Triskele Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 M Field - Current of Life Release date: January, 2007 PsyBooty Records of San Francisco has been sculpting the face of the American progressive psy scene recently, and its latest release by one of their foremost artist projects, M-Field, pushes even their envelope. "Current of Life", M-Field's latest collection of funky four on the floor grooves, draws from all flavors of house, trance, and tribal world beats and will be sure to heat the senses of beat enthusiasts from clubland dancefloors and outdoor massives to home stereo systems and headphones alike this winter. The artists of M-Field put a lot of emotional and intellectual involvement into their sounds, and have been tearing it up at parties and studios from one coast to the other, and "Current of Life" is the apotheosis of their collective experiences. M-Field's and PsyBooty's album is a must listen... fresh, raw, and emotive, "Current of Life" is an electro-spiritual treat not to be passed up ! Click for Samples 1. Foundation 2. Current Of Life 3. Progressive Evolution 4. Morphotronic 5. Punctuated Equilibrium 6. Conceptual Thought 7. Unified Theory 8. World Soul 9. Memory Traces Track by Track: Foundation Jay and Rob open up their album with an eight-minute laid back breakbeat session. Highlighting sultry, filtered electro bass-tones and groovy, intricate percussion work, "Foundation" is very immersive... Melodies flit about and disappear when needed, and no sound goes undone. A great intro track to what lies ahead in the M-Field idiom! Current of Life The title track of this album is aptly named... it indeed has a motion and flow of its own. The thick, organic bass-line pulses and plays at your brainwaves, with plenty of lonely, eerie UFO-landing sounds to set your mind afloat. Feral, alien sounding and very highly danceable, this is the sort of progressive music not to be confined indoors. Progressive Evolution A funky bass and subtle phasings within the ever-evolving percussion signify the meat of this third track. Between the pleasing background congas and the building synth rhythms, the whole arrangement feels abstract and tribal. There's some great slicing work in the dissonant background static, but when the melodies start falling on your ears like waterdrops, things really get sensual and flavourful! Morphotronic "Morphotronic" starts off slightly more up-tempo and a shade darker than the pieces before. Saturated with drum sounds of the world, both ancient and modern, with a hint of industrial for flavour, M-Field raises the level with this one! Much like the rest of this album, the sounds are clean, squishy, and live sounding, an audio entity attempting to communicate. Punctuated Equilibrium Following the trend of "Morphotronic", the fifth track of the CD comes at you faster and more menacing. Warped percussion practically bounces around your head and the bass is crouched low and growling. The primitive sounds at the beginning seem to refine themselves as the track goes on, gaining culture and a "disco" character, with some especially interesting percussion and synth swirlings towards the end! Conceptual Thought This piece comes at you from the musical midsection, but before too long, Jay and Rob throw in a nicely thumping kick-drum to help your feet get going. The rhythms descend like a musical staircase and the great tension-and release moments and unexpected changes really build up the energy in a way that so many progressive psy tracks nowadays are simply lack luster at. Unified Theory M-Field supplies just what this album needed to continually and perpetually raise the vibe! Neatly acidic with some greatly placed stabs and harmonies, these two make this track deliver! Great for elevating those outdoor full-moon sets, along with the others, "Unified Theory" is best heard outside. Depth and atmosphere pervade this piece of music and guarantee a smoothly musical ride. World Soul Now that M-Field has you hanging in the outer reaches of musical orbit, "World Soul" drifts into play... the airy pads sweep around you like cirrus clouds while the bassbeat forumulates leisurely to carry you on its current. This piece seems to specialize in sounds which are easy on your ears, and other senses. Appropriately placed near the end of the tracklist, "World Soul" winds you down nicely! Memory Traces At once a great lead out track to what has been a fantastic saga of a trance music soundscape, "Memory Traces" leaves you with a chunky trip-hop breakbeat to enjoy... sinister bass hollow vox pads and psychedelic acid squelches and computery bleeps and bloops are masterfully placed and simply sound great. This is a downtempo track that is different in all the right ways and offers the truest peek at the musical potential of the two artists of M-Field! Reviews: "After two solid compilations, of which the second – ServeEm2wice – received notably good reviews from the media, San Francisco based label, Psybooty, release their first artist album in the form of M-Field. With several solo and collaborative projects under their belt M-Field serve up a slab of 9 groovy, percussive laden compositions. Kicking off things is Foundation a teasing break-beat openener that swirls around not quite getting out of the starting blocks and could easily be the closer to the album or a party. What follows is eight 4 to floor 4 phat progressive tunes laden with swirling synths, groovy melodies and that spongy production style that seems to be Psybooty records signature. Far from simple, Current of Life is an intricate collage of melodies and counter-melodies that build and build in a most hypnotic way offering the listener a cohesiveness package of tunes ranging from 130 to 136 bpm. Overall it’s an album that is well produced and is quite mellow and deep. It’s not always that dance friendly but certainly great for home listening and would suit a more chilled out dance-floor or for tired legs deep into a festival. Fans of Psybooty Records will not be disappointed as this seems a natural progression from their two compilations. M-field certainly have their own sound choosing not to ride the electro bandwagon nor the traditional proggy style that is currently quite popular......" Reviewed by Dave Mac for BPM Magazine, South Africa We are looking for quality promoters and production crews worldwide to host M-Field CD launch events. We can also offer a PsyBooty Label party. If you are interested, feel free to contact robin@triskelemanagement.com or david@psybooty.com to discuss what’s on offer. Related Links Triskele Management | www.triskelemanagement.com | PsyBooty Records | www.psybooty.com | Exclusive worldwide distrubution through Arabesque mark.bedford@arab.co.uk | www.arabesque.co.uk | Exclusive Digital Distribution by INgrooves | www.INgrooves.com | US Distribution by Future Octave | www.FutureOctave.com | Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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