V/A - Guitars On Mushroom 2

[DeathPosture]

V/A - Guitars On Mushroom 2

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Guitars On Mushroom 2

Label: Psysolation

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 06'34" Sonic Fusion And Impact : Mortal Combat

02. 07'25" CON Sequenser And Milk : Tango

03. 09'29" Liquid Metal Feat Chakra : Search For God

04. 07'16" Sediment 4 : Moff Seerdom

05. 07'23" Kao Tae : Masterbits Rhapsody

06. 08'06" Psyside : Fuzz Gravity

07. 06'56" Tim Schuldt : Pale

08. 08'24" Apocalyptic : First It Was A Dream

09. 09'02" Distortion Orchestra : Monolith

 

CD 2

01. 07'11" Deep Dive Corporation : Jazztalk

02. 05'54" Akanoid : Alan's Future

03. 07'25" DJ Sangeet : Bosho's Pond

04. 08'41" Puls : Strinx

05. 07'23" Klangstrahler Project : Nagaland

06. 09'30" Necton : The Hitman

07. 06'56" Electric Universe : Moonchild

08. 06'05" Anjin : Reality Ends

09. 07'30" Akasha Project : Hermetic Horse

 

Review:

 

Average compilation from German label Psysolation. It comes as no surprise

that there are a abundance of German acts on this comp. and neither does it

come as a surprise that all of these tracks have guitars in them. (Duh!?)

The biggest flaw this CD has, is that pretty much all the tracks are already

released. Short description of each track. #1.1 (CD 1, track 1) kicks of

with a heavy guitar that pretty much continues throughout the track which

has the sample "Ehm, we seem to be having a problem here" repeated several

times. Average track. #1.2 is a well-know track from the album "When Gods

Make Love" and has a phat conga-based bass-line. Good track. #1.3 is

previously released on the "Resurrection-comp from 99, but it's a cool

track. Has a cool start, with a yawning animal or something. The track

itself is very psychedelic. "What is god? What is true?". Very good track.

#1.4 is more boring. Especially in the middle. Uses the exact same

guitar-riff as track 1! Nothing special about this one. #1.5 has the

hardest, meanest guitar-riff so far. The guitar-bits sounds a little like

Deep Purple. The track has a very hectic feel to it, and changes pace a lot.

Very, very good track. #1.6 starts with a very simple kick-drum, but evolves

into a very fast, cool track with distorted guitar-riffs. #1.7 is a boring,

track from the Aurinko compil "Catcher". #1.8 is very psychedelic, but also

very boring 2-year old track from the Atomic-compil "Electrosect" and last

on CD1 we have another boring track. #1.9 starts chilled out, but slowly

gets harder... Nothing special. CD2 (which is slower than CD1) starts out

with famous German chill-out group Deep Dive Corp, who delivers a stunning,

melodic piece of psychedelic ambient #2.1. Very good track. #2.2 is a slower

track, with a really annoying guitar. Crappy! #2.3 has potential with nice

use of percussions, but is still an average track. #2.4 Is a harder, more

tribal inspired track. Quite ok. Tracks #2.5 + #2.6 are both unbelievably

boring and very predictable. Fillers. #2.7 is the well-known Boris Blenn

track from Divine Design. My fav'e track from that album. Very good. #2.8

also has potential, but is totally pervaded with a really cheesy, hip-hop

sample. Too bad. #2.9 is too break-beat'y for my taste. So, to sum it up,

there are 4 very good tracks on this comp: Tracks 3 & 5 of CD1 + tracks 1 &

7 on CD2. If you have those tracks, there is no need to get this comp as

there are TOO MANY FILLERS here! Also, for a guitar comp, where are the SUN

Project/X-Dream/Delta tracks? Cool artwork though. If you love guitars in

your psy-trance, and if you like Vol. 1, get this. If not - don't! Rating

5.5/10 Bom shankar!

[Guest Kindgok]

Tim Shuldt's "Pale" is NOT boring. -kingdok

[Guest VBRunner]

Good tracks I'm sure, but this is when I start worrying about commercialization

of psytrance.

[Guest infected[at]hotmail[dot]com]

my fevorite track is Psyside - Fuzz Gravity