Guest Mascok Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 Johann Bley - Signs And Signals 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pretty__poison[at]hotmail[dot]co Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jax Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 I'm an ex-rocker so what can I say? It's perfect for me! 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlexG Posted April 27, 2000 Share Posted April 27, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest banankaka[at]ingen.email[dot]cp Posted April 30, 2000 Share Posted April 30, 2000 ehm... 3 of 10... 1 track is good, rest is shit... Sounds like a "one-week-production"... bad guitars and stuff ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted May 6, 2000 Share Posted May 6, 2000 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.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrsyed Posted May 20, 2000 Share Posted May 20, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kuldipsidhu Posted July 3, 2000 Share Posted July 3, 2000 very good album guys no comments for this guy he is doing good job dream is my fav.. track on this album love kuldip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sir Horrace Fanny Posted July 10, 2000 Share Posted July 10, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest F-AcTivE Posted September 27, 2000 Share Posted September 27, 2000 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dandoo Forest Posted October 24, 2000 Share Posted October 24, 2000 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:)))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foxm55[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted August 19, 2001 Share Posted August 19, 2001 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!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kadafi Posted December 2, 2001 Share Posted December 2, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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