SkeletonMan

The trickiest part about grading albums is that sometimes they can be so hard to find out. Is this compilation merely a safe purchase or a highly recommended purchase? After listening to Psychedelic Voodoo intensely for the last two weeks it's hard to impress me, but compilations are about supplying hits and DG5 has more than a handfull. Astral Projection's Life On Mars shows that AP also had a dark side. One I really like and that sometimes can be forgotten in the praise of AP and their legend today. They didn't go from hard to happy. They were happy all along. Phoenix' Finger Licking gives me another hit to the bone. Wow! Dark psytrance from the early days comes across so minimal and insisting. Why did it ever change, I can't help thinking? Sinister and naive at the same time, I have no choice but to go with the Armageddon psytrance. Thank you, Phoenix! I'm sure I've heard you sometimes in my midnineties and you made my night. Back then I could resist everything but temptations. MFG graces us with Inspiration which ... is inspired! Another MFG track that goes right in my book of defining goa tracks. Packed with layers, new sections taking over one after another, melodies becoming more and more crazy, and mind more and more challenged. I dig it! Kayseri wheels in Arafat with an absylum worthy acid opening that's guaranteed granting immunity to hallucinate. Nude Psychedelic Goa Trance, I believe, is the key factor that got todays psy followers in. You have no choice but to obey, face the dj podium, and start moving in sync. Arafat comes a dancer with an agenda that includes you dancing. The dark tracks, and the ones that personifies this compilation, aside, the key track here is Crop Circles' Lunar Civilization. It actually becomes me quite sickening that I haven't been able to track down one lousy CC track but all have been merritfull. LC is no exception. Pleiadians' layers galore, innovation from outer space planet 9, and more aggresiveness than I've seen birthday parties, CC gives us THE, encore Goa antheme track if you should ever want to pick one. And makes any compilation worth buying, that offers this monster of a f***** up Goa journey. Still, a couple of good tracks doesn't make an entire compilation. DG5 is almost hitting the Highly recommended floor but with not enough blasters stays at the, respectable, Safe purchase. Well done.

Every now and then you stumble over an album from the old days that you've only gotten acquainted with now. And you wonder; would my record collection look much different had I discovered this album when it was released? Ominus' selftitled album is but a dazzling psychedelic trance voyage from the golden era. Everything you connect with it. Upbeat, melodic, innovative, and with so much going on even today it sounds cutting edge. When was the last time you heard shuffle beat psytrance that felt like, hell yeah!!? Opening track We Mean You No Harm pulls that off with standing ovations. Toxic Brainwaves follows up with a straight 4/4 goa track but packed with different melodic sections, all danceable, all creative and all fun. Like Astral Projection on a creative day. Plus the energy, less the straight forwardness. Bliss. Tribalistic supplies the 3rd homerun, a track both deep and simple, and psychedelic as hell. Track 5 Acid Tester is another dancefloor bomb packed with melodies, energy, speed and freaky samples. You can dance, or you can trip. Or you can do both! Ominus supplies something for the feet as well as the mind. Mindnumbing. With Shapeshifter Ominus cools things a bit. You go deep for a second, but Physical Encounter to the rescue. Trippy, melodic, insisting, you're bound to the floor again and when Mindbender nails the coffin with a another dancefloor bomb I am left with only one question: This album is almost 10 years old and thus eligible for an "essential" sticker, but is it up to me to give such a mark considering I'm only hearing it now? Well, then, I'll give it a highly recommended, bordering essential mark. No, damnit, this gets a 5/5 mark!! Nine years behind at least I'm on it now ... ;o) And this ROCKS! Big time !!

This album has attained almost mythical proportions. A timeless classic that is also a great album, the best Etnica/Pleiadians/Crop Circles album, the most psychedelic full-on album from the golden Goa era etc. So, is the album really this good? Yes. In fact this is probably the best example of a hyped album that lives up to the hype. While always debatable how much an album is worth, when the album arrives in your mailbox, chances are you won't be disappointed. Besides being the happy owner of a timeless piece of plastic. Closing in on its' ten years anniversary it still stands unrivalled. Filteria has given it a challenge in terms of layers, the amount of melodies and climaxes in a track (!!), and, obviously, the production. Still, it's in a class of its own. One may argue Koxbox' Forever After (from the year before) or Dragon Tales (same year) are equally amazing, but where I find I enjoy these most when I am in the mood for them, I.F.O. never fails. I must have listened to the spot in Alcyone 3:55 a thousand times and I'm still not tired of it ... Nuff said. Italy, take a bow!

One of four essential releases by the Astral boys (besides Trust In Trance, Astral Files, and Another World). Well, if you ask me these guys were pretty much walking on water back in the midnineties and this album another notch in their belt of classic psytrance releases. My favourite here could be opening track Dancing Galaxy, but then that might just be because I know what I am in for the following some 70 minutes after this. DG is still widely available and I urge any psytrance fan to get it. This could easily be the easiest & cheapest value-for-money psytrance purchase you will ever make. No home should be without it.

First off, I need to comment on the artwork here. This is nothing short of stunning and everything you could want in a 1997 psychedelic trance release. I don't even have to put the album on before I start to trip ! Musicwise the album also hits a home-run delivering what a solid compilation from this era will; a bunch of beautiful melodic goa trance tracks. I'm not sure if I find any tracks here essential, even if my favorite here, KLM, is a great track with some nice samples from Pulp Fiction, but I'm also carefull labelling anything essential. In any case, perhaps one track aside this album offers a fluent ride from beginning to end and is guaranteed to satisfy any fan of this era. And put on at the right hour of nostalgia I might be ready to stand corrected and proclaim some of the tracks here to be masterpieces. They sure resemble melodic psychedelic trance anno 1997. In any case, the cover itself makes it a must

Thanks for the inspiration ...

