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V/A Future Memories (Interchill) 2008
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Jan 31, 2008 22:44
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V/A Future Memories (Interchill) 2008
Track Listing :
01. Eat Static - Sands of Time
02. Ultimax - Noir
03. Radiate - Witchkraft
04. Phutureprimitive - Deeper feat. Alyssa Palmer
05. Mauxuam - After B4
06. Tripswitch - Lyra
07. Solar Fields - Jeezlh
08. Snakestyle - Neutral Bouyancy
09. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Reaktion
10. Cell - Spinning Whale
Future Memories is compiled by Interchill label DJ/A&R Nathalie Edell.
1.Eat Static (Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton) - Sands of Time, contains a majority of sharp tones with a bucolic forest walk's feeling riding a horse at a walking pace ; it's something very calm, peaceful, bracing or yet climatic.
2.Ultimax (Max Kosenko from Israel) Noir , consists in some Jazzy downtempo with some unpolished backgrounding sounds. After the middle break, the melody changes through a darker way which contrasts so much with the first part that you're wondering if you're still listening to the same thing. The answer is yes & i'm convinced that was the aim targeted by the artist here  .
3.Radiate (Seb Taylor & Nick Edell) Witchkraft, appears as a simple or minimalist tune if you don't really take care while listening. Indeed it's a very chiseled production , which is very deep, mental with soft sounds but also catchy & hypnotizin.
4.Phutureprimitive (Rain) - Deeper feat. Alyssa Palmer I don't understand what the hell is doing this tune on this compilation, it's just some cheap pop-chill : a big error of casting according to me.
5.Mauxuam (Maurizio Liguori) - After B4 , for some experimental sounding, quite close to Jens Buchert soundscape. For those who don't know the previous quoted artist let just precise the influences are eclectic & the content is mental.
6.Tripswitch (Nick Brennan) Lyra , the discret opening is murky soon accompanied with a slow motion rhythmic. Then there's the main pattern (the base of the tune) which is too much repetitive & gets quickly boring despite some efforts to make the track evolve with the piano thema for example from the break at 330; global result a lack of variation.
7.Solar Fields (Magnus Birgersson from Sweden) Jeezlh , if there would be a single song to retain from this cd, it will be this one. Usually i'm not a big fan of Solar Fields but here it's different cause that's the best track i've ever heard from him mixing emotional, tripping, hypnotic, floating, fairish & unpolished parts.
8.Snakestyle (Matt Embleton from London)- Neutral Bouyancy , the music is weird, subtle, beatless tends to be minimalist too & results quite difficult to get in. To sum up the spirit of the track, i could say that at the same time it's a good one coz you can listen to it with absolutely no difficulties & on the other side when it finishes you don't remember anything of it like if it was never played. In a word : strange.
9.Carbon Based Lifeforms Reaktion strongly reminds me Solar Quest's productions from 1994, the Orgship album. Actually i'd prefer CBL sounding like in their Hydroponic Garden album (even if it would be a bit warmed up) instead of Solar Quest  , despite the undeniable quality of the tune,,,
10. Cell (Alex Scheffer from France) - Spinning Whale, sadness is all around here packed with deep, hypnotic production & a hint of ether which could makes turn your head. Unfortunately, my attention focuses on the snare sound which doesn't fit with the rest of the banktones employed that's a real pity cause i think it contributes to ruin the track.
I personally consider more difficult to conceive an ambient-chill compilation than a dancefloor one, because on the downtempo scene, the artists have more facilities to exploit their personality, their own musical universe. That's a bit the worry of Future memories : picking up the tunes one by one would be perfect to the condition of not considering an artistic coherence all along & here it seems to be only partly intended.
Climax:7
Good moments:1,2,3,5
Strange:8
Mark : 7/10
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Justin Chaos
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Posted : Feb 14, 2008 16:41
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Good review
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amphiton
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Posted : Mar 1, 2008 17:44
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Nice review, I tend to agree on some parts and disagree on others, but all in all separate tracks will work but as a compilation this one doesn't work as effectively.
Favs: 7, 9.
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Jingabι
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Posted : Mar 2, 2008 16:24
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On 2008-01-31 22:44, Le Lotus Bleu wrote:
7.Solar Fields (Magnus Birgersson from Sweden) Jeezlh , if there would be a single song to retain from this cd, it will be this one. Usually i'm not a big fan of Solar Fields but here it's different cause that's the best track i've ever heard from him mixing emotional, tripping, hypnotic, floating, fairish & unpolished parts.
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Could this track be one the best chill tunes ever? Emotions really run high on this one. Simply beautifull.
Love the entire comp but, as you can guess, I think Solar Fields stands out.
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