Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception (2005)
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Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception (2005)
Label:Sundance Records
Catalog#:SUNDCD027
Country:Australia
Style:PsyTrance
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Недавно мы выкладывали очень хороший альбом проекта Talpa, вышедший на SunDance Records; сегодня мы представляем вам другой релиз этого австралийского лейбла - дебютный альбом канадского проекта Nystagmus (Matte Gillard) под названием "The Immaculate Perception".
Он получился, на мой взгляд, очень интересным и неординарным по звучанию, выгодно отличаясь от того пситранса, который сейчас заполонил музыкалный рынок. Стиль, в котором написан альбом, представляет собой сочетание психоделик транса с симфоническими и эмбиентными фрагментами. Мне альбом очень понравился, прямо-таки зацепил не по-детски. 
Слушаю уже 2а дня подряд, никак не могу остановится. Особенно хочу отметить Ananda, Soulgasm и Consciousness, последний просто реально сносит башню. 
Для меня, без сомнения, один из лучших альбомов года. 10/10
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Australian SunDance brings us their fifth CD, second artist album, the first one was Talpa and now we are introduced to Nystagmus. Previously released at VA - SunDaze and VA - Vibraspirit 23, both SunDance Records and there's also a remix of Talpa's "Dragon Tale" featured on VA - Rehashed released by Boom Records in 2004. Nystagmus is audio engineer Matte Gillard from Vancouver, Canada. He has 16 years of formal music training and has been instructed in a wide variety of instruments. In 1995 he began creating electronic music and has been performing live electronica for over 5 years. After being trained as a stage performer at Douglas College, he began studying audio engineering at Simon Fraser University. He worked for several years in the movie industry as a post audio engineer at Pinewood Recording Studios, learning invaluable lessons in the art of auditory psychedelia. In Nov. 2001, he purchased his first PC. 91 days later, he completed his 'pre'-debut album, and one week later he was contacted by Sundance Records. His debut album "The Immaculate Perception" combines three dimensional ambient noise construction, classical scoring, and psychedelic trance to produce a uniquely hallucinatory experience. We hope you enjoy. (Information from his web-site) Nystagmus - A rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball. #01: Ananda "Ananda" was one of many principal disciples of the Buddha, a devout attendant and was renowned as the Guardian of the Dharma. We start our journey through the album with the track called Ananda. Track begins with a melody played on piano then symphonic sounds come into play in the background. After the beat starts you can hear Matte play with various FX and sounds. As for the melody, it's more melancholic and a bit even depressive. Slowly it builds up to a very melodic piece and ends with the same symphonic sounds. #02: Tommy is Dead Poor Tommy. The track starts with a radio playing, like it was tuned and then it is destroyed by someone annoyed with that sound. Once again you hear piano-like melodies and symphonic background sounds. The samples used in this tune remind Talpa's "People Are Animals". Norator talkes about Tommy Forester who wanted to be an engineer and had a high iq  "His problem was acid". In short the story looks like this: A friend told him to try LSD, it would give him fantastic sensations. He tried it... and his friend was right. The air was filled with rainbows. Colorful particles were coming out of the speakers. But then he looked in the mirror and something horrible happend. He saw half of his faced running away, so he was scared. He looked around the room and everybody were becoming monsters, everybody knew what was happening to Tommy because he was screaming and describing what he was seeing. Someone was trying to stop him, but he thought they were his enemies so he tried to run away to another room. There was an opened window looking out on a roof of another building. He thought he could jump on it and escape... it was 18 floores to the ground.
