Guest Daniel Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 Yeah I know there was already a post but I feel like making a new one since that one is far down the page in the forums. Tell me what you think **Don't Mind the Spelling Errors....didn't feel like proof reading** Daniel's Review of the [TRANCE SIDE] [Rating Scale] + Poor + + So So + + + Average + + + + Great + + + + + Killer 01 - [ALBINENO] + + + + A very nice way to start off the album. This song has a nice atmospheric beginning that sends you into the world of infected mushroom. There are a lot of nice light subtle melodies and some very twisted sound manipulations that go on throughout the song. The climactic funky melody that appears 4:49 is a great refreshment....if only it lasted longer and build up into something even more spectacluar. This song brings back some memories from Classical Mushroom with it's melodies but not quite that powerful as that albums peaks. 02 - [HUSH MAIL] + + This song has an awesome beginning with a great use of a sound of a growling creature which gets manipulated by the mushies throughout the beat. There are a lot of interesting sounds that are thrown into the song, but overall the song isn't heavily laced with prominent melodies. It's definetly more tame and minimal that the previous song which kinda threw me off. 03 - [APOGIFFA NIGHT] + The first thing that pops into my mind after hearing this track is: Is this really a remix to Apogiffa? The reason I say that is because it doesn't sound anything like the original, not what so ever, which is a diapointment. I would have thought it was a completely different track if I didn't know the title. Anyway...overall the track is dark and demanding with its hard beats but really never goes anywhere. It's more or less a lot of repetition laced with infected like sound effects. Very boring track IMO, not my kinda Infected song. 04 - [sONG PONG] + + + + This is the closest, besides Albineno, to which Infected comes to bringing something that sounds like something from Classical Mushroom. This is a great refreshing track which starts out atmosphericly driven like Albineno but shows more of the twisted side of the mushies with it very manipulated sounds and twistedly enjoyable melodys that are scattered throughout the song. The peak of the song which starts up at 5:57 and explodes more or less at 6:50....ah brings back some nice memories from classical mushroom. The ending is also very nice how it brings back in the beginning melody to carry the listener out. 05 - [CHAPLIN] + + + + This is the song that I call "the manipulator". The reason behind this is because of all the damn sound manipulation that occurs throughout the song. Rather than having strong long and smooth melodies it has a bunch of twisted sounds effects that are combined to create short bursts of excitment and definetly weirdness. This track definetly is interesting to listen to. It's sure to twist you head up in knots. Definetly one of my favorite tracks because of it's orginality in it's twistedness. Funky to listen to. 06 - [ECHONOMIX] + + + I like the way this song echoes into the whole energy of itself. This song has some good energy with some refreshing yet short melodic like breaks throughout the song. The beat along with the effects drive this song along very nicely at a quick pace. The very twisted and eeire medody that starts at 4:20 is very cool and a nice touch to the energy of the song. The song doesn't really have a powerful peak, which disapoints me, because you get the impression it might, but overall it's enjoyable. 07 - [sCORPION FROG] + + + What a werid song this is. This song isn't musically driven but rather it's laced with a bunch of strange effects and sounds which create an odd feel, almost empty at some points, but still gets it's point across that the mushies are talented production pioneers. The melody in the end at 6:01 which builds up slowly is very nice. It almost sounds kinda likea build up in a dark trance song or house song. 08 - [DEEPLY DISTURBED] + + + + I love this song for some reason. This is a great driving track and I can defiently see why it was a single. The vocals don't bother me one bit, infact they kind of refresh the album since the trance side is very very much lacking in samples. I love the build-ups in this song it's just a nice song all around, especially the build up at 5:54 which sends the song into it's peak. 09 - [sEMI NICE] + + + To start off the song has a funky ass accordian like melody which sends the song into is odd vibe and interesting beat. Throughout the song you get the nice sound manipulation you've been gettting in the previous tracks. The funkyness rears head yet again with some strange sounds at 2:45 which kinda make you happy because they are so nifty. I like the beat in this song ass well, it's something different with its sound. The song picks up in the end around 4:56 and it gives you the impression that it's going to build up into something groovy and powerful but then it simply just ends very abruptly which bothers me. 10 - [YANKO PITCH] + + + + This is one of my favorite tracks on the album. This song is so powerful and driving that it's an awesome