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Artist: Veasna Title: Providence Label: Goa Madness Records Release date: November 15 2023 1.Seed 10:09 2.Void 08:41 3.Marbles 08:09 4.Glade 08:51 5.Loom 07:56 6.Miraculix: Search & Destroy (Remix) 09:37 7.Shriek 07:27 8.Morphic Resonance: Bad Dreamer (Remix) 09:32 9.Karma 07:36 Veasna, aka Patrick Dinklage, already released 2 full albums on Neogoa: Energy and Spectral Flux. Still have to find the time to carefully listen to those two, but this third installment makes Veasna one of the great. I couldn't resist writing a positive review about this release. The music is the kind that you don't hear at the start or end of a party, but right in the middle of the night. Just when everyone is in his/her own zone. Dark, badass and hypnotic. Pure 100% goa. The mighty 10 min opener Seed sets the atmosphere for the rest of the album. Slowly building into a hypnotic monster of a track. Everything is so natural and organic, it's beautiful. Void is a gem. Deep, dark and so psychedelic. This instantly catapults me to 4AM at any goa party. Goosebumps! A showcase of trackbuilding and story telling. The magnificent Marbles continues in this atmosphere with a punchy basskick. Synths and acid are more prominent here than in Void. Glade is again more similar to Void, a perfect balance between spiralling sounds and deep bass. The acid undertone in Loom is spooky at the beginning, but the track majestically unfolds into a goa stomper no one can resist. Deep stuff right here. Search and Destroy adds more haunting synths. Shriek builds upon a chunky and crunching bassline and shoots acid. Bad Dreamer continues to push you deep into the night with almost an industrial feel to it. Glorious. Morphic Resonance's aggression is still palpable here with an overload of screeching synths. Very well done. The journey ends with the slightly less intense Karma, tunnel-vision like stuff. One that slowly builds, a bit of a mind cracker because of the non-standard bassline. But wow, it does build! And gracefully ends. Providence is a dense pack of serious goa music that goes deep into the soul. Veasna has a story to tell here. The dark overall touch, the heavy bass machinery and psychedelic spirals make this a unique experience. A proper tribute to night time goa. My winner for 2023 and maybe for many years to come. Buy on bandcamp: https://goamadnessrecordsofficial.bandcamp.com/album/providence

First thing I would like to say is congratulations to Magus Knight for a fantastic review. Well defined and well written. I am an unapologetic fanboy of Suntrip Records and proudly purchase all their releases. Not all of them are gold, but the vast majority are. Astral Experience was released 12 years ago and delivered the sunshine melodies of goa trance that a lot of us were craving. But Elad while adept at producing uplifting goa is equally skilled at making melodic trance. Just listen to Emotional Peaks from 2011 and you'll see what I'm talking about. I believe with this album he mixes the two styles to beautiful effect. Intros and breaks are flooded with emotion and are interspersed in between storming goa power. The goa melodies are bouncy, oftentimes bubbly and liquid and get the head nodding. It's not a perfect album (could've done without the opening track, doesn't seem to fit), but it's a very strong one. I like the darker side of goa trance (and things in general), but that's not what Afgin does. He makes dance music that puts a smile on your face and makes you want to wave your hands in the air like you just don't care. It's melodic, bursting at the seems with sunshine, and layered extremely well with superb production. It's impossible to listen to his music and not feel like you could be dancing on a beach with all of your friends. And that's not a bad thing. Thumbs. Way up.