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Vibrasphere - Echo

 

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Artist: Vibrasphere

Title: Echo

Label: Spiral Trax

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. 08'57" Abra

02. 07'53" Mental Mountain

03. 08'55" Arcs And Sparks

04. 11'08" Echo Plantation

05. 06'40" Moonsoon

06. 07'53" Lava

07. 02'44" Aguas Calientes

08. 09'26" San Pedro

09. 04'10" Eternal Feedback

 

Review:

 

The previous material I have heard from this guys didn't surprise me at all,

but Mr. Anti gave me this album and believe me its amazing. A beautiful piece

of art that's created as a whole journey. It begins with a really cool

progressive-space-dub track and then explodes into some serious progressive

psychedelic trance that reaches its peak at the "Echo Plantation"

WOWWWWWWW!!!! what a track, a must for every party at the zenith of the night.

Then second part of the CD starts with slower tempos and tracks that take

their time to grow but never fail to touch your feelings and keep you flying

deeper into space, ending with another delicious dub track. If you are into

Noosphere, X-Dream or Atmos go get this one. 9.5/10

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I don't have this album yet, I haven't seen it anywhere, but I must say that

this is the only album I have REALLY looked forward to. I have their three

previous tracks: "The Open Sphere" from Destination 8, and then "Nowhere" and

"Autopilot" from their EP on Transient. These guys came before Atmos, and if

you listen to the sound in these three tracks you will realize that this is

probably where Atmos got inspiration from. I hope I get this album soon...

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Guest Dandoo Forest

OK! great minimal styl! i like it very much

great old release's like : nowhere or aduiopile great stuff but i hate whene

minimal band's try to do ambient

it's so fucking boring....... trax 1,7,8,9 SUX BIG TIME!

minimal ambient .......... sux:(((((

but the rest of the trax just rockz!!!!!!!

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Guest My email is Your email

Fresh psy-feel ----One of the best releases for quite a while. Great

atmospheric sounds, rhythms and Babylon vibes ---- 8.5/10---------very good

work!!!

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Guest Epic Automata

I'll keep it short: Sounds like Atmos - intelligent, conceptual, "morning-ish"

- but with really poor production quality. Great ideas but they sound hollow,

like the album was recorded through a three-band equalizer. Very

disappointing, especially after all the hype.

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good album. Epic, i think you're wrong about the production, sounds pretty good

to me. all the trance tracks are good, but i'm not really into their dub

stuff. somewhere between atmos and noma. 8/10

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Reallt, really good album. It manages to be floaty and bonecrushing at the same

time. You could listen to this to go to sleep or it could blow any dancefloor

up. I really like the dubtracks, too, especially San Pedro. BTW,"Cactus

Point", the b-side of their recently released 12" "Mental Mountain" is also a

great track, anyone who likes this album should get the 12 ". It's really

worth it for that track.

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Guest dj_auryn

a really nice album. dubby fx layer over some typically scandinavian trance

beats. although his production is not up to the standards of ticon or son

kite, his strenght is definitely the emotion and atmosphere he creates in the

layering of synthesizers over his tribal trance percussion. Smooth.

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Guest Goa Spirit

Another strong release from spiral trax... Vibrasphere brings us a very diverse

album, which is nice because it sounds really good together.. It starts off

with a very downtempo track which i didn't like too much.. track 2 is where it

kicks off... very nicely made track this and definitely quite full on.. a nice

atmospheric feel throughout the track, with pleasing sounds and nice BASS.

Arcs and Sparks is next and is a killer... electric and dark, this track sets

the pulse racing.. a lot going on throughout this track and definitely a floor

filler.. This is followed by a great track - plantation.. Plantation is one of

the craziest tracks i have heard recently and is one of those songs that just

takes a hold of ones body and hurls it to the limit,, for the pinnacle of the

night this one// it doesn't get much harder than this.. can't wait to hear

this one at a party.. monsoon follows and is a good follow up to the craziness

of plantation.. more atmospheric again.. perfect for grooving and has that

electric feel to it (like all the tracks in this album).. Lava is next and is

again a great track.. this one is more for the morning though with nice

melodies and generally has a real uplifting feeling to it, the kind of track

that makes one smile.. the cd then goes back into downtempo after this.. San

pedro is the one that i liked out of the last three.. but my interest in this

album is more with the full on tracks,,, a lot of killers here and a definte

buy i must add.. spiral trax brings out another killer album... 8.5/10 (i

would have given it a 10 if it had some more full on tracks)

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Guest smokeBuddha

I agree with dandoo. Tracks 1,7,8,9 suck. But the rest of the cd is

top-notch. Recommended for anyone who loves psytrance that gives off

incredible atmosphere. 7/10

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Guest phase418[at]hotmail[dot]com

This is a top-notch release! Just got this in from the PsyShop, and it is a

pure listening pleasure for me. I my main musical intrests are AMBIENT, DUB

and PSYTRANCE...so

this album is an excellent sythesis of the 3. More light

than dark, a little bass, and plenty of Space. tracks 2-6

are progressive, not-crunchy but bouncy tracks...with beautiful dubby echos and

atmospheric sweeps flying above

the mix. It sounds like Gabriel LeMar sat in on some of

the tracks. POTENT, SMOOTH MUSIC. You can listen to the whole thing at home, in

an easy relaxed kind of daze - and I know the full-on tracks would charge up

floor

just before or after sunrise. it's realaxing and energizing simotaneiously.

