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I spent an awful lot of time thinking of a way to start this review and still I just couldn't come up with any introduction good enough for it, so I'm just gonna sum it up in one sentence: This is, hands down, the best thing I've heard so far this year. Pure no mercy psychedelia that's sure to get your feet off the floor and make them stay there for over an hour.
In a scene where genres are getting really confusing, and we end up spliting everything two-ways: Psychedelic & Commercial, Parvati manage to mantain their integrity and bomb us yet again with pure, raw, uncut Psychedelic Trance, in doses we're already used to get from them. Don't worry about styles, this one will not leave you confused - it is indeed Psychedelic. And it's goooood. Massive, heavy and dark basslines filled, combined with highly psychedelic effects everywhere will surely allow the night-timers to dance to exhaustion.
Let's get to the review then: as I first got my hands on the album, I wasn't too surprised with the cover. I mean, we're all used to Parvati's covers, right? They're always extremely psychedelic, but they're jsut not too graphically appealing. The art's a bit amateur-ish and just don't try to read the tracklist on the back, it's really confusing. If you open the case, however, you get some really nice psychedelic forest and hey, the tracklist on the inside is readable. So the inside kind of makes it up for the poor artwork on the outside, all cool here. I'd just reccomend Parvati checked if all the text on the album is readable before printing it. But let's get on the music, which is the really important thing here...
Before I go on to review the tracks, I must say I really, really liked the masterization and sound quality on this album. You see, I like it dark and I like it psychedelic, but I also like it clean. I like to be able to tell the difference between the various elements of the track, I like to separate them in my head, which is something only a good sound quality and a professional masterization can provide. This album allows me to do this, it allows me to get really deep into the sound, because I know what I'm hearing. And that's one hell of a feeling!
01. Jahbo - Audiodidakt
Watch out for Jahbo. He took the 2004 edition of Boom Festival by storm and suddenly even the less receptive dark-skeptical freaks were moving to his music. This track is the living proof that true psychedelic music is still around and pretty much active. No time for introductions here, just a couple of quick pads and we're off to a promising journey. A great track to open the album, I'd say. Not too agreesive on the kick, with a nice warming bassline and full of psychedelia from the first to the last second. Always mutating into something greater, this track evolves nicely into an unbelievably tasty mixture of ripping sounds and scratching synths. There are a few breaks, just so you can rest your brain for a couple of seconds and the we're off to madness once more. Overall a great tune - it really gets to you and it doesn't get repetitive. Night psychedelic sweetness, Jahbo style!
02. Phonic Request vs Akhoa - Early Reflection
Before listening to this track, the only contact I had with Phonic Request's music was through Magma's 'Groovy Mainpulation', where he released a track called 'Arkanoid IV'. Akhoa, I had never even heard of. Seems like these French dudes have a lot to offer, though. This is a real smasher! I'm really liking the bassline on this one, very jumpy and playful. The FX work is nothing we haven't heard before, but they flow smoothly through your brain, passing a really trippy vibe around. The bass keeps slowly morphing all the way through the track and so you keep getting new perspectives on all the different layers, even if it sounds the same to you. Loved the weird noises at around six minutes, meant to drive you nuts on the dancefloor (mission accomplished!). Overall a nice tune and, while it's not the feel good hit of the summer, it certainly's gonna have some people on their knees begging for more.
03. Insane Behavior - Fix The Fluff
Ah, here we go, now we're talking. I think the name speaks for itself, but for those who feel a bit skeptical about this track, I must tell you this is a night bomb. Seriously no mercy: no fluffy spiffy leads here, just seven minutes of 147 bpm night time madness. It starts off with a couple of samples, one of them by McKenna (stop complaining there are too many McKenna samples around) and it progresses into an highly psychedelic tune. As I'm still trying to find the words to describe what's going on at around two minutes (yes, just two minutes into the track and it's already getting mad), there's this break (2:30), everything pauses for a while, you get a nice kick rising effect and boom, off to Madville once more. You get an outstanding effect sequence right here, which should keep you occupied for a while and the fourth minute brings an amazingly psychedelic effect with him. This track never ceases to amaze me and everytime I'm expecting some cliché, it surprises me, kicking me right in the behind and warning me never to expect the "usual" from any danish artist signed to Parvati. Outstanding stuff!!
