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It's quite a task to decipher this immortal album into mere words, but I feel obliged as plus twenty years later this album still gives me the shivers and amazes me with its technical superiority. This album was written I believe mostly in 1995, but some of it even dates back to 1994. The first Hallucinogen release ever, the LSD/Alpha Centauri 12" on Dragonfly Records, is from April 1994. So to just sum things up - the whole album was written in roughly a two-year period. Musically speaking this album is nearly flawless in my ears. Hallucinogen has an uncanny talent in using weird yet strangely charming synth sounds and effects and manipulating them thru effect units like a mad scientist. The result? It may sound funny but the guy is still touring around the world playing these exact tracks! Okay, there's usually the combo-package with the latest Shpongle but still... this album carries such a staggering level to detail and brilliant songwriting that it still works on the dancefloor and gives you a great trip - even without stimulants. I love the almost "punk rock" attitude Hallucinogen has on this album. It's raw, powerful, twisted (as the title would suggest...) and mysterious all at the same time. 'Twisted' feels like a perfect example of that 1994/1995 musical period when Goa trance was taking its form and was free of any pre-defined concepts how psychedelic music ought to sound. At the same time its maturity was years ahead of the game and still continues to inspire countless of artists - yours truly as an example. I truly believe 'Twisted' is the magnum opus of Hallucinogen. Now, I do think also 'TLD' is a great album, it might excel this album in its technicality, but it lacks the certain rawness and craziness that make 'Twisted' one of the standout releases in all 90s electronic music.

Eat Static - Prepare Your Spirit (Alien Records 1992) A1 Hallucinate A2 Fudge A3 Worm-Lips A4 Instinct A5 Eat-Static A6 Destiny A7 Raga CD 1 Bonus: 8 The Plot 9 Kinesis B1 Almost Human B2 Om Machine B3 Cyber-Funk B4 The Watcher B5 Higher State B6 Woman Is Life B7 Medicine Wheel B8 The Fourth Dimension CD 2 Bonus: 9 Humm ll 10 The Element... It's funny - 'Abduction' is often regarded as the first Eat Static album and yours truly included thought so back in the days. The reason 'Prepare Your Spirit' perhaps never had such a wide recognition is because the album was initially only released as a limited edtion cassette (the artwork on that one is epic though, gotta admit) so only the lucky few got a hold of the album back then. And as many know, 'Abduction' was already a whole another story distribution and sales wise. I believe this album was kinda "resurrected" when this double cd version was printed. And it's a great version too, holding a couple beautiful extra tracks not to be found on the original cassette release. The music is a bit tricky to put in words with my limited imagination... I think essentially this album carries that UK rave-scene attitude of the early 90s with some added alien/ufo thematics - its sample trickery is almost second to none (Double Dee & Steinski are hard to match) and there are certainly lot of effects with definite extraterrestrial feel. A few tracks such as the self-titled 'Eat Static' or 'Destiny' sound remotely like the psytrance you'd only begin to hear around '95. And then you have 'The Watcher' with it's furious 148bpm beat, what a tune! Sure this track has a bit of that "rave scene" smell to it, but let me tell you it's years ahead of the fast banging psytrance that followed. Truly a pioneering track if something ought to be highlighted on this album. I was initially thinking about writing here "Grab your copy asap!" but it seems finding one these days seems like the biggest obstacle. But if you do, well, you know what to do.

Jaia's Blue Energy - there's a French seller on Discogs selling these for 16,99e brand new still sealed. https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/184151?ev=rb

Yeah, you got it.

"I just pissed in my pants - and nobody can do anything about it!"

Hola! My good friend released his debut album just today, I think. If you like melodic psychill then this could be your thing! Here's the link to the bandcamp page: https://lieless.bandcamp.com/releases

Added around 10 cds. Have a look!

Hux Flux - Time Slices/Degauss/Logarhythmic/Perceptor

Quite different indeed. I own (and voted for) the Japanese version. Bought it after thoroughly checking each track some years ago.

Reduced prices... going cheap.

The mixing sounds surprisingly bad on Filteria - Filtertraces (AP Rmx). I can't really recognize open or high hats, and then again that snare sound on every other beat is really loud... until around 9 minutes mark where they use another snare sound/decrease the volume(?). Idk, just sounds weird to my ears.

It's early 90s goa trance definitely... the innocent & simple melody with that bassline must be from around 92-94. I've heard it I'm quite sure but truly can't remember the title.

A chance to bring something fresh on the table, I mean you could hardly ask a better artist to remix isn't it? Now, a couple of the remixes are good in fact, Dickster takes Our Own Happiness and makes a decent 2017 full-on version out of it. He was able to maintain the spirit of the original track I reckon. AP and MWNN give decent remixes as well. MWNN, being maybe the greatest remixer ever in this genre, doesn't quite reach the level of his past works but it still might be the best remix here! But... there's a lot of garbage here too. I won't go in the dirty details but surely this remix cd would've been better if it was just 1CD or if they asked Sab Kuch Milegator to remix the other cd, I dunno!...

