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There is a theme here. Obviously these tracks are not identical to one another, but the level of homogeneity is off the f*cking scale. And even if you can find differences within the tracks none of them make me want to pick this up again. Taken one at a time I can enjoy some of them, but when they are all put together like this it's tough to make it through. Love the cover. I see the bear, I guess an elk, perhaps a hawk and a wolf and... Is that a duck making kissy face? Seriously I don't know what's happening here. I'll just put a little blurb about each track. Crumble Juice is the coolest name for a track. Just my opinion. It's a sold psychedelic opening. Blacklight District by Etnica is one of my favorite tracks by them outside of the goa arena. It's driving, dark full-on that will force you to dance like nobody is something something... Circles (Psilocybian Rmx) is Sasa at his bubbly, flirting with goa best. You can clearly hear the Braincell influence and we are all the better for it. Next Decade of Acid (Android Spirit Mix) is good stuff with its acid and movie samples. One of my favorites here. Dance Ritual has some cool sounds and is bouncy, but it's still lacking. Bong, James Bong is a stupid name for a track and there isn't even a James Bond sample. So my hackles are already...hackled. Not bad, but sounds similar to...well everything on this compilation. Stoned Lions has lasers and more quirkiness. But like a white rabbit in a snowstorm nothing stands out. Viral Spiral sounds like EVERY OTHER TRACK that Hoodwink has produced. Zombiegirl (Gaspard Remix) is a boring bunch of noise. Squirts and farts. Gets better near the end, but sorry that ship has sailed. A Long Story (Virtual Light and Manipulation Mix) ends the Sangoma portion of the program. Odd sounds and effects over a we mean business bass line. Meh. The Blue Council Friction Games begins the BHS contribution and let the forest games begin! It has a steampunk feel for me with quirky sounds and a Dickensian air. Or perhaps an Addams Family air. Yep, I wrote that. Doesn't mean I like it. Tetra India Express (Via Axis Rmx) is a good night time track which bubbles and still maintains that dark feel. Deep Blue Skies had a smattering of goa with its forest so that was a nice touch. Magnitudo is really dark forest and seethes with electricity. Elasticity has that rich, juicy sound that BHS is known for. Amphibian Council is another forest gem. Eerie melodies abound and it never lets its foot off the gas. But seriously, stop me if you've heard that before. Bioport is dark forest sounds to the bone. But ok we get it...forest trance. I can't tell this one apart from the previous three. Liquid Modulation (Mark Day Rmx) was a forest nightmare from which I didn't want to wake. Deliciously layered and psychedelic, but the slow down for the last few minutes was a downer. However, that made it easy to differentiate it from the last four tracks. So...I suppose that's a good thing. Bindmoggling wasn't. The beginning and the end were almost magical. The only problem was he stuffed a huge boredom hole right in the middle. So this release follows the trend of most if not all Sangoma albums. Not bad, really good in some places, but nothing that will have me reaching for this album again and again. It's an album with mostly mediocre tracks set to repeat. The BHS contribution helped, but wasn't without its shortcomings. The problem oftentimes with forest trance (same with darkpsy) is that a lot of it sounds very similar and going through several tracks of the same style can be exhausting. Especially when the same sounds are used, sounding like one long track. Goa has this problem as well, but at least there are different melodies in the forefront to break things up. And the BHS portion of this compilation sounds like one long mix where most of the tracks sound the same. But I'm a member of the old fart club so take that with a grain of salt. As I mentioned with the Universcience Sonic Mandalas review I'm still waiting for them to take that step into greatness. But they ain't there yet.

