V/A - Goa Gil - Ceiba - Kode IV @ Burning Man

[Guest AtomikElf]

V/A - Goa Gil - Ceiba - Kode IV @ Burning Man

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Goa Gil - Ceiba - Kode IV @ Burning Man

Label: Ceiba

Date: 1998

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. The Nommos : Amma

02. Bamboo Forest : Morphing System

03. Elixir : Four Dimensional

04. Multiplex : Twisted Tale

05. Toï Doï : Psystic

06. Psychopod : Universal Mind

07. Pleiadians : Electra

08. Oforia : Timelessness

09. Asia 2001 : Vertige 2

 

CD 2

01. Ceiba : 23º Under The Sun

02. Kode IV : In Imaginary Time

03. Ceiba : The Thing

04. Kode IV : Baphomet

05. Ceiba : I'm Normal

06. Ceiba : Pulse Of Light

07. Ceiba : Kinetic Swamp

08. Ceiba : 1+1=1

 

Review:

 

cd1 is excellent stuff. it takes a while for your mind to absorb and realise

this (well it did for me) - there are some very involved songs in there. all

extremely psychedelic and driving with some moments to recover and

recollect, then on with the show!! some really mindbending stuff in there -

it gets hectic. 8.5/10 cd 2 is slightly more mellow (starting with a nice

mellowish song). to me it sounds kinda evil and hard. but makes for

interesting listening anyhow. 6.5/10

[freak51]

Blecch. The second disc is totally useless, as far as I can tell, and the

first is iffy. For God's sake Goa Gil, if you MUST mix the tracks at least

learn to beat-match. The fades are awful.

[Guest Ktaadn]

Burningman is perhaps the finest annual trance event in the US -- conceptually

and musically it's a weeekend that simply MUST happen. Such a shame then;

Burningman deserves a better tribute than this. To euphemize, Goa Gil's set

lacks fluidity. Can the listener really achieve a trance when the tracks run

all over each other? I know he's been a massive supporter of Goa-trance since

before the beginning, but as a DJ his sets seem thrown together carelessly.

There are some dandies on here for sure -- the Bamboo Forest and Oforia tracks

are among my current favorites (but then t.ñ

[Guest adp028[at]mail[dot]usask[dot]ca]

First off, to the review above, Gil was obviously mixing on DAT's so it's not

going to be as smooth as vinyl. Trust Gil, he knows what he's doing.  As far

as

the second disc being totally useless...The fist track, entitled 23 degrees

under the sun, is one of the greatest trance tracks ever to be released, and

quite possibly the best piece of trance to come out of America.  I have turned

dozens of people on to trance by playing this track to them.  So divine, it is

even recognized by the masses as a masterpiece.  This is real trance music,

timeless, not that corny bullshit we've grown accustomed to in the mainstream

party scene that is labelled "trance" when its really just bad melodic techno.

The sample on 1+1=1 is worth the cost of both discs combined. Philosophical

trance, intended for the blowing of the mind. Respect to Gil and Ceiba records

for this brilliant release.

[Guest goa tacks]

Real Trance Music Indeed (agree with abave review.)

Everybody should respect the trance music really from these

producers/musicians. Gil, no explanation, Ceiba (Kode IV as Peter from Ceiba

Records, and Adam O'hana as a head of American trance music distributer.)

If you love this, you willl also love other "Language of Light" series from

Ceiba Records.

Must Have CD, this is a History of Trance music,

and Burning Man Festival.

It wiill be an art history book in a few hundred years

from now...100/100

[Guest this lost penguin]

The Pleiadians track is particularly well executed!