This inflationary offer makes it the listener more and more difficult to pick out the raisins. Firstly, the collector must always expect that he stand a good part of the offered material already in the closet, because the top tracks are recycled several times as a rule. Secondly, you have to be a mathematician to figure out that in this mass can not be all quality. Especially the first two pipeline products fall for some time on the fact that they also provide a disproportionate share of pure filler next few killer tracks and a few good numbers. Unoriginal, faceless and interchangeable tracks with primitive, unimaginative beat patterns, the same old bass line, 1000-before-heard sequence successes, uninspired melodic fragments and used without rhyme or reason sound effects and samplers. And even when the content better compilations succeeds fewer DJs to do their main job satisfactorily, namely to create a coherent compilation, where the tracks go together atmospheric and sound, in the order of tracks gives a comprehensive dramaturgy in the one has the feeling that everything is exactly the right place and so and does not have to be different.
PSYPOD proposes exactly the same line. Here you can hear that the two mixer Montagu and Golkonda taken a lot of time and have used in the selection and arrangement of care - the whole double CD unfolds from start to finish as a unified whole. The pieces move around the lower beats-per-minute range of trance spectrum, flowing calmly there and are very relaxed, hypnotic, economical (but not minimalist) and repetitive, but what must be equated with boredom and lack of imagination by no means. The changes taking place as a very subtle slow metamorphoses - this is almost always set to techno cyber sounds. The so hard to be described with words, progressive "Vibe" is consistently available and ensures that the electronics are somehow warm and "human" rübergebracht.
The consistently high quality and characterful tracks, all of which have their own profile and brand recognition, it is difficult to name highlights. At the very beginning Cafu provides almost an object lesson of how monotony and diversity together, by skipping even remotely reminiscent of Steve Reich come blown over. The acclaimed underground Dualsnag convinced with a crystal clear balancing on the borderline between Progressive and Psychedelic and with two titles representing Human Traffic show that it is possible even today, original, fresh and new sounding while still expectations Progressive Trance scene fully meet.
The pieces are mixed together without a break, much to the delight of the home listener, which can thus be lost nonstop in the subtle, with great attention to detail designed soundscapes. The transitions are so artfully succeeded in some cases, that is at once the next track and does not quite know how is there actually got there (- as John Digweed has demonstrated in his work of the century "Transitions" in complete perfection). When remastering was done, the whole thing to miss a full round and rather dark sound (similar to Tantra Trance Vol. 1), which invoked the progressive "Vibes" brings even more effective. If you want to pick holes in this wonderful double CD necessarily something then that two of the tracks are unchanged already appeared on "Progressive Goa Trance Vol. 4" for YSE.
PSYPOD is the best compilation that has long been out of the house YSE. Everything fits together: selection, compilation, mix, atmosphere, sound. More there do not really need to be a success both at home demanding listeners and the Club consumer - hopefully. In any case, there is absolutely no risk that this compilation like so many other flies in the corner after a few Hördurchgängen. Just great!
