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Still recovering from the countless hours of partying Parvati's last release provided us with, the curiosity to see if they can outdo themselves overcomes the excitement of receiving fresh new stuff on the mail. Why? Well, Psychedelically Yours 3 was one of the albums of the year (and believe me, the list ain't that long) and, although the tracklist on Psy Stories looks quite promising, I'm a bit reluctant about it. Don't get me wrong, at the time I'm writing this I haven't even heard one second of the album, it's just that I find it quite hard for this album to beat Psy Yours 3. Nevertheless, I'm quite used to be surprised by the label.
Before I get too far ahead of myself, let's quickly look over the cover artwork. Well, Parvati decided to go for the traditional Jewel Case, which is not exactly making wonders, but kind of works out, since it goes with the whole underground look and feel of the album. Those accustomed to Parvati's releases will certainly not be expecting the cover of the album to be hanged on a wall of Musée du Louvre (pardon?), which is not to say it looks ugly, it's just not artsy. It tries to give a visual representation of the audio contents of the album, but it still looks like someone's been messing around with Ultra Fractal too much.
Alright, moving on. If you take a closer look at the tracklist, you'll find there's a brand new artist in there. His name's Stephanus, but he calls himself Red I Jedey, which I must admit is quite a name for a psychedelic artist. We'll get there in a little while, but this little note stays: it's not that usual to see brand new artists get released on Parvati. They usually go for the more experienced artists, those who either have made a name for themselves out there already, or have at least released something on any other labels in the past. Either this guy's quite good, or he knows someone inside Parvati (hey Giuseppe, do you have any cousins named Stephanus?). Sheer idiocy aside, let's get this thing rolling.
01. Mussy Moody - Magnetic FX
Alright, open way for miss Mussy, the vietnamese lady who could (and certainly would) kick some chemical butt any time of the day. Dark psychedelic could use a feminine touch and, although this is not the girl to turn it on its head, she's certainly a major help. In charge of the opening track, Mussy did her job, but without making a huge entrance. Soft kick and an hypnotic bassline are in order here, and if there's one thing Thy (real name) seems to hate is melody (not anything even close to a melody at sight here). Which is not to say the track lacks harmony! Everything works out quite well, but there are some seriously boring effect lines in the middle and it takes forever to get serious. Closer to the end of the track, at around six minutes, the track comes to life, but it still isn't enough to make a stand. Sounds like a very shy Parasense, and the final result isn't everything it could have been.
02. Hokus Pokus - Zim Zalabim
What a fucking great name track. I just love it! I remember a commodore game with the same name, which brings a smile to my face. Plus, I got home quite hammered last night and I had a lot of fun pronouncing it. Anyway, the only thing remotely connecting this track with the previous one is the hypnotic bassline and weird scrathcy FX lines. Everything else sounds quite different - a change for the better, I must say. The tripped out, in-your-face part of the track doesn't start until around four minutes, but it only stops at the very last minute. Everything works out well, effects play with each other a lot and the end of the track certainly sounds like it stops only because it has to. Smart move by Hokus Pokus.
03. Jahbo - Chronic Mnemonic
Check it out, if it isn't Jahbo. I think I may have said it in the past, but it's never enough: this guy's music is fucking great! And I mean it not in the sense that it's great to piss yourself drunk to it, it's for real. It gets to me, it hypnotizes and can produce quite a high all by itself. Now, this track is one twisted, distorted, insane, holy-fuck example of what Jahbo has to offer. It's powerful, energetic, rarely stops and it keeps on evolving, even when you think it's reached its peak. Rolling bassline, quite a twisted break in the middle, and pure madness from the first to the last second, specially near the last - the track closes with a touch of genius, which brings back a good ol' Ocelot from the time in between his first release and the album (blargh!). The after taste is quite good, and we're all expecting new shit from this guy. Also, we're praying for this guy to come pay us a visit again next year - Boom Fest awaits you.