Artist: Perfect Blind Title: Wanderers Label: Neogoa Date: April, 2016 1. Passing the Veil 2. Floating Spheres 3. Outerland 4. Syncope 2015 5. Lunar Dawn - Blessings From Irij (Remix) 6. Edge of Solitude 7. Sabled Sun (with Subscale) 8. March of the Dragonflies 9. Nephilim' Dance (With Psilocybian) 10. Wanderers Bonus Tracks: 1. Sudden Clarity (Feat. CUBErt) 2. Outerland (Downtempo Mix) Igor Ceranic from Croatia may not be a household name, but he should be. If you're a fan of modern day goa trance you have certainly heard his work. All those physical CDs you've got stored in cardboard boxes until Ikea gets their sh*t together and makes a great CD rack are probably mastered by him. He's produced under the name Dual Barrel , Deimos , Perfect Blind...even as part of the metal band Subscale. This is his latest effort, a downtempo album that is filled with industrial sounds and atmosphere. That's kind of his thing and if you heard We Have Forgotten under his Deimos moniker you would already know that. This is not Solar Fields or Aes Dana so if you're looking to take a nap then this ain't the vehicle. Calling this chill is a stretch. His sounds are dark and the themes are as well. It's immersive and layered with Matrix-esque futuristic overtones. He told me once that he tries to go lighter sometimes, but it usually ends up in a dark place. The album is a solid experience with industrial ambient powerhouse Edge of Solitude and the engaging Sabled Sun. Usually when guitars make an appearance it has a tendency to become a sh*tshow, but it was well done here. His take on Lunar Dawn's Blessing's From Irij (released on Blessings From Irij Remixes) is still a slowed down goa treat. Unfortunately I felt that March of the Dragonflies and his contribution with psytrance genius Psilocybian didn't really go anywhere. Missed opportunity. That said, I liked this album, but I think he's just scratched the surface of his talent. Personally I would love an even darker industrial goa album. His sound is so lush and he layers so well. Because I think he has the potential to be the next UX or Syb Unity Nettwerk. When you buy his album from his Bandcamp page you also get two downloadable bonus tracks. Now you can download it for free from Ektoplazm, but if you buy it from his bandcamp you can also bundle it with the Deimos album and that is highly recommended. Plus you get to help the artist and that's never a bad thing. Perfect Blind Bandcamp Ektoplazm

What was a Brazilian trio (well, until 2006 when Enzio Abbruzzini exited stage left) is now a duo and is known for their acidic night time sound. This was their debut and if I recall it turned a lot of heads. Even after a decade has gone by it still seems to hold up. The acid is plentiful and the night time atmosphere continues to permeate the air waves. It stomps.

Artist: Universcience Title: Sonic Mandalas Label: Sangoma Records Date: September, 2015 1. Goat FIxie 2. Karelia 3. Alone Celebration 4. Base Boss 5. Nasca 6. Quantum Gravity 7. Sonic Mandalas 8. Laksmi 9. Vishudha 10. Nothing Special 11. Mahamantra 12. Katarina The glory days of South African psytrance are in the rear view mirror unfortunately, but like a phoenix from the ashes Sangoma aims to pick up and carry on. Their sound is different than Timecode; darker and oftentimes heavy with a forest edge. Universcience is Bogdanov Sergey and he was kind enough to release his early work for free. With so many releases that seem to come out everyday it can be tough to get noticed and attract ears. You have to stand out and for me this doesn't. I find it boring in a lot of places with nary a jaw dropping moment. Quantum Gravity had some heft to it and ironically Nothing Special was at least a little special. I keep waiting for Sangoma to take that step into greatness, but it hasn't happened yet. Sangoma Bandcamp Name Your Price

Artist: Toxic Title: Mind Poisoning Music Label: Sonic Motion Records Date: March, 2011 1. Back I Am 2. Dissorder (Remix) 3. Overdose 4. New Order 5. Go Head 6. Check It Out 7. El Diablo 8. Distortion 9. The Godfather 10. Total Control feat. Abomination 11. Destination Unknown You realize to be poisoned is a bad thing right? Therefore you've just, you know, insulted your own album. Any of this sinking in? Look I've never been the biggest fan of this project, but for some reason this found it's way to my hard drive. Since I don't download illegal things I have to assume it was merely part of some malware from some Russian porn that I also most certainly didn't download. And it is mal. Muy mal. Loud. Harsh. Build-upy. Stop and starty. Overly guitar friendly. F*cking hell this should come with an aspirin bottle. I'm thinking this is one final projectile vomiting fit, the last gasp from this project. And if it isn't...well it should be. But you never know. Take some time off, climb mountains, help the poor, and then perhaps come back and reinvent yourself. I'd link to it, but...you don't want that kind of midget monkey porn.

