V/A - Lighten

[Guest Le Lotus Bleu]

V/A - Lighten

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Lighten

Label: Sub Machine

Date: 2003

 

Track listing:

 

01. Tetraktys : Fightback (Tegma Rmx)

02. Tone Factory : Human Arena

03. Luna Spice : Tokyo Dream

04. Gnome Effect : Fridolin

05. Prismatic : Jah

06. Walhalla : Arktica

07. Missing Time : Cannibal Campus

08. Nasa : Snaredrop

09. Vibrasphere : Broad Bandits

 

Review:

 

This 3 rd compilation from Submachine provides the largest spectrum of

proggressive productions from all his released.

 

With The Tegma remix of Fightback, you?ve got your stomper proggy doze, kinda

high meeting between kickin? way of Tegma-Rockblocker & techy-proggy tricks

from Tetraktys.

 

Tone Factory is in charge of delivering the subtle dark atmosphere in a

smoother way but with tougher mettalic tones than previous track.

 

I still don?t dig on Luna Spice track this time again (hope it?ll change one

day), too groovy-linear for me, indeed i just like the little 20 seconds intro

and was very disapointed coz was expecting the track to go on this way?

 

Newcomer for me, Gnome Effect (Sylvester Lauritsen & Mikkel Rasmussen) from

Danemark, Fridolin opens Lighten on a very interesting proggy-morning trend

with very slight hint of psychedelism, a new project to look after for.

 

Prismatic gives you skipping off fat bass & kick, a cool & fun musical result

with some breaks of little sharp sounds. During the progress of the track, the

build up evolves particularly the bass line becoming into a jerky electrising

one. You?ll notice some cool soft twisted voice.

 

Walhalla (C.Michaud alone here) with Arktica presents a slapping rythmic, the

track gets quicly boring due to few coherence inside itself, lots of little

samples added anywhere which don?t fit with the rest.

 

Missing Time catch again things with a brillant example of his typical groove,

on the end at 5:44 the track drives itself a bit crazy & go slightly faster ;

this is probably due to the cannibal getting closer?

 

Snaredrop from Nasa, is an honest groovy-melodic stuff with a mid-tempo & those

typical little proggy-percus, getting better & better on my ears with each new

listens.

 

And now to close up Lighten, here comes the big attraction with Vibrasphere ?

Broad Bandits which consists in a pure morning-proggy jewel.

 

 

Hilights by order :9,1,4

Others favorites by order:5,7,8

 

Easily the best Sub Machine compilation from far up to now.

 

Mark :8,5/10 (recommended for proggy lovers)