Infected Mushroom - BP Empire

[Guest lamat12[at]hotmail[dot]com]

nice

[Guest DrOfman[at]pure.lsd[dot]com]

Boom Infected !!!!!!!!!Favorite tracks: Spaniard - oh so groovy, yum. BP

Empire - Weird voice sample, but nice sounds and progression. Tasty Mushroom -

the melody and basslines are much tastier than voice sample! P.G.M. - This

track has some of the nicest rhythms, as well as colorful melodies 10 of 10

 

BOOM

[Guest Agoraphobic]

Err...want that a copy of what the first guy said?

[Guest ripple[at]bespin[dot]org]

Infected Mushroom - BP Empire

 

 

Artist: Infected Mushroom

Title: BP Empire

Label: BNE

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'48" Never Ever Land

02. 07'17" Unbalanced (Baby Killer Rmx)

03. 07'40" Spaniard

04. 07'38" BP Empire

05. 06'57" Funchameleon

06. 06'58" Tasty Mushroom

07. 07'41" Noise Maker

08. 07'23" PGM

09. 10'23" Dancing With Kadafi

 

Review:

 

More of the deranged Infected Mushroom sound I always love dancing to

Infected Mushroom at a party, but this is something that is also fun to

listen to. All the songs have a neat atmospheric feeling. Hooray for

reverbs?

I really like the sound of this album! The production quality is nicer than

The Gathering or Classical Mushroom. High quality all the way through. And

there are a lot of killer grooves here!

There are also some extremely odd parts to some of the songs, and they

really remind me of a dying cow sometimes. Weird off-beat synth lines as the

song is winding down, or out-of-tune sounding synths. And of course some

weak sounding voice samples... but some nifty ones as well - just what

you've come to expect from these guys.

Favorite tracks: Spaniard - oh so groovy, yum. BP Empire - Weird voice

sample, but nice sounds and progression. Tasty Mushroom - the melody and

basslines are much tastier than voice sample! P.G.M. - This track has some

of the nicest rhythms, as well as colorful melodies

9 of 10

[Guest deeznutz]

send in the clones!

[Guest Astyanax]

The cover really sux, but what the hell! It's the music that counts! And again

these Infected guys managed to make their new album sound better than the

previous one! So again 10/10

[mars]

Never Ever Land is quite cool, though it kicks. Its of the style i call casual

psy: not overloaded with sounds, simple, but with psy sounds after a big break.

 

Unbalanced is a killer: it kicks, catches you, it's various, has part in which

you can breathe, lots of psy soundz everywhere. This is psychedelia! At a

moment there is the melody of the original BabyKiller, and it gives you a

chilly break before it restarts and gives you 2 full minutes of psychedelia.

yeah!

 

Spaniard is the best track of the album to my mind: it's very simple but has a

part with powerful distorsions. It repeats 3 times in the track and sets you

on "dance now" mode! There are strange voices, like in th previous track, and

several little breaks which changes the curse of the melody. the last third is

the best part and ends abruptly on those wicked distorsions.

 

BPEmpire is very hard. Expect no compromise, this is a very good track too,

full of little changes that makes you dont get tired of it.

 

Funkamillion is also very good: a first part which loks like real psytrance, a

second part made up with psychedelic funk, then a very chilly part with piano

that ends on distorted sounds & the recalling of a previous part. good.

 

NoiseMaker may be a try to make a more minimal track. It's ok but it shows no

surprise.

 

TastyMushroom could have been very good but its too repetitive. There is the

psychedelic madness and it's effective in parties but you get tired very soon

of this track at home...

 

PGM is another killer with chants, psysounds, a dreamy part (still nothing

surprising), and in the middle there is a climax that leads to a very very

very uplifting melody with psychedelia everywhere. it's like a parenthesis.

Not many groups know how to produce such a track. The end is made of madness

and landing...

 

Dancing with Cadafi is a track with lots of different themes. Its not really

ambient, its just a lot of madness from Erez and Amit. the problem is that it

looks like a videogame song in some parts, and like the production of true

psytrance masters in other parts. thats strange.

 

I've listened to the album at least 20 times now and in my opinion: The quality

of the sound is impressive. I think it's still impossible to compare any album

of the Infected with another.

One regret: it seems to have been composed in a hurry.

It rules because it delivers us many new ideas. Yes, it seems the inspiration

is there but....there is the very little thing missing that makes i dont mark

it less than the others 9/10. Please compete this album with the EP Roll us

a Giant which is a killer.

[Guest Tim]

Good Album.. Nice Sounds =) 9/10!!!

[Guest dsdnt[at]x[dot]com]

ok album...the last track is creative but the other tracks aren't as deep as

the other infected stuff

[Guest sov productions[at]cs[dot]com]

B.P. EMPIRE / JUNE 2ND, 2001

ON JUNE 2ND, 2001 SEEDS OF VISION PRESENTS B.P. EMPIRE FEATURING INFECTED

MUSHROOM- LIVE (BNE RECORDS-ISRAEL) CELEBRATING THERE NEW ALBUM RELEASE B.P.

EMPIRE, ALSO DJ SETS FROM DUVDEV (INFECTED MUSHROOM), BARAKUDA (PSYTRIBE),

NICE CAVE & GUESTS. THIS EVENT WILL BE LOCATED IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,

STARTS AT 10:PM UNTIL 7:AM, 18 AND OVER, ID'S ARE REQUIRED. THE NEW INFECTED

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FOR MORE INFO CALL (818)-377-4002, (323)-993-3393, (310)-281-7588, E-mail-

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[Guest [Anonymous]]

it is very nice 11/10

[max]

Not a bad album, but a bit disappointing for me. Lot of tracks (Noise maker,

PGM, BP Empire, Tasty Mushroom, Funkamillion) are "empty".