04. Ohmgnome - Step Away From The Dwarf
If you liked the last track, wait until you hear this one!! Ohgnome are Bo Terkelsen (Insane Behavior, Meteloids) and Jaffa (Grapes of Wrath). Can you imagine a more insane crash? I've always been an unconditional fan of GOW, and I sure as hell love Meteloid's work, which made me file their joint album ('Tits on Fire') under the Masterpiece category, on my collection. Now two of the four member total shower their new project on us with a major, major dancefloor bomb. Oh man, I'm loving this track so much, I'm praticly drowning in my own happiness here. You know how it is with Grapes, you're just not given the chance to stop and wipe the sweat off of your face. This track does exactly the same... just let nature take its course and the sweat will eventually drip off your face - you've got other things on your mind now (insanity, more specifically). The lead on this one is a seriously psychedelic experience, not to be forgotten so soon. A great big thank you to these dudes for unleashing this monster upon all of us.
05. Naked Tourist - Lunatic Asylum
If you or someone you know has this album, chances are you think (or have been told) this is the best track on the album. Usually it's not good to go with the flow, but I'm gonna take that chance and do it here: this has gotta be the most original track I've heard in a long, long while. I love it when trance manages to make me smile on a dancefloor. You know, when music is so spiritual, playful and dance friendly that you just cannot help it but let out a huge ear-to-ear smile. This track does that. It starts off pretty normal and it immediately shows clear evidence of ultimate originality. The drum work helps out a lot and works out as a major complement to the FX work and the weird saiko lines. Naked Tourist are gifted when it comes to adapting deep full-on elements into dark psychedelic night trance. The result is at sight: a massive bomb that's gotta be loved by everyone! Oh right, you cannot please everyone, but these guys really come close. At 3:40 is the beggining of one of the most original sequences I've heard in a while. The real deal with this track, that led everyone to love it, though, does not come until five minutes, when a weird catchy melody comes in, right when you less expected it, that spreads over the track a while and just bombs good vibes all across. But, come on, it would be rude to end the track like this. Naked Tourist did not rest until they bombed us with some new mercy psychedelic lines for good measure and minute seven brings us a breath of fresh air, just when you expected the track to go downhill from there. This is deffinitely not your regular track and we certainly gotta be thankful for that fact.
06. Wizard Lizard - Dumping Physical Memory
Wizard Lizard are Roi Levi and Guy Marciano, both 22. Native from Israel, the bright full-on land, you can't help but wonder how they've managed to develop such a peculiar style. Their might sound a bit harsh and unpolished at first, but if you set your brain to receptive mode, you'll soon realize this is a promising duo. Not unlike the rest of the tracks on this album, this one starts out really agressive (40 seconds is all it takes for the madness to attack you). Three minutes into the track it starts to get quite agressive, slowly evolving, growing and messing around, until it blasts off one minute later - and I'm quite liking this track right about this time. Ok, everything in this track is highly trippy and psychedelic, things are well fit and perfectly layered. However, the bassline is deffinitely not my style. It's pretty repetitive and lacks that bass boost I love in PsyTrance. You know the feeling you get when you're listening to trance on an extremely powerful sound system, like the bass is ripping through your flesh and making your bones shiver? This track lacks a bass capable of doing that and so it looses a few points on my own personal scale. Nonetheless, mad outstanding work here!
