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Kino Oko - Lost Entertainment
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PRAECOX
Bigwigs
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Posted : Jan 15, 2006 20:31
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this album soundz like nothing else.
strongly shows that trance music doesn't have to be "copy paste" music. it can be emotional, personal and brave. it can explode like water source straight from the heart.
if i were dead i would sing with those birds in the sky...
  "Soft as possible" - Morton Feldman
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Daniel Roeth
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Posted : Jan 17, 2006 23:03
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Amazing workmix.
Best H&H release. Indeed. Go Poland! Go! 
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klaxer
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Atari power. Yes. |
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Psychedelic_Mustache
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Kino Oko - Lost Entertainment
Artist: Kino Oko
Title: Lost Entertainment
Label: Horns and Hoofs
Catalog: H&H CD 005
Released: 2005
Cover: http://tinyurl.com/aj4nj
Tracklist:
1.Born Without Soul
2.Metalic Mista
3.Pasyonata
4.Hippie Bones
5.Colors of Black
6.Pan Prophet
7.Atomic Corner
8.Industry of Broken Parts
9.Well Done10.Dead Birds In the Sky
11.Man Upon The Rainbow
Kino Oko is Grzegorz Magnuszewski, perhaps best known for being part of Bigwigs. This is his debut solo album, released mid-desember last year on Horns and Hoofs. The label really suprised me with Idea FX earlier last year. After a few offerings I didn't really like, this was highly enjoyable... Thus I had hopes that this would live up to the standards of the above mentioned compilation.
Let's have a look at the tracks....
01: Born without a soul
The album starts of slowly in a pretty and dark atmospheric way. It's quirkey and weird, and throughout the introduction you get hints to what you are about to experience. It slowly builds and squeaks around, and although it's all happening at a pretty slow bpm I can see this working both in the sofa and on the dancefloor. I've seen this album reffered to as "retro" an this track really brings out the child in me. If you've played Comodore64 and know how a sid-chip sounds you'll know what I mean. For me this is like the ultimate feel-good track... Awsome opening!
02: Metallic Mista
On "Metallic Mista" it all gets kranked up a notch, as this is slightly harder than the opener. It's got a pretty haunting bassline, but for me this is most of all about atmosphere and groove. It strikes me as a rather cinematic piece of music, which is only amplified by the somewhat charicature-like sample uttering the words "Casino royale!". Oh...and did I mention how utterly groovy this is? Yes I did, didn't I...Well, It's worth repeating!
03: Pasyonata
Pasyonata opens the way I like my psy. Melodic, atmospheric and spacey. That's not to say this is anything like any other melodic psytrance you've heard lately(or possibly at all.....). The playfull melodies, the naive bass, all those weird samples...It all just seems to fit so perfectly. I bet if you just played each element alone this would sound extremely simple, but put together there's a complexity to this that should also appeal to the psyheads... I really have no clue about what to compare this to...It's good though...It's really, really, really, really good!
04: Hippie Bones
With "Hippie Bones" it's time to turn all that energy towards the dancefloor. This is a housy sounding corker, where the main focus seems to be on percussion. One could be fooled to think that this sounds just like any other track you'd find while hopping around the comecial clubs...It's not entierly true, though, as this as that little extra "edge". Things are tweaked a little more, the atmospheres are more trippy and the basslines are better. This isn't my favourite track on the album, but that really doesn't really say much...Very nice!
05: Colors of Black
As "Colors of Black" opens the mood shifts dramatically. As we start off we're thrown deep into Idm-landscape with strange braks and an eerie atmosphere. As the main beat kicks in, I find myself wondering if I'm all of a sudden listening to hallucinogens mi-loony-um, as I think the beat sounds pretty simular. The simularities end there, however, and on top of this trancey and hypnotic beat he continue to paint his idm'ish soundscapes. Is it any good, you ask? Yes, kids - This is what music should sound like.
06:Pan Prophet
"Pan Prophet" is another one of those very groovy tracks on this album. The first few minutes is mainly pretty hard percussion together with some pretty drifting and atmospheric synthsweeps. It works really well, and gets your head nodding really good. Then he pulls one of the oldest idm-tricks in the book. He adds a single-tone-extremely-high-pitch-bleeeeeeeeep, causing some severe pain to your ears. Well, thats not the entire trick though, the hard part is to remove it at excactly the right moment. And boy, does he ever manage to do this! It's like a ton of weights is lifted from your shoulders, and I'm willing to bet quite alot on this being extremely effective on a dancefloor. The last few minutes of the track is marvelous, no complaints!
