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Morphem - Monitoring

 

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Artist: Morphem

Title: Monitoring

Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'00" 15 Seconds

02. 07'33" Ambrosia

03. 08'12" Rubberdub

04. 04'16" Tobeinbetween

05. 07'42" Gamelord

06. 09'59" Slavetotrance

07. 07'24" Actinium 227

08. 07'33" Protek

09. 09'12" Forward ?

10. 09'31" Funkyfish

 

Review:

 

I´ve just bought 7 new CD´s so there´s much to do the next days. The first

review I´m writing is MONITORING by MORPHEM.

Track number one (15 seconds) starts off with a male chorus that croons

deeply in the background - "as tough it were a horrible form of life". You

can hear some telegram-beeps, this first Track reminds me much of the almost

genius last Track "scientific coverup" by Atmos. Ambient style, a heavy base

(90bmp) and a tik-tak hihat.

Track number two (ambrosia) begins with a baseline sounding like bitmonx vs.

fabio - "erdbeer-kiwi" but much more stomping. There is not really much

sound to describe, but what you can hear is absolute lucky power for any

situation - either cleaning the room, driving a car ,sitting on a sofa or on

the dancefloor (140 bpm).

Track nummero tre (rubberdub, 142 bpm) begins with a very floating - or

rather swinging sound that is veery psychedelic with many different melodies

and sounds surrounding the listener and joining him on his trip. Not much

different from the second Track beside that woo woo woo supporting the bass.

Der vierte Track (tobeinbetween) spinning at relaxing 133 bpm and only about

four minutes long, starts off only with a series of closed hihats. The base

joins in for a very slow 1/2 beat (a kick on every 2nd takt), before it

fades away and -

Track five (gameLord) starts and pushes the player deep into his seat af if

he would just have pushed the afterburner. GameLord is the right name for

that track (144 bpm). It reminds me of playing Xtreme-G or Wipeout with its

industrial and modern sounding kick that forces the listener to stand up and

jump around the whole neighbourhood. Not aggressive nor rude, but veery

danceable - till the last second.

Track number six (slaveToTrance) starts off slowly with an "intro" of 2.40

minutes - sounds good on long Dj mixes. This track with its short but cracy

melody reminds me some kind of Quadra - "Digital Stimulant" altough really

not the same style, but also very mind expanding. With its 10 minutes length

at 142 bpm this song seems to me as if it was the peak in the evolution of

this album.

Track seven (actinium 227, 112 bpm) is another ambient Track, much faster

than Track one, but actually not that surprising. This sound is - like all

other Tracks of this album not very complex but as always clear and clean

like the next,

Track eight (proTek) that again starts off like a rocket altough not

sounding that fast. Very simple melody but because of this very minimalistic

trance @ 140 bpm.

Track nine (forward ?) runs at 148 bpm - in my opinion somewhat too fast for

this minimal track that is again partly very melodic (but never cheesy

melodies).

The final Track (funkyFish) is again one slow Track bumping at 100 bpm -

very relaxing - an ideal Track to startup a set or end a full-on party night

with. Enjoy the sun on your belly.

 

All in all a very repetetive, as an album maybe too boring sound, played as

single tracks every one of them can be enjoyed in it´s complexity and

atmosphere. Not a must have, but a good choice for minimal trancers. 8.5 out

of 10.

(I´m writing this review while listening the first time to that album - so

I´m sure there will be another review in a week or so, when the album has

grown on me.) See further down...

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Parts of this record are really nice: 15 seconds, Pro-Tek, a couple of other

tracks. But too much of this sounds like standard ZMA. I was hoping for more

personality. This would probably mix nicely with Future Prophecy, but I made

the mistake of mixing it in from the new Shpongle, and it was like, 'where did

all the flavour go?' It is acceptable to wait several years between releases,

but if an act does I prefer having the release worth the wait. It sounds to

me like they didn't put a whole lot of effort in here. 6/10.

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Guest Psychedelic fellow

Well, i usualy dont like minimal stuff, but protek is sure a killer track...

thats one kind of music that I am searching for...

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Morphem sounds like a Psychedelic GREEN VELVET, yeah, lots of kicks, like

dancing in the middle of millions of amorphous bubbles, but, where is the

Psycho in it??

I'll give it 6.5/10

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Guest emiliohm[at]yahoo.co[dot]uk

This album is the result of the balance of inspiration and dedication,

and to me very fiew can achive that..

Bravo, Arriva y Ole...

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Very strange album, but good...It is mixture of minimal and psychedelic and it

is very strange structure at some stages but in total is pretty good

album...The only one I really dislike is FunkyFish...Very good ones are

GAMELORD, SLAVE TO TRANCE ( ! ), ACTINIUM 227 ( ! ), FORWARD ?...AMBROSIA is

not bad either...6.5/10

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I liked his Out of Focus album better. This one is good, but not as creative in my ears. His first CD seemed to have more diversity and appeal. This one is no pushover though.. Game Lord and Pro Tek get 2 thumbs up from me

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