shahar@isratrance Posted March 26, 2003 Share Posted March 26, 2003 V/A - A Step Beyond Compilation Session 1 Artist: Various Title: A Step Beyond Compilation Session 1 Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie Date: 2003 Track listing: 01. Shaman : Fill And Thrills 02. Trioptimum : Tiefsee 03. Sun Control Species : Faith In Chaos 04. Tegma : El Cabron De Tulum 05. Mantik : Bazar Bizzare 06. Sun Control Species : One Size Fits All 07. Sensient : Off World 08. Mockie : All Moments 09. Neogen : Misty Mights Of Whisper Review: A new compilation from ZMA of psyprogressive tunes with feel, psychedelia, subtle melodies and after the sunrise overall atmosphere. Shaman gives us again a perfect opener with Fill n' Thrills, a mellow relaxed yet moving piece full of psychedelic and emotional sounds. I dub Shaman as the official perfect opener of good morning sets! Trioptimum continue, nice one, but I don't like the production and overall sound. Sun Control Species with a great Faith in Chaos (T3)- excellent moving psyprogressive tune for the morning moments. Tegma follow with percussion mayhem, great hypnotic tune that continues the feel in more intense and melodic direction. The Mantik track I really don't like, much to develop here. The second Sun Control Species tracks here is just as good as the first- two excellent tracks by Andrew Davidson here, which leaves me eager to listen to his upcoming album expected through ZMA. One Size Fits All (T6) is just a deep morning tune surrounding you with psychedelic atmosphere and a capturing rhythm that'll send you galloping around the dancefloor. Sensient is a promising upcoming talent from Oz that already captured my ear before, Off World (T7) is another grabbing psychedelic morning tune with an irresistible groove and an overall mysterious yet happy feel to it, opening in the end with a nice floating melody. Beautiful. Mockie takes it down a bit with the percussive tribal All Moments, nice hypnotic moving piece. Neogen takes the surprise of the CD spot with a beautiful open airy track that really touches me. Nothing life his previous release and here's definitely an artist to watch in the future. Bottom line: A fine piece of plastic with beautiful musical morning moments and a strong together feel to it. Favorites: 1, 3(!), 4, 6(!), 7, 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuko Posted March 28, 2003 Share Posted March 28, 2003 nice review Shahar ... I think this release is one of the best ZMA releases (together with Morphem - Monitoring) Session 1 is a mixture of different grooves and sounds , in a progressive way orcourse ... stand out track was Sun Control Spieces - Faith In Chaos .. heared it at a party and it totally overwhelmed me , what a stomper .. my favourite tracks are 1,3!,4,7 and 8 . design is pretty unique to .this compilation is a nice and innovative concept .. I give it 8,5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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