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Posted by Le Lotus Bleu on Sep-20-2005 07:51:

V/A Magnetic Storm [Groove-Zone]

Magnetic Storm [Groove Zone]

My first impress is negative, coz of the plastic kick sound & the relative flatness atmosphere. I need to pass over the first quarter in order to perceive more catchy elements. It�s especially from the gull�s sample at 4�20 that Mushroom Approach start to grow on me for the second half of the tune more lively.

Kinda strange western film soundtrack atmosphere all along E-Motion Sickness, it�s a bit a like a lost alone desperado in the middle of a desert walking without anymore water in his gourd, starting to get cycling hallucinations, mirages due to major solar exposition of his head under a burning sun.

Optimize is current Sensient style quite similar to Phobial to be more precize (his first track released on Groove Zone), it means rough tones coppled with industrial & cyber sounds, still this assembly line feeling. It�s a bit old hat stuff.

How Low Saruman is easily the heaviest stomper night tune of the compilation. Indeed, i was thinking Magnetic Storm will gather mainly productions going this way with warrior mood & fat sounds but actually & curiously this is the only one except maybe, in a second order, with the Genetic Soin remix & Tetraktys ones. To get the atmosphere more dramatic, obscur & tense , you�ll notice some deep & deaf breath taking sounds after 3�00. You even listen at 5�20 kinda jericho trumpett call to push one step beyond, the overwhelming force track�s feeling.
Around 7�00 some percussions are appearing in the background.

I�ve noticed when titles got a good name, their producers have often put all their creativity for this consequently these tracks sounds very dissapointing. That was the main idea i was starting with the listening of The Lords Of The Strings. So it�s not as smashing as Itaitaiko although it succeed in being percussive too.

Burning Palace is more tech-trancey flavoured than some too tech-housey dissapointing Tetraktys songs on his album. Unfortunatly Tetraktys doesn�t reach again his former techy level as a little background crossover & tech-housey taste still remains in my ears here for me. What would be great  , i wish if he could still produce new stuffs closer to Itaitaiko�s job, i mean like his fisrt hours productions on Sub Machine (Mechanical Unit,Fight Back�).

No In Sense ! got a very evident warm feeling. Like if Setherian & Oxyd wanted to succeed in drawing your attention from the begining, they put the litte typical jingle�s station which annouces you a train is arriving.
The track reveals all its potential after 5�00 (the total lenght is 9�03), more rythmicwith brazilian percussions, more melodic & harmonic in proggy-dubby soundscape. The constrast between first & second half is striking like night & day : all the same elements are present but the prism is different & your perception get modified.

Clutch provides something apart, constrating with the rest, indeed it�s a pure groovy-techy rythmic exercice you�ve got here, i hardly notice the bassline presence, so discret it is. The kind of thing more difficult to appreciate in home listening circumstances & that more perfectly fits in proggy dj mixes. To be very clear if you know Tribal Warrior from Sonic Fusion you have a good perception of PH : not the most easy accessible & apreciated music but something possessing some limited adepts too. In the case of home listening, if you succeed in entering the mood�s track from the start , you�ll catch the step by step progression otherwise you won�t bare it at all i think.

Go Go Yubari, i don�t know what�s or who�s Yubari but reminds me of this film�s cue : Run Run Forest ; if a personn just hope he�s as sympathic as Forest but more clever, just a little bit
However the tune is great maybe more connected to morning than night stuff but who really cares if it�s good, it posseeds with a special symetrical build up (intro/outro).
Nevertheless I have a regret : the voice sample before the outro which brings nothing & don�t suit with the track�s harmony. So from my view, in the Larner�s familly the best prog artist is Fine Diner even if he�s less konwn than Sentient.

While first listening to SHM, i needed to check 2 times the tracklist to find the artist, so much i was surprised coz in my head this sound wasn�t matching with Freq name probably due to these nice twisted-strectched leads conferringa more psychedelic status to this production. Actually, SHM is one of my favorite track on Magnetic Storm, i find it very different from former Freq works.

In this new compilation opus from Groove Zone, the aim is to be more night focused but don�t expect too much heavy pumping beats. Here, the tracks�s spirit keep most of the time this modern, urban vicious circles, muffled sound textures trademarks of Groove Zone, already encountered in the previous volumes, thanks to Metronome�s mastering.
The other particularity of Groove Zone in general & Magnetic Storm due to the night orientation , is the ability of always renewing its track-artist-listing (7 newcomers here for me) from cd to cd without compromises too much on the global quality result.

Everestish Climax :4,7,9,10
Effective ones :2,5,8
7,5/10