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REVIEW WRITTEN BY AKINDO
Firstly I want to say I think it's a good idea Parvati is releasing albums
which consist of two (or three in the case of Psychotic Micro vs. Azax
Syndrom) artists who are friends. You can tell they collaborate, and share
ideas, yet have their own disctinctive sound. It creates a nice variety to
have tracks by the different artists. This album is very special in that
there is not _one_ mediocre track! I can't recall the last psy CD on which
all tracks were of such a high standard as this. I'm proud to be Danish...
First track is a perfect starting track. Phat groove and nice echoing sound
which comes in the beginning. It's good to have a slower track like this
start off the album. The sounds which come in at 3:41 are what I love most
from G. O. W. These trippy, digital sounds, sounding like they come from
some big mainframe computer, expressing its emotions. The track slowly
progresses, adds more sounds, bass speeds up at 5:15, and we are bouncing.
Next up are Meteloids, giving us a breather after G. O. W. Already some
years ago, I thought both G. O. W. and Meteloids sounded cool, but their
basses were too "funky"/weird to dance to, and the sound of them could be
improved. Well, now they're spot on, and shine clearly through all tracks.
This track has a bass that simply forces us to bounce up and down. How
funky, and trippy in a light and manageable way. Stepping up for the third
lap are G. O. W. again, keepin' it real on da Danish west coast. This is my
favorite track on the album. You know the saying in commercials, "Experience
tomorrow today"? Well, this is it, the future of psy trance. If you don't
believe me, put it on, have a smoke, and check the sounds which come in at
3:56. Psychedelic and uplfifting. When these sounds finish, we are treated
to a hollow, bassy, lightly bitcrushed lead, various American chitchatter,
and various psychedelia. Track four is foh-to-da-floor phat groove. In
addition, we have a bit of flanging percussion, bitcrushed sounds, and HP
filtered noizes. Funky lead at 2:02 makes the bouncing unstoppable. When
will the bits crush us? Not this day, Meteloids seem to answer, givin us
some more flangin' percussion instead. Ah, let's add a bit of American
chitchatter, and mush da crushed bits into a nice Maizena soup. We still
need a break from the raw data transmitted from the Grapes, so let's fiddle
with some tyggegummi skum. Now Meteloids are proper warmed up, and giving us
a more nighttime track. This is mainly apparent in the bass which is faster
and more driving, making the trip go from our bouncing bodies to inside our
heads. Twisted computer sounds are presented, along with some American
chitchatter. Also nice are the extra kicks and off-breaks in this track. It
really does seem like we are stuck in bubble foam. So, now we are ready for
another G. O. W. outing, do they have enough power to start the track? Yup,
the required 9V 500MA is present, and boom! Possibly the hardest track of
the album, it starts with phat groove, American chitchatter, and spot on LFO
filter sweeps. Sounds are coming from the center, being pushed out to the
left and right speakers. The electricity is present in the sounds we hear
coming in at 5:15. So, it seems the mainframe's UPS has taken over from a
power failure, and is giving us some proper DC power now, eh? Why is this
all so phat we ask? 'Cause it's Parvati & the Danes, in the mix! Track 7
sees G. O. W. saying farewell for this time. Wow, that shiny bass. I
seriously think it might even make my granny bounce if she was a bit tipsy.
