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I heard some were surprised that I was willing to rerelease that album in 2015, when I was still part of Suntrip Records, despite that very critic review. How is that possible? Was it just a money thing? Are we frauds? Well, no: it's been 25 years since my review above, and ooh it does feel like someone else wrote it! To me, in the pre-2000 era, the best Asia 2001 album remains "Live". And I never liked Râ or Strange World although they have some very interesting moments. At the time I thought Psykadelia was cheesy, and yet, in retrospect, I would still rank it as the second best album of Asia 2001. I should have phrased it like that. The 6.5/10 mark? Quarrelsome at best. I know there are other reviews of mine that are hasty and negative or that may have hurt the artists themselves and I am sorry for that. I was young and stupid. Fast forward 15 years, I remember calling Gilbert myself, telling him we were interested in re-releasing Psykadelia because it was a landmark in goatrance, and I was sincere. Tastes and perspective change with time. In 15 years, the student me living in Paris where so many great and big-headed parties were taking place, became a worker, a husband, a father, moved abroad, lost a mother, got a cancer, made difficult career choices...and in the meantime became a label manager, met artists, visited studios, and realized all the sweat and blood it took to make music. 15 years to learn the value of certain things. And there is still room for improvement even today. On that November 8th 2000 I had no clue, no empathy, no hindsight, and was certainly too arrogant to accept that album is kick-ass!

1993, what a great track. Collab between Laurent Garnier, Shazz (Aurora Borealis), and St Germain: