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Megalopsy - The Abstract Macine (Review)
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Memory Loss
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Posted : Feb 25, 2005 12:16
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Debut album by three guys from Argentina : Alejandro Santander aka Li..Matias Benamo aka z1P and Nicolas Dibernardo aka Filter.
Track list :
1. Chaos (Intro)
2. Obscure Warlock
3. Fractal Circus
4. Goblin Grin
5. Juggling Spheres
6. Pachamama
7. Monkey Supernova
8. Space Cadet
9. Devenir Cosmos
10. Cosmos (Outro)
Now for the review :
1. The CD open with a 2 minutes long intro..Kinda break beat track with spacey sounds and alien speaking or what ever it be.
2. Next is Obscure Warlock :It's not so fast tune but got some psychedelic sounds all over there..Some brainblowing pads powerfull kick and great leads!!!
3. Fractal Circus : Also not fast one but blowing check the balls in 4:00 very nice part!! until the end its build nicely with a great long outro!!
4. Goblin Grin : This is a very nice track with a double kick alot of scary FX and psychedelic tunes!! Sweet acid lines!!
5. Juggling Spheres. One of my favorits powerfull psychedelic and great spooky melo's the great way night music should be!!
The long outro in the end is like a evil story with thos pads!!! I love it!
6. Pachamama. Another powerull hypnotic night track check the FX in 4:49 very nice lines!! The track ends with some monkey voices and its leading us to the next one...
7. Monkey Supernova..Start with the last track monkey voices.But a new story.. Also another favoirt in here..I really love the kinda break in 3:40 after that a low kick is in and then its all explode like a bomb! I love this part..Until the end is keep edding more psychedelic voices FX and great tunes!
8. Space Cadet. The most not fast tune in this CD.. I really liked the sounds in 2:52 sounds like an alien speaking..Not much hypnotic but a nice one.
9. Devenir Cosmos.. My favorit in here,maybe because its the fast tune here (148).Start with a scary pad that leading you to another dimension.Powerfull kick and bassline with great pads in the backround!! check the laguh 3:26 after that the track explode and breaking loss!! great part!!
10. Cosmos (Outro)..We close this CD with 4 minutes chill outro..Another break beat..All over ther is a sweet bell that remind me a indian tool or somthing..
Overall nice debut by Megalopsy..I didnt like the long outros of each track but this is the concept!! Keep like that Megalopsy..Another thing is the cover I really love the cover!..Keep up Trishula Records!
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Mat N
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Posted : Feb 25, 2005 13:05
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Argentina on the rise! excellent debut album, built like a nice story, my favorites are tracks 5-9, but it's really hard to decide which one of them is better than the other. they are all great!
i find influences from Dark Soho (Monkey Supernova)and Xenomorph (which is a good thing!) a real treat for dark trance lovers! the best since R.A.M album. good job Megalopsy 
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bluespectralmonkey
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Trishula Records
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FrodOhm
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 17:35
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Nice debut album from megalopsy!
It didnt quite do it for me but it has its moments for sure!!! Nice all over story, well made ,good production!!
as for my favorite tracks is:
Goblin Grin
Devenir Cosmos
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Mat N
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Posted : Feb 27, 2005 17:44
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to be more specific now, my favorites are:
2- Obscure warlock- this one reminds me of the good old dark soho. at least someone keeps on with the 140bpm tech influenced psy-trance
4- Goblin Grin- what is this?! nice kick drum and very good for the dance floor. nice trio on the middle.
5- Juggling Spheres- well, this one fits to be an opening track for a set. great start
8- Space Cadet - almost a minimal track but with this nice spacey-feeling sounds on the background which really does it for me.
9- Devenir-cosmos (!)- the fastest track and for sure one that i will use on the dance floor! mind-exploding!
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P_Mac
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jaramogi
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Posted : Mar 1, 2005 17:44
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incredible release
my fav's (for dancefloor) are 5,9 - but the whole tracks a very good and sounding very unique,
!!!!really something special!!!!
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good journey |
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psyreviews
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Megalopsy
The Abstract Machine
Trishula (Germay)
I would never have really thought that hard as nails, nightmarish stuff would lend itself too well to the artist-album-as-fluid-single-entity sort of thing. But this bunch of utter psychotics from Argentina have pulled a bit of a blinder, in fact more than that: this album (divided into three movements, sort of) has so many moments that just have me shaking my head in disbelief, grinning like a buffoon, and/or experiencing a rekindled faith in electronic music. The intro, Chaos, has a great sound to it, easing in with big breaks that clear the sonic pallet and ease open the scope for the distant, racing kick of Obscure Warlock, which proceeds to quickly dip you in batter before deep-frying you with high-end mentalism. Fractal Circus is unforgiving, heavy going with a rigid groove to it that’s caustic until you can’t take it any more, at which point it breaks and picks up this noise that sounds like a fountain, coming up from the centre and cascading 303style over the edges, before the tune employs some deliciously evil alice-in-wonderland carousel melodies under scything midrange swoops to really whip things into shape. The wonderfully-titled Goblin Grin has an almost Finnish backbone to it, and is all about pulling surprises out of the hat. Great changes, great noises, utter laughter eeks from the speakers. Absolutely excellent – just indescribable, but let’s say something like “all the evil demons you’ve ever encountered are back as mascots on a cereal box, and they’re chasing you down looking to fortify you with something rather punchier than vitamins and iron”. That’ll do. The flow here really starts to work, with the track easing out into Juggling Spheres, which puts a bit more zany funk into proceedings. More like a hammer horror moment, and the drop into the final run deserves to be committed to a mental institutio n. Then, the track shifts int an actually pretty gorgeous, yet still twisted, transylvaniac breaks movement. Sounding like a completely different track, and further proof that this is designed to work well played all the way through, I mean this really is something that other artists could think of doing. It adds as a great buffer, before Pachamama thunks in, sounding all the more energised for the hiatus. Building up to a really nice and clear peak, it’s a little like it’s taken an oldskool melody and dragged it through a hellish blender. The laughing monkeys then signal the start of something sweet: Monkey Supernova, possibly the standout track here. It’s just hilarious, it picks up and then messes about and just makes me laugh… oh man. So many changes, time signatures and basslines and midsection after midsection, orchestral stuff… I mean this is just sheer genius. Sheer. Genius. Space Cadet marks the final movement of the album, Cosmos, and also suggests a more menacing turn. It’ s a less playful vibe, picking up deep atmospheres at the break, all hanging together nicely. Devenir-Cosmos has an incredibly individual sound, all high-end and but driving, a perfect way to close the album before the outro Cosmos stabs in with messed up breaks, incredibly messed up sounds, delightful movement and… my god. Just staggering. There’s little more I can say that I haven’t said already: this is a ballsy, feisty triumph of an album, utterly adorable and with a gazillion times more imagination and flair than you’ll find on most discs. It may not be your normal style of psytrance, but it’s unquestionably good electronic music.
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Posted : Mar 2, 2005 19:19
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got my copy today.. i have to say that this album is outstanding.. Really something special. New thinking and sure a perfect cd for dark nights and early mornings in a forest full of happiness!
Megalopsy sure got their own style and thats something i really like.  |
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Genetix
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Posted : Mar 4, 2005 10:29
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very nice work here. i wasd little sceptical about his release, but they overcome my expectation. very very nice work here. keep up the good work ppl from argentina
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Posted : Mar 4, 2005 16:38
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Great album , Argentina power . Strong and powerfull album . Good work mate .
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