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I voted the Pleiadians... I always would, they are my all time favorite project! I do think that Chi A.D. is awesome, he produced some of my all time favorite tracks, but virtually each and every track the italian masters have done up to 2000 is breathtaking. They put me "in the zone" no matter where I am and how I feel! But I see it's a close battle this one. Good pick for a battle, though!

1. And why not? Just to see people's opinions, and yesterday night I was feeling kind of ill, so I stayed home in front of the computer and felt like posting a new topic... As simple as that! 2. It isn't supposed to promote any good or bad. I just wanted to see people's opinions. 3. No proud egos here, I musted of wrote three times that this is a subjective opinion, and I wrote "IMO" like four times. I didn't label or define any music, just expressed my personal opinion which I am absolutely entitled to by each and every law... And I nenver said I don't enjoy these albums. And I always spread positive vibes I get from music. I seriously think you got things kinda messed up here with the whole ego thing. Wrong thread! I even wrote in bold letters that NO insulting artisits or albums is to be found here, only opinions... Did anybody here state he wants others to agree with his beliefs? Did anybody say he has a "superior/righteous" taste of music? I am positive I did not. 4. Who mentioned anything about absolute values for music? Who undervaluated anything? Only opinions here...

OK, I think there have been a million threads about underrated gems, producers, albums, tracks, etc... But what about the opposite? Do YOU think there are albums that are undeservably held too high? Do YOU even think it is possible that an album is overrated? Why? If you have some on your mind and you think they've been getting way too much respect, list 'em down: WARNING: These are NOT necessarily bad albums, but the ones you think got too much recognition, so no insulting artists and their releases!!! M.F.G.- The Prophecy (1996) Not to be disrispectful in any way towards these israeli producers, but I have always thought that their debut album was nothing more than a very good goa trance album. But nothing more. I mean, the real action in '96 was down in the far Australia with the Psy Harmonics label, or up in England where the likes of Bilbo Bagginz were producing amazing stuff. Or Etnica, or even back in Israel with Astral Projection... I could go on and on and on. The way I saw it, M.F.G., along with others, produced an excellent "by the rules" goa trance album, which basically sounded like somebody told them: "If you wanna produce goa trance, here's a step by step guide to lead you through the process!". I always thought that the full realisation of their talent came with the second album, New Kind Of World. The first one for me will always be like, goa trance was the thing back then, so let's just fit in nicely with the rest by makng an album that will contain a lil' something from everybody, and it just might turn out well. Only my opinion, though! Electric Universe- Stardiver (1997) Even though I very much like this album, somehow I always felt it was undeservably crowned as a better release than their debut release, One Love. Now, while the latter is one of the defining mid '90s positive, happy and dreamy goa trance sound, the second one only partially succeeds in recapturing the magic. And yes I am aware that "Online information" is by some considered as the first breaks goa (or however you call it?) track ever, and I seriously love it, that doesn't do much for me. If a track is good, then it's just good, and I couldn't care less if it originated something or not. The dreamy and repetitive melodies are all in tact as well, but I just never thought they worked as well as they did on One Love. On their debut album, most tracks were really repetitive, but the melodies were so awesome and soulful that I could stand listening to the same one for as long as it took. Something I cannot do on Stardiver, where very often after about 3 minutes I catch myself pushing the skip button, being bored with the track's lack of development and soul, so to put it. Especially on tracks "The rising sun", "Luna overdrive" and "Technologic", which all work fine on the dancefloor, but I find them nothing more than useful DJ tools. Another grudge I have against Stardiver is that the three best tracks: "Online information", "Sunset skyline (edit)" and "Astral voyage (edit)" are all to be found on the Sunglider EP from '96, in unmixed and unedited forms... And those are, IMO, the only tracks that actually try to push forward E.U.'s sound, while the rest are very nice tracks, but I just don't see this one getting the "classic" stamped on it! And while I still today enjoy listening to this album, I find it more effective to play some tunes rather than others, giving me the feeling that it has more impact that way. Organic Noise- Vacuum Tube (2000) Hm, while it is much agreed upon that their early singles on the ol' T.I.P. Records more or less layed out the foundations for the entire minimal and tech-trance subgenre, by the time their album came out in 2000, the scene was already packed with X-Dream and Planet B.E.N. followers who in some cases, building uopn what Jan Muller and Ben Wierzoch started, easily beat these two pioneers in their own game. I just simply think this album came too late. If it came out about 2-3 years earlier, it would have been a genre defining album. Like this, I never saw it as being anything more than a nice minimal, monotonous and dark release. One of many...

