sleepingzombie

Beside the ones quoted by you and Ampithon, I don't know other italian guys involved strictly in goa. Instead there are a lot from the old progressive/ hard trance scene : Rex Anthony, Mario Più, Franchino, Ricky Le Roi, Roland Brent, Robert Miles, Massimo Picotto, and many others .

my god .... I read the whole trhead , most of all the sections about guitars and about the fact that using them in goa/psy/whatever is just for a teen audience ... Maybe we are just made different. Everyone has its own tastes , and luckily people are different. I discovered Electric Universe after S.U.N. Project, because I was speaking with a guru-dj who, stunned by my exaltation with guitars mixed with trance music , gave me the mp3 of Science. I love love love love this song. It's perfect, adrenalinic to the maximum, exagerated, it makes me jump until my head crashes into the ceiling ... and now of course I've to buy the whole cd The thing I don't understand of your review is this : what do you mean with "Not used well at all " ? I think that , provided that you do like the style electric guitars + 4/4 kick, the guitars in these track are used extremely well . I think the production of Science is very good : it starts with floating bass/synth, than enters the bassline, stops with some guitar refrain, begins to grow and .... explodes !!!! It's pure fun. I dont' see anything wrong in using a track like that when a party reaches the climax, maybe playing that in the last half-hour, just before introducing the 303 progressive conclusion of the night

Thank you for the link. I love Octopus by Art Of Trance.

Thank you . Support original goa

SUN Project Insectified Spirit Zone 2004 Track Lisitng #1 On my way 7:10 #2 Hangin' around 7:21 #3 Dance of the witches (St. Pauli Mix) 7:11 #4 A hard ride 7:21 #5 Just a question 7:25 #6 Sequence traveller 6:48 #7 Steam 6:55 #8 Setting up for flying now (Funky Mix) 8:24 #9 Polaroid people 6:35 #10 bonus track Review #1 Start up track . Floating vocal samples and effects upon a fast bassline . Nothing special, but nice warm up. #2 Floating track . Here the bassline slows down, and the synth layer do a strange work : on a hand, they seem to push the song to a psy dimension, with a thrilling pattern , but on the other hand vocal samples and keyboard sounds introduce some "house" feelings . #3 This track is deviant. If you like also heavy metal this is an amazing surprise, but if you didn't like Ozzy Osbourne in your teens, this will just suck. Rainy intro, and then in a very heavy metal style, an electric guitar riff explodes, and the the whole track is a continuos play beetween the powerful bassline and the electric guitars ... if you like the style, this is a great track #4 Boring track. Very usual goa production, with floating synth and continuous bassline .. samples and keyboard fields try to create some lush , but the feeling is just of deja-vu. #5 The drumkit and bass layers here are goa, but some samples and keyboard patterns really sound house ... maybe it's an experiment, but it's just boring. #6 Another usual goa production. The bassline. The floating synths. The boredom . #7 Nice vocal sample but the production of the first part of the track is just boring. Instead at 4:40 enters a break where a strange guitar riff mixes with the vocal sample ... it's a good idea they could have developed during the final part of the song, but they drop it after some seconds to return to the usual bassline/bzzwarp bzwaarp synth , what a pity ... #8 They took track #6 , added some bongos and a guitar riff with a strange 70s flavour. #9 Ambient track. Relaxing keyboard layers with some female vocals in Enigma' s style, and some chill-out patterns. Nice and unexpected. #10 Electric guitars and trance layers. Not adrenalinic like #3, and it features some thrilling and atmospheric keyboard works ... this could have been a nice bgm for a videogame Rate I love track #3, and like track #9 . I found the rest of the album too boring. Not that the tracks are bad, but the deja-vu is really high, and some samples or guitar arrangements aren't enough to hide the lack of worthly ideas.

