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V/A Lighten (Sub Machine)
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Apr 5, 2003 16:09
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1/ Tetraktys – FightBack (Tegma remix) 9’06
2/ Tone Factory – Human Arena 7’30
3/ Luna Spice – Tokyo Dream 8’51
4/ Gnome Effect – Fridolin 7’27
5/ Prismatic – Jah 7’11
6/ Walhalla – Arktica 8’03
7/ Missing Time – Cannibal Campus 7’38
8/ Nasa – Snaredrop 8’46
9/ Vibrasphere - Broad Bandits 8’13
This 3 rd compilation from Submachine provides the largest spectrum of proggressive productions from all his released.
With The Tegma remix of Fightback, you’ve got your stomper proggy doze, kinda high meeting between kickin’ way of Tegma-Rockblocker & techy-proggy tricks from Tetraktys.
Tone Factory is in charge of delivering the subtle dark atmosphere in a smoother way but with tougher mettalic tones than previous track.
I still don’t dig on Luna Spice track this time again (hope it’ll change one day), too groovy-linear for me, indeed i just like the little 20 seconds intro and was very disapointed coz was expecting the track to go on this way…
Newcomer for me, Gnome Effect (Sylvester Lauritsen & Mikkel Rasmussen) from Danemark, Fridolin opens Lighten on a very interesting proggy-morning trend with very slight hint of psychedelism, a new project to look after for.
Prismatic gives you skipping off fat bass & kick, a cool & fun musical result with some breaks of little sharp sounds. During the progress of the track, the build up evolves particularly the bass line becoming into a jerky electrising one. You’ll notice some cool soft twisted voice.
Walhalla (C.Michaud alone here) with Arktica presents a slapping rythmic, the track gets quicly boring due to few coherence inside itself, lots of little samples added anywhere which don’t fit with the rest.
Missing Time catch again things with a brillant example of his typical groove, on the end at 5:44 the track drives itself a bit crazy & go slightly faster ; this is probably due to the cannibal getting closer…
Snaredrop from Nasa, is an honest groovy-melodic stuff with a mid-tempo & those typical little proggy-percus, getting better & better on my ears with each new listens.
And now to close up Lighten, here comes the big attraction with Vibrasphere – Broad Bandits which consists in a pure morning-proggy jewel.
Hilights by order :9,1,4
Others favorites by order:5,7,8
Easily the best Sub Machine compilation from far up to now.
Mark : 8,5/10 (recommended for proggy lovers)
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NirI
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Posted : Apr 6, 2003 13:28
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Very interesting review,
realy cannot wait to hear some new proggy stuff
- but this time good progressive.
What do you mean by saying "TOO GROOVY"?
Is this possible?
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Apr 6, 2003 15:06
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On 2003-04-06 13:28, NirI wrote:
Very interesting review,
realy cannot wait to hear some new proggy stuff
- but this time good progressive.
What do you mean by saying "TOO GROOVY"?
Is this possible?
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It's about the Luna Spice's stuff that results too flat in my ears,that's what i wanted to say but it's maybe your thing.  |
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Zombi
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Posted : Apr 6, 2003 20:14
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didnt liked this cd, nothing progress here imo. another minimal comp with no point into, imo again.
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Kiou
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Posted : Apr 9, 2003 10:39
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I got disapointet from this comp. ok, progressive isn't it at all but i wasen't expecting progressive in here. It's a minimal tech/trance compilation, deep and hard.
The tegmna rmx is awfull, these guys where some of may favorities when they started to release their tracks and they developing their style in a very good way since the album that was, imo, a turn back to more full on classic style.
Tone factory is my fav track in here. this guy is realy talented...
also i like tracks 6,8,9 the rest sounds a bit empty to me...
Travel pack had more interesting things inside.
Zombi it's just ppl that describes what isn't "full on" as "progressive". and also call house everything that has housy elements inside (like timetch!)
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Zombi
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Posted : Apr 9, 2003 10:42
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On 2003-04-09 10:39, Kiou wrote:
Zombi it's just ppl that describes what isn't "full on" as "progressive". and also call house everything that has housy elements inside (like timetch!)
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yep, the human that descussed about timetech with us told me that this cd is tech-house.. haha..
ppl should listen to more music from different genres, to get feeling and ideas from, just for knowledge, and stop talking only for talking..
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zack
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Posted : Apr 9, 2003 23:11
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this comp. rules !! killa progy sounds !!! very interesting new acts like tracks 5,7,8 also the vibrasphere is wonderful !!!
my favorites are ....all =)
just tegma change to much their style !!!
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pr0fane
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Posted : Apr 9, 2003 23:52
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This is a nice above average compilation. Nothing really groundbreaking or anything - just pretty good progressive tunes.
My verdict: 6/10
By the way; Mikkel Rasmussen = NASA, so Gnome Effect = NASA + Sylvester Lauritsen. Heheheh.
Keep an eye out for those Copenhagen based artists ... really nice guys.
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B-E-I-Z
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Posted : Apr 10, 2003 02:37
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Great album ! 8/10 ill give it
great sound also...
love the tracks... (not all of them )
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JasOn TeGmA
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Posted : Apr 10, 2003 21:04
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keep it real mates!!!! |
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Candy
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Posted : May 6, 2003 08:35
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I got this c.d only yesterday. After reading the reviews here I was pretty sceptic about what I was going to hear, and boy oh boy what a nice surprise I got.
First this is not progressive at all. It’s minimal. Harsh dark minimal (just the way I like).
Except for the first track (too housy tunes) and the last track (beautiful soft Vibrasphere track) the rest are simply excellent! Dark minimal, psychedelic, hypnotizing repetitive loops.
Thank you Sub Machine. Please release so more of this kind.
Dark minimal lovers – run buy it!
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timsensient
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Posted : May 6, 2003 14:23
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Yeh cool comp imo. Love the Tone Factory track...wicked groove and atmosphere. I like the luna spice myself...the drum loop sound in it does it for me:) Other faves are Missing Time and the Gnome Effect... |
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pr0fane
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Posted : Jul 17, 2004 23:58
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Basilisk
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Posted : Aug 5, 2004 23:47
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I guess its a bit too minimal for me... bought it for the incredible Vibrasphere anthem, but I kind of find the rest a bit disposable for my tastes.
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