I just had the chance to hear some very early Lieb work under his Spicelab alias. I'd heard the name before and I was told they were kinda weird tracks. Well, I just listened to these releases from 1992-93:
A1 The Spirit Of Fear (9:10)
A2 S.Y.N.C (7:50)
B1 Ant Attack (7:22)
B2 Hyperspice (9:33)
Has anyone else heard this stuff? Some of it is really cool and some is just plain odd. I never knew what his early work sounded like so it was interesting to hear, but it certainly is diverse. I know there were a lot more Spicelab productions later including full albums, but I haven't listened to those. Anyway of the above I like these best:
Hyperspice
Quicksand
Spiceinvaders
The Spirit Of Fear
Weirdo
Oct-05-2003 16:45
Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
Wahey, a Spicelab thread
Anyways, I adore Oliver Lieb's works, and Spicelab is one of his more visionary projects, where he pretty much starts off on one sound or synth and just transforms the thoughts that come into his head into music. This is also the reason why most of the Spicelab tracks are so damn long. "Falling" off Another Day On Our Planet (which I just ordered on vinyl ) is like an 18 minute long journey through ambient and trancy soundscapes, where as tracks like Hyperspice are old school trance with a relatively high BPM rate. I personally love the sounds Oliver and the rest of the Harthouse crew stood for back then (check my custom text), so everyone should deffo check out the Spicelab stuff to hear how trance sounded (and should sound IMO) back then.
Yeah, I've been looking into that old German sound lately... stuff like:
Vernon - Vernon's Wonderland
Arpeggiators - Freedom Of Expression
Marco Zaffarano - Supernova
Pulsation - Transpulsation
Mirage - Airborn
Virtual Symmetry - Discovered Theme
Zyon - No Fate
Sonic Infusion - Magnifica
Odyssee Of Noises - Firedance
Metal Master - Spectrum
Braincell - Shapechanger
Classics!
Oct-05-2003 18:18
Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
quote:
Originally posted by starglider
Yeah, I've been looking into that old German sound lately... stuff like:
Vernon - Vernon's Wonderland
Arpeggiators - Freedom Of Expression
Marco Zaffarano - Supernova
Pulsation - Transpulsation
Mirage - Airborn
Virtual Symmetry - Discovered Theme
Zyon - No Fate
Sonic Infusion - Magnifica
Odyssee Of Noises - Firedance
Metal Master - Spectrum
Braincell - Shapechanger
Classics!
OMG I lav!!!! Mirage - Airborn is so damn good.Too bad you missed the replay of an old Sven Väth set from 1993 on HR XXL on Friday,just check this tracklist:
Rich Lee - Rock So Hard (Make The Building Shake) (Direct Beat)
3xT - Aah! (EC)
Hardfloor - Trancescript (Harthouse)
Hooligan & Catania - Oriental (Down Town)
Vernon - Wonderer (Eye Q)
T.I.P - Hyperactive Zero Gravity (Fabolous)
Quoth - Polygon Window (Warp)
3xT - Aah! (EC)
Mystic Institute - GA-752L-P (Evolution/Universal Language)
Resistance D - Human (Harthouse)
Drax - Interior (Trope)
ID
Spicelab - Hyperspice (Harthouse)
Aurin - Morphia (Harthouse)
Progressive Attack - The Secrets Of Love (Harthouse)
Marco Zaffarano - MZ9 (Earthquake) (Harthouse)
Barbarella - Barbarella (Casper Pound Remix) (Harthouse UK)
Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Kid Paul Mix) (Eye Q)
Sven Väth - Ritual Of Life (Tribal Acid Mix) (Eye Q)
Humate - Love Stimulation (Paul van Dyk Remix) (MFS)
Elements Of Trance - A Taste Of Your Own Medicine (Midi-Evil Mix) (C-Level)
P.I.T feat. Ramin - Mental Vision (Afrotrance)
Vinyl Countdown - Parole 2 (Structure)
? - Waste (Ogaku)
ID
Rabbit In The Moon - O.B.E (Out Of Body Experience) (Hallucination)
Influx - VS 128 (Sapho)
Up Above The World - Unleashed In The East (Exist Dance)
Sand Leaper, that set looks pretty awesome indeed! And yes, Mirage - Airborn does indeed rock. I love the bass in the original, it really makes the track for me. At the moment I'm trying to track down some more Spicelab stuff, in particular those long soundscapey ones you mentioned. I'm curious to see what they sound like. And in regard to Harthouse, I do like a lot of their releases but generally I prefer the trancier ones like Airborn, Spectrum, etc.
Oct-05-2003 22:39
speedracer_mec
DeepHouse & Progressive
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Greece, where the good progressive comes from.
oliver lieb is soooooo cool
i miss the old lieb
Oct-06-2003 05:34
Johan (DJ Irish)
dj bum
Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Malmööööö!
Oh those where the days!
Harthouse, Eye Q, MFS, Frankfurt Beat, Important, Choci's Chewns, Noom, early Bonzai, Overdrive, Hyper Hype, etc.
Great labels, great artists, great music and a great era in trance!
Warning! blatant self-promotion:
You do know most of the tracks mentioned here in this thread is on rotation in Di Radio's Classic Techno/Trance channel right?
sorry for bumping this up again, but damn what a great track Spicelab - Two is.
Wicked tech-trancer in the nice Oliver Lieb style.
rarely talked about as well.
Originally posted by RebeL9
sorry for bumping this up again, but damn what a great track Spicelab - Two is.
Wicked tech-trancer in the nice Oliver Lieb style.
rarely talked about as well.
This thread should be bumped just because of the educational value
Mirage - Airborn is so damn good.Too bad you missed the replay of an old Sven Väth set from 1993 on HR XXL on Friday,just check this tracklist:
