Fucking brilliant album in all aspects. These guys are gods of their sonic craft.
A lack of appreciation for the this album only shows a lack of understanding of how music is made.

Can’t wait to get my physical copy of the cd.

Cloudwalker - 18 May 2009 05:22 AM

Fucking brilliant album in all aspects. These guys are gods of their sonic craft.
A lack of appreciation for the this album only shows a lack of understanding of how music is made.

Can’t wait to get my physical copy of the cd.

I have been considering putting a disclaimer on my original post, because those were really just first impressions. I can’t stop listening to this album, and it shows so much promise for a completely new style of music for the wave of people awakening their consciousness…. This album really is epic.

Cloudwalker - 18 May 2009 05:22 AM

Fucking brilliant album in all aspects. These guys are gods of their sonic craft.
A lack of appreciation for the this album only shows a lack of understanding of how music is made.

Can’t wait to get my physical copy of the cd.

You sir, nailed it. I’m on my 19th listen says iTunes. Wahoo!

Got my CD from twisted today ! 

This album is fantastic !
Energetic and uplifting psychedelic heavy grooves of PsyDub / AmbiDub with some Space Rock flavours. These guys exploded on stage, shooting intense psychedelic and emotional beauty.

The new arrangements are excellent and well performed, and the new tracks are great as well and also well executed. It’s impossible not to groove along when listening to these fat delightful bass lines which Youth plays beautifully and to David Nock’s very energetic and dynamic drumming ( an excellent performance by this drummer ! electricity is one way to describe his performance, Nock and Youth are a strong and solid rhythm section ) and of course also to these warm sticky, fat and liquid synth textures and lead sounds which are manipulated in a masterful way by Posford and Ott alongside with the other electronic wonders by them as well, and beautiful luminous guitar work by Jackson and Posford that fits together with everything, in that twisted swirly way.

The production is top quality as always from twisted. Excellent mixing and mastering.
It’s always a pleasure to hear a well performed and produced Live album.
I don’t know how this performance really sounded to the people who were actually there, but the album sounds Great !

I have only one complaint and it’s not about the music.
The graphic design on the cover and back side is very nice and provides the basic info ( who did what and so on ) but the whole CD package in general is quite minimalistic ( and not in a good way ).
This is the first time a Live CD is coming out from twisted and it’s a recording from a very big event, so I think it was nice if a booklet was included with photos from the show and stuff, you know.. like photos of each band member in a cool groovy position from the show and in the bottom of the photo the info - Ott - Beats/Synths/Fx and so on..
and maybe a picture of all of them together performing on stage and a picture of the crowd.

Anyway, the music is wonderful !

I can write roughly the same as the last few posts. I got my cd earlier today. The arrangements are brilliantly done. The bass is not a let down and is complemented well with the drums. The synths and fx are truly above greatness. I love Cicada is so very Ska films type of music feel. I thought I had Lock, Stock or Snatch on I’m now on Solstice.

Apart from the people dissing this release, because seriously I can’t fathom why, the only thing I’m pissed about is that I missed this show and didn’t see it live.

This was definitely worth waiting on. This really is a true masterpiece. Great performance and well produced
Above all thank you to SiP, Ott, David Nock, Youth(Solid bass dude, don’t listen to those complainers) and Jackson. I wish I could of been there

it’s the kind of albums you can dance with but also you can just laid-back and dive into it.

anyway,like I said before,I really love the new arrangements !
and again, the new tracks are Great as well and I can feel some Ozric vibes in ” Cicada ” and I think that the Space rock vibe is floating here and there the entire album, and I love it. 

cheers !

Dark Persuasion is driving me crazy!
It’s like an audiological orgasm for the mind.
Best track of the album IMO.

I LOVE that growly bass stab thats panned to the left.
I’m just trying to decide if it’s a synth, or if they sent youth’s bass through fx…
Either way, it’s nectar to the ears.

Edit: yeah, it’s definitely it’s own synth…

This is well worth your piddly little $8.99 to download… such a paltry sum when held up against the stunning epic sonic onslaught that is this CD…

It was indeed rearranged for (mostlly) non-synth equipment to actually be PLAYED LIVE by real humans! Perish the thought! Well it works… it really works, brilliantly and it is exhilarating… the thrilled, drugged up huge-crown noises are all there where they ought to be, adding to the exitement…. parts sound like some futuristic crunching Heavy Metal from an alien planet… there are a number of back-and-forth solo tradeoffs between a soaring & uplifting guitar and a drowning & hynotic keyboard that left me shaking my head in amazement of their excellence. And flights of airy and/or frightening fancy inbetween. This record is really something to behold.