07. Kindzadza - Back To The Future
Stop everything! Kindzadza is coming up next. As the most accomplished true psychedelic dark artist, Kindzadza needs no introduction. His music is as psychedelic as it is well produced, and the result is pure psychedelic frantic goodness. This one starts out with a female voice sample: "Look, it doesn't matter who [...] was. The important thing is...". The thought ends right there, and is immediately followed by 148 bpms of power (not that really deep kick Kindzadza uses so many times, this one's softer) with a monster bassline - everything works out perfectly. From then on, you know how it is: effects, effects and some more effects (add in some weird twisted FX for good measure). Common to all of them is the large dose of psychedelia. This track has a lot of breaks and twists, like bass changes and rising cut effects. Halfway through, some dude comes in to shout a few words of wisdom: "This is a world of many people" (Chronicles of Riddick) and we're back on track. The track keeps rising Kindzadza-style, without any time to loose. And, check it out, this one's so powerful and has so little stops that it does not even have an end, it just fades out into silence, while still unleashing mad psychedelic lines.
08. Irie/Spiralz - Baloo
We're approaching the end of the album and this track can hardly beat the last one. But hey, I've been surprised a lot of times before, so let's keep an open mind about this. First thing to get my attention here is the bassline, which I really hated. No matter how hard I try, this bass just does not get into my head. It feels out of place and it eventually ruins the track. I can understand how someone would like this bass, I just really disliked it. And the track is actually great, the FX work is great, the lines at around 2:30 are tasty as fuck and pretty much the entire rocks. Luckily, as the track progresses and more and more elements get unleashed, you end up forgetting the bass and before you know it you're actually dancing around to this weird twisted track. Overall a really nice track that's spoiled and gets really annoying after some time, simply due to the very poor bassline. This one probably needs one of these, just in case: all opinions and references to this track's bassline presented on this review are purely personal opinion. There, that should do it.
09. Para Halu - Snake It Easy
Sadly, we're approaching the end of the album. Para Halu has the honor of closing this album, hopefully on a good note (who are we kidding here, this is Par a Halu, these dudes never disappoint). On a small introductory note, Para Halu are two (originally four) young producers from Hungary that have been melting dancefloors for three years now, leaving a trail of destruction and deep satisfaction (see the irony?) behind them. I've said this at least eight times before on this interview, but I dare say it once more: this is a great piece of psychedelic music. Although it has 148 bpm, it's hardly as powerful as Kindzadza's tune, yet it's just as psychedelic, if not even more. All this put into consideration, this is just the perfect track to close the album. Its warming rolling bassline and the outstanding background pads assure a great unforced smile stamped on everyone's faces. I gotta say these guys are probably the artists who focus on the background work the most. Those quiet little sounds on the back usually go unnoticed, but they really make a difference. Gotta love the sounds at around six minutes, when this very hipnotic synth line starts rising, taking along with it some mysterious dark pads that culminate in a really trippy, hipnotic and ultimately psychedelic experience.
As the final track comes to its end, you're left begging for more (in a good way... you know, 'cause it was so darn good). If you're like me, the solution is going back to the start, and this time make sure you activate the repeat mode feature. In conclusion, one of the best night-time albums I've heard in a long time: reccomended for anyone new to the scene, mandatory for true psychedelic music lovers. Now let's just inpatiently await Parvati's next bomb to hit the scene. Oh, and make sure you keep an eye out for their festival with Rapid Eye Movement this year!
New dark compilation out on Parvati Records in Denmark...
Parvati Records based in Denmark has got a very good reputation among the so called darkpsy fans out there. Their line up of artists is big in the night time scene, previously called names such as Russian style etc. This is the kind of trance that people has told us is so underground for several years now, but these days it seems like it has almost become the commercial part of the trance scene. Pretty funny how the scene changes, isnt it? Take a look at this years line up at the Full Moon festival in Germany, and you will understand what I mean... Parvati has supported the dancing tribe in Goa as usual this winter, and is back with more dark stuff for those who prefer it scary.
You might wonder why these artists who has released so few tracks are so famous in this scene? Thats probably because most of the people listening to this kind of trance download their music, and there has been plenty of tracks by these artists floating around on the internet the last few years... Is it necessary more underground if people download instead of buying? Well, thats another discussion...
