Guest vertical_pig[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted December 7, 2000 Posted December 7, 2000 Psychopod - Dreampod Artist: Psychopod Title: Dreampod Label: TIP Date: 1996 Track listing: 01. 10'14" Dreampod 02. 09'05" Psychopod Review: Now we're talking psychedelic!! the Koxbox sideproject delivers a killer classic, with a remix. The only problem is that they sound similar... You know the deal: this sounds like boiling oatmeal. great tracks. Rating: 9/10 Quote
Guest Kindgok Posted December 7, 2000 Posted December 7, 2000 "Dreampod" has got to be one of my all-time favorite tracks! Does anyone know where I can find their "Headlines" EP? Quote
Guest Psylent Buddhi Posted December 7, 2000 Posted December 7, 2000 No words can explain these two tracks from Psychopod! Simply some of the finest psychedelia ever produced! Plur - Psylent Buddhi Quote
Guest Acidhive Posted December 9, 2000 Posted December 9, 2000 Hey vertical! I see you've listened to FSOL's Lifeforms as well?? Great name! Anyway, about the cd. Two great old-time goa psychedelic kicking tunes. Especially psychopod does it for me everytime. Dreampod is essentially just a reworked version of that song, though it has it's own flair and quality. 9/10 here!! Quote
mars Posted December 10, 2000 Posted December 10, 2000 Very very good EP. The first time i heard it I was in a shop and some girl was dancing on it... Awesome. 1 Quote
Guest Acidhive Posted April 28, 2001 Posted April 28, 2001 9/10 here for these two great old time Psy tracks! Dreampod is actually a remix from Psychopod, by the way.. ;-) Quote
Guest DJ Supernova Posted June 12, 2001 Posted June 12, 2001 this stuff is absolute killer! i always thought dreampod was the bomb, but my friend spun psychopod at a party and it was explosive. this is like a 10/10 EP!? worth every cent. Quote
Guest Philip Xmen Posted September 2, 2001 Posted September 2, 2001 Dreampod is simply the best track ever... it's especially good "flying" to live! Quote
Guest Psycobalt Posted September 17, 2001 Posted September 17, 2001 Yes , good stuff this one! Great sounds, gret melodies . Bom! Quote
Guest Ehsanur Posted November 25, 2001 Posted November 25, 2001 I agree! Dreampod must be of one the most psychedelic songs I've ever heard. Psychopod is also a great track. PS I dont own the EP but I just had to announce my love for Psychopod. Quote
Guest Davidtolsn Posted December 8, 2002 Posted December 8, 2002 both excellent songs, and they sound ahead of their time. this more closely resembles the stuff that starting coming out a few years later than anything else from 1996, in my opinion. the intricacies and complexity you can expect from koxbox with a more conventional structure. 9/10 Quote
SkeletonMan Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Label: TIP Records Catalog#: TIP 017 CD Format: CD5" Country: UK Released: 1996 Tracklisting: 1 Dreampod (10:19) 2 Psychopod (9:09) Enter Psychopod, side-project of legendary danish trance act Koxbox. Psychopod would later change name to Saiko-Pod focusing on a more club-oriented sound. Psychopod, however, still ventures in psychedelic waters. And like a fish. In many ways, Ian Ion, Frank E and Peter Candy defined the psychedelic trance sound of the mid nineties. Trippy, diverse tracks with loads of different sections, and very complex. Then again, no other act sounds like them so it may not be easy to say they defined anything! Dreampod / Psychopod is built over the same themes and exhilarates in FX. It may remind a little of the Stratosfear single which is also from 1996 but things get even more spacey on Dreampod. These guys were always far out and with this album it's like they decided to see how far they could take their sound. Psychedelic when it's very best, but also very challenging for the listener. There are no dull moments here and you have to be in with the music all the time to get the full effects of the riddly bullets of sound Psychopod throws at you. But if you can, this is some of the most intelligent contemporary music around. Bom shankar 1 Quote
seraph Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 TOTAL PERFECTION ! Especially DREAMPOD...it is most definitely one of the dreamiest, trippiest songs ever...Koxbox guys are here at their best. PSYCHOPOD is very psychedelic and trippy as hell, but DREAMPOD is something out of this world...11/10 1 Quote
Oopie Posted January 30, 2006 Posted January 30, 2006 Love this! Like Seraph mentioned, Koxbox fellas at their peak. Pure perfection from start to finish. This is a bit more melodic stuff than their usual psychedelia. This is sort of what *Time Slices / Perceptor (12")* was for Hux Flux. A grade? I think Seraph already mentioned it. 1 Quote
