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Haltya "Electric Help Elves"

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Author: Per Kristian Slagsvold

Publishing date: 21.03.2004 14:39

Haltya is out with their second album on Exogenic Records in Finland. Haltya is a collaboration between Pelinpala (Tommi Sirkiä) and Outolintu (Jürgen Sachau). Here they are out with more funky forest trance for those who want something fresh and different.

Haltya "Electric Help Elves" Exogenic Records 2004 (EXOCD21)

1. Robots Are Good
2. New Age Beachbums
3. Hero
4. Night Of The Carrots
5. Living day Lights
6. Damn Straight (Edit)
7. Allways Ultra
8. Walk In The Woods
9. Kaikados (Haltya Kai Katers Remix)
10. Mean To Me

Exogenic Records keeps surprising me with very different experimental releases. And here is something that really got my atention. The first track starts with some weird 80’s synth sounds and breaks, before a funky bass line starts playing. Can music be more funky than this? Totally weird disco trance, still very psychedelic. Funny sounds and melodies all the way. Track 2 has a more drifting bass line. Funky as hell, with totally happy melodies. This is actually hundred times more psychedelic than most psytrance made today! You get some kind of jazzy vibe with these tracks. Tracks that really makes me happy while listening to them. Track 3 starts with some really funky guitar. This is totally jazzy, still with tons of psychedelic sounds and some sort of housey vibe. Track 4 is a more stumping trance track. Groovy rhythms and funky, funny melodies and sounds. Great for homelistening and funny dancing. Track 5 is one of many favourites on this album. This one is more pumping than the previous tracks. Psytrance with a totally different twist than the ususal stuff coming out. These tracks varies all the time. This one starts with some darker psychedelic sounds above the funky groove. Then after a while we get a light drifting melody that reminds me of some old hard trance or goa, that will make people totally flying on the dance floor. Pleasent for the ear. Great track!

Track 6 is a very drifting track that builds up slowly and become really massive. Here we get some funky guitar and very stumpy rhythms. Perfect for your homelistening or at a happy party early in the evening or morning. This is some of the most interesting psytrance I have heard the last couple of years. Totally fresh and creative. Track 7 has some of the most crunchy psychedelic sounds I have ever heard. Here we get another funky forest groove and a really weird, funny melody. Pretty housey vibe again, but far away from the boring kind. This psychedelic funky stuff makes me smile. Track 8 is a weird break beat track, with jazzy and psychedelic vibes mixed together. After a while, the break beats goes over to more stumpy stuff. Track 9 is another totally funky disco inspired track. This is really nice listening to. You can never get bored of these tracks! There are so much variation, funny sounds and melodies! The last track on this fantastic album is a relaxing, jazzy track with piano and everything else a good jazz track should have. They have also mixed in electronic sounds, melodies and break beat rhythms. A nice, different finish on the album. But if you wait for a while after this track, you get a hidden surprise track too. This one has some voice samples and the funky groove as in the other tracks on this album, but slightly more housey.

This album is defiantely the best album I have heard so far from Exogenic Records. I rarely hear such creative artists in the psytrance scene these days, so this is really refreshing! Tons of variation and new directions in psychedelic music. Thank you Haltya! Recommended!
PK (shivapks@hotmail.com)

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