First out is Jahbo (Rølike Jahbo) from Denmark. Here we jump right into a dark, night time vibe. Monotonous rolling, quite flat bass line, with weird, strange, psychedelic sounds playing above. Not much melodies, just swirling weird sounds. This guy sure has a good ear for weird sounds, and I think this track is pretty cool, but I would prefer some more melodies.
Track 2 is a collaboration between two French guys, Phonic Request (Wilfried Decaesteker) and Akhoa (O. Chapier). Phonic Request is known from releases on Magma and Mandragore Records. The bass line in this one sounds more massive, and we get slightly more variation. Pure night time, with a lot of twisted sounds going wild in there. You also get some scary movie themes. One of the best tracks on this compilation in my ears, because of the variation.
Track 3 is by Insane Behavior (Bo Terkelsen) from Denmark, also known as one half of Meteloids. This one starts with a voice sample, before a rolling, monotonous bass line hits in and rolls through to the end. As usual with this darkpsy, you get some swirling sounds in there, but I missed some more creativity of sounds in this one. Still, quite massive and very intense.
Track 4 is by a new name called Ohm Gnome, which is Insane Behavior in collaboration with another Danish guy named Jacob Skouborg, which is one half of Grapes Of Wrath. This one goes much more massive. Very intense, dark track. Also more groovy than most other darkpsy tracks these days.
Track 5 is by Naked Tourist (Z-Neo & Iguana) from Germany. They doesnt give us much sign of light either. Here we get some crispy, funny sounds bubbling. We also get some metallic beats and quite monotonous rhythm drift. Scary laughter and evil sounds. Music that scares the shit out of people if they hear it at their first psytrance party...
Track 6 is by Wizard Lizard (Roi Levi & Guy Marciano) from Israel, who has released a couple of tracks on Doof and Nabi Records. This is among the most intense tracks on this compilation. Pure evil madness for the night. Not tired yet?
Track 7 is by one of the most known artists in the darkpsy scene, which is Kindzadza (Lev Greshsilov) from Russia. No rest here either. A heavy, fast (148bpm), pumping track that sort of builds up.
Track 8 is by Irie (Robert Mellgren) who has released tracks on labels such as Spirit Zone, Uphonic and Stoneage Records. Here he has made a track together with a guy called Spiralz (C. Granstrom) somewhere in India. This track has almost nagging sounds. Very intense, but I missed some variation here. I actually become almost stressed out by listening to it...
The last track on this compilation comes from Para Halu (Fekete Andras & Adam Hohmann) from Hungary. Here we get a pumping, dark monster of a track. Scary, almost mystic vibes. Something for the darkest moments in the night.
This is probably the best compilation Parvati Records has released so far. Their tracks doesnt sounds as flat anymore, you get better production and you find more creativity in the tracks. Personally, I miss some moments in darkpsy where I can get the a breath of air. No time to rest here, just rolling through the night... Maybe these artists will learn to make some melodies one day too. That would be fun...
PKS (shivapks@hotmail.com)
REVIEW WRITTEN BY DeathPosture
Anti-fluff! Anti-cheddar! Anti-Christ!
After last years massive compilation Psychedelically Yours 2 and the smash split album Tits On Fire by Grapes of Wrath/Meteloids, highly acclaimed Danish hyper-trance label Parvati Records is out with their 8th release
This time its another compilation, and if its only half as good as their previous releases Im a happy man
Lets find out
Let me take you thru the tracks
#01: Jahbo Audiodidakt [145 BPM]
First up is Jahbo a.k.a. Rølike Jahbo from Denmark who is also one half of Meteloids
I really, really dig his style and so far nothing hes been involved in has let me down
And yes, Im happy to inform you, that he does not let me down here either
After two seconds, the gloomy, haunting atmosphere has been established and Jahbo takes us for a fucked-up walk thru eerie forests
The skeleton of this track is made up by rich, phat pads of gritty industrial noise tangled up in deep, dark psychedelia
The title is a play on words, as autodidakt means self-taught in Danish, and fuck yeah Jahbo knows his shit
Very cool track!