I love the ambient tracks, and think the whole

album flows nicely as a whole listen with no bad tracks.

Vibrasphere is very talented ambient makers. Howver, in future releases, whole

trance albums and whole ambient

albums seperately would be okay with me, and appreciated

by people who don't enjoy the ambient tracks.

10/10 ...this gets the highest marks for my head

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Guest phase418[at]hotmail[dot]com

Spiral Tracks has had a VERY STRONG start as a label.

I am impressed with their taste, talent and quality.

For me, the best of 2000 was, without question, on Spiral

tracks. LOGIC BOMB, NOMA, VIBRASPHERE, ATMOS....

a whole new spectrum of psy-trance frequencies.

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Guest Kikbert

I love this Album. It´s the last CD I´ve bought since a year or so and I think

it´s so fucking brilliant especially Echo Plantation that I just can say Run

to your Music Dealer and get this piece of art.

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Guest Epic Automata

I may have gotten a hold of a lemon copy, but I'm not the only one to say that

the mid-range is almost invisible on this album. Maybe I should return my

copy, since I trust your people's opinions.

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Guest slinker

dub/psytrance/ambient journeys and all of them handled expertly....a very

worthy adition 9/10

bring on the next album!

Echo Plantation stands out =^,^=

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Guest Mescalinium

Wow. Before I got this album I had never heard of Vibrasphere. I basically

picked it up b/c of the excellent reviews above and the Spiral Trax imprint

(always a sure sign of quality!). After extended listening to this

masterpiece and subsequently picking up every Vibrasphere single I could find,

they now reign as one of my favorite groups. The album starts with an

extemely dubby downbeat track with some great melodies and staccato bass

rythms. It has a very reggaeish/dubby feel which I definately like. Very

very chill. It seems like a curious introduction to an album, but then the

beginnings of Mental Mountain begin and you realize you're about to be taken

on a ride, an awesome ride! A brilliant bassline opens the track with subdued

acidy sounds in the background. Then all of a sudden...BAM! The beat kicks

in. Yes! That's what I like! The song is a bit monotonous, but in a good

way. Extemely hypnotic, but with some nice breaks as well. A long quiet

intro begins the next track Arcs and Sparks. A bit more old skool sounding,

but equally good. A groovy song with more acid sounds coming in about half

way in. The next song, the archetypical centerpiece of this album, is

absolutely stunning. This eleven minute monstrosity is epic in every sense of

the word with precisely intervaled breaks slowly building the tension. While

the first half completely dominates the lower end of the audio spectrum with a

completely hypnotic echoey bassline, a floaty morningish styled melody enters

about seven minutes into the track. I really can't describe this any more and

do it justice. Just listen to it, preferably on a large sound system and

enjoy. The next track has a dubby intro then a catchy percussive riff kicks

in. It has a fairly heavy bass part but still has a chilled out ambiance

which is a nice follow up to Echo Plantation. Lava comes next which is a bit

faster than the other songs. It has a lot of spacey sounds, echoey as usual

;). Nice break in the middle. Very psychedelic, probably more so than any

other track. The rest of the cd is ambient, which some people don't seem to

like, but I really enjoy. Aguas Calientes is more of a segue/connecting piece

than a song. San Pedro has some nice didg like sounds and an acoustic guitar.

Very nice. Quite relaxing, which seems kind of necessary after all the heavy

dance-oriented songs. Eternal Feedback has a tribal feel, somewhat minimal,

but then some (echoey) melodies float in and create a wonderful musical

collage. I love this synth line! It's very chilled out, but also has a very

serious vibe to it ("serious" is maybe not the right word, but it was the

first that came into my head). A perfect close to a near perfect album. I

havn't been this impressed by a debut since The Gathering. Really, it's just

that good. I also like the idea of a trance concept album, this one being

entirely based upon echoes. The cover art is actually supposed to be a

visualization of an echo. Overall a wonderful piece of music. 9/10

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Guest Evilben

In the traditions of Noma, X-Dream or Noosphere ; Highlights are Tracks ° :

2.3.4.6.8 (especially for EchoPlantation that blows my mind). the first ones

are hard beated, with a rather dark atmosphere or surrounded by a little

melody, that makes you flying beyond the Earth. 8/10

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