[Children Of Paradise - Urban Alien]

Agreed that X-Dream is awesome, but this side project is to repetitve and

unevolving to be awesome. There is not enough varity of sounds in the tracks

to keep interest. It isn't bad- but for an X-Dream album, it certaintly isn't

good. If you liked the Delta, chances are you may take interest in this one,

but in my opinion, the first time I heard Delta-Pop, it was a hell of lot more

interesting then listening to this. Oh, and I hear X-Dreams coming out with

ANOTHER DELTA cd!!!!!!!

[XV Kilist - XV Kilist]

I've also listened to it over and over and i havn't changed my mind..... This

is an absolute piece of shit, don't buy it. "NEGATIVE 9/10."

[Infected Mushroom - BP Empire]

ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS CD: WILD, CRAZY, NUTS, INSAINE, AWESOME. Oops I

forgot thats five words. Anyway, who said it was rushed??? I read that

somewhere above. This cd is absolutly awesome. This sound more simular to

Classical Mushroom then The Gathering, but so what. This cd is INCREDIBLE

when, like in track 2 or three, those several parts where the music just

stops... then BANG, it hits you like a fucking tidal wave on speed! The last

track is very unique, and I absolutly love the energy that Infected Mushroom

builds in all of their cds. The production, banging! The sounds, as crisp as

ever! The voice samples,"WOE," and in all the right places. This is such a

fresh, musical, psychedelic, piece of work that if you don't own it, your

either retarded, or dead.

[Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy]

Trust in trance was great for its time, and The Astral Files was a good remix album with some new tracks. Dancing Galaxy is where AP climaxed with few exceptions (Searching For UFO's on their third Another World album). Dancing Galaxy is, their most engaging, "put you in another world," album, in my opinion.

 

This is a fantastic album; it's ambitious, exciting, and one of the strongest Goatrance albums.

 

9/10

[Yumade - Danz Ego]

Minimalism is not Goa! Don't you people understand the whole concept of Psy

Trance / Goa. To be tranced and go somewhere else doesn't revolve around a

bunch of hard, techno throbbing beats with mixed in acid, scratchy sounds.

What is wrong with everyone??? In my country, the USA, I have to listen to

that hip hop/ pop rock crap and it makes me sick. Our countries music is so

commercial that almost everyone listens to and loves the pop rock retart

scene. Actually, us Americans don't even have a scene, we suck so much. But

when I hear most minimal music, it scares me to think that there is such

boring, commercial music in your countries (Europe, Isreal,etc) as well.

Yumade is shit that I, as well as most of you people, can create over the

computer in a couple days, probably less. I can't believe you guys debate what

is or isn't minimal over such crap. Yumade is shit- and I am not even putting

down the whole minimal wave, even though most of it is cheap shit that is

rushed to flood the shelves so that party heads and narrow minded butt nuts

can buy it up, and dance to pure monotony that is disguised by both high

volume and a good sound system. There is so much better stuff out there-

seriously. Yumade is only deep if your on crack. DO YOU ENJOY YOU COMMERCIAL

CRAP THAT NO ONE WILL GIVE TWO SHITS FOR A COUPLE WEEKS FROM NOW???

[Talamasca - Beyond The Mask]

This is so good!

"The Hunter Becomes the Hunted... Yes!!!!!!!!!!"

Hell yeah!!! 

That and so much more. There is an incredibly break in Halloween where the song shifts from dark psy into darkly infectious Goa climax. incredible! 

Highlights include: 

The Hunter (!), Wake Up, Drops Of Madness, Telepathic Atmosphere (!), You Are The Machines

Great album!!!

 

[Doof - Let'S Turn On]

FUCKING AWESOME! THIS STUFF MAKES ME HAPPY. YOU CAN'T NOT WANT TO DANCE TO

THIS. NOW IS NICK EVER GONNA MAKE STUFF LIKE THIS AGAIN?!, or do we have to

live with his new chill STYLE??? (It's About Time), WHICH IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR

AS GOOD AS THIS ONE. MY SCORE= 9 OUT OF 10: exceLLent!!

