Guest Slave2rave Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 Parasense - Avangaro Artist: Parasense Title: Avangaro Label: Acidance Date: 2003 Track listing: 01. Gidra 02. Speech Work 03. Stop The Sickness 04. Mail Delivered 05. Ritual Of Drugs 06. Meteor Shield 07. Tarakashi 08. Big Rave With No Name 09. Skriamer Review: It's Parasense, instead of "Parasence". Other than that, a typical russian sound: very dark, heavy, full on. Didn't listen to the whole album, just to some tracks. Stop The Sickness (T3) is a heavy one, very fast bassline, dancefloor killer. T6, T7 and T9(!) follow the same style. Can't give any rating, since i didn't listen to it all. Well, if you liked the older Parasense, you'll like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smarthowie Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Finally This long awaited album from the russian guys, this cd is just what I expected !! Got the cd today, and I have already listened to it several times... Because it is quite amazing! Track 1, Gidra isn`t anything special though, I didn`t like it, but if you just skip that one you have 8 tracks to have really fun with... Track 2 is very good, nice bassline, and t3 follows the same style, even harder bassline, one hell of a track!! t4 also very good, t5, ritual of Drugs is a killer, nice bass, not as "pumping" as 2&3, but harder and the kicks makes a nice "clack" sound, great!! T6&7 is at 148 BPM, fast and hard, same style as 2&3, very good !! No tracks on this cd under 145 BPM, very hard and dancefloor-oriented !! Track 8 is pumping again, great track, and then we have t9, which starts of with not so pleasant bassline, though it`s very good, but listen very carefully to the last 3:30 min of the track, God damn !!! So excellent, hard, pumping, I love the end of this track, the bassline changes three times... Do you like the older Parasense, buy this one straight away !! I give it 10/10, to bad Track 1 don`t follow the same style as none of the rest! But I am sure someone out here like that one too !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psydark Light Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 the usual parasense material. ---- there is no much to say because there is no changes or something crazy I liked here. I really don't like parasense's basslines , sound a bit poor. ------------ bottom line: people who enjoy the old parasense stuffs ,will enjoy this album too. people who didn't like parasense in the past , won't like parasense in the near future. --------- FAVORITE TRACK : Tarakashi ! grade 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Blue Penguin Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 i put an ear on it, on the "chaosexistence" site, and it sounds good, dark, a killer on the dancefloor IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathPosture Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 Parasense - Avangard is the correct title... Just check the Acidance site... Heavy, dark, twisted, distorted, psychedelic are my first impressions listening to this cd. I have not yet heard these tracks on the dancefloor, but I can imagine they will KICK ASS... Great stuff, following the style that Parasense introduced us to on their first album... Fav'e track so far is Speech Work, but the rest is pretty good too... 7/10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr Cheroot Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 WOW. This is an all-inclusive Party tool-kit. DJs can take two copies of this and rock the floor for more than an hour. This is psychedelic defined.....dark and twisted to boot. A MUST-BUY, full-on freaks can just go ahead and pick this one up, but don't say i didn't warn you. Bhom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psykret Posted February 9, 2003 Share Posted February 9, 2003 Andrew dice clay said it best but i'm gonna repeat his words of wisdom! " UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE"!!!!!! There is only one track that i don't like "that" much and it's track#1. This is Probably gonna be the release of the year for me,right Next to Digital Talk-Dark Vision. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr Cheroot Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Sorry bout the repeat review, but this one deserves a closer look. Announcing the new and improved Parasense masala, prepared with the patented Avangard technology. Ready-to-cook all-inclusive psychedelic party kit. Just add lysergic acid. Wow, what can I say about this one. Parasense is back with a bang, and my ears are still ringing. Serious psychedelic stuff, this. Gidra starts off on a "milder" note, warming up with a steady 4x4, spiked with a considerable amount of twists and turns nonetheless. Speech Work darkens the brew a little, with a relentless bassline all the way, finally giving way to some extended samples which may be slightly corny to some, but will surely bring smiles to an international crowd rocking the dancefloors at many a trance festival this summer. Next on is the star of the show, Stop The Sickness, which makes its intentions clear from the word go with some serious knob-twisting and tweaking, and a bassline heavy enough to knock off a few feathers from Skazi's hat. The breakdown midway through the track is simple, and a little too effective