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Twilight + Production = South Africa

Basilisk
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Posted : Jan 23, 2008 17:24
Interesting read, that other topic... seems like people are hesitant to bring their opinions forward.

As for me... I've really grown to love the South African style over the years and always spice up my full-on sets with a few quality tunes from Shift, Pitch Hikers, Hydraglyph, and others... but many South African artists abide by a set formula: hard/powerful beats, scathing leads, fat production, big noisy breaks, etc. This is all very good except where it starts to sound the same... and as much as the tunes totally rock the dance floor, much of what comes out fails to exhibit the mark of new ideas and fresh thinking. The production quality keeps getting better--and there are times where production quality alone can make a track stand out--but this passes. That's the problem with music that relies more on style than substance--it gets old quick.

Now, consider this puzzle... here we have a country with one national sound with many artists caning the hell out of some variation of it... and then we have Artifakt, one of the most incredibly creative artists in the world of psychedelic trance. I sometimes wonder why his influence hasn't spread amongst his peers all that much... well, admittedly enough the A-list South African artists dabble in some surprising experiments--has anyone heard those low-BPM techtrance tunes Shift has been slamming into the back end of his recent albums? Every now and then I catch a spark--that hint of jazz in Elbowroom's Strippa or the strangely uplifting style of Tickets--but for every one of those there are countless songs released by artists whose names I can't even remember who all sound quite alike... 145 BPM banging hard dance meets full-on psytrance stuff. It's good. It rocks the dance floor like no other style. I thoroughly enjoy it--even some of the hum-drum stuff that is plainly ordinary. But I know the South African sound can be taken in new and more exciting directions...
Chemogen
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Posted : Mar 31, 2008 21:47
Listen to Parana...Not the twisted twilight stuff we're famous for, but a really awesome producer with a kick-ass, very underrated album.

http://www.saikosounds.com/english/show_artist.asp?artist_id=8440
XwhiteRabbitX
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Posted : Mar 31, 2008 23:13
Quote:

On 2008-01-23 17:24, Basilisk wrote:
Interesting read, that other topic... seems like people are hesitant to bring their opinions forward.

As for me... I've really grown to love the South African style over the years and always spice up my full-on sets with a few quality tunes from Shift, Pitch Hikers, Hydraglyph, and others... but many South African artists abide by a set formula: hard/powerful beats, scathing leads, fat production, big noisy breaks, etc. This is all very good except where it starts to sound the same... and as much as the tunes totally rock the dance floor, much of what comes out fails to exhibit the mark of new ideas and fresh thinking. The production quality keeps getting better--and there are times where production quality alone can make a track stand out--but this passes. That's the problem with music that relies more on style than substance--it gets old quick.

Now, consider this puzzle... here we have a country with one national sound with many artists caning the hell out of some variation of it... and then we have Artifakt, one of the most incredibly creative artists in the world of psychedelic trance. I sometimes wonder why his influence hasn't spread amongst his peers all that much... well, admittedly enough the A-list South African artists dabble in some surprising experiments--has anyone heard those low-BPM techtrance tunes Shift has been slamming into the back end of his recent albums? Every now and then I catch a spark--that hint of jazz in Elbowroom's Strippa or the strangely uplifting style of Tickets--but for every one of those there are countless songs released by artists whose names I can't even remember who all sound quite alike... 145 BPM banging hard dance meets full-on psytrance stuff. It's good. It rocks the dance floor like no other style. I thoroughly enjoy it--even some of the hum-drum stuff that is plainly ordinary. But I know the South African sound can be taken in new and more exciting directions...




HIYARANT, Frozen Ghost, Zion Linguist- MMD style kicking reall hard, nuddin like full-on, to complete crazyness of sounds..

cant really say i liked hydraglyph second album, though i still think mind fuck to be one of the best trax ever.. Code 6 is some new sound arising down south and so are xatrik (saw him live about a month ago and he kickass)..

besides those SA natives the same sound comming from abomination (first album), manifold (russians makin SA tunes) and others adopting timecode/nexus style.. cant beat that in ma opinion!

artifakt, so twisted, total madness!

and shift/phyx/rabdom/tickets/brethren whatever, are some of my alltime classics!

