Avi Algranati is back with a new album!
Featuring 8 brand new tracks, this album is like a tasty rocket fuelled type trance, really energetic and reach for the sky stuff. It melts down and swirls down your mind, and at the same time penetrates it with an awesome twisted pumping funk.
The style varies from funky minimal to full-on melodies and Alagranati's best skill is the ability to melt these opposite styles flawlesly into a single track.
All those freaky, popping noises, very smooth liquid sounds, metallic beats, nice stomp and seemless melodies are there.
The atmosphere and mood are darkish but there is always the wonderful vibe and feeling going down the tracks.
Style: Psy Trance
Released: May 2002/18
Younger Brother - A Flock Of Bleeps
Tracklist :1. Weird on a monday night
2. The receptive
3. Evil and harm
4. Crumblenaut
5. Scanner
6. Even dwarves start small
7. Magic monkey juice
8. Finger
9. Safety zone
10. Bedtime story
Review:Simon Posford (Hallucinogen) and Benji Vaughan (Prometheus) deliver us the
first album of their collaboration Younger Brother. All tracks that Younger
Brother have released previously are also on this album. But all 4 previously
released tracks have been mixed to fit in the album. The first 4 tracks are
ambient/downtempo, the next 4 tracks are trance and the last tracks are 2
short but very sweet ambient tracks. Overall this album stands for very rich
and twisted tracks of Shpongle/Ott sound quality and all tracks contain
twisted voice samples and some have beautiful vocals! And now a review for
each individual track: "Weird On A Monday Night" (T1): The first tracks starts
with a voice sample that sounds like someone suffocating, but wait! The voice
slowly devellopes structure and starts to sound like singing. After 2 minutes
a sweet melody sets in and the music really begins. This is really a weird
track with a lot of humor in it, with strange and funny voices. I couldn't
really get into this one at first but now I think it's a real killer! "The
Receptive" (T2): We already know this one from Backroom Beats, but this
version is quite different from the one on Backroom Beats; it's longer and has
a very nice beat! I don't really like 'real' singing like in this tracks, but
the singing in itself is great.
"Evil & Harm" (T3): I guess this was the
first Younger Brother track to be released, on Demented. I've always loved
this track, but the last 2 or 3 minutes were kinda boring. Fortunately they
cut those minutes off, keeping a killer track! I just love the way they did
those guitars at about 4:00. Also the voice samples and some other samples
have been tweaked in this version. "Crumblenaut" (T4): Oh my God! We got
Michele Adamson singing on this one. "Singing"? Well I don't know how to put
it, but it just sounds beautiful! Listen it for yourself! Next on are 4 trance
tracks. First, "Scanner" (T5): I'd like to make a little comparison here to
Infected Mushroom's new album Converting Vegetarians; all tracks on that album
sound great but none of them seem to go anywhere. Just a big collection of
cool and twisted sounds, but no build-ups, no climaxes. Scanner also starts
out really twisted and IM-like, but this track does build up! After 5 minutes
everything becomes clear and the tracks builds to a great (and twisted!)
climax. A killer! Also, this track has a great basedrum which is banging a bit
slower than normal trance though. The beginning of "Even Dwarves Start Small"
(T6) is mixed with Scanner which makes it difficult to hear all of what that
incredible looooser is saying at the start of this track but don't worry he'll
repeat his line later on.
For the rest this track is identical to the one
already released on Unusual Suspects. This track has a very nice basedrum and
a great beat. A real dancefloor stomper. "Magic Monkey Juice" (T7): When I
listened this track for the very first time I had this CD in my discman and I
was walking through the university hall with lots of other people, and
suddenly there was this voice in the track saying "Let's pump ourselves full
of magic monkey juice and take a trip to spaceland!" And I started laughing
out really loud and everybody was looking at me, but I just couldn't help
myself!
This track is really funny and great for listening with a
headphone; very hypnotic!
It ends a bit sudden though, quite like Infected
Mushroom's "Spaniard"; you don't see it coming the first time but after a few
times listening it seems quite natural. Well I don't think "Finger" (T8) needs
much introduction. IMHO the best track from Unusual Suspects (but it has some
strong competitors on this CD
, and we have 'almost' the same track here.
This track has a very special atmosphere, very cool vocals and crisp clean
sound quality. The ending is a bit different from the original though... At
the end the track slows down and perfectly transites into "Safety ZOne" (T9);
slowed down sounds left from The Finger just continue to be used in Safety
Zone, so they really form a whole. Safety ZOne is a short but very sweet
ambient track, perfectly ending the trance part of the CD. To end the CD, we
get a short "Bedtime Story" (T10): at first this track seems just like a
guitar playing the same over and over again, but try listening with a
headphone and you'll see that it is actually very rich of sound, but still
very soothing. I love to listen Safety Zone and Bedtime Story just before
going to bed, sweet dreams guaranteed!
Overall I give this great album a
9.5/10 rating!
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