when on certain substances, I remember hearing this track in Goa at the New Year's party at Hilltop, at about noon, and almost screamed at the DJ to stop (the sickness?), it was so intense. Next up is Mail Delivered, which gives a much needed 53 seconds of ambient respite, after which it's back to square one, riding on the beats and squeaks and plinks. Ritual Of Drugs is a highly lysergic romp through black-lit tunnels and dark deep forests, leaving you with a considerably muted sense of direction at the end of it all, I recommend a sitter for this one. Meteor Shield and Tarakashi are a little disappointing compared to the other tracks, but hey, disappointing in this case is an 8/10; expect generous helpings of mind-twisting psychedelia to keep you on your feet anyway. Big Rave With No Name is as strange as it's name, with a very fat bass not very typical of Parasense; highly entertaining nonetheless, once you get over the numbness in your head. Skriamer is another beauty, a little experimental (there's three different basslines in the track), but a nice culmination of this giant roller coaster space ride of an album. The wait has been well worth it. A phenomenal duo doing what they do best…..causing serious brain damage. A must-buy for DJs and full-on freaks. Parasense is spelled p-s-y-c-h-e-d-e-l-i-c. Rating: 5/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted March 7, 2003 Share Posted March 7, 2003 This release delivers what we've come to expect from this crew. Hard-driving, fast, relentless acid psychelia for drugs and motion on the floor. I think this would work well outdoors. Not much new or surprising happens, but that's just their style. This solid effort gets a 7.5/10 from me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKS Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Parasense from Russia is out with their second album on Acidance Records. They had big success with their first album Apple, released early 2001. Parasense is famous for a totally dark sound picture. Their music is very monotonous, but not minimal. You get a lot of tiny psychedelic sounds in between now and then, and usually a little melody at the end. The first track is the same style as on the Apple album. Very hard pumping dark trance with a few small psychedelic sounds. Track 2 goes the same style, but after a few minutes you get a cool dark melody that sounds like heavy guitars. Track 4 follows with high bpm and a lot of scary noisy sounds. No light sounds to be found here? Track 5 is another fast going stumper, with dark industrial sounds. Reminds me a lot of techno, with very monotonous rhythms and sounds. Track 6 goes the same direction, but maybe with some more massive sounds. Track 7 has even more scary and noisy sounds, but still monotonous. Track 8 is better, with more psychedelic sound picture, still very dark. The last track on the album goes the same style. Pure dark night trance. This album isn`t much different from their first. In my opinion it sounds a bit simple, but it will for sure please some of you who like hard banging dark psy. Russian trance is a bit overestimated in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted March 27, 2003 Share Posted March 27, 2003 he he with Parasense in general and this album in particular, it's all a question of having a huge powerful subwofer... if you do, then the hypnotic monotonous bassline (especially in Meteor Shield -- I have NEVER heard such a powerfull bass-line in my life!!) will leave you turning the volume-knob a up a notch every 30 seconds wanting more and more and more!! But if you have some wimpy little speakers you'll probably notice mostly everything else happening in the tracks except the bassline... and that's the problem... nothing much happens except for the bassline... Only Speech Work can work on both levels, with a cool little melody in the end, sounds a bit like Parasense doing oldschool IMO. So I guess this gets a 9/10 if you have a subwoofer, and 3/10 if you don't... thumbs up for Speech work, though, one of my top 5 tracks for at the moment!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GenAcidE Posted March 29, 2003 Share Posted March 29, 2003 I think the album is great. Acidance seems to know what kind of artists needs. I like all the tracks. Well even if someone does not like it at first hearing will be surprized if he keeps up listening to it. That is the magic of this music. Even if you don 't like something, after a couple of hearings you 'll be "on" it and dancing with it. Too good. Parasence are great I wish them a nice trip to No 1 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 BTW, I just blew up my speakers yesterday while listening to Stop the Sickness, so that restates my saying on how powerfull Parasense's bassline is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Not a very accessible album, there were times this album used to bore me a lot. There were times I also managed to enjoy it. Now I am not sure but I do think it did not age very well. The basslines are hard, alas I don't find the music complex and deep enough. But yeah these basslines played on a proper system are extremely powerful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Solid album 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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