Damn it! I always forget something!!! I absolutely and unconditionaly have to add "The frog" which is with one of the above mentioned tunes my top Radio track! Speaking of that album, believe it or not, my favorite moment of the album is actually not any musical part, but the wonderful break and the sudden, perfectly used and placed sample: "Things are moving so fast in my head that i'm starting to edit, like a telegram." I get goosebumps every time I hear it...

OFFICIAL X -DREAM TOP LIST: 1. X-Dream- freak 2. X-Dream- brain forest 3. X-Dream- Our own happiness 4. X-Dream FEAT. Planet B.E.N.- the 5th dimension (live from Paris) -this 16 minute monster slowly builds up and takes me over time after time... Epic! 5. E Rection- Out here we are stoned (X-Dream's true school heart trance mastermix) 6. X-Dream- Thorazin (possibly the only tech trance track I really adore) As you can see, they're all X-Dream tracks, because of my taste, I was never into The Delta, but you'll never catch me saying anything these guys did sucks, just that I tend to stay away from the whole tech/minimal thing, due to my lack of knowledge about it, and consequently, the inability to properly appreciate it. But, I bow my head to these kings. NOBODY has stayed on the scene for so long, and succeeded to make quality music for almost 15 years now. Talent in the true meaning of the word .

I dunno, I guess I'll forever be one of the few individuals who hinks that M.F.G. only kept on building onto what other producers made, rather than innovating themselves. Far from that I don't like them, I just think they are great producers in their own time, but nothing groundbreaking or trend setting. Respect nonetheless!

nice one, indeed!

I feel ya on this one, but with all due respect, I'd call these three something that goes over being ahead of their times... If it makes any sense, I would say that these are the guys that created the times that others went ahead of. They are absolutely out of any temporal boundry!!! Outstanding figures in the universe of electronic music. Seeing you really got me into techno now, I'd put Joey Beltram right around two inches behind these guys. The stuff he produced around '90-'92 sounds fresher today than 85% of recent techno production.

...forget everything I said about your name in the Trip To Dreamland review section... These posts made me laugh my ass off for the whole afternoon! I might even get you a gig in Zagreb!!! P.S.: about this thread, I'd just like to add: "Prelijevanje iz šupljeg u prazno!"

My point being all four definitions (a fine job you did there) are negative in their essence, something I rather not see in the trance scene . Sounds like an adjective that could acompany a name of some death metal band...

Most definitely!!! And how about: Underworld- Born slippy (nuxx mix) Anybody out there remember the movie "Trainspotting"? Anybody remember the fairly simple video with that little girl head nodding with those big headphones on and, and that crazy voice going: "mega mega wild thing! mega mega wild thing!"? Well, there you go, the most cliched one of 'em all! Personally I'm convinced that nobody, not even The Prodigy before them, showed the complete cross over potential of electronic music until Underworld literary took over the entire musical market in the course of one night with this track. My rock orientated sister has two copies of this. Was there a single radio or TV show, bar, restaurant, night club, pizza parlour or whatever that didn't play this one at least twice a day? Except for Prodigy's "Charly" I don't think that there ever was, until this, a track that could claim to have single handedly proved to the masses that electronic music was much more than teenage junkie music. A true and unbeatable classic, arguably the greatest piece of electronic music ever composed. Its influence is here 12 years after it hit the market, and it doesn't wanna leave... 3 Phase feat. Dr. Motte- Der klang der familie even though I actually stopped liking techno tunes a looong time ago, the old school Tresor Records artists had some gems which every self respected DJ has on at least three vinyls. And this may have been the moment where the evergreen Berlin based Tresor techno freeks peaked- wonderful, hard, merciless and dance floor killing. In a few words- this is what made german techno german techno! And please, don't laugh at me , but I just wanna come straight and share this one with y'all... I just remembered it this afternoon, but for those who are not embarassed, dig out your dusty tapes, and play: Mory Kante- Yeke yeke (Hardfloor remix) pay your respect where it is due!

