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Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious - Live Listening Review
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Sputer
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Posted : Apr 20, 2007 12:54
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On 2007-04-20 12:20, Nathan wrote:
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read it . .
well i still love them . . they have thier specail music ya not always trance but who says I love just trance music?
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Elad
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Posted : Apr 20, 2007 18:01
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while here peaple try to figure what infection they have in their mushroom , 12 years old know all the lyrics by heart.
i like the trance tracks , tho nothing new under this sun , same old... not same as old-old , which i would rather 
as general music of the other tracks , i think most of it is complete crap , and i like lots of not-trance stuff.
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salvia_divinorum
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Posted : Apr 20, 2007 18:46
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On 2007-03-21 11:25, duodenumz wrote:
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On 2007-03-21 01:49, Timetwister wrote:
Funny how they say they don't want to be associated with the psy/goa scene anymore, but still appear at all the big psy festivals. Guess it comes down to going where the money is at.
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Yes, they are happy to appear as headliners at real Trance events, yet they try to distance from the scene. Promoters won't stop booking them, as they will always attract uneducated "electronica" fans to the event. $$$
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come on don't say this. even though i'm not a "goa dancing freak" i don't consider myself to be an uneducated electronica fan since i've been listening to psytrance and going to parties for quite some years now, and i still enjoy this album (not as psytrance though) - i think it's all about taste, and you can't say yours is better than anyone else's. same goes for a lot of other people here that keep saying that people who enjoy this album must be out of their mind.
of course it's very different from the others, but at least they're making something different (which is a lot more than most artists do) and they're making something they like, if they're not so much into the kind of music they used to make, why should they keep making it? if they have the money/time/power to do whatever they want, why shouldn't they do it? i'm sure they'll always find people who will like it bc we're not all the same.
i personally like this album. i have all their albums and i must say i like it even more than the last one. at first i didn't like some of the tracks, they sounded very weird to me, but after a few listens it started to grow on me. it's not psytrance, it's electronic music, it has some psytrance tracks, some chill-out, some "other stuff", but in general i think all the tracks are very well made and some still have the old feeling, or at least a new feeling that is still good. i like suliman, special place, and change the formality especially. and i also like those sung tracks like in front of me or forgive me. sometimes when i'm feeling down listening to this album cheers me up, so thank you infected mushroom for still making beautiful music at least to my ears
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Posted : Apr 20, 2007 21:40
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salvia_divinorum
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Posted : Apr 20, 2007 21:54
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i do
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WereBear
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Posted : Apr 22, 2007 06:21
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In my opinion, only shiva shidapu would exist. nothing else had catch my attention, even though many trancers liked the full on albums.
The vocals are an instant bad trip. If they sound bad on the album, i can't imagine listening to him live... some bad karaoke night that would be.
As a non psy album, its crap. That way i can start comparing them to big electronic musicians like underworld and prodigy... and they are so far away to getting something mainstream and with quality.
Artists that start to get greedy mostly ends up with nothing. But as being infected mushrooms and the album being such a crap as it is, i can only see raves full of people screaming they're names. bigger shit means bigger crowds.
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Dark_Dork
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Posted : Jun 4, 2007 10:45
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As a psytrance album, it sucks.
As an electronica\dance album, it sucks.
Basically, this album sucks.
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Anak
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Posted : Jun 4, 2007 14:58
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On 2007-03-21 01:49, Timetwister wrote:
Funny how they say they don't want to be associated with the psy/goa scene anymore, but still appear at all the big psy festivals. Guess it comes down to going where the money is at.
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Yes, they are happy to appear as headliners at real Trance events, yet they try to distance from the scene. Promoters won't stop booking them, as they will always attract uneducated "electronica" fans to the event. $$$
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come on don't say this. even though i'm not a "goa dancing freak" i don't consider myself to be an uneducated electronica fan since i've been listening to psytrance and going to parties for quite some years now, and i still enjoy this album (not as psytrance though) - i think it's all about taste, and you can't say yours is better than anyone else's. same goes for a lot of other people here that keep saying that people who enjoy this album must be out of their mind.
