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V/A Star Dust [MoonStone]
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Feb 6, 2005 15:31
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V/A Star Dust [Moonstone]
Tracklist :
1. Noga – Moksha Mama
2. Blackout – Black Energy
3. Dooper Doopler – Here It Comes
4. Mahamudra – Metal Ethnic
5. Tactic Mind – Troy
6. Visual Contact – Naughty Boy
7. Tripteaser – Heart, Brain & Soul
8. Freakulizer – Summer’s Amost Gone
9. Electro Sun & Brain Damage – Hypnotic Voices
Compiled by Dj F-Rat
Mastering : Dj Bog
1. Noga (Noga Sudai, formerly member of Cosmic Tone) delivers us a groovy morning atmospheric tune with arpeggios for Moksha Mama. Sometimes i feel some leads to be cheesy but it’s globally ok, ideal for a sweat waking or just before the sleep in order to make nice dreams.
2. Blackout (Elad Oahana & Oren Azulay) Black Energy, it’s probably one of their first track, so i should be indulgent, this tune doesn’t fill up dancefloors but also doesn’t clear them out. A skeleton key full on track that could fits in lots of dj sets.
3. Dooper Doopler (Nave Ilia) Here It Comes, i’m shared between the pleasure of getting a new Dooper Doopler production & the very average musical result (full on). We are very far away from the quality of Confused (his first track, much more proggy & morning oriented) but at this time, there were 2 others people in the band (Roy Riback + Maor Haddad) , it explains a lot the difference.
4. Mahamudra (Ran Malka & Eyal Cohen) i was estonished by the tracklenght of this one : over 9 minutes, it’s getting rare today in psytrance whereas it was still usual 4-5 years ago. Indeed i was wondering if it could be a sign of strong inspiration and i was right. As it’s said through the sample ‘this is serious music’. It’s a brilliant groovy full on production made of a slightly funky bassline, lots of punch, some metallic tones contrasting with a sharpy bouncy melodic lead or a trembling shy synth on the end.
5. Life is sometimes strange. When Ultravoice & Kyo Log were making stuffs together under their artist duo names, i never succeed to enjoy their music. Today they’re taking the name of Tacting Mind for their musical cooperation, i’m digging it. For the sound, take the sound from Art Of Voice album of Ultravoice and inject doses of energy, nervousness & madness inside. Result, you’ll got a good idea about how is sounding Troy.
6. Visual Contact (Dj Bog & Didi Ezra) gives us for Nasty Boy a surnatural bassline coppled with a rythmic trick consisting of a green woodpecker in action (1’50). Many funny twisted sounds are present like a weird fx on a spoken sample in the background you can better hear after 4’38. The whole thing is very lively.
7. Tripteaser (Jonn Jansson) proposes you a funky bassline with an expanded melody. On the 2/3 of the track, there’s a rowdy riff lead. On the final part the track is embellished with an ice block lead, conferring an exotic touch to the tune.
8. Freakulizer (aka Dj Thujon , Simon Schwendeener) i’m pretty sure i’ve already listen to the same melody elesewhere but i don’t succeed in reminding in which track (as always said my grandma there’ are only 7 notes in the scale). However it’s a nice effective full on dancefloor stuff with a grating siren lead (starting at 1’20) & the break melody,very refreshing, is made of arpeggios played like the materialization of morning dew drops. Summer’s Almost Gone is largely better than his previous groovy tune with Gataka‘Son Pax’ appearing on Afula On.
9. Electro Sun (Nadav Elkayan) & Brain Damage (Vik Shagal) for Hypnotic Voices which falls in the club trance side (Electro Sun seems to be fond of old school euro trancey layers), a pity that Star Dust ends up so cheesily (particularly after 4’40) comparing to the rest of the global musical content.
Star Dust from MoonStone records (runned by Dj Bog & Dj F-Rat) is the opportunity of getting some quality stuffs like used to release Com.pact before falling recently into clubbytrance, so you know what good things to expect from this cd & this new label.
highlights by order:4,7,5
then by order:6,1,8,2
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Satellite
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Posted : Feb 10, 2005 17:59
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I like this Compilation. It's not the typical Compact music, i think that is why is like it that much. Not that i dont like Compact's music, they r great, but this comp. is different.
1 track : kinda Fatali, nice for morning and easy listening.
2 track : interesting, nice for the dance floor.
3 track : great one , excelent bass line and nice finale. I think this one is one of the better tracks on this cd.
4 track : interesting, but not my kind of music. It's very long and sometimes u loose the touch with the song, but it's very different from anything else u hear these days.
5 track : OK, but not much in it. Almost as the usual Ultravoice tracks, but with a diferent break and finale.
6 track : Nice backgrounds and a great bass line. It gets more "funky" in the end, but what else to expect from Didi 
7 track : Nice track. It will work on the dancefloor. Nice Fx by the way
8 track : Your typical full on track. Nothing special, nothing to be remembered by, but if u play it, it will surely be good for the dancefloor.
