Guest Syre Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Planet BEN - Silver Artist: Planet BEN Title: Silver Label: Flying Rhino Date: 2001 Track listing: 01. Heinz 02. Doppelkicker 03. Pulse 04. Hippy Tripper (Stinky Mix) 05. Master Blaster 06. Schleiffer 07. Space.com 08. Breakbeater 09. Reparaturbeduerftig Review: Planet Ben or Ben Wierzoch is very well known name in the psy trance genre. I was never into his previous albums, but when I heard this being called minimal progressive trance, I of course felt obligated to check it out, and so I did and in result I was amazed. All the tracks in this album are very well build up, with nice groovy and spacey sounds, centred around a hard minimal bass with lots of trippy, yet not annoying sounds and sweet placed breaks. I find the music in this album quite unique, never heard anything like it before. It's a very nice mix between hard minimal and fluffy soft tunes. Very good productions through out the whole album. My favourite tracks are "Doppelkicker", "Pulse", "Master Blaster", "Space.Com". It's kind of like Intact Instinct, just with a more progressive and welcoming sound, if you aren't the die hard minimalist. Quite refreshing on dance floors of minimal clubs. I give it 8/10. Being far from what I expected, yet it really surprised me by being really great music not really placed in my current taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TRISTAN Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 I gave it three listens already, and I find it pretty hard to take as a whole. As the sounds really differ between each tracks, the style is pretty similer in the entire album. Unlike the first album, which, in my humblest opinion was a true masterpiece. I liked Doppelkicker, Pulse, Schleiffer (!) and Breakbeater the most. 7.5/10, give it a shot. It might grow on me one day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iNFiNiTi500 Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Slow building techno from Planet Ben here. Unfortunately it strictly follows the persuasive minimal fashion but it is not such a tough pill to swallow as other percussion based techno due to an occassional use of Atmos patented 'warm' synths. So its more 4/4 mono mayhem but a serious lack of original twists cannot lift this one above the pile of releases lately. Swedish master Ticon for example handled this genre more stylish and courageous IMO. Silver: Necessary or Redundant? Well, neither, it is just a bit dull but has its moments: 7/10. Add a point if your ear is purely floor orientated... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest artist-wannabe Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Disapointment. 6/10. Planet BEN's first album was a new genre back then. Now, just sounds the same as everything else... sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gizmo Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 I'm sure that Ben will never be able produce tracks as good as "Ant Invasion" or "Question Mark" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dan Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 i love ben!!!!!!!! he is has a great productions some weird stuff in album a lots of styles in it ... but still very good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathPosture Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 Disapointed!! I was extremely excited when I got this record about a month ago, and was expecting a Trippy Future Garden part 2... But this is a step back, and Planet BEN's (Whatever happened to the '.'s between the letters?) new style is not nearly as stunning as Trippy Future Garden which was a masterpiece... IMHO there are much better minimal artists outhere... There ARE good tracks on this album though... Just nothing out of the ordinary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest col_klink3[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 I'll always have a soft spot for Planet BEN, him being one of the first gems I collected at my local vinyl depot (that record being the AWESOME release with Synchro off Naja: Vampire State Building).... Subsequently, I discovered Organic Noise - Vacuum Tube and BEN's Triipy Future Garden - both of which I loved as well.... I must say that this release hits my ears well, though I don't think in the same way that his previous stuff did... Don't get me wrong it's still great, I just think my love for his previous stuff was _also_ a product of when it hit me in my musical explorations.... Anyway, You can really hear a quality in this music, and it made me sit up and take notice - especially with all the unoriginal and boring music swamping our scene recently... Dopplekicker, Master Blaster are my faves.... Planet BEN keep on titillating my senses!!!! 8/10 And to "psykick" above there, please man, open your eyes and your mind... you and everyone else who posts shit like the above really go a long way towards diminishing this site's feel.... We're on a freakin' PSYCHEDELIC trance page man! PSYCHEDELIC!!!!! We're supposed to be enlightened, with open minds that don't criticise according to superficialities like genre and artist... We are lucky to have this music, and even luckier to love it the way we do... It makes me sad to see comments like that on our page: it betrays your immature and UNenlightened mindset just as it cheapens this page for everyone else... hopefully one day you'll be able to see things from a perspective where your stupidity becomes obvious, a perspective where hopefully many _other_ things will also become obvious: our common existence, our common beauty and our common loves.... such as our love for this music, minimal or fullon melodic, it doesn't matter... it's all coming from the same source - and if you had ever seen that source, then you wouldn't post comments that insult our community, our music, and the artists we're so lucky to hear... Fewf... that felt good.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T.A.K Posted June 15, 2001 Share Posted June 15, 2001 planet ben is dying,i mean is dead and so are his fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest boomdevil Posted June 16, 2001 Share Posted June 16, 2001 when trippy future garden came I knew alot who complained about it being to monotonous etc.. planet ben is ahead of his time for sure. this is simply the best you can get in progressive trance. 