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Psy-Fi
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0657098000629
Label: Spiralight
Manufacturer: Spiralight
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Spiralight
Release Date: 2004-01-13
Studio: Spiralight
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Customer reviews of Psy-Fi
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: A space oddysseeeeee.......
Comment: Zero one is too smooth and creamy. I love it with espresso. I feel dizzy all over again. Ambient Trance is so stylish, and timeless. The future is here.....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Tripped out
Comment: I listen to a lot of this kind of music, usually while concentrating fairly seriously on something else entirely. I listen to it at low volume, and without much thought. My acid test for a great album is when I find myself humming along to a tune without remembering having heard it.
Zero-one's soundscape achieved this effect on the second play. 5 stars squared ...
If there's a downfall to this album, it's that it's almost too distinctive. It's so trippy and far out that sometimes it sends me for a complete 5-6 minute mental loop while I'm trying to work on something else, like this review for example.
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Summary: Beyond the Binary
Comment: I'm a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and whenever I pop in a new ambient-trance CD, I think back to a short bit from the Pod People episode of that show. A character named Joel is mocking the movie's spacey New Age soundtrack. Behind him is a wall of keyboards. "Here's how you make a New Age album," he tells his buddy Crow. "Hold down any key on the synthesizer." Crow does. "Now hold down another key." Crow does. "Now hold it down until you get a record deal from Windham Hill," Joel says.
New Age music is a comfy genre to undertake, is the point, a refuge for people with hydrogenated brain pans and the "skill" to find a handful of ethereal chords that can swim sleepily together. If you're talking about background noise for slowly sifting clouds or nebulous universal ballets, it doesn't take much to please people. Anyone with eight fingers can slow-step through a Casio keyboard and patch together a creeptastic theme song for the delicate waver of an incense stick's tangerine fume.
Kevin Dooley, mastermind behind ZerO One, seems to be aware of this. His music winks at the cheesy New Age genre that inspired it, without succumbing to anything other than the minimalist tribal rhythms and thought-scapes that help it transcend the great troughs of trance's wasteland. It's not easy to find, among the vast array of CDs with happy be-fluted hippies and Gaia-glorified album covers, something that's worth owning. I'll be the first to say that almost none of it is really bad; if you want music you can put on and then immediately ignore, most albums will do the trick. But how to find something that digs in? I'm reminded of an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where the gray aroma of a cooling carrot pie slinks through the air to Bugs' rabbit hole, reaches down with dangerously sexy fingers, and pulls him gently backwards through the air, toward its frangrant source. There you go. Don't you want music like that?
Sweet Nag Champa, here are a couple of albums for you, then.
ProtOtype 2 is Dooley's sophomore effort, coming after his eponymous debut, and it's a slyly sublime stitching together of ambient funk with more aggressive psychedelic dub-work. Dooley doesn't let the rhythms waver into the insubstantial mists common to most dreamy chill-out mixes. Songs like "innEr spAce" and "seArch" sound like they're heading into the well-worn treads of trippy territory, but Dooley swings the melodic arc around at the last minute. It's an album that keeps you off your guard; it's good to spread your toes to, but it refuses to dwell in subconscious realms. The album is bookended by the best cuts: "pOssibilities" with its creepy cheeky congo-counter-rhythms, "memOry" with its nasty nascence (and a saxophone at its carmelized core; perhaps a nod to Dooley's first experience with a musical instrument), and "mOdule" with its funky come-hither come-down. There are some progressions that stretch out to breezy thinness, where the ambience wears itself to thread-bare dimensions, but Dooley doesn't wait long to fatten those moments up with his trademark turns in tone.
"pSy-fI" is, for my money, a far more accomplished record, a melodic novel of dewy jungle jazziness melded to an aura that is laid-back without being lazy. Although most of the tracks on "ProtOtype" are great, they don't really measure up to the stellar equatorial warmth of "pSy-fI"s spiritually cerebral lankiness. "COntinuum" is as slow and expansive as a jet plane's vapor trail. "TransfOrmation" grinds through xylophonic chorales with a sexual flair. And "causalitY" (my favorite track), is a one-track snapshot of the entire album: a tribal shoulder-mover, a nimble neck massage, a solar story with fifteen chapters. Even better, "pSy-fI" contains animations (although some are a little low-rent and cheesy) and four mp3 bonus tracks, all of which are stellar additions to the rest of the disk.
Trance, New Age, Chillout ... call it what you will; "artists" for years have been using the label as an excuse to churn out passively pointless and unremarkable "music" for years. Do yourself a favor: grab some ZerO One and discover just what it means to be entranced, relearn the "new" in New Age, and see how warm and exciting even a "chillout" album can be.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Petty Cool
Comment: Zero One has always been great chill electronica. Psy-Fi lives up to the awesome chillness of the other albums. The nice thing about Psy-Fi is that there's a bunch of bonus material on the disc. Four bonus mp3 tracks and some simplistic audio/video loops provide the listener with a sonic voyage into downtempo relaxation. Good Stuff! If you're into chill music and like downtempo electronica, you should check all Zero One has to offer.
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Summary: Parente on zerO One pSy-fI
Comment: Track 1-transfer: (industrial) The vision of the conveyor of the steel process to the pinging test of the tuning fork.
Track 5-transformation: (stasis) In my science fiction memory here you have the absolute conditioning of the flight crews hand-eye co-ordination in preparation for the next days tasks.
Track 9-causality: (robotic) I see the endless accomplishments of the robot(ic) companions that a space crew teams with.
Track 8-consciousness: (imagination) With sci-fi as we know it, growing from the universe, what would be out there and where are the packaged radio signals would stopping, and where the queries that we hear are coming from.
Track 3-contimuum: (demonic) The religious side of it all is always overpowered by the offense of the darker side; floating in space one wonders: which are we closest to.
Track 10-megalomania: (mathematics) In response to a computer magazine article I read, this piece brings to mind a "here-here" for "The Computer" working in a cognizant self thought state; the computer system that is relied upon.
Track 2-robots: (intellect) The ?question? of the supervisor in an office, raised up on a steel veranda, peering down at the mass of industrial machinery that appears in his view, wondering,
Track 4-bu_ist: (communication) Definately a narrative of the lengthy crew-to-family talks from outer space to the Earth.
Track 7-dreamworld: (guidence) Possibly the documentary of the flight, as the craft neared it objective. Similar to the opening pages of Startrek Enterprise......
Track 6-reality: (of the mind) How does a person perceive what Science-Fiction is? I say the black and white television of my younger days has left a larger void to the imagination than today, where it is created for you (the perception).
Overall I like the zerO One pSy-fI disk and will look for more of the same in that area.
Paul E. Parente
paulparente@hotmail.com
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