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Nadia Ali - Embers
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| Nadia Ali - Embers |
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Max
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3 Mar 2010 |
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**Warning** If you are an emotional person this CD will go directly to your heart!
This CD is a solo release from Nadia who was formally with the band iiO. She has a very intoxicating and mesmerizing voice. The tracks on this CD are very well written. Some of the lyrics will cut deeply into your heart (warned earlier). It's very well put together and a very good CD. I enjoy listening to all the tracks.
One last warning, If you listen to this alone - make sure the wine does NOT stop pouring. I hope you enjoy her music as much as I do.
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E.S. Posthumus - Makara
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| Makara - Wonderful! |
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Max
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23 Feb 2010 |
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1. "Kalki" 3:05 - COMMANDING
2. "Varuna" 4:17 - VIGOROUS
3. "Unstoppable" 3:04 - POWERFUL
4. "Durga" 3:41 - DOMINANT
5. "Manju" 4:18 - INSPIRING
6. "Kuvera" 4:05 - FORCEFUL
7. "Ushas" 3:55 - INTELLIGENT
8. "Lavanya" 3:57 - STRONG
9. "Vishnu" 3:38 - BRILLIANT
10. "Indra" 4:18 - STOUT
11. "Arise" 4:12 - POTENT
12. "Saint Matthew Passion" 3:38 - ROBUST
13. "Krosah" 4:50 - INGENIOUS
14. "Anumati" 3:19 - WONDEFRUL
15. "Moonlight Sonata" 5:30 - IMPRESSIVE
See above adjectives for review - nuff said.
The most compelling music I've heard - EVER!
Enjoy!
Max
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| Uplifting Trance at it's best |
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Max
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8 Jan 2010 |
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Simply incredible. Gives me goose bumps everytime I hear this track. 6 headphone vote!!
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| Anjunabeats Volume Seven (By Above & Beyond) |
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Max
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26 Oct 2009 |
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Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Paavo Siljamäki are GODS!! They continually seek perfection with each of their releases and ABV7 shoots to the top of the list. This CD is destined to become a classic. I listened to the CD over a weekend and could not turn it off, it was very hypnotic and it’s very listenable to even the faintest fans of Vocal and Trance audiences. The first track of the first CD starts out somewhat slowly but builds up into the rest of the CD and each track just gets better and better. The first disc has more of Downtempo feel with great rhythm and beat however tracks “05-Terminal 6” and “06-Tonight” are sure to get you moving. The last three tracks on the first CD bring in a more Uplifting Trance feel. Track 12 “Anjunabeach” is an A&B original. Which is all for the better for a lead into the second CD. The second CD simply explodes! These guys know exactly what they are doing. It’s a perfect balance of Vocal, Uplifting, and Downtempo Trance all rolled into 14 tracks. I could not find a track I did not like on this CD or the entire two disc set. In a word it’s simply BRILLIANT.
I give this CD a BIG FAT 5 stars, EFM does not have a higher rating but if it did this CD would be at the top.
Enjoy,
Max
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| Global Underground 030 Paris - Nick Warren |
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Max
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12 Oct 2009 |
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- Amazon.com Review
Who but Nick Warren could be tapped for Global Underground's landmark 30th release, a journey through downtempo trippiness, silky minimalism, and sparkly house, set against the backdrop of the City of Light? After all, the Bristol spinner had already been at the controls for no fewer than six GU releases, and his last outing (GU28: Shanghai) blew the doors off most everything else released in the genre that year. On Paris, he returns to the haunting, spaced-out soundscapes that made his Reykjavik mix (GU24) a series favorite. The first disc goes downtempo; the backward melodies and marching psychedelia of Tripswitch's "Strange Parallels" make the case that the album should come with a drug interaction warning, while Joey Fehrenbach's "Being Around You" hypnotizes with a synth line that tumbles through the stereo spectrum like a waterfall in slow motion. Disc 2 gallops from the gate to the glacial sighs of August's "I Miss" and the eerie vocals of Blue Fountain's "Sweep" that chant "I'm your sorrow...I'm your shadow." Later on, Oliver Moldan and Isma Ae's "Fivefivezero" pounces on the unsuspecting with a relentless, pulsating lead and Eelke Kleijn's "8 Bit Era Dub" swings harder than a prizefighter. On display through it all is Warren's affinity for pulling the truly innovative and strangely compelling tunes from the ocean of often derivative electronic dance music, leading one to believe that if there are vinyl shops in alternate dimensions, he has likely rooted through their crates. Like his other GU releases, Warren's Paris begins to reveal its secrets only after a number of listens--but fans of this DJ's DJ would have it no other way. --Brent Kallmer
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A perfect fit of music with this CD for EFM. Every single track has a groovey housey beat. I hope EFM is able to add more of his music to the library.
