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│ Infected Mushroom - The Gathering │
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│ Artist: Infected Mushroom │
│ Album: The Gathering │
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│ Ripper........: XiX │
│ Supplier......: XiX │
│ Genre.........: Psychedelic │
│ Style.........: Psytrance │
│ Ripp.With.....: EAC 0.9 (Beta 4) │
│ Encode.With...: Lame 3.92 │
│ Quality.......: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Full Stereo │
│ Company(Label): Brand New Entertainment │
│ CatalogNr.....: YOYO32-2 │
│ Url...........: www.infected.co.il / www.infected-mushroom.de │
│ Date..........: 07.02.2003 │
│ StreetDate....: 01.03.1999 │
│ Type..........: Album │
│ Source........: CDDA │
│ Tracks........: 09 │
│ Playtime......: 74:04 min │
│ Size..........: 115,2 MB │
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│ ┌─────────────────────────────[ ReleaseNotes ]───────────────────────────┐ │
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│ --== Review ==-- │
│ Finally the long awaited album from this amazing duo- Erez Eizen │
│ (Shidapu, Shiva Shidapu) and Amit Duvdevani (Duvdev). They have been │
│ spreading tracks around in some compilations making our appetite grow, │
│ and now the whole thing is here- and it was worth the wait! │
│ This is the new thing for me- a new sound in trance, a new sound in │
│ Israeli trance- complex, original, intelligent, emotional, happy and │
│ full on dancing stuff! │
│ The CD starts with Release Me, for me this track is just a soundtrack │
│ for a short mysterious movie. Someone is locked down there somewhere and │
│ he wants to be released, he breaks out and starts running, they are │
│ after him (those dark zipping sounds), but he keeps running- will he be │
│ saved? I won't tell you the end of it, I'll just say that it's worth the │
│ wait. │
│ The Gathering (T2), is a beautiful track that builds up slowly and in a │
│ very powerful way, adding sounds woven together to a brain killer │
│ melody. I love all those little percussion effects all around and the │
│ completely out of nowhere xylophone (or something like that) playing in │
│ the middle and building up to the explosion- a work of a genius! │
│ Return of the Shadows (T3) has a funky jumpy feeling all along. A lot of │
│ surprising sounds all around and a great ending. Blue Muppet (T4) is a │
│ real fun track, with the mysterious creeping sounds that make the │
│ Infected Mushroom sound so familiar every time you hear it at a party. A │
│ great guitar line in the middle fits just perfect and then you get that │
│ beautiful melody to end it. Beautiful work with melodies, like in the │
│ rest of the CD!!! There are real musicians at work here. │
│ Psycho (T5) was released on Goa Gil's Forest of Saints Avatar, 1998), │
│ but there it's only a short mixed version, here you get the full real │
│ thing- and well, it's PSYCHO! Montoya (T6) was released on UFS. Here is │
│ a remix of this track, love that piano and how it fits so well with │
│ those heavy psychedelic sounds. │
│ Tomy the Bat (T7) is just a great track, probably my favorite here, the │
│ name and sample comes from the legendary Primus' cat. I got no words- │
│ just listen and enjoy this intelligent and emotional beautiful music. │
│ Virtual Voyage (T8) is actually a mix of Shidapu's old track (was │
│ released on SST- The Light of Shidapu)- not that you would recognize │
│ anything but the melody. My friends and I call it 'the electric farts │
│ track' (listen and try to figure it out), great energetic track to turn │
│ up the party with powerful psychomelodic build up- great melodic work- │
│ One of my favorites here. Over Mode ends this CD, it's a mix to Overload │
│ (released on Full On 2) with a bit of a different ending. │
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│ Recomendation: A MUST!!! There are some already released tracks here, │
│ but even these ones appear in new remixes. The album as a whole is a │
│ creation- it is so intelligent, complex and full of surprises. It might │
│ take some you time, but dive into it, and if you come back you won't be │
│ sorry! I can't wait for the next one. │
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│ (Reviewed by Shahar from www.isratrance.com) │
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│ Hands down, best thing that happened to psy-trance since "Twisted". We │
│ were getting so lost in the weird nuttiness of X-Dream-influenced │
│ German-style psy-techno that we forgot what trance is all about. │
│ Trance is about grabbing you by the ass, spinning you up so fast and │
│ shooting you up so high, you're starting to wonder if you can go much │
│ faster and higher than that. These two boys prove that you most │
│ definitely can! My first real exposure to them was at their first live │
│ US appearance back in September. Before that, I've heard a few tracks │
│ here and there, but didn't think much of them. After their show and │
│ after REALLY listening to their album, I finally realised that this is │
│ the long-awaited new direction in psy-trance. So bouncy, uplifting and │
│ melodic, yet so hard, subtle and complex. And the best part is, this is │
│ only the beginning. I'm a total fan of everything these guys have laid │
│ their hands on - collaborations with Deedrah, Space Cat, Jorg, SST, │
│ Goblin! , remixes of their own tracks prove that they're only starting │
│ to explore their creativity. Eagerly awaiting the new album (which │
│ I've already ordered from BNE, but since I'm in the US, it's gonna take │
│ a while). │
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│ (Reviewed by vm@alphatrance.org in February 9, 2000) │
│ (Taken from http://goatrance.free.fr/reviews/gatherin.htm) │
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│ ┌──────────────────────────────[ Tracklist ]─────────────────────────────┐ │
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│ 01. Release Me 08:29 │
│ 02. The Gathering 07:44 │
│ 03. Return of the Shadows 08:13 │
│ 04. Blue Muppet 08:09 │
│ 05. Psycho 08:39 │
│ 06. Montoya Rmx 08:20 │
│ 07. Tommy the Bat 07:29 │
│ 08. Virtual Voyage 08:25 │
│ 09. Over Mode 08:36 │
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│ 74:04 min │
│ 115,2 MB │
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