Insejn Posted February 2, 2003 Author Share Posted February 2, 2003 Vibrasphere - Lime Structure Artist: Vibrasphere Title: Lime Structure Label: Digital Structures Date: 2003 Track listing: 01. Soul Wire 02. Lemon Phase 03. Newport 04. Time Shifter 05. Manzanilla 06. Indian Summer 07. Purple Floating 08. Infusion 09. Silver Sun Review: Progressive trance. I could stop writing now cuz that is exactly what this is. Compare to their first album. This hasn't got so many chilled tracks. The non chilled are better than the non chilled on the first one imo. But I don't like it to much. Maybe you will. I really wanna see a chillout album with these guys. The ambient track here (Manzanilla) is truly amazing. I love their ambient and I think they should fokus on it :-) Final Verdict: 6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0fane Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 You can definatly hear that these guys have experience with making ambient. The album starts with a short ambient track, which builds up very nice to "Lemon Phase", which is a very soft, progressive track. Track #3 is the beautiful "Newport" from the Digital Emission compilation, and basically all tracks are in this style. There is an exception tho: Track 5, which is a truly amazing ambient track with a guitar ala Celtic Cross. Overall the album has a very nice flow, and top-quality production, and if you liked Vibrasphere earlier stuff you're definatly going to like this. 8.5/10 Best tracks: 1, 2, 3(!) 5(!) and 8. You can btw download track 8 "Infusion" from the Digital Structures website - thumbs up for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rx7style Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 This is a very smooth album. It's very relaxed and well structured... almost a bit too much, nearly crossing over into chill-out/lounge music and I'm not sure if that's the intent at all. There's nothing very high energy here that makes you want to sprint up a flight of 500 steps to another dimension, 8?) But then again if that was the case all the time, I'd get quite tired too quickly! If you want something to wind-down with that carries beats in most tracks, you'll like this album. By playing both sides but never fully migrating to one or the other, this will appeal to both progressive and "ambient" lovers, denoting a 7.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stoned2max Posted February 17, 2003 Share Posted February 17, 2003 Yes.Progressive indeed. but it somethin that u cant get sick of imo. very easy listenin, not for the full lovers, 8.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aqua Mental Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 I haven't heard this one yet (I'm waiting for my copy to arrive from Saikosounds), but wanted to make a remark. These guys want to combine the energy of trance with the deepness of dub, so why compare with anyone else? Nobody else says they want to try the same. I simply love Vibrasphere music and the only track I've heard from this album (Newport) is very promising indeed. Simply fantastic! Greetings to Robert and Rickard, I met you in Boom 2002... have no fear... those you understand will love your new style! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lespagnol Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 I dont really agree with you aqua mental , There is only one song here that could be comparated with electro dub (manzanilla) but the other one are really progressive.Anyway dub still for me very instrumental like regga without lyrics.So this album is really good and energic.The produvtion is much better than the last album .Im a little bit disapointed though cuz I havent find any track like katapult here .This album is radically not minimal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goblim Posted February 19, 2003 Share Posted February 19, 2003 Lime Structure. Track #1 I wouldn't call a real track; it's more like a long intro and it suits well as that. It's just preparing you, a beat every now and then; you can feel that something is coming. And at track #2 it does. A beat begins, and an already a melody in the background. It's soon replaced by a build-up though, a beat and some sounds. You can notice this very excellent production. A few almost not hear able and incomplete melodies are heard and at 02'42 there's a sample "This is about the ...great stuff" (I think) and a wonderful melody begins. The beat has stopped, and it’s a long pause before it starts again. At 03'40 it does and kind of you get an idea about this album. For me the melody is doing everything here, and it makes me think it's a shame there are generally so few melodies in psytrance nowadays. Track #3 is next and it's the already famous Newport from Digital Emission. It has kind of the same type of build-up as the previous one, a "cracked" melody in the beginning built up, until it starts in the end, this time not until after 6 minutes. But when it does... well, listen for yourself! Soon gone though, why…? Woah after two such marvellous tracks, can the rest of the album keep up? Track #4 is more proggy. Has no clear melody as the previous tracks, so I find it a bit boring. Track #5 is Manzanilla and the chill-out track of the album. I loved it already from the start. When I listened to it I just had to smile! :-) This is what I call a great chill-out track! This sure makes my wonder, why doesn't Vibrasphere make only ambient?! They have made many great ambient tracks, San Pedro, 33000 Feet Over and The Big Sleep to mention a few. And now Manzanilla. Vibrasphere, please make a downbeat album! Track #6 is again proggy and sounds really 'naked' after the ethereal Manzanilla. After three minutes or so something happens. There's a pause, and a really groovy sound enters. This is progressive trance at its best. Track #7 Purple Floating is next, same proggy stuff again, but this time with a little subtle melody. The longest track on the album, and pretty good. Then we have track #8, Infusion. Begins with a lot of percussion, and continues with