traveller Posted January 11, 2004 Share Posted January 11, 2004 Artist: Kiwa (M.Elsinen & M.Louhio) Title: RetroActive Label: Surreal Audio Recordings Cat: SURR006CD Style: Psytrance 01 Intro Sound 06:41 02 Oxygen 07:24 03 Dtm 09:29 04 Mental Collapse 07:23 05 Five Digit Orange 07:11 06 Pure In Motion 05:51 07 Aeroplane Menace 07:29 08 Sidechained 08:15 09 Commercial Break Munchies 03:03 10 Over The Top 05:39 11 Purist 06:45 12 Retro Activity 02:56 The usual.. Maybe (although I do doubt it) it's the booze talking, but this album sure makes me feel as if I'm one big ass LSD consumer. Then again it might simply be those groovy as hell basslines, furious layers of beats, sounds, twists and butter that play together to create this all together psychedelic experience. To tell the truth I feel awkward while listening to these beats, sounds (you get the picture?), if there are other people (IE my parents) at home. If you ask me, Kiwa is (capitals)the(/capitals) flagship of Finnish psytrance. Their debut, Dreamtime Enhancer that is, was released just like a year ago. To me at least it came out of the blue, and umm, well Kiwa sure proved themselves. Take my word for it, mp3s simply don't cut it for Kiwa. The stream of sound is just simply too much. About the music.. More than anything the music is positive and happy. It's also by all means groovy. Other than that it's pretty psychedelic and from time to time even spooky. It does take time, lots and lots of time, but do believe me, in the end you'll love it! When, like a few rows above I stated the music is happy I sure as hell didn't mean that it's happy in that fluffy euro/ibiza/dream/euphoria trance way, but that all-in-all twisted evil "lets do drugs" kind of way. The music is also a little housey, but not in the house house way, it's psytrance all the way down, quite innovative psytrance if I may add. Well we do get a few heavenly downbeat/breakbeat/ambient chillers. Forgive me.. The short review, but I'm running out of time. By this time tomorrow I'll be serving Finland at some distant military installment. But hey, at least I'll have RetroActive MD with me. Cheers: Omniholic, Surreal & Kiwa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Towelie Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 Its quit cold weather.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deLirium Posted January 12, 2004 Share Posted January 12, 2004 hhmmm KIWA is in the city where i am living(munich) this weekend, and i have to go snowboarding with my girlfriend, i promised....and so i will miss KIWA live (( I am very sad, hope my girlfirend dont see this )) But i will have a look at the album Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Surreal Audio Posted January 13, 2004 Share Posted January 13, 2004 Heheh, we will rock Munich...have fun snowboarding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deLirium Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Thanks , enjoy munich, don't drink too much bavarian beer and i hope it won't be your last visit in munich! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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