Nobody insulted their personality or said anything about them being not nice people. In fact, I'm quite certain these two lads are nice guys trying to get some attention by applying this "creepy" name, which is inapropriate to say the least... And back in the day, when anybody actually could give a damn, I had a fair share of negative comments about Analog Pussy's obsolete name... And actually while I very much respect an artist's freedom to do and sound what they feel like, there is a certain responsibility they should have as well! Sorry, but having the word "holocaust" in your name? No thank you. That is just ignorant and childish. Yes, with a name like this, they most successfuly brought something new to the scene, not copying absolutely anybody...

plain redundant. Why plain? Because if this is an attempt to attract buyers, the only ones they are going to attract are at best frustrated, 15 year old high school delinquent drop outs. With shaved heads an wooden baseball bats, with little red crosses drawn on them in upside down positions. It's imperative that those sam kids hate their parents, hate God, hate the government, the landlord, their own dog, little sisters, ex-girlfreinds and presesnt boyfriends! Why redundant? And why not? So far we had zombies, devils, goblins, draculas, werewolfs, half humans, who knows what's to expect now that we have pro-holocaust cannibals. I once read that this whole goa/psy music knows "no limits or boundries"! After seeing this imbecile crap, I'm positive that statement was never more true... Get a life!!!

Astral Projection- speaking of crystal clear sound Anoebis, I think that these guys defined what crystally clear meant around '95-'97... The Cosmic Jokers- '70s psychedelic rock band... at least 12-13 years ahead of everybody with some sounds they experimented with (yeah, yeah, they ain't psy, but if everybody added a non psy act so will I!) And Planet B.E.N. with his "Future trippy garden" is a well known trend setter. Apart the fact that some of those tracks were produced at the beginning of the '90s, and sounded better than 2/3 of tracks from 2000, the guy made a huge leap forward for the whole tech trance scene, which he very much helped "explode" with his Organic Noise propject. I even think that was a collaboration between him and one of the X Dream guys... correct me if I'm wrong! Ubar Tmar- I have nothing to say but to gently invite everybody to listen to the first three albums, and conseuently try and figure out what type of shit was this immensly talented japanese goa/psy trance producer on. Creativity and unparalleled sense of music arrangement. Hux Flux- "Cryptic crunch", and even though I was never a great fan of this album and this particular act, the impact it had on the whole swedish sound was immense, as well as on the rest of the psy trance scene. As hard as cold steel soviet hammer! Yeah... and the Pleiadians, but everybody know that, so no need to explain...

oooooooooooo Pavel, nice one!!! How could I have left this one out. But what about Josh Wink under his alias: Winx- Don't laugh apart from being IMO one of the last great acid house tunes, did anybody forget that timeless, deviant laugh during the track's middle part. But, yes yes yes yes, "Higher State of Conscoiusness" is just ssssssoooooooooo acidic...