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i think duodenumz is right here. but mabye phrased a bit wrongly. they do attract a lot of people that are not uptodate with their newer productions, not necessarily people that are uneducated in electronica. at least in here, a lot of people still think they're the top notch of what psychedelic ever has delivered and still is delivering, and, therefore, pilgrim to every festival they're booked for. and that's just not true at all, because it is no psytrance.
in the end, they should do what they like, and i wish them good luck for everything they do, but i think it's plain wrong when promoters book an act just for the name although even a def would hear it's totally inapt for psychedelic trance parties. i wonder, would they also be booked for psytrance festivals if they started to produce happy hardcore under the sanme moniker? Anakoluth A Pebble in Your Eardrum's Shoe since 2001!
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Acidhive
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Posted : Jun 5, 2007 00:25
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On 2007-06-04 10:45, Dark_Dork wrote:
As a psytrance album, it sucks.
As an electronicadance album, it sucks.
Basically, this album sucks.
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I've said this before, but more elaborate. Nice to see you've summed it up 
Infected wants to distance themselves from the psyscene? Fine, it's like someone else said: now we can compare them with acts like Underworld, and they are sooooo far behind them it isn't even funny.
IMO this is music for drugged up kids or people with very bad taste. (note the IMO, that says it's MY opinion, doesn't have to be yours so don't go on defending / explaining your opinion to me, I basically don't give a damn)
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Mahamudra (Sagiv)
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Posted : Jun 6, 2007 09:40
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3 things i can say about this album:
1. production = brilliant
2. originality = Indeed!
3. contents of the album = brilliant and original
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Posted : Jun 6, 2007 11:21
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It sucks so many donkey balls that I decided to buy it Now I got all IM releases! The thing about IM (Erez's touch) is that no matter how terrible it might be, it always has that feeling that Erez provides. There's always a special touch that you just can't help not like. As I see it, it's a piece of album that’s nice to have in my collection to listen to once in a while. Have only heard 'Becoming Insane' so far, so this should be quit the surprise I think. 'Becoming Insane' is some how addictive (I got great music taste imo, but Erez has a feeling that get's to me) The track sucks, but as mentioned above, it has superb listener value in production and detail. Only thing is that it (in parts) reminds me of that horrible Eminem track named 'Ass Like That' .. brrr.. Erez got so much talent, that I'm very curious to see what he brings to the table, now and in the future I know I mention Erez a lot, but honestly, I don’t know what Duvdev brings to the table except commercial items and a bad trip voice. .. What I'm wondering about except all this is 'Crystal Method', I talked with them for a couple of minutes last year at a festival and they told me they would work with Infected on some tracks or something. I was sure this album would contain some Crystal partnership, but no. Anyone know when they will release something together? Maybe the 7th album will be a huge surprise. And maybe, just maybe, we'll get a INSANE Shiva Shidapu album in 2012.
Anyway, I bought the album like I did the others in the past, and I know I won’t regret it, no matter how disappointed I'll be (like IM The Supervisor' which is a very pale and empty album release)
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Pt.
