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The Melovskys - Psychedelic Cowboy (Tip New World)

psyreviews
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Posted : Oct 23, 2005 12:57
The Melovskys
Psychedelic Cowboy
Tip New World (UK)

Brace yourselves: from the Tip HQ comes something that sounds completely unlike anything else around at the moment. In fact, the sound here has more in common with Tip’s 3D compilation than pretty much anything else I can think of. The Melovskys are from Mexico, but their music doesn’t sound like Mexican trance. There’s live vocals, but they’re not shit (mostly). And bottom line, it’s fullon about as far from the generic cookiecut style as you could ever expect. (This, by the way, is in keeping with the new label’s manifesto – check psyreviews’ interview with label boss Richard at http://www.chaishop.com/lasso/content.lasso?id=1485 ).

Most of all, what makes this significant is that you need to listen to it with new ears: it’s NOT a dancefloor album. It’s NOT from Israel. It’s NOT all about beatmatch, fade in, break, drop, beatmatch, fade out.

Evolver kicks off the whole “grumbling hoon” kinda sound that drenches this album, and that in my humble opinion is the strongest thing about this release. Words won’t do justice to the bottomend here – lumbering and hefty, it’s a sweeping, swooshing bass that just blows holes in you, pushes you backwards against the wall, and farts in your face. It works perfectly on Crazy Rhythm, possibly the standout track here. Funky, mean, gnarly and eloquent, it has a sort of Sundance feel to it, with these madly disjointed sounds somehow coming together and creating a whirling, toblerone-bath of music. Blows Your Mind has a vocal that sounds like it was form an old 60’s hippy act, but then so do The Polyphonic Spree (and it sounds like them too). Anyway, aside from this you’ve got a chunky and very psychedelic tune. The vox and big Spanish-folky break may put some people off, but otherwise it’s an absolutely cracking tune. Hallucination takes the recipe a little darker, sounding more like something you’d expect to hear on Parvati…. midnight forest music with that mid/top toothcutter sound.

Dig Deep’s vocals are certainly questionable: you’ve got a sort of punky females voice, and one of those harmonised alt.rock vocals (it sounds like someone, but I don’t know who, because I’m not 20 and I don’t wear black, nor do I skateboard). I can see what they’re doing here, putting a clever break into what’s otherwise a marvellous tune, and it still sounds fresh but…. well, the female voice is just bad. And the lyrics are baffling. But the rest of the tune’s good. So there. Desert Eagle .50 is a clever track, it’s deeper and has a sort of languid country feel to it. It’s got more flow to it (i.e. there’s no big breakdown going on), and hence it’s a more probable choice for DJs. Likewise Evolution #9, a large breakdown broken up with some awesome samples again from Snatch. It kicks: the riffs are tight and robotic, the groove is tight, and the attitude is perfect: until, that is, the dodgy final section with guitars, sub-Streets mockney-pointless emceeing seems to have infiltrated the barricades.

Psychedelic Cowboy (For A Few Pesos More Mix) has a shuffled swank to it, with slide guitar aplenty and a genuinely Mexican feel. Finally, If U Want 2 is the traditional downtempo track at the end of an album, but for a change it’s interesting. The vocals are pretty strange, and an instrumental version would be an interesting one to hear. It drops neatly in and out of slomo 4-4, and the production and movement over the top is delightfully psychedelic.

Overall then, it’s an interesting album – you can’t help but give it that. I don’t think it’ll appeal to most DJs, who aren’t going to find that it slots into too many sets too easily. But looking at it on its merits, it’s a genuinely new and individual piece of music bubbling up from the trance porridge. Which is how evolution works.


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1. Evolver
2. Blows your mind
3. Crazy rhythm
4. Desert eagle
5. Dig deep
6. If u want 2
7. Hallucination
8. Evolution number9
9. Psychedelic cowboy
10. Jai tek           


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sundrop
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Posted : Oct 24, 2005 00:53
i love Evolution9

u seem to know alot about this album!
but when is this going to be released????
Outolintu
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Posted : Oct 24, 2005 10:01
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On 2005-10-23 12:57, psyreviews wrote:
In fact, the sound here has more in common with Tip’s 3D compilation than pretty much anything else I can think of.



WOW! do you know how high standards you just set for this album? for me 3D was "the compilation", the culmination point of interesting and weird (mostly) european psy trance.
and if tip is finally returning to that sound my prayers have been answered
got to check it out...

hmmh... just checked out some compilations with the melovskys and if their sound on the comps is the same as on this album then i wouldn't compare it with the innovative 3d sound but rather say it's full on with a (slight) twist. *sigh*

psyreviews
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Posted : Oct 24, 2005 12:41
the album is better.
Psychedelic_Mustache
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Posted : Oct 31, 2005 13:26
The Melovskys - Psychedelic Cowboy
Tip New World, 2005

Now this is interesting in many ways. First of all, it's the debut album of the Mexican act The Melovskys. Second, this is the first effort of the new Tip World sublabel Tip New World. Collectors item, anyone? These two facts alone however does not justify purchasing a CD. What does however is the fact that this album strikes(atleast me) as a bolt of lightening from a clear blue sky. Or just a plain old good album. From Tip.

Whenever Tip releases an album these days there is allays a fair dose of skepticism involved on my behalf. Most of the stuff they've been putting out for the last couple of years has been in the department of mindless full-on crap, and then this thingey comes along. Tip NEW world. So what's new about it?

Are we up for another 80 minutes of Killaargh!!!!!111onenone full-on?? The answer here is a definite "NO!", as this is a suprisingly alternative release. Sure, a lot of people will bitch about the vocals. People will bitch about the guitars and the analogue elements as well. Some will even smile while they utter the word "cheeese" at some points. But I wont. The truth is that this piece of plastic is more psychedelic than most stuff around these days! I will do nothing but praise this for being a fresh, new, alternative sounding act as well as an excellent debut album. Brave is the word I'm looking for. And yes, it's actually released on tip!(Sorry for repeating my self, but I just can't get over it..).With a few exceptions the tracks are varied, filled with interesting breaks and turns, and with quite a few very original ideas and solutions. It seems to gather inspiration from all sorts of places, and if your heart has a soft spot for rock'n roll as well as trance I think you should flip open that wallet and get your Visa ready! Add a splash of comedy and the best psychedelic country-track since Pistolero and you know what your heading towards. If your favorite album so far this year was released on tip - then do yourself a favor and don't get this one. If your interested in hearing something pretty damn different, though, then do not hesitate!

recommended!
Final Score: 8/10

Review and inerview with the Melovskys: www.psymus.blogspot.com
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