@ Cosmogenesis & E115: OK now, just let me add a lil' something about the mastering... Since (if I remember right) Metapsychic Records is a non profit internet record label, which exists for the sake of us listeners, mostly hungry and nostalgic of that old school goa trance sound, it is quite understandable that they cannot afford top notch sound engeneers to master their albums. I mean, the bottom line is that these releases are free, available to all, and that certain individuals actually worked hard so we could have them! Of course they don't sound like Ben Bernfeld mastered them, but I don't think that a single listener expected them too... I know I didn't. I mean, if i got my data all sorted out, Kanc is a DJ, who actually comes to Zagreb quite frequently and is well known for his amazing goa trance sets, but I have no idea whether or not he has a dagree in whatever it takes to be a soundsman. However, he did a fairly good job. As for Colorbox, well... the mastering on Pyramidal Trancedance was very well done, considering the fact it was a net only release. The man really tried hard! But, I mean, so what if the mastering is not perfect? Some of those crazy finnish producers purposly leave parts of their tracks messed up soundwise to create a certain effect and some special vibe, and I don't hear much complaining. Listen to some Schlabb releases as well... I love everything I got from them, but it's not that the mastering on their releases is perfect, meanwhile the music rocks like an earthquake up on the Grand Canyon!

1. Quite on the contrary, I'd say this album has some very nice climaxes, and WOW moments as well. OK, now when I say WOW moments, I'm not implying the "Alien Protein" or "The Lone Deranger" type of wowness, but in its own right, Innerpolarity, with the use of some meoldic climaxes, nicely evokes the mid-ninetess goa trance sound. That it's gonna get people's heads spinning 720 dagrees, I doubt it, even though I still think it's kind of early to state that yet. As for the statement "It seems as if a limited or fairly [preferred] amount of sounds were used to create the melodies and other sounds on here.", I do not know whether or not you are refering to the equipment for the making of this album(??). What I wanna say is that a certain piece of hardware can only produce a limited amount of sounds, and can only modify them to sound in a limited amount of melodies. Now, while I can notice some sounds reappear on the album as well, I tend to watch out more for the ways in which they are applied to the track and how they are incorporated in with its other elements, rather than trying to spot where do they seem like they've been heard before. Same goes for the melodies, I can definitely hear that some of them were constructed using the same base sound, but it's the way in which they develop later on and each take their own route, which made me look further than their common source. I don't know about you, but for me, "Mayana" is a track that can go on its own any day of the week! While it might be true that the album lacks a real stand out killer (except the above mentioned one), it gives it more of that continous voyage feel... Which I get when listening to this, and I don't mind that. To be honest, until I read it in your review I didn't even try looking for stand out tracks here, but now "Mayana" would be my most likely pick! 2. I would really have to disagree with this one. Actually, I thought that the choice to pick one or two strong melodies, and really focus on them, making them lead melodies by really taking them to the forefront and kind of neglecting the background effects, really reminded me of some old school goa trance. Remember Kabalah, One Love, Mystical Appearance In Goa, Waiting For A New Life and Screaming Butterfly and the similar tracks that really had those amazing lead melodies that would just mesmerize you, leaving you to just "go with the flow". That's how I tend to look at "Innerpolarity". Yeah, I know what you mean (I think that is), there is no musical complexity and absurdly well built up climaxes that some more recent goa trance artists have got us used to, but as example of that dreamy, trippy and happy old school goa trance, this is one damn good piece of plastic! Oooooops, my bad, no plastic here... it's an MP3 file

