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V/A - Trauma Trance (Mistress Of Evil 2005) CD
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DeathPosture
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Posted : Dec 29, 2005 17:47
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V/A – Trauma Trance
Cover: http://tinyurl.com/73ot4 (front) + http://tinyurl.com/b3yrp (back)
Artist: Various
Title: Trauma Trance
Format: CD (jewel case)
Label: Mistress Of Evil (USA)
Cat. #: MOE 66602
Distribution: Wirikuta
Date: December 2005
Track listing:
01. 08’15” Tsabeat & Optical Human - Madbeat
02. 06’59” Quasar – Brief Psychotic Disorder
03. 08’21” Alien Mental - SychoShift
04. 09’18” Amanda - Meltdown Sequence Initiation
05. 09’36” Horror Place – Children Of The Night
06. 09’14” Xyla – Cyrene’s Ghost
07. 08’57” Ghreg On Earth – Unrealized Reality
08. 10’38” Mandrugorrah – Lulla-Bye
.m3u-playlist: http://tinyurl.com/a6svo (all tracks!)
Review:
Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly… Falalalalalalaallaah!
Trauma Trance is the second release from San Fransisco based label Mistress Of Evil following the successful Lhiannon Sidhe: A Forest Faerie With A Fatal Touch released in 2004… The promotional text defines trauma trance as ‘music meant to shake you up mentally, meant to stir up emotions and meant to push you forward to new perceptions and ways about thinking’… Rrrrright! Now that we have that out of the way, let’s dig deeper into the music…
Let me take you thru the tracks…
#01: Tsabeat & Optical Human – Madbeat
I have absolutely no idea who these people are, but AFAIK this is their first released track… Anyway, it should come as no surprise that we’re dealing with acid-ridden darkpsy here – with an alleged mad beat… And mad it is indeed… The first couple of minutes are pretty standard, but luckily the track opens up into Babylonian mayhem of heavily syncopated acid-lines laid on top of some mean ass drill&bass… Pretty good track, but I’m not too impressed with that final demented rundown…
#02: Quasar – Brief Psychotic Disorder
“Brief psychotic disorder!” Ahh – good old Quasar! The fractal cowboy who has yet to let me down with his unique, contrast-filled hypertrance… And sure enough – this is an impressive track too… Bursting with raw energy from the very first second and onwards… And not too dark and pretentious – just the way I like it… Reminds me of Kemic-Al, Penta or oCeLot… Top drawer psychedelic night trance with enough variation and funny bits to keep me entertained… Kick ass track!
#03: Alien Mental – SychoShift
Alien Mental is a young dude from India and this is his debut release… The intro is pretty smooth, but I’m not too impressed by the initial bland bassline which sounds like something even Goa Gil would write off as too dark… Anyway, as the track progresses more FX are added and things lighten up a bit… Acid always helps and the break-down is pretty nice… Halfway through there are a couple of minutes when everything gets a little too boring - And what’s up with recycling samples already used by other artists? Anyway, luckily things picks up towards the end and all in all this is a pretty decent track…
#04: Amanda - Meltdown Sequence Initiation
Amanda Wright is one of the co-founders of M.O.E. and also had a track featured on the first release… And holy shit, what a track this is… I haven’t got software to count BPMs, but this must be among the fastest here… Shit, that bassline is indeed hypnotizing and those creepy sounds in the background don’t exactly make things less spooky… So yeah, this is as close to nightmare trance as you can go within psytrance – kinda like Xenomorph meets The Delta meets Cannibal Corpse… Unfortunately the ultra fast-slash-über dark profile of this track doubles as a depressor… I mean, I’m all for darkpsy, but this is really pushing the limits… It’s getting too damn dark! Anyway, whatever you do make sure not to play this track to kids, pets or mentally unstable persons… It might trigger something! Yikes!
#05: Horror Place – Children Of The Night
I have no info on Horror Place whatsoever, but from what I can gather this is another debutant… An aptly named one too, as this is indeed horror-trance… A high-pitched synth stab completely penetrates your eardrums – and leaves you confused and breathless… Holy shit, this is downright evil stuff… Definitely not for the faint-hearted – and I imagine dogs will have a hard time digesting this one too… Repulsive in the most psychopathic of ways… I fear to watch, yet I cannot look away… Blimey!
#06: Xyla – Cyrene’s Ghost
“I was just trying to give it some colour, it seemed so awfully dark! Well, you have to convince people that you’re me, and I like dark!” Xyla is another female producer from the San Francisco underground… And well, yeah, we’re still exploring traumatic trance crossing well over into noise, but where the previous tracks were quite simply too fucked up for my taste, this one sits better with me… Don’t get me wrong, this is still some repulsive shit that would make Squaremeat run up a tree – and that’s meant as a compliment, mind you! Evil, dark, twisted, pounding psytrance – relentless to the core… Biiiatch! Wikkid track!
#07: Ghreg On Earth – Unrealized Reality
Greg Carson from the US is gaining increased respect within darkpsy circles – most recently with the release of his debut album Sigilweaver released by Wirikuta… As usual, Ghreg shows us his industrial take on dark psytrance – avoiding the most obvious noize pitfalls... What we get here is a mixture between dark melodic psytrance/tekKnoid tech-trance and industrial… And no-one does that better than this guy… This easily sounds like something that could have been on the recent AuraQuake compilation Seismic Moods… Something extremely raw, but yet totally well-polished… Hypnotic too! This also doubles as a great tool for setting up your speakers – if they can play this, they can play anything! It took me a while to get into this, but now I totally dig it!
