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V/A - Digital Emission

 

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Artist: Various

Title: Digital Emission

Label: Digital Structures

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. 10'14" Son Kite : Massive

02. 08'49" Vibrasphere : Newport

03. 08'48" Tarek Mansur : Showtime

04. 07'51" Etnoscope : Drumsession

05. 07'31" Wizzy Noise : Prototype

06. 08'09" Ticon : Mr Leatherman

07. 08'29" Atmos : Force Five

08. 07'08" Shaman : Interchill

 

Review:

 

Finally a third compilation, or I should say only a third compilation, from the

label that made so much impact on the trance world since they arrived. Digital

Emission is an essential piece of plastic for anyone who loves psyprogressive

sounds.

It starts with the slow penetrating Massive by Son Kite- thick atmosphere,

touching moving mellow sounds and beautiful music. A very powerful opener.

Vibrasphere letting us know about their new album due in DS very soon,

continue the mellow atmosphere with the nice melodic sounds of Newport (T2).

Wait till you hear the Son Kite remix... Then things get thicker with a new

name- Tarek Mansur, who delivers a good tight dancefloor piece, but it doesn't

hold me at home- not enough happening. Etnoscope continue with their own

tightness, and Drumsession (T4) is all I dreamt of when I first heard their

tunes. Massive non-stop psychedelic tribalistic dancefloor percussion and

drumming mayhem. Can't wait dance to it and play it. Wizzy Noise with a nice

tech-trance tune (T5), but heard people doing it much better. Ticon soften

things up again. Mr. Leatherman is a typical Ticon tune, really nice, but

maybe too typical? Force Five pops up the big question- is Atmos back finally?

I think my answer is yes. This is far from Headcleaner in feel, true, but it's

a killer hard penetrating tune with a deep powerful penetrating feel to it and

an engulfing atmosphere. I'm waiting for more. Shaman ends the CD with the

soft repetitive chilled Interchill. Nice, but I prefer his more powerful ones.

Bottom Line: An excellent progressive release, with the usual good DS material,

and some shining diamonds. Favorites: 1(!), 2, 4, 7(!)

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Guest Tomvcarter

Agree totally with Shahar, but i think the Ticon tune deserved more credit, i

think it is there best tune yet, it had a very slik and sophisticated feel to

it, as does the whole album. Etnoscope rock hear and still continue to produce

very good prog trance, yet to be dissapointed, best new artist in the scene in

my opinion. The only weak point is the Wizzy Noise tune, as was there recent

album. Best tunes 1,2,4,6,7 & (8). A very good album as always from DS. If you

like this get the Digital DJ mix by Marcus from Son Kite also amazing. Get it!

9/10.

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Shahar... no offence... but "Mr. Leatherman a typical Ticon

tune"??????????????????????? what the hell..... I have never heard such a

Ticon song... truly shocking... (in a bad way) They must have been taking

drugs on this one... :( Son Kite and Vibrasphere are MASSIVE though...

hooray for Vibrasphere!!!

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Guest Acidhive

The new compil from DS is here, and in a big way! Starts off great immediately

with the great new son kite song: Massive. And indeed it lives up to it's

name. After that it's off to melodic world with the new Vibrapshere, this tune

is among the most melodic they ever did so far, and I'm happy to conclude I

find it great stuff!! :-) Next is Tarek Mansur, which is a new artist and he

sounds a lot like Son Kite did in their earlier days. Pretty good stuff and

percussion driven it certainly is. Then we're off to another new artist,

Etnoscope. Drumsession lives up to it's name with a lot of percussion but a

pretty little melody also. Good stuff. Next up Wizzy Noise's newest, and what

a stormer this is. Really great stuff, the dark atmosphere, the kicking

bassdrum, the wonderful loops. This is one killer of a track! Next is Ticon,

and well, this is one of their best tracks to date IMO. I also own their album

and a lot of singles from them, and this is a track I find really absorbing to

listen to. It even reminds me a bit of old Atmos work. So how's that huh? ;-)

Atmos himself is next up and delivers quite good. In the beginning of the

track you don't think it's going to be special, but around the 2 minute mark

you get this gradual build-up and suddenly a lot of old Atmos memories come

back..! Well done Atmos! Shaman rounds things off with Interchill, a more laid

back track with a repeating voice sample. Most of the time I find this highly

irritating, but in this song it just sounds allright. Overall, 9/10 for this

comp. simply because it bestows so much goodness on your ears. There's so much

to listen to in most of these tracks, and the mastering is crystal clear...

yes, this really deserves a 9/10!!

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hmmm .... I must say I expected more from MPDQX . First of all there are two

realy great tracks in here ... Son Kite and Vibrasphere deliver us real

masterpieces . The build up in the Son Kite track is just ... , well guess ...

but the rest of the compilation does not satisfy me at all ... only Etnoscope

is interesting . The Ticon and Atmos tracks are a bit confusing , not realy

their usual style and not their best too .. as a DS addict my rating is just

6.5/10 including coverart ... they've done much better . But I'm still waiting

to get my hands on the Tegma album . that will cheer me up :-) psy bye

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Tegma was indeed much better as I expected ... Emission still has a few lame

mediocre tracks that can't keep my attention to it .. BUT thE Atmos track is

pretty good , maybe more for the dancefloor cause the Balicki vibes are more

for home listening imo .. ah well , we're just spoiled ...

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  • 3 years later...

Just having reheard, intense, and reviewed a 2004 full-on psytrance compilation (All Systems Go, Exposure Productions), it's amazing how well and up to date this 2002 progressive trance release comes across

 

Even the weeniest song has something to say here. Dark, tranqualizing, intense, early Digital Structures kept a mean bass, tribal influences, and a sinister approach tight as a fuck up a squirrel's ass.

 

Why make it more complicated than it has to be?! That's the beauty of progressive psytrance over full-on. The simplicity makes it last so much longer.

 

But off course, the real problems doesn't start here until Wizzy Noise comes on with Prototype. An 8:31 minute long starrider when Ticon and Mr. Leatherman takes over. Oh, this album picks up the end ... :lol:

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