Skull splitting in half? Hmm, the sounds coming in at 1:14 seem to try to do
that. Proper hi-hats keep the funk on the hat, so it doesn't fall off. We
are gridlocked. A balloon could be attempted. The track picks up in the
middle, once we are warmed up. Finally Meteloids arrive on the scene, to
take it away one last time. This is a more full-on track by them, and it
starts nicely, we are treated to some American chitchatter. We should all
stay in our homes we are told. OK, then we can listen to this album one more
time! Metal clanging sounds become percussive, the leads are clean and nice,
and the madness swirls up. At 4:09 we get some nice filter-sweeped sounds,
adding to the fun. Suddenly American chitchatter tells us our world will be
deleted, because machinery and weapons threaten more than they offer, and we
will die. Well, not if we can push play again in time. ;)
Grapes Of Wrath & Meteloids
Tits On Fire
Parvati
Denmark. Land of outstanding women, lending psyreviews the phrase good bacon to use in a semi-offensive, wholly-sexist way at whatever opportunity he possibly can. Its also the land this lot, a motley bunch of producers and transducers, for whom the phrase good bacon is equally apt: for this music is seriously good bacon. Wackie Mackie gets things moving with a rolling, jumpy bassline and not too much of the ear-splitting mental crash you might expect. The productions nice, with plenty going on, and a very danceable peak thatll sound great on a decent rig. Face The Haze moves in a more twisted direction building up to a midsection that grates and gyrates, and Transmitting Raw Data takes a spicier turn still an awesomely-layered slice of mayhem with bags of energy, bags of attitude, and quite possibly bags of mushrooms stashed away in pockets all about its person. 48 Krunchy holds the vibe nicely, being careful not to go too over the top, but its at Bubble Skum where things get really interesting. Kicking off with a bonkers sample, it plugs off at 148bpm and is just simply perfect all you want from this kinda vibe. Pacey, haunted, messy
but still remaining on the right side of electro convulsive therapy. A lot of artists would simply have spunked all over the nord at this point, but that the Grapes manage to keep things together, but still keep them interesting and varied, is to their credit. 9V 500MA is next up, and what a stormer. Busier than a thai brothel on coupon day, it escalates into this outstanding fleshy array of digital noises, bleeps, whirrs, and the general sound of machinery failing gracefully at 148bpm. Genius. More Me starts out with bare bones minimal everything, then a sample before it adds staggeringly elastic noises, atmospheric stabs, and just enough to chuck you off your guard before it again escalates into another belter. And the boys have saved the best for last, with Infected By 3D being the one true utter classic on display here a substantial, pushy bassline underpins all manner of bleeping, structured into one of the most delightful violent romps of the year, with a slowdown run-out thats likely to be a nightmare for DJs. Hah. All in all then a nice album from Parvati, on top form at the moment and from whom we continue to expect and get great things.
REVIEW WRITTEN BY Alex (scobbah) ON www.mandarin.nu
The powerpackage finally have arrived! The latest flipped out delivery
from our neighbours across the sea is here, and something we all know is
that Aarhusbased Parvati Records are really lousy at making us consumers
disapointed. The latest heavyweight champion is a split album with
Grapes of Wrath (Monno and Jaffa) and Meteloids (Jahbo and Terkelsen),
and it´s loaded with eight strong, sick imaginations who´s acting out
in soundscapes who´s marching between everything from 144 to 148 beats
per minute.
The artwork speaks for its self, and I like the style - but I like the
contents even more.
01 Grapes of Wrath - Wackie Mackie (08:04)
The first track is delivered by Grapes of Wrath, and it´s a strong
sense of forest who´s streaming out of the speakers. The bassline
spellbinds me with it´s groovy go-ahead attitude, who´s together with
all these twists and curls, giving a climaxfilled soundimage. There´s
no room here for chickens, so it´s just to take a dip in the soundscape
and flow within this wicked journey, something´s vapourizing here
allright!
02 Meteloids - Face The Haze (07:22)
Meteloids debut of the album is litteraly warped. The pans goes wild lin
the speakers! Many artists does have the problem to entangle within
themselves and cause the music to sound very puzzly and segmented. But
here it´s full madness from the beginning to the end and the smallest
thought on that this might be repetitive is very strange. There´s quite
a few really tasty goldsessions here, but generally, I sense a lack of
that spice who makes track that little something something.
03 Grapes of Wrath - Transmitting Raw Data (07:04)
Bunker up with pills against nausea, because they will become very handy
when the mind is experiencing wild detours like this one. Grapes of
Wrath have really planted something successfull here, and it can´t get
any much more complete like this. When the track has sort of passed five
minutes of action it´s time to take goodbye, because in an environment
like this you will get crazy. You don´t need any israelibreaks here
with two minutes of buildups to get people shouting - people will scream
here because of pure, mad insanity - enjoy the paranormal
rollercoaster!
