V/A - BPM

[Guest Acidhive]

Another new compil from Agitato filled with mostly Israeli tracks. Pretty good

stuff here, let’s move by it track by track. Atomic Pulse deliver one of their

standard kicking psytrance songs, with that great drive. The bassline is

absolutely kicking here. Also pretty nice sampling in this one. It moves your

feet!! Lemurians hit it hard with one of their darker songs. If you know their

new album you know what to expect here and they do it again! Hard, dark and

kicking. Wizzy Noise deliver a great song like most of the time. You just have

to love their wicked style. This one rocks also and it has a really great

bassline. An adequate description for these guys would be: Programmers of

sound… :-) BLT takes off with a somewhat smoother song, but still retains that

great kickdrum we’re used to. And at 4:20 or so a great bassloop kicks in… try

to sit still with this one.. it won’t happen. Nice melody also. Insect Sun

comes up. Same goes here as with Lemurians. If you know his album you know

what to expect. One of the shorter songs here, it only lasts about 5:30 or so.

Unbelievable. I tend to dislike it when Psytrance goes towards commercial

length. This is also pretty standard fare. Dark sounds, pounding kickdrum.

It’s not bad but not really a stormer either. Oh yeah: F.O.A.D. stands for:

Faces of angels destroyed. Sounds like some sort of death/black metal title.

What’s up with that huh? Let’s not stand still over this one too long. As a

song it holds out, but it’s not really in line with the rest of the songs in

my opinion. Ok, moving along, Gataka comes up next. Has a really nice fluffy

intro, bit pounds swiftly along with a great kickdrum and driving bassloop.

After that darkish & slower Insect Sun track we’re back in business! Quite

nice song here, co-produced here by Matan, who is also Sesto Sento and

compiled this whole compilation. At almost 5 minutes the track has a little

weird break, and pumps along after that. Well, it works. It sounds a little

strange but it works. After that it’s Sesto Sento time. A little note from

myself: track 6 & 7 sound a lot like Skazi in his early days in my opinion.

They’re pretty good. At least if you like Skazi’s style. It rounds off with

Perplex, who delivers a pretty good track in my opinion, with a great melody

and some really crisp sounds. So it rounds off in style. Overall, this cd gets

8/10 from me. It could’ve been better, because track 1,2,3,4 really hit it

good. From track 5 it caves in a little. Track 6,7,8 are good but it never

reaches the height of the first 4 tracks anymore. (except for track 8) Another

gripe is that this cd is only about 56 minutes in length. A new low?? Damn

Agitato, they could’ve easily fitted 2 more tracks!! I don’t hope this is

going to be a new trend or something. Then again, the new Goa Head compilation

(16) has finally decided to break with their 9 track per cd policy. They

fitted 10 tracks on each cd and so reach over the 75 minutes per cd again! Way

to go! Allright… but for this compilation the 8/10 solidly stands. I

reccommend it to people looking for some good (mostly) Isreali pounding

psytrance. This cd was at position 1 in the sales charts from Psyshop so there

are bound to plenty of people out there that want to buy this.

[Guest [Anonymous]]

AWESOME compilation. The Lemurians and Wizzy Noise tracks are just too good.

Lots of variety here. Tracks are not exactly mixed, but are "joined" together

without a gap. No problem for DJs though.

I would give it a 7.5/10, well, mebbe 8.0

[Guest Genetix]

V/A - BPM

 

Artist: Various

Title: BPM

Label: Agitato

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. Atomic Pulse : Elements

02. Lemurians : Oscisionie

03. Wizzy Noise : Painful Memory

04. BLT : Cruise Control

05. Insect Sun : FOAD

06. Gataka : Moon Child

07. Sesto Sento : From Led to Gold

08. Perplex : BBC 2002

 

Review:

 

Well here it is the new compils from Agitato rec. The guy from Sesto Sento

compiles it and I can tell you this is better than A.R. vol.3. More full on

sound here. Lots of energy and happy feeling. (t1) Nice full on tune for the

mornings. Great energy that will be moving you. (t2) Good groove and real

morning feeling. Little melodies and you will be dancing in the morning. (t3)

Wizzy with track from their last album. I don't really like it. Some semi

melodies and hard bass line. But the arrangement of this track is not good.

(t4) Groove tune. Nice dancy track with not that high psychdelia in it. (t5)

Insect Sun now with great dark atmosphere. Nice floating inside the track.

(t6) Pure minimal tune here. Dark psytrance with good samples. (t7) Matan here

with powerful track. Great energetic kinda full on track. (t8) Good melodic

track with an interesting sample. Overall not so good compil but definitively

better form A.R. vol.3. I give 6.5/10

[Guest betyboo]

Another great comp. from Agitato rec.this one is my fevorite!!nice sounds &

grooves a great artists like wizzy,lemurians,insect sun,sesto sento etc.the

mix is very nice & smooth.........

keep on Agitato 8.5/10

[Guest mixmax]

very nice cd,a bit to full on 4me.

i like 2,3,5,7/i give 7.5/10

[Guest Defbydelta...]

I love Wizzy =))

[Guest FelipeLemosBrasil]

BLT and Sesto sento tracks are the best here. First, nice groove,

bass and effects, second a powerful one, to the dancefloor.Lemurians did a god

job here, also Atomic Pulse. 6,5/10

[Guest Goa Spirit]

sesto sento track is the real standout... what an explosion after that

break.... the rest are more formulistic cool party tunes, probably would get

the crowd moving when played/// however, lots of other releases have been

better recently/// so i would reccomend this to djs and full-on lovers, but if

your scene is more like human blue or charasmatix, buy this once you have

exhausted all other possibillities...

[Guest Dr Cheroot]

fantastic compilation. the lemurians track kick major butt.

good comments from goa_spirit.

love this compilation

8.5/10