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psyreviews
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Soul Vibration #001
Liquid Records (UK)
After making their mark on the trance side with Build Your Own Reactor, upcoming UK label Liquid Records make a stab at the already-crowded downtempo sector. Psyreviews has said it so many times, but in this subgenre a release has to stand out or it drowns. Some will just be head and shoulders above the rest; some will have a unique approach; and some will just have this wonderful energy to it, a certain magic that makes it a strong release: Soul Vibration is one of these.
Ott’s side-project Umberloid kicks off with Exit Chapel Perilous, a fusion of dub and blues that works wonderfully. The midsection have a cute little melody that’s held back from soaring the way it wants to, like it’s being tethered but still allowed to fly. Reality Staircase’s Sodium Stones is a nice, drifting piece with a good mulch of heavy sounds somehow balanced out to create a mellow vibe, and Slackbaba’s Dubterrania shows why this is an act making waves at the moment. Deeply psychedelic, and retaining a ‘live band’ feel, the way it all somehow hangs together is incredible. Think dub with only the bass holding it all together, peppered with more sounds than you’d get from a coachload of hippies who’ve just eaten a stash of burritos.
Red Seal are up next: if you’re familiar with their output (unjustly thin on the ground if you ask me), you’ll know it as a psy-chill version of festival reggae, as though Zion Train stopped taking amphetamines and ditched the female vocalist. Battle For Liquid Space has an escalating chord pattern, over which the track unfolds smoothly, with a slomo digidub backbone underneath it. Classy.
Manasseh’s Ribbit Teacha has been on heavy rotation here this week, it’s a funky blend of reggae, soul, and psychededlia… sort of like a 70s cop show set on samothraki island. Heavyweights Gaudi and Tripswitch combine forces with On The Edge, which surprisingly sounds nothing like either of their solo work – more like a meeting in the middle. It coasts along nicely, with a very heavy groove counterbalanced by some utterly gorgeous topends… sounds you’d expect to find in trance. It’s an absolute belter this one, with enough energy to work as a psybreaks number: respect.
Nagual Sound Experiment I’ve heard a lot of talk about, but Chimera is their first track I’ve caught…. And fuck me backwards with a broom handle if this isn’t corking stuff. Reverb-heavy psychobilly dub-hop. Shpongloid intricacy. Magical truculence. Dig?
Organismic’s Joos Harp is a fucking dream of a track, it’s breaks with a spread between tecchy, fluid, rudeboy and dreamy. Funkier than your mama, it’s got that perfect amount of everything to make a very, very special record. Graham Wood’s Mori Morma is a more standard psychill tune, loaded with (probably) sample-CD-ethnic-wailing. Finally Greg Hunter’s Neuro Feedback is a clever construction with plenty of what sounds like live drumming, up against a mesh of sounds and grooves underpinned by a huge sub bassline that sounds better the louder it goes.
All in all, this is a very decent effort, with some stellar highpoints going on. Soul Vibration doesn’t make any claim to be a spiritual journey, and is best viewed as a collection of different styles than a continued meditation across a theme.
That said, if you can’t shag to this then I suggest you see a doctor.
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1. Exit chapel perilous - UMBERLOID
2. Sodium stones - REALTIY STAIRCASE
3. Dubterrania - SLACKBABA
4. Battle for Liquid Space - RED SEAL
5. Ribbit Teacha - MANASSEH
6. On the edge - GAUDI AND TRIPSWITCH
7. Chimera - NAGUAL SOUND EXPERIMENT
8. Joos Harp - ORGANISMIC
9. Mori Morma - GRAHAM WOOD
10. Neuro feedback - GREG HUNTER
 
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DETOX
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Posted : Oct 23, 2005 15:31
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Its on my wishlist 
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Posted : Dec 20, 2005 01:38
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Surprised this review doesn't have more comments, since this really is a SPECIAL album. Definately my fave compilation for 2005, full of incredible, fun, infectious, grooving, bubbling, breathing, dubby tunes .
Liquid Records really have done the trick with this one, can't wait for next years albums from Slack Baba and Nagaul Sound..!!
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liquid ross
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Posted : Dec 20, 2005 18:55
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ok so a little biased that this is an amazing album ... and label! ... But .. here are some personal thoughts and review on this release ..
well ... ive had this since just before the summer, and still it sits in the CD player in my bedroom and also makes a nice soundtrack while driving back after a party ... for tracks ive heard for quite some time .. it amazing!!
overall i would say Red Seal (feat Chester Cat from Leftfield) is my fav ... true stadium epic style..
i had an amazing chill down my spine playing this through the trees on the Glade Stage, at Glastonbury Fest this year through it's wopping soundsystem handing from a crain! wow!!
this track is a rework Mix of track one from the Red Seal album.. and the two tracks (both short..) make for a fine mix...
Track 2 .. woooooo ... this was created by a good friend of mine, and also one of the few heads that where present on a certain psychedelic night that was truely awesom, and the next morning we formed Liquid Connective ...
strangly enough he is a Policeman now .. but i head he had enough and going back to writing music... 
the Nagual track... wow! Cameron here has a fine and promising future .. this gingle track, teasing and intelligent.. another fav of mine ...
great stuff here ... really proud of James aka Liquid Djems who put it together ,, .. ive seen him since we were at college together before the days of trance defining his path and vision, and a lot in this album reflects much of his intentions and to see it out and reviewing such positive feedback is a proud moment for this Liquid !
id give it 9 / 10 myself ...
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Posted : Feb 15, 2006 13:25
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Aaaaaah finally the first hearing of the proper CD, haha I was fed up with the Saiko samples...
More comments soon but I agree with you people about the Red Seal one, hehe.. A bit less with psyreviews about the Graham Wood one, I mean, it can sound standart but no so much in the end, hehe, and most of all it's just massive !
I'm really happy with it, and will play a few of them in germany this week-end, for sure !
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