implant Posted July 13, 2000 Author Share Posted July 13, 2000 Talamasca - Beyond The Mask Artist: Talamasca Title: Beyond The Mask Label: 3D Vision Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 08'06" The Hunted Becomes The Hunter (Feat Nomad) 02. 07'42" The Flow (Rmx) 03. 07'58" Wake Up 04. 08'40" Drops Of Madness (Rmx) 05. 07'38" Strangers (Feat Xerox And Domestic) 06. 08'08" Telepathic Atmospheres 07. 08'30" You Are The Machines 08. 07'44" Halloween 09. 08'33" Beyond The Mask Review: Finally i got this one...and hey...i must say that this CD rocks...it's awesome... It's somehow dark but you will meet crazy melodies through the whole disc... Both melodies and dark atmosphere fit together perfectly...I recommend this one to everyone...BUY TALAMASCA...It is not hard it is not soft....it's perfect... I must congratulate to Lestat for track 6...this is the best track i heard in some last months (years?)...You MUST hear Telepathic Atmospheres it has those female ethno samples...It is the influence of the Balkans...that's typical Balkan ethno sound...so spiritual so nice...i recommend to other artists to try consider doing same thing...cause...it would be innovative and in the same it would bring back spirituality to psy trance, that we love...so go buy this one and listen to track 6...and you'll be stoned how good it is... Rating.....9/10................and btw...very nice cover...)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest havoc[at]tesla.rcub.bg.ac[dot]yu Posted July 13, 2000 Share Posted July 13, 2000 TALAMASCA !!!!!!! MELODIES CAN BE DARK - THIS IS THE WAY TO GO FOR "DARKNESS" ! 'Nuff said... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nico_Steinacker[at]hotmail[dot]c Posted July 13, 2000 Share Posted July 13, 2000 Drops of Madness? I´d either say this Album takes me to the dark side! Really good stomper - just buy it! NOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
implant Posted July 13, 2000 Author Share Posted July 13, 2000 I must add one more thing... this is real GOA trance...not technoish like todays europe stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jsbedard Posted July 13, 2000 Share Posted July 13, 2000 Fucking GREAT masterpiece like we don't see these days! All tracks are powerfull, melodics, uplifting with a dark and "3d vision" screaming sound. My favorties : track 1 and especially 3 : WAKE UP. Damn, what a final !! This album really kick asses. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maskalin Posted July 13, 2000 Share Posted July 13, 2000 the best ever psychedelic melodic trance act in our days.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Children Posted July 15, 2000 Share Posted July 15, 2000 GOOD Album ! First of all BEWARE of the reviews above : that?s NOT very melodic at all ! That?s a DARK album ! To describe this style better I would say each Track is built with bass,drums,strange noises And vocals (VERY WELL THOUGHT vocals like in Tracks 1&6) ... all these sounds create a particular (& voluntarily repetitive to make you feel the ambience around you) dark atmosphere ... THEN the melodies come ! But there are not as melodies as you can have heard on old Talamasca Tracks ! That?s DARK melodies too ! The first part of the album is less melodious than the second one (maybe except for Track 1) ... You should listen to this album with headphones, cause you would be missing something ! Tracks use stereo very well and the ambience is even darker like this ! I don?t think there are any bad Tracks (even if Tracks 3,4,5 aren?t awesome), and you?ll love this album if you like dark atmospheres ... my favourites are Tracks 1,7,9 And particularly 6 ! In fact that?s the Tracks DJ Lestat played in his Live ! BUT when I heard this live in the party I found it boring ! That?s because the heavy BOUM BOUM at the party KILLED this album ! Cause I personally didn?t hear half of the sounds of these Tracks ! I found the Live boring, but this CD is NOT boring ! The closer album I know in the same style is Diablo : Insufficient Memory, but the Talamasca album is less melodious, with more strange noises (like we currently know them very well in Europe, whereas Diablo is a little more Israeli-oriented) and drums And ambience sounds are played louder than bass (the opposite than in Diablo album) ... and I think this Talamasca album is BETTER than the Diablo one ! But if you don?t like dark style you won?t like this album ... that?s more an album made to listen to than dance on (because of its darkness) ... Rating : 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mascok Posted July 15, 2000 Share Posted July 15, 2000 a great combination between dark, wicked psychedelic trance and oldschool, melodic(?) goatrance!. a real beautiful album talamasca delivers to us here. i really thought after the end of 99 he will never release any albums.. (i've waited and waited and waited . really worth buying!, a real amazing,stomping release this one is!, 9/10. BUY IT!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snow Dog Posted July 25, 2000 Share Posted July 25, 2000 Personally I found it very boring and derivative, it sounds like they're trying to copy Infected Mushroom. This is not the Talamasca I know! First and last tracks are killers, but the rest is just too dark and minimal. Here's hoping the "darkness" trend runs it's course soon, so we can get on with our lives. 