Yotopia - "Connect the dots" (Iboga rec. march 09)

On 2009-03-31 23:40, A.Rosengren wrote:
I like offset alot

On 2009-04-04 07:16, Steve00 wrote:

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On 2009-03-31 23:40, A.Rosengren wrote: I like offset alot

Yeah that one is the best.... nice groove!

Peyote®: How an album cannot be fresh but it's unique... to be unique has to be fresh right?

Different things mate. An album can be fresh, but yet, not unique.
And the other way around too...

On 2009-03-17 17:51, GuyShanti wrote:
Yotopia were umong the very first people in Israel to make prog trance and as such has made ALOT of prog trance over the years. in recent years we all went through the phase of searching for new inspiration in a musical world that has become a bit boring to be honest and we found this inspiration in the realms of techno, electro and prog house. i dont want to get into a "whats better" debate but the fact remains that its very hard not to be influenced by these genres when opening a new project and as time goes by to do more and more in that direction - slower, more minimal and using a slightly different set of tools and sounds to achieve the desired result.
i know for a fact that the Yotopias got totaly bored with doing the psy prog bass lines and the psy influenced sounds on a daily basis. Can u blame them? if youde be cooking soup every day, there will come the day you will want to cook a steak.... and if the steak is tasty and u enjoyed cooking it - youde probably do it again and again. and so - when the guys came to doing their 2nd album the question was - what album shall it be? the guys stayed true to their hearts and did the music that interest them to do.
they didnt do it cuz they think it will bring them more money or gigs or whatever... we all know the score and whos against who so that wasnt the reason for the sound/style change. it was a pure musical decision.
they worked very hard on this album and the high quality result is not hard to hear...

so now comes the question - why do ppl go against this album? ive spoken to a few ppl who love this album - they listened to it with a desire to hear something fresh and groovy from Yotopia and they got exactly that - fresh, groovy melodic music based on ideas which range from a huge veriety of origins. unfortunatly ive spoken to quite a few ppl who said they dont like this album. when i asked them why they dont like it, the responce was never "cuz the trax are not good" but always "cuz they changed their style".

that made me think... this responce came from ppl who in many cases are techno lovers, ppl who told me on many occasions that they too are bored with psy prog and with trance in general... strange... i think the problem is that when someone changes something and all of a sudden its hard to categorise it in a familliar box, the reaction is usually negative. instead of actually listening to the music and judging it for what it is, ppl project their "knowledge" on the ppl/genre/label/whatever and dont listen to nothing but "what bpm is it in and whats the bassline like - tech or prog..."

well let me tell you thats its the wrong way to listen to music...

as a tech album it sux cuz it not techno, and as a psy prog album it sux too cuz its not a psy prog album either... its not progg house and not electro for sure... so what the fuck is it?

why do u need to care so much about that?? let the beatport ppl break their head about how to categorise it... you have to ask your self - do i think THE MUSIC is any good? and the answer is HELL YES. its good music, well produced, groovy and with a sense of humor...

so like George Michael said - listen without prejudice (eccidently the name of his 2nd album too) when u come to hear this album, and i promise you that if you dont think too much while listening to it you will love it.


have a groovy day
G