Beat me by a day! Artist: Various Title: Svemirski Hod Label: Neogoa Date: April, 2016 Zenith 1 - OXI - Haphazard Dance (Nova Fractal Remix) (145 BPM) 2 - Zopmanika - Cosmic Influence (145 BPM) 3 - Imba & Hisia - Elysium Island (143 BPM) 4 - Omnivox - 5 Dimensions (143 BPM) 5 - Stellar Force - Astral Dive (145 BPM) 6 - Lunar Dawn - Orbiting The Sun (143 BPM) 7 - Cosmic Dimension - Another Species (146 BPM) 8 - Main Sequence Star - North Pole (120 BPM) Nadir 9 - Arronax - Dive Into Merak (110 BPM) 10 - Goasia - Skylander (142 BPM) 11 - Arcane Voice - Cerridwen's Potion (144 BPM) 12 - Ezoterica - Universal Mind (150 BPM) 13 - Screw Loose & Stevo - Celestial Bleeps (146 BPM) 14 - M-Run - Galactic Hunt (Part I) (140 BPM) 15 - CoaGoa - Tesla Coil (145 BPM) 16 - OXI - Edge Of The Universe (140 BPM) 17 - Perfect Blind - The Expanse (100 BPM) "Meanwhile a small town in Colorado is warning residents not to shower or drink the water from the tap as officials have detected significant levels of THC in the town's water supply. Details haven't been released as to the cause, but when asked for comment the town's Mayor replied "WHEEEEEeeeeeee!" Is this label on fire or what? While I've reviewed Goad's Galactic Aviator and Veasna's Energy, this digital only release actually preceded both of them. With it's 50th release Neogoa's tribute to the producers from the Balkans is a 17 track compilation of goa journeys and downtempo contemplation. Literally translated to Spacewalk, It's a who's who of Balkan producers most of which you have no doubt heard of. And boy do they deliver. I didn't find any filler (even though I didn't care for the sound and structure of Universal Mind and Skylander took forever to get somewhere) and was pleasantly surprised by Cerridwen's Potion. Fluid and mysterious just the way I like it. Galactic Hunt by M-Run was his typical funky style and Orbiting the Sun had a definite E-mantra feel. Newcomer Arcane Voice fit right in and Cosmic Dimension's track was moving. Mixing in a little downtempo with our goa is a nice change of pace. I loved North Pole which combined goa, breakbeat, and perhaps a slight techno feel. Dive Into Merak is deeply mysterious with angelic choirs and a mid-tempo beat. Plenty to enjoy here from a lot of today's top goa artists. Another great release that I wouldn't mind having a hard copy of. Free at Ektoplazm

