freak51 Posted May 17, 2000 Share Posted May 17, 2000 Ubar Tmar - Fusion Artist: Ubar Tmar Title: Fusion Label: BooM! Date: 1997 Track listing: 01. 00'51" Welcome To Our Space 02. 08'32" Flying Saucer Landing (Dancing Yoda Mix) 03. 06'21" Transformer Synthesizer 04. 09'04" Electric Voodoo Man 05. 07'18" Eternal Return 06. 07'22" When The Light Is Gone (Live At Arasaki Beach, 96 Summer Of Love) 07. 09'29" US 08. 07'52" 3D Heaven 09. 06'43" The Prophecy 10. 07'33" Tale Of The Taketori Review: He's definitely not ashamed of being Japanese. The best way to listen to this is to rent some Anime, turn the volume on the TV off, and eat a lot of mushrooms. It's really good in parts although throughout it does remind me of video game music. Some of the samples are nice and spacey, some is over-the-top unabashed cheesecake. However, Tale of the Taketori is beautiful (but very fast: 152ish BPM) and several other tracks are at least worthwhile. The best part of this is the cover art though. Take out the inner tray and stare at the genius of the spiralling worlds, the game is to try to guess what the next pattern will be. Spirals within spirals, yummm. 6/10 for the record, 10/10 for the art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rleshman[at]yahoo[dot]com Posted June 26, 2000 Share Posted June 26, 2000 simply the best trance album ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fms3[at]cornell[dot]edu Posted August 16, 2000 Share Posted August 16, 2000 Trash. Total trash. Hmm, how do I put this. Oh yeah, I like X-Dream and I like Hallucinogen but listening to them both at the same time would be stupid. This is what this album is like. Its got layers beggining in the middle of nowhere and ending whereever they feel like. Its not that there is no structure; its super random and not thought of. THere are many nice layers which could be made into a track but blending it all at once makes it sound shitty. Listen before you buy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jdavis[at]flashmail[dot]com Posted November 29, 2000 Share Posted November 29, 2000 Ubar Tmar is really good in this album. Sound samples are well organized. The beat is not boring and rythm changes are done frequently. Electronic Voodooman and Tale of the Taketori provide a nice way to trip along with a stimulant sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ShivaShantii[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted May 4, 2001 Share Posted May 4, 2001 Really good album for the time, lots of osychedelic sounds and story. Favourites-6&7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mossadexz[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted July 25, 2001 Share Posted July 25, 2001 "Eternal Return" rulez because of its raw guitar-sample. Really nice. Track 2 is pretty good too, although a little too strange for my taste. Track 3 is also pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted July 26, 2001 Share Posted July 26, 2001 Ï hated "Eternal Return" when I first heard some years ago and I still hate it today. The song is utter crap,cheezy, has no depth and whines worse than a strangled cat. 4/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted October 9, 2001 Share Posted October 9, 2001 very cheap cd ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bugbread Posted October 24, 2001 Share Posted October 24, 2001 Ubar Tmar's most "goa"-like album. Contains a mix of cheesy melodies (on purpose) and very NON-cheesy melodies, laid out based on Ubar Tmar's interests in the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci Series. A mix of polyrhythms and 4 beat. Ubar Tmar has a cool way of building up, up, up, and then instead of a giant break, a sudden wilt. Done on purpose, makes me laugh every time I hear it, and actually causes people to become MORE excited on the dance floor because everybody is laughing so hard at the anticlimax that they get hyper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason - Los Angeles, CA Posted November 13, 2001 Share Posted November 13, 2001 Tale of Taketori is one of the best GOA songs ever. The rest of the album is very decent. I wouldn't buy it now a days, but definitely get it if your still into the classics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Quetzalgoatl Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 Ubar Tmar surely has his own style, this album though can still be called true goa. Just listen to the beautiful, marvellous sound in 3D Heaven. I think the other albums of his suck but this one is worth checking out. Best tracks : 3,4,6,8 & 9 (although the original version of this track on Destination Goa 3 is much better). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemonkey Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 If you like Anime (Japanese cartoons/manga) This stuff will probably apeal to you. It has the same strange combination of happiness, harshness and sudden unexplainable humor in it, wich makes it really interesting, but for the ones not totally known with this strange Japanese style of making stuff completely incomprehensible and they might consider this utter crap. Whenever you feel happy and you want to hear hyper- active completely thick pasted sound blasts of weirdness put this on and be blown to pieces. Certainly not an album for every-day listening, but when in the mood, a favourite, go try it out if you like stuff like texas faggot, you will probably be positively surprised. I like true better then this, it's more dark, but one can certainly not put this off too easily as just the product of a deranged Anime freak, they is more to it then might apear at first listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sunwolf Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 This is pretty good. Some parts are too annoying though. 2, 5, 7, 8, 10 are good 9 is the best This guy isn't trying to copy X-Dream or Hallucinogen thankfully. If you aren't open to new styles that push the limits then don't bother with this artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozen dream Posted October 26, 2008 Share Posted October 26, 2008 anybody wanna buy it - contact me. however i will rephrase from posting my opinion here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeller Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Electric Voodoo Man is one of the best and craziest goa tracks ever!! the rest is nice at times. tale of taketori is also pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BraneFreeze Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 FYI, a 2011 remastered version is available at Bandcamp: http://ubartmar.bandcamp.com/album/fusion-remaster-2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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