Guest mikko.itkonen[at]kolumbus[dot]fi Posted August 29, 2001 Share Posted August 29, 2001 Hara Gobi - Music Is The Drug Artist: Hara Gobi Title: Music Is The Drug Label: Global Trance Network Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. 08'25" Space Song 02. 08'50" Freaks 03. 07'23" Heart Of Gold 04. 07'26" Sound Of Another World 05. 07'23" Get Lost 06. 08'00" Happy Hour 07. 08'40" Head Banger 08. 08'14" Coconut Walla Review: Space song was the first track ever I heard from Hara gobi. I immediately fell in love with the sound of it. Then, I almost instantly bought his first album (turned out to be quite crappy, only few good songs), followed by this new album about a month later. I have been listening this now for a couple of months, and I have noticed one interesting thing - this guy has unique sound. Normally it would be good, but Hara gobi's sound is somehow "childish", immature... dunno why I feel that way. There's nothing wrong with the tracks though. Most of them work ok on dancefloor, and some of them even blow your mind. Somehow this stuff just gets *extremely* boring very soon. Anyways, now to the point - review of this album. *1* Space song is probly the best track on this album, it presents typical Hara brakes and builds, very fast and short kicking accomppanied with crashes. This track is very groovy, and is perfect for some time, but after like 10 listens you get bored, at the latest, (9/10). *2* Freaks is also a good track. I don't find it very good in a dancegroovy way, but I'm sure many people will. It has nice feeling and is one of the least boring tracks here. (8/10). *3* Heart of gold starts off with subtle melody. And keeps basic groove for most of the track. After this break at around 4:30 the track starts to flow nicely because of this filtered but simple melody which kicks in. (7.5/10) *4* Sound of another world starts with submarine sonar pulses, but then introduces one of the lamest melodies ever, thankfully it lasts only for like 15 secs... until it is brought back again later on for like 1 minute! It's far worse than typical mainstream eurocrap melody. Despite this awful melody this is very good track. I have to give (8/10), cause this melody doesn't bother that much after all... *5* Get lost is ok track, it starts with 303 melody, which seems to be pretty popular in general with Mr. Dilge. Later on it follows this typical pattern, basic banging for most of the time, and then some simple but good melody used few times in sections of 30sec to one minute, this isn't an exception (7/10). *6* Happy hour starts with nice acidic bassline, which lacks spirit though. But wobbles quite nicely. After 1:30 quite gay melody comes in. Around 4 minutes there's pretty thorough break, and then the track like starts over, nothing is different, but fortunate enough, Manfred has come up with quite ok sounding melody and that saves this track being *very* boring (7/10) for this too. *7* Head banger, here we have a good track, nominant for the best track of the album along with Space song. It uses booming squares panning all around for the first half of the track, after 4 minutes there is pleasant surprise... guitars are used, and very well indeed. Some might say it sounds gay, but there's no way around it, those guitars are simply driving. If you don't wanna dance to this sound, you're listening wrong music. Albeit before 7 minutes, we have a good break, then guitars come back with even stronger riffs. Don't expect any Dark Soho style evil guitars with gothic atmospheres, just plain boom boom BOOOM! (9/10). *8* Coconut walla is totally fag track, can't help it. It kinda tries to be reggae on some point, but I dunno.... as I'm not reggae fan I don't know whether it succeeds even a little bit or fails terribly. This album would have been better without this track, maybe some faster track as replacement would have worked fine. Sucky track, simple as that. I don't wanna hear it ever again. It makes you laugh for a while though, it's so pathetic (2/10) for that. All tracks have bpm around 143-145, excluding Coconut walla, which is what it is... something... anyways, compared to first album this is progress. Sound is about the same, but we have more good tracks. First album only had two good ones as I recall... Holi live and Recharge, but now we have like 6 more tracks of that style. Average album, nothing life changing, but some good dancefloor tracks. (7.5/10 total!!!) Bom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest didge Posted August 29, 2001 Share Posted August 29, 2001 I really love this album. Very nice indeed, and am not bored of it at all... Freaks and Space Song are a little better than the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iNFiNiTi500 Posted August 29, 2001 Share Posted August 29, 2001 One quick look at the cartoony sleeve says it all; not to be taken seriously. "Music is the drug" is simply a parody on old skool Isratrance (1995-1997), done by some German joker...Still, Hara Gobi manages to remain quite faithful to the early Astral Projection sound, however expect no quality trax like Kabalah or People Can Fly inhere...This is average central at best and crappy at worst. If you want a healthy smile give this a spin, if serious quality old skool is your thing then opt for the Israeli Retro compil, Ra or Electron Wave instead...6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rx7style Posted October 14, 2001 Share Posted October 14, 2001 Very musical album, much more so than Electron Wave which is more minimal-melodic, but FAR from the masterpiece of Ra. Sounds more like progressive trance to me. 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason - Los Angeles, CA Posted November 26, 2001 Share Posted November 26, 2001 I like this CD. It is really good in my opinion. I don't posses too much music in this style, and have found that it works well when mixing. I don't think I could listen from beginning to end, but it does have quality tracks. How can you not like Headbanger?? Good track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SjÖgGe Posted December 12, 2001 Share Posted December 12, 2001 well, i love this cd its a twisted piece, when i first heard this i couldnt belive my ears, its so different from his first album,THIS IS NOT BORING, this is the big suprise from 2001, i enjoy track, 1,2,3, ,5,7 most ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maden Posted February 11, 2002 Share Posted February 11, 2002 Party Junkies is better than this but i still love this drums, best traxx 3 and 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fluo_Samsara[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted February 18, 2002 Share Posted February 18, 2002 Space Song is definetly one of that songs that we hear once and we'll never forget it. Hara Gobi has so much good things, I find it really anoying that sometimes his music is ruined by some Ibiza style samples that just make me go MAD!!!Please stop doing that!lol WWWWoooooooooaaahhhhhhhhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Defbydelta... Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 Hmm this one was new to me! never heard about heim before, must get this one! then i can say what im think about it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crispss Posted April 30, 2002 Share Posted April 30, 2002 this album is very good that KICK ASS !!!! very good!!!!! i love get lost one of the best song i have ever listened.. bom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Soyouth Posted June 3, 2002 Share Posted June 3, 2002 Just to say that I really love Coconut walla, it's a very peaceful song with great vibes ; very mind blowing but of course it's not a full on dancefloor track, I find it convenient to end the album in a very soft manner, I often use it in the end of my sets to take people back to reality. (It's even better when you hear it after several hours of intense brain blasting trance) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Psilocybin Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Damn I like this album. A truly Ass-Kicker! Especially song 4 and 7. This is awesome! 9,5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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