Children Posted January 21, 2000 Share Posted January 21, 2000 V/A - Distance To Goa 1Artist: VariousTitle: Distance To Goa 1Label: DistanceDate: 1995Track listing:01. 09'18" Total Eclipse : Waiting For A New Life02. 08'45" Slinky Wizard : Wizard03. 06'15" Force Of Nature : Eye Tripping04. 06'16" Total Eclipse : Far Beyond Speech05. 07'35" Prana : Scarab06. 07'58" Moog : Euromotors07. 07'19" NAT : Hard Knee08. 09'37" Luna Eclipse : The Return Home (Solar Mix)09. 05'46" Interstellar : Arcadia (Moebius Mix)10. 06'45" Razor's Edge : Exquisite Sin (Dream Mix)Review:Quite Good compilation :-) Best Track is Track 5 and Bad Tracks are 7,9,10 ...Rating : 4.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ubik Posted January 26, 2000 Share Posted January 26, 2000 Nice compilation I bought for only one track : Waiting for a new life, which I like a lot and is not on the albums by Total Eclipse. Scarab is very good, but present on lots of compils. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utopia_x[at]infonie[dot]be Posted April 10, 2000 Share Posted April 10, 2000 This is a resonable compilation with a lot of weird-junk tracks.Very hard for a goa novice to understand this kind of music with the first chapter of " Distance to Goa" ! Nevertheless,i really enjoy Total Eclipse #1 track,#5 of course !, #6 (average-good) and #8 some sort of a heavy cosmical goa track.All the rest isn't really music and there is no sense of creativity either. Rating : 6.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest clark_303 Posted July 1, 2000 Share Posted July 1, 2000 Most tracks on this compilation sound dated but there are some very good tracks too. The best one is the classic, Waiting for A New Life by Total Eclipse and it still sounds fresh. The Slinky Wizard song is fantastic too with really cool vocal samples and weird and fat acid lines. Another song by Total Eclipse is good too although the screaming samples are very childish...The Prana track is good too but not really mind-blowing. Other songs range from boring to average and some of them are really unoriginal...Cliched TB-303 sounds and melodies that give you nothing at all...So an average album and worth getting if you don't have the good songs on other CDs.-Clark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest protamine[at]infonie[dot]fr Posted October 8, 2000 Share Posted October 8, 2000 'Waiting for a new life' And 'Scarab' are the best tracks. 'Far beyond speech', 'Euromotors' And 'Exquisite sin' are really good!!! In fact, all tracks are not bad! RATING [8/10] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Sun-Wizard Posted April 21, 2001 Share Posted April 21, 2001 this is a real clasic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysergic Posted December 18, 2001 Share Posted December 18, 2001 pretty good! best tracks are #1 waiting for a new life (nice emotion in this tracks melody),#2 wizard (for the cool acid lines and effective sample, makes u wanna dance!) #5, Scarab (on of prana's better tracks i think) overall 7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest niels_knigge[at]ofir[dot]dk Posted February 28, 2002 Share Posted February 28, 2002 I Love the two Total Eclipse tracks... Unfortunately that's the only two really good tracks, others are quite mediocre. 6/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 Pretty good compilation from the very beginning... This is where goa trance started...We are talking about 1994 here...Best songs are : WAITING FOR A NEW LIFE ( !!! ), FAR BEYOND SPEECH, SCARAB, THE RETURN HOME, EXQUISITE SIN ( DREAM MIX ) ( !!! )...7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted July 20, 2002 Share Posted July 20, 2002 I forget EYE TRIPPING that is real, fast goa trance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 Good old compilation with some great tracks. Best are Far Beyond Speech (one of the best TE tracks!), Scarab, Euromotors, Hard Knee and of course The Return Home a beautiful, emotional track. 7.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no-nonsense Posted July 6, 2006 Share Posted July 6, 2006 I love the early goa sound of that time. The heavenly Luna Eclipse track is my personal highlight in the compilation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarbiter Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I forget EYE TRIPPING that is real, fast goa trance...Easily best song... this is a really good compilation. A couple of bad tracks but the rest are great... a different yet good style to a lot of other stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cocco Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 According to Discogs this came out in 1995 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Distance-To-Goa-1/release/37728 I like compilations where all of the songs are new and haven't been taken from albums I already own. Either way I haven't heard these songs before. The Total Eclipse tracks are really good, especially Far Beyond Speech (!!!) which is superb IMO. Everyone has their favorites though. Favorite tracks: 1, 4, 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Posted 08 October 2000 'Waiting for a new life' And 'Scarab' are the best tracks. 'Far beyond speech', 'Euromotors' And 'Exquisite sin' are really good!!! In fact, all tracks are not bad! RATING [8/10] haha that was my review. and you know what... Slinky Wizard : Wizard is one of the best goa tracks ever made IMO. I prefer this track to most Hallucinogen tracks, above LSD, Shamanix and others, personal taste of course http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm78e26RxU4 i mean the track is slow, not overwhelming it might sound a bit empty compared to other tracks but that's just perfect and got one of the most emotional melody in a goa track. One could say it is morning goa. Genius. Nice video by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 I would rate Slinky Wizard over Hallucinogen any day. Every track by Slinky Wizard is brilliant and the Wizard here is a great example of trance music. I've been listening to this a lot recently, maybe as it's just after Darshan - Awakening on my music player. All tracks are good but as usual Slinky Wizard takes the prize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptn Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 I would rate Slinky Wizard over Hallucinogen any day. That's how great wars have started in the past . Speaking about CD, my favourites are: both Total Eclipse and Slinky WIzard. Hard to realize it's been TWO DECADES ago . Earth is getting old faster and faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Yeah I know music is subjective, but I think you're all high. Like...really high. Like that guy who's house is floating away with balloons. "Yep, there goes the Psynews community..." This is twenty years old and a lot of the tracks sound like it. Dated and taking forever to goa short distance. See what I did there? So clever. It's a combination of goa trance and the verrrry early days of goa trance. The Slinky Wizard track is king for me and Scarab is great too, but after that...like a club at 5 in the morning. Slim pickings. And saying that Waiting for a New Life is one of the better Total Eclipse tracks is like saying black licorice is better than a cauliflower floret. There are no winners there. I'll pass on this one. Mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goa-Head Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I like your balloon humour However I think you have been a little bit harsh here. After Scarab there is Euromotors. Don't you like this? Most oldschoolers praise this slightly unknown gem. Waiting For A New Life is my favourite Goa track and is a favourite classic. Far Beyond Speech is also very good if you ask me. And to round it off, the compilation has an amazing acid trance classic, Exquisite Sin, with a mesmerising 303. I know it's a matter of taste but remember that most of this music was done in 1994 so is far from easily digestible if you are fairly new to trance. Music here sounds extremely dated but it's still a sweet compilation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I just don't find any of the tracks outside of the ones I mentioned anything special. They're ok, but most of them come and go without any depth for me. Parts of the track were pretty good, but as a whole none of them stayed with me. As you said to each his own. Mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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