Artist: Zyce Title: Fifth Dimension Label: TesseracT Studios Date: June, 2016 1. Zyce with Morten Granau - Shiva 2. Imagine 3. Star Dust 4. Zyce with Shake - Gravity 5. Zyce with Liquid Soul & Solar Kid - The Protocol 6. Face The Fear 7. Zyce with Sub6 - Witchcraft 8. Zyce with Talpa - Here Comes The Sun 9. Zyce with Gaudium - Son of Night 10. The Ritual 11. Sweet Ocean What'cha lookin' for? Bathroom? Girls or boys? Good news fruitcake you can use either! This is Target! Man there are a f*ckton of releases out there. No way anybody can digest them all. Especially in the progressive trance genre so it's easy to see how some can get lost in the morass. Zyce is Nikola Kozic from Serbia and he's been around a long time. Pretty much a staple for progressive trance. Recently his album was the highest selling on Psyshop so I decided to see what the buzz was about. The fact that it was released by TesseracT was an added bonus as I've usually had good luck with them. As per usual these days the music straddles the psy/progressive line and he gets a little help from his friends on a lot of the tracks. I'm not going to insult your intelligence and tell you it's music you haven't heard before. Cause it's not. But there is a warmth and a bouncy whimsy to it. Some tracks had an orchestral quality (Shiva) and the breaks highlighted the depth found therein. It's very soothing with nary a jarring or abrasive moment while maintaining a futuristic feel. He did turn up the heat with Witchcraft, the aggressive collaboration with Sub6 that was my favorite. That said it's not a very challenging album and has a lot of been there done that tropes. Done well, but done nonetheless. I enjoyed it, but I don't see myself frequently reaching for it. Good, but not great. Psyshop Beatspace

"like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say."

Artist: Lamat Title: Master Control Label: AP Records Date: 2005 1. Aerobic 2. Neovibration 3. Hi Thinking 4. Master Control 5. Reborn 6. Chemical Disorder 7. Loudness 8. Teletranceporter "Maybe you're being paranoid." Who's ready for some full-on? Sigh. Dunno what happened, but when I bought this over a decade ago I was in love with it. The aluminum siding on the 'ol doublewide was shaking back then I can tell you. This is the debut album from Marcos Sanchez from Mexico and I think it was his best. But it's lost something. Or perhaps as the years have gone by I've gained something like a healthy distaste for full-on. It's very melodic and high tempo with euphoric synth sounds, but that bass line tho...Tough to get past that and it's in every track. Nah scratch that...it's an outright chore to choke this one down. Lasers are fired at a hectic pace and the shiny quality to it just seems a little too much in your face. There is no easing into any track it's just thrust upon you. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am. Either it hasn't aged well or I've aged myself out of this music. I feel like that old guy yelling at kids to stay the hell of my lawn. Marcos...get the f*ck off my lawn. AP Records Bandcamp

Artist: Shantifax Title: Delete Automation Label: SarnarSchourt Records Date: December, 2011 01 - Formatio Reticularis (122 BPM) 02 - Hushushush (85 BPM) 03 - One Thing (95 BPM) 04 - Ancient Fields (feat. Irrsinn) (118 BPM) 05 - Desert Trip (feat. Tommy Mirror) (120 BPM) 06 - Aquarius (138 BPM) 07 - Grau N (137 BPM) 08 - Out Is In (90 BPM) Although I wasn't personally a fan of his second album, his debut speaks to me. It's very creative, floating amongst genres like a butterfly. So much so that it is difficult to properly pin down just where it belongs in the electronic music spectrum. Which I'm sure is just the way he wants it. Tracks may begin as a downtempo excursion, but then promptly jump into a more uptempo jaunt, only to return to a slower feel. The percussion really grabs with tablas and changing rhythms. Very imaginative where no track sounds the same as they evolve. There are a lot of twists and turns yet it doesn't sound like disjointed musical phrases thrown together in a patchwork fashion. Just when you think you've wrapped your head around where he's going, BAM...he switches course. He even goes a little dark with Ancient Fields. Lots of didn't see that coming moments. Recommended for those that want something a little different. Free At Ektoplazm

