Guest mrsyed Posted April 11, 2000 Share Posted April 11, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pit-UFO Posted April 12, 2000 Share Posted April 12, 2000 V/A - The Warp Experience 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest swoop Posted April 12, 2000 Share Posted April 12, 2000 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freak51 Posted April 13, 2000 Share Posted April 13, 2000 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChrisdeeACiD Posted April 22, 2000 Share Posted April 22, 2000 The Muses Rapt song together with the Dreamtec song are some of the most beautiful, melodic trance I've ever heard..... I allmost cry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ehsanur Posted April 30, 2000 Share Posted April 30, 2000 wow Freak51....you now how to say it :-) say yes to stonies! say no to homies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted November 5, 2000 Share Posted November 5, 2000 didn´t like it.it brings you nothing you haven´t heard before.DON´T waste your money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gizmo Posted November 28, 2000 Share Posted November 28, 2000 That's very weak comp from Dargaonfly. Not that tracks are all bad, because it is bad composition. 2nd cd sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted April 8, 2001 Share Posted April 8, 2001 There are just a few good tracks here, and the best of them (CD1-track1) is released in many other places. I don't think it's a very good compilation for 2CDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vernon sullivan Posted October 31, 2001 Share Posted October 31, 2001 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest proud to be Australien Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riton Posted May 21, 2008 Share Posted May 21, 2008 cool compilation but as mentioned, the better tracks are already released Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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