Now, what I'd like here are some tracks that actually got you into trance, tunes that immediately remind you of that first time! They by no means have to be psy or goa, and who cares if they even sound corny or stupid in your ears today. Back in the day they were the cream of the crop!!! WARNING: This is NOT a "best of" list, a greatest goa/psy track ever, the track that makes you cry time every time you play it! Ah, I guess you got the point by now... You know, if you were to make your own Retrodelic Vibes compilation and stuff Here I go: COMMANDER TOM- Am are eye? the ultimate hard trance classic. Period. Not negotiable! MEMBERS OF MAYDAY- Sonic empire if y'all weren't playing this day and night around 10 years ago, you'll have a tough time convincing me you had any idea of what electronic music was!!! CJ BOLLAND- The prophet the stand out track from his "Analogue Theatre" album. Powerful and hard beyond words. One of Zagreb's favorite anthems on any old school party! MAN WITH NO NAME- Teleport does it get more cliched than this? No. But for those who remember, wasn't it the greatest feeling ever to listen to Martin Freeland when you were a kid? I think wrote everything I could about him under the 1998 album review section, and my only doubt is was it more the music video or the track itself that made me like this guy that much? All I gotta say is: I never had many posters in my room as a kid, but if I was given a choice back in the day, I would have picked to have Freelander's poster hanging on my wall. With the Prodigy, obviously! SOLAR QUEST- Acid air raid & NEW ORDER - Confusion (The Pump Panel reconstruction) together, these two are without a single second of doubt the greatest two acid tracks I have ever come across: Acid Air Raid with its massive, unrelenting 303 onslaught, and The Pump Panel's take on Confusion with its amazing and never ending build up. Just keeps on rising, rising, rising and rising.... aaaaaaaaaaaceeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!! ASTRAL PROJECTION- People can fly I guess this one is more or less self explanatory... No need to waste time on saying why here, 'cause this is the definition of timelessness... and when Duchovny's voice comes in... ...and a very special mention would go to Laurent Garnier, who throughout his long lasting career covered absolutely each and every aspect of electronic music- twice! A walking, talking and breathing encyclopedia of electronic music, club scene and the party scene. Without him, I'd still be playing with my Matchbox cars ! Too many of his tracks to list here, but my recommendations would be: "Early Works" (1998) and the brilliant "Unreasonable Behaviour" (2000) albums.

http://www.manshora.net/%7Erewt/Vox_-_Inne...ty-2007-MPR.rar http://metapsychicrecords.gajos.co.uk/Vox_...ty-2007-MPR.rar http://www.sendspace.com/file/tse334 http://www.filehosting.cc/?d=5F9B9009 OK, once you download it, it comes out as a "rar" file, the same thing happened to me. So, what you gotta do is the following: once that file has been downloaded (it should ba called Vox_-_Innerpolarity-2007-MPR), you right click on it with your mouse, and press the "extract here" link. That should extract the files from the compressed "rar" form, and create a folder with the whole album. The folder should contain the front and back covers of the album, plus 8 tracks, with the total of 154MB. The folder should be created right under your "WINrar" archive. WARNING: in order to do the file extraction, you need the Winzip program!!! If you don't have it, here is a link for a free download: http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10605855&m...4-10605855.html You still encounter trouble, lemme know! Enjoy the music

If I'm not mistaken, Gus Till came to Zagreb about 6 years ago. Actually I'm quite positive it was six years ago, and I know it may sound awkward that I base my judgement upon just one set, but it was downright amazing. It was without a doubt one of the greatest sets I have ever listened to. No chilled stuff, just some really nice "trippy trance" to use your expression. I seriously hope he kept up with that pace, because that was something I won't be forgetting for a while...

visine said it. Melodic goa trance at its finest. As for the re-releasing, there can be a little milion of problems... Who would know? Damn, for example, I would also love to put my hands on a copy of the Ominus self titled album from 1997... But I can't finf it anywhere. Maybe the original recordings or DATs went lost over the years... Maybe the members of Dimension 5 don't want to settle for the amount of money that they have been offered to sell the rights to another label to release their album? Or maybe they simply don't care any longer about their album being released again...