Artist: Phobium & Phobosphere Title: Cubes Combined Label: Self Released Date: April, 2012 01 - Phobium - Sitte Ute (Album Edit) (100 BPM) 02 - Phobosphere - Arpochi (Album Edit) (67 BPM) 03 - HPC - Dissociate (Phobosphere Remix) (50 BPM) 04 - Phobium - Another Orbit Around The Sun (120 BPM) 05 - Phobium - No Longer Current (Album Edit) (90 BPM) 06 - Phobosphere - Hello Czechia (70.6 BPM) 07 - Phobium - Wait For It (119 BPM) 08 - Phobium - The Bird, The Bus And Renoise.exe (100 BPM) 09 - Phobosphere & Phobium - That Side & This Side (60/120 BPM) 10 - Phobium & Phobosphere - Space Flight Satellite (Album Edit) (100 BPM) 11 - Xerxes - Phurther (Phobium Remix) (60/80 BPM) 12 - Phobosphere - Need Help (80 BPM) 13 - Phobium - In The Wake Of Voyager (60 BPM) Norwegian producer Henning H. Ottesen offers up a compendium of previously released tracks, remixes, and special album edits. His last album Time Is Now was pretty damn good so like a good psy and ambient listener I like to check in with Ektoplazm from time to time. With this release (under two project names) he's all over the downtempo and chill map. The music is smooth and relaxing (loved Another Orbit Around The Sun) with plenty of detail to keep your attention. Don't believe me? Homie made a track with a bpm of 70.6! Precision. He picks up the pace at times with breakbeat tracks like the shimmering Wait For It which then becomes a pretty formidable goa track. The tracks are short for the most part, but far from snacks. I didn't find one track that I didn't enjoy and the last half of the album I'd say is a slow drift through the silence of space. Well worth a listen. Free at Ektoplazm

Great review! Like Time_Trap said this album has a bit of every style that came from the Buddhas. Including... "Death. Destruction. Upheaval. Unrest." The latest offering from the originators of the Upsalla forest trance sound is heavy as sh*t. Fat boy on a see saw heavy. There was a Japanese horror flick awhile back where the living person suffered from back pain and we eventually find out it was because the ghost was literally sitting on their shoulders. Creepy as shit. That's what the first half of this album was. It's Only Disko- A tribute to Psyko Disko that was crunchy, groovy, acidic, chaotic forest. Makes sense, I didn't understand them either. I Don't Know- Nailed it. Oy. After 3 minutes this was a thumping wall of noise. Lacking It All (The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death Remix)- Whew! How to describe this? Crucified on the cross as a hurricane of nails flays the very sinew from your bones. This is prince of darkness with detuned synth leads as only the Buddhas know how to do. It drags your ass down the rabbit hole. Game over man. Game over. Time- This is a wobbly bit of despair that seems like a drug addled tailspin. I hear voices and they want me to masturbate. For like...six hours in a row. Help. Me. Dies thius music come with a number to suicide prevention? True Hope- "So death created time to grow the things that it would kill." The Matthew McConnaughey sample adds just the right touch of supernatural horror to this tale. The light melody at the end puts a human face on the bludgeoning torture. And at nearly 10 minutes you feel like the evil is everlasting. Making music this crazy might get you bumped up to Suomi serial killer. The Cupboard- "What if there was no tommorow? There wasn't one today!" Light. Let there be at least a little light. This was the track where he made the transition from Pinhead torturing your soul to your not unhappy place. Notice I didn't say happy place. No unicorns and rainbows, but not flesh chewing vampires either. Sounds rather aggro industrial and it means business. Consciousness- Hell yeah! Scando-goa swampy infestation! Faith- Ummm...did he take a Xanax for this one? It's more mellow with less bombastic aggression. Maybe he tired himself out cause this sounds like someone let the air out of his torture balloon. The Infinite Process- "You live in a different world." Yes I do. And it's filled with chocolate, naked ladies, and chocolate naked ladies. He closes it out with a return to that dark, scando sound, but it's a fairly week farewell. The first half of this album is as dark as it gets and then it eventually transitions towards the light. The Scando-goa we come to expect is sprinkled here and there with his signature swampy, forest sound. You can't be dark all the time because you'll have no friends and bump into the furniture. However in his attempt to lighten up I felt he mailed it in with some unfocused, rambling tracks. It's pretty clear where his dominance lay. The Cupboard and Consciousness were the only ones that hit the sweet spot. Good experience for me, but not without its problems. Chronicle of Mystery Records

