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Tortured Brain - The Raver / B Side

 

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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!

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Guest andrescottin[at]hotmail[dot]com

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.

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Guest Stormbringer

"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).

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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!

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  • 2 months later...
Guest DJ Supernova

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!

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  • 4 months later...
Guest bengelibong[at]hotmail[dot]com

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

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