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M-Field ~ Current Of Life CD [Psybooty Records USA]
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MissRobin
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M Field - Current of Life
Release date: January, 2007
PsyBooty Records of San Francisco has been sculpting the face of the American progressive psy scene recently, and its latest release by one of their foremost artist projects, M-Field, pushes even their envelope. "Current of Life", M-Field's latest collection of funky four on the floor grooves, draws from all flavors of house, trance, and tribal world beats and will be sure to heat the senses of beat enthusiasts from clubland dancefloors and outdoor massives to home stereo systems and headphones alike this winter. The artists of M-Field put a lot of emotional and intellectual involvement into their sounds, and have been tearing it up at parties and studios from one coast to the other, and "Current of Life" is the apotheosis of their collective experiences. M-Field's and PsyBooty's album is a must listen... fresh, raw, and emotive, "Current of Life" is an electro-spiritual treat not to be passed up !
Sound samples can be found here >> http://www.triskelemanagement.com/promotion/current_of_life
Track by Track:
Foundation
Jay and Rob open up their album with an eight-minute laid back breakbeat session. Highlighting sultry, filtered electro bass-tones and groovy, intricate percussion work, "Foundation" is very immersive... Melodies flit about and disappear when needed, and no sound goes undone. A great intro track to what lies ahead in the M-Field idiom!
Current of Life
The title track of this album is aptly named... it indeed has a motion and flow of its own. The thick, organic bass-line pulses and plays at your brainwaves, with plenty of lonely, eerie UFO-landing sounds to set your mind afloat. Feral, alien sounding and very highly danceable, this is the sort of progressive music not to be confined indoors.
Progressive Evolution
A funky bass and subtle phasings within the ever-evolving percussion signify the meat of this third track. Between the pleasing background congas and the building synth rhythms, the whole arrangement feels abstract and tribal. There's some great slicing work in the dissonant background static, but when the melodies start falling on your ears like waterdrops, things really get sensual and flavourful!
Morphotronic
"Morphotronic" starts off slightly more up-tempo and a shade darker than the pieces before. Saturated with drum sounds of the world, both ancient and modern, with a hint of industrial for flavour, M-Field raises the level with this one! Much like the rest of this album, the sounds are clean, squishy, and live sounding, an audio entity attempting to communicate.
Punctuated Equilibrium
Following the trend of "Morphotronic", the fifth track of the CD comes at you faster and more menacing. Warped percussion practically bounces around your head and the bass is crouched low and growling. The primitive sounds at the beginning seem to refine themselves as the track goes on, gaining culture and a "disco" character, with some especially interesting percussion and synth swirlings towards the end!
Conceptual Thought
This piece comes at you from the musical midsection, but before too long, Jay and Rob throw in a nicely thumping kick-drum to help your feet get going. The rhythms descend like a musical staircase and the great tension-and release moments and unexpected changes really build up the energy in a way that so many progressive psy tracks nowadays are simply lack luster at.
Unified Theory
M-Field supplies just what this album needed to continually and perpetually raise the vibe! Neatly acidic with some greatly placed stabs and harmonies, these two make this track deliver! Great for elevating those outdoor full-moon sets, along with the others, "Unified Theory" is best heard outside. Depth and atmosphere pervade this piece of music and guarantee a smoothly musical ride.
World Soul
Now that M-Field has you hanging in the outer reaches of musical orbit, "World Soul" drifts into play... the airy pads sweep around you like cirrus clouds while the bassbeat forumulates leisurely to carry you on its current. This piece seems to specialize in sounds which are easy on your ears, and other senses. Appropriately placed near the end of the tracklist, "World Soul" winds you down nicely!
Memory Traces
At once a great lead out track to what has been a fantastic saga of a trance music soundscape, "Memory Traces" leaves you with a chunky trip-hop breakbeat to enjoy... sinister bass hollow vox pads and psychedelic acid squelches and computery bleeps and bloops are masterfully placed and simply sound great. This is a downtempo track that is different in all the right ways and offers the truest peek at the musical potential of the two artists of M-Field!
