implant Posted October 21, 2000 Author Share Posted October 21, 2000 V/A - Forever Psychedelic Artist: Various Title: Forever Psychedelic Label: Matsuri Date: 1998 Track listing: 01. 07'02" Digitalis : Telepresence 02. 08'40" XIS : Shadows And Flashes 03. 08'17" Space Cat : Space Cats 04. 09'10" Prana : Kollage 05. 07'05" Freeman Vs Liquid Metal : Liquid Noise 06. 08'20" Quirk : Dark Matter 07. 06'30" Deflo : Naked 08. 05'00" Scare Electric : Grind 09. 08'08" Dendron : Sun God Review: Very Psychedelic release from Matsuri...with very famous artists... This comp is pretty dark with plenty of acid sounds...Best track for me is "Quirk - Dark Matter"...it's stompin' track with dark (ofcourse) atmosphere, and it's very wierd...but i like it...Grade for this comp should be 6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeto Posted October 21, 2000 Share Posted October 21, 2000 This compilation is definatly Acid... stomping tracks everywhere.... most of the tracks rock.. nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted October 22, 2000 Share Posted October 22, 2000 Goooooooood! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted October 23, 2000 Share Posted October 23, 2000 1,2,3: nice. 4,5,6: waste of plastic. 7,8,9: nice again. My favourites are Shadows And Flashes and Sun God. 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest YOU Posted October 23, 2000 Share Posted October 23, 2000 solid compilation best by far is the amazingly hipnotic space cats track: "space cats". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Snow Dog Posted October 25, 2000 Share Posted October 25, 2000 A diverse And stimulating selection of psychedelia... you've got Digitalis, doing his atmospheric thang, XIS, with a track that re-defines "killer", the Israeli cyber-trance sounds of Space Cat and Freeman Vs Liquid Metal, the shifting grooves of Prana to keep us on our toes, Quirk with the best track they ever did, and three (!) awesome breakbeat numbers, all very different in sound And execution. What an album. This is Matsuri's finest hour, buy it. 9.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djpug[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 scary psychedelic vision or beautiful medly of music? Can't it be both? It is so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tomvcarter Posted October 23, 2001 Share Posted October 23, 2001 Matsuris best release, XIS, space cat & Quirk tracks are all time classic killers! Dendron tne is very beutiful, if u can stil find it buy it is an all time classic, 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 Very good psychedelic release from Matsuri...Good choice of songs and some very stomping, massive songs...Best on compilation : TELEPRESENCE, SHADOWS AND FLASHES ( ! ), SPACE CATS ( ! ), KOLLAGE, DARK MATTER ( ! ), SUN GOD...8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Artist: Various Title: Forever Psychedelic Label: Matsuri Date: April, 1998 01. 07'02" Digitalis : Telepresence02. 08'40" XIS : Shadows And Flashes03. 08'17" Space Cat : Space Cats04. 09'10" Prana : Kollage05. 07'05" Freeman Vs Liquid Metal : Liquid Noise06. 08'20" Quirk : Dark Matter07. 06'30" Deflo : Naked08. 05'00" Scare Electric : Grind09. 08'08" Dendron : Sun God Jeez...smells like something died in here. The question with releases by Matsuri after the golden age of goa was always which Matsuri was going to be represented? As a label they were a bit up and down. Shadows and Flashes had shadows and flashes of a good psytrance/goa hybrid. Missed it by that much. Space Cats had potential. True, a lot of it went unrealized. Kollage could be one of Prana's weakest efforts. Throwing noises together doesn't make it psychedelic. Stop f*cking around with Boundless and someone please update this one. Liquid Noise had it's moments, but wasn't very coherent. Just kind of a aural regurgitation. Dark Matter see Liquid Noise. And anything else by Quirk. Deflo's track Naked makes me want to tell it to put it's clothes back on. Noisy mess. Scare Electric is more raw breakbeat and I cannot get enough of that funky percussion! Not to mention some saucy turntablism. Funky like hockey gear that hasn't been washed. Sun-God is breakbeat juicy, but not very varied. The first few minutes are great, but after that I'm lookin' at my watch wondering if Dendron went for a smoke break. I look at it like this. If you wouldn't want to put any of the tracks on a mix tape, then you probably aren't really that in love with them. IMHO I don't believe these tracks have any staying power. So yeah...I would say this was an example of down. But it's different and sometimes that can be a good thing depending on your mood. Just don't forget a courtesy spray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair Thaumic Posted March 17, 2017 Share Posted March 17, 2017 Matsuri shows us why psychedelic trance is so named. Some tracks here, like Kollage or Naked, are more on the psychedelic side, playfully arranged and stuffed full of weird noises. Some, like Space Cats or Sun God, are more trancy and gradually elaborate on a theme. The album has a futuristic feel, suggestive of cyberpunk SF, and some tracks could even be called industrial with their dark techno-dystopian vibe. Everything sparkles with crystal clear production, and the mastering lets the music breathe without lacking in punch. IMHO, this is what a compilation album ought to be. It's far from homogenous -- no two tracks are alike -- but the atmosphere is consistent and the journey is more than the sum of its individual steps. Unlike most VAs, it works as an album. I bought this in 1998 and still listen to it on a regular basis; anyone looking for the true 'psychedelic trance' should have this in their collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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