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Le Lotus Bleu
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R.A.M – Efficient Chips [Nexus Media]
R.A.M stands for Rampant Angry Men & is composed of Scorb (Yod Onsen) + N.R.S (Lek Black) Efficient Chips is their debut album mastered by Artifakt.
Tracklist :
1. Hash Brown
The track starts on an ambient opening feeling. Little by litlle an hiccuping lead emerge from the background to really reveal itself around 6’00 (it’s like if you wanna sneeze during 6’00 & uncounsciously you hold yourself. To be true my brain focused immediatly on this tone, nearly occulting the rest of the track’s structure although at start (at 1’45) it isn’t very perceptible.
A very special song with a weird feeling all over but which is very catchy.
2. Coming Back
Some Industrial tones seize of Coming Back, you have understand that we are now in a darker-lashing atmosphere. A strange twisted-muted voice (around 3’00), confers some mischievous feeling too in a brutal psycho environment ; normal don’t forget the Rampant Men are Angry …
3. Retard
Always wanted to have a call to a Rampant Angry Men (check the character on the cover to have an idea to what they look like, indeed seems they’re hybrid made of the aries’s shape coppled with the green colour of an alien) & listen his weird voice? In Retard your wish is fulfiled ok, whaou great isn’t it, but it’s possible you’ll encounter some psychopath musical intereferences during the conversation. Beware, all is weird here from the sound of the dial when you composed the number phone through the connection’s ring to the time delay (which means ‘retard’ in french) to get someone answering (not before really 3’35),beware !
4. Onion Rings
Some angelic vocalizes begin the tune. The rythmic is stomper with a melhancoly feeling with a small cosmic muffled touch happening at 1’45. The atmosphere gets more mysterious with the break at 3’00 & remains after , the climat evolves into more tense aspect ; Onion Rings is more feely oriented than previous ones.
5. Beer Nuts
I dig less this one, except the plaintive lead in the background at 4’00 that i noticed, the rest of the track is quite indifferent to me, pleasant to listen but not as entertaining as some other songs.
6. Deadly Nightshade
Come-back to some more brisk production, Deadly Nightshade without doubt is the most technoished influenced track of the album in my mind. You can check it by the rythmic, the hypnotic fast groove provided, & the use of cutting tones.
7. Dreamcatcher
This is a topical stuff, i mean Halloween is the 31 October & the track’s atmosphere is perfectly part of this party. It seems the dreamcatcher grab here a tormented dream here.The sweet melody contained in the intro & outro is very cinematographic as the global production by the way.
8. Sausage & Mashup
There’s something totally different in Sausage & Mashup,some fairy magical, paradisiac moments(like discovering an hidden fresh grotto with lake) unexpectedly alternated or combined with industrial tones. I think i’ve never heard something like this before, something that everybody should really experienced at least one time, sweet but worth enjoying it like life.
9. Ram Dub
Like if it was necessary, R.A.M want to proove us once again their musical diversity with some kind of crow flighting over your head (after 2’00). This sweet dubby production keep a close lead that the one used in the fairy parts of Sausage & Mashup, so it’s very easy to penetrate Ram Dub just after, like if it was its extension.
Highlights :1,3,7,8,9
When a heavy psychedelic trance band like R.A.M posses some classical music influences through harmonies it’s at the same time rare & nice to notice consequently also really interesting.
9/10 recommended
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Memory Loss
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Posted : Nov 1, 2004 16:09
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What a CD..No Words At All!!!!!!
Fav - Hash Brown,Retard,Dreamcatcher,Ram Dub!!!!!
What a Great CD By Scorb & N.R.S..
Very Nice Cover Also!!!
Keep That Way R.A.M & Nexus Media!!
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bully aka (raveoholic)
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Posted : Nov 1, 2004 17:27
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Amazing stuff, a lot of psychedelic sounds in this album, super concept and a brilliant cd.
Gonna look out for more of the R.A.M stuff.
well done guys 
keep rocking!! 
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Nemco
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Posted : Nov 1, 2004 18:25
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Got it, love it.... Nice cd here with loads of freaky full-on stuff going on...
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Moksa
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Posted : Nov 2, 2004 00:04
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This is a great album!!!
My favorite release for the year
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-=Psy.Fraggle=-
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Posted : Nov 2, 2004 11:58
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been waiting to get may hands on this... !
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jaramogi
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Posted : Nov 2, 2004 12:25
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great album!!! |
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Stash
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Posted : Nov 5, 2004 12:02
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these guys have stunned me!!!!!!!
all the tracks are amazing and tell a definite story
man this cd rox 
well done RAMPANt angry men
good luck for the future
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psyreviews
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Posted : Nov 5, 2004 19:07
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review from www.psyreviews.com
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Efficient Chips
Nexus Media
Crikey. Scorb and NRS decide to get together and, instead of calling the project Chummy Folk Singers In Real Ale Cardigans, opt for Rampant Angry Men. This particular vibe is well-served at the moment; crunchy, deep music seems to be where we could be at this winter, and about Israeli time Israeli too. Hash Brown crashes in like a rampant bishop on buy-one-get-one-free altar choirboy day, and Coming Back takes a harsh and grating bottomend, with layers across the top piling on perfectly. A lot of this album works like a more energetic x-dream, with that total energy that picks y’up by the scrotum and flings you at the wall. Retard is a good case in point: utterly delectable – picks up, drops in with some amazing looped vocals that sound like I might be hallucinating them (and this isn’t even on a big rig)… Onion Rings opens with a pleasant vibe which it squeezes in a vice of hard kick and rolling bass, holding back on the violence, before Beer Nuts’ caustic and whirling mentalness. Just where do they get this energy from? One suspects they’re angry about something other than tottenham’s weak start to the season. Deadly Nightshade is unbelievably phat, with a capital pee aitch. There’s technoid perfectionism here that would make hawtin blush, and once again their little production special-moves add another dimension – noises float around you, delayed kicks throw you off, atmosphere builds seemingly of itself. Dream Catcher is an utter belter. A Halloween-meets-Jean-Michel-Jarre intro gives way to a shifting, deep rhythm section which drives it along into a truly classic and loveable stompathon. Class. Sausage & mashup is more of the same, and with Ram Dub they close things in more of less the same way that a lot of albums chucking in “the slow one” at the end do, perhaps a throwback to the days when disco’s finished with Spandau Ballet’s True, or maybe not. Digressions aside, this is great. Fast, furious, and fully psychedelic.
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Posted : Nov 8, 2004 05:48
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Great Album!!! One of the best albums of the year... Very Fulloner
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lokus
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Posted : Nov 9, 2004 13:57
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a masterpiece...
looking forward to the nrs album!
boom
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ps: y trance?
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Mat N
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Posted : Feb 16, 2005 15:00
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if i had heard it 2-3 months ago, i would have probably name it as the best dark trance act of the year (along with Kindzadza). smashing release, all the tracks are great, but Retard, Onion Rings and Sausage & Mashup stand out as masterpieces (and i don't think i'm exaggerating). truly recommended!
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Dj Chris Planet
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Posted : Feb 16, 2005 17:27
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This is a great album and its dark but not messy as some dark music can be.
My personal favourites are coming back ,sausage and mashup and dreamcatcher all being very strong powerful tunes.
Great work you RAMsters.
Also the RAM dub is a great chill tune mixed by Mike
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kajola
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Posted : Feb 16, 2005 21:10
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yeah, verry good work!
one of my favourites of 2004.
high production level, the sounds are not so crowded like in a lot full on numbers.
thumb up for this work!
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