04. Snap, Crackl & Pop - Where is Pop?
Where is Pop indeed?! I got this really weird feel listening to this track, something I had never experienced before. Somehow, this track doesn't sound like a collab to me, it sounds more like the compression of two very different tracks into one. While the first half of the track is clearly influenced by Kindzadza's scratch-in-the-head style, the second half has no evidence of something sounding remotely close to Kindzadza. Not that the final result isn't, uhm... let's say "good", but you can't help but feel ripped off because the album tries to sell you a collaboration when it deffinitely doesn't sound like it. The track starts off nicely, with Kindzadza's heavy russian style. All different elements of the track are really well balanced and those scratchy effects actually sound pretty good over the melodic bassline, to my surprise. After around four minutes, sounds like Grapes took their work home and got so excited with the track that they couldn't wait for Kindzadza to finish it. It sounds like Grapes from here to the last second, so bye Pop. Either way, it's a nice blaster by the Kellogs elfs (go check Wikipedia) - not quite what I was expecting from this collaboration, which is the single fact why I like it. On a completely unrelated note, does anyone else get the feeling heavy psychedelic music is getting less interesting as days go by? No? Ok then.
05. Grapes of Wrath - Goa Helvede Til
Pass the initial fourteen seconds of thinking "Hum, what the fuck does that mean?" and we're off to something big. It's Grapes once again, this time in full style. Heavy dark ambient right at the beggining, taking you back to those good times spent dipped in shit on the forest last summer. Music to be listened outdoors on a very dark night. The track has some of the most tripped out effects of the album (so far so good) and the overall feel of the track has nothing to do with the previous effort (you forgot about Where is Pop? by now, haven't you?). There is no real peak here, the entire track keeps on evolving, yet always following the same basic structure - no melody, no harmony, no order. There's a little sequence that almost sounds like a synthline at around six minutes, but you gotta pay close attention to notice it. Which is to say the track's raw, pure psychedelic music, the way I like it and the way you probably do as well, if you're familiar with Parvati's previous stuff.
06. Kinjahjah - What Has Begun Cannot Be Stopped
Alright, Kindzadza's back, this time with Jahbo, whom's music is fucking great (am I repeating myself? Ah, who's counting...!?). Ok, I can only type so fast and the time it took me to write that sentence was the time the track needed to get serious. This track is a lot less ambiguous, this is Kindzadza alright! Weird underwater organic synthlines, combined with some serious scratches who are sure to leave some scars on the dancefloor. Not much drum work here, just as we should be expecting, and a lot of synth and FX work. There are some arrangements here and there that clearly show evidence of both Kindzadza and Jahbo's progress over the past few years. Also, the sound is crisp and clear, the bass stands out at all times, but always gives room for the effects to move around and create a trippy contagious ambient.
07. Derango - The Arm
At the time I'm writing this, I have Derango's debut album next to me, waiting to be reviewed. I just got it today and, since I haven't heard it yet, I'm curious to see what damage they can do. Alright, the track starts off real nice and, without listening any further I'd take a risk and say this is going to be one of the best tracks on the album. It's kind of a shot in the dark, but my 11th sense tells me so. Three minutes into the track and so far so good, I'm getting into it and there's a break. Trippy shit on this break and, once it blasts, I think you gotta fall in love with it. These dudes are deffinitely doing something in the scene, and there's some freshness in all of this. Minute six marks the beggining of the best sequence of the track. It has changed basslines a few times already, and the way they're evolving from boring to really pumpy and dance friendly makes the entire track quite interesting. Pressing the tempo button, I feel shocked: I'm already on minute seven and there's still 2:49 minutes to go. These dudes certainly have a lot of stuff on their heads, and I'm glad they took it all off and slammed it on a fucking huge track. I'm seriously looking forward to that review.
08. Strangers - Moruka
Wait a second, I know this name. Oh yeah, from Kindzadza's latest album. Well, I certainly loved the collab they had on there and I expect nothing short of greatness here. Good start, it deffinitely has the happiest bass on the album, and the initial sequences remind me of a Seroxat in an initial phase. This album was already begging for a happy, good-mooded track, and this one certainly does the trick. There are some really fun lines near the peak of the track, with a snare on top that sounds like the army's in town and they're about to kick some ass. The entire concept of the track is interesting, with bass changes every now and then, but without any real harmony at all. Too bad it eventually gets boring and not even the occasional breaks, arrangements and bass variations can save it. Overall, it's an ok track, although it sounds like you don't need to be an absolute genius to come up with it. It wouldn't deserve a spot on any of the latest Parvati compilations. On this one, it fits.