Well, finally I got the cd and it disappointed me. Reading the thread I imagined something very fast and full of heavy metal riffs ... luckily at least I found my beloved 303 I don't like the first three tracks : they sound like the usual stuff you can hear anywhere ,bzzwarp bzzwarp tunzi tunzi, also stuck on a not-fast-not-slow bpm with a minimal feeling ... zzzz ... boredom ... With track #4 there is a little awakening, and nice works with 303 appear ... nothing sensational or original but at least you awake , provided that you like this more progressive style of music. Track #5 is nice, a nice 303job, so if you like progressive this track is for you ... the bass layer is well done, even it's nothing of original because it sounds like 100 progressive songs already existing ... it's similar to Slinky Wizard's Lunar Juice, even it's more raw and doesn't flow smooth as in that song ... After this one I don't like almost nothing of the remaining tracks ... they thrown in a lot of things : bongo, guitar solos, minimal progressive, howlings ... but every track seems just to be floating without having any idea of where to go ... and it isn't neither a nice floating ... and I found melodies to be poorly inspired too ... but of course this is just IMO

To be honest I was looking for Drosophilia, but I've managed to find only this 2003 release by SUN project. Wow, I was fascinated by this concept of heavy use of guitars ina trance environment, but the result didn't turn out as I expected. I imagined electric guitars to have a feeling more smooth or electronic, but these guys surprised me because they really took some hevay metal riffs (that seem to come straight from the 80s scene of bands like loudness, iced hearth, etc.) and trhown them into some goa tracks. Honestly production of the trance layers isn't really impressive : if you turn off the guitar layer, you find that you're listening to not really inspired progressive/trance floating synths. Guitars aren't so invasive : maybe they refined their style in this second (I think) cd, because I was expecting 60 minutes of guitars + 4/4 kick. instead there are also synth-only passages and openings of space more ethereal, even if melodies aren't really stunning and the effect of something kept "minimal". Anyway, I'll wait to hear Drosophilia before judging this one too.

How I love this style. This is balance. Almost perfect balance. You dream and you move. At the same time, you get trip and adrenaline. What a production. It seems simple in the beginning, then every listening reveals unnoticed touches of style . Where did that layer come from ? it wasn' t here in the previous 20 listenings ... amazing yes yes yes home listenings and dancefloor united together in a whole flow of beating dreams Rate : p.s. Rino, your reviews are really interesting. I'm learning a lot about goa scene from your deepenings . Thank you.

Guitars and goa music ? I love guitars on goa music. This cd sounds like a must have for me. Nothing more orgasmic than a layer of warped synth placed upon an heavy metal riff, maybe with a 303 line . Today I'll get it. I hope tey use 303 also. Yes I'm soooo childish and I love the way I am .... space cadets prepare to fly trhough the cosmos I hope I'm going straight forward to something like this

I don't agree. I like to be multi-orgasmic, instead . Whoa, goa guys, do you believe that I just listened to it a week ago for the first time ? And this is GOA. THIS IS THE GOA I WAS LOOKING FOR. THIS IS GOA. GOA .GOA. Not a f*** cd with 10 tracks that sound cloned , not 60 minutes of music repeating exactly the same first minute. Not the usual cd that at the first sample you think "hey, this kicks hard" and at the second track you've already felt asleep. Not psycothic mass of noises padded with one-note basslines. I agree that this guy it's a genius and just for one thing : this is a continuos blast, psychedelic, mind-opening ,acid, warping BUT the fact is that THIS IS NOT BORING. YOU ENJOY THIS FROM THE FIRST SECOND UNTIL THE LAST . sorry if I'm screaming but finally I've came home. NO MORE SHIT.NO MORE SHIT. THIS IS GOA

After having listened to LSD in 2007, I understood many things about goa . I think this song settled many parameters of the goa to come. As for LSD, I liked it (the song , of course ). This song gives me the same mood of Astral projection's Kabbalah , even if it has less layers and an easier structure.

After having listened to the whole album, I agree 100%. Btw, I liked more Tales Of Ephidrina, because it has more dark/ambient passages and it's more similar to Lifeforms, even being "not hurting".

I didn't know GMS or the two guys behind this project ... in the beginning I just picked it up because the titles of the songs aroused my curiosity I liked it. It is well produced and it has good melodies. Sometimes it's cheesy, but I like the "side-feature" that you can play this on a dancefloor to introduce more dreaming moments while keeping also people dancing.

I become curious after reading the review because I like black metal and I always dream of "crossover" experiments between the two styles. But this one turned out not to be my cup of tea. To my ears these songs sound like a continuous bassline pasted with noisy samples. To be honest, sometimes it is able to create the mood and you feel that there is a concept behind, but IMO it's very repetitive and after some listenings it doesn't catch but becomes just boring. I would have preferred the patterns and samples to be more gothic instead of noisy/"industrial".

