Guest AlexG Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 i agree with the above: this one's great. out of all melodic titles i own, old or new (and i got quite a few), this one has the most complex sound structure. amazing textures and atmospheres, great feel, sweet melodies =). very very nice 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mascok Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 just amazing!! human blue is one of my favorite artists in europe these days, and this cd is just amazing!, i liked it very much hope you will too!! 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Trancers303 Posted April 28, 2000 Share Posted April 28, 2000 Human Blue - Ice Artist: Human Blue Title: Ice Label: Spiral Trax Date: 1999 Track listing: 01. 09'17" Trust In Rythm 02. 07'51" Atomic Can 03. 09'09" Breaking Limits 04. 09'55" Mechanic Horse 05. 08'00" Non Transparent Shadows 06. 10'01" Stonehenge (Rmx) 07. 09'19" Experimental Joy 08. 09'21" Travelling Review: YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!GREAT!!!!what a cd...I never expected something like this...To be hounest I didn´t know about this group, so I went to the store and saw this and listened, I thought it was Ok and bought it. Then I listened to it when I was at home and I realized what great cd a bought. I love the way Mr Dag Wallin builts up the tracks...Melodic(reminds me a of Miranda, if you don´t like her then listen to it before you buy it)and those crazy sounds he is making on the Nordlead...Listen to track 3...It sounds like a saxophone!!Hey but its so fucking great!!!By the way I saw Him In Stockholm on "Fryshuset" The people went crazy, great performance...Dont miss this one!!! 9/10 Keep up the good work.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mindbender Posted April 29, 2000 Share Posted April 29, 2000 I thought that this album was absolutely amazing for a few months after I bought it, but now I think it's 'only' good. The problem is that, while the tracks are evolving and new sounds and melodies come in at the right pace, the individual layers of sound and melodies don't evolve at all. Once on layer is in, it stays the same always until it's gone. I like progression in the layers themselves. As it is, the tracks don't have too much new to offer after listening through them many many times. However, like I said, I like this all the same. The first two tracks are easy-going and nice. Breaking Limits is a great track an awesome guitar solo (an exceptional evolving layer here) in the middle and changing to a stormer in the end. Mechanic Horse is my favourite here. It has a really powerful bassline, which starts the track and is a really powerful stormer. Non Transparent Shadows is very good with a very nice beat. The rest of the tracks I find a bit boring nowadays. Well!, Experimental Joy works for me sometimes, but it's not really my type of minimalism. I hate the guitar with the extreme reverb on Travelling. 7/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mindbender Posted May 8, 2000 Share Posted May 8, 2000 I think I have to update my opinion. Tracks 6 and 8 are ok after all. Depends on the day, I guess. Nothing special though. And hate was a too strong word for the guitar on travelling; I don't like it, but can't really say I hate it. I also forgot to mention the nice 'light' drums on many tracks: they're good. Still, the grade remains the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted July 4, 2000 Share Posted July 4, 2000 He can construct lovely groovy minimal Scandinavian cuts, but then he often segues between them with amateurish way-too-cute kid stuff. Might as well use a kazoo. Still, there are some nice tracks on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gustav Posted July 15, 2000 Share Posted July 15, 2000 At first I thought this album was a little too minimalistic and slow. Then I got the chance to hear him playing live at fryshuset in Stockholm. This was during the later hours of the party and before he started I thought that it would get boring, I needed energy. Stupid me, this was one of the most energic sets I've heard. Slow I had thought before, now he even played some of the tracks slower and got it to the perfect speed. The whole dancefloor was peacefully floating in unity, my mind was clear and I was just smiling. Very good morningtrance (8/10 - Best served at sunrise.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest King Kong Posted August 13, 2000 Share Posted August 13, 2000 Amazing, just amazing....this CD is a masterpiece..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted September 18, 2000 Share Posted September 18, 2000 What an album!Great work!Dag,you're my god for a month or two.Nice textures,groovy sounds and excellently built melodies woven together in a mixture that swirls and swims out of your speakers.Mindblowing stuff,especially "Breaking Limits"."Travelling" is the best closing track I've ever heard.Scandinavians rules!Big thanks to Dag Wallin for that alien's mind creation.Pure 10/10.Bom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest what is "my email?' Posted September 20, 2000 Share Posted September 20, 2000 hmmm... i dont know about this one. 1 , 6, 8 were ok. 2 was the highlight... the rest not for my minimal melodic tastes. Background rythms were good but still just half of an ounce only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest }Evilben{ Posted September 29, 2000 Share Posted September 29, 2000 Very good album!!!!!, some original sound (trust in rythm,travelling...) best traxx are 1 (it kix ass),2,4,8 8/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dandoo Forest Posted October 22, 2000 Share Posted October 22, 2000 very cool hard goa psy!! i like it! new styl very hard 4 a morning psy i like ! very good 4 party'z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ravemail10 Posted December 10, 2000 Share Posted December 10, 2000 This album is absolutely beautiful. From minimal to a beautiful melody in each song. The same construction in most songs might get annoying in any album but this. This is great. It's not dark and not shiny. Very aptly named, gives a picture of slowly flying over the arctic, mostly barren with the occasional bear looking up at you. And as you gaze into the bears eyes you feel the greatest connection to nature that you ever felt in your life. Absolutely beautiful, love the cover! 