Artist: Veasna Title: Energy Label: Neogoa Date: July, 2016 1. Pulsar (143 BPM) 2. You Have Rights (144 BPM) 3. Rubix (145 BPM) 4. Hex (147 BPM) 5. Godspeed (145 BPM) 6. Showdown! (145 BPM) 7. Three (147 BPM) 8. Termination Shock (147 BPM) 9. Ultraviolet (142 BPM) 10. The Essence of Energy (90 BPM) Dis guy? Ohhhhh.....Patrick Dinklage. Got my GOT dander up for nothing. I'm reading the fourth book right now so don't f*ck anything up for me. The Neogoa team keeps the assembly line humming with their latest free release. C'mon pay up you cheap bastards it's worth it. Quantum Connundrum from the Celestial Transvibrations album was the only thing he's released I believe and that was a pretty damn good track so hopes are high. As I await my order to arrive, I make good use of the provided download that comes with purchase. This is an album of tunes that he's made over the past three years. And like has been said it has a massive sound right out of the gate with the magnificent Pulsar and the 303 wielding Hex and Three. While Galactic Aviator was more bombastic there is more variety in sound to be found here. He doesn't forget the dance parts either as Godspeed had me hopping a bit. Ultraviolet is a very intelligent track that has groove, layers, and bouncy melodies. He ends the show with a mellow come-down track. Overall a very solid album that I am glad I purchased. P.S. There are a lot of great comments about this album, but man...why not put it in the review thread where more people might see it? And the artist and label would most assuredly appreciate it. Neogoa Bandcamp

Artist: Goad Title: Galactic Aviator Label: Neogoa Date: June, 2016 1.Submerged On Ganymede (150 BPM) 2. Outer Passage (146 BPM) 3. Intergalactic Gates (150 BPM) 4. Other Species (146 BPM) 5. Tripping Astronaut (149 BPM) 6. Galactic Aviator (150 BPM) 7. Alien Pursuit (150 BPM) 8. Goa Delirium (148 BPM) 9. Mystic Presence (149 BPM) 10. Lost in Time (147 BPM) 11. Temple Monkeys (149 BPM) "Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet I ask you...is not an alien force already among us?" Neogoa the label that keeps on giving dropped this bomb in our lap and then left us to clean up the aftermath. Composed by Anders Munk this is a high speed, aggressive, acidic bomb that offers zero in the way of apologies. It's shock and awe goa trance that will take the paint off the walls. Layered and powerful it rockets you through space at maximum velocity. It's pretty similar throughout so I can appreciate the complaints of a lack of variety, but what it does it does supremely well. A physical release would be something I would definitely be interested in. Fantastic work! Neogoa Bandcamp

Total Eclipse- Violent Relaxation, Delta Aquarids X-Dream - Radio Celtic Cross - Hicksville Orichalcum and the Deviant - Orichalcum and the Deviant Ka-Sol - Fairytale Toi Doi- Technologic Art of Trance - Wildlife On One Hux Flux- Cryptic Crunch Ree K.- Yammataikoku ...and pretty much anything by California Sunshine, Eat Static, and Juno Reactor.

Just listened to this again and the same good tracks hold up. Went a little gif crazy with this review though. Don't judge, I was still finding my way.

