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    Pleiadians - IFO

    When I listened to the first minutes of the first track during summer 97, i was flabbergasted - i told Sylvain, the shop retailer: "it reminds me of something". He answered me "yeah, the composers are Etnica guys". then i bought the cd immediately without listening to any second of the other tracks. that was the IFO first effect. then , at home, i discovered the rest...total mindshock!! Roughly, the album is more than awesome, there are no words to describe this one. This is pure energy all along. Maia itself is a monument: there are twisted sounds coming from everywhere, multiple layers of melodies over powerful basslines And kicks. the track is 11 min long, but never monotonic as there are scores of little breaks And changes. This is just like that in the other tracks, power,power And perfection everywhere. Imagine a perfect journey of the mind. Grooves And melodies are meant to bring you everywhere it's possible. It's also incredible that the tracks are all different. Taygeta, Merope, Alcyone are also fantastic, orgasmic, uplifting, mindbending... It's obvious the tracks have been worked on very long to trigger the best effect on the listener. On Electra, you get on lightspeed immediately. It's ultimate (everything is ultimate, though, here, in the Pleiades), and your soul is close to escape in deep space . Asterope is the very sister of the others, and eventually the ambient Celaeno allows your newly energized mind to land. The words definitely dont exist to describe this high creation... I have a theory about that: Max And Maurizio are in fact aliens from the Pleiades (some sounds in the background of the tracks looks as if aliens were singing) and they try to communicate their culture to us through their music. IFO is simply billion years ahead. Three years after, i still listen to it, i have the same feeling of my mind being blown to infinite extent. Buy buy buy absolutely. 11/10.
  2. If you want a review of this album you'd better read the reviews of the former albums! Good things: new tracks, although not spectacular. Typical AP style. Bad things: everything is mixed (bhwaaargl) and the Trilithon or Floorplay collaborations are awful. I can say I liked AP, but at the sight of this thing, I cant help thinking that this is only a matter of money for Trust in Trance And AP. Why isn't it a brand new not mixed album? If AP are tired, they'd beter not release anything like that And wait to have new ideas! I must add that I didnt buy this album, and only listened to it. In other words, if you don't know Astral Projection, please buy this album And take this 7/10, if you already have the former albums, there's no interest, so...only 2/10.
  3. V/A - Lunar Civilization Artist: Various Title: Lunar Civilization Label: Moon Spirits Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 09'30" Wizzy Noise : Shores Of Freedom 02. 08'14" Jaïa Feat Gill : Drum Explorer (DJ Maël Rmx) 03. 06'43" Total Eclipse : Once Upon A Time 04. 08'34" Elixir : Drops Of Madness (Talamasca Rmx) 05. 08'14" Bamboo Forest : Discover 06. 09'52" Absolum : Biologic (Live Mix - Amsterdam 99) 07. 07'43" Blue Planet Corporation : Blue Pill 08. 08'18" Lagoon : BLM 09. 06'26" Toires : Sissal Review: This is the latest 3D-V....hum no..this is the first Moon Spirits compilation. Globally, the compil is excellent. Even the banner-design reminds me of good parties... First Wizzy Noise provides us with a cool twisted tune, dark and dancefloor oriented. Ok for your brain. Then we have the surprise to see that Drum Explorer has a second breath with this remix from DJ.Mael. It consists in the main pattern as the original, a very good And fast rythmic, lots of strange sounds And voices. Ok we can feel the immutable 3D Vision style, but it's good, so... For the third track...well it's hard to understand what went through Serge S to create this one... An excellent track with a powerful bass and incredible twisted sounds. Imagine a calm melody that becomes mad sometimes! 4th track: do you like the 3DV touch? Well we have a dual-effect here because Lestat remixed an Elixir track. mmmh it's an usual Talamasca track if you think about it...5:30 of rythm and "zoing-tchik-poum-glang" sounds, then a break and a repetitive melody during 3 minutes - no offense - ok it's a good track, again. the fifth track is a dark one by Bamboo forest. It consists in a very fast And fat kick and some sounds of any kind everywhere, and a slight melody behind this. A pure nightrack, simple but efficient. (after Drumatrix), Christof continued to sample the Matrix movie for Dutch people, and us: The Biologic remix looks like the original with more sounds and samples - not a revolution. the odds are that the Matrix is a neverending source of samples for the psytrance scene...so BPC gives us a quite calm song with a cool And clear melody. It's a morning track, and a good track again. Christof under the name Lagoon gives us a strange track, quite slow, with good ideas, but boring sometimes. Imagine an Absolum track downpitched, on which you removed many sounds. Toires, eventually, gives you a taste of what's in his new album. It's a complete And deeply trippy 'ambient' track, put there for you to land... Recommendations - 3DV: reboot sometimes. - TErec: encore! - reader: buy this compil which is worth 8/10.
  4. Beware: if you dont like twistednoizycrackingwobbling sounds, don't go further. If your ears can stand the run and if you brain is prepared for it, ok....else...don't even think about it! It's very very psychedelic everywhere. Whatever can be the focus you want to have while listening to this record, sound is everywhere...you can't escape it. By the way, the tracks are quite all the same, but it's not especially boring. Boom strikes here. 7.5/10.
  5. Strange: when I first listened to this album, I flashed immediately on Mindhunter and Ligntning Rods. they are awesome And made me groovy immediately. Of course, Colombian Necktie And Freakshow are good also, but they were cooked too long...well it's a pretty good album, but that's not what I expected from Cydonia. Like Max, I think it's tooooo...light. Moreover this CD is hard to find. 4.5/10
  6. mars