#08: Mandrugorrah – Lulla-Bye
Once again, I have no info on this artist – but who cares; it’s time for a lullaby… The track starts with some soulful singing which is soon brutally interrupted by the meanest bassline this side of the Atlantic… Approaching the two-minute mark, it’s gone completely gabba… Gabba? That’s right; the BPM must be well over 160 on this one, and frankly that where I start to loose interest… The promotional info refers to this track as a ‘sound experiment’ and yeah, I believe that… As such, it’s fun listening to this, but that’s all… I get no aural pleasure from this at all… But I’m sure some freaks will find this entertaining…
Sweet mother of Ghandi! Not since the Overlap album have my ears hurt as much after listening to a CD in my headphones… And this time, I don’t think the compression is off – the music is just so fucking hardcore, that your ears will hate after listening to this at a high volume… My ears are still ringing from that last track… Yikes! But hey, I’m sure there’s someone perverted enough out there to actually find pleasure in those deviant tracks… Hell, I’m one of ‘em!
But, I have to admit that there were a couple of tracks that I didn’t like at all… I never thought, I’d hear myself say this, but a couple of tracks here are simply too hardcore for my taste… Taste is the keyword, and as I mentioned earlier, I’m sure even those perverted tracks will find their audience among fans of hardcore nightmare trance…It doesn’t come any harder than this! So yeah, fans of the darker side of psytrance will most likely also take well to this, but for anyone else I must advice you to sample the tracks before purchase… Whatever rocks your boat – enjoy!
Favourites: 2(!), 3, 6(!), 7
DeathPosture
External links:
Mistress Of Evil: http://www.mistressofevil.com
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/release/574428
Beatspace: http://tinyurl.com/b6n6l
Wirikuta: http://tinyurl.com/chfh6
Psyshop: http://tinyurl.com/cl3t2
Saiko: http://tinyurl.com/9wj7w
Chaos: http://tinyurl.com/aahak
Ajuca: http://tinyurl.com/dvt6k
Juno: http://tinyurl.com/d2naj
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Syntax442
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Posted : Dec 29, 2005 20:37
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awesome compilation!
as i espected. |
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Syntax442
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Posted : Dec 29, 2005 20:42
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2DP Horror Place is one of Alex Matutero projects.
Mandrugorrah - a project from Para Halu dudes |
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Posted : Dec 29, 2005 22:21
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A crazy cd this one. Really good dark psy cd with acid lines everywhere. I don't most of this names but sure is that they have good quality. |
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 01:12
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Wow what an awesome compilation - tracks 2,3,5,6 here are EXCELLENT! more interesting and psychedelic than anything else released this year (on par with a couple of other comps maybe). the Zik track is kick-ass - watch out for two of his albums coming out in February (under Adrenal Glands and Matutero, i believe), he is probably the hottest producer in the galaxy right now. Quasar album also ready - coming out on MoE this spring, afaik.
also I think Tsabeat released a track on Gi'iwa's first comp under a different name, I forget which one it is..
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Memory Loss
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 01:15
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On 2005-12-30 01:12, DiMiTry wrote:
also I think Tsabeat released a track on Gi'iwa's first comp under a different name, I forget which one it is..
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Sattle Battle  .
Anyway amazing CD from MoE  .
Horror Place do kickass and I like alot the Xyla track,and Lullaby is a great ending for a pantastic CD
Keep rocking girls 
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Mistress of Evil
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 10:03
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thanks for the honest review... we can't promise that everyone will love this music as much as we do, but we sure hope so! If its not your taste thats fine too I'm curious to hear more opinions, please keep the reviews coming, your feedback is always appreciated!
Peace
megan
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aje
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 10:33
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Greennun
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 10:44
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very dark compilation here, MOE has really chosen some monster tracks, some tracks for me too are just too dark, but all in all a good comp.
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Saulus Psygoth
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 17:42
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a psychiatic trip trought the underground darkside of the US Trance |
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ohmy
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Posted : Dec 30, 2005 21:34
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tracks 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 remind me why this is the most fun place to be, in the universe, creating music and navigating the space ship.
alien mental's trac is one of the best of the year. I can't fairly comment on quasar's trac, im kind of biased.
Xyla's trac makes me smile a whole lot.
ghregs trac reminds me that life is a farscape episode, and all good things that come with that.
Amanda's trac is what I have on my alarm cloock. good for waking up too.
yeah, keep it up
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rich
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Posted : Dec 31, 2005 07:14
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Hard to pick out my fav's cos I like them all, but I guesss if I step back, I see mainly Quasar's track and that last track as standouts for me.
Quasar for fun psychedelic times and that last track for kicking the shit out of the demons in me. Bring it!
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Jan 1, 2006 00:49
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huh - you want the same 16/32/64/break/16/32/64/break pattern in everything you do? aren't there enough tracks with that same pattern already?
and you're right, I suspect this 'lo-fi punk rock psytrance' thang is what they're going for..
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Syntax442
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Posted : Jan 1, 2006 17:08
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nolightatend
this cd is for home-listeners.
and not for dancing.... |
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Posted : Jan 2, 2006 09:53
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great compilation but the cover was not that great.
Looks quite cheap, but ofcourse its the inside that counts and in this case it was whats in the cd. |
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