V/A - Irresistible Meltdown

[Anoebis]

V/A - Irresistible Meltdown

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Irresistible Meltdown

Label: Spirit Zone

Date: 1999

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'54" Tarsis : Endless Rising

02. 08'01" Haldolium : Protek

03. 07'04" Spirallianz : Fast Forward

04. 09'12" Etnica : Mind Altering Drugs

05. 07'50" Lotus Omega : The Blazer

06. 08'55" Noma : Spasm

07. 07'38" Matenda : Scratch

08. 09'33" Naveen Feat Morphem : Iridescence

09. 07'51" RAS : Peace

 

Review:

 

Not a very good release from Spirit-Zone altough there are 2 absolute KILLERS

on it!! That song of Etnica is Mindblowing, awesome,...!! The best

Etnica-track ever made!! Also 8 is véry véry good! Unfortunately the rest of

it is not good... It's kinda boring and some songs are not uplifting enough...

So if you already have one of those two killer-tracks, don't buy this CD!! Bom

Shankar

[Guest silonc]

I am sorry Anoebis, but in my opinion this is a great compilation. The first

Tarsis track is an absolute stormer. The Hallodium track is also great with

the sample "The Fighting Will Continue" YEAH! Spirallianz is not a very

uplifting track, but the energy is all there. The Etnica track-masterpiece,

Lotus Omega-incredible, I think that this track brings us to the irresistable

meltdown. Noma is the track I like least, but it is still good. Then the final

three are all very nice, and bring us back to earth after an incredible

voyage. Thanks Antaro!

[Guest jonatanh[at]hotmail[dot]com]

I have to mention Spirallianz track on this compilation: "Fast Forward". Great

track, hard And minimalistic (Spirallianz is the producer behind Delta's album

Scizoeffective, and you can definitly here that).

Also a killer break in that song that makes me laugh (in a good way).

All the other songs are good too except for the last one (RAS : Peace) which I

didn't like...

[Guest djonanis[at]hotmail[dot]com]

I agree with silonic, this is a very nice compilation, and the noma tune.. what

to say it is just scandinavian...awesome minimal psytrance.

anoebis has the true about the etnicas mind altering drugs a killer tune. I

have to say that the lotus omega tune is not that good, but tarsis track and

naveen Feat morphen are both outrageous tunages.

[Guest Ehsanur]

Agree with everyone here! "Mind Altering Drugs" is

fantastic, a true "undiscovered" killer.

 

Peace.Eshanti Brahman

[Guest Mindbender]

I should have reviewed this earlier, but just never got around to it. Anyway,

this is one of my most listened to comps. More than year back I had this

cassette (yea, I have CD too) non-stop in my walkman for more than a month and

listened to it several times every day. With the amount of records I have,

that is pretty fucking rare. So guess that means that it's a pretty damn great

compilation. In the beginning I though this was just rather good (6/10 or so),

but slowly it started growing on me. It took me half-a-year to start listening

to this daily and then I was sold. Actually that shows how my music taste

changed. In the beginning I thought this was too simple and repetetive, but at

that time I didn't like minimal or progressive psy-trance. I think this is the

record that made me love it (among other styles of psy-trance). Most of the

artist here were unknown to me at the time I got this record, but are now

among my favourites. Don't expect a too melodic style. There are melodies, no

doubt, but the focus is not always on them. Tarsis: Endless Rising has one of

the best grooves ever played on this planet. Such a mindblowing stomper,

slowly and elegantly building, especially on the percussion side of things.

Incredible energy, without being really on the dark side. Haldoium have made a

good track here, but they've made better as well. Also driving, but not out of

this world. Spirallianz have an awesome track here. While it's not melodic,

it's not only rhythm like many tracks on their album. I like both styles a

lot. Mind Altering Drugs from Etnica is one of the darkest tracks here, with

samples that could easily have you bad-trip, if you happen to be in the mood

and tripping. Evil. Energetic. Psychedelic. Fantastic. This track opens up a

more melodic, progressive and hard side to this compilation. A good example of

what Etnica was releasing around '99, betweeen Nitrox and Equator. Lotus Omega

goes on building from there with their insane style, being a good progression

from Etnica. It's familiar to the sound on their album. Very good, but they

can also do better. Then follow Noma and Matenda, who give us ok tracks here.

Like I said, they are ok, but due to the high standard on this compilation,

they are to me the weakest tracks here... Still well worth listening and I

like them. Then comes the other out-of-space, gift-from-the-gods,

unbelievably-awesome track here (the first being Endless Rising): Naveen feat.

Morphem: Iridescence. One of the best intros ever, with such beatiful sounds

used only once or twice, all fitting perfectly together and creating a

constatly changing soundscape, at the same time beutiful melodies slowly come

in and the groove lifts its head and before you know a fantastic ambient intro

has warped into a great psy-trance track. So smooth, so beatiful. Aaaahhh. I

love it! Just listen to it, please, I beg you. The final track RAS: Peace is a

good outro to this comp. It's softer, but not chill-out. Oh, no. This comp is

trance all the way through. What I need to say here at the end, is that one of

the great things about this comp is it's choice of tracks. Each track really

fits in with the one before and the one next. Although it's not mixed, this is

still a greatly built-up set. And the style is not the same all the way

through, but changes just the right amount, keeping it flowing nicely. This is

the way I like to choose my tracks for sets, but in a 5 hour set you can bring

in even more styles. For one hour this is very near perfect. 9/10. Thank you

Antaro for dragging me into the progressive side of the large family of music

generally called psy-trance.

[Guest fheierli[at]mails[dot]ch]

Another great compilation by Spirit-Zone's Genius DJ Antaro. Phantastic CD.

There are no bad tracks on it, just full-power Psy-Trance. Just look to the

tracklist: Etnica, Lotus Omega, Spirallianz, Tarsis; this artists rocks. It

have two parts on this CD. First a harder part (1-5) and then a softer (but

not chilling) part (6-9). Both parts are very good, but i like the first one

more. My favourite tracks are 2,3,4 (best track on the CD) and 5. But all

tracks are very good. I love this work :-) 9/10