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Maia Records is out with their second compilation, or actually their third, since it was called Sound Sorcery Records before, and they released one compilation under that name (Time And Space Pt. 1). As usual the compilation is full of pretty well known psytrance acts.
The Maia Factor (Maia Records) 2003 (MRCD02)
1. D-Tek – Data Error
2. Sesto Sento – Freakshow (Gataka Remix)
3. Pixel vs Intelabeam – Methaminimal
4. Altöm – Access
5. Polaris – Alice In Wonderland
6. T.C.D. – We can Still Make It Change
7. D-Tek – El santo Pt. 1
8. Skazi – Flying Saucer
9. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (GBU) – Mescalito (GMS Rmx)
First out is one of a few Mexican artists, D-Tek (David Durst) who is probably most known for his pretty special track (Psychedelic Cowboy) on the Assassi:Nations compilation on TIP.World 2001. The track we get from him here is not that weird. Very groovy and not much varied. Very much like the Alien Project style or maybe I should say Israeli style. Track two is by Sesto Sento (Matan Kadosh, Aviram Sahari & Itay Spector) from Israel, who is everywhere these days on a lot of different compilations. The track we get here is typical Sesto sento, with heavy rolling rhythms all the way. You get some more psychedelic sounds in this one, but I miss some more variation. Track 3 is by two others from Israel, Pixel vs Intelabeam (Eli Biton Tal and Danny Keinan). This one sounds a bit more melodic and hard banging. It builds up and we get breaks. Best track on this compilation so far. Track 4 is by another group who has released quite a lot lately, Altöm (Alexis Cornet and Thomas Dubreuil) from Paris, France. This track starts nice and floating, before the groovy rhythms starts rolling. I like the sounds in this one, floating in and out of the track. Track 5 is by Polaris, also from Paris, France. This one is faster. Reminds me a bit of the GBU style, with some funky drifting sounds in between the heavy rolling rhythms.
Track 6 is sort of a new collaboration between several well known artists, Thomas Dubreuil (Altöm), Celli Firmi (Earthling and Vatos Locos) and dj Dede. They call themselves T.C.D…. The track doesn`t sound as interesting as I had hoped. It sounds just like most other full on trance these days, but without any crazy melodies. Just really heavy rolling bass lines. Track 7 is another track by D-Tek from Mexico. A fast stumper with full on ingredients I am starting to get too much used to. Pretty good full on track, but it sounds like too much I have heard before. The Spanish voice samples sounds a bit cool. Track 8 is by Skazi (Asher Swissa) from Israel. I have to admit that I am not a big fan of music made by Skazi. I think it sounds too much like some cheesy hard house. This track doesn`t change my mind either… The last track on this album is a well known track (Mescalito) by The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but here we get a remix by GMS (of course). I think I have heard enough of this track already, and another remix by GMS isn`t exactly what I needed. This version sounds more full on than the original and you get the usual GMS sounds jumping in and out of it.
In my opinion, the two first compilations were much better than this. They have for sure put in a lot more Israeli stuff in this one than the others, but I don`t think that is the reason why it`s not that good. I just think the artists could have made some more variation in their tracks, since I know they can do better than this.
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