mahoney Posted May 26, 2001 Share Posted May 26, 2001 Tortured Brain - The Raver / B Side Artist: Tortured Brain Title: The Raver / B Side Label: Aurinko Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. The Raver 02. B Side Review: I kinda fell in love with Tortured Brain after the release of their excellent track "Electroencephalotramme" on Kiss the Future 1, that track is though still my favourite even after this release. The a side kicks of with some of thoose samples that really has became kind of a typical ingredience in the tortured tracks. I really got high excpectations on this track but it actually dissapointed me a little. It has this evil feel all over it and it got some nice effects whining but the melody that comes in in the beginning is reaaally bad tasting. Very simple in a bad way which makes it untasty and boring. The effects and kickdrum is good though. There is also this excellent dubby drumn'n'bass break which is really nice and harmonic, but then there is this melody again,,, damn,,, why?!?!? There is another melody that comes in in the second part of the track,,, it´s also quite simple but much much better then the first one... evil! Can understand why it landed at the same label that Tim Schuldt releases some of his material. The b side is actually far more better, a conclusion that friend Krister (Baboon) agreed to. It starts of quite repetive with a bass line ala Tortured Brain and some sort of a simple melody. It builds up and becomes more and more intense. Then another melody comes in... and this one i really can say that I don´t dislike. It sounds like if you take a synthesiser and transforms it to a guitar with strings. Then the guitars comes in and some singning (!) male that sounds like the one in "Seratonin Sunrise" by MWNN (maybe just a little bit more distorted). You can now feel the energy, not because of the singing but because of the great breaks and explosions of sounds. It then ends up in some harmonic sounds which really makes you come down after all the hysteria after the explosions. Goood! The releases as a whole is in the spirit of Atomic/Aurinko. An average release, but it´s worth buying for the second track! Take care! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andrescottin[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted May 26, 2001 Share Posted May 26, 2001 I agree... the first track is really no good. the second track is interesting, but falls a bit short of being great. i really like the dealer (w/ sterilizer) form kiss th future 2... this is not nearly as intense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Baboon Posted May 26, 2001 Share Posted May 26, 2001 Couldn't agree with more mr. Mahoney :oP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stormbringer Posted May 26, 2001 Share Posted May 26, 2001 "The Raver" (5/10) is a great track for a minute or so with that metallic laughter, pounding beats and evil atmosphere, but it then turns out to be really boring. I heard "The Raver" live at the Arvikafestival last year performed by Cydonia and it did sound pretty ok then, but I can´t stand listening to the whole track at home. "B.side" (3/10) sounds pretty much like crap to me. I think that this 12" must be the weakest one released so far on the Aurinkolabel (which I really like). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smg Posted May 27, 2001 Share Posted May 27, 2001 Not really great stuff, I find this kinda boring, although both tracks have quite good kick and bline, it just basically repeats that for 8 minutes so where do we get?....no cool effects whatsoever. 5/10...bom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahoney Posted May 28, 2001 Author Share Posted May 28, 2001 hope tortured brain will get more like before ... the most people seems to agree in that.. shame on you Dino! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaySatanicHippie Posted May 28, 2001 Share Posted May 28, 2001 My friend who is into Happy Hardcore loves this, that says it alll..... :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DJ Supernova Posted July 30, 2001 Share Posted July 30, 2001 Really? i agree that the first track sucks, but the "b-side" is really fucking good. it's soooo deep and heavy. i agree that the first half is rather boring, but the second half after the strings kick in is just phenomenal. people, listen to this one b4 you buy. i give "b-side" a solid 8/10. BOM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengelibong[at]hotmail[dot]com Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 this is sick. after listening to b-side like 15 times i just feel like my brain are becoming tortured. b-side is very odd but I like it very much. Another strange song like this one is Brian Shiva-Intensity one /Muskot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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