[The Muses Rapt - Spiritual Healing]

I have to say that after hearing some of the reviews above, I expected Track 1

to be alot better then what some of the (obviously hyped) reviews above. Also,

Track 2 is not my type of style. I am surprised that no one has talked about how

annoying TRACK 2 is. I find it quite hard to believe that anyone can be

SPIRITUALY healed by track 1. Whatever. To each is his own, I guess. HOWEVER,

having said the negative, I must admitt that there are some pretty awesome

tracks on this cd, "BUT" you must first except the change of music style

before you go upon judging it. This cd sounds a hell of a lot different from

what I am used to hearing. It's not mellow, not truly dance, certaintly not

chill, and deff. no where near acid-trippy-psychedelic-insaine. I don't know

how I'd classify this. Probably some unique trance of some sort. Anyway, track

7 sounds quite powerful and dark. This is very cool and catchy. The last track

I found quite good as well, actually I didn't expect it to sound so cool,

until I turned the volume uP, AND put on the head phones. Track 1 I thought

was really good at first, but seems to get some what repetitive. To sum it up,

THIS CD IS NOT AMAZING, AND seems to be the type of music that you shall

either LOVE or HATE, or just find really different and interesting like me. I

almost lost the faith when I heard Track 2, but Track 3 certaintly does seem

to revive it quite well. I recken you listen to this cd before buying. If you

have read some of the reviews above, you'll notice some people talk about this

cd like it's the Matrix.

[Sandman - Witchcraft]

This is one of the darker, more obscure, underrated, and imaginative Goa albums. The album has character and personality. It's unpredictable and innovative. It takes risks and is unconventional and visionary. The album's like one big dark experimental, often intriguing and almost ALWAYS engaging. I like the unpredictable beat, bass line, etc. Great use of accents too! Such alien-esque landscapes, both foreign and fresh.

Witchcraft is easily the artist's best work.

[Emuna - Emuna]

Some of these tracks are extremely beautiful, and even emotional. It may sound

old school, but so what. Not all goa has to be acid-tripping Full On, to be

appreciative. Those who love melody and very uplifting trance should be

pleased with this CD. I do hope DJ Eyal Yankovich continues to make music like

this, because there doesn't seem to be much like it anymore.

[Doof - It's About Time]

OK, I am going to start this review off by saying that this is NOTHING like

Let's Turn On. While Doof's first cd was highly uplifting, extremely fun to

listen to, very energetic and always danceable, "It's About Time," takes a

completely different route. This cd is mainly a chill album more than

anything else. When I first got this, I was very disappointed, because I

expected it to be like Nick's first cd. After some time and patience, I

noticed more interesting things about it that I had not heard before. I

recommend that if anyone fully wants to appeciate this cd, they listen to it

with headphones on, and the volume turned up. It has some nice chill-out melodies. 7/10.

[X-Dream - Radio]

I JUST GOT THIS CD IN TODAY and WHAT A CD! I HAD HEARD X-DREAM BEFORE ON

COMPILATIONS, but never was impressed to the extent of WoW, until now. IT'S SO

DARK, PSYCHEDELIC, DEEP,WILD, REVOLUTIONARY, and NOT-AT-ALL-MINIMAL. This is

much better then their newer stuff. THIS cd, 3 PLUS years later still sounds

MUCH better then 99% of the GOA out there, and I'm not even gonna include the

minimal-psy, repetitive shit thats been flooding the scene, cause thatS NOT

goa! It's just called that as an excuse to call it something. Forget about it.

Im getting off subject. X-DREAM-Radio is FUCKING UNREAL! Yes, It's up there

with a very short list of extremely ambitious others. (Hallucinogen, Infected

Mushroom, etc) HOWEVER, I AM SORRY TO SAY THAT this new wave of minimal shit

seems to be taking over all that made Goa music unique. Things don't seem to

be original anymore. All in all, this cd is one of the last of the finest, and

if you still don't own it I suggest that you buy it 'IF' you can find it.- AND

THATS NO FUCKING PROMO SENTENCE BECAUSE THIS CD IS TRULY WORTH EVERY

PENNY.////////// my score = (not yet) i won't assume, but wait until it

further grows on me, but i already KNOW I love it!

