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Mr Peculiar - Elements

 

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Artist: Mr Peculiar

Title: Elements

Label: Tribe-A-Delic

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'38" Tribes Of Resonance

02. 07'06" Bouncing Brains

03. 06'47" Ritual Horizon

04. 07'26" What Is Real ?

05. 06'56" Digital Humanoid

06. 07'13" Dynamo

07. 08'27" Source Of Rah

08. 07'20" 1000 Tablets

09. 08'07" Last Chance

10. 03'44" Crunchy Nutter

 

Review:

 

All I can say is a big, resounding WOW!! This album is amazing, Australian

does have a reputation for being "weird" but not this. I am not going to go

through this track by track, as there are no obvious favourites. If you

like the full on sound, then you will love this. It is very professional,

but still contains the element of fun and energy that we need today in goa.

Mr Peculiar is for sure to be a name to reckon with in this scene of ours.

I now believe that the Australian production is by far one of the best in

the world. Congratulations to Mr Peculiar and to the Tribe-Adelic team for

this amazing product. Also a big cheer to all the other members of the

Australian scene for providing all the artists the opportunity to present

this material and thank you Mr Peculiar for all the amazing parties I have

been to :-) 10/10 !!!

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Guest Jason - Los Angeles, CA

Not too familiar with Mr. Peculiar, but let me say that I picked up the

Tribe-adelic Liquid CD and was truly amazed and happy to hear that thumping

sound coming out of my speakers from the Peculiar tracks. I love the Charlie's

trip song. Will somebody please tell me where to pick this up in LA or online?

I want to hear the album. If these songs are anything like the Liquid songs, I

will have this on my favorites list.

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Guest karlospereira[at]hotmail[dot]com

This sort of records never come out here in Cancun Mexico, and we

do know a lot of stuff here. We urgently need a brand record store, cuz we

don´t have any. Instead we´ve got a lot of artists and parties really often.

Think about it and give us a hand. Cuz we love GOA.

Charlie

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Guest Motorman

Great album : reminds me a bit of some of the better Infected Mushroom tracks,

but mixed with many other influences. Mr Peculiar has created some really

good-vibes-party-sounds over the entire CD. ALSO the CD cover is very wicked,

why cant we see it with the review? Alot better than the first Tribe-adelic

compilation (LIQUID). Great music and I look forward to more releases. btw,

this was mastered by Fractal Glider.

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Guest [:dMtkid:]

Overall, a very refreshing album is presented for us to enjoy. The tone of the

album is uplifting and really fun. Tribadelic has a winner on their hands who

will continue to provide the full-on scene with something to keep their

spirits going in the midst of the minimal craze.

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Great album, the best i herd so far, great goa cd, MrPeculiar is one of the few

melodic artists i herd lately that make original and intersting music.

im defnetly wautung to some more traxx froum this guy!

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Guest sandytoys[at]hotmail[dot]com

I love the elements album. I heard Mr P play his album launch

and he showed it off in amazing style. Mr P congratualtions on a great debut

album -your originality, fun sounds and great bass lines and dedicated talent

make dancing to your album or a set a magical experience! By the way I love

1000 tablets!! Katherine!

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Guest sacredwhisper[at]hotmail[dot]com

Mr.Peculiar is the hottest artist coming out of Australia. This guy will cause

some serious mayhem when promoters start flying him overseas. This album is

solid from start to finish and the last 2 minutes in Dynamo is the closest

sound I've heard to the epic track Magus-Mind Control Implant in a while. It

blew me away. I can't get enough of this sound and will be playing his music

everywhere I go.

Boom DJ Billy The Kid

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Guest mk-11

1: TRIBES OF RESONANCE... 8.0/10

this track has a nice funky start, with cool bass + kicks which builds it's

pace with cool choppy delays....

around 3 mins. it builds with a cool groovy melody to about 5:35 where the

tracks starts to take off

with some good samples and more melodies....

at 7 mins it works it's way back down to give you a good overall track to start

an album with, nothing overdone just a cool groovy track....

2: BOUNCING BRAINS... 7.5/10

this track starts with some cool samples or sounds that sound like squeaking

shoes & and a basketball bouncing on a court which leads into again nice kicks

& squelches that mr.p rips so well...

the track has some cool eiry sounds with nice voice samples, around 3:30 it

kicks in hard with a good melody that climbs in octaves to reach those

infectious tweaks and squeals till around 6:00mins??.where it takes off again

with melodies and tweaks?.nice track

3: RITUAL HORIZON... 7.5/10

this track has a wicked tribally/flutey start which leads to a dark kick &

bassline and once again great voice samples...this is a nice smooth track

where around 4:30 some eiry chants & efx kick in to the track which takes you

on a ride for a dark smooth rolling track....

4: WHAT IS REAL?... 8.5/10

you crazy swedes are gonna love this one...

excellent intro with the cool peculiar tweaks....brilliant track for around

4:00am in the morning when the night is pumping along...

has these awesome scary groans throughout the track that fill the background

nicely....

cool floor stomper....