    Holy Men - C4

    definitely bad. All the tracks are the same, too fast, nothing more to say. It's not psychedelic trance. 1/10
  7. some happy hardcore PLUR child scared witless by this savage, brutal release ??? I think it's because of the album, not him... ok. i dont like this album. It's too dark; some tracks are well built, but it ends up with only noise noise and noise again in most of the tracks. so: 4/10
  8. mars

    V/A - Goa Trance RIP

    V/A - Goa Trance RIP Artist: Various Title: Goa Trance RIP Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie Date: 1999 Track listing: 01. 07'02" Droidlock : UFO Report 02. 08'15" Yumade : Going Mad 03. 09'05" Lotus Omega : 100 % Revital Free 04. 08'09" Magus : Baian Kara Ula 05. 07'10" Alien Hand Syndrome : Mysco 06. 08'08" Church Of New Age Hippie Disco Shit : Ooze On Ice 07. 08'33" Battle Of The Future Buddhas : What We Saw Tonight 08. 07'51" Alphanaut : Lunar Tunes 09. 07'10" Ceiba : Track 13 Review: This is a quite good compilation: the tracks are dark And good but really brutal sometimes. 01: Dhya provides a strange work here...dark And not fantastic. just ok for scandinavian people... 02: Yumade has done an excellent work here. scores of noisy sounds over mindbending basslines And rythms. the end of the tracks takes your guts! rhaa! 03: Lotus Omega removes the dust from their old tracks And release one of them: 100% RF was written a long long time ago (heard it the first time in 1997) and here we have an oldschool psychedelic track without compromise. There is an uplifting break...maybe a bit cheesy, but with the usual horrible sounds And military rythm of Lotus Omega, it's ok ! 04:a dark fast track, also without compromise. from 4:20 it it very psychedelic. I like it 05: A more conventionnal track. It looks like old psychedelic trace. A good track anyways, but not THAT remarkable...It is a break in this compilation. 06: another tortured track, lots of wobbly sounds. It makes me think of a fieendly russian melody with lots of 'scrouitch-zoum-boum-booum-bzzkkr' over it. don't abuse And it will be ok for your brain! 07: ...one BOTFB song, well rythmed. A good rythm at the begining, a sample rip in the middle, 2 more minutes of the same rythm and them scratchy sounds everywhere during 3 minutes...a repetitive song, but i like it. Only another bit of madness in this compilation. 08: a mechanical tune, wih funny sounds on the rythm: ...boum-tchak-ding-boum...boum-tchak-ding-boum...maybe your mind won't accept it at first 'sight'. 09: a strange dark rythmic track. Not my cup of tea....too mechanical. Conclusion: a good compil, not excellent, only good. There are killers in it (the Yumade tk is the best one). Every track has something good in it...if you like very dark psy music it's ofr you: 6.5/10
  9. Good album, always guitar And rythm... the style has changed since the first album, its more rythmic, and distorted. some tracks are dark killers, others are...average. owever, johann is on the good path. I give only 6/10.
  10. I also like this vinyl... Alien nation pt.3 is quite psychedelic, and Troll is a real party-track. Of course you can feel the funny Ganguru style with the expertise of Jan/Xdream. Too bad this is too old now... 6/10.
  11. V/A - Strange Vibrations Artist: Various Title: Strange Vibrations Label: Koyote Date: 1996 Track listing: 01. 06'17" Miranda : Re Psycheled 02. 06'24" Underhead : Shubata 03. 09'00" Encens : Orgasmatronic 04. 07'13" Semsis : Plasma 05. 05'52" Underhead : Whirlrain Of Fire 06. 06'50" Encens : Psychedelic Sun (Spike Rmx) 07. 05'14" Stanley Shanti And The Chillum Wallahs 08. 08'21" Miranda : Planet Mars 09. 06'23" Ominus : Acid Tester Review: Those tracks are quite old now, but they are good, to my mind. Orgasmatronic is excellent, plasma is cool, Psychedelic Sun and Acid Tester are very psychedelic... it's a bit too old now, that's all. 7/10
  12. mars

