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Sub6 - Who Need Love Songs (HOMmega)
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parapsyched
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Posted : Jul 30, 2004 16:55
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i don`t know.. is it just me ...? i find 99% of what they did totaly boring.... amazing sound great production... but waht good r they if the music is boring. guess it`s a matter of taste... but i found the album a great replacment for sleeping pills....
  if u dig deep enough u just might reach the sky...
"dream is destiny"
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Arata
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Posted : Aug 5, 2004 17:41
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Have you heard the Sub6 remix of " As a child i could walk on the sealing " ??
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Ksu
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Posted : Aug 5, 2004 21:52
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Very good album, really like it, long time hadnt heard music like this.
Perfecto!
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Basilisk
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Posted : Aug 5, 2004 23:37
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All the commercial influences on this album make me want to hurl (sorry guys - I know you're just "doing something different")... there is good style exemplified here, care taken to provide a richness of sound, and the production is of course high-value, but I'm not diggin' this album. Pass.
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Jikkenteki
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Posted : Aug 7, 2004 15:01
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Sub6 - Who Needs Love Songs
Hommega 2004
1 - On The Ground
2 - Blox Loggers
3 - Buttersonic
4 - 7th Son (Feat. Michele Adamson)
5 - Wet
6 - Droid Save Da' Queen
7 - What's In Your Mind
8 - Program Flies
9 - Out Of Serenades
10 - El Novasion (Trance Mix)
While I have heard the "buzz" about Sub6, I haven't actually heard any of their tracks besides their contribution to TIP Red, which proved to be one of the only two good tracks on that compilation. In this day of generic GMS-clones, I'm happy to report that Sub6, while definately being psy, is definately not another full on clone.
"On The Ground starts this off with a vibe that I dare say is almost a hair "progressive" in touch (those touches being the better parts of the progressive sound). Lots of cool moody noises and melodies float about creating a nice little number. Towards the end some vocals come in which took me by surprise, but once I got used to them I found the didn't really take anything away from the track. "Blox Loggers" comes in next and builds up nicely with some great low end synth burps and garbles. I'm digging this track. Simple in some ways, but of the simple but effective variety that made tracks like Infected Mushroom's "Tasty Mushroom" so good. In fact a few sounds here remind me a bit of IM (or maybe more correctly of a Nord Lead which IM uses all the time too). All in all a nice thumping track that is full but not cluttered.
"Buttersonic" starts off with nicely and brings home something I feel is a good point about Sub6. Their sound is most definately modern psy, with all the sonic hall arks of todays full on music, yet their use of the sounds is what is great. They use "all the same stuff", but put it together in a way that gives you a completely different product in the end. Futher proof that its not what you use, but how you use it. Buttersonic the track is a decent little thumper. Strikes me more as a mid-set track and not an "AMEN" number, but its still plenty good. Michele Adamson (ala Shpongle, Younger Brother and everything else Simon Posford has worked on as of late and Infected Mushroom vocal fame) returns to Sub6 with "7th Son. "7th Son" is basically a mid-tempo psy-regga track. My personal opinion of Michele Adamson is that when she is doing "pure" singing she is excellent, but when she tries to do more "modern" pop sound vocals she isn't as good. Here she is floating somewhere in the middle. The guitars that come in at around 2:30 are a great touch as are the acidy synth lines that come in. The MC action in the track I could see turning some people off, but at 4:11 its obviously a track aimed more at the "mainstream" and seen in that light it is very good.
"Wet" is about short track clocking in at 4:56 and its hard not to view it as the trance continuation of "7th Son". Again there are some sounds here that are very "progressive", but they are done well, so no complaints. There is a lot of filter and gating work here so the track floats in and out a lot. For this reason its value on the dancefloor is questionable (could be good if placed well), but its fun to listen to regardless.
"Droid Save Da' Queen" gets my vote as track title of the album. Its starts after a almost aburpt ending to "Wet" and is nice and dark, almost like good minimal at the beginning. This is a good example of how a 16th note bassline can be used well and not sound just like the same old thing. Lots of percussion and zippy flyby sounds here. The arrangement and sound choice says "minimal", yet its not, further proving that its not what you use, but how you use it. Great track.
Next up we have "What's In Your Mind", again, modern bass sound, but a rather funky bassline instead of mindless 16th note noodling. Again, sonically sparse yet somehow full with some nice acidy lines and alots of filters and long delays. "Program Flies" starts off atmospherically rather than with filtered breaky somethings that several tracks have. This was the track featured on TIP Red and was one of the few highlights of that comp for me. Funky bass lines with lots of cool sweepy tweaks, delays, garbles and chopped up vocals. Again quality stuff.
Out Of Serenades shifts out of Program Flies smoothly. It starts off rythmically the same as the bassline of Program Flies but as the filters unload, the changes in rythme become clear making for an unusually great transition between tracks. Again its a good thumper. Slightly funking bassline. Lots of atmospheric noises, acidy leads, etc. By now you should be getting the point. El Novasion (Trance Mix) ends the album up and it even features a full on 16th note bassline!!!! The rest of the track keeps it from full on boredom however so there isn't much to worry about. Good energentic dancefloor music here without being lame.
All and all, this is a quality album. Given the lackluster releases we have been getting recently, I'm not sure if this album would have been so great a few years back, but when compared with whatelse has been coming out as of late, this is a quality piece of psy-trance here and I recommend it for those who are sick of the same old thing and what something a little different from the norm.
7.5/10
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Dragongurl
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Posted : Aug 18, 2004 17:51
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Nice review there Jikkenteki, but I would give it a 7/10 IMO. Only managed to get my hands on this wonderful album recently and it is one fine production!! 
My favs would have to be:
Buttersonic
Droid save da Queen
What's In Your Mind
Program Flies
Its got that new funkiness that I am lovely alot lately. Makes my body want to move!!!  
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But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet
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shiva-x
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Posted : Jan 13, 2005 23:34
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Hi there !
I really enjoy listening to sound samples from sub6 - who needs love songs @ saikosounds.com, but the CD is out of stock, so that's all I can do :-/.
How comes the CD is not available, either at psyshop.com or saikosounds.com ? I see it's been released May 31, 2004, is it that old ?
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pr0fane
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Posted : Jan 13, 2005 23:40
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PsyDark
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Posted : Oct 3, 2005 21:40
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I like voice samples from "Droid save da queen".
From which movie they were taken?
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a3k
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Posted : Oct 4, 2005 00:43
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On 2005-10-03 21:40, PsyDark wrote:
I like voice samples from "Droid save da queen".
From which movie they were taken?
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star wars?
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berale
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Posted : Oct 4, 2005 06:16
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is it just me or all sub6 music sounds the same???
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KuKulKan
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Posted : Oct 5, 2005 19:50
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On 2005-10-04 06:16, berale wrote:
is it just me or all sub6 music sounds the same???
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I think is just you...
::: Dance when you're broken up, Dance when you're perfectly free, Dance in your Blood ::: |
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Pavel
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Posted : Oct 5, 2005 19:55
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On 2005-10-04 00:43, a3k wrote:
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On 2005-10-03 21:40, PsyDark wrote:
I like voice samples from "Droid save da queen".
From which movie they were taken?
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star wars?
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Star balls actually. A star wars parody.
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Nathan
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Posted : Oct 5, 2005 20:04
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On 2005-10-04 06:16, berale wrote:
is it just me or all sub6 music sounds the same???
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Imho It's just u. They are the 2 OF The most skilled and original Artist.
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Silent Scream
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Posted : Oct 5, 2005 20:56
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bought this album twice...first one got stolen together with my car....worth every shekel....best album i heard since last year
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