 

this is where the album really takes off........ :)

 

5: DIGITAL HUMANOID... 8.75/10

this track takes off where what is real? finishes and then around 2:00mins. it

gets spacey & creepy with wicked little tweaks & twists that you'll love and

travels along to around 4:10mins and then..........

wah.......woah.......woah......wah........woah..........

it takes this awesome morning sunrise feel where it pulsates and gurgles where

the pulse width

changes back and forth.......(spine tingling).....brilliant track me like

alot....

6: DYNAMO? 8.0/10

this ones for all the dark bassy freaks??.ohh yeahhh awesome outdoor track?

this one is backed up with some freaky tweaks that sort of travel at ya and

fade back away

that will travel outdoors with the dark bassline and evil kicks?

around 5:00mins.ish it kicks in with a nice israelish melody with some great

twists & grinds on top of that?..

it is topped off with some weird cool imploding kind of efx that really tops

the track off?

7: SOURCE OF RAH? 9.5/10 (one of my favs?)

was dancing to this one on the weekend at a beach party waste high in the

water, kickin and splashing?awesome fun :)

the start has a brilliant mickey mouse sample from fantasia?mr.p starts it off

with some aussie trippy, kookiness, which has some cool trumpets or sax that

play in the kicks where the track gets brilliant at around 2:00mins?

at 4:00mins it really starts to stomp along where it builds up to 6:16 where

the track takes a totally new direction 4 the best part in the track IMO?.the

dancefloor will surely be rockin at this stage?.time to get crazy everyone?.

:)

8: 1000 TABLETS? 9.0/10 (another fav..)

once again great samples with lovely delays on them, backed with awesome kicks

and efx to start off with?..

3:47mins. Woah yeah, get down and stomp?.

5:40mins. Here we go again picks up another notch with a great dance floor

killer with great efx in the background?.. you?ll be thanking mr.p for this

one? :)

9: LAST CHANCE? 9.0/10 (another fav?)

another great start to a track here?with lovely gurgles and efx?..nice pacey

track?.

no build ups here straight into it to make your feet bleed?..

this track is great track to finish the last two stompers with?

around 3:10 these cool creepy crys kick in backed by an awesome kick that mr.p

has carried throughout the album?

3:50mins. a brilliant synth line kicks in that gets ya rockin?.got some cool

spacey sounds that ride you along as well.. :)

ok 6:37mins..here ya ?last chance? to have a stomp to this ?debut? album?

hope your knee caps are ok after this one?.

10: CRUNCHY NUTTER? 8.0/10 (cool grooves and scoobes for this one?.)

didn?t know he had it in him?.cool groove for this finale of a track?lovely

groany voice samples that ride with the chilled tunes and efx?.

fades in out nicely?..

can?t wait to hear an album of this stuff?

 

overall I am very impressed with this album, apart from fractal glider,

Australia has been lacking some talent and awesome tunes for a long time now

and mr.peculiar is well on his way for success and better tracks to

come?.these are a huge leap from charlie?s trip and lessons that you will be

surely impressed?..huge variation in this album and is enjoyable from start to

finish?.

Can?t wait to see what his tracks & albums will be like in two or three

years?.i know a lot of people will think I am just being bias as I am

Australian but this is one of the best debut albums I have heard in along time

and very fussy in my tastes in tracks and albums?.do yourself a favour and buy

this album now?.no don?t go back to the forum and see what?s going on, head on

down to the local shop?. ;)

Thanks for the inspiration mr.p amd thankyou ozzy for releasing this homegrown

talent?.

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Guest a_ozi

nice work on the melodies and sounds.... but what took me was the

bass+percussion in many of the tracks... can see that a lot of work was put

into this cd. Both thumbs up fer sher!

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Guest «*~·.¸¸.·±]-[ë £µ¢¦d Ðrägðñ·.¸¸.

Hehehe I live in oz! i see mr.peculiar whenever i want :) nah i juz being a

prick.... mr.p is amazing if u havent heard his album then HEAR IT he has "the

sound" and he will get better and better...look out for him :) and if u havent

heard the track "charlies trip" then u dont know what ur missin out on!

 

Peace and happy listening, Daniel

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Guest the dank man

All the reviews above are bullcrap -- please don't fall for it. All I really

have to say is in track 2, he uses Cosmosis' words from "Just Say No". Since

this is not a remix, this is called RIPOFF / PLAGIARISM. Please don't buy

this album and support that sort of behavior. this is completely against the

psy vibe. Did he think something blatant like that wouldn't go unnoticed? If

you don't believe me, just download track 2 (it might be 3, I'm not sure, and

download Cosmosis' just say no)Besides, the album as a whole totally sux.

It's melodic, esp. toward the end. completely uninteresting. nothing fresh

about it. below average and commercial stuff.

