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Radical Distortion – Psychedelic Dreams SUNTRIP RECORDS 2009 01. Psychedelic Dreams 7:16 02. Spacecraft 8:41 03. Amorphia 6:27 04. The Dreamer (Orient Mix) 7:37 05. Transparant Joint 7:14 06. The Other World 5:59 07. Communication (Rmx) 8:06 08. A New Home 6:16 09. Star Dance 6:52 10. Dying Earth 8:09 This is the first 100% goatrance album of Radical Distortion, a duo from Greece, an act that has been there almost from the very start of the neogoa movement. Their sound is heavily influenced from acts like MFG and Transwave as both acts have had this rattling sound to them, maybe transwave less as the style leans towards MFG's power and israeli theme, but just check out Transwave's track "MDMA" and you'll see what I mean. Radical Distortion have appeared on a lot of neogoa compilations, some noteworthy tracks are Journey Into Your Mind on VA - The Sitting Goddess, The Dreamer on VA - Opus Iridium and Communication! on VA - Apsara. They also have had a debut album released previously called Regenesis albeit that tended to be more full-onish rather than straight up goatrance, though it had a very good goatrance song called "Regenesis". They also had double album with Mendark, called Purple Energy, where they had 5 tracks from which 2 stood out quite a bit, "equilibrium" and "Inspiration." Looking at all of this history they have done a lot of hard work, considering they manage to keep the quality of their songs quite high overall which is no small feat. It was only a matter of time when they would be releasing a full album of goatrance and it finally happened in 2009 on Suntrip Records. I decided not to bother writing a full review as the tracks are, to a degree, a bit samey. I'd be repeating a lot, I hate doing that and most of this album can be summed up nicely because of this, but that's not to say it bears the negative of being too repetitious. Psychedelic Dreams At first I found this album, as a whole, weak because of the repetitious sound, I was skipping here and there not really feeling like listening the whole thing. Time passed and a few months back I started to re-listen these tracks and I found that hidden golden egg. The fact is, this style is fun and rich. There's a ton of rattling, which I love, buckets of acid, lots of great leads, solid to great groovy MFG styleish melodies mostly, okay samples, pumping fun goa basslines. Everything is superbly textured and the tones are just great! This isn't deep music, it doesn't tell a story nor does it try to tell much of a story, it establishes some sort of atmospheres but never goes to deep within them, but neither did MFG with the first two albums, if I was to compare. It is more trippy and danceable generally which makes it simply fun, a great listen. Time that passes is not boring with these tracks. The last three tracks are a little bit deeper than the rest as they seem more atmospheric and much less intense, especially the last track that is more of a downtempo style. Speaking of which, I found the last track to be quite amazing as the texturing Radical Distortion does is so rich that this slower ride let's us see all of it in more detail and lets is sink in a bit more. Overall the tracks on this album, even though carry a same style, are very different from each others, I don't find repetitious a problem at all on this album and that's not too often when tracks tend to sound too similar. If I had to complain, I'd say only Transparent Joint and the Communication remix are not as exciting or on-par with the rest quality and interesting-wise and the fact is, I don't think many can listen this from one end to the other as it is quite intense from start to finish. Simply put, this album is fun, trippy and psychedelic from beginning to the end. The production is fantastic and the texturing rich. Fantastic release from a hard working duo and one of neogoas best old school flavoured releases, definitely. Very happy with how this thing ended up sounding after the initial disappointment. Where to get it? http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut1cd016.html http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=8168 http://www.suntriprecords.com/shop/ http://www.goastore.ch/product_info.php?products_id=3415&osCsid=da8af7a579d9607f42c63f78d5180c34 http://www.beatspace.com/dettagli/dettaglio.asp?id=5243 http://www.neptunwave.de/product_info.php?cPath=62&products_id=920 http://www.play.com/Music/CD/-/8/33/-/11630683/Psychedelic-Dreams/Product.html?searchtype=genre http://www.powerplaydirect.co.uk/asp/itemdetails.asp?prodID=1965538&currsec=mu Bonus: An amazing unreleased track that was posted on Radical Distortions website for a short period of time.

Another one for the bad covers list. No taste at all.

I think one of you could write a review since it starting to look like opinions of it are rising as it's been released.

Yay

!? Is this happening?

Check it! It's a lil goay-junoreactory

I don't doubt that but there's a couple of others I need so that's why I'm going to use saiko. I was going to use beatspace but the VAT is a no-go. Damn tax.

Why is it not appearing on saiko? They say it arrived on the 16th but it has only said out of stock since.

I'm always waiting for new Filteria simply because it's Filteria, the artist that hooked me to goatrance. Same with Juno Reactor. Though I really wonder what the sound is gonna be like when a new one comes. I mean the changes with Gods And Monsters was starting to be quite radical. Also some others worth mentioning are Sky Technology, I mean if he can keep the quality up there with Reactor Of Life with a full album it's going to be huge. Amanians debut, though I have no idea if they are making one but after DNA I hope they are. Acid riddled dark goa is a little lacking. Agneton's 2nd for sure, too. Also it's a long long long way off but a 3rd Goasia.

E-Mantra - Praying Forest (neurosect Remix) Which tracks are you referring to?

killarghhhrhaggrghaghrghha But I do believe you missed the point of this thread since I don't think you made those songs they are playing, goacyborg.

Great track. Loving that bassline and absolutely spaced out atmosphere!

But stealing other cases only last oh so long. lol. I was kind of wondering if anyone actually ordered empty cases from somewhere though.

Anyone know any good protective plastic sleeves that go on top of jewel cases? Also has anyone here ordered clear jewel cases anywhere to replace broken ones?

A little sad Astral Plains isn't here as it is one of the nicest über-melodic stormers ever. Still, this is a great release!

I hope he will be able to produce same depth and atmosphere as he was able to do with Levitation Device. That would so nice.

I'm gonna have to ask for people to stop double/triple posting. It's not hard to quote something, copy the quote, then go back and quote another and repeat until you are done and then finally paste it all on a new post and type your thoughts there.

The album that showed me the goa way is finally in my collection - sealed, too!

I completely disagree with you about mainstream pop music being good.

Crossfader rocks lol! Total Eclipse - Free Lemonade -> Psychaos - Soundbeams -> Darshan - Navigator -> Pleiadians - Cealano .

When will people learn discogs doesn't allow hotlinking.

Total Eclipse - Tenskwa Tawa Oh my god. Early -94 absolutely magnificent tribal goa. How did they create this so early? It sounds fully developed.

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Just listened to Pigs In Space from back to back first time. Amazing. Ofer was so sick.

GoaChill