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Seb Taylor recently released a collection of Digitalis tracks on Bandcamp. It was a very very pleasant surprise. http://sebtaylor.bandcamp.com/album/the-early-years-1995-2000 1. S.P.I.R.A.L. 06:50 2.Kyphi 07:08 3.Figments of Reality (Trance Mix) 06:07 4.Slotek 06:20 5.Spiked 06:47 6.Dr Sembei 05:35 7.Widga 05:47 8.Repeater 06:41 9.The Mind Gap 07:49 10.No Analysis 06:41 11.Ambisquij 05:59 12.3rd State (Freak Bass Mix) 04:25 13.Waving Not Drowning 06:03 14.Satori 07:28 15.What Else U Got? 06:57 16.Magick Mirror 07:32 17.Not Human 06:23 18.Rapid Eye 06:20 19.Repeater (Clone Mix) 06:56 20.Falling Down 06:04 21.Delta Key 07:53 22.Double Helix 06:15 23.Too Close 06:27 24.Loup Garou 06:20 25.Mutagen 06:43 26.Chaos By Design 06:54 27.Osho Drums 06:14 28.Figments (Funkopath Remix) 05:58 29.Telepresence 07:03 30.Soma Junkie 06:08 31.The Improbable Voyage 05:35 32.Yab Yum Soul 05:43 33.Shakta 07:32 34.Somaton 04:29 35.The Siren 06:11 36.Morphology 06:18 37.Serene Obscene 05:06 38.Figments... (Chilled Mix) 06:36 Can't quite believe It's been 25 YEARS since I released my first record! To mark the occasion I have collected EVERY Digitalis 12", Album & Compilation track from 1995 to 2000 & put them into this 'Anniversary' release. Includes Releases from 21:3, Indica, Matsuri, Roost Records, Dragonfly, Flying Rhino, Phantasm & Resonoise Records. BONUS 1: A special 16 page PDF booklet chronicling my own journey through the underground UK Rave / Club / Trance Scene in the mid nineties. It truly was a golden era & I feel lucky to have been part of it. BONUS 2: An (optional) extra download of unreleased demo tracks, old flyers & gig footage from '94-'95. Simply follow the instructions in the PDF booklet if you're interested in such artifacts from the scene ;)* Cheers all! Seb * 'Bonus 2' is still being prepared / compiled, so may require a little patience

Circling back to the original question, I'd like to take a stab at it. Modern comparisons to X-Dream's second album are difficult because most new school Goa trance emphasizes Pleiadian maximalism or Dimension 5's emphasis on whirling cosmic melodies. X-Dream circa 1996 is distinguished by a much cleaner sound palette, sunny melodies (with an occasional hint of something sinister), and those warm, bubbling bass lines that everyone loves so much. I rifled through my collection and didn't find too much along these lines... but two albums jumped out at me: Robert Elster's Still Breathing and Solid Snake's Return to the Source, both released in 2016. Yes, they're both on the progressive psytrance tip, both are slower, but the vibe feels right, and those bass lines are certainly on point. As for MFG, that feels a little easier, since Radical Distortion exists (check Asinar for a representative example of their imitation MFG sound). Maybe Artifact303's Back to Space would also qualify. My gut sense is that there's a fair amount of darker new school Goa trance roughly in this dimension (but I don't really listen to enough of it to know). Finally, some potentially overlooked classics at least somewhat related to either X-Dream circa 1996 or MFG circa 1999: Morphem's Out of Focus, Noosphere's Radiated, California Sunshine's Flying Eye Land, Menis' Temporary Insanity, Passenger's For All Man Kind, and The Auranaut's People Want to Be Needed (certain tracks anyway).

You're probably thinking about Future Prophecy, which was pretty much an X-Dream cover band [edit] around when they released Shadows. Plenty of Israeli projects around the turn of the millennium took a lot of inspiration from X-Dream; I'd say Cosma was the best of the lot (in that he learned from X-Dream and created his own unique sound), but there are plenty of others that might scratch the itch.

Just bought myself this little box of fun!