Guest Zeus Class Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Adrenalin Drum - Engine Artist: Adrenalin Drum Title: Engine Label: Out of Orion Date: 2002 Track listing: 01. 7'52" 131 Lords 02. 8'02" Electric Desert 03. 7'46" Tears of Knowledge 04. 8'14" Thousand Islands 05. 8'36" The Maze 06. 9'14" Adrenalindrum vs Wizzynoise 07. 7'37" Magic Woods 08. 9'10" Tripomatic (Remix UK) Review: Full on without being full. A minimal kind of full on. More emphasis on the beat and periodic sounds. The trax commenly have fast baslines (1/16 or 2x of that even) A part of the new wave of psytrance which i characerize as more 'futureistic'... and cocky... where as older acts added samples of gay happiness (gay as in happy not homosexuality) newer stuff is more forceful...proud.. and cocky in a sense .... This is similar to psyside... Origins comp, Hyper frequenices... Neromoter... etc...(1) "131 Lords" (~140bpm) I suspect most will like....fast baselines... Indeed sounds quite good untill the rediculously long sample from some karate movie comes into play... it's kinda cool in a way ... perhaps this is an attempt at the immortal "Samurai" by Juno Reactor... anyway, 8/10 untill the ovely long sample... which takes it to a staggering 4/10 in my book... This track would be allot better if the samples were about 1/10th the length... it interrupts a would be a good track. Not to mention it having it's own music in the background ...(2) "Electric Desert" (~145bpm) fast baselines as well ... yet samples continue ... starts out with another sample from the overly sampled "Matrix" movie. This about does it for the Matrix, at first it was cool (MFG) NOW it's annyoing.... stop please. furthermore, I must mention the fact that these samples are just random... the title of the track is "Electric Desert" but then many of the rest of the samples have nothing to do with the desert theme... the only reoccuring theme here is 'samples from the hollywood matrix movie' ... 4/10 ...(3) "Tears of Knowledge" (~150bpm) This is much better. we've gota allot of percussion insturments this track. And at some points a odd sounding flute appears. Not to mention many strange 'doppler effect' like sounds. Has some crude melodies every now and then.... And finnaly a very nice syth line comes in which is then followed by synthetic water droplet sound that is arranged to create a goa sounding melody. This one will make u bounce. 7/10 ...(4) "Thousand Islands" (~145bpm) Starts immediatly with a beat (never approved of here) but after a moment the fast baseline comes in. the track is goin well untill finnaly another "Matrix" sample arrives... Afterwards it gets simply embarrising... some odd sounding person is rambeling on about somthing... it really sounds like some cocky happy hardcore rave sample... this sample is looped and finnaly at the very end is a explicitive... which is very depressing to hear in any kind of psy/goa. Very cocky... The track continues with just allot of 'trippy' sounds and occasional moans... finnaly ends with another sample and it's done... pointless and irritating 1/100 ...(5) "The Maze" (~150bpm) This is similar to track 3, buzzing fast baseline, occasional long atmospheric sounds that we all love trance for... sounds almost emotional. Very nice here. one of the best 8/10 ...(6) "Adrenalindrum v/s Wizzynoise" (~140bpm) again fast baselines! lots of scratchy sounding 3d Vision style sounds. Very full. And of course full on. The synth almost overheats here, it's working overtime (very abrasive). Not my style personally... BUT I know it's well done. Oscillating hard synth lines. At some points hints of a melody... 7/10 ...(7) "Magic Woods" (~136bpm) Starts with many distorted voices. One may imagine being inside a hauted forest or spaceship, the melodys are very eerie and mood is deeply haunted and unearthly ....very very *terrific* (terrific is a perfect word for this track) This is the best track 9/10 ...(8) "Tripomatic Remix UK" (~138bpm) This track has 1/2 of a fast baseline, by that i mean: instead of 4 16th notes in between beats it has 2 16th notes in between. This sounds very bouncy. Aside from that are some atmospheric bangs and buzzing synth lines, quietly oscillating up and down. Pretty boring in my opinion, doesn't have the blanket of pulseating bass thats so nice in earlier tracks. It finnaly ends with indecipherable sample that was obviously taken from a movie; as the cinimatic music can be heard.... this sample is very unprofessional. 6/10 ...Overall definatly worth a listen. You may like it. I only like trax 3,5,6,7 ... 