Guest rx7style Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 Tripticon - The 7th Portal Artist: Tripticon Title: The 7th Portal Label: Tsunami Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. Deeper Level 02. Tiny Little Box 03. Electro Pipe 04. Portals Of Time 05. Heavy Sync 06. Hana Full Of Stars 07. Monochrome 08. Mina Puzzle 09. Tripticon Review: This is very old-school sounding goa from Filip Mardberg, who seems to be able to manufacture a variety of music styles. This album is very full-on with lots of 303 lines, aggressive synths, and whirling psychedelia. Production of this album is the major drawback -- the compiled/finished tracks must have been pushed through a "tin can" filter, as the sound-stage is non-existent! The bass/mids/treble don't sound balanced whatsoever, and with aggressive full-on music that's very bad as the sound can get too harsh. Musically and technically however, this album is quite good. Anyone who enjoys music like Toi Doi or even Shakta will appreciate this album. Best track is Mind Puzzle, worst track is Monochrome. 6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akindo Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 I think Tripticon are Ticon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sdfg Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 yes they are ticon old project Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Seb Mullaert Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 Filip Mardberg and Fredrik Gilenholt! this is among the first productions they ever made ... therefor the little bit strange production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halosian Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 This album is great! Oldschool and very psychedelic, full-on with nasty sounds. This is the type of trance I miss in the todays scene when everything turns to monotonie or very clubby. To be honest I prefer Tripticon before Ticon. 8/10. One more thing: I cannot understand why Children, or whoever it is, labels all thoose reviewed albums as releases from Tsunami, when it's infact Tsunami Productions based in Sweden who released many of the released albums reviewed on this site and not Tsunami in the US. Check the artist/discography-list yourself at their homesite: http://www.tsunamiprod.com (I also passed this "sentence" to Children earlier together with a review but it was totally ignored, obviously). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paddohead Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 Heavy Sync kicks ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mikkolahti[at]yahoo[dot]com Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 this is one of my favourite records! 9/10. I just love this style. dark and aggressive and also gentle goa ) buy this immediatly if you love dark oldskool goa sound! This is sooo it! best tracks: 3,4,5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jonas[at]zerus.m[dot]se Posted January 15, 2002 Share Posted January 15, 2002 portals of time is with no doubt the best song on this sometimes overrated album. the production isn't at its peak, and the songs sound older than they are. but some people will like this, but ticon is a much better choise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKS Posted January 16, 2002 Share Posted January 16, 2002 How can this be an early old school project when the album came out in 2000?? Hmmmm. Is the year wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted January 16, 2002 Share Posted January 16, 2002 I quite like this album, maybe even more than TICON cause it has psychedelic touch with many goa influences. I wa amazed when I read that they haven;t been satisfied witht his album after they made it so that is why they moved to progressive style, but I find this style much more suiting my taste and beside 2 tracks that are rather boring, the rest is pretty good especially : PORTALS OF TIME, HEAVY SYNC, HAND FULL OF STARS, MIND PUZZLE, TRIPTICON...8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honzor Posted January 17, 2002 Share Posted January 17, 2002 Very oldschool, very boring. Ticon is a lot better, but still not that good. 1/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aeon Posted January 18, 2002 Share Posted January 18, 2002 Good psychedelic synths, unfortunately all the kickdrums are horrible. Strange that someone could make this album and then make the minimal style Ticon tracks just a year or two later... If they could combine the synths from this album with Ticon's percussive elements and bass... THAT would be great. I saw Ticon do a live set in San Fran and had to resist holding up a handwritten sign requesting "Heavy Sync". Hee hee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Artifex Posted November 11, 2002 Share Posted November 11, 2002 When I first time heard this cd I think was too rough for me... then suddenly I fell in love with old-school goa. One of my favourite albums I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masen023 Posted May 15, 2010 Share Posted May 15, 2010 Yes... this is the Oldschool project of Progressive Trance/House group Ticon. Im still in love with this album (since i bought it in 2000) It doesnt represent nowadays Ticon in any way. Since i am a Goafreak... this suites me like the "hand in the glowe" Oldschool and psychedelic 8/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 This is decent with some chunky psytrance tracks. You can hear the progressive Ticon blossoming amidst the goa touches. Wish there was more goa and less long progressive stretches, but still worth a listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padmapani Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 an interesting album. style-wise in between miranda and cydonia, with plenty of energy and good ideas. but the production quality is simply horrible, even for 90s standards, making the album nearly unlistenable. i feel as if an updated version (similarly to what ux did recently) that could fix some of the extremely dated sounds and mixing mistakes could easily make it in the top 5 albums here on psynews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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