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Johann Bley - Signs And Signals

 

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Artist: Johann Bley

Title: Signs And Signals

Label: Nova Tekk

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

01. 07'42" Snakebite

02. 09'07" Ghostride

03. 10'41" Bangers Delight

04. 08'26" Leave Your Body

05. 08'10" Nighshift

06. 09'04" Aqua Velva

07. 09'42" Chase The Light

08. 08'46" Dream

 

Review:

 

amazing album from Johann Bley (ex-Juno Reactor) and Tim Schuldt as audio enginer!.

this album is heavy metal psychedelic trance!, just an amazing combination

between these two diffrent and wonderful worlds. amazing metalic guitars with

dark and fat basslines which keeps it so full of energy!. the first few

tracks(1-4) are the heavy metal psytrance style which kick ass!, the others

are very dark and scary psychedelic trance tracks which are even better

hehe.if you are an ex-heavy metal rocker, this beauty will bring you memories

and get you back into nostaliga times (hehe). all tracks here are just good!,

i think this one is a must for every psychedelic trance fan or juno reactor

fan!, just get it! higly recommended!, 10/10!

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Guest Pretty__poison[at]hotmail[dot]co

I just bought this cd today but it's sounds very good. Full on guitar music

and fat beats. Tim Schuldt mixed it and that makes it's worth it. It's much

better than the first cd/lp of Johann. He has grown. I'm sure I will play

one of the songs every day. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

 

J.V.S.

Damien

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Good album, always guitar And rythm... the style has changed since the first

album, its more rythmic, and distorted. some tracks are dark killers, others

are...average. owever, johann is on the good path. I give only 6/10.

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Guest AlexG

umm okay my review is gonna be very diffrent...i thought this SUCKED...hard!

not that i dont like guitars, dont get me wrong, i love sun project. but here,

the track construction is SO simple, and the basslines are SO uninspired, and

the use of samples is SO poor (that police siren sample is plain stupid), and

the melodies are SO cheesy (the astral projection ripoff in "aqua velva"), and

the guitar is WAY overused. the attempts on dark psy-trance tracks are also

pathetic: no depth at all, no interesting sounds or layering, and absolutely

NO innovation. and i really cant hear any "audio enginreering by tim schuldt"

cause the production sucks, imho. i think this album is too plain, uninspired,

and uncolorful. the only decent track here is 7, with good uplifting

atmosphere, and the guitar actually works well. overall though, do yourself a

favor and get sun project's 2nd and 3rd albums instead.

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Guest banankaka[at]ingen.email[dot]cp

ehm... 3 of 10... 1 track is good, rest is shit... ;)

 

Sounds like a "one-week-production"... bad guitars and stuff ...

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Guest [Anonymous]

I did not enjoy this either..I found the sounds quite cheap and I definitely

did not like his kind of melodies. interesting direction though.. there might

be something for me on the horizon, but way ahead..

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Guest mrsyed

This is really good. I was surprised. Instead of having all tracks laden with

guitar chops, its wonderful to have the other have veer into some smooth

melodic psy trance. I disagree with anyone who says this is bad guitar and

stuff. The sound is generated by a real guitar not a synthesized one like the

Delta tracks. So my conclusion for this one, with strong structure, melodies

and a great build up, gets a 8/10 from me.

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Guest Kuldipsidhu

very good album guys no comments for this guy he is doing good job dream is my

fav.. track on this album love kuldip

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Guest Sir Horrace Fanny

Cheese-especially made for the MTV market. Tim Shuldt should know better than

to mix rubbish like this and Johan doesn't have that much talent

anyway-comparable to his first disaster on Blue room.

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Guest F-AcTivE

If u like heavy trance with lots of guitar ...u probaly love this ! my opinion

is that guitar sounds and trance don't always fit togetha ..! Johann Bley ..u

can do better ! 6/10

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Guest Dandoo Forest

ahahahhahahha 4 all of the x-rocker'z

i'm one of u 2 :)))))))))))))))))it's ok!

i realy like the dark psy it's remind me some

good and old metal that's why i like the dark psy...

and all the evil stuff ......

and this album realy kick's ass'z!!!!!!!!!!!

good gitar's and good vibe'z worth 2 buy it:))))

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Guest foxm55[at]hotmail[dot]com

im still rocker and im a psychedelic music lover and i say that this album

musically worth 3./10 but because of couple guitardancefloorkiller tracks i

give it 7/10,anyway this stuff is boring for me!!

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  • 3 months later...

This not a bad release from Germany, but alexg1029 might be right with his

comment. The guy can play his guitar, but it seems like he hasn't put time in

layering and perfectionising his sounds. I like only 3 of the songs, and 1 of

them (Aqua Velva) is indeed a rip-off. I think the whole thing could/should

have been more psychedelic...Guitars mostly take the headlead, and this makes

it hard listening to the album as a whole whithout getting bored. His melodies

are good but as said before: overused. Best trax are Ghostride (like that

bassline) & Chase The Light (this stand-out also has a good bass &

melodix...no offence but I can't hardly believe it's made by the same

person)...6/10

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