Artist: Funky Dragon Title: Massive Label: Iono Music Date: 2007 1. Waiting For Something 2. Day After 3. Journey 4. Sunny Day 5. Massive 6. Who's There 7. Last Human 8. Yellow Summer 9. Wake Up I was Waiting For Something. Anything. Then came the Day After and the day after that and that something never arrived. To say it was an uneventful Journey barely scratches the surface. As I stared out my window at the Sun Day passing me by I realized I had made a Massive mistake. Time seemed to creep by with only mild and sometimes annoying stimulation. "Who's There?" I asked, knowing full well that like Peter I was probably the Last Human around with no one to hear my plea. Yellow Summer is the color of the day fading into night and also the feeling that my time was stolen from me. If I could float above myself I would scream and plead with my physical form to Wake Up and not make the mistake of letting the very Unfunky Dragon steal precious minutes. This is a CD of background noise where every track melts into the next with nary a distinguishing characteristic. This isn't progressive. It's minimal masquerading as progressive. Psyshop Beatspace

"That is brilliant!" No it's not. This is kind of boring actually. It doesn't even come close to the melodic tour de force of D5 or Ra. I can see why someone slapped the minimal tag on it earlier in the thread because there are long stretches where nothing happens. Lacks punch. Clearly it's not terrible, but just adequate. Aside from Temporal Distortion this left me wanting. Lots of better stuff if you need your goa fix.

Artist: Downhill Title: Silent City Label: Gravity Plus Records Date: 2003 1. Three Years Drought 2. Perfect Man 3. Ed Lab 4. Ground Effects 5. Final Miles 6. Silent City 7. 33 Degrees 8. Weaken Memories 9. Perfect Man (Human) 10. Silent City (Soundtrack) The Delta + Midi Miliz = Awwww....Yeah. This hit me just right. Post dinner with a full belly. Do you like the raw quality of the Delta? Love an industrial, dirty sound? All while...chilling? Then this is the album for you. Tracks like Ed Lab have a funky cool breakbeat and that eerie feel permeates the entire album. It's like I'm tooling around Gotham after I stole Batman's whip. The cover is the color of overcast skies with the dreary melancholy to match. A cold, electronic ride that invites further listens. The melodies and percussion come together to provide a super listening experience. Dig on this.

Tribal Goa Trance. Laid back goa. Hippie beach goa. Wait...isn't that the same thing? Whatever you want to label it it's good music that will snatch you up in it's steady, melodic atmosphere. The original was probably pretty great (even today it sounds solid), but the Avatar reissue with the 2nd disc comprised of mostly unreleased tracks makes this a must have.

Artist: Psilocybian Title: Unfold Oneself Into Endlessness Label: BMSS Records Date: November, 2014 01: Wonderfantabulous 02: Dreamability 03: A thing about inconsequent Reverberation 04: Pathways 05: Science Friction 06: Strawberry Fields 07: Unfold Oneself into Endlessness 08: PsiloCybian & Deimos - Waveform with a mind of its own 09: Yield 10: NLO 11: Let me tell you about a weird Dream So we all know Sasa Dukic (Psilocybian) from his fine work in the full-on arena with albums like Dreamtime and Godhead. Both great stuff from a guy who likes to put a pinch of goa in all that he does. For his latest he delivers something that has been on his mind for quite a while. A chill-out album. It took me a long time to review this because I had the hardest time getting into it. And I'm lazy. Well, mostly because I'm lazy. This isn't the dreamy soundscape stuff you would expect from Ultimae or the crazy psychedelic madness from the likes of Shpongle. I suppose you would classify it as psychill (if you must), but it's really all over the map. In speaking with Sasa he basically said he wanted to make a chill out album that people could dance to. Say what now? The name chill out means to, well...chill out. Relax. Not dance. That's what the other stuff is for. So I had to wrap my brain around that mindf*ck. And let me tell you this isn't music that will help you escape, or drift off into memory. That's not what he wanted. A lot of the tracks are big beated. Don't think that's a word, but you know what I mean. Head nodding beats. He's not here to put you to sleep, but to wake your punk ass up and keep you grooving. He mentioned that this album was made without any inspiration from other artists so he took the music wherever it wanted to go without any distractions. Good for him. My favorite was Science Friction with its big beat and Shpongley vocal tacet. And he kept the goa special sauce in there, don't worry. It's really a very different type of chill album than I'm used to, but I think it hits some psychedelic notes. It has some really good melodies and as I mentioned he wanted you to dance with this so that's in here. He floats among all the styles, breakbeat, downtempo, ambient, even a little drum n bass. So there's probably something for everyone here. Not my favorite chill album, but an interesting foray into chill from a guy who knows how to craft a psytrance track. BMSS Psyshop