#02: Phonic Request vs. Akhoa Early Reflections [146 BPM]
Phonic Request is Wilfried Decaesteker and Akhoa is O.Charpier both from France
I havent heard any of their stuff before, so I didnt really have any expectations
Though the bpm-range has only increased by 1, it seems like a must faster track
Deeply psychedelic, dark, twisted hyper-trance with just enough acid-lines to keep my ass wiggling
Kinda like Phyx, but with a darker more repetitive edge
I really like the oddball twists and rapid changes in pace this track have
Good experimental stuff!
#03: Insane Behaviour Fix The Fluff [147 BPM]
When you smoke that shit everything kind of gets weird, you know what I mean? Dope!
Eight cases where the natural structure of the hexagram makes its inversion ineffective in changing any of the lines Insane Behaviour kicks things off with a Platoon quote that soon evolves into a Terrance McKenna quote
Were back in Denmark now with the solo-project from Bo Terkelsen the other half of Meteloids... And Meteloids is just what this sounds like
Dark, distorted, twisted, wriggling underground psy-trance
As anti-fluffy as it gets!
#04: Ohm Gnome Step Away From The Dwarf [148 BPM]
I thought they were called little people? Bo Terkelsen is also involved in this project along with Jaffa from Grapes of Wrath
Check out the wicked intro to this track as Dam1on said it really picks you up by the shorts, and after a good old shake-up it dumps you back on the dancefloor
Theres a very unique groove in this track, and as it bounces back and forth its very hard not to move
Full power hypnotic night-time trance
I dig!
#05: Naked Tourist Lunatic Asylum [147 BPM]
Fantasy is a part of reality. And we take the break. Were thinking clearly, yet not thinking at all. This feels right. We stop trying to control the drug. This feels right
Naked Tourist is Z-Neo and Iguana from Germany, and they also had a track on Psychedelically Yours 2
Cool intro with some kid humming a humming that soon transforms into a massive bassline
Computerized samples and dark, twisted FX makes up the initial part of the track, but it soon turns into a big old mean trance machine
Im a sucker for acid-lines and this is acid galore! I like the naïve melody in the middle part, and everything after 648 is just pure bliss
The funny druggy voice-samples helps add to the overall madness this choon portrays
Aptly named indeed and indeed brilliant! Im gonna be all over their debut album coming soon on Parvati Records
Gimme gimme gimme!
#06: Wizard Lizard Dumping Physical Memory [146 BPM]
This is my first encounter with the creative outlet of Roi Levi & Guy Marciano from Israel, but I know theyve released tracks on both Doof and Nabi Records
And Ill be damned if this isnt another kick-ass track
Again its mean-ass, gritty, dirty, super-demented, evil hyper night-psytrance with too many layers to count
A big phat wall of psychedelia closing in on you! Reminds me of Kemic-Al and thats a sign of quality
Ill keep my eyes open for these guys in the future cause this is damn good!
#07: Kindzadza Back To The Future [148 BPM]
Look, it doesnt matter who created what the important thing is
Kindzadza is Leo Greshilov from Russia, and hes one of the veterans of darkish psytrance with two released albums and loads of compilation tracks
And holy fuck, this is one mean motherfucking tune
and I mean really mean Psychodelichesky-mean! Its an extremely fast-paced, hard-hitting bass-monster
Yikes! It takes a little getting used to, but after repeated listens youll learn to appreciate it
As opposed to my fellow reviewer Scobbah, I like the last two minutes here the best theres a very infectious groove going on
Good, but not as good as the previous tracks here Im afraid
But then again, the competition is fierce on compilation, so its really nitpicking
#08: Irie/Spiralz Baloo [146 BPM]
Irie is Robin Mellgren and Spiralz is C.Granstøm both from India
Their names dont sound too Indian, so I have a feeling its exile Swedes in Goa
But screw that, lets talk about the bare necessities of their track Baloo
This track is a mish-mash, hectic track with cut-up bits and pieces put back together into a dark, industrial sounding psy-frenzy
It has definite hints to both the weirder side of Finnish and Australian psy-trance
Wouldve fit in perfectly on the Schizm compilation released on Giiwa in 2004
Its a great track, but somehow its a little too hectic for the flow on this CD
What kinda shrooms are they on in India? Hook me up!
