V/A - Moon Station (Moon Station Records)

psytones · May 13, 2010

V/A – Moon Station (Moon Station Records) 2009 (MOONS001)

01 Space Shaman - Katedra

02 Overdream - Throughout The Time

03 oCeLoT - Levitation

04 Kraft - From The Earth

05 Nyama - Waves

06 Medea - Hellbound

07 Aku Aku - HoHo

08 RED - Mentality

09 Phobos&Deimos - Moon and Sun

10 Glooex - AnyWay

Space Shaman - Katedra: Trembling anticipation, howling ambience and rattling gristle. Space sneaks its way towards the net while holy rooms fill their pulse with ghostly monks and smoke filled booms. Sharp stings push the growling suspicion out to a tennis court of cosmic play. The build takes its wonderful time. There is no rush nor place to reach for time stands still, while the rush rushes over your awe... Beats gather in flickering motions of scattering sense, how lush it is, so free in space while on a firm track to a station far out in space without gravitational lace. Harsher tones scrape the face, time to fly hard, time to take control and dive in the deep. What a wonderful track, I love the long intro with its multiple builds without any rush what so ever, it all feels so good while the plane scrapes its belly on the soft surface of the sandy moon. I wish it would never end - the feel, the rise, the sounds and groove.

Space Shaman is the alias of Alexander from Moscow. It is told that this guy was given radio-receivers as a kid instead of toys, sometimes. What and where he contacted is not possible to say; but that he has been in some alien contact there is no doubt of because his understanding in building sub-consciousness feelings is clear and pretty evident. For more music by this Shaman, one can check out his duo with mister Batov, also from Russia – called ‘Neutral Ethos’. *********

Overdream - Throughout The Time: Overdream is personal favorite act out there in the ever expanding trance with psychedelic motions for me. They proved them self more than worthy with their beautifully crafted and fun oscillated album from 2008, Wonderwise. Here presented on this strong compilation ‘Moon Station’ they have given us a track about how one can aurally make the senses travel through time and space as this track might make time travel possible. The track has the lovely Overdream sound and keeps going far; so far it puts you for a moment in a loony bin with mental carnivals and on a fun filled ride of rollers and coasters.

As well known for some, Overdream consists of the married couple Makus and Dana Do. They ventures from the land of Ukraine and are one of the most promising acts out there in my ears. The amateurish yet charming vibes of their present tracks can and will only grow in wideness, power, strength and intelligence. As long as there is a certain harmony of this fine couples galactic home, they will for sure be able to provide us with more and more tracks where only the outer stars of our universe might stop them. After all, aim for the stars, land on the Moon Station! ********

oCeLoT - Levitation: Cheering cuts, driving nuts. Moody slings wrangling voices in your tickled ear of how conferment and whisper, where does it linger. Up or down, there or here? Breaking beats and sliding organs with powerful effects, never getting wired never falling; only rising to a point of near levitation in fascination. To be left in a spot, to think about the lot is something oCeLoT with his oscillate will sense a lot. Now twist that knot!

One of the acts in this scene with an intelligent and unafraid voice is defiantly this character. He travels the world, lives the dream and makes music he can put his balls in front of if ever needed to be defended. Few like this guy have the mind bending capability of releasing twister albums after twister albums of self control, heavy doses of psychedelia and reflection in deflection. Aaron, hats off to your selection. ********

Kraft - From The Earth: Drilling spaceships in fantastic voyages space beams travel in light and tunnels. Drilling beats knocks your feet; travel comes far when you’re stuck in a bar. Keep on powering; make yourself ready for the flight of slight delight. Track struggles to get it on, the drilling is fun. Effects fly here and there never realizing the fear it scares without tears. Some drums to settle the thought about where to go, where to take our spacecraft, will we go far from earth, what hypersniper effects will take us there, far from earth, far from fun? Angry triple drums, crashing computers, slandering electrodes, hammering beats. Has the travel settled are we on our way, to where we go far from fun? Can we get some hyperspace...?.. Ok so let me be fair, some of the effects brings on some strings of beautiful lights, colours and fun, but all in all this track is struggling too much, maybe part of its charm, the never ending fight to get it right.

This is an act concentrating on the Kraft, the Techno feel of Psytrance. A man who was deeply inspired by the psychedelic community and its roots of India. ****

Nyama - Waves: Now this I personally find amusing. When I first got to listen to this album real stoned, I was amazed by this track; it flew so far, so hard. It took me on a wild ride of intergalactic travel, fast, intense and very cool. The rush of being transported through the black mass in our universe made me think that this track is taking me far from home. Especially when the daggering layer comes on by the 03:45 mark, here the track has a power to truly fly you away, far away. When I gazed at the cover reading what this marvelous tracks name was, I read ‘Far From Earth’, and I laughed, my god I lolled, it was so thrilling because that was the thoughts I had while lying there being moved without moving. I thought it was a perfect title for my experience. Only much later I discovered that this track was not named what I thought, it was named ‘Waves’, which is also very nice and reflecting...

This guy, Jan guy from Germany who I share a name with, is a project with some good potential and we’ll be looking out for more tracks though I have a feel I might become a tad disappointed in the long run. Most tracks of his as I understand come to life while having fun at the mixing table which is and should be very normal, throwing ideas to it and others. I wish him the best of luck. Ten points for the drive, ****** stars in total.