09. Red I Jedeye - Mind Expansions
Alright, we've reached the last track, the one I was talking about in the introductory notes. It's already a difficult job to close an album like this, made of nice surprises but also big disappointments, and when you're a newbie it gets even more painful. This guy better have something seriously good to show, or the album goes down the pipe. Kind of a clumsy start: everything's out of order and too much in your face, although there are these interesting arkanoid-like effects I seriously liked. Those fit well, even over the ridiculous bass variations - a huge, huge cliché. At a time when we needed some freshness, this track doesn't really come with originality written on it. It keeps evolving in a very clumsy way, and some of the effects at three minutes are totally out of the random. It's really hard for me to say it, but this track comes as a huge disappointment. If there's one thing this album seriously didn't need at this time was a track as amateurish as this one. Effects just come out of nowhere, without any real sequence or purpose at all, and the final result sounds more like a medley of 15 different tracks all crammed into one bassline. I will let my personal opinion get in the way of an impartial review and clearly state: bad move.
Well, this album is far from Parvati's high standard, and I wouldn't trade it for one track on Psy Yours 3. Still, it comes real close to being a solid release; in a time when the scene is getting gradually more and more boring, it's deffinitely not a waste of money and I'd reccomend it over 90% of the rest of the releases this year. On any other label it would be a nice surprise, on Parvati it's just a regular album
All these tracks has that typical deep, rolling bassline, which sounds like a button is turned on, and it rolls through from beginning to end. Above we get tons of twisted, psychedelic sounds, swirling and jumping. A lot of the sounds might appear very random, but it actually builds up in most of the tracks. Pure night time vibes all the way.
Favourite tracks here are Mussy Moody with his bubbling vibes, Jahbo with his dark, pumping, pure madness and KinJahJah, which is and interesting collaboration between Jahbo and Kindzadza, here with a rolling monster. I often find these darkpsy tracks a little bit too equal to eachother, but it seems like Parvati has managed to collect a list of pretty nice variation within this style here.
This tenth release from Danish Paravati Records is among the best releases I have heard from this label so far, so if you are into dark, twisted, night time madness, you should probably check out this compilation.
I love Parvati. But whenever a new CD from them arrives, it´s not without trepidation that it gets slotted into psyreviews´ limited edition, industry-only, gold plated CDJs. I always get this scared feeling, that the universe might shift and warp around the music, and never be the same again, and what if it turns my head into a toaster, or what happens if the world suddenly has to walk around with their genitals on top of their heads. Quite. Anyway, Psystories is pretty nice but it´s far from the label´s best. Mussy Moody´s Magnetic FX kicks off in true parvati style, it´s mental and it´s angry and it wants to know what you had for breakfast - and it wants to know NOW. Plenty of up-down rhythm on this, true stuff for peak time forest shenanigans. Hokus Pokus cause my psychiatrist to rub his hands with glee with Zim Zalabim, a frenetic and pacey bit of oops-too-much-ketamine. The ever-gnarly Jahbo doesn´t fail to disappoint with the wonderfully-titled Chronic Mnemonic; sawcut sweeps and swoops keep it moving, until an incredible slowdown and break interrupts, before flinging you off on one of the tightest rides on the whole album. Snap, Crackle & Pop pull a blinder with Where Is Pop?, a shifting and sifting tune that´s got more different personalities than a busload of bipolar penguins, and with a drop that´s so involving and beefy it´s - dare I say it? - it´s killa. Judging by Goa Gelvede Til, Grapes Of Wrath are still pissed off. This one sodomises you violently, gives you a dirty sanchez, wipes its cock on your curtains and then messes up all your vinyl before leaving the door open on its way out. Harsher, it´s frowny and crunchy stuff. A collaboration between Kindzadza and Jahbo ought to be a bit special - but with KinJahJah´s What Has Begun Cannot Be Stopped it doesn´t really live