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Posted by Le Lotus Bleu on Sep-19-2005 20:17:

V/A Star Dust [Moonstone]

V/A Star Dust [Moonstone]

Tracklist :

1. Noga � Moksha Mama
2. Blackout � Black Energy
3. Dooper Doopler � Here It Comes
4. Mahamudra � Metal Ethnic
5. Tactic Mind � Troy
6. Visual Contact � Naughty Boy
7. Tripteaser � Heart, Brain & Soul
8. Freakulizer � Summer�s Amost Gone
9. Electro Sun & Brain Damage � Hypnotic Voices

Compiled by Dj F-Rat
Mastering : Dj Bog

1. Noga (Noga Sudai, formerly member of Cosmic Tone) delivers us a groovy morning atmospheric tune with arpeggios for Moksha Mama. Sometimes i feel some leads to be cheesy but it�s globally ok, ideal for a sweat waking or just before the sleep in order to make nice dreams.
2. Blackout (Elad Oahana & Oren Azulay) Black Energy, it�s probably one of their first track, so i should be indulgent, this tune doesn�t fill up dancefloors but also doesn�t clear them out. A skeleton key full on track that could fits in lots of dj sets.
3. Dooper Doopler (Nave Ilia) Here It Comes, i�m shared between the pleasure of getting a new Dooper Doopler production & the very average musical result (full on). We are very far away from the quality of Confused (his first track, much more proggy & morning oriented) but at this time, there were 2 others people in the band (Roy Riback + Maor Haddad) , it explains a lot the difference.
4. Mahamudra (Ran Malka & Eyal Cohen) i was estonished by the tracklenght of this one : over 9 minutes, it�s getting rare today in psytrance whereas it was still usual 4-5 years ago. Indeed i was wondering if it could be a sign of strong inspiration and i was right. As it�s said through the sample �this is serious music�. It�s a brilliant groovy full on production made of a slightly funky bassline, lots of punch, some metallic tones contrasting with a sharpy bouncy melodic lead or a trembling shy synth on the end.
5. Life is sometimes strange. When Ultravoice & Kyo Log were making stuffs together under their artist duo names, i never succeed to enjoy their music. Today they�re taking the name of Tacting Mind for their musical cooperation, i�m digging it. For the sound, take the sound from Art Of Voice album of Ultravoice and inject doses of energy, nervousness & madness inside. Result, you�ll got a good idea about how is sounding Troy.
6. Visual Contact (Dj Bog & Didi Ezra) gives us for Nasty Boy a surnatural bassline coppled with a rythmic trick consisting of a green woodpecker in action (1�50). Many funny twisted sounds are present like a weird fx on a spoken sample in the background you can better hear after 4�38. The whole thing is very lively.
7. Tripteaser (Jonn Jansson) proposes you a funky bassline with an expanded melody. On the 2/3 of the track, there�s a rowdy riff lead. On the final part the track is embellished with an ice block lead, conferring an exotic touch to the tune.
8. Freakulizer (aka Dj Thujon , Simon Schwendeener) i�m pretty sure i�ve already listen to the same melody elesewhere but i don�t succeed in reminding in which track (as always said my grandma there� are only 7 notes in the scale). However it�s a nice effective full on dancefloor stuff with a grating siren lead (starting at 1�20) & the break melody,very refreshing, is made of arpeggios played like the materialization of morning dew drops. Summer�s Almost Gone is largely better than his previous groovy tune with Gataka�Son Pax� appearing on Afula On.
9. Electro Sun (Nadav Elkayan) & Brain Damage (Vik Shagal) for Hypnotic Voices which falls in the club trance side (Electro Sun seems to be fond of old school euro trancey layers), a pity that Star Dust ends up so cheesily (particularly after 4�40) comparing to the rest of the global musical content.

Star Dust from MoonStone records (runned by Dj Bog & Dj F-Rat) is the opportunity of getting some quality stuffs like used to release Com.pact before falling recently into clubbytrance, so you know what good things to expect from this cd & this new label.

highlights by order:4,7,5
then by order:6,1,8,2