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Megalopsy "The Abstract Machine"
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Trishula Records in Germany is out with their second release. This time the debut album by a group from Argentina (!) called Megalopsy. They also had a track on the first Trishula compilation, called Ignis Fathuus. Megalopsy are three people, Alejandro Santander, Matias Benamo and Nicolas Dibernardo. They follow the dark side of psychedelic trance.
Megalopsy "The Abstract Machine" (Trishula Records) 2005 (TRISHCD002)
1. Chaos (Intro)
2. Obscure Warlock
3. Fractal Circus
4. Goblin Grin
5. Juggling Spheres
6. Pachamama
7. Monkey Supernova
8. Space Cadet
9. Devenir Cosmos
10. Cosmos (Outro)
First we get some sort of intro to the album, which are some bubbling sounds, some kind of scary horror movie vibes, deep bass, and a twisted voice sample. Track 2 brings us further into the horror movie theme. Pure, dark, scary sounds, and a rolling bass line. Not much melodies, just weird horror sounds playing around above the bass line. This is a kind of trance that many psytrance people like these days. Some say it’s more psychedelic, but in my opinion it’s just more noise. Track 3 is more pumping. Here we get the noisy vibe too, but also more trippy sounds and some better melodies. Still, very dark with a horror movie theme through the entire track. Track 4 sounds almost like it isn’t beat matched correct. For me, this becomes way too annoying. The rest goes the same dark, direction, but with even more noise. Track 5 is a pretty fast, very intense track. In my opinion, this one is one of the better tracks on this album. More variety and better ideas. Still, this is not the kind of trance you should play for someone new to psytrance…
Track 6 goes more drifting, but here we get less variation. Intense, almost gabba techno style, far away from any light melodies. Track 7 continues the almost gabba like intensity. Well, you should not be depressed when listening to this… Dark and darker than dark. Track 8 has a pretty cool horror movie theme. Stumping beats and a floating, scary vibe above. Reminds me a little bit of some tracks by X-Dream. Definitely my favourite track on this album. Track 9 is a bit more massive, but some of these sounds reminds me way too much of hard house, which I hate. Extremely intense sounds all the way through. Not my cup of tea, but maybe something for the speed freaks out there… The last track we get on this album is some kind of outro. This is a kind of industrial track that keeps the evil, horror movie theme to the end.
It seems like the trance marked is flooded over by really dark, Russian style releases these days. Some say it’s just kids fooling around with reason, who are not able to make other than weird sounds… Others say it’s good night time music. Personally, I find a lot of it really simple and boring. On this album, there are a couple of tracks I could play in the dark hours, but usually I prefer a little bit more creativity in melodies.
PKS (shivapks@hotmail.com)
