Guest Cpt_Shiner Posted February 10, 2001 Share Posted February 10, 2001 Shaolin Wooden Men - Supermindway Artist: Shaolin Wooden Men Title: Supermindway Label: Psy-Harmonics Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 10'29" Microscopic Details 02. 09'24" The Birth of a New Star 03. 07'20" Brother Ray 04. 08'39" The Icons Made Flesh 05. 10'20" Supermindway 06. 10'00" Galactic 07. 11'10" They Creep Like Dot Coms Review: First of all id like to state that this is not typical goa/psy music, its more like psychedelic rock than anything else. However do not let this put you off! It is one of the most complex and deeply structured albums I've listened too for quite a while, after every listen you keep finding layer after layer of hidden details. The music is a blend of driving percussion and nicely distorted guitars(as opposed to dirty distortion u find in most metal today) coupled with a healthy dose of electronic manipulation. One of the big surprises for me was the realization that it is quite melodic. For fans of the Psy-Harmonics label and people not afraid to listen to new things, you'll love it, but if its techno all the way for you, forget it . Although this album is best judged and appreciated in its entirety, most people on this site want to know what is the best track on a album is these days, so id have to say the standout track would have to be 6 - Galactic, Lotsa catchy melodies to be found. Quite a refreshing and eye opening album 9/10 for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iNFiNiTi500 Posted February 10, 2001 Share Posted February 10, 2001 In the opening track Microscopic Details a robot voice says: this is the sound of change and it shows. This is indeed a strange one, but somehow the blend between Trance and hypnotic stone/space rock guitar riffs a la Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age / Hawkwind works surprisingly well, although probably not on the dancefloor. What is so amazing 'bout this album is that such at first sight rare combination never sounds alienating or forced, fluidity is the keyword here. Furthermore, song structures are complex and indeed the layering of sounds is very well done, without losing attention for melodies as it never sounds agressive. Think of ORB tracks on double or triple speed, errrr kinda... Odd? Maybe, but on the other hand mixing the two most drugs influenced genres of Rock and Trance might be more logical than the more common Cold Metal / Melodic Trance combination (Darks Soho e.g.) This album is one of a kind and therefore this effort deserves the attention of the open minded, progressive psytrance crowd. More releases like this please! 9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted February 28, 2001 Share Posted February 28, 2001 i don´t have anything to add except it´s very good at the dancefloor lumukandas daniel payed it in his set and it was DA BOMB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest plasmagoria[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted August 7, 2001 Share Posted August 7, 2001 As a trusted Psy-Harmonics fan I really loved this release! Since my first contact with Shaolin Wooden Men ("The Mocking Laugh Of The Cruel Ninja", the album "The Hungry Forest") I have loved them. They are always on the front edge of the "music research". And this album is nothing else! With the short looped rock-drums they have really "refreshed" the psy trance a lot! The first time I heard this album I was a bit confused and didn't know if it was good or not, but after a while you really love the hard and brutal, progressive drums! And what's more? It's really psychedelic with the mind sweeping acid sounds which lays above all other layers. I think every track except number 6 is good. 3, 4, 5 is the best. Galactic has really no taste so it drops it some. 9/10!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacemonkey Posted September 16, 2001 Share Posted September 16, 2001 Realy great!!!!!!! If you like 60/70's space rock then buy this.....it's space rock made in the year 2000 following a goa path. It realy blows your mind away, at first it may seem a bit strange, but after a while the wierd constantly changing sounds realy get you. Galactic(6) is my absolute favorite, the melody in it just bends your mind man!!!! 9.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted October 1, 2001 Share Posted October 1, 2001 Now here's the wierdest goa CD I've ever listened to. I like the idea of making real rock beats instead of your typical 4/4 rythm... but putting that in each track makes it become boring. It seems to me that the artists wanted to make some tribute to the late 60's psy, and it works very well. Some tracks are too wierd for me, but there are 3 I really like. Brother Ray is like a trip back to 60's psychedellic music. You could just lay there and smoke weed and just feel the music going through you. Very good. Galactic is the only really uplifting track out there. Beautifull. Almost brings tears to my eyes. And the there is the last track They Creep Like Dot Coms... Well, nothing much happens in the first 4 minutes, but then... some bee swirl samples and loads and loads of drums and djembés put one on top of the other and in the end you can actually hear some jamaican steal drums!! Wierd, but great!! 8/10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CosmicDream Posted November 22, 2001 Share Posted November 22, 2001 Interesting album but I cannot say it's goa or psy... It sound like King Crimson on acid..) 6.5/10 Peace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted March 13, 2002 Share Posted March 13, 2002 AMAZING ALBUM ! It is not nor psy trance nor goa trance but it is one pretty good god deam PSYCHEDELIC release...It is psychedelic dementia especially first two songs that are just MIND BLOWING....Rest of the album is great tooo so I rate it 10/10... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted June 26, 2002 Share Posted June 26, 2002 I have to add one more review of this album....ALL SONGS ARE MINDBLOWING !!!!...not just 10/10 but 11/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ooo Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 Really good music, especially tracks 2 and 6 are so good that you must start dancing even at your home... A lot electric guitars and moog sounds. Really good!