Guest dam10n Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Just wondering if anyone else has heard this, forthcoming on Tip... I think it rocks possibly some of the best stuff of the year Apparetly, Raja Chicago and GMS were all having a DMT sesh in some jungle somewhere, and they thought about doing a concept album about effects of drugs - so they decided to hole up in GMS's place in Ibiza and, well just get spannered really. The songs are called Hashish, Ayahuasca (however you spell it), DMT, Salvia, Ecstasy and I guess they were blasted on whatever drug they were making a song about. Ecstasy is rushy-melodies and intensities, hashish is escalating, mescaline starts off slow and gets intense... it's a damn interesting collection and it really goes off... any other thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Praise drugs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antic Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 when it's out?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Raider Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 This is really fun reading (from TipWorld.co.uk) >> ---- The very first time I smoked DMT came out a while ago on TipWorld, and a little later was followed by a track, called Salvia Divinorum, both made by the group 1200 Micrograms,or 1200 Mic's as they became known. I was sitting in the jungles of Brazil, thinking about it, when the idea of continuing the drugs of perception thru music revealed the concept of nine seperate nuances...nine portals,windows into another realm of consciousness expansion,doorways to enter these special sacred havens, each with their own personality and mode. This was in no way to prostilize the drug issue, rather an observation,into the magic shamanic possibilities, of using psychic tools, to unravel the maze within and without. Each experience was digested and maturely transformed into a musical journey. A journey into the spirit world.....a world of enhancement, fun,and joy, pushing the boundaries, and experimenting with the human mind and feelings. You will all be familiar with Riktam and Bansi of GMS, they need no introduction...and it was in their secluded mountain top hideaway on the balearic island of Ibiza,this music was made. Along with myself, my dearest friend Chicago, made up the fabled four,and an album was completed in a little over two weeks recording,but bye then....time and space had merged. The result is for you to enjoy and dance to..and listenand get high. The music is the drug,and these tracks are your visa for entry into the magic world. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since man crawled out of the prime evil swamp, a zillion years ago.....there have been only three things on his mind: eating, sex, and getting high. A million bad trips later, and he started to get the idea....not all drugs were good...some were GREAT, and gradually thru the use and abuse over a million years the realization that some were neccessary in the great search, through time and space to evolve and dissolve merge and lyserge. These are the sounds of birth, the cosmos stretching, time ripped, fun enlarged,swollen joybuds, hungry for multipal eargasms surging pumping rocking towards nirvana like a chicken with mescaline up it's but, raging, vibrating quivering surfing the energy waves like an electric eel on a surfboard, wired for infinity, each cell a molecule of groovology and earthly delights.....shimmering like crystals, fluerescent black light pounding sounding the one bog OM booming Bom Shankars Bam Boozle Bim Bam a feeling that the new age has come,and these are the new sounds of our time,electric, sequential beatnicks,throbbing with the nowness, tingling with expectancy and anticipation.The family grows like some benign organism, seperating the dross,loving the cream dream x treme theme of our lives and loves.This is the time to uncoil,get colourful,loose,happy and free,and all we got to do is press the play button and drift into la la land in the never never world of imagination and flueresence dipped in the honey of love. These nine tracks are our escapes into reality......the world of the spirits and other dimensions. Enjoy....love RajaRam / Chicago.Riktam.Bansi.Summer Ibiza 2002 --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Goagabba Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 I really dig the whole concept of the Yeti albums, the crystal skull album, and now the 1200 mics album. So, when's it avail to the gen public? Bom PS Praise 'em, praise 'em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Wow this sounds really interesting and enjoyable. It'd be cool how they will represent the effects of the drug into music. Completely wicked idea. Recorded in 2 weeks though? A whole album? Geez, these guys must be getting really good er sumething, takes me OVER 2 weeks just get to 1 track done. Anways, Damion... Keep us posted as ussual! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dam10n Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 I think it's coming out at the start of September. On the whole it's not too "yay! drugs!" though Raja obviously likes to be out of his tree... but towards the end it loses it, irritatingly with Salvia and DMT tracks - a re-hash of the same McKenna and Matrix samples used on just about every other release raja's been attached to lately (he's had an akai with limited memory surgically grafted to his hand) - but watch out for the first two thirds cos it's amazing. And will be on vinyl as well. Launch party in September I think (long way off.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kekes Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 here you can listen to samples of this release: http://www.saikosounds.com/english/store/d...ase.asp?id=2666 ://http://www.saikosounds.com/english/...sp?id=2666 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest phaeton Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 interesting marketing concept from tip to sell the same old lineair predictable gms formula, i'm sure people will think it's soooo cool because of all the blatant drug titles the samples on saikosounds to me just sound like some leftovers from the gms studios, and i'm sure that if they would really be on the substances the tracks are named after while making this album, even gms would've not been able to make such formulaic crap but maybe i'm being a bit too harsh on it, i guess i should wait until i can hear it in full length and give it a chance 'n dance still, if it's made in only two weeks i can hardly believe that it's really been made from scratch, but then i don't think anything made by gms lately has been done from scratch, every track is probably just some hitformula midi-file on their harddisk that they change a little and then release as a new track ;P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Wether it's good music or not (i cant say that since I haven't listend to it) I feel it's quite sad that drugs are so overexposed