Reviews:
"After two solid compilations, of which the second – ServeEm2wice – received notably good reviews from the media, San Francisco based label, Psybooty, release their first artist album in the form of M-Field.
With several solo and collaborative projects under their belt M-Field serve up a slab of 9 groovy, percussive laden compositions. Kicking off things is Foundation a teasing break-beat openener that swirls around not quite getting out of the starting blocks and could easily be the closer to the album or a party.
What follows is eight 4 to floor 4 phat progressive tunes laden with swirling synths, groovy melodies and that spongy production style that seems to be Psybooty records signature.
Far from simple, Current of Life is an intricate collage of melodies and counter-melodies that build and build in a most hypnotic way offering the listener a cohesiveness package of tunes ranging from 130 to 136 bpm. Overall it’s an album that is well produced and is quite mellow and deep. It’s not always that dance friendly but certainly great for home listening and would suit a more chilled out dance-floor or for tired legs deep into a festival.
Fans of Psybooty Records will not be disappointed as this seems a natural progression from their two compilations. M-field certainly have their own sound choosing not to ride the electro bandwagon nor the traditional proggy style that is currently quite popular......" Reviewed by Dave Mac for BPM Magazine, South Africa
We are looking for quality promoters and production crews worldwide to host M-Field CD launch events. We can also offer a PsyBooty Label party. If you are interested, feel free to contact robin@triskelemanagement.com or david@psybooty.com to discuss what’s on offer.
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PsyBooty Records | http://www.psybooty.com |
Exclusive worldwide distrubution through Arabesque mark.bedford@arab.co.uk | http://www.arabesque.co.uk |
Exclusive Digital Distribution by INgrooves | http://www.INgrooves.com |
US Distribution by Future Octave | http://www.FutureOctave.com |
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DJ Buju
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Sound Surgeon
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wake up USA
waiting to hear it!
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DJAmanita
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Posted : Jan 3, 2007 18:19
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This is a very nice release. Excited to pick it up. |
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David Justin
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rob-ot
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Posted : Jan 4, 2007 04:44
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Thanks for the feedback and support everyone. Much love.
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ND
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Posted : Jan 8, 2007 05:03
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Looking forward to hear it, liked your works on the compilations!
All the best
ND
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MissRobin
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Posted : Jan 22, 2007 22:08
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Current of Life is out now. Get it from the major online music shops 
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David Justin
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Posted : Jul 9, 2007 20:43
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Hey All,
The M-Field album, “Current Of Life” on PsyBooty, recently got a glowing review in Performer magazine. For those of you not familiar with the magazine, Performer is a very respected, highly read US based mag that deals with multiple genres of music, but mostly directed towards indie, rock, bands, etc, maybe independent music in general. Doesn't deal with electronic music so much
That said, it's pretty awesome exposure for the album, and cool to see it getting noticed outside the immediate trance music circle.
Have a read here: http://www.performermag.com/wcp.recordedreviews.0704.php (scroll down to the review), or just read the text below…
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M-Field's first full length is a nine-song album that does exactly what it should: deliver fresh new dance songs for the masses that still love pure, electronic dance music. The album opens with "Foundation," an airy song filled with nu-skool break beats and soft synths that permeate throughout the track, giving it an ominous air. This is the type of song that helped international superstar DJ Sasha develop his signature style. The title track is a trance-thumping anthem that leaves behind all the silly cheesiness plaguing the genre, and instead slowly brings the listener into a world that is purely electronic but with a heart - albeit, a very dark heart. "World Soul" is a track that any big name DJ could use as an opener to a set. But the standout track happens to be the very last song on the album, "Memory Traces." This down-tempo thumper could easily find itself being used for any number of movie soundtracks and is in fact eerily reminiscent of music from The Matrix. M-Field are an excellent production duo making electronic music that is sure to make waves across the scene. Their style is unique and one of the most creative, raw and compelling to come out of the North American trance scene as of late. With this release, they are easily positioning themselves for great things to come in the future. (PsyBooty Records)
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-Casey P. O'Neill
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Another great cd from Psybooty!