V/A - Pulse 10

[Guest Acidhive]

V/A - Pulse 10

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Pulse 10

Label: Sub Terranean

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 07'36" Blake C : Nightmarket (Gabriel Le Mar's Rmx)

02. 11'48" Corellian : State Of Mind

03. 07'53" Dienzephalon : FOMP

04. 11'08" Cass And Slide : Opera (C/S Phantom's Only Mix)

05. 10'09" Element And DJ Alex : Cat Walk

06. 06'43" Man With No Name : Reincarnation (Tripster Rmx)

07. 07'45" SBK : Mitleid Express

08. 07'47" Doof : Dawn Of A New Error

09. 04'53" The Rootsman Meets The Gab : Dub Oriental (Mystic Mantra Mix)

 

CD 2

01. 09'05" MOS : Elements

02. 08'39" Eat Static : Critical Mass

03. 07'12" Synchro : Electic (Hectic)

04. 07'25" Midi Miliz : Info

05. 08'20" Trickster : Y3K

06. 07'58" SUN Project : Out Of My Brain

07. 08'43" Johann Bley And X-Dream : Leave Your Body (Rmx)

08. 07'01" Organic Noise : Amplifier

09. 06'11" Authentik : Solid

10. 06'57" The Delta : Quiet And Still

 

Review:

 

Time for the new Pulse to get a review methinks, so here goes. I've had this

one for a while now, and after some listens thought it would be good to post a

review. Track by track, with really short explanations of each track, I'll

review this, so it won't get too long. CD1 then. Starts off pretty good with a

deep track by Blake C, with the typical Gab flavour added. Builds up nicely,

this one sounds more like dark ambient. Corellian next, which is actually Cass

/ Darshan, so the result is a long, deep sounding track with a hypnotic

flavour. I like this one. Track 3 however is not my cup of tea. This is too

minimalistic even with my liking for most minimalism. Skip it. This just

doesn't sound very good IMO. Cass & Slide do it a whole lot better, this is

the best track on CD1 IMO. Long, deep, moody... melodic... Great!! The next

track is also good, being quite long also, and offering a real Groovy

Element/Alex mix of styles. Next up an older track from MWNN get remixed.

Great cl!

ubby like flavour, it sounds more like regular trance in parts, but still

retains that Psytrance edge. Not bad at all. SBK delivers one of his best

tracks here. Great atmosphere in this one. Doof delivers more standard work,

but this is one of his better tracks IMO. Gab takes this one out, with more of

his ambient like style. CD2 starts off with MOS in a good way, though Kommdas

and Timing are better examples of their style IMO. Eat static is not my cup of

tea, and what the fuck is this doing on a psytrance compil?? Synchro is

better, with a more electric feel to it. Not bad. Info is a typical Midi Miliz

track which ends pretty strange, with about 2 minutes of just spoken text. (in

German) Still, pretty good track. Has a good groove. Trickster is more typical

Minimalistic style and you have to like this to appreciate it. I think it's

average. Out of My Brain is better with a great use of guitar again. Keep it

up guys! Johann delivers a track in his usual style (with guitars) a!

nd I don't really get the X-Dream coop. (or maybe the gunga gunga bassline is

their influence?) Amplifier is cool, but why are they 'milking' the Organic

Noise album?? (give GTN & Novatekk some time and they'll have the whole album

spread out across their compils) Solid rules, this is hard and kicking

minimalistic stuff as it should be done... CD2 concludes with The Delta. Great

kinda chill song... (the afromentioned milking shit goes for this one too)

Anyway, a good compil in my opinion. CD1 is clearly better than 2. Most of the

time I'm skipping track 2 and 5 on CD2. Track 3 gets skipped on CD1. I'd say

7,5/10 ...

(i'd have given it an 8 were it not for the milking shit they pulled on cd 2

with Organic Noise & The Delta) Bom!!

[Guest Le Lotus Bleu]

cd1 is largely more melodic than cd2.

Good job from gabriel le mar and his remix of nightmarket

with his tipically soft sound a little bit oriental.

a quite boring trak from correllian, too long , too

hypnotic and few amplitude.

completly different style with a hacked rythm from dienzephalon.

nice melody and little dark atmosphere in opera of cass-slide.

pretty remix in a very israelic spirit due to avi algranati (spacecat) in

collaboration with dino psaras.

if you listen to the bass , you will maybe reconize a very known german disco

producer giorgio moroder (especially i feel love of donna summer).

Emotionnal tracks of sbk, nice.

Interesting track of Doof in a totally different style from his first track

like let's turn on.

another le mar production here with the rootsman, a track like the first of

this cd but the oriental atmosphere is much more present in this one.

 

few words about cd2, begin with MOS (i personnally don't like what they do).

Surprising presence of eat static , but a track interesting and different from

the rest of the compilation, you can like it if you're open minded.

The tracks 3-5-6-7-8 got some rock influences, with more succes for Synchro and

it's special style, and the very energic Out of my brain even if the remix

with jan muller doesnt improve the original. quite qood composition from

trickster.

Pure energy from Authentik and quite efficace.

Calm and pretty end with the delta with the relaxing Quite and still.

[Guest zyrkon[at]caramail[dot]com]

Very good progresive trance on cd1 except Dienzephalon which isn't trance nor

goa. rating cd1 :8/10

Cd2 is minimal and more psychedelic trance with habitual bullshit from MOS,

some things interesting although as eat static,sun project,organic noise and

the delta.

cd2 is largely weakest than cd1. rating cd1:5,5/10

rating compilation:7/10

[Guest pralien[at]shpongle[dot]com]

EXTREMELY BAD !!!!!! DISSAPOINTEMENT AFTER DISSAPOINTEMENT.... 2/10

[seraph]

What is this ? Pulse serie ? Nah... This is rather some epileptic state of

trance we' re in...Blah... I couldn't belive when I got this cd ...The pulse

and heart beat vanished, what it stayed are occasional beats and pieces with

lots of minimal paranoia....HUH...The only songs that are worth some attention

are : REINCARNATION, DAWN OF A NEW ERROR, DUB ORIENTAL, CRITICAL MASS,

ECLECTIC ( HECTIC ), QUIET AND STILL...Rest is way to average or deadly boring

especially NIGHTMARKET, FOMP, OUT OF MY BRAIN, LEAVE YOUR BODY...3/10