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"A culmination of one man's extraordinary journey through music and life. One of the most panoramic explorations into the eclectic that you're likely to hear this year, the album is best summarised by the inner sleeve artwork. Featuring a world map printed upside down and in reverse, it questions all of those things we hold to be true. Who said North was up, that white isn't black and that techno isn't rock'n'roll. Who said that a communal hallucination couldn't happen and that 'Black Soap' wasn't a bigger event than Elvis' death. With tracks like the brooding 'Fly to the Moon' with it's contorted strings, lo fi electronica and vocodered psychosis or the dreamscaped ambience of the lysergically charged 'Downward Rush of Streams', the album introduces a new lexicon into the world of psychedelia. On 'Picture This Kind of Her Smile' and 'Waiting for the Train' he draws on Syd Barret era Pink Floyd and bands like Soft Machine, but relocates them in a contemporary setting through the darkness of modern life This isn't a retro hippy trip. It's as much about the world we live in today as the evening news. It's a soundtrack to the madness, the isolated dreams of the disenfranchised and a loss of innocence in our subconscious worlds.'This album is all about how we would view the world if we were all a little bit mad instead of just boring,' Basil (aka Juantrip') concludes. 'It's about what we think is true actually being a lie. In fact the album itself is a lie.'"
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F 116 EP
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"Welcome to the world of Juantrip', where the truth is a lie and the lies are the truth. 'Shadows' is taken from Juantrip's debut album Balmy Under The Stormy. One of the stand out tracks from the album, 'Shadows' is based around a Hank Marvin style guitar riff. Throwing in the unlikely match of a four to the floor kick drum/breakbeat, it sounds like an odd recipe but it is better and fresher for it. Juantrip' breaks a few rules with his own agenda and manages to bring some colour and life to the scene with his multi-layered theatrics. There are some excellent reinterpretations of 'Shadows' on this single. Don Air's superb remix takes the main riff, but strips the track of its four to the floor status, opting for the smokier vibes of dub with its rimshots and emphasis on the bassline. Lov. & Charlie Ride's mix sticks with the house feel, makes it a bit spacey and takes the sound back to the 80s with its tinier production and obligatory off-kick. Finally we have Stoppa & J-Man Droidworks who go for an Electro-breaks vibe whilst keeping the track's deeper feel. Juantrip' is a the colourful sonic crusader who's life has included being abducted by a hippie commune as a child, running the streets of Paris as teenage punk and sharing a communal acid hallucination in his early twenties. His debut album draws on all of these experiences to conjure a unique work which echoes late sixties psychedelia but redresses it in purely 90s terms."
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