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Deviant Species - Quest For Balojax

 

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Artist: Deviant Species

Title: Quest For Balojax

Label: Ambivalent

Date: 2001

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'37" Balojax

02. 09'05" Druidic Endeavours

03. 08'50" The Forge

04. 08'59" Carrier

05. 09'20" Spiritual Beings In Fluoroshirts

06. 06'51" Locust

07. 08'33" Geb the Cackler

08. 08'53" I Squid

 

Review:

 

Second album from the guys live in England... Weird, night forest music with

lotsa industrial touches made by bongraiders in a smokehazed studio. The

mixing is crystalclear. Less melody in the tracks compare to the first

album. Each track stand ont the dancefloor and on the brainfloor also. The

Species did again something special ;)))

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Guest [Anonymous]

nicely done this album,better than the first one,the souns really matured 3,4,6

as best tracks;with 3 as my personal favourite

keep up the good work!

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  • 1 month later...
Guest shantidruid[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]

Good album - better than the first one, very psychedelic, but no cheesy

touches, like the best from Cosmosis or Hallucinogen (without the naff samples

that they love so much). Be good to hear it on a really big system outside.

SOMEONE is still making good, intelligent music, without disappearing up their

minimalistic arses.

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A surprise from this English-Bask duo- 2 levels above their first album, Hatch.

I put this on the speakers in some friends' roof party- and everybody started

asking questions. A lot of percussion doing overtime, raw sounds, fast, floor

oriented, with a lot of psychedelic dripping sounds.

It's starts with the relaxed groovy introish Balojax, a real nice entrance.

Then things get hectic with the spooky entrance of Druidic Endeavours (T2)- a

crazy nightmarish driving track with crazy and highly psychedelic percussion

and sound games- definitely some crazy ritual is going on here. My favorite

here. From here things start going faster. The Forge (T3) is

"horse-ride-rhythm" track, these usually make me want to jump around. Some

nice spooky sounds, cool percussion, but the track is just not interesting

enough. Carrier (T4) is another favorite here, a fast powerful track with a

happy driving bounce, toyish sounds, and a totally psychedelic atmosphere.

Spiritual Being in Fluoroshirts (T5) is a cool minimal percussion & rhythm

based track with dirty sound, and crazy flying psychotic sounds. Locust (T6)

just doesn't do it for me. Geb the Cackler (T7) is a fast robotish happy

naughty tune with nice old Goa touches- fun & funny. Only track I?ve heard

ending with a build up! I Squid leads the way out with nice slow percussion

work sketched with light psychedelic morning sounds.

 

Bottom Line: Fast, bouncy, moving between the minimal and full sound, dark and

light. Grows on you. Support the independent sound! Favorites: 1, 2(!), 4, 5,

7.

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Guest rx7style

I found this album to be quite boring... I don't see how this could be

considered full-on music at all, as there's too little going on in the tracks.

Perhaps my opinion will change with more listens...

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Guest maskhout

is that this album is one of the pearls of the year 2001. a good

and subtile minimalistic tracks with some psychedelic dark sounds, i listened

to it very well and..i just love it...buy it!!

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Guest the dank man

very good minimal. Nothing too innovative; very similar to

Neuromotor/Parasense/Wizzy Noise style mix. Night-time, full-on, yet foresty

and very psychedelic.

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One of my favorite full-on cds... surprised i even listened to it after

avoiding their first effort but musicians grow like anything else in life if

fed the right breakfast cereal. My faves are 1,2,3,5,6... the crackling

semi-tribal percussions and squelchy subtle synths are a key to the albums

appeal... and having seen dancers reactions to this mixed into a set... well i

can saftely trust my taste ;) its good to see DS releasing it themselves also

in an almost 'this sounds like that' age of trance. 8.5/10

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To notch - very powerful, very psychedelic and with all the right elements for

a good stomp on the dancefloor

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