    V/A - White Rhino

    It's a reference to my mind. Cool all along....but...hard to decribe... a good compil anyway. 7/10
  13. Well, its a bid too...old and cheesy now. I dont like it. The tracks are all the same. Alala is the exception here, it's far better than the rest, so it can reach 3.5/10...
  14. mars

    Koxbox - Stratosfear

    I do agree with Ubik. The typical FORMER KoxBox sound. Nothing to add. Same opinion, same mark: 7.5/10.
  15. mars

    Solaris - Solaris

    yes, a must. the 2 tracks are totally ifferent. the first is a killer one, which was played in parties for a long time, and the second is more a morning track. you wont regret it!! 9/10
  16. mars

    V/A - Single Cell

    I like this compil. The tracks are all right, well chosen, the rhythm of the compil is ok: darktracks at the begining, morning ones at the end... nothing to add. I like it. If you liked Kiss the Future And Electrosect, buy it!!
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    Etnica - Plastic

    YES, a very very good release. Plastic is a dancefloor track quite cool, not agressive...the pure Etnica style. Vimana is an absolute killer track (you cant imagine, listen to it, and know how this visitor somehow displayed the way aliens have been genetically altering the development of our DNA from our very beginnings, and that they had inspired our greatest spiritual leaders!! As for Floating Universe, you will only find it on the CD single, not on the vinyl, and its a track that extends itself, it's strange. It's floating, turning, weird in fact (also try to get the live version, it's said to be a killer). So remenber: Plastic And Vimana MUST be in your collection. 9/10
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    ISRAliens 2 - Bizarro

    Wow. THAT is a goood compil. The new tendencies, experiments and much more are gathered in this compil. there is no bad track, there..some are certainly a bit too...experimental, but it remains psytrance. I especially like the Raw remix And the Dark Soho track, and the unforgettable Classical Mushroom. buy. 8/10
  19. mars

    Haldolium - Deague

    Let me add that Pi Symptom is an excellent track. THe album remains very dark. 6/10
  20. I agree too. It seems the tracks are those no other company wanted. Moreover there is no continuation, not any really good track, only 4 discs of plactic when you think about it... 2/10
  21. mars

    Mystica - Age Of Innocence

    It's good, but it's too cheesy after all. When you're listening to it the first time, it seems ok, but when you've heard it 5 more times, you cant stand it anymore. It's too repetitive. In fact it's on the frontier of pzatzot. There are some good tracks sometimes, so the mark is: 6/10
  22. My opinion is the same, except that my favourite tracks are nr 3,7,8,9. Use a good soundsystem to appreciate the trip. Rating:7/10
  23. mars

    V/A - Beyond Colour

    A good compilation to my mind! i love Hallucinogen's Magik track, but the E-rection, the GMS and the Psychopod ones are really interesting. 8/10
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    Tarsis - Melt