9 track : I like this track. Second track by Electro sun that my mom likes it. So far so good by Nadav. It has a cheesy finale, but i like it. Great job my man
Rating : 8.5/10
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jos
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Posted : Feb 12, 2005 14:15
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hi...
nice stuff.
intresting what is gon'a be present from
moonstone in the future.. 
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efrat@com.pact
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Posted : Feb 13, 2005 20:38
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Thanks for your kind words, I am happy each one likes something different so there is something for everyone.
I will see you all at the release party in the Lemon club on March 4, 2005
Keep rocking!!
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X-static
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Posted : Feb 21, 2005 04:55
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Realy nice morning compilation. Feels like one trip , if listen from the start to end.
Some tracks could be a litle better but still there is some nice parts in all of them. I realy like #2, 3, 5,6,7!,8!,9! . Very nice for home listening as well as for the dance floor.
Thanx DJ F-Rat for bringing some magick in it and to all artists in here!
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efrat@com.pact
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Posted : Mar 3, 2005 22:39
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Thanks I am happy you liked it!
enjoy life |
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LIOR LAHAV//SOLAR SYSTEM
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Posted : Mar 13, 2005 03:23
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realy good work of efrat...
i like a lot track 1 noga make there very good job!
very good comp,i like a lot!!
keep on efrat you on the good road!
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juggler
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Posted : Apr 12, 2005 15:26
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MoonStone Records - Star Dust
Promotional Thread
Founded by the well known DJ and artist BOG (Visual Paradox) and DJ F-Rat, already a known DJ herself and Com. Pact records PR and Booking manager, its solid backbone is well presented with this album. Star Dust is MoonStone Records debut release, presenting a mixture of known artists and fresh new talented artists each with an exquisite neo-fullon sound. Star Dust is another well polished and exciting compilation introducing new ideas and sounds, tightly and skilfully enhanced to perfection. See you under a Moonlite sky...
Tracklist
1. Noga – Moksha Mania
2. Blackout - Black Energy
3. Dooper Doopler - Here It Comes
4. Mahamudra - Metal Ethnic
5. Tactic Mind - Troy
6. Visual Contact - Naughty Boy
7. Tripteaser - Heart Brain & Soul
8. Freakulizer - Summer is Almost Gone
9. Electro Sun & Brain Damage - Hypnotic Voices
Review
Seeing the track list makes me think that I’m in front of a multi-styles trance compilation, some progressive names, some fullon names, some dark names, I expect not to be wrong.
Track 1 by Noga (Moksha Mama) starts the compilation very quiet…this track has a contradiction for me, apart from have a progressive feeling on it, I think it’s perfect to finish a morning set, very quiet melody at the end.
Blackout – Black Energy brings the power and the psychedelic feeling to the compilation…I think there is nothing new on this track, but for sure Blackout will presenting us with more good surprises soon.
Dooper Doopler brings us “Here It Comes”, this is for me the first great track here…it has a power bassline, seems to be progressing all track long and at the last minutes we can listen to a beautiful and light melody that certainly put you on the right mood
Mahamudra release here they first track, in my opinion it can be better but it’s not bad too…all the track have a morning and peaceful groovy, a man’s voice sample from time to time that gives the track a progressive attitude, but nothing really new, I will be waiting for his next release…
Tactic Mind (Troy) is a collaboration between Ultravoice and Kyo Log, very good at all…I just don’t like the sample saying “LSD” repeatedly because there are many many tracks using the same word/same sample, but apart from this all the track is well constructed, powerful kick, nice hi-hats, my favourite till now
Track 6 by Visual Contact (Naughty Boy) has a nice and powerful groovy bass, good psy tunes, some “night melody” that seems to be sampled from a terror movie, very funky.
Track 7 is done by Tripteaser and is more quiet and morning-oriented then the last ones…groovy bass, nice melodies, a good but a bit repetitive sample, I think it will be good for morning-dancefloors.
Freakulizer, the project of Thujon, bring us more one full on morning track, with light melodies and sounds, nice samples, but with nothing really different from other full on morning tracks…
To close the compilation F-Rat have choose “Hypnotic Voices” done by Electro Sun & Brain Damage, in my opinion great choice to finish Star Dust, this track is completely morning-oriented, melodies everywhere, one of my “best-of” here
After listen all tracks carefully, I think Moonstone starts his way in the right mood, different trance styles all together to make a great and variety hour of good trance music!
8/10
Pedro Gaspar aka Juggler
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efrat@com.pact
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Posted : Apr 13, 2005 12:13
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Thanks for the review.
I really appreciate it right now since I am about to close my next compilation on MoonStone (still not sure about the name) that will be released around June.
You can find there Dooper Doopler, Blackout (this time with a very groovy progressive track with a great production), Mahamudra, Hooshagenii (MoonStone fresh artists from Switzerland), Nasa, Freakulizer and some more surprises...
So I hope you will like the next one, I hope everybody will
The main goal for MoonStone right now is to get something new for the listeners and to combine all kind of stlyls in Trance.
So we will be in touch soon...
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AbsolutZero(D.V.M.)
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leandromorales
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Posted : Nov 22, 2005 15:41
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Very good
My Favorite
Track 1,2 and 7
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