I'm not getting the overwhelming appeal. I'm glad for the artist, but this type of trance doesn't appeal to me. The long tracks invite me on a long ride, but I find the destination...disappointing. With track lengths of this magnitude this is an example of having to invest the time to appreciate an album. And for me it's a lot of work. Hell it's a lot of work for most people. In a track that is 15 or 16 minutes long there should be something to captivate me, but no. It just goes on and on and I find myself bored. Waiting for some magical moment that never arrives. But I'm ok with it. I'm happy for those where this hits all the right spots. I'll just be the surfer that watches everyone take this wave in. There will be another. There always is.

Man that was a thorough review. It would be great if you were still here contributing this level of effort. But yeah great review. I uh...don't uh, I don't agree with it, but... I remember those glory days of so called twilight music. Dark edged stuff from Timecode and Nexus Media that was hard hitting and melodic. For me this is a shadow of what that was. Fraktalize had too many stops and starts which kept the momentum from building. So what you get are snippets of goodness only to have to wind it back up again. I felt the Zombification mix was empty. When we talk about those compilations like Trojan or Midnight Storm our senses were bombarded from all angles with acid and psychedelic madness. The tracks here seem to try and stutter step instead of plow on full-force. I would be curious to know that if we totaled the time of silence when the beat drops and just the sound of the kick, hi-hat, and bass line if there would be time enough for another track. Not his best ep and certainly doesn't bring me back to when this music was leveling cities.

Artist: Morphic Resonance Title: The City of Moons Label: Suntrip Records Date: May, 2016 1. Psychedelic Hell 2. In The Mouth of Madness 3. The City of Moons 4. Bad Dreamer 5. Chronos 6. Procyon 7. Mindwarp 8. S.U.N. Project - Space Dwarfs (Morphic Resonance Rmx) *Mind. Blown.* This is Cristian Fernandez and he just made a goa trance album like he was mad at it. There is angst here and perhaps we should be thankful he channeled it using this outlet. Each track pulsates with barely controlled fury, pushing the limits of power and pace. Like Joske said it's a mixture of that acidic Pleiadians sound overlaid with the Tim Schuldt f*ck you you're going to swallow this. All of it! Right form the beginning it knows only one way and that is straight down the raw, psychedelic highway. It's unrelenting and deliciously so. Just when you think he can't maintain this bludgeoning pace the next track boots up and you're left shaking your head. I think Bad Dreamer left scorch marks on my walls. I've never been a fan of S.U.N. Project so the more music he can remix of theirs the better. He owned that track so much that I don't even recall what the original sounded like. I really enjoyed the Mindsphere album, but if Mental Triplex was the band aid Cristian just ripped it off and peed lemon juice into the wound. This has been on repeat for a few weeks and I have yet to tire of it. Have to say, Suntrip has been on quite the tear lately with a bunch of varied releases which should somewhat quell the talk of them being a one trick pony. Some may say it's too samey and I can see that view, but I don't share it. If a hot chick wants to sleep with you and she asks if she can bring her nymphomaniac stripper friend because she's feeling wild are you going to say no? I mean would because I'm happily married. But you're heathens. If throat scraping 303's an tornadic melodies are your thing then get thee post haste to yon Suntrip Shoppe and be liberal with the alms! Anyone got a screenshot of E-mantra shaking hands with Cristian? Because the torch may well have been passed. Suntrip Morphic Resonance Bandcamp Psyshop Beatspace