Kadasarva is Alex Volkov from Kiev, Ukraina. He has released an excellent album for free on Sun Station Records and available through Ektoplazm, and so you can download HERE. This album was made as a tribute to older psychedelic trance, back when it
began to evolve from the classic Goa trance of the 1990s into the
high-tech industrial/mechanical sound supported by labels such as Flying
Rhino, Twisted, and Blue Room. His influences are artists such as The Cure, Front 242, Aphex Twin, Orbital, Hallucinogen, Koxbox,
Shpongle, Korn, Tool, Tequilajazzz, X-dream, Queens of the stone age,
U.N.K.L.E. To keep the music authentic to the sound of older goa, no standard
presets were used while recording this album, and all sounds and
sequences were created by Alex with analog synths and samplers,
resulting in "full-power old school psytrance with the sheen of modern
production technology".
As soon as the first song - World of Tomorrow - starts to sneak out from the speakers you can quickly hear that Alex has succeeded with what he set out to do with this album: to recreate the non-melodic era of goatrance but still with very high levels of creativity and production. The references and inspiration from the master mr S. Posford himself is obvious in many of the songs (especially when it comes to the basslines, rhytms and quirky sounds that are so in focus in his Hallucinogen - creations). However, this is nothing negative. And the first song is a real nasty stomper! 2nd song - Quaternion - is a bit more minimal and rough, but still with a nice feel and some weird elements. The next one - Cybermind - really embodies the musical heritage from oldschool goa; it´s very psychedelic, is has pumping rhytms, is 10 minutes long and has an interesting break in the middle complete with some nice break beat (now that is something that you don´t hear everyday). This song is also super-intense, crazy and will eventually tweak your brain :P The album continues in the same style, it is high-quality oldschool but with a harder, rougher edge, more experimental and wild, and less fluffy and melodic. I like it! Nr. 6 - Ginger - is also a real treat for your ears and for your mind taking a nice trip to outer space... And so what are you waiting for, fools! Go listen to it now. And see you on the other side!
http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/kadasarva-steamagination
http://sunstation.ru/
http://soundcloud.com/kadasarva
matt-in-orbit 2012
As soon as the first song - World of Tomorrow - starts to sneak out from the speakers you can quickly hear that Alex has succeeded with what he set out to do with this album: to recreate the non-melodic era of goatrance but still with very high levels of creativity and production. The references and inspiration from the master mr S. Posford himself is obvious in many of the songs (especially when it comes to the basslines, rhytms and quirky sounds that are so in focus in his Hallucinogen - creations). However, this is nothing negative. And the first song is a real nasty stomper! 2nd song - Quaternion - is a bit more minimal and rough, but still with a nice feel and some weird elements. The next one - Cybermind - really embodies the musical heritage from oldschool goa; it´s very psychedelic, is has pumping rhytms, is 10 minutes long and has an interesting break in the middle complete with some nice break beat (now that is something that you don´t hear everyday). This song is also super-intense, crazy and will eventually tweak your brain :P The album continues in the same style, it is high-quality oldschool but with a harder, rougher edge, more experimental and wild, and less fluffy and melodic. I like it! Nr. 6 - Ginger - is also a real treat for your ears and for your mind taking a nice trip to outer space... And so what are you waiting for, fools! Go listen to it now. And see you on the other side!
http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/kadasarva-steamagination
http://sunstation.ru/
http://soundcloud.com/kadasarva
matt-in-orbit 2012
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