Enjoy!
Max
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| Twice in a Blue Moon - WOW |
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Max
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9 Oct 2009 |
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- Trance.nu Review - October, 2008
Ferry Corsten's third artist album under his own name has arrived. The anticipation is high for this new Twice In A Blue Moon album, because Ferry has announced in various interviews that it will be more trance and melodic than his previous album L.E.F., which was a nice experiment. But it didn't have the impact Right Of Way had back in 2003. We count twelve tracks on the album that will guide us through the mind of Ferry Corsten.
We kick off with Shelter Me, a gorgeous track we might say. Some light beats, with a funky touch guides the listener to the first minutes before we encounter a very nice and emotional breakdown. A very warm track which truely, as Ferry stated "sets the mood and pace for this album". After the gorgeous start we find Black Velvet, a vocal track that combines a bit of dance and trance elements into one. Vox are provided by some Australian girl named Julia. This will probably be a love or hate track for many, I just couldn't get into the vocal part, but the production is quite nice alltogether!
We Belong is a fun track with a nice party atmosphere. Corsten took an ancient Italo Dance record from Fun Fun and twisted it into a nice dancetrack with vocoded Maria Nayler vocals. I just loved the feelgood atmosphere in this one. I am pretty sure many people will call it cheese the first time they hear it, but it takes a few spins to appreciate the catchiness of this track.
And then we arrive in "System F territory" with the truly magnificent track Gabriella's Sky (for background info check the Ferry interview on this site). A stunning and atmospheric trip which slowly grows into a breakbeat trancer, but it's a featherlight track all around which has became an instant favourite of your reviewer.
Made Of Love is the track which is pretty big hype on the net right now, as a video on Youtube shows Ferry Corsten spinning the instrumental version. This album, ofcourse, features the vocal version. The vocal by Betsie really adds to the dramatic feel of this monstertrack and is in my opinion just as good as it's instrumental counterpart. A very pure uplifting trancerecord.
Ok the party is really starting now with Radio Crash, a track I recently reviewed on Trance.nu, you can find the review here. The title track of the album, Twice In A Blue Moon is just a fantastic uplifting trancetrack that more or less builds on from the track Sweet Sorrow from Right Of Way, with the notice that it's bigger, more brutal and much deeper! The main melody is a bit distorted, but sounds exceptionally clean. Many producers manage to drop such a main melody into a puddle of nonsense sounds, but this tune is exactly the way it should be. Very well thought out, spacey, danceable and still atmopheric.
Phew ok, let's get gear down with Feel You, again with Betsie on vocals. It's not the most memorable track on the album and the vocals might not appeal to everyone, but the little melody in this tune is just too sparkling to not like it. Track number nine is Life, which is for me the only really disappointing track on the album. It sounded a bit like Ferry was trying to produce a Sander van Doorn track here. A tad minimal beats for the first minutes, which are a bit boring. The breakdown is quite nice and delivers a nice atmosphere, but the vocals by Ben Cullum really put me off. Not very much happens in between those breakdowns either.
Brain Box is up next, one of the bigger party records that Corsten released the past years. In the Netherlands this track was released as "The Race" and it has been in alot of Ferry Corsten sets the past year. It's either a love or hate tune, but you can't deny the dancefloor impact of this track with that Kernkraft 400 like melody. Still a great record, just don't listen it everyday
The final two tracks are just amazing. Shanti opens with a great shaman vocal (pretty oldschool) and transforms into a deadly dancefloor weapon in the middle, where a really pretty melody pushes the track to great heights. Another big favourite on the album. The closing track Visions Of Blue is for me the best peace of ambient work I encountered the past months. It has to be heard to be believed how amazing and deep this two minute song is. I repeated it at least 25 times.
Conclusion
This album is perfectly balanced and feels very warm and atmospheric. Also the album feels very personal and emotional at some times (Gabriella's Sky, Visions Of Blue), while it pretty much ravages dancefloors with tunes like Twice In A Blue Moon and Shanti. A welcome return to the trancier sound for Ferry Corsten and I think much of the tranceheads will be satisfied with a purchase of this album. Buy this album but watch out for your cd player, cause it might eat this disc, because it's just so damn tasty!
Tracklist
01. Shelter Me
02. Black Velvet
03. We Belong
04. Gabriella's Sky
05. Made Of Love
06. Radio Crash
07. Twice In A Blue Moon
08. Feel You
09. Life
10. Brain Box
11. Shanti
12. Visions Of Blue
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I wasn't a huge fan of Ferry Corsten afer listening to his L.E.F. CD that was mentioned at the top of the review. However, this CD should bring him to the fore front of Trance listeners around the world. This CD is FANTASTIC!! Great grooves, great beats and his mixing is superb. A very well balanced CD from start to finish. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Max
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