that. Pretty good too, but not excellent. Last track #9 is Silver Sun, I get the feeling that it’s there just to fill the album. Same style as before, nothing special I would say. Well this album started out so great, but got a bit worse after track 6. Overall a good album with an excellent production. Favourite tracks: 2, 3, 5(!)Final grade: 6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted March 3, 2003 Share Posted March 3, 2003 I find this to be a fanastic change of pace... great for home listening, probably good for warming up a crowd too. Very high quality swedish trance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Setsuko Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 QUALITY trance , like we're used from DS .. THANK YOU MPDQX crew for this beauty , you made me happy again :-) , it's fantastic ... I got this in the mail a few days ago and realy ... It feels extremely good listening to this album ... maybe they did not innovate enough (like tegma let us hear a few months ago) but Lime Structure is more dance-friendly , they lost their vibrating basslines but they sure focused on the tribal and emotional side of psytrance (a bit more ticonish , positively), and that's something I really like . This album is just ASTONISHING !!!! ultimate standouts are 3,5,6,7,8 ... the concept of the graphics is very pro too . thumbs ub for Vibrasphere rating; 9/10 psy bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKS Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Swedish Vibrasphere is finally out with their second album, this time on Digital Structures Records. Vibrasphere are Rickard Berglöf and Robert Elster. Pretty cool cover art on this one. You also get a fat booklet where you can read their musician history. Rickard started making music in 1995 as Subcouds together with Fredrik Axelsson. In 1998 Rickard and Robert started producing music together. Then they released their first album (Echo) on Spiral Trax Records in 2000. The first track is a sort of intro track. Very nice floating ambient soundscape. Then it leads over to track 2. This is a nice progressive trance track, very pleasant for dancing. It sounds a bit like Human Blue, Element etc. Track 3 starts very beautiful with a floating sound, before the pleasant progressive rhythms comes in. Very danceable at the same time as it is relaxing. Fantastic progressive morning trance. The sound quality is amazing. Track 4 is another progressive masterpiece. I don`t like much progressive trance, but when it sounds like this, I get totally into it. Vibrasphere is also famous for their great dubby chill out tracks. Track 5 is one of those beautiful chilled tracks. Floating with deep dubby rhythms and some nice guitar above. Track 6 sounds a bit more like some tech house in the beginning, but it becomes really trancey afterwards. Not among my favourites on this album. Track is a new fantastic progressive trance track for the morning. A great track with amazing sound quality and beautiful melodies. Track 8 follows the same high quality progressive style with some tribal drums in between. Real nice. The last track on the album is a wonderful deep progressive trance track. Nice finish. This album is really nice. I missed some more chilled tracks, but I really like the trance tracks these guys are making too. So if you already like progressive trance, this is recommended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TecHniC Posted March 15, 2003 Share Posted March 15, 2003 Second release from Vibrasphere keeps their own style. The best tracks in my opinion are 3,5,7,8. Manzanilla is really beautiful ambient track. Final grade: 7/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shahar@isratrance Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Vibrasphere join the Digital Structures family and brings us their second album packed with their dubby atmospheric penetrating music, all with a very relaxed feel to it. So much open and relaxed that after the first time I listened to it what jumped out to my mind is that this is chillout-trance. This is an album that you can both dive into or play in the background and enjoy just as well. There's enough here to dance to, or you can just float in it while you're chilling. All the familiar Vibrasphere characteristics are here. Be it the dubby sequences and feel which are present through the album, or the great musicality, which you can feel so well in Soul Wire, Newport, Silver Sun and the great relaxed floating Manzanilla, which gives me back the feel of the early trancey chillout that was made in the mid 90s. The dancefloor feel is present in Newport, the excellent pre-dawn tune- Infusion, and the groovy and funky Purple Floating. The hypnotic vibrasphere effect is also here, especially in the great Time Shifter. Some of the tracks are more clubby in feel (Lemon Phase, Silver Sun), some are very outdoor (Newport, Purple Floating, Infusion, Time Shifter), but all are very musical. Bottom Line: Excellent album, like lime it is refreshing, yet can sting you a bit. Also good word to DS on the cover and the booklet inside. Favorites: 1, 3, 4, 5(!), 7, 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalliuz Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Very nice deep clean music. This a a fine peace of progressive chill music that everybody will like. Groovy but still rolling. The production is fat and will pleasure many bass lovers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted July 31, 2003 Share Posted July 31, 2003 Pretty good and liquid smooth release. I liked it a lot...It soothes your brain cells and makes you float...I like all tracks but best are : LEMON PHASE, TIME SHIFTER, INDIAN SUMMER, INFUSION, SILVER SUN ( ! )...9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astralprojection Posted May 25, 2016 Share Posted May 25, 2016 this is the best vibra album and the best album of 2003 and in many ways one of the best progressive psy albums to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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