04 Meteloids - 48 Krunchy (06:44)
It´s again time to let Meteloids be in charge of the rudder, and we´re
steering here towards more rushed up soundscapes. I kind of get the same
vibes here as I get from old jazz, a stressed up feeling who bolts
around in the joints of the body. The difference is all though that
Meteloids scores the gold and brings it home over the finish line, and
it´s really crazy from here and there in this splendour demonstration
of what you possibly could do with 148 beats per minute.
05 Meteloids - Bubble Skum (07:27)
Bubble Skum delivers even more Meteloids, and we´ve found ourselves a
good candidate here to the title "best track of the album". The fifth
track is a real candybar, a candybar you´d most of all would like to
chew on out in the forest but even suits well indoors as audiosugar.
Jahbo and Terkelsen shows the road to Aarhus with this extraordinary
temptation - find yourself liberated!
06 Grapes of Wrath - 9v 500ma (07:47)
The time has strike for track number six, and Grapes of Wrath grants a
near eight minute long journey through original psychedelic atmospheres.
This track procures same thoughts to life as those I got by Jaffa and
Monnos performance on "Psychedelically Yours 2" - nothing is like
it´s supposed to be - perfect organized high-level chaos. A real
dancefloorgiant with an outstanding force who causes every struggling
soul on the dancefloor to sweat of satisfaction.
07 Grapes of Wrath - More Me (08:22)
Hold your hat, because the storm goes rough on the unprepared. It´s
continually a spoken subject about the calm before the storm, but the
calm never appears here - it´s full storm who´s prevailing unstopable.
With a twisted groove, Grapes of Wrath runs you all over in wicked
environments of the imagination, and no airbag in the world can save you
from the effect of this impact. What´s really going on in those brains
of chaos? Whatever it is I like the result - a superb product who´s not
leaving anyone untouched.
08 Meteloids - Infected By 3D (07:26)
The album´s last track takes start where everything else have taken
it´s path, that is wellorganized, chaosstyled soundimages and wild
filtergames in the soundscape. What´s impressing on me the most is how
the track in a smooth way changes between full madness and holy wild
excursions in the human mind. The feeling of that a deep consideration
is embedded in the track is evident, and maybe this is the closest we
will get the danish truth - pure chaos in it´s very very most organized
shape.
Summary
After a discharge consisting of eight tracks from two of the most
promising projects of Aarhus, the spectrum of feelings is very wide.
This album arouses feelings in the body whom you refuse to ever let go
off, and it serves dancefloors world over as well taking people on trips
to their inner senses in a way only Parvati can. Parvati Records has
done it again. They have preserved their high standard and delivered a
red´n´white powerpackage whom you can´t get enough of. The absolute
favourites on the album constitutes of the third, the fifth and the
seventh track - but the whole album entirety may be the favourite who´s
closest to my heart. Viva la Denmark!
Track listing:
01. 0804 Grapes Of Wrath Wackie Mackie
02. 0722 Meteloids Face The Haze
03. 0704 Grapes Of Wrath Transmitting Raw Data
04. 0644 Meteloids 48 Krunchy
05. 0727 Meteloids Bubble Sky
06. 0747 Grapes Of Wrath 9V 500MA
07. 0822 Grapes Of Wrath More Me
08. 0726 Meteloids Infected By 3D
Review:
Thrilling experimental psytrance for real psychonauts of distorted realms!