#09: Para Halu Snake It Easy [148 BPM]
András Fekete & Adám Hohmann from Hungary lure us into thinking this is a laidback track with the track name and all
But I can assure you its not
It may sound like that for the first minute, but its a hoax! The track itself has kinda the same spooky, haunting feel as their track on Psychedelically Yours 2
Oh yes, this is Halloween trance complete with distant screams and crows to mess with your emotions
Boo-fucking-hoo! Bittersweet and twisted
And the ending really grabs you by the balls and leaves a lasting impression! A great way to end a truly great hyper-trance compilation!
I love it! Despite the surprise turn the last three tracks take, Im really, really impressed with this compilation that once and for all should establish Parvati Records as the founding fathers of ultra-hard, hard-hitting, ball-breaking, deeply demented hyper night-trance
There is no fucking around here this is the real deal
As with the last two Parvati releases, I do not hesitate to give this my highest recommendation
All fans of the above mentioned style needs this compilation in their collection
Enjoy!
Favourites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5(!!), 6, 9
REVIEW WRITTEN BY Natan
Parvati is creating a solid basis for all the real electronic psychedelic
trance productions & artists for underground dancefloors worldwide. With
this release the label presents another pure full psy-trance compilation as
distinct from the well-known dubious valium-trance that poses under the
dreaded department store moniker of full-on psy-trance.
The atmospheres here are mysterious, chaotic and driving, filled with long
spacey hard-funk compositions surrounded by a dusky light of bubbling
metallic sequences and twisted movements of psycho- synths. There's plenty
of acid sections, continuing on for several long delicious swinging powerful
moments, while creating a psychedelic space that hovers between the
unconscious and awakening with sounds coming and going like shapeless
super-natural beings running just before our ears.
This compilation can be a sound illusion, sound experience, sound therapy,
sound drug. A release with a lot of purposes for all the listeners, 9
remarkably coherent perfectly produced and sustained tracks, filled with
detailled mind-locking episodes from Denmark, Russia, Germany, Hungary...
No fluffy monotone crap, no wanna-be MTV hit music, just angry powerful,
acid-filled underground spacey psy-trance in order to dance!
These compilations have been setting the standard in freaky nighttime trance, and if you know the first two then chances are youll know what to expect here.
Jahbo opens with Audiodidakt, which has a low-end funk betraying the flying, panning noises over the top.
Phonic Request vs Akhoas Early Reflections is killer, and made me grin with delight at hearing it. It has a great stop-start to it, thatll have people caught with two left feet, and the (frequent) bassline changes are spot on. The power here is in the way it holds and then releases the energy, and with the unshakeable sense of humour over the top
very, very impressive.
Fix The Fluff from Insane Behavior is a gem as well, right from the start is throws up energy at you and its just on fire, with great balance between the sounds and topend sawcuts that just make you want to be stomp ing on the springy forest floor.
Ohmgnome steps up with the delightfully-named Step Away From The Dwarf, and its a whirlwind that picks you up by the short and curlies, trims the back sack and crack, then thunks you back on the dancefloor with nothing but an intimate breeze for company.
