Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious

5 ratings since posting on Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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Joyful Girl
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so-so
Not the worst thing I've ever heard, but definately not what I expected from them....... These things happen, right? Give 'em time, they'll kick our asses again. :) - Joyful Girl , posted 08/02/07
Daniel
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I was excited when I first learned that there was going to be a new Infected Mushroom album. I used to be a huge fan. Then they came out with this album. It is not at all the Infected Mushroom I was expecting or wanted. P-ew - Daniel , posted 07/12/07
Thor
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Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
I was an avid lover of Infected until this album. The only thing I can really say is that it does not have any of the edge that all of their other ones do. Some of their tracks will give me goose pimples because it is just that good, not this album. Shame really. - Thor , posted 07/11/07
Twisted
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Has Infected Mushroom offcially sold-out?
For many years Infected Mushroom has been the definitive sound of Israeli psytrance. Heaven's know they are many people's gateway drug into the realm of psychedelic trance and goa. There was a time when their sound was un-paramount. It was Infected who delivered a very hard-driven, guitar-laden, breakbeat infused sound to a genre of trance reserved for spiritualists and neo-hippies. That has all since changed.

It seems that living in LA, playing club venues, and rocking stadiums have upped their ante. Kandi Ravers now think that IM is the shit and unlike anything else out there. Don't believe me? At a recent show at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Los Angeles, there was no room to dance because they packed the area with future psy-ravers. Even more-so than the illustrious and uber-elite super-mega-icon DJ Paul Oakenfold did for his performance on the main stage.

Psytrance has become noticed in the US and the kids want it. Vicious Delicious satisfies that need. Taking it for what it's worth, it's great floor filler material to convert a younger generation to psytrance. Younger being speculative, of course. It's the gateway drug into a world that many have no clue what it's about. Packaged, programmed, and ready for consumption. Sadly, though. The music dominates any playlist. Everybody wants IM. As a dj, you play it and move on. The dancefloor fills, then clears in confusion.

The "teaser" track Becoming Insane is one of my favorites. If you were anybody of a dj (or knew one), you got the E.P. months ago. For what reason, I'm not sure, a radio edit was included. Then the album version. And two other new remixes of older IM tracks (Merlin and Deeply Disturbed). It's apparent in the track that the IM boys from Israel were spending alot of time South of the Border. The Spanish guitar intro and solo is a nice touch. To be honest, I wish there was more of it (remix anyone). Then there's the lyrical intralogue, "Soy periendo. Por cierto." Translated - I'm losing it, for certain.

And hence where the rest of the album goes. If you're not a fan of psytrance with lyrics. DO NOT BUY THIS ONE. The only track without some lyrical senselessness is a downtempo track. Every other track has some sort of lyric. Pop for the psytrance generation. That's not to say that the beats are bad. In Change the Formality, you hear traces of the old Infected Mushroom. It's bit more on the electro side, which is "all the rage these days" but it certainly fits into the old IM template of "blip-blip-snare-stab".

The title track, Vicious Delicious is another electro infused track but sounding much like what they typically have been producing since the B.P. Empire album. It's highly difficult to mix and is very shifty. Great track if you're into drum-and-bass.

Overall, the album is decent. It is by far the best of this millennium and far better than Converting Vegetarians (ask for review later if you must). Buying the album you must realize it for what it is. It's floor-filler gateway music designed to introduce those without a clear idea of what psytrance is. It's super-imposed itself into world of "progressive" monikers that is easily interchangeable with either side of the trance fence.

But overall (as mentioned above), it's pop music for the psytrance generation. - Twisted , posted 07/04/07

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