Vox- Innerpolarity LABEL: Metapsychic Records YEAR: 2007 FORMAT: MP3 file SIZE: 154 MB BIT RATE: 320kbps TRACK LIST: #1. Analogue heaven #2. Atmosfear #3. Behind the wheel #4. Over the clouds #5. Mayana #6. Euphoria #7. City of black lights #8. Inner polarity Damn, I still didn't assimilate properly everything that Pyramidal Trancedance had to offer me, and there goes Metapsychic Records with yet another free release! Am I glad? Bet your best arm I am!!! What makes me even more excited is that Vox happens to "hail" from my city, Zagreb. Now, not to write an essay, this man is a living legend amongst goa/psy trance fans around here. He's been DJing for almost as long as the term goa trance exists in Zagreb, and he's one of those DJs who always succeeds to make the most out of his sets, and play some seriously amazing tunes. Let's not forget that he's never been the kind to follow trends or settle for playing what's fashionable in order to get a quick buck. So yeah he's very respected, and has every right to be so. Now that his album is out, let's check if his production is as immaculate as his skills behind the decks... #1. Analogue heaven- After only thirty seconds you know you in for some old school flavor here, but, hey, were you expecting anything less from Metapsychic? And when the eastern influenced melody kicks in after the first minute, the journey begins. The track has a slower tempo, not ambient though, just kind of a nice introductory track. As for the middle part of the track, you actually don't get that much to immediately grab you; it's more like some nice laid back melodies stream across the track, eventually accompanied by the eastern melody once more. But it's really a dreamy tune, not full onish (not the israeli type for heaven's sake) at all, and no melodic climaxes to be found here as well. But who's complaining? This more than adequately opens the album and really sets the mood: it slowly pulls you in and patiently gives you the time over its seven and a half minutes to prepare yourself for some retrodelic vibes... Nice one! #2. Atmosfear- The second track isn't that much faster than the first one, but definitely picks up the pace. I guess the title suits it well for I consider this to really be an atmospheric track. Especially in that beatless interlude at around 01:20 when a slow melody molasses from left to right, and some tribal drums slowly creep into the track, giving it now even some mystical vibes. There really isn't a proper melody here up until about two thirds into the track, but I doubt you'll find one missing either: my guess is you'll be enjoying to this music, floating on your own cloud of emotions. When the melody kicks in, yes, it is old schoolish, and yes, it does give the track that one last final touch to really make it complete. Followed by the tribadelic drums again, which are more or less present throughout the track without making it sound corny or outdated. Old school: yes. Old in terms of uninspiring: no. Nicely continuing itself onto the album opener, this one should not leave anyone missing those old mystic and atmospheric elements in his music unsatisfied. #3. Behind the wheel- There we go, an uptempo track, and as soon as the acid synth hops in you know that this can only continue in the previous tracks' fashion. The melodies resulting in a melodic climax at 03:16 are just well... hear for yourself! An old schooler's wet dream!!! All hell breaks loose and you're right back in 1997, dancing under the hot morning sun in the moroccan desert! I really like the rest of the track as well, and the thing to watch out for here is the quiet, background acid synth. It is really tuned down, but if you are listening on good headphones, you can really catch how cool it sounds. But the track actually doesn't get to show its full impact until about two minutes before it ends. A crazy, fast, I could say savage melody rips the track apart, and if by any chance you missed it a few minutes ago, now is your second chance to catch a plane to that desert I was mentioning! And the last ninety seconds... me like a lot. This is like an HDL express delivery back to ten years ago. No questions asked. #4. Over the clouds- If the track is supposed to suggest where this CD is supposed to take me, I'm with it. I really like the beat on this one, as it makes me wanna dance right now as I sit in my chair. The not-overly done melodies only add up nicely to more effectively prove this track as a lethal DJ tool. As though the last track wasn't a good one too... You may argue and try to prove me wrong, but wait until four minutes when an ideal combo of a hands-in-the air melody and a neck snapping beat meet to show where the people are supposed to be: on the dancefloor, of course. But, if you're still not convinced, wait two more minutes, when another ace melody gets pulled out of Voxs' sleeve just to remind that it ain't the time to abandon the floor yet. #5. Mayana- My god! How distorted