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Better than 'Drugs', but not essential. 7/10.

Where it's filler, it's awful. Where it's good, it's pure a neo-Scandinavian gooseflesh factory. Worth the money, easy.

I finally got my hands on a copy of this CD. There are enough amazing bits to buy it, but I find most tracks go on too long. There are Israeli influences, but it still sounds Scandinavian. Nice piece of work: 8/10.

The Son Kite track kicks ass and takes names. The rest is pretty anonymous. To get this sound for free, go down to the big bagel factory and listen to the stainless-steel dough-kneading machine with the honey-water boiling in the background. When I walked, high with the munchies, into Kettleman's on Bank Street in Ottawa, I was really appreciating the wicked psy-techno track they were playing, until about 30 seconds later that's what I was listening to. It was an internal blush moment.

Excellent. Last time I checked out GMS was around 1997, and I hated their stuff then. Whatever aliens abducted this crew between then and now, many thanks and keep the crop circles coming. I must check out GMS vs. Systembusters.

Those who were mentioning Flying Rhino above, good call - this sounds very much like the 6th and 7th Flight comps. A very 'me too' sort of comp, lots of good sounds you've heard before. Still, I wouldn't take it out of a friend's stereo if he were playing it. 6/10.

My God! The drugs! The drugs! Aaaaa!

Iffy. Should have held this one back and waited until they had some better material. 3/10.

I have most tracks from this comp - worth picking up. For my money though, the best Boris Blenn track (outside, arguably, 'Oh Yeah' or 'Rubberbandman' with Yello in the late 80s / early 90s) was 'Emotion Electrified', listed as 'Prana' on at least one comp. Uplifting yet minimal, with a nice understated melody in minor key, never over-the-top. Mmmmmmm.

This is definitely on the freekstyle tip; they've totally changed their sound from 1995, and haven't been lazy about their progress (are you reading, Astral Projection?). It's interesting musically, but it doesn't really appeal to me: it's maybe more busy than it needs to be. They have talent and the next record may be worth checking out.

Pit-UFO above commented that one needs a big sound system to appreciate this disc, but right about now it sounds luvvvverly over a good set of headphones. I'm really glad I picked this disc up just before my New Year's resolution to spend less money on CD's kicked in. Much of it sounds like an updated, slightly progressive Kopfuss Resonator, but not prog enough to be annoying for the most part. More and more tracks are sounding essential, always a good sign.

Some nice tracks for layering on here include #3 and #8, almost entirely in the rhythm. I'm pleasantly surprised, since they picked a less than average name.

Nice and warm. However, it doesn't hurt to pull it out and put something else in the CD player. I must have listened "Full Moon" 100 times a couple of summers ago. (we love to dance, to dance, to dance ...). I think GLM is a bit lost without the other guys in the Saafi Brothers though.

Track 9 is special. The rest is about the same record as Gab's Lab: you don't need both, but you might like to have one or the other.

This is like time lapse photography. Every time I listen to it, it seems to evolve. Incredibly, I think I like this record as much as Awakenings now. This is looking like one of those timeless masterpieces I'll keep long after I've grown tired and dumped of most of my trance CDs.

After 6 months, this record already sounds 3 years old. Nope, except for the wicked cover art I much prefer The Gathering.

Ehhh. Maybe it'll grow on me. It seems to me that there are a few excellent tracks and a lot of filler. Maybe it could have been a single? Worth buying if you find yourself ahead $30 at the end of the month.

Cheese factory. MWNN, time to hang up the gear.

I've only heard the Tristan/John Om track. It's excellent, even by my jaded standards.

Niiiice record, minimal yet FAT OK I think I'm starting to get the criticism that many have for minimal trance: it does sound a lot like Spirallianz, the Future Prophecy 'Freak' release, some recent Darshan, etc. After an hour or two of this sound I might want to flee in terror. However, the tracks on this disc are some of the best I've heard in this style. Sometimes it sounds more Planet BEN, others more X-Dream. Some tracks (2, 5) one can hear both influences about equally. Either way, this is the good stuff. 8/10.

I tried this again. The first half of pretty much every track is very good. Then always with the Yngwie Malmstein/dunta-dunta-dunta treatment. The good thing about guitar solos is that each one is slightly different. Sampling and looping a riff multiples of 4 times each really grates on my nerves, once the 2nd iteration starts. It's OK to end a track early (4 mins, 5 mins) if all you can think of is to give it the Johann-Bley treatment. Bottom line, if you still like electric guitars in the mix, you'll likely adore this one. I still hate it.

I don't get it. It sounds juvenile and overproduced to me, with too many adolescent-angst guitar riff overlays. Then just when it gets good, it throws too many sounds in the mix, or breaks into triplets, and I lose interest. There are some nice dark sounds here, but overall if this is the best Israel has right now, I think I'll stick with Germany. 4/10.

I got the Yellow Feather 2CD version (Blue Energy/Blue Synergy). I wish I'd got this in 1998, before I'd got tired of the melodic movement so I could appreciate it better in its proper context. The first disc is nicely constructed, but still shows its age. Mai Mai is probably the best track on there IMNSHO. The second disc sometimes sounds a bit old-school (pre-3D Vision) French (supersaturation with cheesy Greek-style melodies with very overused high-hat, think 'trance on a Vespa'), but also features the gorgeous tracks 'Sentences to Heaven', 'Kannibal' and 'Meditation'. The record is worth buying for these tracks alone, and the rest you can play for your kids if they wonder what the good stuff sounded like back in the 20th century.

Sounds very dated now. I wouldn't pick it up anymore unless you plan to take it back with you in a journey to 1997.

Niiice record from Future Prophecy, at last. X-Dream should sue. 7/10 because a few of the tracks are sort of pointless.