up. It´s technically fine, and the noises there are nice and they all move around in a nice way. It´s fine, but there´s no energy, no spark. It doesn´t grab the attention like, for example, Derango´s The Arm, one of his best tracks yet. It builds and thunks just like you´d expect, then has this crazy, delectable, fat midline slapped right across the front of house. The break is cheeky and stutters you back into bassline heaven (or hell, depending on what kind of day you´re having). but at the end of the day, it works because it´s damn full of energy. Sparkin´ everywhere. It´s just stunning. Strangers´ Moruka is cracking, it´s got a sort of daylight-coming vibe. you can see the night start to turn into dawn on the horizons with this one. A more upforit sound, but still gnarly. Finally Red I Jedeye´s Mind Expansions is a more experimental track, slightly less danceable and less focussed but as far as listening goes, you couldn´t hope for a more engrossing track. All in all, this is pretty good stuff from Parvati. You won´t fall out of love with them on this, but as psyreviews has said before in recent weeks, the whole dark thing is starting to grate - Psystories isn´t up to the high watermark Parvati releases that really astounded, but it´s a good slice of fodder for the nighttime DJs.
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I got some constructive points to expose (at least i hope they´ll).
Let´s begin with the matching between the calling of the compilation & the cover´s design plus the musical content : i think to very good this name unfortunatly it doesn´t fit for me with the 2 elements pre-quoted.
I mean there´s some funny entertaining tracks nevertheless majort part are more connected with energyzed groovy-hypnotic & high twisted psychedelic productions (tracks 1, 2,3) than real psytrance stories telling to my neurons.
Generally i don´t focus that much on the design but here except the inside parts with tracklist & the fractal, the result is awful to my eyes, i don´t catch what it´s suposed to represented (jungle ?), & furthermore nothing matching with the Psystories concept.
That´s a pity coz by the past the parvati cover´s design used to be better.
Now focusing deeper on the music, i won´t repeat twice what i explain before, i´ll add that i frequently notice the tracks have wicked creative intros, creating great atmospheres, feelings but it stops here, as most of the artists aren´t able to keep going on it & evolving from this beginning , it´s the case here with track 2.
Exposing constructive points, means for me to tell & explain all aspects negative & postive ones.
I´ll give a counter example of all i just said extract from Psystories: Snap, Crackle & Pop - Where is Pop ?
That´s by far the best tune of this compilation, why ? It´s simple, all the constructive remarks i´ve made before, habe avoided here :
-it starts a way in which one it evolves & finishes,
-the creative ideas aren´t gathered only during the intro but scattered all along the track,
-it´s at the same time psychedelic, funny, entertaining & danceable.
And there´s something very specific from Parvati´s sound that you don´t find too much on others psylabels these recent days : they´re developping a own sound based on high twisted psychedelic sounds with colours & always with an happy feeling, so it´s THE proof that you aren´t obligatory forced to be dark if into Psycho sounds (too much darkpsy labels coming out these days).
I forgot something typical from Parvati´s sound : the strong tasty & powerful tones aspect from which you could be reluctant or addicted, one of the best illustration here is the Red i Jedeye, Mind Expansions, if you make some efforts the first time after you´ll only pray by this one, in this style you can add tracks 5,6&8. And concerning the Derango´s one, it´s more connected with the darkpsy side.
Otherwise but has some importance, the mastering is good (done by Drix).
Himalaya : 4
Second Altitudes : 6,8,9
Third Altitudes :5,7
Allright people, here's my review originally posted at Mandarin.nu.
One thing though, wasn't it a thread about some "rules" when posting in the reviewsection? My memory pops something to me about that one shouldn't write "looking forward to hear this" in the review section but in the promotional section instead. What happen to this? But it doesn't really matter in this care, because everyone who is looking forward to hear this piece will for sure enjoy it.
Allright let's go people...