is this? Wait! Is it distorted at all? Or did my headphones get messed up out of the blue? Or is it a repercussion of an error during the mastering process? Whatever it is, it sounds awesome. Ka - Boom! 02:38 is the code to a new time machine. Remember that. The melody sounds like a stentorian roar from a very pissed off Shere Khan, the tiger of The Jungle Book fame. "Back To The Future pt. 4", in audio format, if you want me to explain in plain terms. This is much harder than the previous tracks and the track's vibe is somehow darker, and well, grittier. And at 04:10 we have two demented melodies (layers?) simultaenously attacking the earrdrums, and I cannot help but think of (but not too much) some of Ka Sol's tracks when hearing them. Which is no absolute way a disrespectful comment to Vox. In fact, it surprises me with how much ease does he play around with those melodies. Not even these two have properly been arranged in my head, and we get some more. Jesus, the creativity of this track. The layers. The absurd intensity, and above all, the pure, uncut and unadulturated rawness. This is much darker than the rest here, but it simply blows you away. Remember when you heard "Ground zero" on Ypsilon 5's Binary Sky album? Remember how that track was somehow more pumping and uplifting than the rest of those mellow tracks from that release? Well, the same goes for "Mayana". Now not to start comparing tracks here (I said I wouldn't do that!), this is about as powerful as it gets. Melodic mayhem at its finest. Amazing track! #6. Euphoria- The intro with the classical music. I fall for that one every time. Including this track. Every time like it's the first time I heard it. I just love 'em. And those acidic noises in the background here sound like something I have on those old Sound Of The Acid Core compilations. Meaning they are blazing, old school bliss. The melodies at around three minutes make me think that a certain Miranda Silvergren was his wife. That Phenomena(l) sound is all in tact here. Meaning, once again, that this is another one of those blast from the past moments. And when I hear again those lovely acidic effects, nostalgia has hit me like the Malasyan flue. And with this melody you're back in old school heaven. Then the title of the track becomes cristally clear. All you gotta do is let this hypnotic melody (or the whole tune for what I care) guide you to euphoria. Or utopia. Or pure ecstassy. Or however you call that state of mind when you're overwhelmed with joy. This is it right here! Like our watches and wall clocks stopped ticking ten years ago. And nobody ever dared to complain... #7. City of black lights- I like this one, it has a nice, building, rising melody which doesn't immediately hit you with all it has, but rather nicely taking the time to develop as the track progresses. And it works just fine. Another old school gem. Think of this as a reunion with your high school mates ten years after graduation, and just for the sake of them good old days, y'all decide to play some tunes from the graduation party. And the continuing good vibes just keep on coming and coming and coming. Now, where this track seems to lose focus is during two shorter intervals smacked right in between those beautiful melodies. I feel that as soon as I really begin to appreciate the musicality of the track, it gets abruptly interrupted by these intervals and it happens twice. And the intervals consist of some lighter, far less epic melodies than the ones they interrupted. The track ends using those, but near the track's end, those lighter melodies do just fine in closing it. Where as placing them in the track leaves me unimpressed and really breaks the flow here. Some may think it does the track justice, I don't. Far from that it's horrible, just that when the melodies really pick up here and get me lifted, the whole thing suddenly takes two steps back. Very good track nonetheless. #8. Inner polarity- And we've already come to the closing track. Which, guess what, is not an ambient tune. Continues in the same style as the previous ones. And starts off really nice with a cool melody (I must have used up every adjective I know to praise 'em ) just waiting to be released upon a hungry crowd plagueing the dancefloor. And just when I was about to (stupidly) say that the mid section of the track sounds kind of plain, those same crazy thoughts get shoved back in the most obscure parts of my brain, when at around four and a half minutes the melody once again proves to be a winner here! And your legs will probably seem to have a will of their own as they'll drag you back to dance. Whether you like it or not. This is the type of track that makes jumping around essential. Excellent was to close an album. Actually, I don't miss an ambient track here. Not even a tiny bit. Ending the album like this leaves you with those wonderful, feel good like vibes. You feel good, uplifted, joyful, and there is no point in trying to get