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Tikal - Ritual Cycle (Neurobiotic Records)
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Al-x
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Posted : May 7, 2004 18:45
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... so what !!
i'm listening this album for few weeks and i can tell now that it's probably one of the most important for 2004 !!
I saw Tikal live in paris recently and they already impressed me with their amazing tracks.
But now, when i take a track from this cd and press play on my cdj .... waouohhh
That's what i call POWER !! just done for the trancefloor !! and well done ! very innnovating with the samples (reservoir dogs, les citées d'or and sorrow from pink floyd) and such a fu**** rythm !! thats what i like 
my prefs : 1,3,4,6,7
just buy this cd
and thanx to tikal for their music and thanx to edoardo for producing french psychedelic music !!
see u
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edoardo@neurobiotic
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Posted : May 10, 2004 17:33
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Leuname
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Posted : May 10, 2004 17:49
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Dont need to tks Edoardo and Tikal bros
We are the ones that need to say tks for the pleasure of listening such a great sound.
Like i said in my last post in this topic this is the best album this year so far and will be on the top almost for sure at the end of the year.
Good luck guys and keep releasing QUALITY  |
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edoardo@neurobiotic
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Posted : May 10, 2004 21:27
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Hi Leuname
we'll keep on releasing quality stuff, is a promise..
The motivation for doing it is the support we receive from all you guys..
I hope you will like the forthcoming releases (Polaris and Altom). You can find Altom's samples on our website http://www.neurobiotic.com in the download samples to have an idea of it.
We're starting a chill out sublabel, the first release will be a compilation out in september with some very good names on it (Cell, Tikal, Tripswitch, vibrasphere, Yucatan to name a few) and we signed the first artist album on that label. We still keep the secret a bit more but is an amazing one...
PeAcE!
Edoardo @ Neurobiotic Records
http://www.neurobiotic.com
Myspace: www.myspace.com/djedoardo
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Basilisk
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Posted : May 10, 2004 22:12
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Before I make a review I'd want to know how much of the samples are original recordings, and how much comes from sample CDs... because if this stuff isn't original material, there just isn't much to this music. Some of these songs are carried by the sample placement alone, which is why this question is sort of key to how one might feel about the quality of musicianship behind the release.
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edoardo@neurobiotic
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Posted : May 11, 2004 13:40
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Hi Basilisk
obviously Tikal used many samples producing the album. Some of them come from sample cds, some from movies, some from some live recordings and some from other cds.
I think what's important is how to use the samples and the originality of the final result than the sample itself and the position of it in a track. I find much easier to put a "drug" sample ("let's take some lsd", "marjiuana", "charas revolution", "ecstasy world") than using the samples they used on this album in the way they used them.... I can assure you that making this album was a long work, the tracks are not based on the samples also if they have an important part of course.
I'm anyway waiting for your review!
PeAcE!
Edoardo @ Neurobiotic Records
http://www.neurobiotic.com
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pavi
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Posted : May 12, 2004 19:13
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Sunny, bouncy, tuff but sensitive - really a very nice debut.
Tikal does tikkle my tinker - big up!
Within this timeless gathering,
a shining light does dance,
lost from conscious memory,
but visible in trance!
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BrettFromTibet
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Posted : May 16, 2004 21:33
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Album Review:
“Tikal: Ritual Cycle , 2004 Neurobiotics Records, Italy”
By BrettFromTibet
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I first found out about Neurobiotic Records good taste in trance one sweltering summer evening in Bangkok, a couple years back. I met a polite and fashionably dressed Japanese hippie-traveler. As we ate dinner in a simple street cafe he confessed: he was in town on a business trip. He invited me back to his guesthouse, a lit a stick of incense, and showed me a wooden air crate full of fluro clothes to sell at festivals in the Japanese alps. Then he showed me a half-kilo slab of black charas that he was going to “send” to Tokyo for a very handsome price. My heart thumped and I told him to be careful. He said not to worry, he’d done it before and he was professional.
He turned out to be Mr. Nice. We quietly smoked up and looked through his mini-disc case. I had been roughing it Sri Lanka and the Andamans for a long time - away from the trance circuit - so I asked about good new releases and labels. “Neurobiotic saiko!” he exclaimed, giving it the highest praise in Japanese. We slid in the “Various Artists: 9 Pills” compilation - and I was hooked just a few seconds after the first 4/4 beat kicked in! Progressive and piston- pumping with just a touch of aggression, it sublimated a bright, shimmering psychedelic polish. Classy, well-adjusted psy-trance.
Tikal is a promising new Act from France, that is channeling a distinct and very positive new genetic mutation of morning trance - - to sunrises all across this beautiful biosphere. When I look at the beautiful cover art, I think of the lost Mayan city Tikal in the steamy jungle lowlands of Guatemala, as well as the magnificant “TIHKAL: Tryptamines I have known and loved” By Ann and Sasha Shulgin, a novel encyclopedia of new psychedelic compounds - a highly recommended book.