Danish funkadelics are once again the subject for dissertation and this time we're going out with the 10th (!) release from our neighbours in Aarhus. The disc's ingrediences are strongly dominated by danish origin but there are also elements of Russia (a huge bridge between Russia and Aarhus on track four and six), Greece and Sweden (the lads of Derango should have their full length album out in stores any day now, released by Inpsyde Media).
The artwork is carpentried by Zoolog and offers some oldschool fractalspirit, and the artwork is generally smooth and goes along well with the Parvati style. Enough talking, let's take a testride of the CD.
01 Mussy Moody Magnetic FX (08:16)
Psy Stories begins with Thy Trung behind the controllers and the first part of the track contains a few elements that moves my mind to the masterpiece 'Thorazine' by X-Dream by some reason. Here we get eight minutes in the Parvatisolarium and all Parvatifans should definitely recognize this and feel like home; twists and bleeps, digital playground and a good dose of psychedelics. The track makes the CD open in a good tempo and I actually think of old tracks by Jahbo at times when I hear this.
02 Hokus Pokus Zim Zalabim (07:59)
Hokus Pokus are Anders Eskildsen and Christian Kaas Andersen - a duo who's doing a cosy presentation of their music here. This track does well belong on a CD like this, and the tempo is a bit laidback while we are moving through creepy environments, surrounded by something that gives me a some kind of industrial feeling. This track really raises the flag of interest for future Hokus Pokus deliveries - keep an eye on this project ladies and gentlemen.
03 Jahbo Chronic Mnemonic (07:55)
Jahbo don't require a closer presentation. Funky, twisted and trippy just like we love to hear Jahbo rock. There are a few elements in this track whom I really connect well with and I do think that he has really succeded with creating a plot throughout the track with well organized elements who plays with each other and in total are creating a superb picture that really smells gunpowder by Jahbo. If you like Jahbo's previous stuff you will most likely wish to hear this track more times.
04 Snap, Crackle & Pop Where Is Pop? (07:13)
The fourth Parvatidose offers a constellation between Kindzadza and Grapes Of Wrath. The track's first part feels a bit more dominated by Kindzadza with aggressive leads in true Kindzadzastyle, and then it develops into a segment where it feels like the both projects are getting equally amount of space to freak out to. The later part feels a bit more playful and GoW-oriented, but I'm afraid it's not really the way I like to hear GoW (read my binary lips: Transmitting Raw Data ).
05 Grapes Of Wrath Goa Helvede Til (06:44)
Grapes Of Wrath keeps control and steer us onto track five, and this performance sounds a lot better than the previous track. Changing between funky and driving, lurking and surprising - just like we wish to hear it when GoW are in control of the music. This track are definitely one of the better I've heard from GoW in a long time, and they have really succeded with cradling the listener onto a trip who's completely nonpredictable. One can never know what is waiting around the next corner.
06 KinJahJah What Has Begun Cannot Be Stopped (07:03)
Here Kindzadza and Jahbo meet up to together mess up your senses. The aggressive part of Kindzadza are uniting with Jahbo's funky surprises and playful soundgames. This ingredience are for sure one of the most tasteful ones so far on the CD - a goldmine for those who have a special liking about just Kindzadza and Aarhus stuff.
07 Derango The Arm (09:41)
It might look like localpatriotism are shining around me when I write these lines about Derango, but this track is unquestionably first class. Here we face fresh soundscapes, surprising moments and trippy manipulations on all senses. It is difficult describe a track like this, but one thing could be granted and that is that Derango tend to mess up for the listener in a positive way - always. One can never know where one's heading and it's kind of the same thing about GoW and the fifth track, but this is just one gear above all that. Loose yourself in Derangodance!
08 Strangers Moruka (06:44)
It turns into a bit of classic drive with track eight due to kind of straight basslines, aggressive leads and noncompromising breaks. This will definitely shake the dancefloor smooth, but it just doesn't sail all the way reaching the dock at my heart even though there are quite a bunch of elements that are good enough to experience a past midday in October like this one.