07: Atomic Corner
This is one of the "harder" tracks on the album. Well, hard is the wrong word offcourse, this album never really turns hard. It's a very playfull piece, lot's of small melodies drifting around together with a whole lot of effects and weird noises. It's highly organic, and as other reviewers have pointed out before me it sounds more analouge than alot of music comming out these days(This is a prominent feature of the entire album by the way). The way it shifts in mood, from pretty dark, to plain weird, to fun and even towards a bit "scaryness" towards the end just adds to my admiration and appreciation. Great!
08: Industry of Broken Parts
This far into an album such as this, you often get the feeling that there will be no more suprises. Kino Oko however, does not seem to stop and pulls out yet another rabbit from his hat. This stormer of a track is one of many favourites here. It's atmospheric to say the least, constantly changing and morphing. The great hypnotic bassline together with all the other bubbeling makes this truly outstanding. It's like it's litterally bubbeling over with life...Excellent!
09: Well Done
All the tracks on this album could well have had the title of this track and gotten away with it. Yet again Kino Oko proves on "Well Done" that he has a remarkable understanding of music. This is something as seldom as an über-funky trance track! Elements involved are a bassdrum you haven't heard the like of since the 1990's, a mixture of instruments such as a real bass(Sampled or played I dont know - but it ceirtanly works!) and something that I'm not sure what is. Could be a synth, could be a guitar. Whatever it is - it's cool. Well done!
10: Dead Birds in the Sky
This track starts very mechanical. Imagine the diciples of Optimus prime having a linedance-session. It's all rythmically driven and pretty hypnotizing. One third into the track we move over into more atmospheric territory, and a child-like vocoder-infected voice starts singing "dead birds in the sky". From this point on and out its all about naive fun, couppled with massive amounts groove and harmony. Another sweet track!
11: Man Upon The Rainbow
This album has been so much about fun and playfullness, and why finish it any other way? "Man upon the rainbow" is synthesizer-heaven, and on any other album this would have been utterly wrong. Here it just seems to find it's place among the other tracks, and allthough it's not really my favourite here it's pretty damn good!
Final remarks:
I've had this album for almost a month now, and I must say - it's holding up extraordinarily good! It's pretty much been my soundtrack to 2006 so far, and I just can't seem to get tired of it. It's got this really nice timeless quality to it, and find my favourite tracks shifting from day to day. Compared to for instance Idea FX(Which I liked a lot) I enjoy this much more. If this progression continues I can't even begin to imagine what the next thing H&H releases will sound like. As mentioned, I've had this only for about a month, but it's been a long time since I've been as excited about a trance-album as I am about "lost entertainment". In my book this is one of the top releases from 2005....Highly recomended!
Tomas(Psychedelic Mustache)
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Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/ajj6t
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Discobole: http://tinyurl.com/9wwr7
Juno: http://tinyurl.com/bln7d
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PKS
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Posted : Jan 26, 2006 11:46
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Kino Oko is a solo project by Grzegorz Magnuszewski from Poland, most known for being a part of Bigwigs and Tromesa. Here he delivers an album on the russian technotrance label Horns & Hoofs. He also compiled a compilation for this label in 2005. He has always released highly experimental stuff, and that’s what we get here too.
Kino Oko "Lost Entertainment" Horns & Hoofs 2005 (HHCD005)
1. Born Without Soul
2. Metalic Mista
3. Pasyonata
4. Hippie Bones
5. Colors Of Black
6. Pan Prophet
7. Atomic Corner
8. Industry Of Broken Parts
9. Well Done
10. Dead BirdsIn The Sky
11. Man Upon The Rainbow
The music Kino Oko delivers here is pretty hard to classify. Here we get a lot of variation all the way, from experimental down tempo stuff to psychedelic vibes on broken beats to techno influenced trance and melodic parts. We also get some industrial EBM influenced music, such as on track 2 (Metalic Mista). Totally twisted voice samples and sounds makes this album to a pretty psychedelic journey. It’s nice to hear so much creativity on one album, because this is absolutely one of the most creative albums I have heard lately. For some people, several of these tracks might become too weird, but there should be something for many different tastes in this album. My favourite track here is track 10 (Dead Birds In The Sky), which starts like a drifting techno track, and turns into a beautiful, floating hard trance alike track after a few minutes.
