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Listened to this again 30/6/2024 - yes, rather derivative, but excellent album.

Haha Tsotsi, you cracked me up with this classic line: "Goa is the best thing this bunch of self-assured incompetent primates have ever created". Nice one geezer! Great stuff from Global Sect again, this time on an Astral Projection kind of trip. Lovely dreamy cosmic vibes and production skills that show that the works of Astral Projection were studied in detail; Centavra Project present us with audiophile sound without harshness or screaming leads. The production is quite restrained in a tasteful way, but with plenty of detail and texture. The result is a very good sound with an impressive amount of detail on offer - a sonic scape with endless fractals hovering in multiple dimensions. Overall the feeling from the album is quite positive and ecstatic, very different from the drone trance of Katedra on the same label. There is no shying away from minor chords or psychedelia, but this is generally an uplifting album in a spacey kind of way. The space theme is consistent throughout and the melodies reflect that in having a floating or flying quality. Let us not forget that the 90s that birthed light-hearted Goa trance was a decade rife with environmental devastation, plague, war, nationalism, authoritarian tyranny, paranoia, media frenzy, and conspiracy theory. Could it be that such appalling contexts create a powerful need for escape and transcendence. This can lead to a sense of transhuman, transcorporeal, intergalactic belonging. This is what we have seen over and over in our often baleful history. As James Joyce had Stephen Dedalus say in Ulysses, "history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awake". Welcome Centavra Project to the pantheon of Goa trance! This album deserves to be ranked alongside Artifact 303's Back to Space as a worthy inheritor of the Astral Projection sound. Congratulations to all the artists involved! ~*~