Immortality CD by Cybertribe

This Album will convince you that the didgeridoo and techno were invented for each other. Ancient instruments and themes touch the heart; trance and world beat rhythms move the feet. Built around the theme of a psychic journey, Immortality fuses past and future on a voyage through time and space, and boasts some of the best dance/trance grooves around!

The first thing you'll hear on this 50 minute, 8 track disc is a didgeridoo, followed by a child offering you welcomeÏÏ As you might expect by just the name of the new label 'New Earth Beat' an offshoot of New Earth Records, the first release, Cybertribe's Immortality is a combo of old values and new equipment. World beat, dance and electronics. New age vs. laid back techno vs. world, in equal drive. Not a disco album. A chanting, highly pop composite of all things unexplained and magically delicious. Headed by John Deere, Cybertribe's method of crossing the culture line can be best expressed in 'Outland' with chants like Native Americans, a spiritualist rhythm against machine-made loops that more enhance than get in the way of anything ancient.

More subtly, try the acoustic lead-in to 'Finding the Magic Oyster' which slowly builds to its own sense of minute awareness, as if discovering a great and majestic world around itself. An audio eye opening to an un-peopled land that crashes with Oriental splendor and 360 degree wistfulness. Indeed, the album is a plethora of colors, sniffs and moods that all race together to the mind like a bulging burst of oxygen, causing visions at once, and streaming video that plays on a one to one basis, different for every mind that listens, and every heart that tries to figure out the sounds. GREAT way of starting a new line. I personally hope Cybertribe gets all the radio play it deserves and wants, and then more than that. Incredibly gifted and perceptive. Deserves to go top 20, if talent had anything to do with it."

By Ben Ohmart - Musesmuse.com, 10/13/01

Cybertribe's second release on New Earth arises from the creative genius of John Deere and features his collaboration with renowned European underground artists. The material and inspiration for this recording comes from the notes of a shipwrecked sea captain who spent 14 years in a cave in Tasmania. There he found petroglyphs detailing the crash landing of an alien spaceship from the Andromeda Galaxy 30,000 years ago. Deere happened upon the captian's journals in an antique shop in Amsterdam and followed their pull to the original cave, where he engaged in a psychic journey that is recreated in this album. Musically, the journey is mythic and sweeping, employing a majestic range of tone and tempo. Grounding sounds of the didgeridoo, along with vocal samples, augment the journey. A range of emotive textures emerging from the sounsdcape engender a sense of mystery, while drumbeat, stringed melodies, and the didj's sultry call come together in a unifying horizon."

MTB, The NAPRA Review

Hypnotic, rhythmic, early and yet otherworldly. Such is the musical voyage on which we embark with Cybertribe as they envisage the travels of alien life forms that survived a crash-landing on earth some 30,000 years ago. Didgeridoo, flutes, drums, synthesizer and human voice combine in a mesmerizing presentation of both trance and various world beats from the lilting 'welcome to the Journey' to the flowing transition of 'The spirit of Earth Continues' and the pulsating drums of 'Reaching Motherland.' Dance with the spirit of the Natives, or fly with the souls of the otherworldly strangers."

Michael Woodhead, Synchronicity Magazine

An absolutely amazing album with an even more amazing story. Musician John Deere has composed a journey of mystical, infectious, trance based on journals found in an antique shop in Amsterdam that tell of a crash of an alien speceship in Australia some 30,000 years ago. The craft was from Andromeda, a sister galaxy, and carried a crew of 300 with only 25 aliens surviving. This totally swiched-on album recreates the psychic journey that unfolded. The sound is hypnotic, timeless and will blow you wide open. Comes complete with an mpeg video that is cinematically gorgeous and can be played on a PC or Mac. Couldn't recommend this more."

Vision Magazine - Nov, 2001

Techno meets the Australian outback in this production from John Deere, the driving force behind Cybertribe. Pondering immortality and Cosmic phenomena, Deere creates music that is transcendent, offering a contemporary spin on the mysterious sounds of ancient Aboriginal cultures by mixing them with modern ambient atmospheres. The didgeridoo is an underlying feature of each track, which range from trippy worldbeat ventures ("Welcome to the Journey," "Outland") to hauntingly acoustic ("Seaside Travelling") with the use of guitar and flutes. A hypnotic album that bridges the gap between earth and space, Immortality beckons one to close their eyes and open their mind."

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