09 Red I Jedeye Mind Expansions (07:26)
The CD ends up with Stephanus Smit and I have to admit that the later part of this track are superior in comparison with the first one. The first part offers a good dose of twists and sweeps but after about three and a half minute into the track we're switching gears and it is time for a straight bassline and a driving groove. Also here there are a bunch of elements that I like, but I still have a hard time connecting with this track. The track are casted though and it rounds up the disc in a decent way.
Summary
I'm surrounded by a weak ambivalent covering when the CD reaches its end. The CD are for sure not bad at all and there's a bunch of candy here to experience and explore even though not all might be something I can connect with. This is a disc that definitely works equally good at home as on the dancefloor and in general I feel that I can "approve" this disc from the danish madnessfactory. I've read some reviews claiming that this would be the best CD so far from Parvati, but I don't agree with that statement at all. As I previously mentioned, I approve this release for sure but there is still better stuff out there from Parvati than this one.
Favorites: 2, 3, 6(!) and 7(!!).
Gob smacking trip tales
Parvati Records from Denmark is out with their 10th CD-release! A psychedelic monster compilation showcasing mostly Danish artists collaborating with the usual hypertrance suspects. The quality level is always very high with the Parvati label and pretty much everything they´ve released has been essential. Can they continue raising the standards of modern psytrance? Well let´s find out.
Let me take you thru the tracks
#01: Mussy Moody Magnetic FX
This stompfest is kicked into gear by the Danish producer Thy Trung. One of the few female underground producers. Just as her track on the Trishula compilation Ignis Fatuus, this is dark, gritty industrial psytrance with a rolling bassline and an overall bleak, metallic surface... There´s a whole lotta acid-tweaking going on here making this very psychedelic, but somehow kinda minimal too. This track works wonders as a trip-tool, but I´m not sure it works quite as well on the dancefloor. A decent track!
#02: Hokus Pokus Zim Zalabim
AFAIK this is the debut track from the Danish producers Anders Eskildsen & Christian Kaas Andersen. The intro is very cool here the guys are playing around with stereo FX and I can vividly imagine how trippy this would sound on a big-ass sound-system. An eerie, haunting atmosphere is slowly developing for almost 3 minutes – and even after that, the track never goes full-blown… Sure, there’s a bassline and tons of acid-lines – but still… This is subtle, held-back psychedelic trance – bubbling with joy and keeping a dark, murky atmosphere intact… Spooky, mesmerizing, trippy... What a great debut! Sweet track!
#03: Jahbo – Chronic Mnemonic
“What the hell is this? It’s my media-induced, paranoid-delusional nightmare!” Danish producer Roelike Jahbo is pretty much the personification of the infamous Århus-sound… He has released a number of benchmark tracks under his own name as well as a bunch of collaborations with other artists – Like the brilliant Meteloids/Grapes Of Wrath album Tits On Fire released last year…Anyway, this track is more subtle psychedelia… Trippy, underground night-trance – drenched in digital farts and electronic burps – and enough twirling acid-lines to crack a zillion smiles… Check out how the track totally changes direction after the breakdown… Instantly shroom-friendly and pure dancefloor fodder… A true psy story! Brilliant track!
#04: Snap, Crackle & Pop – Where Is Pop?
“Take her to the Racoon City Facility, then assemble the team. We are reopening the Hive; I wanna know, what went on down there!” Time for some psychedelic cereal! This is a collaboration between Grapes Of Wrath (Jacob Skouborg & Morten Wurtz) & Kindzadza (Leo Greshilov)… Forged in the deepest underground, this is an epic constellation – of gargantuan dimensions! This is bleak, hard-hitting, skull-crunching, night-time trance… Darker than dark and psychedelic as fuck! A thousand shades of black + and one mean-ass wookie that has a thing or two to say… A very, very unique track and another really awesome psy story!