[Solar Plexus - Images Of The 5th Dimension]

Where is the bathroom, I'm gonna puke! Here is a couple words of wisdom: "when

a cd says 100% pure goa, IT'S NOT FUCKING GOA! I GIVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT 100

out of 10, CAUSE THATS HOW MANY BOXES OF FUCKING TISSUES YOUR GONNA NEED

AFTER HEARING THIS-YOU'LL BE VOMITING THAT MUCH. ANYONE SELLING THIS CD, oh

I'm sorry...I mean PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT, should incoorperate a bag to anyone

who ACCI-FUCKING-DENTLY gets this crap!

[MFG - The Prophecy]

Good for a first MFG cd. Some parts get VERY psychedelic, e.g., Illumination. Some songs are noticeable weaker than others. Track 8, for example is too drawn out, and quite uninspiring until the end. The album's PROS far out weight the CONS though. Tasty, psychedelic and easy to digest combinations of catchy, driving synth melodies and strong development make this debut a cult classic in Goa Trance! That said, their following THREE sequels are superior to The Prophecy IMO. Though to be fair, even The Prophecy has tracks that top a few songs off EVERY MFG sequel to date. Believe that. That said, MFG built on this AP-inspired style (that does many things of its own) debut. But they REALLY broke away with their sequels... the dark and edgy Project Genesis (!!), the elaborate and cosmic melody fusion New Kind of World (!!!), and the unique combining ideas from all three plus a few new tricks and a few less masterpiece tracks The Messenger (!).

8/10

[Deedrah - Self Oscillation]

Seriously, if you think this is Goa, I strongly advise that you stop smoking

the crack and wake up to the real world. When I first heard Deedrah, it was

in bits and pieces, so I never actually paid attention to how boring and

monotonous this cd really was. Finally, I listened to the whole cd and

realized this is the equivalence of techno music. The only track that you can

refer to as Goa, is the outdated Wizard Demo. I've read reviews where several

people claimed that Alien Dick was mind blowing. Alien Dick is just a bunch

of fast, hard beats mixed on top of one another. I will not even discuss the

other tracks, why bring anymore attention to a piece of shit. SCORE= 0.0001

out of 10. This cd is platinum if your deaf.

[MFG - Project Genesis]

Project Genesis is IMO MFG's best album to date. Numerous listeners also consider their previous album, New Kind of World  to be their best album, and for me NKoW lacks the darker, surrealistic, nighttime mayhem that IS Project Genesis in spades despite several songs on New Kind of World being better than a few on Project Genesis and vice-versa. I love the conceptual cyber-GOA approach on Project Genesis and find both this and NKoW substantially better than their 1996 debut, The Prophecy-- yet even that was a solid debut with great work! Few will disagree that Project Genesis is darker, more intense. When it comes to Cyber / Cyborg / Cybernetic (futuristic / machines) influence relative to electronic music > Goa Trance however, Project Genesis is cybernetic gold. 

Constructive Criticisms

I thought Voices was a bit of a let down after such stellar songs (2, 3, 4) leading up to it, though it's not bad, just less of a stand out IMO. Then there's the album's cover which looks like a cheap rip-off of the movie Independence Day. MFG's first two covers are excellent, imaginative, and visionary-- so complimentary. What happened with this one is anyone's guess!

Conclusion:

The cybernetic/Sci-Fi influence goes from good > great > to excellent/superb, starting with Intelligent Machine and the self-titled Project Genesis, then peeking with gems like WHY? which is one of the best things I've ever heard in Goa Trance! I get such strong visions with this album compared to New Kind of World and The Prophecy. Project Genesis is loaded with hard hitting tracks that beautifully blend darkly infectious and fun, dance-friendly Goa with Psytrance, coupled great bass lines, synths, atmosphere, climaxes, and complexity. The cybernetic style is refreshing, catchy, and engaging. Each song has character, is well defined, and develops throughout. Project Genesis is is a terrific concept album and my favourite album by MFG. I love it! 