Anyway, “Cicada” in particular sounds like a genetic hybrid of PsyTrance and some flavor of Heavy Metal.  Extremely cool and and fast and addictive.

Next track Solstice is quite a tour-de-force… changes from reggae-dub… then just a percolating synth, but in comes wierd percussion rifs, then an obsessive bass line begins at about 3:20 drums get heavier and heaver, swirling synth choruses, back in alien heavy metal territory again… then… melodic synth lines and we are in a heretofore never heard hybrid of reggae dub + heavy metal + PsyTrance… as the track slowly rolls out of momentum, you can hear the crown going wild since I am sure their brains just almost exploded….OUTSTANDING!

I could go on and on, but really, alot of this is too out there to even describe… just spend the measly $9USD and listen for yorself.

WOW WE GOT ALOT OF DICK RIDERS IN HERE. seriously im just as big as fan as the rest of you but its not that good…...fuck…opening my consciousness? youre smoking crack. masterpiece? no. me not being able to understand good music cloudwalker? NO. you guys are just easily satisfied i guess, which shows more of why this album was built up to something it wasnt supposed to be.

oh and this comment made my week… [size=4]“Anyway,

Dimethyl, You are full of unfathomable amounts of fail.
Trolling faggots need to gtfo of this forum.
If you have something good/meaningfull to say, great.
If you’re going to act like a pissy little kid, then you’re in the wrong place.

On a good note: lovin the Gamma Goblins live version!
I heard Simon play it last year during a dj set at the Roxy.
Sounded fantastic then, and even better now.
Dare I say I like it better than the studio version?

While I do not agree that Cicada sounds like a hybrid of Psytrance and Heavy Metal (it’s not really psychedelic, and it’s more ‘electro-rock’ than metal. Same for Rent Boy), I fail to see where it gets ‘cheesy’.

When is music cheesy? I googled for some definitions and it seems like the general definition for cheesy music is low-quality, easy and cheap music. Well, you might not like Cicada, but you cannot say it’s cheesy in that sense. It’s not like you hear this kind of music every day on your popmusic radio/TV (which I associate with cheesy).. Nor does it have cheesy lyrics or anything. It has unusual synths, excellent drums..

O yea and for the rest I quite agree with everyone about the tracks being alright, and I also think the original basslines could/should have been played more, but maybe I just need to get used to it.
I like the new tracks, especially HiD and Dark Persuasion, but also like Cicada and Rent Boy. But maybe that’s because I also listen to (progressive) rock music and several kinds of metal. The drums are a very pleasant surprise for me on this album.

I think it’s not a great masterpiece, but worth your money. I’d rate it 8-. Downsides are the basslines and the lack of new elements in the tracks we already know. Upsides are the drums, the new tracks and the ‘live’ energy, which gives a different experience than electronic studio energy.

O yea and everyone (but especially some people) don’t forget that music taste is SUBJECTIVE. Even pop music and R&B can make some people happy in some way. And a lot of people will consider this album BORING. I know that’s weird, but it doesn’t say those people are wrong. It’s their taste, their reality. If there was something as objectively good music then the whole world would listen to it while it was being broadcasted through public speakers on top of the lamp posts. And we would have world peace.

Dimethyltryptamine - 19 May 2009 01:21 PM

BLAH BLAH BLAH - I’M A SPOILED TEENAGER WHO USES THE INTERNET TO STEAL MUSIC FROM PEOPLE AND THEN GO ON THEIR WEBSITE TO ABUSE THEM ABOUT IT LIKE A WHINY DOUCHEBAG. BLAH BLAH BLAH..!!!!1

So you don’t like the record - we get the idea. Move on. let go. Delete it from your hard drive and never to listen to it again.

There are hundreds - probably thousands - of records I don’t like and so I just don’t listen to them. I don’t get on the internet like some whiny fucking teenage douchebag and piss my pants ‘cos other people won’t agree with me.

Please don’t go on about it like you’re right and we’re all wrong - you just sound like a dick.

In fact, if you want to whine about stuff, go and do it on YouTube with all the other spoiled fuckwit 14-year-olds and leave us to our enjoyment of music.

HiD Live at Brixton - great record by the way. Especially the bass.

The LSD track is just fantastic! Epic!
I can even hear myself in the intro, though it could just as easily be anyone else. But I was there anyway. Great song!

Ya… pretty much everything I didn’t like about this album initially has faded away in lieu of the fact that it is 100% pure mother-fuckin awesomeness. I can’t stop listening to it, and the release date coincided with a reallly nice turn in the weather here in the Pacific Northwest. I definitely would’ve liked to see more wicked bass lines but really everything is just great as it is… wish I could have been there for the set