10/10 - and i never give a full 10 lightly. Bom! - Raven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mind Expander Posted January 17, 2001 Share Posted January 17, 2001 Don't bother to buy this album except you wanna waste your money! This CD is so minimalistic and lightyears away from complex. It sounds like a bloody newbie bought a synthesizer and made some tracks my grandmother could do better. Track 4 is, in my opinion, the greatest crap i've ever heard and there isn't one lone element of psy-trance on the whole album. This album is so booooooooooring, dudes. Are you deaf? Can't you all above use your ears? It's always the same, boring background layer all the 9 minutes in every track. The only thing that's good on this CD is the end of track 3. But OK, for those who want to waste their money for a musical-brain-annoyer, buy this and become happy. But for those who like full-on psy-trance: buy BotFB - Twin Sharkfins or download it from mp3.com/battlebuddhas for free! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mind Expander Posted January 17, 2001 Share Posted January 17, 2001 Rating: 1/1000 compared to Twin Sharkfins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cpt_Shiner Posted January 20, 2001 Share Posted January 20, 2001 Mind expander be nice.... BotFB Twin sharkfins has the same background layer in many of its tracks from begining to end, need i remind u of neuroglider? I luv Twin Sharkfins to death, so im not being biased... and somehow i doubt your granny can do better... as for the review, definatly a cd to add to your collection! 8/10... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 The Spiral Trax has done it again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mind Expander Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 Sorry for this negative review dudes, don't take it too serious. It just was a real shitty day. Now that I've listened to the complete album again I think it's not that bad at all but still a bit boring. This is an album you have to be in the right mood to understand it. At the moment i'd give it 6/10 but still not more. It's just OK, not better for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dano[at]dds[dot]nl Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 My hopes for this album were rather high after hearing the Human Blue tracks on Transient?s ?a progress in trance? and ?Transient 8?, which I thought were brilliant. And I really, REALLY tried to like this album. But I think this album completely sucks. It is elevator music which doesn?t light a spark in me, on the contrary: I get depressed knowing that shit like this is taken serious by some psytrancers. A 3/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted January 25, 2001 Share Posted January 25, 2001 I think there are 3 real killers on this album!! Number 1 because of that rhytm-section, number 4 because it's so spacy morning-Trance and number 9 which is also nice morning-trance!! The other songs are nothing special!! I agree with Dano that he has some Brilliant singles out there (Sandal Wood, La Scream)!! The secret of this CD is listening to it during sunrise, it's fantastic!! I've seen Human Blue LIVE here in belgium a few months ago and everybody was flying... It was the best morning-set ever!! But he didn't play 1 song of this CD, and maybe it has a reason... Anyway, 7/10 from me!! Bom Shankar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mark G Posted February 6, 2001 Share Posted February 6, 2001 Is it on CD? I wish I knew that!(The record shop said it wasn't!) Anyway, This record is rocking, it is so cruisy & well constructed, yet psychedelic nonetheless. I am only too happy to listen to it. It is such a nice contrast to the dark sound of today! (I love the dark stuff, but I also love the morning)Dag Wallin is a busy boy! How many compilations is he on? Dag, if you are reading this, come to Australia, ask Atmos or Anti, we fuckin rock!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mescalinium Posted May 9, 2001 Share Posted May 9, 2001 I've had this cd for a long time now, and just really got into it the other day. It's just one of those albums that you have to be in the right mood for and you have to let it grow on you. It's very complex in that its sometimes difficult to process all the layers of sound, even though some of the songs are fairly minimal for melodic trance. I know, that sounds really paradoxical, but its hard to explain. My favorite has to be Breaking Limits with its killer bassline, but then half way through the song, the beautiful melody comes in and the whole song just goes crazy. Wonderful. 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest damoneves[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted June 4, 2001 Share Posted June 4, 2001 I just got this cd and think it's...worth 7/10. It's better than a seven or would have been, If i reviewed this when it was released. 9 or 10 for sure but now it's a little dated. Anyway the cut off's are a little childish but that is all, everythng else is complex and intriguing. It's a good bridge for the m vs m lovers. I think i will really like some of his newer stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djunsane[at]goatrance[dot]com Posted July 11, 2001 Share Posted July 11, 2001 This album is just pure insanity. its what dreamy & dancing music is all about. great stuff and i just am dying for them to take out a new album. 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted October 16, 2001 Share Posted October 16, 2001 dreaming tracks specialy "travelling" it full of stars.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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