This album is absolutely recommended for those of you who are seeking something experimental and different from most music being released these days. Here we get variation, tons of creativity and something quite unique all the way.
PKS
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CHILL TRIBE
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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Justin Chaos
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Posted : Feb 18, 2006 22:54
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Inspiring album for me, I would like to say thanks to the artist for this wonderful masterpiece...it's gonna take a while before I stop playing dead birds in the sky, for instance.
Thank you Kino Oko.
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tokyoeye
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Posted : Mar 2, 2006 15:03
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@aje
shut up Aje....
And stop poor coments like this, fucking bastard....!
A big fist to your ass from paris !!!
take it easy
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Sorry 4 this true off topic..
Yes, the Kino Oko album is pretty good !
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Rui Ferreira
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Posted : Mar 2, 2006 15:53
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On 2006-03-02 15:03, tokyoeye wrote:
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@aje
shut up Aje....
And stop poor coments like this, fucking bastard....!
A big fist to your ass from paris !!!
take it easy
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Sorry 4 this true off topic..
Yes, the Kino Oko album is pretty good !
Tokyoeye
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i am with you Tokyoeye! Fuck Nazis |
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s@tanboy
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Posted : Mar 2, 2006 20:28
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Bloody tasty tunes! |
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krelm
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Posted : Mar 3, 2006 04:28
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On 2006-03-02 15:03, tokyoeye wrote:
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shut up Aje....
And stop poor coments like this, fucking bastard....!
A big fist to your ass from paris !!!
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Looks like somebody needs to learn about the beauty of PMs.  Did subtlety and tact pass you over at birth much like intelligence, or did you just choose to ignore them?
Twat.
Regarding the Kino Oko album - I usually find the albums that aje gets excited about to be the ones that expand my musical limits (in a good way), so I'll definitely be checking this one out....especially since I just got paid. I heard one of the tracks from it a couple months ago (also thanks to aje) and really dug it, so I think the rest of the album will do my brain some good. Now where the hell can I order it? 
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psypilot77
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Posted : Mar 10, 2006 00:45
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Amazing release, simply one of the best and most psychedelic albums released for long time.
Favorite tracks:
Metallic Mister
Dead Birds In The Sky
Man Upon The Rainbow
Industry of Broken Parts
amazing artwrok too, essential disc for all real psytrance collectors, very rare content for today.
Respect Kino Oko and all at Horns and Hoofs Crew!
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wizzbiz2005
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Posted : Mar 10, 2006 00:49
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My wife took this cd from me and she is not giving it back. I guess it should be a realy good one. |
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KINO OKO
Bigwigs
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Posted : Mar 10, 2006 14:46
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great!
undeniable great news!
when the women like music it is straight sign of full victory....
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PRAECOX
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Posted : Mar 11, 2006 13:45
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ok, guys. it's 3 months already that kinooko's album has been released.
and u know what? it's time to tell u a short funny story about this album.
kinooko tryed to release it more then year. none of "well known" psy trance labels wasn't interested at all! they answerded like: "it'too much something in your music wchich doesn't fit to the something what defines our uniq label style known as Big Something" or "i donno what is this because it doesn't sound like The KillerCopy" or "i'm sorry but my left ear is little to small for your music" etc. etc. etc... blah blah.
after a few months the artist can askhimself "what is wrong with my music?" but it's not the right question. the question is where the F**** those A&Rs lost their psychedelic ears????
fortunately not everyone. Alex Boschke is one of them. he has taken decision in a one day. his reaction was very close to yours reviews - spontaneus joy.
so guys thnx these ppl like him and you are - we can buy a cds wchich are great and diffrent then all the rest.
all the best and enjoy this release
j
"Soft as possible" - Morton Feldman
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pr0fane
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Posted : Mar 11, 2006 14:17
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Funky, psychedelic, groovy, uplifting, deep, retro - in short, diverse, interesting and marvellous!
My favourites are "Born Without Soul", "Pasyonata", "Hippie Bones", "Colors Of Black", "Pan Prophet", "Well Done" and last but not least the amazing "Dead Birds In The Sky" and the Ticon-on-acid-like "Man Upon The Rainbow". DJ pr0fane (Iboga Records) | Multiphase
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