and promoted in this scene. Isen't it time to use otehr subjects? What about all the wrong doings in this world? I personally would like to see some more political aware artists and labels instead of a bunch of drugheads praising drugs over and over again on each release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 yeah well... the concept does seem rather weak if you ask me. 1997 had sacred sites, 2002 has the sound pharmacy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strumpling Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 There's nothing like a chicken with mescaline up its butt to get my feet tappin' ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Setsuko Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 agree with EP ... this concept is just ridiculous ... music 4 kids imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lifeform Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Naa.. I think it's cool. I haven't heard it yet ( Saiko sounds samples), i'm always into concept albums that contain something special. But! I could be completely wrong about this. The idea is cool in the sense that i get the impression they try to represent the natural sounds heard on hallucinogens. Ie. Infected mushroom puts big clock sounds in their tracks. Ya know what i mean? Or is my impression completely wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike D Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 I agree with EP, get a new concept for the new era of goa, the drugs theme has been done a thousand times before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naiman Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Well i wouldn't like to see politics involved in psytrance, this is for fun and not some fucking war & shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Naiman there's nothing wrong in being political. Especially musicians/artists have a damn good media to say the things that our politicians wont say. I am not saying that all should be political and no fun but I haven't seen one artists mentioning anyting political. I on my part find it a bit weird that no artists in this scene has an political opinion about the horrible things happening in our world except for how to roll a joint and pro contra against drugs views. Hope I am wrong though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 PS! Even the hippies had political views they expressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dam10n Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 I gotta say (been listening more) that the druggy side of it isn't so overexposed. I mean sure there's the track names, and like I mentioned the DMT stuff is just a rehash of a load of McKenna and Matrix samples and is missable, but disassociate it from the subject matter and it's seriously shit kicking stuff. Surely we'd all agree that LSD has a different effect on you than hashish... and both move you in different ways... well it's the movement they're trying to get across, and while it doesn't work all the time, when it works it rocks. Yeah the idea is quite trite but it's not necessarily a "praise drugs" deal. If the sounds rock, and the energy's there, and the balances and everything else are just right, it's a good tune - does it matter whether it was motivated my drugs, or politics, or even porn or football? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Elysium Project Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 dam10n in my opinion they can do and say whatever they want to. All I am trying to say is that this scene have had 10 years of releases with 95% (or so) of all releases being about drugs or drug releated titles. To me it's a bit too much and as I said it would be nice to see some other concepts it dosen't have to be political but that's just one of the topics I miss in this scene. I believe the overexposed drug titeling is due to the fact that a lot of the artists and labels eighter do too many drugs (personally I do know many artists and label guys that would benefit personally with a long break from drug taking) or because they think it's "in" to associate everything with drugs. Well anyway it's just my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Full Lotus Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 Elysium Project, I agree with what you are saying re: politics, etc. It does seem that this time around, the psychedelic scene is more into hedonism than anything else. Previous psychedelic scenes did talk about politics, environemental issues, poverty etc etc, and these filtered through into the music. Protest songs, anti-war songs etc which brought issues to the fore through music and songs. That's one thing I have found lacking in the current psychedelic climate. It may be the case that the producers are not interested in conveying anything across other than what they are doing at the moment, maybe they, along with a majority of other folks, are just apathetic and can't be bothered. You don't necessarily need to politicize the scene and talk politics, as that can lead to alot of differences of opinion, but it would be nice if other issues can be discussed instead of the usual stuff. At least in the 60's, the hippies discussed other things.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Full Lotus Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 .....although I still really want to hear this album though )) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Zaraknon Posted August 2, 2002 Share Posted August 2, 2002 The thing is that it's much easier IMO to connect psytrance with drugs as it's a mainly instrumental genre and of course, it's mostly supposed to simulate or support a trip on psychedelics. And most artists probably keep on concentrating on this main essence of psy trance(well, most people think it is....) by assimilating samples and track names to it. On the other hand it's quite hard to express a political message through instrumental music. You can use quotes or create a particular mood etc. but I just cannot imagine any sort of political psytrance (or containing any message other than taking you on a trip or just giving you an euphoric feeling). However, I agree with Mike D, Elysium Project etc., the drug concept is largely overdone. But perhaps some psytrance DOES already contain a rather political message, it's just hardly noticed. For example, listen to Shiva Chandra's Machine Planet: Ever noticed why the title - Machine Planet - doesn't fit at all with the sound................? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest r2d2 Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 Drugs....one of the main reasons I don't go to parties any more...Never took them......never needed them either.. Music is my drug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dam10n Posted August 3, 2002 Share Posted August 3, 2002 This is a good topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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