8 is acceptable... worst track: 4. 131 Lords could use a good ol' remix... But the majority is good. Average comes to 56.2625% as a whole album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shahar@isratrance Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Hmmmm... Well, my review is in Isratrance, so no point posting here too. But just to let you ppl know that if you like mind challenging music composed of noises in a really amazing way, you must check track 4, that a long with T7, and the cooperation with Wizzy are really good ones, and for sure the best here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zeus Class Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 I've just realized that this last track Tripomatic remix uk has all the sounds of a cowboy shootout. The baseline being a galloping horse, the bangs being gunfire (they sound exactly like gunfire from an old western) which are also further complemented with clip reload sounds. Finnaly there are sounds of a whip cracking.... I'd say This WOULD be creative if it hadn't already been done... which makes it just a simple attempt at Juno Reactor's Pistolero track. And, Pistolero wasn't ever remotly psytrance or goa in the first place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason - Los Angeles, Ca Posted April 1, 2002 Share Posted April 1, 2002 No good. Disapointed. I hate to put artist down, but this does nothing for me. The only decent ones in my opinion are 2,3 and 6, but they are definitely not must haves, so pass if you can. There is so much better stuff out right now. No need to try this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted April 25, 2002 Share Posted April 25, 2002 This stuff is heavy !!! The album is very psychodelic and the sounds are very low, low bass, heavy drumbass, killing beats. If you love hardtrance - this is the album. 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Very good, very minimal with a lot of crazy, psicodelic and progresive sounds, very nice work, this one goes for the people who like to trip with strange noise, with distortioned melodies and organic noises IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Good but nothing spectacular...It tends to get a bit too much at some stages, like way too minimal for Har Ell..Some songs have some melodies and that is quite nice...Best on album : ELECTRIC DESERT, TEARS OF KNOWLEDGE, THE MAZE ( ! ), MAGIC WOODS...7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 As the gigantic project to thin out my music collection continues, I come across this. I have zero experience with Adrenalin Drum so I went into this with a wide open mind because the reviews were all over the place. I see that Mr. California Sunshine is one of the minds behind the project. Oh boy. I think it's important to take the date when this was made into context. The early part of the millennium was a dark time with an almost absence of melody and track evolution. In 2002 we were still a few years away from seeing the resurgence. So based on that and the technology for music production at the time, I guess you could say this doesn't hold up well. Is the fault of the artist or the time period? You can make an argument for both, but let's be honest. When was the last time you heard a Har-El track that floored you? 131 Lords is a rumbling mess of minimal and darkpsy and felt like someone was banging my head against a wall for almost 8 minutes. It got better with the eerie Electric Desert as a skittering lead cut across the sky like a hot knife through butter and there was even some goa sharpness in Tears of Knowledge. However you could really tell how sparse the tracks sounded compared to a lot of the music of today. Many of them were downright boring and wait for it...minimal. Wizzdrum was slightly moving, but a couple of ok tracks does not a good album make. I would say that this engine could use an overhaul. So if I could, I would swat Michael J Fox's Parkinson's medication out of his hand and while he was distracted jump into the DeLorean and go back to 2002. When I found Har-El I would tell him I'm from the future and plead with him not to do this. It won't hold up. But then he would start crying and I would feel bad. So I would tell him to bet everything he had on the Giants in last years Superbowl. See. First I'm sour. Then I'm sweet. "I f*cked you up Har-El. F*cked you up." Mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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