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I am rarely peaked by a lot of the releases nowadays with it's minimal

progressive sound. Most of them sound cold, emotionless tracks. Dragonfly has

managed to blow me away with this. It is just magnificent from the emotional

Ibiza influenced goa by Muses Rapt, to the trance emotional track of Dreamtec

and onward to the finale by Z. Youth. This is indeed a soundtrack of magic.

Nevermind what the weird Parellel Youninversity was or could be. This stands

out by itself and probably one of the finest Dragonfly has put out.

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V/A - The Warp Experience

 

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Artist: Various

Title: The Warp Experience

Label: Dragonfly

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 09'30" The Muses Rapt : Spiritual Healing

02. 07'59" Dreamtec : Venus

03. 08'41" Bus Vs Slide : Everyday

04. 10'01" Excession : Namaska

05. 05'54" Shakta : AtaR.I.P

06. 08'31" Tromesa : Trexecie X

07. 07'53" X-Dream And Spiralkinda : Blah

08. 07'04" Purple : Axonic

09. 09'42" Zodiac Youth : Still On Earth

 

CD 2

01. 03'31" Introcution : Between Worlds

02. 06'57" Maya : In The Wake Of Beauty

03. 06'19" Easy : D'ya Dig

04. 05'25" Celtic Cross : Jade Garden (Flower Coloured Powerchild Rmx)

05. 09'47" Sons Of Arca : Khamaj

06. 05'40" Rasmus : Tonto's Release

07. 09'27" Industrial Suicide Tribe : Aqua Sufi

08. 07'14" Outro : Shamanka

 

Review:

 

Dragonfly defines this one as "A celebration of the

sounds that have accompanied the fortnightly madness that has occurred at the

Warp Experience event that has created a major revolution in club land"

Probably just a good an weird festival. This compilation is a very good one

without killer tracks except for guess who? X-Dream moment. The first album

goes from very Venga Boys trance from

The Muses Rapt and Dreamtec to a very progressive and beautiful track from

Exsession (Darshan) to a delicious minimalistic journey from the X-Dreams and

Spiralkinda, and closes with a very pumping song from Zodiac Youth that reminds

me a lot to Infected Psycho. The other CD its an ambient one with the Youth

touch all over the place that mixes classic ambient, with more ethnics sound

and

hip hip!!! The result is really good, if you are open to different styles. This

is the kind of CD that will keep you always entertained but be warned this

doesn't sounds like the old very psychedelic Dragonfly days. 8/10

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Guest swoop

yeah I can only agree. And even if that Dreamtec track is a bit melodic and

almost close to clubtrance it's really smooth and great. I can't stop loving

it:)

The chillout side is excellent too, the only track I don't like is the rasmus

track.

Highly recommended!

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We mustn't be listening to the same release! To me this is like watching your

favourite grandparent [let's call him Grandpa Dragonfly] lose his memory, mind

and then start drooling and needing diapers. This label was so FAT once apon

a time, not even that long ago, pretty much consensus pick for the leading

edge. Now it sounds like another Boris Blenn side project. From the horrible

plinky-plinky noises at the start, we go to Everyday, which is a nice track

but needs more overlays and sounds, and has no business going over 6 minutes.

Namaska is a decent 'smooth' progressive vanilla track, but for DARSHAN it is

really weak. I mean, this is the same act that produced such gems as Energy

Trace, ECG, 0G and Tranceformations. They can go much deeper than this. Same

thing for the Shakta and X-Dream tracks. It's one thing to get a backrub from

a 17-year-old raver chick who has only read some place about back pain and so

you can't really blame her for having no idea h!

ow to hit good spots or apply goodhurt pleasurepain. It's another to get a

lame second-rate job from someone who's made your eyes water and hips crack

before. Disappointing. Track 8 is nothing special, and the best part about

the Zodiac Youth track is the sample. The 2nd disc is quite literally the

worst thing I've ever imagined. What is the Tommy-Gear-Wearing Rapper saying

"I know yall wanna git down", over and over, like a Daft Punk Mic Check, doing

in trance? TRANCE IS NOT ABOUT DOWN. TRANCE IS ABOUT UP. If I want to get

down I drink booze and listen to blues or R&B or hip hop or contemplate my

working day, or just, hey, cut out the middleman and beat my head in with a

clue-by-four. I do not want anyone, ever, on a trance release to address me

as 'yall'. Trance is not funky - it did not come from Louisiana. That's why

I like it. The rest of the 2nd disc is what to put on if you're trying to lay

a really naive 20-year-old neopagan with no appreciation of composit!

ion. Cringe Factory. I will never buy anything from Dragonfly again.

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Guest ChrisdeeACiD

The Muses Rapt song together with the Dreamtec song are some of the most

beautiful, melodic trance I've ever heard..... I allmost cry!

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Guest vernon sullivan

ok well I bought it and it was actually better than I'd expected: cd1 track1

everyone's heard no need to say more except that some love it, some hate it.

personally I don't like it that much, even though most of the muses rapt's

other songs I like alot. track 2 is really weak, I don't really know what

defines club trance, but this sounds suspiciously like it: constant boring

bommtssboomtss etc beat, ultra-clean cheesy melodic lines, never more than 3

layers of sound at once...yuk. track 3 is cool, pretty fresh sounding, slight

disco and 60's psychedelia influences that I really like. Track 4 is the

highlight for me, sure it's not as good as his darshan stuff but it's by far

the best I've heard under the excession name, it's got the same deep hypnotic

feel as a darshan track but not as dark, still as minimal though. A definite

favourite. Tracks 5 and 6 are both breaky tracks, 6 moreso than 5. 5 was ok, 6

is horrible, the sound quality is atrocious - everything sounds so flat and

bland, seems like they over-filtered the drums. Track 7 is ok, it would be a

whole lot better with improved bass, because all it has is this weak farty

sound playing only on the off-beat - really takes the balls out of what could

have been a kicking track. Not bad though, but as freak said above, it sounds

much worse coming from someone who should (and does) know better. Tracks 8 and

9 are pretty good, 8 has a pretty sparse arrangment but some nice subtle

moments, 9 is more full-on, not up there with the best in this style but

decent. disk 2 I won't even bother, this is complete rubbish. I consider

myself "open to different styles", at least enough to realise that this disk

covers alot of styles, all of them VERY badly. Actually using the word "style"

in connection with this shit is misleading, these songs are all sooo

amateurish, especially when it comes to sample use... the homeboy stylings of

track 6 have already been adequately lamented, but mention should also be made

of track 3's lovely blend of female indian singing (yawn..) with squealing

saxophone, and track 5 in which someone has obviously snuck a tape recorder

into their weekly yoga class. The only redeeming moment is the celtic cross

track, and even that is pretty lame, although I haven't heard the original so

I can't say how much of the blame belongs to simon, and how much to the

"flower coloured power child" who made this remix. So bomble, if this cd is

suitably priced (I'd happily have paid maybe half the price of a full-price

cd) then check it out, theres a fair bit of good material over various styles

on disk 1, just don't be persuaded into buying it by the fact that you get 2

cd's instead of one, I would probably have paid extra had the 2nd one not been

included, to spare myself from ever hearing that shit.

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Guest proud to be Australien

Fuck, I was impressed when I got this for $12 Australian, It's nothing to

special, but it is Okay, I would be upset if I paid full price

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