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Guest Mr Peculiar

EXCUSE ME !!!!!!

 

RIPOFF / PLAGIARISM. ......that is a lie !!!!!!!!!!

 

you dont think everyone has access to the same samples ????????

 

did i rip the samples off cosmosis ?????.......NO

so you can say the same about cosmosis....he took the samples from the very

same place i did sure !!!!!

 

this has nothing to do with the samples that he used as i only heard his

version of the track after my song was pressed and ready for release !!!!

 

just cause i happen to have a few samples from the same source does NOT mean i

have ripped it off at all ..........why would i try ??????...........

 

your opinion is more than welcome ....even if it is not a positive one....alll

reveiws are welcome

 

BUT

when you say that ive ripped OFF cosmosic you are very wrong and are moving

into the realms of SLANDER !!!!!

 

does the fact that somone used "take the blue pill".....or whatever sample

make them a rippoff of GMS or any other person that used a matrix sample ......

i think not

 

Its fair to say you dont like my album .....but to go on and call me a RIPOFF /

PLAGIARISM is just incorrect !!!

 

 

so the samples are the similar ........BIG DEAL !!!

 

they are used in a completly different way and my track other than the

forementioned samples is nothing like the original ..........

 

please disregard this persons opinions and make one for yourself ;)

 

BOM

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Guest the dank man

I'm not gonna get in an argument with you Mr. Peculiar, but making sure you're

not using the same samples is part of the job. There are websites which list

psy "lyrics" adn it was your job to make sure. How can you prove it wasn't

intentional? I'm glad if it wasn't. Sorry for strong review. I just really

hated your sounds, so when I heard the familiar samples, which are not

similar, as you say, but exactly the same as Bill's, it just made me

outrageously mad.

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Guest helium

saikosounds.com have it, that's where I got

mine....========================================================= This album,

well, I dunno quite what to say about it, but it's terrific and has a sound

all it's own- one of those style's you'd recognize real quick in a DJ set!

Very very dark, moody, a bit "restrained", and somewhat monotone sounding

while being "melodic" and varied at the same time-- has almost a "minimal"

beat and rythmic flow to it but with a cornucopia of melodic layers and sounds

and so forth++++++++++++ he use some great sounds and builds the layerzez in

very very nicely- the 5th track blew me away the first time I heard it on

headphones, great sound panning and that vvvvwwwooovwwwyyyeeeuuuvvvvvvwwwooomm

"vector" sound is *so* very phresh!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now for the

critique: the bass is very much the same from track to track- the monotone,

plodding, bumbuddabumbuddabumbudda sound which is very tho a track or two with

a crisp bouncy bizambizambizam sound would've been cool... This be his style

tho so who am I to say he shoulda done something different in some tracks?!

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Listening with headphones: The

sound production I think could use a bit of work- the sound panning and

oscillation of volumes of the layers is very good but it often sounds a bit

2D, or like it's coming out of a tunnel towards you, as opposed to being all

around you--often the layers are a bit mushed together, so that the sounds

have very little "space" between them- you know what I mean? A good album for

contrast is the Psycraft "Gravitech" album, where each layer occupies it's own

space and is very very seperate and distinct from the other sounds around it-

the "atmospheric sound"- I dunno how you mofo's do it and the I'm not saying

the sound isn't fabulous, but it could've been a bit

better...[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} This album is growing on me at

each listen, and has become my #1 choice for innerspace headphone exploration

in the evenings- liked the 5th track the most at first and now each and every

other one becomes more amazing after continued listening--thx Mr Peculiar, and

have fun riding the forthcoming wave's!!!!!!

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Guest helium

I have to ammend my previous review-- this album is effin

mind-blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The complexity and layers are just incredible,

each song is like an epic adventure-----headphone listening is a must, there

just so much going on^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I compared the closed soundstage

to the open one of Psycraft "Gravitech" but I don't know that that's really

fair since "Elements" has so much more going on, way more maximal and

involved.@@@@@@@@@@@%%%%%%%%%%%%@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@AAAAAAnyhow this is one you've

got to hear several times cause you just can't take it all in at once, much of

it's bound to go right over your head----------------------------------

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Guest Goagabba

This is one of the best full on albums released this year. This is a cd that

can be played over and over, something new will trip you out everytime. Mr

Peculiar hopefully we will see you all over the world, at many outdoor

festivals this year.

Favourites: 3,4,7 and all the rest are my other fav's

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Guest Psychedelic Man

Really goooooooooodddddd manm .. keep doing that shit for years... u know how

to do it!!! last change makes me insane.......... fuck ....... Last

chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings from brasil

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Guest Xymaths

Superb, really bouncy, trippy and full sounding-kind of reminds me of the full

sound from 99-2000. If you like Koxbox and GMS together with excellent

production I suggest that you get along and buy this. NOT recommended for

people who like tech trance or minimal-this is real psychedelic trance!

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