Guest antic Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 ORION - ARTIFICIAL FREQUENCIES Solstice Records 1. Horizon 2. Zig Zag 3. Timeless Devotion 4. Sleepwalking 5. Viva Bahamas 6. Fast Lane 7. Body Ballons rmx 8. Dig it 9. Ocean of colours (feat. Raja Ram) I finally got it few days ago and initially I was truly dissapointed. When compared with Metamorpheus it had less melodies, tracks seemed to be more full-on (he collaborated with Alien Project lately...) and shorter. Just after some 5-6 listenings I started to discover things. There are melodies, but they are not so explicit like with other artists. To hear the melody you must listen to all the elements - beats, snares, hihats, bass, effects and pads/strings. Then it all seems to create one huge and very psychedelic melodic patterns! He overuses - in good way - all of the known squelches and bleeps, so it's very acidy too, but in non-303 way, similar to what Cosmosis/Mumbo Jumbo is doing lately. Also incredible is the use of pads/strings - they're almost everywhere, sometimes as the background, sometimes as the foreground, but always in the right place. The other thing worth noting are bases: at first they sound like all power-bases in gms/ap/astrix clones, but they're more funky, groovy and melodic (!) than ever! And what a great job he does with drums!!! He's fuckin genius with creating very intricate break-beat loops that perfectly fit into psytrance. There's lots of little congas / snares / strange hihats everywhere. The production is also very clear and dynamic, so on a good soundsystem this shulod sound awesome! Oh, and the track with Raja Ram is brilliant too, a little bit similar to Cosmosis' Skankadelic. What is very important he's saound is very unique, I mean I couldn't hear any of samples so much overused by other full-on artists (sometimes I think there is a CD called full-on samples which is in every store in Israel . After all I'm very glad I bought it. It's definitely one of the best, if not the best artist album of the year. It seems to me that it is the right direction for full-on sound: get away from in-yer-face-obvious melodies and get into more psychedelic layering. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Raider Posted October 29, 2003 Share Posted October 29, 2003 Orion surely kicks as, saw him live in Denmark a couple a weeks ago, and he was blasting the hell of that place with his amazing music. I especially like his work with Alien Project, Crunchy Punch - Enjoy has a GREAT intro and feel to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fiba Optix Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Yep, killer album - much improved upon Metamorpheus. best thing is Jean Borelli's heading to Australia for Rainbow Serpent Festival in January. Cheers Fiba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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