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Antix - Wanderer, Iboga rec, 06/007
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IRRATIONAL IMPULSE
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Posted : Jul 5, 2007 13:02
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Maybe they dont want to achieve minilogue or extrawelt levels Tasos. Maybe they are just happy to reach a level of their own. Or maybe levels just dont really matter. Antix is music with a soul. Give it some time. Just because they didnt wholeheartedly follow the latest trend it doesnt make them less of a trully special act! Anywayz, matters of taste so discussion can go on and on. I am just happy that people like minilogue, antix and extrawelt are part of our little insignificant scene!!!
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Tasos_NOtrea
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Posted : Jul 5, 2007 14:18
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Glen.C (Iboga Rec)
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Posted : Jul 6, 2007 01:06
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DJAmanita
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Posted : Jul 9, 2007 08:32
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It's all part of one story. The Antix story. I love this chapter. Im not going to compare it to other chapters as it is all building to somewhere, something and this is where it is now. As long as the story keeps me glued to the words im reading (metaphorically speaking) and wondering where it's wandering off to next then I am pleased.
These are very talented guys and this is a fantastic cd. |
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Kidpsy
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Posted : Jul 9, 2007 09:13
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for sure !!
fantastic cd ! |
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malavasi
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Posted : Jul 11, 2007 02:58
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Antix style, and still getting good everytime...
cheers
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Pavel
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Posted : Jul 17, 2007 20:35
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The Kiwi Strom brothers who are better known as Antix are back after 2 excellent artist albums and one Remixes album that was personally a bit of a let down. Obviously the expectations were very high and considering the fact that Antix changed their style every album I’m sure had a lot to expect. “Wanderers” presents us a bit more minimal and gloomy side of Antix, much like the debut album but perhaps a tad deeper and on a more subtle side. As the album starts the first thing that you’ll notice is that the brothers indeed re-invented their sound. Their trademark complex percussion sound is still there but it sounds much more minimal a bit like the recent D-Nox & Beckers album but I think they’ve done a much better job in creating complex grooves with very few sounds. The first 2 tunes are a clear example of the new Antix sound and if you liked their previous output you’ll feel home here. Circade, the 3rd time goes even deeper with lots of fun sounds in the lower frequencies, the stuff that shakes festivals in the afternoons. BHD (4) takes us into more Electro’ish realm and for some reason it didn’t really work for me.
Flock (5) is in the same vein and it's a little too long and also the melodies sound a bit too cheesy for my taste. Blew (6) was previously released and it has the more familiar Antix sound and although I wasn’t much impressed with that track before it still delivers and sets the mood for the last part of the album. Seven Seas (7) is another Electro’ish tune that for some reason reminds me of Beat Bizarre circa Lewd days. Probably it’s the vocal samples in the back. The album finishes with Forward and it has that big Antix reminiscent sound that I learned to love in their previous album. Although it provides a very decent closure to the album, for some reason I expected something in the lines of the Fjord track from the previous album.
Conclusion: Although my huge respect and appreciation for the Antix boys for their previous artist albums and countless compilation appearances I can’t deny the somewhat empty feeling that I’ve had during not a small part of this album. It clearly lacks the coherence and story telling the previous ones had. By no means it’s not a bad album and even not an average one. Antix can do and did much better and the standards that were set previously were probably unbearable. Still, a few excellent tunes and a bunch of average ones. Fair deal to me.
Favorite tracks:1!!, 2!!, 3!!, 8!
Score: 7.5/10 Everyone in the world is doing something without me |
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diskOtek
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Posted : Jul 18, 2007 11:51
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it's a great album!no wannabes' in here..just their style taken further!
the first 3 tracks are amazing and the rest are really really ok for me!
big up!
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Dovla
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Posted : Jul 18, 2007 12:57
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@ Pavel ...thats pretty much what I thought too until I heard the album another 4-5 times, now I'm loving it all the way...it's all in the details 
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amphiton
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Posted : Jul 19, 2007 04:03
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Lull > TCD > Wanderer for me.
It's still Antix, it has it's magic, but still disappointing... I love minimal, I love Antix, but this doesn't work, in my opinion.
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Rui Ferreira
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Posted : Jul 19, 2007 18:58
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this album is the most psychedelic work i listened from Antix and reminds me the vibes from lull
amazing work |
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aje
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Posted : Jul 20, 2007 15:26
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I was a big fan of Antix first two albums, but I can't really get into this one. I really don't know where everyone gets the minimal vibe from, cause too me it sounds like a mesh of various progressive stylings, with a hint of the typical Antix flavor, except that track Circade.
Maybe I just don't get it, but there are great ideas sprinkled throughout these tracks, but then they are not followed through. Take the track Flock for example, theres that great "dubby hook" that has great potential, but then it gets lost in the build-up of the track and doesnt do anything. Then in the end these techno'ish leads come creating a very "Berlin atmosphere", but when it gets going they are taken away. In the end, I have heard some great ideas, but I keep thinking "this is it???".
Same with Circade, the only track that IMHO ventures into minimal territory. When I first heard this track, for the first two minutes my brain started doing backflips and screaming "FUCK YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" but then:
Nothing.
The idea is just going nowhere. If you compare this track with regular minimal techno, the "experts" just make a lot more out of their few ideas. But usually they don't even sound half as good as Antix production-wise, but that's a whole other issue.
Well, these were just two examples. In general "Wanderers" is just a little too bland for my taste. I feel like there are just too many flavors thrown into the mixer, and out comes something that tastes like everything and nothing. Or, to be mean, compare it to mixing colours. If you mix all colours together, the result is brown 
Anyways, thats just MHO, there is no reason you should listen to me, I have a small penis, so you never know what I'm trying to compensate that deficiency with.
Check out my album: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/gay-satanic-hippie-tiefenrausch |
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aden
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Posted : Jul 20, 2007 18:05
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Anyways, thats just MHO, there is no reason you should listen to me, I have a small penis, so you never know what I'm trying to compensate that deficiency with.
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At least you have humour!
Reading the above comments makes me add these considerations:
-I don't perceive any discontinuity between the first two albums and this last instalment. Their fat trademark sound is recognizable right form the first bars, and they have taken their production level even further, integrating what the guys have been listening to lately, and which is in the air.
- I really don't feel that "cheesy" (Pavel) applies well to this subtle and delicate music, melody wise. Flock for ex. has a naïve melody, but it's deceptively naïve. We should remember that we're talking about heart-felt music with human experiences behind the tracks, i.e. that most of the time there are personal stories behind the music. Personnaly, notwithstanding the "stylistic" issue, this is something that really oozes from their music, and I am very sensitive to it.
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Tasos_NOtrea
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Posted : Jul 20, 2007 19:50
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Posted : Jul 23, 2007 20:38
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are u trying to become a iboga dj ?
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