V/A - Exploring Another Reality

[Guest Kreth]

V/A - Exploring Another Reality

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Exploring Another Reality

Label: Organic

Date: 1998

 

Track listing:

 

01. MOS : Spring

02. Manmademan And Andy Guthrie : Transiva (Rmx)

03. SETI Project : Micro Processor

04. Liquid Lunar : Hydrophobia

05. SETI And Dreamdealer : Redeem

06. MOS : Voltkraft

07. Chris Organic And Jerry Parssons : Telekinetic

08. Little Green Men : Halal (Shamanic Rmx)

 

Review:

 

"Progressive trance with a pinch of psychedelia" it says on the sleeves (which

also, by the way, probably contain the largest amount of funny new age

babblings ever, apart from the RTTS comps). I don't know what's progressive

trance- expect that everybody was talking about it an awful lot few years ago-

but the music on this comp is best as some kind of pretty hard edged not yet

too complex night-time music. There's nothing really wrong with the tracks,

there's acid plenty and all kind of wailing and bleeping going on, but for

some reason this just doesn't ignite me, altough I'm usually a huge fan of the

above-mentioned ingredients. The first two tracks are pretty bland, nothing

special. "Micro Processor" finally starts to show any hints of energy, but the

first positive surprise on this comp is Liquid Lunar's "Hydrophobia" with it's

Israeli-style wide open detuned sounds and pushing dark-ish mood. The track

has maybe the worst clap sound ever (whoever decided to use claps in psytrance

in the first place should be disintegrated to atoms anyway in my opinion...),

but otherwise proves to be a very satisfying whole, altough nothing really

exceptional. "Halal" is undoubtedly the best track presented here. Again some

very nice Israeli influences with hypnotic sounds aplenty. Very nice, altough

the bass is a bit weak. Hmm, where are those speech samples familiar from?

Weren't the exactly same ones used on Mystery of the Yeti 2? Dunno, but these

sound an awfully lot the same, at least... As a whole this is a very, very

average album, but there are enough bright moments to justify the release

IMHO. These are definitely tracks that of which most would propably do very

well on a dancefloor, but that absolutely nobody will remember in 10 years

time.

[seraph]

Finally I am able to review it since I couldn't after they closed reviews section and I didn't have it before, found it a year ago and now I can finally say here how stunning this compilation is.

 

This is old school psychadelia at its best, where we also have different artists doing similar style, but so differently and passionately.

 

M.O.S. track SPRING starts and it immediatly starts with the kick and nice goa melodies in their early output, before they went minimal. This is good morning track, made for home listening.

 

MANMADEMAN track TRANSIVA which he made with Andy Guthrie is another psychedelic gem, so psychedelic and rolling, with amazing 303's everywhere. Typical 1997-8 style, tasty !

 

S.E.T.I. PROJECT in theirs psychedelic output are also kicking. This one is even more psychedelic and I imagine that it was good on the parties.

 

LIQUID LUNAR track HYDROPHOBICS continues in 303 madness as previous tracks and it also delivers good ride from start to end. It is very fast and so heavily psychedelic, really good, reminds me a bit on Cosmosis with those cosmic melodies.

 

S.E.T.I. & DREAMDEALER also made funky psychedelia, loads of efefcts, twitching arrangements and insane melodies. Very good track alsobut not my favourite.

 

M.O.S. track VOLTKRAFT is another goodie by them...it has some eastern melodies and pretty hard kick and good vibes alltogether.

 

CHRIS ORGANIC made a track with Jerry Parsons TELEKINETIC and this is the most fun track on compilation, so positive, euphorical and energetic, I like it so much, it is typical british funny psy style, stunning track...

 

LITTLE GREEN MEN finishes the compilation with HALAL ( Shamanic Rmx ) and it is pure goa trance with amazing melodies and atmospheres, great for finishing such good compilation.

 

All in all, very good, juicy psychedelia from the best period for psychedelic trance, good for everyone's collection...9/10