Now I'm collecting every stuff related to FSOL, so I got this one also. Well, I've liked it. Of course, listening to it today for the first time, you notice that 13 years have passed since it was released . But it's good. To my ears it sounds like a Lifeforms less chaotic and more structured thanks to the support of the 4/4 kick. I would describe the overall mood as moderate dark. If you want something that "opens your mind" like Lifeforms but let also keep your foot on the ground. Emh .. it's not really a great review but this is the effect it has on me. Flaws ... mmh ... maybe production is less elaborate than Lifefroms and dead Cities, and some patterns of keyboard sound outdated (well, but 13 years have passed ...) IMO it's a cd that one can appreciate still today. It's not a trip neither a party bomb, but it works as a good background for many moments of the day. Rate : 7

Kabalah is one of my fav tracks ever. It's a party song but it's also damn good if you like some kind of chaos magick or OOBE styles of meditations and like to meditate with appropriate background music. Try to read Invisibles by Alan Morrison with Kabbalah in your ears and you will lose every contact with reality. The rest of the cd is good, with a couple of great tracks, but sometimes it gets repetitive. Rate : 7/10

Don't own the album, but listened to some tracks . Very well produced, high class style. His environments are smooth, but he is very smart to avoid repetition and to keep attenction of the listener always high. Great ! Sure on top of my to-buy list for this year.

strange album ... luckily this forum teached me to listen a new thing a couple of times before rating it ... So : at the first listening Cause and Effect sounded just boring and repetitive to me. What mostly puzzled me was the relative slow bpm, so first perception I have had was a slow drumline with noisy effects placed above. At the second listening I realized that the "noisy effects" were cool arrangements in which "industrial" patterns were teared by acid 303 explosions or minimal synth landscapes. At the further listening, illumination : Cause and Effect is really , I think no term renders better than this, *evil*. Evil, this cd is meant only to damage you. It presents itself minimal but then it unveils very acid moments in which warping synths float on some well studied basslines , with growing flangered/distorted layers underlined by a chill but determined drumline ... and the effect is that you pump up the volume, and dance, dance , dance ... Production is indeed very good : the "minimal" impact slowly leaves place to acid sensations that swallow you into a dark nebula ... This is a cd that needs to be listened to the highest volume. For solitary listening it's good but it may really hurt you , so better share its evilness with other people on a dancefloor. Only weak point I can find in this production is that in some tracks it has some boring moments in which gets repetitive. Rate : 7/10

maybe it's just personal tastes.... but I really love that song, that field of (insects ? jungle animals ?) noise on that fast "trip hop" drum line ... no concept and just dance , well, maybe to my tastes that's the best concept

I don't own the album but I know papua new guinea (and who doesn't ?)... I think this song sounds very good even today

this latest month : Trentemoller - the last resort (liked very much) Green nuns of the revolution - Rock bitch mafia (dopamine triumph) Tripswitch - Circuit breaker (still listening to, but a bit dazed) hey, actually it seems I'm only buying following this forum's reviews

I'm not exactly an expert,I've still a lot of goups to discover. Anyway, i voted 1,5/5 and my reason is one and only one : GIMME BACK 303 !!!

In general if I like a track I also look for its remixes. Sometimes the remix gives me a better track. Sometimes remix disappoints me, featuring a whole different track, keeping only some samples from the track I like, and making me complain for the money I've just lost. Sometimes the remix reveals to be only some junk with a title of a track that I like. So, overall : I regret all that money wasted just to find scarcely better versions of tracks that I like. Mmmhh ... you've just persuaded me to stop waisting money on remixes.

The topic made me curious and I got the album. Nice to taste different sounds , who cares if it is psy,idm,ecc. or not . Liked very much the atmosphere of the cd, with its sad flavour. Many moments not only are very melancholic but also rendered in an innovative fashion (not really an easy aim to achieve). Some passages (for example the beautiful entry of the sad melodic bells/keyboard landscape in "the cold winter awaiting") had the power of both surprising me and striking deeply my hearth. A couple of tracks are really different from the sounds I'm accostumed too ("Vamp", for example) but I understand their function in the overall concept of the cd. "Take me into your skin" is simply beautiful. I'm making a cd for my car with some of the ambient tracks I like more, and I put this one together with Asura and Aes Dana. I need some more listenings before rating it. Anyway, thank you for made me discovering this artist.

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