#05: Grapes Of Wrath – Goa Helvede Til
Here’s more Jaffa & Monno mayhem… The title is a Danish play on words that can’t really be translated into English… Something like ‘Goa To Hell’… Ah well, this is more distinct Århus underground music… Fast-paced, darkish, industrial hyper-trance…I think this might be the fastest track here – for a while, it gets insanely fast… Reaching psy warp-speed! Ho – ly – shit … How’s that for full-blown party-music? Eat your heart out – this is pure evil! Almost too evil – yikes! But a sweet track nevertheless…
#06: KinJahJah – What Has Begun Cannot Be Stopped…
“What has begun cannot be stopped. The time for this world is over!” Here’s another very interesting collaboration – this time between Kindzadza (Leo Greshilov) & Roelike Jahbo… A match made in hell! Fuck yes; this is what I’m talking about… Crank up the old trip-o-meter; pound a dozen shrooms and slurp a handful of microdots – and you’re still nowhere near the sound of this psychedelic bombshell… Pumping night-time trance with chain-sawing acid-lines and enough gore to scare the living shit out of anyone… And it can’t be stopped! Save yourself – this track will utterly annihilate your soul! …An amazing track!
#07: Derango – The Arm
TuMuLT is the name of the upcoming debut album from Swedish shroom-lords Derango (Jens Eriksson & Ola Eriksson)… Surely an album to look out for, as pretty much everything I’ve heard from these guys have been pure gold… And this track is no exception – this is text-book Swedish forest-trance – complete with tripping trolls and wicked pixies… This is perhaps not as dark as the previous tracks, but it makes up for that in its off-the-chart trip-factor… This is mushroom-trance if there ever was mushroom trance – psychedelic down to the last second… Perfect for tripping! Great track!
#08: Strangers – Moruka
“And now for something completely different!” And here’s a psy story from Greece – told by Stefanos Gkogkakos, Pr. by S.Gkogkakos & Ilias Besios… This is Halloween trance – spooky to the core and dark as always… The electronic signals and twirling melodies are both annoying and relentless – but they work wonders and will cause havoc on the trance floors… I really dig the pounding qualities in this track… But I guess, this is not as much a psy story as it is a pure, banging dancefloor anthem… Fuel for the feet! Nice track!
#09: Red i Jedeye – Mind Expansions
We end the journey where we started: In Aarhus, Denmark. This is a new project by Stephanus Smit… The intro is pure old-school acid – add some nostalgic computer game samples – mix with a mean-ass Århus-bassline – stir well with even more acid – and you’ve got another psychedelic stomper! The shiva-samples are perhaps a little over the top, but this is still just as psychedelic as they come… Fuel for the mind! A fine debut and a fine way to end another brilliant Parvati compilation!
Klonk! (The sound of my jaw dropping!)
Damn – just when I thought that I’d heard it all, Parvati pulls out another ace… This compilation is so fucking sweet I don’t even know where to begin… I mean, just look at my indication of favourite tracks below – that’s all tracks except one! Yes – this *is* the best thing Parvati has ever released – it even tops the brilliant Psychedelically Yours compilations + the sweet GOW/Meteloids and Para Halu albums… And that’s saying a lot! It’s essential!
I really like how we get a mix of trip-friendly and dancefloor friendly tracks here – the flow is close to perfection and the amount of awesome standout tracks are simply impressive! There’s enough psychedelia to go around twice here – and anyone who’ve lost faith in psychedelic music needs only listen to this compilation to regain faith… I mean it – this is a stellar compilation that deserves to sell a billion copies! The music is very close to perfection and the fractal artwork may be simple, but instantly cool… Connoisseurs of trippy, mind-expanding, psychedelic music should not be without this CD… I will not hesitate to give this my highest, most deep-felt recommendation… An essential purchase! …Enjoy!
Favourites: 2, 3(!!), 4(!!), 5, 6(!!), 7(!!), 8, 9
Parvati Rec. keeps going, and going, and going... This time the larger percentage of acts here are Danish, which of course makes sense because the compilation is from a Danish label. Affirmed names and brilliant newcomers enter an acid alliance to deliver the soul-shaking goodies, all brand new, exclusive and of course previously unreleased! Strong hard-hitting psychedelic rhythmnoisy tracks along some more atmospheric but vicious works to provide a complete release with an increased bpm that makes this compilation a fresh stompfest for today's psytrance generation.
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