliz etc, you will absolutly love this. Still with that typically fat sound you would expect from Ben, epic atmospheres, huge bass, and the best high hats in the scene (Just dont know how, but they just keep comming!)I prefer it to the X-Dream album and the other two, and they are great albums. "Straight Ahead" is classic, would devastate any dance floor. "Sept Love" also from his latest ep, was the tune that got me so excited about this release, slightly different from his usual style, this is morning trance, but with the planet Ben sound, sounds wierd dosent it, but it works soooo well, it will be played everywhere for a long time to come!!!! This is a very good album, esp if you like it techy, 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted May 26, 2003 Share Posted May 26, 2003 Mainly, I bought this one because it comes with the elusive 'Trippy Future Garden' on the 2nd CD for free. I've been curious about that one for years. The front side is quite like 'Silver' - competent, capable and well-executed. It has several flavours of cuts on it, and pretty much each track has something good about it. High hats are a highlight indeed. 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr G Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 I totally rate this album, great stuff from Planet Ben. Stonking techno kicks, silvery high hats, swirling spacey atmospheres, big portentous moody melodies, sprinklings of interstellar space-ice. I get the feeling that we have a classic here, as it is more consistently good than releases in the same vein from Midimiliz et al. These tunes will last. 9/10 ~*~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr G Posted June 29, 2003 Share Posted June 29, 2003 I should add something to my review above, although it does not change the review substantially. That is that "Cattle beat" is far too bovine for my tastes; a meaningless foray into progressive house territory that is just boring. Not mooooo, but boooo. Still, apart from that a very good album. ~*~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fosku Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Great album, as always from Planet BEN. Funny thing are the high-hats, I've noticed it too! From the times of Ant Invasion, his high-hats have always been exceptionally good. It's not those things you usually notice, there has to be something to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Hit and miss. I reckon Silver had a more appealing dark touch. That being said, some cold sunless tracks like Hi-Fi and Rotten Lung do it. On 6/29/2003 at 12:00 PM, Guest Dr G said: That is that "Cattle beat" is far too bovine for my tastes; a meaningless foray into progressive house territory that is just boring. Not mooooo, but boooo. Still, apart from that a very good album. ~*~ Lol, I don't mind house but this track sounds a bit out of place here, still decent track. Favorite: probably Straight Ahead, together with Rotten Lung. Domestic Dirt is pretty nice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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