calmed down by some downtempo music... IN CONCLUSION: It's obvious that it's a bit too early to judge this album yet, and even more pointless grading it. This was more of I guess... Well, a track description I just really wanted to do in order to eventually encourage people to get his release. Because it seriously is good. For who? Firstly, old school lovers should have a great time with this album, as should any fan of melodic goa trance music. You liked the Metapsychic releases so far? You will probably like this one as well. While some may critize this album for sounding too old schoolish, my constantly hungry stomach for goa traance keeps on yearning for more! If a producer decides to make an old school influenced album, why not and try to journey along? I mean, if his musical preferences lead him in that direction, and he believes in the quality of what he does, it has got to be worth something, right? I really enjoyed this release, even though it sounds like it comes from some years ago, but that was the whole fun for me here. Primarily because albums such as this one convince me time after time that the trance sound I once fell in love with is still here, standing on firm ground. And that's not saying a little, from my part. This is the first album by Vox, and judging by the way he manages to arrange all these melodies, it seems as though he's been producing music since 1996, but only recently gathered the courage to share it with the rest of us. And while I could go on writting various albums and artists that Innerpolarity seems to have been inspired by, I will choose not to do so, because by doing that all I get is a feeling that Vox is trying to recreate the vibes and sounds of other artists from the past. And I don't want to do that. I want to listen to this album, and catch a vibe it manufactures on its own. Yes, parallels could be drawn betweem this and many other older goa trance albums, but rather than pointlessly looking for similarities and sound alike details, I'll let Innerpolarity speak for itself. And what does it say? It creates some really positive sensations and leaves me with a heavy smile on my face. It's actually a very accomplished piece, musically, which successfully captures the vibrations and the "music for the body and the mind" concept of the old, while still being able to explore some darker soundscapes, like "Mayana" for example. And I also find it a rather odd and interesting choice not to use a single sample throughout the entire album. Yes, you heard me: this album is front to back sample free, making it an even more exciting sonic journey for the mind. No vocal usage to distract you from the music, no drug reference samples, nothing! Pure, beautiful goa trance all the way! And I like it that way. My all time favorite release I.F.O was also deprived of any sample usage, and well, plainly put, it couldn't turn out better than it did. Actually, I really missed an album with just the music to grab hold of your attention. And if you let yourself in, you will be more than fairly compensated. Whoever believes that the true spirit of goa trance is still alive should get this. Whoever likes his trance in the year of 2007 to be melodic, uplifting and harmonic should not be without this. Actually, there is little or no excuse for not getting this, considering it's a net release, and it's totally free and available to all. Show your support! And a little something for Vox: we want a live act sime time soon now in Zagreb. And a good one. We want a live act. Repeat after me: We really want a live act!!! P.S.: A question for the guys at Metapsychic Records, if y'all read this: is there any chance we will be able to snatch this marvellous relelase in WAV format, like the Pyramidal comp?

Yes, yes, yes... I'm already listening to my co-citizen's release, and my heart is on like about, er, 180bpm!!! Post a rivew later!!! Gosh, am I happy this is released!!!

Yes, but it seems as though that the vast majority of those people approve what these "switched over to new styles" artists are doing, otherwise they would have never went on to produce other kinds of trance music. As for the DJs, I've been to both: I've been to parties where the DJ went in a direction of his own, playing basically for himself and the people were like: "What the f**k is this guy thinking? He must be on some other s**t!!!", and I've been to parties where the DJ played the type of tunes which got the crowd hyped and screaming!

I'll be honest here, I've heard it in MP3 format, and it is truly a great album, in my opinion. Melodic old school goa trance at almost its finest. But I practically gave up on looking for my copy, as it seems to be impossible to find. All the praises it gets, they are justified. I would have already written a review of it just if I had a copy. But it will get on my list of most wanted CDs only after I get the above mentioned one, which is my top of top priority for the last couple of years