3/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted July 28, 2000 Share Posted July 28, 2000 Very good work. The texture of all the tracks look a bit the same because the synths at 3D vision have obviously all their buttons blocked since 1 year, but Lestat, Eli And their friends have done an excellent job on all the tracks and the result is amazing. Every guy who's been to a Party around Paris in the last months has heard all those tracks a thousand times...but w.t.f !! This is good! 8.5/10. bravo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted July 30, 2000 Share Posted July 30, 2000 This is the best thing 3D Vision has ever released, anyway. If psy-techno keeps going in this direction I could get interested again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ktaadn Posted August 7, 2000 Share Posted August 7, 2000 What's that line from 'The Hunted' -- "It's going to be a wild ride." She ain't kidding! This one is strong-as-an-ox from start to front. Every track works for those peak-of-the-set times when you want to make people's heads roll off their shoulders. Great structures on every track -- twisting, bending and always reaching for new levels. This is the goods so far in 2000. More like this, please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChrisdeeACiD Posted August 25, 2000 Share Posted August 25, 2000 Fantastic.... The PARTY album of the year so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loosecannons_99[at]yahoo.co[dot] Posted October 4, 2000 Share Posted October 4, 2000 fukin brilliant album - typical 3D - full on as fuk!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexG Posted October 4, 2000 Share Posted October 4, 2000 ya ya ya, what they said! but...i'm already tired of this album. it seems rather simple to me because all song structures are similar. simple does NOT mean minimal, this is not minimal! but nevertheless, i don't listen to this much anymore. and children was right, this is better heard in a car (if u have good speakers), or headphones. big soundsystem weakens this album (weird, huh?). so maybe 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cnt97 Posted October 6, 2000 Share Posted October 6, 2000 Am I the only one who missed this album?... I heard it some time ago, but I didnt remember a single song on it... Guess I have to check it out again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shantidruid[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot] Posted October 12, 2000 Share Posted October 12, 2000 The best recent release, full of that full-on vicious French shit that we like so much better than the sort of minimalist rubbish coming out of Germany/UK and more intelligent than GMS/Israel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chu42f[at]bangor[dot]ac[dot]uk Posted October 20, 2000 Share Posted October 20, 2000 CD of the year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeto Posted October 20, 2000 Share Posted October 20, 2000 Bom man... This album kills... Wake Up!! and buy this album! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wthomassen[at]planet[dot]nl Posted October 21, 2000 Share Posted October 21, 2000 Not my cup of tea. I expected more from Talamasca. He knows how to create nice percussion/bass-driven grooves, but unfortunately he uses the same tricks over and over again. With the large entrances, nice build-ups, pushing drives and uplifting Astral Projection-esque melodies, every single track has the potential to rock large crowds. But it's predictable as fuck, the samples are pretty lame and the music lacks imagination and depth (ironic considering it's released by a label called 3D Vision) The only track I really liked was Cristof's remix for "The flow" (the original is also great BTW). To me 3D Vision is still the best trance label around, but I think this is below their standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kuldipsidhu Posted October 30, 2000 Share Posted October 30, 2000 very good for me cause i cannot find any thing like this any more and i thought is it's perfect for 3d vision i hope they will keep working togather cause i love the cd it's great itself 10/10 boom shanker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BandCamp Posted November 2, 2000 Share Posted November 2, 2000 Melodic,with really great percussion driving the tracks. Refreshing to hear bass rhythms other than a just a kick drum! Sort of like a harder x-dream, with lots of sound effects and movie samples sprinkled around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest luisgr76[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted November 10, 2000 Share Posted November 10, 2000 Nice and really driving music, good building in all tracks, the dark sound on it, it makes these cd better, the chants in some tracks a goooood, keep doing these DJ lestat. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest luisgr76[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted November 23, 2000 Share Posted November 23, 2000 I FORGOT TO TELL THESE IS ONE OF THE BEST OF THE YEAR, A MUST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ubik Posted December 23, 2000 Share Posted December 23, 2000 WAKE UP ! Powerful album Very good bassline on all songs with pretty dark melodies. And a good rhythmic too. The breaks in Wake up and Drops of Madness are breathtaking. One if not the best 3DVision release so far : 8.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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