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JAMES REIPAS: Uwaga [Freakdance Records 2005]
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synapsi
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Posted : Dec 16, 2005 19:12
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(this review is happily copypasted from Oztrance/Elixiria. Thanks to spam for this one)
1. We Are Not Intelligent
2. Baltic Sea
3. Righto
4. Kashahum
5. Rauma
6. Nopsakka
7. Creatures
8. Nature Of Reipas part III
9. Why Does It Always Have To Be New
10. Midnight Valssi
11. Syntikkaihme
12. Return
A day off and a new record =)
Atleast for me this was a long-awaited release, after their killer debut (s) on Demon Tea and the Lola Gain Ep on Devic Craft Cordings (rip) we are treated to another round of Reipas songs.
If you have had the chance to see them live, they are more like a traditional band than a laptop live of which there seems to be an abundance nowadays, having live drumming, percussions, guitars & bass on top of the electronic wizardry.
Like the first album, I wouldn`t go to call this trance, while many of the songs fall in the 4/4 kick pattern it reminds me more of the 2nd Rip Van Hippy Album, with those quirky and often videogame-ish sounds often heard in Finnish trance with wistful Slavic melodies (Finland is not Scandinavia, folks) not unlike the band Aavikko and echoes of Dub. The final tracks in the album also have a strange Benza-like quality that I can`t quite put my finger on.
The album gathers steam throughout its course from mellow chill-out (how I hate that word, placid and bland) through caustic breakbeats to dancefloor mayhem. My favourite tracks are "Kashahum" which rolls along smoothly, "Nature Of reipas part III" which has excatly the feel which I came to expect from them, a steady Suomisaundi number with some acoustic guitar thrown into the mix, also "Syntikkaihme" and "Return" are memorable, ass-kicking c64 rave smile.gif
I consider this a worthy successor to the Reipas discography of yore, and fights for the #1 Freakdance release spot with Luomuhappo.
8 1/2 out ov 10
http://www.freakdancerecords.net/
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synapsi
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Posted : Dec 27, 2005 15:27
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This review is originally from Psylosophy - http://www.psylosophy.com/index.php?name=P...iewtopic&p=1713 :
This sounds different...the 1st track takes me to a dark street circa 1950. The 2nd track starts off like a children's nursery ryme...beautiful and FAST. Track 3 takes me to groovy tranceville. What unusual talent! Artists taking Psytrance to another level. Track 4, music exploration. Maybe not as good as the other tracks, a bit light. 5 - Depeche Mode on Acid. You wont believe the excellence until you have listened. Electronica for people that LOVE music and psychedelica - track 6. The creatures will make you sway... A slower track, but excellent and groovy. They ask "Why Does It Always Have To Be New?". Well, new is always interesting, and if it is as groovy as this shit I don't mind. Kraftwerk getting diiiiirty. The tempo has picked up and this is sounding scary. This is beyond music and has become art. I am waiting for the bomb to go OFF! Beautiful spectacular MUSIC. Well after this experience all I can expect from you is to LISTEN. 9/10 |
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Jan 1, 2006 16:42
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Uwaga is the second album of the James Reipas finnish band composed of: Kolmas Vaasemmalta (guitar,vocals), Oksari Olevainen (percussion,vocals) & Kayab(keyboards). It was mastered by Simon Polinsky & Kayab produced an handmade & original cover.
James Reipas's sound is unique, why? Because it's a mix of live acoustic instruments & hardware synths with Midi system, furthermore musically the tracks are electic in a bald, even strongly bald style which is truely atypic for the psytrance scene. By the way when i'm saying unique sound, i'm the first convinced it won't match everybody's taste due to the bald dimension.
However, let's come back to the electic side of the album, inside Uwaga you'll be able to find electro (tracks 1,2,5,9), rock (T 3,4,7), classical music (T 10), cold (T 1,7,8) & pop (T 2,4,5,9,11) influences.
About the 2 last tunes missing: Nopsakka is the straightest suomi sound with, like overall the album, a live rythmic played & Return starts like a climatic ambient tune then evolves into more suomi dancefloor sound with soft 303 loops.
Full on's Djs & hardcore lovers pass your way  .
Favorites:2,4,5,6,8,9,10
7,5/10
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PKS
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Posted : Jan 26, 2006 11:37
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James Reipas is a group from Finland who has previously released an album on Australian Demon Tea Recordings (This Is Not In Fashion). Now they are out with a second album, this time on the Finnish label Freakdance Records, which usually release pure crazy forest trance from Finland and other weird stuff.
James Reipas "Uwaga" Freakdance Records 2005 (FDCD06)
1. We Are Not Intelligent
2. Baltic Sea
3. Rightto
4. Kashahum
5. Rauma
6. Nopsakka
7. Creatures
8. Nature Of Reipas Part III
9. Why Does It Always Have To Be New?
10. Midnight Valssi
11. Syntikkaihme
12. Return
This album is actually one of the weirdest albums I have heard from 2005. Even the home made cover art is totally strange. Most of the tracks we get here seems to have no boundaries in music style. It’s not trance, but more like synth pop without vocals, mixing in many different styles, such as polka and acoustic stuff. Most of the tracks sounds pretty simple and ”home made” to me, still many of them are quite pleasant to listen to. Pretty refreshing ideas, that could fit well on a childrens TV show, in some cartoons or maybe at a crazy vodka party in a sauna in Finland? Anyway, I had a lot of fun with this album. Simple, but funny melodies that makes you smile.