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Posted : Jun 7, 2007 08:58
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Wow. I got it at the post office yesterday. I've listened through it once so far, and let me say. This album is something else. It sucks! It's so terrible (first listen) I couldn't believe my ears. As you can see on my post above I had an intension to listen to it with wide open and non judging ears, but it just let's me down so hard. It's cheesy, simple (at times it's embarrassing because of it's simplicity) and worst of all. It sounds very middle-eastish in that 'bad' jalla way, hard to explain, but some will understand. Let's take 'Artillery', it starts out good, the rapper from 'Swollen Members' has a real nice flow to his rhymes and it's all good. Then someone (Is it Duvdev) comes in and just a) ruins the track with terrible vocals and melody, and b) the track it self just dies, the production, the feeling, it all just flushes down the toilet as a crappy track. It’s sad, because it started out good enough with some Hip-Hop. And that sad 'I want to rip my heart out and cry big crocodile tears' track 'Forgive Me' hahaha, Jesus won’t even forgive you. Suliman sounds like a piece of music “art” that has soiled it’s pants with a big pile of shit! ‘In Front Of Me’, yes, often the truth lays in front of you, so use your nose and smell the joint, it just doesn’t work, other bands, yes, like Ie. Linkin Park does it much better. Erez, your production is as always lovely, but what is this album? Except some of the more dance floor oriented albums, you fail miserable, it sounds like a bad trip, and the production is as it was made by some newbie with fancy equipment and tracker. It smells of cheese and amateur (jalla jalla anyone?). I'm so disappointed it's not even funny. Btw. And the "heavy" metal guitars, tsk tsk, not good. I honestly hope that some of the tracks will grow on me with time past, but so far. Terrible, absolutely terrible! As a experimental electronic album, it fails deeply to deliver. This album is just stupid, it’s not even that original, except for those electronic noises here and there which sadly, fails! I was hoping for something a bit more “groundbreaking” then this. It is not good. My impression lays mostly on the more experimental tracks, and I didn’t listen to the last three tracks (which I read is supposed to be much better). So take my complaints with a pinch of salt, but do not discard them, because there is a lot of sad truth in my negative words. Erez, Duvdev. Good luck in the future. May God have mercy on you for your sins.
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Andrey
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Posted : Jun 12, 2007 02:04
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Nice stuff, good quality easy listening music, maybe it's not psy-trance, but I don't see any reason for not enjoying it. Somebody doing weird stuff, they doing tasty stuff. Their talent kill their "pop star" stereotype. Didn't hear all of the tracks, but IMHO it's not neccesary. It's not gonna be cult, but good background music
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Dark_Dork
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Posted : Jun 12, 2007 02:36
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Save it and listen to Frankie Knuckles.
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shahar
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Posted : Jun 12, 2007 17:55
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I must say that I came to listen to this album with a very open mind. I'm quite distanced from the music that Infected Mushroom are making for a long time, and so basically had no real expectations here.
I found a decent album, with short bursts of brilliance. There is melodic brilliance everywhere here- in every single track and song. Infected Mushroom still write amazing melodies, the kind that will make you hum to yourself all day a part of a track or a song, even if you really don't like it. The kind of melodies that will move you from the inside and touch something deep inside you (like the final minute of Heavy Weight). The other kind of brilliance is in the little details, the way they can make the most expected tricks and still totally surprise and innovate (the breaks and build ups in the trance tracks).
So why is this only a decent album for me? Because these bursts are surrounded by mediocre, and at times even sloppy, moments. And these gets exposed with every repeated listen. This is most evident in the vocals, which can get pretty horrible (the "with artillery" part in Artillery, Becoming Insane, Forgive Me). In general I can live with synthesized vocals and non professional singers- some of my most favorite bands in the past had singers that wouldn't survive a week in a singing school. But most times Duvdev just can't carry the load- you can't write pop and try to reach top levels with bad lyrics with mistakes in English (and I don't mean the accent, which I think is cool), and moments of horrible vocal work that just don't hold. At other instances the vocals are just plain unoriginal, as the rapping & Seattle-era-like singing in artillery and the singing in In Front of Me. Also while at times the use of computer generated sounds instead of real instruments is cool, at times it just sounds empty, especially if you have a background in listening to music in the same style. Just check the difference in how the guitars sound in Becoming Insane when Erez Netz is playing.
It sound like Infected Mushroom are a bit confused, they wanna do something new, but don't really know how. My general feeling is that Infected Mushroom just keep tripping themselves or trapping themselves, that what stops Infected from revealing their true potential is Infected Mushroom. In short, Infected need a producer, someone that will come from the outside and release them from their creative (trance?) prison and guide them to new territories. If they find the right person, nothing can stop them from becoming a brilliant electronic mainstream group- they have all the potential in musicality, craftsmanship and originality, and they obviously want it and are willing to work hard for it. A new singer will help much as well (but a producer will take care of it anyway).
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