I don't usually write negative critics these days (who reads it anyway & does it do a real difference? I ask to myself) but this release set a new record low for psytrance. I wouldn't nor couldn't imagine somebody 1) butchering such an amount of classics (and, I assume, releasing them with permission???) and 2) making old goa trance classics, which are meant to be listened as a whole, such an easy feast - junk food really. None of the tracks have any logic, he's squeezing too many climaxes in a single track. The whole release is the psytrance equivalent to modern society's sickness: come up with an easy fix for the short-attention-span people and the money is yours.

I've added a couple items again. Added prices too for your convenience.

How about Galactic Mantra? My favorite new school producer (the ear for melody is second to none) You know Morphem?

Both are unknown to me too... Nice discovery. Perhaps the uploader (Simon Deranger) could provide you the info?

... or ask any local DJ to do the same. xD

The melody work near the end is nothing short of perfect...

Funny, but I think my old opinion still stands. Etnica - Mental Puzzle (Used to circulate under the name Monkey Business) Pleiadians - Pleiadians Crop Circles - Different Species (Pitch +10% and it transforms into something epic)

There's only one to mention... Oforia! Great stuff, I'm pleased to some degree with the recent neogoa music, but for me... honestly, not a great year. Honestly feel there's a lot of potential that's not coming to life but... well, each to their own.

Yeah, I thought some people would enjoy to download the mix instead. A couple rarities is always nice to have in the lot. I was thinking about including another unreleased track too: "Earth Nation - Alienated (Hallucinogen Rmx)" but I don't think it really matches his usual standards. It's not a flawless mix by any means (just listen to that atrociously loud crash cymbal in Mandala's Utopia... kinda hard to mix in smoothly.) ps. Sorry Antic no artist news in at least half a year - it was more a goofy joke as I've been making so many of these mixes recently.

Hey! The last mix for this year. Next time, I suppose, I'll be posting in the "Artist Announcements" topic hehe. What can I say? This is a pure fanboy mix I guess! Tracklist: 1. Hallucinogen - Demention (Twisted Records 1997) 2. Baba G - Dig A Jig (Dragonfly Kundalini Trance Mix) (Butterfly Records 1995) 3. Earth Nation - An Artificial Dream (Hallucinogen's Dragonfly Remix) (Eye Q Records 1995) 4. Slinky Wizard - Lunar Juice (Hallucinogen Moon Strudel Mix) (Flying Rhino Records 1996) 5. Doof & Simon - Cosmic Toothgrinder (Unreleased) 6. North Central Positronics - The Great Bear (Intelligence Records 1994) 7. Hallucinogen - Soothsayer (TIP Records 1995) 8. Killing Joke - Jana (Hallucinogenic) (Dragonfly Records 1998) 9. Hallucinogen - LSD (Live Mix) (Dragonfly Records 1995) 10. Hallucinogen - Orphic Resonance (Positiva 1996) 11. Hallucinogen - Thugs In Tye-Dye (Dragonfly Records 1996) 12. North Central Positronics - Smell The Glove (Intelligence Records 1994) 13. Axis Mundi - Cyber Cheese (Dragonfly Records 1996) 14. Mandala - Utopia (Dragonfly Records 1998) 15. Hallucinogen - Night Flight Through Babylon (Sales Curve Interactive 1996) 16. Hallucinogen - Shamanix (Dragonfly Records 1995) 17. Infernal Machine - The Loin Sleeps Tonight (Twisted Records 1996) 18. Hallucinogen - Angelic Particles (TIP Records 1995) 19. Earglobe - Sphereglobe (Unmastered DAT Rip) 20. Beast - Spawn (Twisted Records 1998) 21. (Outro) North Central Positronics - Smell The Glove (Slight Return) (Intelligence Records 1994) Posload: https://ufile.io/65e16

From my first album the track "Triptooth's Tribal Reboot"? It's 116bpm and quite tribal I reckon.

I'm going to post this and another special mix before going back to producing my own stuff again. Anyway, I thought there's no 100% intense goa mix around with dem classic bangers included. Tracklist: 1. Hiscore - True Freedom (Polytox Records 1995) 2. Etnica - Fractal Gates (Spirit Zone Recordings 1995) 3. Electric Universe - Orange Night (Spirit Zone Recordings 1995) 4. Transwave - Axonal (Step 2 House Records 1995) 5. Blue Planet Corporation - Antidote (DAT Records 2009) 6. Moonweed feat. Shakta - Micronesia (Anjuna Records 2014) 7. X-Dream - This (Tunnel Records 1994) 8. Unconscious Collective - Synchronicity Converger (OOOD Self-Released 2013) 9. Captain Unplugged - 30° Free Life At Santa Don (unreleased) 10. Magus - Black Holes (rmx) (DAT Mafia Recordings 2016) 11. Pleiadians - Pleiadians (DAT Records 2015) Cockload: https://ufile.io/41031