The sound of the next tracks name gives a good idea of what its like: Lunatic Asylum by Naked Tourist. Its mental, the sounds get so incredibly bendy at the midsection that I had to check whether Id used normal teabags or special ones. But it was normal ones nothing stronger than TyPhoo was consumed, but f*ck me if it didnt get me going all wibbly. This is a f*ing belter, the cockney sample muttering about chemicals is absurdly brilliant, the breakdown thereafter is even better, and the final run will have tears streaming down your cheeks.
Wizard Lizard from Irrael is a new name on me, but on the strength of Dumping Physical Memory, theres much more to come. Its messy, its hard, it ge ts bigger and bigger and bigger
with perfectly-placed peaks and a shifting carpet underneath it all.
Every vicars favourite, Kindzadza, pops up with Back To The Future, characterised by this huge, infectious topend thats quite unlike anything else
a bit squeaky maybe but balanced perfectly against the lower frequencies.
The sheer fuckedupness of the groove on Indian act Irie/Spiralzs Baloo is enough to make you reach for the valium or, depending on your inclination, the crystal meth / DMT crossover your uncle has been developing in the back of his shed. Quantize from outer space melts into crazy layering, together forming a tune which should carry a health warning from how it makes you want to eat acid, mushrooms, iboga, toilet cleaner, anything.
And if you think youre in for a final track mellowout, forget it: Snake It Easy from Para Halu is a torrential, pounding beast that isnt going to take no for an answer. Psychedelically Yours 3 is fast, pounding, breakneck and st eeped in liquid lysergia. Which is exactly the way it should be.
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REVIEW WRITTEN BY Alex (Scobbah) ON www.mandarin.nu
Our danish neighbors, Parvati Records, opens 2005 with the third part in their popular Psychedelically Yours-series. The disc is spiced up with nine tracks who's singing between 145 to 148 BPM, and offers as usual an impressive tracklist, at least by judging from the cover. We get the plesure of surfing sonic vibrations again delivered by wellknown Parvatisupporters, but we also get the opportunity to shake our head to Ohmgnome, a constellation between Jaffa from Grapes of Wrath and Terkelsen from Meteloids, as well as a french battle between Phonic Request and Akhoa.
So let us see what kind of tracks that's hiding on the disc...
01 Jahbo - Audiodidakt (07:14)
Parvati's eighth release opens in dark and mean atmospheres, just like those we're used to hear Jahbo delivering. There's a rich sortiment of twists and beeps, but the track's power is still resting on the overall picture, the combination of atmosphere and digital tickle melodies in those groovy environments. The track is really OK, but it dosen't feel that fresh and innovative. You know what you'll get really, but it's still nothing that will get you screaming by surprise. If you got a predilection for Jahbo's earlier stuff, you'll definitely dig this.
02 Phonic Request vs. Akhoa - Early Reflections (07:52)
The french battle takes the development of the CD to a slightly brighter way, from the perspective that the music doesn't really feel especially adapted for travelling at night anymore. A groovy bass is offered and there's not that much leads, and overall this feels like random sounds here and there of all kinds, who's playing on a groovy carpet of dancefriendly basslines. I'm afraid that I do not experience this as psychedelic at all, but instead it feels like a weak try to walk in tracks that's already cinversant with other artists, who's already cleared up this road with both scythe and machete.
03 Insane Behavior - Fix The Fluff (06:58)
I'm surprised by how poppy the bass is, but that goes into oblivion as soon as the soundscapes mentally gets me to Aarhus. If we ignore the somewhat fluffy bass (is it this one the title's based on?), the tune of the mind directly goes into a more playfull atmosphere, and the soundscape really does feel like an Aarhus one. Mr. Terkelsen is also active in Meteloids, and this does really feel like something Meteloidish. You recognize the pour who's streaming out of the speakers, but I still miss the feeling of being seduced and surprised by the music. The favorite part is definitely some where near five and a half minute into the track, where the journey really takes that last step, crossing the border, and ultimately transforms into danish chaos.
