bomble Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 V/A - Elucidations Artist: Various Title: Elucidations Label: LSD Date: 2002 Track listing: 01. 06'53" Ott : Ott Meets Billy The Kid 02. 08'08" Kiwa : Arachnoid Dub 03. 06'49" Drum Druids : Last Summer (Dub) 04. 07'52" Humito : Monkey Puzzle 05. 06'53" Violet Vision : Sign Of Bliss 06. 06'00" Lusine ICL : Scheming 07. 07'51" The Kumba Mela : Himalayan Dub 08. 08'37" Abacus : Return To Rama 09. 06'31" Humito : Wider Horizons (Drum Druids Rmx) Review: This is Humphrey's second voyage at the helm of the liquid sound design spaceship. His first venture brought us Mana Medicine to heal the soul and weren't we grateful! As if we didn't have enough to thank the LSD dream team for already they give us this. Elucidations is another album that any chillout lover shouldn't be without. Where Mana Medicine focussed on the ethnic influences on this music style, Elucidations offers a more sneaky bleepy trip of low velocity psychedelic treats. So a little about the tracks. I am beginning to think that all that Ott touches turns to liquid gold. Perhaps not the finest work with the Ott stamp on it, but still first class. Rich, rootsy and can't fail to put a smile on your face - just a shame it ends a bit abruptly. Then it's Kiwa. From out of the Scandinavian forests, something wicked this way comes? I have heard and loved some of Kiwa's dancefloor tracks, but didn't really expect chilling to be on the agenda. How wrong I was - this is tight, wonderfully weird and strangely beautiful music. The sort of thing Matsuri might have stuck on sympathy in chaos 4 if there had been one! Drum Druids is Jez Laughing Buddha in another guise. I can't say I'm surprised that this is great? it just sneaks up on you getting gradually more intense until toes are tapping and your head is spinning. Humito is Humphrey and Chris Ingeoussauria. This stuff is clever, subtle and intricate. Avoiding an obvious melody this just tweaks and cranks the synapses while the body is held down by a slow and steady bassline. Violet Vision take over and turn up the funkometer. Psychedelic and splendidly evolving? certainly taking Shpongle and Deviant Electronics influences but by no means imitating. Lusine ICL is jazz meets electronica meets lounge. Quality stuff. The Kumba Mela - one of the best tracks from one of the best chillout albums (This is a track from East of the river ganges - not a new release). Enough said. Abacus opens beautifully - a brief ethnic twist and then into a gem with a lounge beat smattered with acidic noising and weird strings, vocoded chants and the like. Not a million miles away from Ju Ju Space Jazz perhaps. Humito finish the album off in similar fashion to the earlier track - intelligent and intriguing with breaks and complex rythms. There are no weak tracks on this album - though some are more to my taste than others. This shows the maturity that the psychedelic chillout scene is capable of and I strongly recommend it. Sometimes chillout needs the warmth of catchy hooks and melodies, and that's not really on the agenda here. Nor is it truly ambient. But if you are looking for quietly clever, psychoactive brainfood to lie back to?welcome to the spaceship. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest flying kundalini Posted April 11, 2002 Share Posted April 11, 2002 Spot on review Bomble :-) This is indeed a great CD, perfect for those summer chill moments 9/10 OTT is not SP btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Defbydelta... Posted April 15, 2002 Share Posted April 15, 2002 Truly Nice.. im not in psy-chill but i bought this after i saw this here and i liked it.. anybody got some good chill album to recommend? that would be nice, need a rest? smoke a lest!... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --==MileS==-- Posted April 24, 2002 Share Posted April 24, 2002 LiquidSoundDesign is probably the best chill label around so any new addition to the catalogue is greatly anticipated but somehow without the Orbish weirdness and the Shponglesque etnic touch that made -River Ganges- so damn good, a somewhat 'normal' chill album remains. Indeed, a bit like Mana Medicine but that 1 has the stronger individual tracks imo. Only Kiwa and the recycled Himalayan Dub are truly excellent, the rest is adequate but I expect a bit more from Youth's Higher Learning Ambient Institute that is the LSD label. 7.5/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psylent Buddhi Posted May 19, 2002 Share Posted May 19, 2002 Certainly a worthy follow-up to the excellent "Mana Medicine" compilation. As Bomble mentions, this is indeed a bit more on the electronical and psychedelic side than Mana Medicine. But I can't help thinking that it lacks the intimate warmth that Mana Medicine was so full of. Elucidations is a lot less organic, and more full of analog drops and psychedelic twists than Mana Medicine. It all boils down to personal preference. I like Mana Medicine better than this, but I still wouldn't miss out on anything from the L.S.D. label. This is still high class chill-out, mainly due to the efforts included on this disc from Ott, Kiwa, Lucine ICL and Abacus. Now go get it! /PB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest amitabha Posted May 28, 2002 Share Posted May 28, 2002 Abacus is outshining the rest of this cd.. sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 violet vision make all the differance in this compilation, make it much better ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted August 15, 2002 Share Posted August 15, 2002 9.9/10 for this one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soem aeld Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 Well, I can't say I'm dissapointed with this one, it *is* awesome. But nothing compared to Mana Medicin. Not even close! It's not even fair to compare them! Anyways, Ott, Kiwa, Violet Vision and The Kumba Mela brings us some great trax! Don't miss this one if you like L.S.D as a label! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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