Artist: Paraforce
Album: Pentagram Chronicles
Label: Shiva Squad Records
Mastering By: Tryambaka at Big Bellies Studio @ Portugal
Release Date: 21 Sep 2012
Another hard-hitting album to hit the streets this winter from Shiva Squad Crew. Pentagram Chronicles is the latest release of psytrance producer Varun Anand aka Paraforce. This is the 4th release of the label and 5th album release of this producer!! Things seem to just get better and better from this Delhi based producer who is also founder of the label Shiva Squad Records.
The album is a bass driven menagerie of dark mystic mysteries encapsulated by hi tech sonic symphonies. The music is fast paced and gripping. Sequenced rhythmic melodies which propel one to vast distances. The music is characteristic to Paraforce’s style that has been brewing for quite some time now of Heavy basslines and glitch based melodies. The sonic landscapes presented are wicked and perfect for a night out in the wild.
As per the release notes, the focus of this album is on intense muscular psychedelic music specially crafted for extreme dancefloors. It is difficult to narrow down on a best track for the album. Tracks ‘Walkie Talkie’, ‘Further Dimension’ and ‘Psychotic Synthesis’ are worth listening to. The album can also be perceived as a concept album as a there is a string of musical ideas that are common across all the tracks of the album.
Much more aggressively mannered than the previous album release ” Deja Vu” (2011), This album is well constructed sonically. A number of tracks compared
Tryambaka, a well-known psytrance producer from Portugal mastered this album. The work done by him is good. A comparison with the previous album ‘ Deja Vu’ reflects this fact. Mastering plays an important role in the final output of the mix. In today’s mp3/mobile music age, good quality mastering has become a pre-requisite for any release. However, one would recommend to hear this album on good quality speakers to appreciate the details on a higher magnitude.
Concepts behind Pentagram Chronicles:
The Pentagram is a symbol of a star encased in a circle. Always with 5 points, with each point having its own meaning. The upward point of the star is representative of the spirit. The other four points all represent an element; earth, air, fire and water. All these things contribute to life and are a part of each of us.
We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity. We commonly note five senses, sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive five stages or initiations in our lives – birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood and death. The number 5 is associated with Mars. In Christianity, five were the wounds of Christ on the cross. There exist five pillars of the Muslim faith and five daily times of prayer. Five were the virtues of the medieval knights – generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety as symbolized in the pentagram. The Pentagram have been believed to be a potent protection against evil, a symbol of the unseen.
The list:
1.Zithrox – Mad Clowns
2.Paraforce – Walkie Talkie
3.Paraforce – Mega Killer
4.Paraforce – Forest Frequencies
5.Paraforce – Audio Accelerator
6.Paraforce – Further Dimensions
7.Paraforce – Maha Tandav
8.Paraforce – Introspectrum
9.Paraforce – Welcome
10.Paraforce – Psychotic Synthesis
Shiva Squad Records is an independent record label founded In India during the summer of 2009. Head quartered in New Delhi and is managed and owned by Varun Anand (Paraforce). Their aim is to release and promote killer underground acts and introduce top notch quality dark psychedelic sounds organically designed by our team of highly qualified and world renowned sound engineers to all the party people world wide. The music out here can be best described as full power dark psychedelic music which is highly recommended for the power packed night time dance floor experience. At the same time our intentions are to enhance our extraordinary & mystic sensory reality while merging the aural and visual experience into a magical blend that all friends & folks will joyfully remember and pleasurably recall.
Shiva Squad Records has grown to be a well-established label with an increasing number of followers & a solid reputation that has offered many artists the chance to share their music with the rest of the world, and an event organizer, having organized from several parties/gigs to big musical & cultural festivals in India. Watchout for Shiva Squad Festival coming up in may this year. Today, Shiva Squad Records is growing to be one of the finest psychedelic trance labels in India and we look forward to grow into an excellent resource for everything you can imagine in the psy community.
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Saikosounds Enjoy this release with as much fun as I had reviewing it.