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goagabba[at]aol[dot]com Posted June 16, 2001 Share Posted June 16, 2001 For me an absolute gem. Nice kick especially Doppelkicker which I think is a monster track. A lot of stuff that has been released on previous Flying Rhino comps, but the few new songs make up for it. Cannot be compared to trippy future garden, just like Shiva's new stuff cannot be compared to their first album. Progression is the name finding new bounderies to blow our minds away. The disagreements between full on and prog, is the same as the battle between goa and psy. At least we all listen to similar music, a little piece of heaven in a disagreable world. Peace all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Spineless Posted June 17, 2001 Share Posted June 17, 2001 Hey,kiddies....what are you expecting? the psychedelic scene is constantly evolving and we are not supposed to hear the same tunes and soft melodies like five years ago.so do not blame master ben for making crap music because his new production is great and it follows the evolution of the new psy-trance.i'll give "silver" 9 out of 10."Schleiffer" really rockz!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alexerator2000[at]yahoo[dot]com Posted June 17, 2001 Share Posted June 17, 2001 Except "Schleiffer" already on Flying compil, the other tracks are realy boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jsb Posted June 17, 2001 Share Posted June 17, 2001 It's not because the FUCKING TRENDS are too minimal techno that every artists must release minimal stuff ! Originality is too make something different that the fucking trends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted June 25, 2001 Share Posted June 25, 2001 I swore off Flying Rhino after the Live In Germany 2000 crapfest, but I reckoned this release to be special, and made an exception. Don't get me wrong, I still think Flying Rhino is doomed - has anyone checked out the blatant cheesecake/porn on the cover of 'Something for the Weekend' (they shaved the stylised 'Flying Rhino' emblem out of her pubic hair) - but this release is excellent. Those who mourn the loss of Planet B.E.N., now replaced with merely Planet Ben, do have a point: the personality is gone. It's 'only' very good psy-techno. Gone is the quirky 'Ants Invasion' feel, but it takes nothing away from the superb production. At least one English artist is learning from the Germans rather than just going through the motions and producing a neon pink Trocadero-worthy abomination of saccharine and rave kitcsh. Take notes. 9/10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest msb Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 quit pigeonholing all these new albums under the name "minimal". there's as much variety in the minimal-tech style as there is in the full-on style I'm inclined to think (duality detected there). You have to let your musical perception mutate like it did when you first started listening to this sort of stuff. Your mind expanded once, let it expand again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted July 10, 2001 Share Posted July 10, 2001 Well said msb. However, I must say that when I first started listening to "this sort of stuff" the "mutation" was effortless and hit me like a sudden realization. (insert picture of young lad on mushrooms listening to 'a voyage into trance mixed by danny rampling' here) These days I listen to some of the new stuff coming out and I have to work, I mean really work to appreciate it. Is that me or the music? A bit of both I suspect. Anyway, I have heard some tracks off this album and they sound good . Give it a chance I say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest this is without noisy goa cheese Posted July 21, 2001 Share Posted July 21, 2001 RESPECT to the pioneer of modern psychedelic Techno-Trance sound. Good stuff!! 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest saikkadelia Posted August 1, 2001 Share Posted August 1, 2001 This is not a techno site. Why did you even release this album Ben? You've done awsome cuts in the past but this.. you cannot describe this. "Silver" sounds horrible, what a boring sound, what a monotonous sound.. techno died ten years ago. Blaahh I've listened to this album for four times now (open-mindedly of course) but I can't find the innovative, psychedelic shit Ben used to be about? Is this the end of Ben? Seems so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sirekavi Posted August 7, 2001 Share Posted August 7, 2001 Liked Space.com; the Synth drone in it or whatever that was... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest understood Posted August 19, 2001 Share Posted August 19, 2001 this is HIGH QUALITY mind expanding psychedelic tech-trance 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest where are those days? Posted August 22, 2001 Share Posted August 22, 2001 sad sad sad sad... Ant invasion... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest raist Posted October 8, 2001 Share Posted October 8, 2001 This album is a killer. If you're searching for tripping sound then buy it. Hippy Tripper (Stinky Mix) is a song I heard in a mix (Skywarp 604 mix) and I've search for that amazing song for 3 months. It was hiding there . I knew it had to be planet ben as I heard some of his stuff. This man makes ambient minimalistic tripping goa like noone. Reminds me some track of MOS and X-dream with a nice touch of ... originality .. 8/10 for that one (and 10/10 for track 4 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rx7style Posted October 11, 2001 Share Posted October 11, 2001 Good for trippy minimalistic music, but I would have to say that Saafi Brothers does it better. Mediocre album, worth a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xymaths Posted November 2, 2001 Share Posted November 2, 2001 Apalling cd-way too much bad monotonous techno repetition. Your living a lie if you call this good however on a more upbeat I got hold of a copy of future trippy garden-now that is worth talking about! Silver 3/10-there are a couple of decent tracks on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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