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Candyflip Records in Greece are known for mostly heavy full on psytrance releases. Now they try out something new, by releasing a chill out compilation. It is compiled by Alex Candy, who is the label manager for Candyflip Records. For those of you who don’t know what a candyflip is, it is when you combine extacy and LSD. The trip you get is a candyflip...
Mountain High (Candyflip Records) 2003 (CDCF06)
1. Solar Fields – The Sight Is White
2. Vibrasphere – All Green Seasons
3. Indidginus – Spiritual Spearmints
4. Triac feat. Sharon – Anticipation
5. J. Viewz – Untracked
6. Kick Bong – Incense
7. Nada – Numbers
8. Cell – The Bushman
9. Intocyrcle feat. Wiama – Maui Tici Tici
10. J. Viewz – Courage Wants To Laugh
11. AES Dana – Seaweeds Corporate
First out is Solar Fields (Magnus Birgersson) from Sweden who has released two albums on the French label Ultimae Records. The track we get here goes the usual Solar Fields direction, with deep atmospheric floating vibes. Totally relaxed slow ambient music. Track 2 is by the masters of progressive trance, Vibrasphere (Rickard Berglöf and Robert Elster), also from Sweden. They are also known for some really strong dub tracks on their two albums. The track we get here is not on any of their albums. This is a bit slower than we are used to from these guys, but still deep and dubby with good relaxing melodies. Nice one. Track 3 is by Indidginus (Michael Martin) from UK. This is a beautiful track with a tribal female voice, floating sounds, deep dubby bass and a simple melody. Track 4 is by someone called Triac and Sharon (Michael Reznik, Ilan Lanz and Sharon Safanov) from Israel. Here we get more relaxing dubby down tempo rhythms, and a psychedelic floating vibe. Nice one. Track 5 by J. Viewz is a side project of one half (Jonathan Dagan) of Violet Vision from Israel. He has proved great skills in the Violet Vision project, and here he gives us some dubby chill with ethnic influences. Some Balearic guitar and relaxed rhythms with a floating vibe above. Not as deep as I would like it to be, but okay if you want some café chill.
Track 6 is by Kick Bong (Franck Jousselin) from France who has appeared on several compilations lately. The track we get here is a pretty dark, tribal track, with some weird voice samples and a cool mystic guitar alike sound. Track 7 is by Nada (Humphrey Bacchus and Russel T. Davies) from UK, who mostly releases tracks on the chilled side of Dragonfly Records, Liquid Sound Design. Some of the tracks they have released on the LSD label are really great, but the track we get here isn’t as good as those, but not bad either. Heavy dub rhythms mixed with some tribal rhythms. I’m really looking forward to more releases from these guys in the near future. Track 8 is by Cell (Alex Scheffer) from France who has mostly released tracks on the Ultimae label. Here he goes the tribal way, and give us a deep relaxing track with tribal drums and relaxed down tempo rhythms. Could have been a bit more varied, but okay. Track 9 is by some Greek people called Intocyrcle and Wiama. This sounds pretty groovy with some psychedelic floating guitar and relaxing flute. Experimental and interesting. Track 10 is another track by J.Viewz again. Here he gives us a chilled track with guitar and some vocals he has done himself. The rhythm you get here reminds me a bit of house and I feel that the track lacks of something. The last track is by Aes Dana (Vincent Villuis) who also has mastered this compilation. He has released two strong albums on Ultimae Records, and here he gives us a taste of his totally deep ambient soundscapes. Very atmospheric and pretty dark ambient with experimental chilled beats and melodies. Nice finish on this compilation.
This compilation has some good moments, but doesn’t stand out to be more than an average good chill compilation. Nice to hear that Candyflip Records tries out something chilled for a change.
PK (shivapks@hotmail.com)
