This is the stuff right here. If you haven't heard it yet, well what are you waiting for? It will send cosmic shivers through your melting brain. Tune in, turn on your fluoro neuro SpongeBob synthesizzlers and re-adjust your brain-waves to the incoming stream of alien disco music. It's beyound comprehension how two Dimension 5 albums could be released in 2013, what are the odds for that to even happen? Well I don't know, let's just be thankful that they were, and appreciate that we now have a juggernaut trilogy that is the Goa Trance equivalent to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. And with that said, let's move on to the music that this rare event in space and time brought us.
Synthonic Switch is epic, and a proof that those who claim that key-changes are a no no, are nothing but nay-sayers with no appreciation for emotional Goa and transdimensional alien traditions and culture. Another aspect of this album and D5's work in general that I really appreciate is their use of the good ole TB-303. This little silverbox has seldomly sounded as good as it did in the hands of D5. The signature styled D5 kick drums are here as well, as expected. They really honed their craft and created a very distinctive sound, where every layer and pattern has an unmistakenly unique Dimension 5 character. The sounds exhibit a glowing quality, as if charged to the brim with star radiation. And that might explain why one track even has the aptly chosen name "Alpha Particles".
From the wikipedia page on star radiation:
"The energy produced by stars, a product of nuclear fusion, radiates to space as both electromagnetic radiation and particle radiation. The particle radiation emitted by a star is manifested as the stellar wind,which streams from the outer layers as electrically charged protons and alpha and beta particles. Although almost massless, there also exists a steady stream of neutrinos emanating from the star's core."
Caprica is another brilliantly shining Goa gem, which leaves light trails in the night sky as it catapults the listener further into the far reaches of space. It sounds like something that was dropped off in our galaxy by entities from a fifth dimension, waiting for another sentient organism to discover it. And thankfully the space division over at Suntrip Records HQ managed to retrieve the alienesque message and decipher the alien hieroglyphics, and somehow convert it to a frequency spectrum that is audible for us humans. They were of course aided by the Dimension 5 crew in this effort, as they posses the necessary experience in cosmic music translation.