    Tarsis - Melt Artist: Tarsis Title: Melt Label: Global Trance Network Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 04'51" Brighter Than The Sun (Bullsrun Rmx) 02. 07'10" Interzone 03. 07'43" Zombi Cocktail 04. 05'33" Guilty 05. 06'51" Pure Energy 06. 06'00" Spacetrain 07. 04'45" Life (Instrumental) 08. 07'06" Deadly Deep Kickin 09. 08'15" Tomorrow 10. 05'37" Broken 11. 04'58" Mocean 12. 07'44" Melt (Vocal Edit) Review: On this album Tarsis provide us with an interesting approach: the first track had lyrics! There is also a good groove, a good bassline & rythm, guitar... This is an excellent intro. The next tracks are more usual, but each time, they remain cool. They keep in phase with the german style with the Tarsis touch, but there are always little cool arrangements & innovations that makes each track a good one. Uplifting tracks And calm tracks are alterned. this enables the listener to breathe..cool again. The last third of the album is really more atmospheric. The fast tracks always reflect an excellent expertise on rythmics. There are: - either long waves that puts tour mind on a good journey (02) - or buzzy sounds that makes you dance (05,08) - or repetitive samples And rythmic, that induce a kinda-tribal mood (03,06,09) The atmo-tracks (04,07,10,11,12) are really trippy, perfect for listening to them on the sofa. In fact the whole album has been prevented grom being overloaded with all sorts of sounds: the style is clear And intelligent. Eventually, it seems that Tarsis have reached their own style - not really psytrance-, but I easily imagine the killer session it would be in a live performance!! My favourites: 1,3,5,8,10. Mark: 7.5/10
  25. Lotus Omega - Recycle Bin Artist: Lotus Omega Title: Recycle Bin Label: Zillion Mental Anarchie Date: 2000 Track listing: 01. 07'49" Mastermind 02. 11'18" Kuru Kuru 03. 08'21" Renegade 04. 09'01" Flower Of Life 05. 09'13" Beauty And The Beast 06. 12'32" Diwali 07. 08'03" Deep Sea Review: It's obvious that the guys of Lotus Omega don't often go out of Ibiza island, and they dont perform live easily. So here you have a sample of their inimitable style. This is a very brutal one, but what a madness on a dancefloor! Always remember (before you read the rest of the review) that -I- found this album very good And creative, but I believe many people wont think the same... we'll see later. I forgot to tell you: If you happen to suffer from heart trouble, call an ambulance before listening to this album! Moreover it should be listened to at once, from the begining to the end, imo. All the tracks are quite the same. here, no fine instruments, no nice bassline, no dancefloor-oriented kicks: everything is fat And hard. the rythm is always the same: a fast "bom-bom-bom-bom...", and imagine a set of weird noisy sounds over this. The melody?: scratchy & wobbly samples! Just like a chainsaw butchery. What's good in this? Ok: in each track there is quite a sort of magic thing that makes it an original piece of artwork, something that makes you dance even if your ears sense it's horrible. Just lively! The tracks now: 1 "Mastermind" is one of the worst ones. Quite good, a good control of all the instruments, and a good moving transition at the end that's all. 2 "Kuru Kuru" is like a militray tune. Imagine you're crushed by a tank regiment. So many good wobbly sounds... Now you understand the sense of the title of the album. really excellent. 3 "Renegade" is a bit like Kuru Kuru minus the delicacy! You can hear twisting sounds everywhere, destroying breaking patterns full of noisy & computer sounds. a very good work on the drumloops. 4 "Flower of Life" operates a change in the rythm of the album: now you're on lightspeed. The rythm is vert fast & soft, still a bit military, but the sounds behind this are twisting everywhere, entering by one ear, coming out by the other....wow!! There is an excellent sequence of pure dancefloor atmosphere at 7:00. impossible to describe this piece...rhaaa...incredible. 5 "Beauty and the Beast" returns to the first style of the album, a bit like Mastermind. I don't understand this track although there are really good psychedelic souds sometimes. Maybe it's because the rythm is a bit shifted... 6 "Diwali" is a bit like Flower of Life. The kicks arrange nicely with the rest of the 'instruments'. some sounds are falling, as if the synths had bugged, and sometimes you remind of the little sounds you liked in Crop Circles tracks. 7 "Deep Sea" is amazing: it's ambient. but NOT ANY form of ambient: it's Lotus Omega ambient. this track consists in a cool melody that repeats everytime, with a very cool rythm compared to what you've listened to before. Sometimes there are remainings of the weird sounds from the rest of the album. At the end another cool melody adds to the first. It's refresing. Ok, it's not a masterpiece of ambient, but you can apreciate to end on this cool note. My final opinion is that if you like very hard psychedelic trance, without compromises, this album is for you. If you're more delicate...you'll die before the end. This album looks a bit like the Hux Flux one. As for me, i liked it a lot: 7.5/10>>express message to MM d'Amato & Scrimizzi: Stop smoking chillum on Beniras, guys! Come And perform live in France please!>>
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