 

There's no tracks in this album that can reach a "Mush Mushi" or a "Return Of

The Shadow".

[Guest iNFiNiTi500]

I agree with Max here, this album is okay but no patch on the Gathering or

Classical since it sounds tired and uninspired i.e. it just misses the edge

where IM seemed to have a patent on. Whereas the previous albums got better

after each listen, only 3 tracks on BP Empire have strong replay value namely

Never Everland, Spaniard and Dancing with Kadafi. The others are shallow

fillers and lack any magic touch. Why they completely dropped the acoustic

guitar and piano sound which worked so well in the classic BustAMove and

replaced it with a standard 4/4 no-thrills trance formula is beyond me. And

why-o-why did the full of fresh ideas track Roll-us-a-Giant ended up as a

B-side. That one would have been a highlight with Dancing with Kadafi here

which is also full of innovation and melodic breaks. BP empire is more

evidence that the Isratrance scene is degrading (commercialism, identity

crisis) cause if the mushies can't feed the heads of psytrance lovers

properly, who in Israel can? 6/10.

[Guest xphile[at]freenet.hut[dot]fi]

This rocks! Great sounds nice atmosphere! 10/10 !!!

[Guest Phaeton]

i think it's better than classical mushroom, but not as good as the gathering

... it is not a dancefloor oriented album, like i've heard some say ... it is

again pretty different from the classic acidic goa sound, with lots of

strings, ahh-voices, flutes and bells.. which is a good thing i think!

strangely enough, some of the tracks even made me think of artists like

orbital, so i think this album is very accessible to people who are not into

psytrance too .. bad things about the album are : the cover !!! it's shit

ugly, they should've used tzahi's cover which was really beautiful ! and i

still can't be bothered listening to the 'bp empire' title track, imho they

should've put 'roll us a giant' on the album instead

anyway for now my favourite tracks are 'never ever land', 'spaniard' and

'funkamillion' ... 8.5/10

[Guest In$[at]nity]

I'd like to be nice and say i liked it... but....

 

it sucked arse!

 

why oh why have you done this too us.....

 

In$@nity

[Guest 500µg]

My opinion, is that I have to buy this album and listen to it...

[Guest OA]

Why do people keep comparing to the Gathering and Classical mushroom. It stupid

to do that. This album rocks. I love it . Funchamealion and Tasty Mushroom are

favs. 10/10.

[Guest been there, done that, heard tha]

VERY disapointed! I thought the first IF album was a rip-off, and I cant stand

it's immatureness... The second album (Classical Mushroom) is quite

"commercial" too, but a whole lot better IMHO.

I dont like this album, I have listened to this album once sofar. Will try it

again later.

Many of the melodies seems to be ripped off from commerical artists and stuff

like that.

 

Roll Us A Giant on the EP is MUCH better than all the tracks on this CD..

 

Never Ever Land starts out like the most fucking commerical track ever heard on

a psy-cd.

Some of the melodies in Spaniard is ripped off (dont remember from what song

though).

FUNKAMILLION is the lamest track on this cd, first of all The Delta used

"Twilight Zone"-melodies two years ago in their song "Thing"... to even

include a track on this cd with that melody is a shame...

Noise Maker is also a lame track, the intro sounds like some house song from

the 80's or something.

 

6.5/10 for this Infected one. Most of the tracks seems lame for some reason,

but sometimes they are really good also(!). I expected lot's more from IM

after Classical Mushroom (btw, this cd is absolutely not for the dancefloor...

Classical Mushroom wasn't for the dancefloor either).

Some songs feels too simple and commercial for my taste.

It think they could release it on SONY without any problems.

[Guest jsb]

More infected are releasing new stuff more there're bad. They're always

regressing in their music quality. The first album was a materpiece, the

second, average and too much acoustic (not enough twisting and psychedelic),

and this is the minimal/commercial ultimate release.

[Guest o!l!d!]

the production qualiti could got beter , the bits just does'nt do it like the

1st cd

the idea's are great but too many changes in one track a track simply dont go

from a happy

melody too sad melody afetr the brake . its like they think they invented a

new style (well)

they are the best band in the world !!!(right) not good/10

[Guest Sun-Wizard]

it's not good as the other album the people here say it rocks just because its

infected thats what im thinking right now

[Guest Sun-Wizard]

everybody say that the gathering is better than cllasical....

what are you nuts cllasical is the best cd ever its perfect art.........

[Guest shivas[at]isratrance[dot]com]

i like only 2 tracks:

unbalanced (baby killer remix) good old infected with improved remic..

and dancing with kadafi...i like stories;)

the rest well..nothing new..style is style but for me it's empty little

bit..but what is for sure that all the tracks would always work at the parties!

[Guest Goa Spirit]

Ok. i have heard this over and over again. Thinking it will growe on me. Its

not bad, but it is missing that freshness... that crazy im style that i liked

so much in their earlier albums... i wouldn't say its bad, but i am not blown

away.. again too much expectation i guess. and dare i mention... sounds a bit

like psy-techno. But that is my opinion and opinions are after all opinions,

so buy if you like,, don't if you do not like. i'll give it a couple more

listens.. so far only spaniard, tasty mushrrom and the last track (to a

certain extent) have been to my liking...