V/A - Monarchie 2

[shahar@isratrance]

V/A - Monarchie 2

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Monarchie 2

Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie

Date: 2002

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'14" Vibrasphere : Katapult

02. 08'41" Ibiza Connection : Dreamland

03. 07'48" Treibstoff : Humanoids

04. 07'21" Morphem : What I Need

05. 10'21" Prisoners Of The Sun : Japanoid

06. 08'12" Biodegradable : A Spoon In The Jungle

07. 06'34" PPS Project : Toxic

08. 09'00" Filur : All Shine

09. 08'51" Voladores : Back From Hell

 

Review:

 

CD no. 9 from ZMA, and for me it's one of the best Hercules has made since the

first Monarchie, and so, though the style is different for sure, it deserves

this name. Most of the tracks are real good, the sounds and stories are

diverse and interesting, just the organizing of the tracks is a bit confused

to me, and it looses direction in the end.

We have here Vibrasphere with the massive atmospheric Katapult, Ibiza

Connection with Dreamland, really a good track, but I just don't think I wanna

hear on the dancfloor those blue-peel-red-peel samples again. Definitely

overused. Any way to take them out of the track? Triebstoff with a real

powerful scandosound stormer, huge atmosphere and crunch included. Morphem

change the atmosphere a bit with a lighter tune with a bit of an old school

aroma to it, but nothing exciting. POTS, which I usually don't like with a

grabbing horse-riding rhythm with groovy robotic percussion and a subtle jazzy

melodic ending- moving the body, relaxing the mind. Biodegradable with yet

another matrix sample, but this one is forgiven fully, because this track is

really refreshing and fun to listen to. A lot of crazy things happen here, all

laid on a very crowded bass-line combination- we're talking psychedelic

mornings madness here. PPS Project, uprising Israeli tech-trance machine,

start with a heartbeat, and continue with alienated hard industrial sounds

topped with levitating semi melodic clubby sequences. Filur goes to even more

clubby realms with Seb's larger than life sounds- the track itself doesn't

speak to me, and it also feels out of place here. Voladores close with a very

percussive and very old school melodic track.

Bottom Line: Very good release with a lot of atmosphere and space and driving

energy. Starts with great morning sounds and ends in the clubby realm.

Favorites: 1(!), 2, 3, 5, 6(!), 7.

[ukiro]

The Vibrasphere track is very, very impressive. I'm truly looking forward to

their next album, they seem to have progressed tremendously since their last

album, which was very good. I agree with shahar about the matrix red/blue pill

samples in the Ibiza Connection track; They should have been left out. Other

than that, it's a great track. The Morphem track is the least interesting here

in my opinion, it feels rather pointless. I've vome to expect better things

from Filur, but as always with his stuff it might take a while to "get it", so

I'm not giving up on it yet. All in all this is a nice compilation, one of the

best I've bought in the last year or so. Too bad ZMA still won't release

anything on vinyl :-(

[Guest russ]

very good album, with lots of different styles, all fairly good. but to

emphasize the point made above: please, artists and labels, enough with the

matrix samples!! they totally ruin an otherwise good track (dreamland). movie

samples already ruin enough songs in trance. processed/manipulated voices are

cool, but movie samples dropped on top of things are so annoying, especially

when other trance songs have used the exact same sample. the sample in "what i

need" is also extremely annoying, as is the gratuitous sample dropped on the

end of the voladores track. let the music speak for itself.

[seraph]

Pretty good progressive psychedelic comp...It is pretty dark at the beggining

and it gets more and more psychedelic by the end...I don't like three tracks

but the good ones are : KATAPULT, DREAMLAND, A SPOON IN THE JUNGLE,

TOXIC...7/10