04 Ohmgnome Step - Away From The Dwarf (07:20)
The fourth track of the disc opens the gates with a real distinct groove, and I think of the Grapes of Wrath's masterpiece "Transmitting Raw Data" when I hear this, as this journey is very much like that track. It feels like this is the point where the CD presents itself for real and show's it's real face, and I'm seduced by the track's sick melodies, surprising excursions and trippy moments. All people who liked Parvati's previous split CD (PRVCD07) will definitely flip out to this dancefloor giant - here's 110% Parvatisound worthy the money!
05 Naked Tourist - Lunatic Asylum (08:46)
We stop trying to control things, and this feels right. Germany's representation on the disc is in the shape of the Naked Tourist, and I haven't quite been that seduced by their music before, but here they take the opportunity to show that they have what it takes to represent Parvati, and completely run over me. A hard bassline is offered, accompanied by muddle-headed melodies and it's fairly aggressve soundscapes whom we're constantly travelling. With an upcoming album on Parvati by the Naked Tourist, I can't do anything more than giving an applause if the germans have decided to continue like this. Full madness til' we'll become unconscious!
06 Wizard Lizard - Dumping Physical Memory (07:30)
Here you'll find the disc's absolute klimax and the top notch gold piece. Wizard Lizard's contribution breathes heavy and stimulates your ears with a sound of quality, a sound we've learned to associate with Parvati. This is mean nightmusic who would become a wonderful element in the forest, but I still dig this frenetic with my foot, so it obviously works as a dose of serotonine wherever you are. When will we see an album from these talented israelis?
07 Kindzadza - Back To The Future (06:27)
Kindzadza invites you for a dance in 148 BPM, and it's as usual in a rough way. The treatment is constantly hard, mean and unbelievable aggressive during the journey's six and a half minute. Here's no room to breath, but the track's loosing some of the energy during it's final two minutes - and even if this will appeal to many Kindzadza fanatics, I'm still of the idea that this is really not one of Leo's best performances.
08 Irie/Spiralz - Baloo (07:22)
Mellgren's and Granstr?m's track is presenting itself with some ?rebrocharm. It's definitely not segmented or like it would follow a pattern. We're brought along a playful development who's not that hard and mean, but instead a bit gladly psychedelic and brightly-coloured. Unfortunately your listening yourself tired on this track rather quickly, and I have to take a pause after those seven minutes to rest my ears a bit, before the journey grabs on to me and takes me to the disc's final hero.
09 Para Halu - Snake It Easy (08:39)
The compilation's final track is a real disappointment. The party's not coming true until six and a half minute past into the track, and it feels dry and overall weak. In large proportions, there's sort of a one minute long break in the middle of the track who's not making me scream by joy either, and where is all well tended chaos whom we are used to hear Para Halu delivering? This track doesn't even feel like a good track to tie up the whole music bag together, and when the track's singing it's last tones I'm left in alone in a fog of disappointment...
Summary
After I've calm down the ocean of feelings within me, I come to the conclusion that the third piece in the Psychedelically Yours-series comes like a drink with different tastes. The disc's opening with familiar tones whom we all recognize and associate with Parvati, and then it delivers two negative surprises who doesn't feel like something I associate with Parvati Records at all. The mix up is then followed by a flipped out track from Ohmgnome, followed by three tracks who runs me over, all of them, three times in a row. After that, it's left some space for some playful ?rebrojoy and then the rope is cut by a total disappointment, a sleepwalker who did both wake up on the wrong side of the bed, as well as it dazed tried to charm the listener.
This release does not keep the flag high enough for Parvati, and I'm putting the disc back in it's cover and put the CD back in the collection with a disappointment in my heart. I do think that those who are not that into Parvati and it's previous releases will like this release, but for a fanatic lunatic like me, this is just simply not enough. Three-four good tracks on a CD who's armed with nine deliveries is just not enough. But do not end in despair. The Parvati factory is going to release both Para Halu's album as well as Naked Tourist's hopefully by the summer, and this is something I look bright upon during bitter moments as this.
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