Damn don't know it But MFG are fucking awesome indeed. The old goa is the best. 'cept hallucinogen. Know you love Posford but he never really did it for me

V/A - Destination Goa 5 Have been listening to it 3 times on reef and I'm about to give it an excellent review

Okay. I'll leggo this time. But next time ...

No problem, mate!

Why are people having boing conversations in my trade thread

The sea of psytrance compilations so flooded it is, it's always nice when you stumble over the really good compilations. And you've stumbled over one of the really good compilations. PV comes mixed which is always a tricky business. I like good mixes, but I also often want the entire build-up. And mixed cds can be mixed so crappy. Luckily, PV is mixed flawlessly and with a bulletproof feeling for the right build-up. PV quite simply OOZES the Goa sound from start to finish. But let me mention a couple of the killers here. First one is the opener, Christof & DJ Mael's KLM. The track itself is great but with the Pulp Fiction sample on top, practically, makes for a classic. GMS gives us Jaws and Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? from their mayheem days. Enter the definition of Goa trance. Trippy, danceable, and intense. Obviously, Koxbox' shines through with their Too Pure. No one has ever quite matched the sound of Koxbox – well, Saikodpod, perhaps, aside. Like GMS, in the early days these guys could do no wrong. But the real reason for me to be so infatuated with PV is cd 2. Track 1 to 5 should be in every psy dj's collection - and recollection. Goa doesn't get any better than this. No dubt, individually, the tracks deliver but in the mix they’re untouchable. When Crop Circle ends with Different Species you'd have to be dead not to dance. Or on tranquilers. Or both. As far as I know Different Species is only available in cd format on this compilation and easily makes the compilation worth the purchase alone. To think what they could have made of an album? It's hard to follow CC but Conspiracy Theory does an admirable job with Project Oblivion. This focus on a more dark sound, still, the feel-good Goa vibe never escapes. Bass to keep you dancing, trippy FX for the mind, and layers and melodies to create a story. I always liked Goa the most when it was made with the dancefloor in mind - and the shere speed of it making it tripable. Manmademan closes with Angel Hair. A relaxed track to end the journey? Guess again. While the smooth sound is bound to please the female audience, this is also the very proof that there IS a line between cheesy and happy with edge. PV couldn't have ended any better.

Selv boing

BOing ...

Damnit Goddamn double damnit To chear me up earlier today in a 2nd hand bin I found V/A - Goa Inside And I don't want no corrections this time DP Damnit

O.O.O.D - A Live. c/o Senobyte Kool @DP: Double kool. Happy hunting ... edit: corrected after DP's x-ray eyes had scanned the message ...

Yup, count me in as well Just did one trade with Soren and I got my cd lightning fast and well packed. He even included a plastic protection envelope around the cd (which is more than I did ... ) AND he included a small handwritten note - which I didn't either. Fuck, I feel bad. But hopefully my package with The Delta will make up for it, Soren ? Anywya, recommended as above. Hope to do biz with you again!

Hi DP, I didn't find anything in your tradelist I'm looking for . But yeah, you'll find it sooner or later. And look forward to it - it's good. Congrats on those tix. Damn, wish I was going. No arms, no cake ...

Destination Goa 5 added and 3 + 2 items put on reserve. PM sent.

I like Ra To Sirius SOOO much And HOW IS Midi Miliz? Heard a lot about it, but never heard it. Tech trance, right? I got a dubie of Destination Goa DG5. Anyone looking for it? Trade? It's one of the best in the series and REAL good

A full-on appreciation thread without someone bashing full-on this site is going down the drains ....

Looking through the booklet accompanying this release one cannot help but get the impression that first and foremost these guys went out to have a good time. The booklet, for instance, includes pictures of graffiti saying "Look Mummy, an army of trolls", people sleeping out their hang overs, horses thinking of oaks. And a smiling baby on the back going "I love Sun Trip". Well, count me in! Cause no matter how obscure this double cd release comes across, these guys knew how to compile quality material. Seriously, there's not one bad track here and loads of classic tracks & acts. The list of artists says it all. And when the guys ends cd2 with an outtake from the Swedish comedy "Sällskapsresan 1" not a dry eye is left in the theater! It's probably impossible to find, but if you stumble over it - like I did - don't miss it. This is nothing short of a top notch compilation that leaves a smile on your face as well as the feeling you've gotten hold of something really, REALLY underground ;o)

Tantrance 4 is yet another example of a double-cd compilation where I feel completely different about the two cds! Cd 1 goes right into my skull. Damn, this is one of the finest goa journeys a compilation has ever offered me. One lasting hit after another from masters such as Etnica, Astral Projection, Technossomy, UX, Prana ... Amazing track selection and easily validating a purchase of T4. So what's wrong with cd 2? Well, obviously, we are also offered some great tracks here. Shakta, Organic Noise, Miranda, Astral Projection, and Orion all more or less deliver, but these aside I have issues with all other tracks. Alphanaut, for instance, runs along nicely but crashes and burns at 2:28 with the most stupid riff I've ever heard. The same story goes for Lost Chamber and the melody kicking in at 1:18. Likewise, when Ololiuqui opens their track with what sounds like someone burping they've lost me before they even get started! And Sandman sounds as if he has a train to catch - a train I'm not catching. All in all, a safe purchase with an amazing cd 1 that is guaranteed to satisfy any mid nineties goa follower. Besides, whoever said you needed to hear both cds ...?

Word ! Though I haven't heard Dimension 5 yet. Can't afford a copy Under true goa I think one can cramp Koxbox Forever After too ...

Trentemøller - The last resort Leonard Cohen - Songs from a room David Bowie - stationtostation, Scary Monsters, Heathen Just HAD to buy some non-psy related stuff to remember the outside world ...