Guest Baboon Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 Manmademan - Cell Division Artist: Manmademan Title: Cell Division Label: Transient Date: 2002 Track listing: 01. 06'52" Single Cell 02. 06'38" Palladium 03. 07'14" Gather Information 04. 06'18" And All That 05. 07'13" Get Up The Beat 06. 07'19" Subway 07. 07'12" Amuzin 08. 08'54" Cell Division 09. 06'19" Breeze Review: The second album from well known ManMadeMan, released on Transient. This album fell in my taste at once, you'll find out that it has an various mix of styles, there's almost something for everyone here. It kicks of with "Single Cell", an technoish minimal pounder, great atmosphere, an slow and hard bass. Good for warming up! Second track, "Palladium" is pretty much like the first, only faster, more evil and slighly more psychedelic, kinda technoish also. Track 3 "Gather Information" is one of my favourites here, fast kicking beat, I think it sometimes sounds a little like the beat in "Shamanix" by Hallucinogen, but just the beat! I also like the quirking industrial sounds, this one is more psy-minimal, not the same techno attitude here as first two. So then to forth one, "And All That" may come as a chock for many of you, the style breaks totaly here and ManMadeMan choose to bring you some club trance. Not much to say, sounds much like any club trance I think, not saying ! that it's bad! very harmonic and nice indeed. Track 5 "Get Up The Beat" also takes a different path than the others, this is a funky tech-house track, very danceble. On track 6 "Subway" we're back on regular track again. Progressive trance at it's best, fast kicking beat, gnarling effects and a scary and psychedelic flowing atmosphere. Track 7 "Amuzin" starts out with a long bass intro with various fast ripping drums. Then at the middle a scary melodie grows on to the kicking beat. 8th one, "Cell Division" is one of the best on this album, starts with an swooshing sound and then a slow acidlike beat, completed with the female voice singing (or what ever you would like calling it it's an great tune for both home listening and warming up the audiance at an party. Last track out is "Breeze", ManMadeMan wisely choose to finich of with an great chill-out morning tune. Very harmonic and emotional track... beautiful ending to a great album. This album needs to be listend to befo! re you buy it. But it's for sure an album worth being in any collection out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psychedelic man Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 i get this cd about 2 weeks ago... in first listen i didnt like it to much... but looking closer, i can tell u that.. track 2 has a very monotonous base... very hipnotic thing.. good bass and production... dark track. track 3 gather information, is faster (145 bpm) , and its more psychedelic than the first two tracks. it has a little taste of house.. here. track 4 is really cheezy.. club trance .. i think its pure shit! 142 bpm track 5 is a 129 bpm track.. its not psytrance for sure! idomt know why track 4 and 5 are here... are manmademan trying to sound more commercial? track 6 is more progressive track, but with some real psychedelic samplesaround track 7 has a very monotonous base... with atrshed melody in middle-end... some nice sinths thats al... track 8 has some crap vocals... but has a good rithim too... too slow for my tas.. its in 120 bpm, but good production. a little bit monotonous too. track 9 is a chill out track at overal i give this cd 4/10... its really sad, but its true... its more commercial than ever.. and ideas are not really new and fresh... so just buy it if u listen first and like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Goa Spirit Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 i didn't like this album at all.. when you are a point gaurd, would you be good in the paint?... i think this analogy should be applied to this album, this is progrssive sure.. but for me this resonates too much sanitation, i am sure there are some who dig it, and i respect that.. but for me this one just doesn't have IT hypnotic sure... but quality??? not in my book... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Defbydelta... Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 A bad release, best tracks are nr 3 and 8.. i thought this shoud have been better 5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Defbydelta... Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 Track 2 and 6 is good 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bhong Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 holy shit! i've tried to play it to the end but i gave up at track 8. ...the "album" is like a random mixture of 80's pop music,house,bad clubtrance and...sorry i cant stand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest -=Maskalin=- Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 i must say that i expacted more from manmademan My opinion ...5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TRISTAN Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 whap. and i love that album so much. it's even nicer than lovetechnology. there was always something great in their music. toldya. btw, please welcome me back. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest phil Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 I think this album is real shit. Manmademan released better stuff before. Note: 1 / 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest eris Posted April 29, 2002 Share Posted April 29, 2002 it's a bit like a cheese sandwich--tracks 4 & 5 are the cheese surrounded by the tougher bread and butter.definitely a disappointment after 'love technology' but they do redeem themselves with the luscious last track 'breeze' which could have fitted nicely on the first album. overall too mainstream [and techno] to be satisfying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest russ Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 the problem with this album is that it's released on transient. russell at transient should travel a bit to japan, mexico, and south africa and see that psychedelic trance is still alive and kickin, and that commercial club trance is not all there is. (seems like that's the state of england these days). if another label, such as digital structures, had put this one out, maybe there would have been pressure in an entirely different direction. manmademan have fantastic talent and production skills, but this album does not do them justice. (there are a few excellent tracks though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 crap....i'd rather fist a horse than listen to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest schizo Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 I think its a little late in time for this music, it doesn't sound good anymore... go put your x-dream irritant cd on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 It SUCKS 0/10 I only like PALLADIUM.X-DREAM ARE THE BEST! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squidbyte Posted May 1, 2002 Share Posted May 1, 2002 OH MY GOD. what a great uplifting album! this is so good.. you just didn't listen to it enough. it gets to you.. dammit.. dammit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tib-e-e-e Posted May 2, 2002 Share Posted May 2, 2002 This is innovating stuff! Trance comes in many shapes and this is a good one! Try to be open minded and not only listening to just minimal trance. This album has a very well balanced strategy. It begins good and it end even better...yeah. I can agre that manmademan has done other superb realeses for an example the hex e.p with the awsome tune hex realesed from Matsuri, this is much different but very good. There is only one cheesy track and that is " and all that" but keep on the work and dont immitate , innovate.....peace love and stinking tee-shirts----- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gene Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 great tunes -much like lovetechnology- but fewer vocals this time around with some up tempo tunes to goove to, but still holds the sound we all love that manmademade produces!!!-FR style! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psychedelic AllabertA Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 Blah This album has some very nice tracks (my fav is Amuzin, quite catchy, I love the female voice sample and the nice rhythm & melodies), also some cheesy moments like tracks 4 and 5. Khm, excuse me but what is this, Frankie Knuckles? And T5 sounds more like Tech-House (although not so bad Tech-House ... If all the tracks were made in the same fashion like for example Subway, Amuzin and Gather Information it would have been an innovative psytrance album, I mean it's innovative this way too but not im psytrance! Final verdict: 6.5-7/10. But I'll watch out for more ManMadeMan releases, they sure have pottental! Let's just hope they use it in the psychedelic way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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