Manuser Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 I can just recommend Dreampod to any psy/goa trance lovers, that is a great classic i discovered some years ago in Distance to goa 5 compilation... This track is rich, we can hear a lot of work in it, and as it is said above, it is a really amazing, and very psychedelic track! I would say it is the best track from Koxbox/Psychopod. 1 Quote
Time_Trap Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 How had i missed this gem Dreampod is a stunning track, dreamy,ethereal,psychedelic... Psychopod continues in the same style with trippy melodies and nice flow. Great psychedelic goa with lots of variation... 10/10 1 Quote
Charlie Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 I'm going to spoil the party somewhat here by saying I loved the tracks on release but I don't think they've aged all that well, particularly Psychopod. I'll get my coat. 1 Quote
Time_Trap Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 I'm going to spoil the party somewhat here by saying I loved the tracks on release but I don't think they've aged all that well, particularly Psychopod. Posford hasn't aged that well 1 Quote
Charlie Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Posford hasn't aged that well 430270[/snapback] That was below the belt. Quote
seraph Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 I'll get my coat. 430239[/snapback] Be careful not to freeze outside... Quote
Jon Cocco Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Was this an EP or a singles album? I suppose if they made a full album, meaning 8-10 tracks, you would've reviewed it. It's strange because they seem to have made a full album in 1997 at the first link below, soon after their first er.. main album (?) at the second link. I wonder why their second album says EP with there being 6 tracks on it Is there longer albums somewhere other than the two lins below? Does this seem strange that their dubut has only two tracks and is considered a full album? I mean, occasionally a two or three track EP is released prior to the main album, which seems to be what they did with their second release titled Headlines, but not the case on Dream pod. I wonder why. http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tip/tip1cd926.html http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tip/tip1cd901.html Dreampod sounds very cool. I overall really like their trippy, melodic, psychedelic sound. Their two-track cd is available to buy. Anyone know how Headlines is compared to their first release? I'd take the latter over Dream Pod coz it has at least three times the tracks and sounds very good also. Quote
Time_Trap Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 Was this an EP or a singles album? singles the 6 track "album" is Headlines EP, dont know why ... according to discogs... Quote
Guest antic Posted January 31, 2006 Posted January 31, 2006 (edited) Was this an EP or a singles album? I suppose if they made a full album, meaning 8-10 tracks, you would've reviewed it. It's strange because they seem to have made a full album in 1997 at the first link below, soon after their first er.. main album (?) at the second link. I wonder why their second album says EP with there being 6 tracks on it Is there longer albums somewhere other than the two lins below? Does this seem strange that their dubut has only two tracks and is considered a full album? I mean, occasionally a two or three track EP is released prior to the main album, which seems to be what they did with their second release titled Headlines, but not the case on Dream pod. I wonder why. http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tip/tip1cd926.html http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/tip/tip1cd901.html Dreampod sounds very cool. I overall really like their trippy, melodic, psychedelic sound. Their two-track cd is available to buy. Anyone know how Headlines is compared to their first release? I'd take the latter over Dream Pod coz it has at least three times the tracks and sounds very good also. 430619[/snapback] I don't quite understand what's your problem (could be my English skills too ) Dreampod CD is a single and it's priced like one (half the price of full album) and Headlines EP is a mini album, hence the EP (Extended Play) extension. In my book, even if it's just 60 minutes it's still much more intricate, challenging and psychedlic than 95% of albums released in this genre and it's definitelly worth the price of full CD. I don't really feel it's just 60 minutes, because the ideas they fit in just one track would suffice for 3-4 other tracks done by today's "super-star" full-on artists... Just do what I did - buy those two CDs and record those 8 tracks on one CD. You get one of the best psytrance albums from classic TIP label for a price of 1.5 crappy full-on / darkpsy / prog CD Edited January 31, 2006 by antic Quote
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