Tits On Fire is the 7th release by Danish hyper-psytrance label Parvati Records and this time its a split album. Grapes Of Wrath are Jacob Skouborg (Jaffa) & Morten Wurtz (Monno) from Aarhus, Denmark and Meteloids are Rolike Jahbo (Jahbo) and Bo Terkelsen (Insane Behavior) also from Aarhus
Enough chit-chit, lets check out the burning funbags
Let me take you thru the tracks
#01: [144 BPM]
Wackie Mackie is indeed Wacky
Its harsh and heavy bitter and twisted sour and pissed off
You guessed it, as legend has it, this is among the darkest, spookiest most twisted psytrance money can buy
A demented melody haunts this track from start to finish alongside some filtered electronic farts and a sinister bassline
Unfortunately not much else happens here I couldve wished for more variation in this track
But this definitely work wonders for all the Duracell-bunnies on the dance floor
Decent track!
#02: [148 BPM]
And now its time to face the haze
This track slowly builds adding FX and after a couple of minutes its full blown with twisted synths, acid riffs and cut-up voice samples
It still has a lazy feel to it although its running @ 148 bpm
I like how stereo FX are used on most of the flaring acid riffs guaranteed to mess with shroomy heads
Nice little track!
#03: [147 BPM]
A nice floating, organic intro is brutally interrupted by a pounding bassline taking no prisoners
Soon were treated to some GOW-goodies: Digital drops and acid belches catapulting through the airwaves fucking with your brain
Raw is a fitting description actually whereas Sushi would be totally wrong
Booyakasha!
#04: [148 BPM]
Imagine being 48 and crunchy
A shocking scenario indeed
Thx for the reminder Meteloids
This track has one of the phattest grooves Ive heard in this kind of trance Dark, gritty, raw, and brutal uncooked, untreated, crude but extremely trance inducing
This simply blows my damn socks off
Nuff said! Stellar track!
#05: [148 BPM]
Remember the Texas Faggott track Back To Mad with the bizarre Backstreet Boys-like sample? This track uses a similar idea in the intro
Funny
Also the weird human-laugh-turns-into-a-crow sample is a funny idea
This track gallops away at 148 miles pr. hour, but maintains a bouncy feel throughout
At times it is as though too much is going on at the same time, which can be a bit confusing ~ mental overload
But most of the time it just rocks!
#06: [148 BPM]
And now for the track about a 9 Volts regulated 500mA plug-in mains adaptor! A cryptic track-title like that is exactly what youd expect from an album with pix on the cover of 4 guys puffing on a dirt bong
More acid-driven mental distortion music
Hints of tribal percussion interlaced with crazy undecipherable voice samples
GOW does what GOW does best on this track: A massive wall of fast-paced, murky night trance
Enjoyable!
#07: [146 BPM]
More GOW
Ive been having these hallucinations
having these delusions
All I know is it feels like my skull is splitting in half!
Yikes sounds like youve been tripping once too many mate
Another full-blown track in the vain of the predecessors
Canny, twisted, deeply psychedelic night-trance
I like how the digital acid-lines almost sound organic here
Massive track!
#08: [147 BPM]
Meteloids muster up their last strengths on this final track to put an end to this boobs-ablaze trip
This is multilayered, complex party-music for trancers, dancers, romancers and dope fiends! All kinds of acid lines, synths, bleeps and blips forms bizarre bits of melodies, helps create a twisted tune complete with spooky voice samples and overall madness
Well done!
What a great year it has been for this kind of music
The dust has hardly settled from the last Parvati instalment Psychedelically Yours 2 which was very popular with the masses and Im sure this will be so too
Judging by the hype it has already received in various internet forums, Im pretty sure that the many fans of dark, twisted, underground horror-trance will eat this one raw
Personally Ive pretty much surrendered to this album
It has a higher good/bad track ratio than Psychedelically Yours 2 which already had a pretty good ratio
That being said, there are still flaws on this album
A few tracks suffer from stand-still-syndrom for certain amounts of time which works well on the dance floor, but for home listening it can get tedious at times
But hey, you know what youre getting into when youre putting on a Parvati release
Highly energetic, sensory challenging, hard-hitting, nightmarish, acid-driven, underground night-trance
Recommended for all fans of the above mentioned style
Enjoy! =D
Favourites: 2, 4 (!!), 5, 7
DeathPosture
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