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After the clubby sounding Tranceporter release by Perplex, Trancelucent Productions in Israel is back with a new release, this time a compilation called Buckle Up. It is compiled by the founder and label manager of Trancelucent, dj Homsy.
Buckle Up (Trancelucent Productions) 2003 (TP-006)
1. Cosmic Tone – Your Destination
2. Ultravoice Vs. Kyo Log – Take-No-Logic
3. Illumination – Meditation
4. The Misted Muppet – Amsterdam
5. Visual Paradox Vs. Perplex Vs. Jeremy – Buckle Up
6. Noga – Extensive Survey
7. Evil Drug Lords – Feedback
8. Electro Sun – Prophet Vibes
First out is a new track by Cosmic Tone (Roei Nissan). This is a really groovy stumper, with deep going rhythms and pretty dark sounds swirling above. Good to hear that Trancelucent is back from the terrible clubby sound… Track 2 is by Ultravoice who released his debut album (Magic Sound Factory) on Com.Pact Records this year. Here he has collaborated with Kyo Log. Typical Israeli style, how it sounds these days. Groovy heavy rolling bass lines and pretty dark psychedelic sounds going in and out of the track. Then we get a track by Illumination (Amir Dvir). This is a pretty hard banging track with cool psychedelic melodies. Track 4 is by Misted Muppet. They do it a bit more melodic, still with groovy basslines. The melodies lighten up a bit. Track 5 is a full on track by three guys (Visual Paradox, Perplex and Jeremy). Dark and heavy track. In my opinion one of the best tracks on this compilation. Track 6 is by an artists I haven’t heard of before, Noga (Noga Sudai). This is a very drifting track, with nice going rhythms and some floating sounds. It builds up a little bit too, and becomes pretty melodic. Track 7 is by The Evil Drug Lords (Guy Youngman and Dudu Atrash). This is a really heavy stumper, with some nice melodies above. The best track on this compilation in my ears. A new guy called Electro Sun (Nadau Elkayam) finishes this compilation with a full on melodic track. Not bad.
This compilation gives us a pretty good picture of what Israeli trance sounds like today. I enjoyed the Empty Hand compilation a bit more than this, but you get some good stumpers in this compilation too, so check it out if you are into new groovy Israeli stuff.
PK (shivapks@hotmail.com)