HIGHLIGHTS:  INTELLIGENT MACHINE, PROJECT GENESIS, OPEN MIND, WHY, SUNSHINE, ON MARS, THE CREATION, METAMORPHOSIS
(All except for Intro and Voices)

9 / 10

[Pleiadians - IFO]

A

[Miranda - The Northern Lights]

(Track 1) Intro- very interesting, unique way of explaining the Northern Lights.

3.5/5 (Track 2) Anaesthetic- This kicks ass for a driving song, but what the

hell are those mixed lyrics? They suck, get them out!

4/5 (Track 3) Gnocchi- Quite cool, nice beat.

3/5 (Track 4) Lynx- Some really nice acid sounds but nothing new.

2.5/5 (Track 5) Mantra- Now this beat reminds me of her last album, decent at

best with a pleasing ambient background.

3.5/5 (Track 6) Guitars and Tatoos- Miranda has such kickass beats, but then

you hear that FUCKING electric guitar. However, it will grow on you after

listening to this several times. This song builds up and levels off nicely.

4.6/5 (Track 7) Eyedentify- Yes, oh yes, just wait for that climax break after

4:30! Finally, a track most people will love.

3.5/5 (Track 8) Mars needs woman- Uplifting, fun dance song is WAY TO FUCKING

SHORT! Still, it is not as bad as you all say it is.

4/5 (Track 9) Earth and Space- Much more spacey, a lot more psychedelic. What

is that tune being played? It's awesome.

3.5/5 (Track 10) U are Alone- Some very beautiful ambient sounds mixed with

less intense percussion, gets a little repetitive towards the end.

4.9/5 (Track 11) Feel the Effect- ARE YOU HAPPY NOW! THIS TRACK IS FUCKING

AWESOME. Powerful sounds, wicked layers, sweet voice mixing, and it evolves!

Listen to this track with the volume up, UP, and you will FEEL THE EFFECT!

Final score:: 4.1/5 and/or 8.2/10.

Track 7 and 11 own the cd and the others are very cool depending on the mood

that you are in. Worth buying? Listen to track 7 and 11 and you answer that

one.

[Pleiadians - Family Of Light]

Excuse me people, if Pleiadians is so good as you all say it is, then what the
hell is Universe 13?! That has got to be the worse piece of shit I've ever
heard in my entire life! For those of you who own this, and for those
interested in buying Family of Light, take into account that one bad track on
Pleiadians is quite a chunk of the cd. However, I cannot deny that I was very
impressed with Head Spin. On the other hand, Modulation and Seven Sisters would
have been a lot better if they ended a couple of minutes shorter. Modulation
sounds like two completely separate songs pasted together. Although Modulation
is one of the high points on this cd, the excessive running time damages the
quality of this track. Most people don't have patience for tracks that are
fifteen minutes along unless they are amazing-which, while this cool, it is
not amazing. In conclusion, I respect that nothing is perfect, but I can't
respect the shitty elements that damage the quality of Pleidians. 7/10 without
Uviverse 13: 5/10 with it.

 

2016 Update: Boy I sounded harsh back then. Calling anything "shit" that the Pleiadians made is pretty low. Besides still digging Head Spin and not being in love with Universe 13 to date (my girlfriend likes it and some of you), I disagree with what I wrote back in 2001. I love Modulation the way it is, even with the fake-out (if you would call it that) ending that adds yet another terrific, completely unique and creative segment/finale. Sure Seven Sisters could have ended after the uptempo segment or even before it, but there's something more Pleiadian-esque about their decision to vary it up more. Their approach to bring the uptempo (second act) back down to ambient (third act) is poignant and harmonious. There's something special about the peaceful, ambient conclusion/epilogue of the song. I really like and accept it just the way it is.

 

It's interesting to see how perspectives change overtime.

[Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger]

So much going on. So ... many ... sounds... and details.

[Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger]

The following is a universal review of Hallucinogen-The Lone Deranger. No Goa

cd ever made to date is beyond platinum in psychedelic, depth, intensity and

insanity. Words do not describe how amazing this cd is. If you are on acid

while listening to this cd, you are fucked! 11/10 stars.