SA Rise.
stu|ART


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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 15:12
of course MMD, Nexus artists etc.. but for the future Rubix Qube and Biorythm looks most interesting.
squirm
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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 17:43
rubix cube and deleriant are the shit . can't wait to hear more of their stuff . very curious about biorythm as well, its rubix cube with someone else right?
          www.soundcloud.com/ishikawa
www.mechanikrecords.com
www.phonix-records.com
www.mixcloud.com/ishikawa/
sHiVaMoOon


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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 20:15
Biorhythm is pretty damn cool i gotta say, rubix and four other blokes from SA is what i hear. Their tracks are absolute corkers!
Stuart u make some killer tunes as well           (Rudraksh / Amaris records)
VA "DEEP FRIED" compiled by Dj Shiva Moon out now on Rudraksh Records!
VA Ahimsa double cd compilation out now!
VA " Fry or Die " under construction!
www.rudrakshrecords.com
www.amarisrecords.com
sHiVaMoOon


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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 20:24
As much as i love the SA sound, Megalopsy/Frantic Noise and Darkpsy are the bosses for me in the twilight dept!
Loads of original new talent also coming from other parts of the world, Khopat for that matter is making some killa music, as well as Max earworm from Ny, some outer signal, hyper synapse.

          (Rudraksh / Amaris records)
VA "DEEP FRIED" compiled by Dj Shiva Moon out now on Rudraksh Records!
VA Ahimsa double cd compilation out now!
VA " Fry or Die " under construction!
www.rudrakshrecords.com
www.amarisrecords.com
squirm
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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 22:17
earworm is definitely an act to watch out for, max is making some really crazy music - 3d style . hyper synapse is another awesome act - the 2 tracks he has put out so far have been rippin. cant wait to hear more from that guy. one act thats just getting better with every release is lost n found - his last few tunes have been absolute monsters. cant wait to hear his album           www.soundcloud.com/ishikawa
www.mechanikrecords.com
www.phonix-records.com
www.mixcloud.com/ishikawa/
stu|ART


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Posted : Apr 3, 2008 22:36
Quote:

On 2008-04-03 20:15, sHiVaMoOon wrote:
Biorhythm is pretty damn cool i gotta say, rubix and four other blokes from SA is what i hear. Their tracks are absolute corkers!
Stuart u make some killer tunes as well




yeah... biorythm is Rubix Qube, Sons of Zulu ( 2 guys ), and Kid_X. pretty decent stuff..

hehe.. i dont really make music... Im a visual individual. just fuck around with Rubix Qube everyso often.. hes a talented guy for sure.

as for Basilisk's comment about South African sounds could be taken in new and more exciting directions - I completely agree... and from what I've heard in a few studios recently theres plenty of fresh sounds and vibes being created.

South Africa's psy production scene is looking pretty exciting for the future :)
sHiVaMoOon


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Posted : Apr 4, 2008 07:10
[quote]
On 2008-04-03 22:36, stu|ART wrote:

hehe.. i dont really make music... Im a visual individual. just fuck around with Rubix Qube everyso often.. hes a talented guy for sure.

[quote]
Sorry confused you with stuart hiyarant lol!

Yeah there's quite a bit of fresh talent and new sound coming out of SA, i dont think its getting stale in the least, if anything is getting stale its the psytrance genre i think. Everyone seems to stick to their tried and tested formulas and its getting a bit monotonous.

Look out for our next VA Fry or Die on rudraksh records, its gonna be a no frills fully fresh dark twilight CD!

@ Squirm - I agree with you that Lost and Found has definitely picked up his production over the last year and has some spanking tunes rlsed and about to be rlsed.
          (Rudraksh / Amaris records)
VA "DEEP FRIED" compiled by Dj Shiva Moon out now on Rudraksh Records!
VA Ahimsa double cd compilation out now!
VA " Fry or Die " under construction!
www.rudrakshrecords.com
www.amarisrecords.com
Forest dreams
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Posted : Apr 4, 2008 08:58

I completely love the crunch and kick in SA producers. very uplifting. The whole dark full on thing had got caught my attention for a while with frozen ghost, shift, artifakt,
oh btw.. i dug out another thread here.

http://forum.isratrance.com/sa-madness/           Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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