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V/A - Chillosophy

 

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Artist: Various

Title: Chillosophy

Label: Digital Structures

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 08'57" Ooze : Quintessence

02. 08'11" Healer : Aqua Sleeping

03. 05'21" Electrostatic : Duality (Fingertwister Rmx)

04. 08'49" Son Kite : Aiwana (Downbeat Mix)

05. 06'42" Karl Axel Bissler : Laid Back

06. 05'27" Fingertwister : Mason Groove

07. 07'56" Pope Of Gegga : Breath Taker

08. 05'16" Aztech : DeathWish

09. 05'00" Fiasko : X-Moll

10. 07'20" DPOD : Nomeda

11. 08'41" Karl Axel Bissler : Floating Castles

 

Review:

 

Surprising release from Digital Structure. The design of the cover looks like a

New Age album

cover..very funky. As usually with that label the packaging is really well done

and unusual.

 

Now let's check what's inside. Don't expect slow Son Kite or slow downtempo

swedish trance. It's

a completly new style of music. And some tracks have (like the cover) a taste

of New Age. Especially

Healer - Aqua Sleeping...the name says it all, very relaxing.

Some tracks are really close to Trip-Hop with singings and lo-fi beats (track 3

especially). And the

rest is a mix between drum 'n bass, techno and experimental stuff.

Sometime too much experimental according to me... and some are really too

repetitive to be enjoyed.

For instance Pope Of Gegga track...which is the same pattern over and over.

But i like this compilation because this is a new kind of trance. And if you

are curious check Aiwana

and Quintessence made by Son Kite guys + some people...both tracks are really

great especially Aiwana.

8/10.

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Guest [Anonymous]

Its a great chilld comp from digital, some of the trax might be a little to

electric to me, but overall i love it.. 8/10

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Guest [Anonymous]

i think it's nice compilation maybe some of the tracks are to boring. i like

Fiasko completly different as others - very new and excentric. 6/10

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Actually, "fiasko" is the only track I really dislike, its doesnt fit on the CD

at all, it completely breaks the flow. That happens when you let Bigwigs make

chill-out, its not really chill-out. The annoyance factor is around 10/10 on

that one, and its not very innovative at that. Anyways, I like the rest of the

CD, especially the KAB tracks and the Fingertwister remix. Son Kite sounds

good, too, but they could have left out those voices. Ooze is another

favourite, and Healer is typical Healer, very New_Age. Except "Fiasko" I like

every track, a very good Chill-out compilation, not too psychedelic, but very

cool. Oh yeah, and the coolest Cover in Ages, as usual with DS, even though

this tops all the other ones. Even my mom loved the cover, and that says

something. 8.5/10

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A first chill out compilation from Digital Structures with the deserving name

Chillosophy. They stand up to the expectations, and my expectations from these

people are high after releasing two of the best artists albums in 2001.

 

The chill starts with two tracks of the Kites themselves, each on his own, in a

very very relaxed atmosphere. Seb as Ooze opens with Quintessence (which also

opens the Ooze album released in Spirit Zone- another quality chill journey),

a soft ambientish track in a dubby atmosphere with a traveling story inside.

Very vivid and lively sound, painting a world around you. The ending pianos

lead well to Aqua Sleeping from the other Son Kite half, an almost loungy

track, with a lot of moving piano lines, charming, but at times too much. At

some moments, especially the last 3 min., honey drips out of the speakers.

Then starts the vocal section, first with Duality (T3) that thickens the

atmosphere from the first note, and introduces rougher sounds. A more rhythmic

track, dubby lines and caressing female singing. Very nice. A smooth move to

Son Kite with a vocal downbeat mix to the closing track of their album.

Starting and ending with a heartbeat, this is a completely different

interpretation to the sweeping tribal morning frenzy of the original- "mass

emotion of the beat"- fascinationg tale with amazing sounds giving me goose

bumps, and great vocals- one of the highlights of this journey. Than it's

Karl-Axel Bissler, with the first of his two tracks here- Laid Back (T5) is a

hypnotic funky yet mechanic piece, with a lot of hissing hi-hats and a

dark-big-city-pub-give-me-another-drink atmosphere. If you wanna clap your

hands- clap your hands. The cut to Mason Groove (T6) is a bit sudden, a

spacey-dubby piece that doesn't really talk to me, and frankly I would skip

it. Breath Taker (T7) on the other hand I really like- a deep funky technoish

tune, hypnotizing and penetrating. Another real favorite. Aztech follows with

Death Wish (T8 ), a scratchy-catchy drum'n'space tune opening up with airy

moving sounds. A Polish guy hits us next with the amazing X-Moll (T9), dirty

hissing jazzy sounds, cigarette smoke and alcohol fumes, and a lot of funk,

topped with some psychedelia- delicious! D.P.O.D change direction to the more

relaxed and spacey realms, typical of them, but topped with some weirdo jazzy

sounds connecting well with the flow. Ending is Bissler again, with Floating

Castles- another hypnotizing hallucinative minimal and monotonic track- I love

good things made of less. I would love to hear more from this guy.

 

Bottom Line: A very diverse trip through chilling realms (maybe too diverse)-

an interesting journey from soft airy ambientish soundscapes to jumpy funky

beats, ending in a mysterious note- excellent CD to wake up with! Highly

recommended (and amazing cover!!!).

Favorites: 1, 4(!), 5, 7, 8, 9(!), 10, 11(!).

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Guest Infected_CrusadeR

Healer - Aqua Sleeping is so incredible.. like i've listend to it milion of

times, and i just can't get enough of it..

 

thoug i agree with what Max said.. a bit tooo experimental, i wish all the

tracks were like first and second :)

 

9/10. !

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