way to end the trance side. The beginning is weird with a sample that pretty much describes the intro "what the hell..." I love everything about this track....it's always progressing very very slowly but surely and then it builds up to a teaser melody that starts at 4:31 and explodes into the beat again at 4:44. Then the song slowly builds up to a funky distorted guitar sounding melody at 5:33 which gets manipulated left and right. The end of the track is so powerful with the high pitch screaming peak at 6:25 to 6:52 which explodes into the full on ending. ***[FINAL VERDICT]*** + + + + The "Trance Side" might take some getting used to for those expecting Classical Mushroom 2, but it's very experimental and new with it's twisted and generally funky sounds. It's not pure dancing material but more of a showcase of the mushies talent to create music that's different and unique in it's own right. I feel overall it's lacking in some areas....I whish there were more powerful layers in the ends of the songs and some slighter stronger and longer melodies but you can't win them all. This is a great disc and will be in roation in my CD player for some time to come. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel's Review of the [OTHER SIDE] [Rating Scale] + Poor + + So So + + + Average + + + + Great + + + + + Killer 01 - [CONVERTING VEGETARIANS] + + + + What a great experimental and freestyle approach to a vcoal song this is! I love the weird and defiently infected beginning. The vocals are very catchy and driving except for that whole "minding the gap since 1996 crap"...they could have left that line out. Overall the track is funky and fun with something new for you to feast your ears upon. A nice change if you ask me. 02 - [ELATION STATION] + + + + This is a beautiful song with a very uplifting and happy vibe that make you wanna smile. The smooth and gental beginning carries you to a break beat kinda point in the song at 2:13 which is a fun and creative twist with it's trumpet sounds and funky twisted effects. This song is just a lot of fun to listen to. Kinda resembles what a jazzy psy-trance song would sound like. The end is nice and smooth with it's beautiful outro. 03 - [DROP OUT] + + + + From the moment I first heard this song I was in love. The beat is very nice and the vocals are errie and very psychedelic with the two voices singing together. The classical guitars are a nice touch at 2:07 only the mushies could do it that nicely. I like the melodic synth at 3:11. Oh and lets not forget the best part of the song at 3:53 with that truely amazing psychedelic guitar solor...soooo nice. 04 - [AVRATZ] + + This song is too long in my opinion. Its very downtempo, which is fine but it bores me to death for some reason. the only point where the song interests me starts at 4:20 where these bongo-like drums come in and some sound manipulation comes into play with some eeire kinda echoing vocals. The next part that strikes my brain nicely is the very uplifting guitar melody at 7:20 which is very beautiful especially mixed with the smooth classicla synth in the background....very happy and gentle sounding, very peaceful. The rest of the song it do able but overall this song is too long for me to handle. 05 - [bLINK] + + + This is the second song which focuses primarily on vocals. I like Michelle's voice in this song, very interesting song. However she never shuts up....the song keeps going on and on and on and on with some melodic breaks in bewteen verses and chorus. For some reason by the middle of this song I'm ready for it to end, not because it's bad, which it's not, it's very nice, it just should have been shorter....I'm not much for vocals I guess. 06 - [sHAKAWKAW] + + + + The beginning of this song is awesome, I love it. It's very uplifting and very smooth. I love the use of guitars at 1:44 yet again they make it work very well. Then at 2:33 we get a fucking kick ass melody that sounds like it should have been on the trance side to pump up the songs a little, soooo great! Following the melody comes the "shakawkaw" sample which is very funky. It's followed by the great intro music which is used to carry you out of the song. 07 - [PLETZURRA] + + + This song has a nice piano melody which reminds me of a rainy day for some reason. I love how the piano gets manipulated like it's in an old 20's movie at 1:28 very cool. The song builds up with some weird effects and some vocals which get tiwsted in the infected fashion....almost eerie in the way they sound. The song gets very uplifting and happy at 4:01 with a nice melody that eventually blends into some smooth synths in the background. The track gets extremely weird at 5:23 when some old hick sounding guitar comes in and sounds like your at a farm having a party with the beverly hillbillies. The song ends with the same uplifting melody which appears at 4:01. 08 - [i WISH] + + + This is a strange vocal song. The vocals are vocoded heavily and sound very electrical. Unlike "Blink" I don't wishi this song would end. After hearing the sample of the song I was skeptical but this song is actually pretty nice. Not great but average. I'm just not much for pure vocal songs. I guess I'm not used to the whole Infected vocal thing . 09 - [bALLERIUM] + + + + I've loved this song as long as I've loved "Drop Out." I like the funky beginning and the beat is very fun along side the sound effects that soar along side it. The beat gets your head going. It's a nice song which progresses it's way to some cool manipulated effects at 1:54. The song then leads you some beautiful vocals at 4:18 which get mixed with an awesome electric melody which sends electricity through your nerves with it's gentle acidity....yummy. The song turns almost regaee "ish" and exits in a very funky, yet nice manner. 10 - [sELECTA] + + + + This is a funky song which is laced with a lot of Infected manipulation. I can't really describe this track for some reason....it's very intereesting. I like the spacey kinda vibe you get at 2:38 with the eerie yet dreamy sounds. At 3:13 the track gets very eerie and a little bit darker, but very enjoyable and interesting. At 3:39 the song gets a nice hard guitar melody which helps finish out the song by sending into a funky piano ending which sounds like it came right out of a western comedy. The mushies sure are strange. 11 - [iLLUMINAUGHTY] + + + This is another full vocal song which features Michelle. I like this one more than the others. This is my favorite song by Michelle on this album. It's very atmospheric and kinda creepy in a way, just by the way her voice sounds. But still I'm not a big fan of the vocal tracks the mushies have. However this song is still nice to listen to. 12 - [JEENGE] + + + The opening guitar riff in this song is beautiful and defiiently so peaceful and especially cool when the electronic effects are added to it. The guitar finallt ends and the song picks up pace with some breaky kinda stuff at 1:40. The guitar is back soon enough followed by some nice twisted effects. I like the effects in the song, but they aren't anything extraordinary. The song is alright....the guitars are my favorite part....guitar + infected mushroom = beauty. 13 - [ELEVATION] + + This song is pretty much all piano with some violins and is very melodic. It's pretty in it's simplicity but overall it kinda bores me in the long run. Its beautiful non-the-less. Kinda just too downtempo for me but a nice way to end the album, ya know, on a gentle glide through melodic, smooth and pretty sounds which cascade you to the end of the disc giving your a farewell to "Converting Vegetarians". ***[FINAL VERDICT]*** + + + + The "Other Side" is a very nice and interesting voyage through the experimental freestyle side that Infected has been dying to show. They've come along way and this disc shows that they are still trying to be innovative and in a very new way with some downtempo and some vocal tracks for them to flex there skills on. This is an awesome disc with a lot of variety to boot and some interesting elements which take you by surprise. I'm very satisfied with how this side turned out. This CD will also be in rotation at my house for some time to come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Daniel Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 Omg....nice job of me to title the post: "Converted Vegetarians"........I'm so dumb don't mind me, I'm a little loopy today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hippie Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 very good review ....i`m a little bit confused also about vocals in trance music however ..but i like experiments .....sounds cool ....just like i couldn`t imagine guitars in this music ....but some artists do it very well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ambler Posted April 13, 2003 Share Posted April 13, 2003 definitly converted!!! ;o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jonathan Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 I want my 15 bucks back. What a terrible album. Boring, Kitchy, Cliche, Recycled. The chillout side is a downright disgrace. Duvdev rapping? Who the hell do these guys think they are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bolenat Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 Braking the barriers we have in our minds is more than important today. The outcome of this is the borders between countries, inability to accept people with different skin color or different religion. Also the music has been dividing us in many ways. So i feel that it could be really beautiful experince for all of us to start to accept all the people as equals to one another. We should be able to be a one big happy family, and stop thinking that one day it will happen... and start to work for this ideal right now in our thoughts and that way in our actions. i know that this is what Buddha has been teaching but we should remember that these are the teachings that are part of every single true religion. But Buddha didnt ispire me to wrote this. It was this album that im listening right now. So i must give 10/10 for the better world and for this wonderful step that Erez, Amit and their friends have taken towards this becoming paradise:) May the peace prevail on earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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