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Solid Snake - Unleashed (Tribal Vision Records)
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kikola
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Posted : Aug 31, 2009 13:12:25
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Solid Snake – Unleashed (2009/08/17)
1.Intro
2.Too Deep In Bleep
3.Babylon
4.Is It You or Is It Me?
5.The Source
6.Flum Drum
7.Orkel Shnorkel
8.Shadows (Part I)
9.Shadows (Part II)
10. Untamed
Omar Chelly is one person of the duo that formed the successful psy progressive project named “Tegma”. They've been around the scene for a while so my expectations for this project are marked high. The idea of this project is mainly linked to the old progressive style like the album “Around The World In 80 Minutes” which means one thing and that is a lot of ethnic elements. As an addition an old friend of Omar's named Anders Rosengren is at helping out as a co-writer and producer of this album.
Let us feel the freshness of this release:
A dreamlike state, with a hypnotic hook is heralding the blissful moments that await to be discovered and examined in an exhaustive manner(T1). As the fantasy comes to end it slides through the ethereal plane and thinly sprinkled drums with the ongoing sharp and flat stereo percussion kick in making us feel the spacey evolution of modern sound. The electrified glory moments remind us of the good old progressive “cheese free” stomps with the tendency towards a 303 fetish(T2). Smoothly EQed bass evolution comes like sheer fire switching the vibe, rising and falling in intensity, going from 4/4 beat to reggae, and back to the pure energy of crisp live-sounding drums, making a perfect dance floor tackle(T3). This whole album is balanced nicely, experimentation combined with experience, leads to 3-D progressive tracks on which every bit of sound is worth listening to. A harder, blacker variant followed by a oscillated and distorted murky synth is ended with a smoked out jazzy-rasta laid back tune(T4). As opposed to the epic start followed by a crisp, clear and provocative beat on which spacial effects are added one at a time and a pleasant rolling feel is presented with the flanged spooky lead that combines into a sorrow tragedy, a great example of transforming the emotional sensations into a material state(T6). An Awesome track! Nearing the end of the cd and the atmosphere is downed a bit for a pleasant and nice ride through the material(T7) but the joy ride will not finish without the distinguished scent of brewed talent. The heavily processed vocal samples add a completely different vibe into the album, we expect something more concrete, but instead we get an abstract, imaginary suffering through the simple tones of the main melody arranged and phased to form a repetitive trance-dance ethnic masterpiece.(T8). Omar and Anders thought that they haven't expressed their feelings enough and decided to make a second part of the track which in basic terms means that the colors are the same but the overall feeling changes due to the fact that the bass is chopped and the propelling dynamics are shifted towards the groove(T9).
What can I say more than it's a great listenable/danceable/tranceable album. It definitely has the Tegma influence in it but as the project name changed the music making ideas also did affecting the atmosphere making it sophisticated and I bet that it will do wonders wherever it's played.
The artwork presents two maestros orchestrating the “Unleashing” the pure force that has been preparing to be freed for a long time into the music jungle.
Favorites: 2,3,5,7!!,8!
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gutter
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Posted : Sep 3, 2009 14:21
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heard some of the samples .. really good stuff
tribal and groovy, fresh
happy to see A. into the mix, his dub touch is much obvious as the music goes on 
all the best
one of the really good ones for this year
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orange
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Posted : Sep 3, 2009 22:26
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Posted : Sep 3, 2009 22:36
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This made me fell in love again with those perfect, tribal, crystal clear, uplifting and driving Progressive Psy-Trance.
It's as good as Tegma. Can you imagine it already?
Don't waste any time.
Grab this gem as fast as you can.
Favorites: 2(!!), 3, 6 and 9.
All I can say is, congratulations Omar, Anders and Slater.
You guys did a hell of an album. |
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goaren
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Posted : Sep 4, 2009 20:03
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really surprised me... awesome cd!
looks like progressive trance is making a comeback and all this electro housey crap that people for some reason called progressive is pushed away |
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J
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Posted : Sep 4, 2009 22:16
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On 2009-09-04 20:03, goaren wrote:
really surprised me... awesome cd!
looks like progressive trance is making a comeback and all this electro housey crap that people for some reason called progressive is pushed away
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Word!
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Lomme
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Posted : Sep 27, 2009 09:32
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I got this album last week and what a pleasant surprise!
I really like the stuff Tribal Vision has released in the past but the last year their releases have been too much minimal/club orientated. So it's great to see another progressive psy release from them, more please.
Anyway, the album is very even and draws up a beautiful sonic landscape.
With intros and outros on every track it makes you want to listen to the CD as a whole journey.
I'm not gonna review every track, but my favorites are:
-Flum Drum, great spooky atmosphere.
-Shadows p.1, also atmospheric with a great vocal.
-Untamed, great tribal and quirky track
So I highly recommend this album for all the prog lovers
verdict: 8.5/10
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a3k
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Posted : Sep 30, 2009 15:08
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there are some serious music in thsi album, infact it is one of the latest albums that have left me craving for more!
quite a rarity in these days, such an album being released
not fully inovative, but with some well build ideas, and in thew overall an captive album, who will work in any situation - home, party, car etc etc 
my congrats to the artist 
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A.Rosengren
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Posted : Oct 3, 2009 22:42
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On 2009-09-30 15:08, a3k wrote:
infact it is one of the latest albums that have left me craving for more!
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Actually we have 2 more tracks coming out soon @ Iboga Records powerhouse compilations named 'Sets:11' which is compiled by no other than John 00 himself and we recently released a track at Iono Records compilation 'Sunset Delights' compiled by Motion Drive.
And there's a few other down the pipeline to early to speak about
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-Abatwa-
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Posted : Oct 4, 2009 18:49
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definetly one of the best releases of 2009. Good old progressive trance, pumpin beatz, sweet melodies, subtle not in your face psychedelia. Somehow brings back nice trance memories. Album solid overall but right now I mostly enjoy too deep in bleep, is it you or me and shadows.
8/10
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J.D. Jason
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Posted : Oct 8, 2009 20:01
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Music is really good, but I don't like project name. No sense... |
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Posted : Oct 8, 2009 22:01
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survey1
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Posted : Oct 31, 2009 13:34
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Too Deep In Bleep it's a great track.
"Solid" album |
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mk47
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Posted : Nov 1, 2009 05:45
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hey A.Rosengren , i had no idea this is your music up until now , cool , great work here , ordered a couple of copies , 1 each for me and a friend .. cheers
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shahar
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Posted : Nov 2, 2009 17:40
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Listened to it a few times today. Haven't enjoyed progressive trance like this for a while now. Nice surprise. Had no idea that our Anders is involved.
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