The album “Ritual Cycle” is supposedly programmed to honor the rhythms of the Mayan Calendar. While I’m not sure I believe in -all- the predictions attributed to the Mayan Calendar by neo-new age Nostradamuses - Tikal has tapped into something genuinely powerful and illuminating.
The Tikal sound seems to spring from the same energy source that inspired the French melodic masters Jaia, who released the ambient-goa Classic “Blue Energy” back in 1998. But Tikal - a bit fiercer and more solar - is tough enough to at least partially satisfy people who are following the current trend towards darker sounds. The new “Ritual Cycle” CD is a resilient smart bomb in the "floor destruction arsenal" for daytime trance floors. It’s heavy on stomp power, light on the cheese.
A medley of European, Middle Eastern, South American voices and atmospheres are manipulated about under Tikal’s smooth digital wizardry. On top a steady stream of groovy bass and beats, brief dark interludes punctuate the succession of sunshine atmospheres in this smooth French production.
Track 2 : “Sunshine in Middle East” has ethnic samples, and oozes with brightness…..good for a sunny 11 AM morning freakout.
Track 3: “Time is running out” has scary samples and a slamming, pulverizing bass-line…good for the night…massive sweeping synths and DARKer colored melancholy melodies
Track 5 “Jazzistique” is a massive composition for the full sunlight tribal stomp- invigorating like a double-espresso after a breakfast of liquid.
Track 6: “Mr. Pink” has a hilarious sample where a group of tough guys get uncomfortably psychedelic and intimate - when trying to express themselves as a color
Track 7:”Aura (Remix)” is the real jewel on this disc.. This version more snappy than the original - this time it gets polished up and really sparkles, . A sensuous hux-flux of spiral vibrations and sonic tickles which bewitch the listener. The tickling soon breaks out into fierce electrical storms - - kundalini. Sensitive vocal samples laid over enough Yang energy …to shock and persuade your soul to ignite. Violin sounds awakening the emotions - and a voice calls and guides you “you must find strength.”. If you listen to Aura(Remix) carefully, you will find it: Pure sonic strength and ingenium! In the international lingo it’s just plain : KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLA!!! 
Tracks 8 and 9 are tasteful downtempo tracks filled with horns, funk, and neo-Mayan ritual flair and psychedelia. These will make for good vibes on the chill out floor, danceable bpm to get people grooving, ……and are a bonus that makes this disc worth purchasing.
All and all, Tikal’s debut album “Ritual Cycle” is a headstrong and groundbreaking - full of authentic Goa vibe and dance floor magic. Just listen to it on a big system outdoors when the sun rays poke through the trees in the forest…surrounded by beautiful and spectacular people; or listen to it on the way to work with some headphones, and let the sounds transport you there!
-Boom bolenath- to Tikal from France, and Edoardo from Neurobiotics for this one! It animates the real party spirit - and will be a key part of AM broadcast of this summer and probably into next winter for Goa and the tropics. This sound is some fresh, heady Crème to enjoy and keep your spirit high - cream of crop this season. It’s nicely packaged, tastefully produced, and a real joy that keeps reveling more of it’s power with each listen.
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Rating: 8/10 (For long-term home use)
10/10 (for the dance floor)
http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=3993
http://www.neurobiotic.com
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ChoBo
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Posted : May 17, 2004 06:34
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yeap brett, track 7 is the killer! Glad i am not the only one who likes it  |
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Dovla
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Posted : May 19, 2004 00:01
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the Aura track is enough of a reason to buy the entire album...those folk samples remind me incredibly of some local etno music here...but it's just implemented in the entire track so perfectly...this track really owns!
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acoltov
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Posted : May 19, 2004 04:06
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houa , the french sene is going really strong.Dado , Talamsca , altom ; bamboo forest , nomad , silicon sound , neuromotor , antidote , tryptik , cpu , and now TIKAL ! Very powrfull music , like goa trance from befor , and good qualiti of sound!amazinggg! |
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HujaBoy
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Posted : May 19, 2004 09:51
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I play in the last 5 dj sets track number 3 time is running out and its just blasting every time!!!
way to goTikal!!! just love this fat track!!
very nice album!
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BrettFromTibet
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Posted : May 19, 2004 23:33
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can any French (speaking) person tell me what the sample at the begining of #7, Aura (rmx) is saying? |
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tikal
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Posted : May 25, 2004 02:26
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i cant tell you in english but if someone can translate it.
"le 16 siècle, des 4 coins de l Europe de gigantesque voilier partent a la recherche du nouveau monde, a bort de ces navires des hommes avide de rêve d aventure et d espace a la recherchent de fortune, qui n'a jamais rêve de ces mondes souterrain de ces mères lointaine peuples de légendes ou d une richesse soudaine qui ce conquerrai au détour d un chemin de la cordier des Andes, qui n a jamais souhaite voir le soleil souverain guider ces pas au coeur du pays inca vers la richesse et l histoire des misteryeuse citees d or."
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Surrender
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Posted : May 25, 2004 05:05
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and now the chorus:
"ahhhhh ahhhhha ahh ahh ..... esteban, zia, tau le citee d or...." X2
great track, even better cartoon.
"On the other hand, you have different fingers."
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