If you imagined the story in your mind, you can easily image the melody - dark and twisted, numerous effects and sounds underline different moments of the story to make it more colourful. ...Tommy is dead 
#03: Things That You Don't Want To Do Here we have a short sample, there are like 5 of them through the album. This one is 52 second long and is about LSD and it's really very funny 
How can I get you to take it if you never taken it before? See they can try to trick you, couldn't they? They can say "Thiiisss willl reaaallly make you feeeel goood", wouldn't they? "Here's something for you to make you feel reeally good." #04. You're Messed Up Track starts off with the beat from the first seconds and female vocals like "Mm" come into foreground shortly. Psy-scratches! Imagine that? No? Listen to this one. They drive you almost insane and they would do that completely to you if they weren't interrupt by words "God you're messed up!". Then the new groovy sound starts taking us to the nex cimax. Numbers of sound are added making next minutes like a journey. At 5:20 beautiful melody starts, it may remind The Muses Rapt somehow. A very very nice one. More agressive pads come out from nowhere. Beautiful track. #05: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor Another melodic track by Nystagmus. Matte has developed unique bass-line and his every single track can boast of it. Lots of twisted sounds here, this one sound more like an epic tune. #06: The Marijuana Cigarette This is a short lecture on marijuana and why to not a car while beeing stoned Funny tune with a funny voice.
#07: Weird Noises What can I say? It's full of weird noises and vocal samples put through many filters on them saying "Halllluuucinatonn..." and "Unusual noises". Also a guitar here... and it sound nice It's distorted a bit and many noises on it making this track really... wierd. I can't copare it to anything. Tonnes of samples and effects here.
#08: Never Turn Your Back Begining reminds me of oldschool sci-fi movies with strange electronics and computers making funny bleeping sounds. Propelling sounds build it up to a full on bass-line Well, it's not full on actually but very alike Vibe Tribe's "Albert Balbelt". I mean the melody first of all. Samples from Fear and loathing in Las Vegas are used here. "One of the thing you learn after years of dealing with drug-people is that you can turn your back a person but never turn your back on a drug!". But there's definitely more than one melody here and a nice melodic climax at 6:58. This track may sound simpler compared to the rest but still it's hell of a track!
#09: This Is A Recording This is what your hear if you call someone while on acid and hear a female voice on answering machine
#10: Soulgasm Soul + Orgasm. Very melodic tune. Nice sounds take you for a journey with a couple of climaxes right from the start. Nystagmus may sound very similar to Talpa and that's a fact, but if you talk about emotions that's a different story here. Talpa is darker and mysterious, Nystagmus is more colorful and twisted. #11: The Waltz Of Talpania A psychedelic waltz
#12: Consciousness Awesome start for an awesome track. Starts with a melodic bassline - very uplifting, very psychedelic, sounding like Benza. This one is full of stereo effects so it will surely sound amazing on high volume. Melodies lead you to the end of the track. #13: Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 25 Sample from a movie about LSD and the army. You can find it on most p2p networks. The movie shows british army trying LSD on their troops. This is audio from that clip. Also a military march here
#14: Reality The album ends with this tune taking us back to the reality. Just like on every journey, on the last day before going back home you start to miss the place, people and your trip. This tune brings you such emotions but still it's very uplifting in the end. A perfect last track, imo. Well, SunDance didn't disappoint me, that's for sure. Nystagmus brought us very psychedelic piece of music. It's very melodic, experimental and full of soul in every sound. It's about emotions here. It may sound similar to Talpa or even a mix of Benza, Vibe Tribe, The Muses Rapt and Talpa, but still it's unique. Matte is the ultimate acidhead. I mean listen to this music, look at the cover
I haven't heard anything so twisted and psychedelic for a long long time! I just wish there was more such high-quality music! I don't like putting marks, but I'm sure it truely deserves a "9"... at least 8.5. |
::Tracklisting::
01 Nystagmus - Ananda
02 Nystagmus - Tommy Is Dead
03 Nystagmus & DJ Megan - Things That You Don't Want To Do
04 Nystagmus - You're Messed Up
05 Nystagmus - Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor
06 Nystagmus - The Marijuana Cigarette
07 Nystagmus & Shean Skead - Weird Noises
08 Nystagmus & Flora Ware - Never Turn Your Back
09 Nystagmus - This Is A Recording
10 Nystagmus - Soulgasm
11 Nystagmus - The Waltz Of Talpania
12 Nystagmus & DJ Willow - Consciousness
13 Nystagmus & Grant Baker - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 25
14 Nystagmus - Reality
Total Time: 78:24
My favorites:1(!),2,5,7,8(!),10(!),12(!!),14
Rating:10/10
Nystagmus - The Immaculate Perception (2005)
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