Medea - Hellbound: Madea takes the insane to a whole new level on this compilation, as the middle man, he has a clear responsibility to shake and choke the mental cage with some demented sounds and heavy builds and blips. The bass is rolling and the atmosphere is more than disturbing yet in a sick way, extremely pleasant because of its melodic turns and swirls. It’s nice to get your bunkers out on the beach sometimes to freshen the stench of one’s crowded mind. Hellbound is a hard track, or should I say a harsh track with mental illnesses for the lovely ones. It’s not overly stupid so it gets away with the sickness. I should mention that after a rough start of loosing ones precious identity, he, Medea makes it so that he gets the lost angry, makes it gather its shit and turn on, tune in and bedaubing, drop Out! .. Well, almost at least. It has some very nice potential.

This Konstantine guy from St. Petersburg could just as well be a nutter born around a leaky nuclear reactor because this is like drinking radioactive mud which will turn you into a glowing zombie with squeaky joints. But don’t worry! Dance around it with flowers and joy because as we know, glowing zombies are fun at parties, but will rarely get a good grab unless you stand real still and let it. By that time your zombie actions deserves the glow it will manifest on you. *****

Aku Aku - HoHo: It is time to meditate the moon closer to the sun. Make the earth rotate just a little bit faster with more fruitiness and liveliness. It is time to gather the whispering noia, the beats of vegetarian soya. It has hard thumping beats with medieval klakkering sounds, rushing wind and splashing liquid with insecticide grinds. Neurons are being lid, strings are pulled and caressed like a... Wait; is this a continuing of track 5? What planet have we landed on, are we far from the moon, will we be back home soon? I hear it, back there behind the scratching sounds and crazy basslines. I hear the harmony, the fruitful forest, ah what a beautiful place, is it Earth?

Now this guy from Israel started out with a talent and ear for the psychedelic madness as a 14 year old kid. His taste was always curious about the darker and deeper realms of pie and trance. Now at the age of 23 he is producing and spinning his music around to people just waiting for those crazy moments of bliss, and sometimes, piss. *****

RED - Mentality: As Iris the Dj guides you through her compilation of deep psychedelic space flights, you get a sense of awe for the work she’s put into it with thought, feeling and gut. The flow is mere perfect, the tracks go along like silk and spiders and the power is forever present to a Moon Station. In the eight track by RED you are getting the feeling of finally getting somewhere after a few tracks with a long and confused travel. The basslines, the snickering gnome is clearer and more evident, the hold is on.

A lot of this beautiful music can be considered as spectacular architecture (pff just look at the artwork on this album by Ihtianderson and you should quickly get my drift); hence the expression ‘Talking about music is like talking about architecture’ is total bullocks in my mind. One can and should observe beautiful architecture, but with some imagination of communication it should also be possible to talk about its lines, structure, forms and hold. This track is made by a former architect student whom was born in St. Petersburg where the architecture is proud with history and spirit. This music holds the same, as it starts off by being like the former tracks only to reveal an inner structure of angelic particles and lifting sensation for the ambience lover, which with Iris’ flow is a good sign of tunes to come. *******

Phobos&Deimos - Moon and Sun: The Moon, the Sun… The build is exiting, alluring and curious of where to be lead, where to step. Personally I love this track only to fast become tired of it, it’s not perfect, but I love the key ideas, the mysterious elements of its melody, screaming builds and haunting gasps. This is tough mystique with a hint of childishness which is really to be enjoyed though it’s not so completed as one would hope, the compositions can at times ruin the great and lost feel it gives – It has flaws, we all have flaws. But no matter what, this track has elements, stages and alluring tricks to catch you in its web of haunting beauty.

Phobos & Deimos for me clearly sounds like a night project focusing on driving out ones inner phobias and demons. From Greece this duo arises with a passion for the strange, the dark and the light. Watch out for these guys and their HSS Records, they will for sure tremble your bleeding heart and thump your stomping feet. *******

AnyWay - Glooex presents to us the finishing track, and it’s the most powerful track in sense of emotions in its lingering melody, of unease and ecstatic joy. I would like to repeat what I said about the former track to this number. Difference is some humored sounds which bounce around to lighten the spirit of all the harsh travels that has been given throughout the Moon Station journey presented by the lovely Miss Iris. This is a beautiful track. ‘nuff said.

This guy from Moscow, Russia has a lot of beautiful and true inner emotions of light catching propellers and driving steam. The cream is to be found at its center, its plexus. There is something about this thrilling movie-score wave which gets to my longing emotion every time. Last I heard something like its mystique in score was on Shpongle’s ‘Walking Backwards through the Cosmic Mirror’ track. It’s about the suspense; the thriller moment of our moping expression as we try to hold on to that almost lost light of insane fight, because in the end, this is filled with positivity in heart and joy in energy. **********

Recomemendation: Yes. Buy it, if not for the music, get it for the artwork alone,

it's more psychedelic then your granma's soft skin!

Let me give you a score: 69/100, and that’s a sexy score.

Favorite Tracks: 1(!!), 2(!), 3(!), 5, 8, 9, 10(!!)

Where to buy and other links:

Moon Station central: http://www.moonstation.ru

Moon Station Shop: http://moonstation.ru/releases/moons001

Moon Station Space: http://www.myspace.com/moonstationrecords

Moon Station Disco: http://www.discogs.com/label/Moon+Station+Records

The wonderful art of Ihtianderson: http://www.myspace.com/ihtianderson

Psyshop: http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/mns/mns1cd001.html

Beatspace: http://beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=5055