Artist(s) .........:: John 00 Fleming
Title .............:: Alter Ego
Genre .............:: Psychedelic
Record Label ......:: JOOF Mantra
Catalogue Number ..:: JM101
Source ............:: WEB
Quality ...........:: 320kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Full Stereo
Duration ..........:: 01:39:51 (229.MB)
Release Date ......:: 09-05-2016
Support ...........:: https://pro.beatport.com
Tracklist .........::
1. John 00 Fleming - Paranormal 9:28
2. Liquid Soul - I See The Spirit (John 00 10:19
Fleming Remix)
3. John 00 Fleming - Mustang (2016 Rework) 9:14
4. John 00 Fleming & Gaudium - First Take 8:43
Off
5. John 00 Fleming - Planet X 9:27
6. John 00 Fleming - The Imperial Echos Of 9:07
Devastation (2016 Rework)
7. John 00 Fleming - Protected By Karma 9:04
8. John 00 Fleming - Desert Rider 8:44
9. John 00 Fleming - Mythological Power 9:13
10.John 00 Fleming - Dawn Over The Amazon 7:34
11.John 00 Fleming & Ovnimoon - Ascension 8:58
Release Note ......::
John 00 Fleming is a man with whose electronic music career has been equal
parts industrious and illustrious. Now spanning two decades or more, he's been
the driving mix-force behind music compilations, now too numerous to count and
- for the larger part - a steadfast advocate of 'the singles school' of music
release. By contrast JOOF albums have been far more the rarity. It's only
comparatively recently that John has come to embrace them as a platform for his
work, first with 'Nine Lives' in 2011 and with its '13 follow-up successor,
'One Hundred Ten [WoKoO]'. 'Alter Ego', though is a one-album-only divergence,
that's wholly distinct from the first two. For its eleven tracks, it sees him
tighten his stylistic aperture to focus an album's worth of material on his
embryonic sound. Introduced to Psy-trance by Russell 'Floorplay' Coultart, the
founder of the genre's ground-forging Transient label, together the pair went
on to form JOOF Recordings. Back in 1999, 'We Have No Reference Of Time' -
their debut studio co-op, marked John's first trip into the Psy fields.
Collaborations with luminaries like Astrix, Astral Projection, Liquid Soul and
Infected Mushroom followed, as have releases on Psy label royalty like HOMmega,
Iboga, Iono and Nano - all of which have marked waypoints in his 'parallel
universe' career. Now, through the tellingly titled inference of 'Alter Ego',
he distills all that accumulated expertise into a full album, which travels the
thunderous byways, equatorial highways and infinitely hypnotic arteries of Psy.
Out through JOOF MANTRA Packed with fluid rhythms, chasm-deep drops, astral
heights and kinetic energy, he delivers Psy with an advanced understanding few
others can call upon. 'Alter Ego' also marks the first long-player to come
through John's new Psy-specific imprint, JOOF MANTRA. As is his nature, it's a
release that plays much like a mix comp - each track making sequential sense in
context with the next and last. Across its firmament, the album leaves no Psy
area uncharted. Numbers like its opener, 'Paranormal', the noir-ishly hypnotic
thrust of 'Planet X' and the humid trance-tropic of 'Dawn Over The Amazon'
typify its deeper, netherworldian Id. Providing 'Alter's super-ego psyche
meanwhile is the furnace-hot Fahrenheit of 'Desert Rider' and 'Ascension'
(opposite Chile's Ovnimoon). Collectively, 'Protected By Karma', 'Mythological
Power' and the album's opening single, 'The Imperial Echoes Of Devastation' see
it cast eyes out East, supplying it with more spiritualistic, shamanic
overtones. John still leaves plenty of track space for the more elevating,
peak-of-the-night fare. His new 2016 remix of 'Mustang' splices harmonics into
its gene, while his 'First Take Off' co-op with Guadium floor-burns with a
magnesium-like intensity.