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 SHAOLIN WOODEN MEN - SUPERMINDWAY 2000 PSY-HARMONICS 1. MICROSCOPIC DETAILS 2. THE BIRTH OF A NEW STAR 3. BROTHER RAY 4. THE ICONS MADE FLESH 5. SUPERMINDWAY 6. GALACTIC 7. THEY CREEP LIKE DOTS COM I stumbled on this weird album the other day after some time and I had to review it, no matter cause there is in reviews section. I suspect that most of you have heard it and even if you haven't this album is surely not for everyone. It is not even trance music, in the real sense, but more mixture of psychedelic rock, weird, spacey stuff. It is pretty experimental and for those that like their brains tested this will do pretty much, like for me. I like lots of different styles and this crazy style suits me. They released psy trance before this one and I can say that I like this style better cause it is not so weird, but rather serious. MICROSCOPIC DETAILS is constructive, some kind of minimalish twisted rock with ambient, alien begining that turns into psychedelic madness. THE BIRTH OF A NEW STAR is among my favourites here and it is pure perfection, sounds retro and completely wacked off but at the same time very serious. BROTHER RAY is the weakest one on album but still pretty good for its style. THE ICONS MADE FLESH is another weird, crazy demented piece of music. Then comes 2 best and most psychedelic songs on album: SUPERMINDWAY and GALACTIC. What a structures ! I am sure that if this music was made back in 60's and 70's people would get crazy and sick on it cause it is in exact similar style psychedelic music was made back then. 10/10 for those 2 songs only. THEY CREEP LIKE DOTS COM is stunning ambient song to finish this good album. All in all, if you feel for something different than regular trance you should get this cause it is good collection of clever weirdness...8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemmiwinks Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 hehehe nice to see that there still are people around who discover their stuff. Indeed for me, Shaolin Wooden Men are THE most unconventional artists associated to the psy scene! I mean, stuff like Texas Faggot is israeli full-on compared to this!! I liked the idea of putting a real drum "rock kick" instead of the usual electronic 4/4 rythm. However having that in EVERY track becomes kindof boring. For me, after all these years (I had the album in 2000) the 2 best tracks remain Brother Ray and the ambient track They Creep Like Dot Coms . I can not recommend these artists enough for people who are ready to listen to some freakin wierd stuff. but it's not for everyone... 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted October 18, 2004 Share Posted October 18, 2004 Yeah bloody brilliant piece of work this. Like one big long track/trip, or supermindway as it were Using a real kit reminds me of Trans Am. Have you heard of em'? Anyone got the new S.W.M ? What did u think? Cheers for mentioning such a tip top album and jogging the memory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucinogenious Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Binary Input on a Flesh Antenna (their last limited cd) is a 45min crazy,ambient,experimental,i-dont-know-how-to-name-it track .... S.W.M. are one of the greatest electronic groups imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Late Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Binary Input on a Flesh Antenna (their last limited cd) is a 45min crazy,ambient,experimental,i-dont-know-how-to-name-it track .... S.W.M. are one of the greatest electronic groups imo. 199918[/snapback] Yes, this is what one could call psychedelik music, instead of formulaic trance techno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 "A Binary Input To Flesh Antenna" is that thing that can fuck you up during a trip. It can be xtremely dangerous,beware.Not to be used with hard shrooms 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cocco Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Well I'm always open-minded to listening to new or different stuff. I just sampled this album here at psyshop's old samples. http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/pha/pha1cd045.html Unfortunately, the samples are VERY low-fi sound, which is annoying, because I know it does the album close to NO justice, but... I already see how unqiue, strange, dark, melodic, and different this album is. I want to listen to it in full quality. I may even buy it for my collection if its available to order somewhere. But it ISN'T AVAILABLE on to order PSYSHOP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quazzi Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Has anybody heard Remenber the slime from this guys?! Fucking crazy old goa!!! Awesome!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Huh,yes, Remember The Slime was crazy, primal psychedelic madness ! I love it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucinogenious Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Remember the slime ... recently i bought an old crazy shaolin madness vinyl... The Mocking Laugh of the cruel Ninja & Ragu. i had them at mp3s but its different on vinyl ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg senpai Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 But it ISN'T AVAILABLE on to order PSYSHOP!!! 200099[/snapback] You can buy this album directly from the Psy-harmonics website for 25 AUD (nearly 16$ postage included). I often buy my stuffs here and you'll see that Andrew Till (label manager, also Gus till's brother) is a really nice guy. I never had a problem ordering here, and in my opinion, this is THE place where you can find "weird" or unconventionnal psychedelia electronica. http://www.psy-harmonics.com.au/wipv3_6/pa...1561&db=Entries Check for the Mitsumoto album which is a big surprise and a rare piece (japanese exclusive release). About Shaolin Wooden Men, they're currently working for live (possibly in cd in the near future) and are back in studio to bring us a new album. For all those who are more interested in "Supermindway" SWM's style, there's still copies of the "Stormer" ep available in the Wirikuta webshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 The Mocking Laugh Of The Cruel Ninja and Ragu are great psychedelic tracks ! They are absolutely freaky, these guys know how to twist your brain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted January 14, 2006 Share Posted January 14, 2006 great post-rock electronica with futuristic sounds and lots of psychedelia... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 I bought this thnking it would be like the Hungry Forest. But it wasn't. It was some crazy ass music that blew my mind. It made me trip without drugs. One word - Unique Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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