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LSG - The Black Album


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LSG - The Black Album

 

Artist: LSG

Title: The Black Album

Label: Black Series

Date: 1998

 

Track listing:

 

01. 02'16" The Train Of Thought V0.9

02. 06'58" The Train Of Thought V1.1

03. 08'25" Go Fishing

04. 09'21" Cellular

05. 07'43" The Blaxone

06. 07'40" Rotation

07. 07'00" 88

08. 06'04" Freakz

09. 07'14" Hellfire

10. 09'28" Deep Blue

 

Review:

 

First things first. That bassline that runs through most of the record

features the most gorgeously warm mushroomy-good organic kick-drum. The sound

waves are anything but square here. From start to finish the whole record

just washes right over you. Minimal sounds starting off more techno than

trance (after the first ambient 2 minutes) that sloooooowly morph, as if over

inverted time-lapse photography. It takes 256 beats for some sounds to be

born, grow and fade out peacefully or flower into something totally other.

Yet the whole thing is groovy and danceable, if only in a hip-swaying,

head-bobbing 135 BPM fashion. Everything is all mixed together exquisitely so

the track separation seems kind of arbitrary here. Still, nice of him not to

make one gigantic 70 minute track. Anyway, the further into the album you

get, the more psychedelic the noises become. This is what I had in mind when

picturing how Goa trance could merge back in with the techno it schismed off

of in the 90s, since both genres have both evolved since (like a 7 year

macrocosm of a proper Goa track) and both have spawned some spectacular

sounds. I can't believe I found this by accident for 15 bucks Canadian!

Total score! Bag this today if you can find it. LSG can scarcely contain his

love for all of us!

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  • 4 weeks later...
Guest flaux[at]finsvcs[dot]com

I am quite surprised to see this album within a GOA web site. Regardless, I've

been a huge Lieb fan for years and once again he has proven to the world that

he can enter and dominate any form of trance music. This is an ambient

masterpiece which truly knows how to penetrate the mind and really open up all

your senses. Its a fantastic album with some very emotionally melodic sounds.

Absolutely incredible from Lieb.

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Guest chis[at]matrik.ndo.co[dot]uk

This is dark trance, coming from an artist often labelled along with more

mainstream acts (sadly). Again dark, throbbing, but also completely

welcoming. Collected Works as a whole did more for me - I prefer an uplifting

melody to a harsh bassline. Black was therefore a big suprise to me as you

can imagine - but I loved it. It's intelligent minimalism and Big Blue is the

perfect finale, especially as it suddenly gives out at the ninth minute just

to leave the ebb of the pad sounds. Fecking love it... 9/10

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  • 2 years later...

Honestly, this is one of the most psychedelic *albums* I have ever heard! It's

not pay-trance, but it's way more psychedelic than most psy releases. Every

sound is perfectly placed, this thing is wonderfully produced. All the sound

have the perfect reverb, etc. I feel like I'm in another world when I listen

to this.

 

Freak51 gave a perfect review.

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