You should probably be pretty openminded to enjoy this album. Personally, I find it really fun to listen to. So, if you don’t care of musical quality, want some russian vodkapolka vibes and just want some fun music for your party at home, check out this and have fun to 80’s synth melodies and weird soundpictures.
PKS
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CTRCD01 QUALITY RELAXATION
CTRCD02 RELAXED JOURNEYS
CTRCD03 EAR PLEASURE
CTRCD04 WOMBATMUSIC - Shameful Silence
CTRCD05 POLYPLOID - Grow Your Own
CTRCD06 IAN ION - Gringo Locomotion
CTRCD07 SUNKINGS - Before We Die |
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PRAECOX
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Posted : Jan 30, 2006 12:26
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"Uwaga" means "warrning" or "watch out!" in polish:) i just courious from where is that polish word as the title?
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"Soft as possible" - Morton Feldman
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synapsi
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Posted : Feb 14, 2006 23:18
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A review from Damion / Psyreviews (UK):
James Reipas
Uwaga
Freakdance (Finland)
And then every now and again, something comes along which makes you deliriously happy. 2001’s This Is Not In Fashion was a long time ago, and back then I remember loving it and wondering quite how most psytrance could call itself psychedelic with a straight face. But maybe this is psychedelic in the same way that Emerson Lake and Palmer is; or something. Live instruments combine with midi, possibly inside a washing machine… you can’t tell, it’s that sort of album. We Are Not Intelligent is a creeping, slomo stomp knee-deep in paranoid electro. It puts me in mind of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, although with more elves than zombies. Baltic Sea is a fucking corker – sounding like Kraftwerk on finnish mushrooms. The production is pure 80s, sheeny shiney psychedelic music. It’s just gorgeous, and one I intend to play out whenever I have an excuse to do so. Rightto edges it to a more conventional psy pattern, but still maintaining this glorious electro sheen that sounds very, very good right now. Kashahum sounds like it was lifted from Jean Michelle Jarre’s subconscious while he was asleep after having a bit of a heavy K session. The sounds are just off the scale here, seriously. It sounds like the theme tune to one of those morbidly utopian post-Tron films in the 80s. Staggering. Rauma is a more stuttered approach, as though the soundtrack to Warriors was being recreated by R2D2 and his mates (they play the Mos Isely Cantina every second Thursday, 8pm till 10.) Nopsakka is unbelievable, I can’t even think of anything to liken it to. Think the digitally downloaded brains of The Prodigy and The B52’s, collaborating to make music that bits of old computers can breakdance to. Then, it turns into the love theme from Bladerunner as retold by Speak N’ Spell and BigTrak. None of which quite prepares you for the somewhat unsettling Creatures. Twisted vocal spouts twisted words, while a persistent bottomend pumps along. Screams and whistles and funk wash in over the top… it’s ker-wality, but one hopes Mr Reipas doesn’t have any children. Nature Of Reipas Part III is in a similar vein… think young Gamma Goblins on a school trip to Chessington World Of Adventures. The music shifts from quirky laugh-along-a-reipas to a sort of “house piano riff with special needs”, all gleefully sounding, like the first album did, a bit like the music on the Rainbow Road level on Mario Kart. Why Does It Always Have To Be New sounds like fin-de-ciecle, closing time music… or the end of a rather bizarre film in which Pingu and Mr Bean join the Finnish football team to thrash Brazil 16-1 in the final of the World Cup. And then things go weirder still, with the 168,000-BPM Midnight Valssi, another shockingly shocking tune that has no regard for your wellbeing, no regard for your sanity, and no regard for your Auntie, which it recently defecated on after a date went wrong. Despite this, you like it for being a manically psychedelic tune with a muted trumpet lead, a scando-folk-waltz midsection, not forgetting the thrash metal stab at the end. Syntikkaihme sounds like Finland hosting the Winter Olympics and the Reipas man in the house providing the soundtrack to some ghastly opening ceremony, meanwhile my neighbours think I’ve finally gone fully bonkers with this Clannad-on-DMT coming out my windows. With Return at the end starting out Tangerine Dream and then morphing eerily into a full-throttle electrofunk workout, you feel that something of a milestone has been reached. You won’t be able to mix it with your identikit Nanoalchemysolsticespun-mega, but that’s the point. Gneuinely psychedelic, genuinely fresh, genuinely essential.
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synapsi
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Posted : Feb 14, 2006 23:20
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PRAECOX: It is indeed taken from Polish language. I think it was Kolmas Vasemmalta who was travelling in Poland at some point and saw these warning signs ..
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