V/A - Goa Head 10

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V/A - Goa Head 10

 

 

Artist: Various

Title: Goa Head 10

Label: Nova Tekk

Date: 2000

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 09'56" XV Kilist : Seitenzwack

02. 07'02" Psychonaut : Derwish

03. 07'48" Tarsis : Zombi Cocktail

04. 08'00" SUN Project : T8 (Original Mix)

05. 08'41" Son Kite : Openfaced

06. 09'05" Atmos : Bad Lieutenant

07. 10'18" Chi-ad : Monsters

08. 08'29" Koxbox : Geomancer

09. 06'39" Slap : The Lark

 

CD 2

01. 08'34" California Sunshine : Breaking Through

02. 07'52" Human Blue : Sandal Wood

03. 09'23" Element : The Crow

04. 09'38" Dragon Master : Circulate

05. 07'28" The Delta : Traveling at the Speed of Thought

06. 10'58" Johann Bley : Snakebite

07. 06'10" Synchro : Coca Como (Crystal)

08. 09'05" Digital Sun : Space Flipper

09. 06'31" Hara Gobi : Polarlander

 

Review:

 

One of the hardest in the Goa-Head compilatioms. There are a powerfull bassline

in most of the tracks. That makes it a very dark album, but there are light

tracks, but mostly dark ones. Best at cd 1: "XV Kilist" - "Seitenzwack", a

very dark number with a heavy bassline and lots of weird elecktrick sounds.

"CHI-A.D". - "Monsters" are also a very hard and dark track, witch some cool

guitar syncs to improve it. Best at cd 2: I will point at "Johann" "Bley" -

"Snakebite" as beeing the best, it have lots of guitar, with a heavy baseline,

and thats simply an amazing track. Also "Dragon Master" with "Circulate" is a

must hear. "Traveling at the Speed of thought" by "The Delta" is worth to

heat. The rest of the cd is also very great, but there are a few "silet"

ones... (Psyhonaut, Atmos, Human Blue). I was a bit disapointed about the SUN

Project track, it sounds ok, but not great, its almost flat...But anyway, a

good, hard compilation with lots of baseline 9/10

[Guest sysopt[at]yahoo[dot]com]

I just got this album, but it seems to be a very good progressive trance album.

I always love the soft tracks by atmos and our other Swedish heroes Son Kite.

What I also really loved in this compilation is the track by Chi-A.D.

Completely new style, and I just love it. Can't wait to get my hands on a new

album from Chi-A.D., at least not if it's gonna sound this incredibly good.

[Guest Acidhive]

Agree with all of you here... This one is a gem! Hard, progressive goa!! And

the Chi a.d. track is @#!$!!$ Awesome!! Can't wait for a new album from David

Young, the man himself!! Other tracks are great as well, and no let downs on

this one!!! 8,5/10 from me!!

[freak51]

The Tarsis track is discreetly mindblowing. Pity about the SUN Project track's

childish percussion of bump-tsiss-bump-tsiss. The Chi-AD and Atmos tracks are

spellbinding, though I haven't figured out how to enjoy the KoxBox sound

everyone else is raving about in that album review. The California Sunshine

is not Miss Right, but it's definitely Miss Right Now. The Human Blue track

made me buy the record. The Delta track is a stormer, and the Synchro and

Digital Sun tracks are worthwhile. Very good comp, these guys get stronger

with each release (except 9 IMHO).

[Guest psy[at]persogo.com[dot]br]

Good bands in this comp.!!! Best tracks are Human Blue: Sandal Wood(2-cd2),XV

Kilist:Seitenzwack(1-cd1) and Chi-ad:Monsters(7-cd1)... This is the best Goa

Head comp. (6/10).

[Guest Dead74]

Many people told me this is the best Goa-Head comp so I gave it a try...and

it's not bad, but I'm not blown away. There are definatly good tracks, but

it's monotonous and cheesy at times. The first disc is really good, but the

second disc...is kinda whatever. There are just too many cheesey rock

guitars. I'm not against electric guitars in trance as I used to be 'cause I

know that you can use them well, but here...nope! It lowers the psychedelia

by a few notches and especially Johann Bley track is hurt! I like Juno, but

this sounds like hard-rock trance. But get this, the Chi-A.D. track is

absolutly amazing. It sooo beautiful and subtle! I wish they could release

good albums because they are super-talented. overall, the comp is about 5 or

6/10. the first disc is about 7/10.

[Guest outer_limits[at]net.sapo[dot]pt]

This comp SUCKS completely , i was to able to tink that goa

psy-trance was to have psychedelic melodies but , the tracks sounds more non

melodic TECHNO and the tracks are very monotonous and there are in many tracks

ELECTRIC GUITARS ???!!! , What a suck compilation !!!! I think there are in

comp good trance like infected mushroom , astral projection , juno reactor ,

ect.... but this is definitely TECHNO-HEAD .

well i think is better to buy albuns than compilations....

[Guest yvad.enlil[at]libertysurf[dot]fr]

A very dark album ???

:Wumpscut: is dark,

MZ.412 is very dark and disturbing,

and Graveland is the chaos... I like goa/trance but don't make me cry with your

opinions.

[Guest theone666[at]sol[dot]dk]

Great compil!! the XV-kilist track is da bomb!!

[Guest by SCORE]

7,5/10

[lysergic]

Not good.

i thought this wasnt interesting at all. and u get sick of the tracks very

quickly.

highlights are : Psychonaut - Derwish ( the first few times u hear it, its

nice) Atmos - Bad leutenint (has a chill feel to it, but better than most of

the stuff here) Digital Sun - Space flipper (nice for the acid sounds , and

its good to dance to)

overall 4/10

[Guest Eksitus]

When I heard this compilation first time I thought this good. Then I bought

compilations and albums from other labels (3D Vision, Twisted, Spiral Trax...)

I had listened those records about six months and one day I listened this

compilation and quess what? It sucked... and very much! There are good tracks

too but there is many tracks that are too awful! I have two Goa Head

compilations and they both are something for the babies... or something! Well,

there is always good thing in this kind of compilations. People who hadn't

heard goa/psy trance before, this kind of compilations are good start to the

inner world of psychedelic trance. But if you are thinking of buying this

compilation don't... You will be disappointed!!!

[Guest transphere]

I bought this album today, it's a nice one! Dark and heavy. 9/10

[seraph]

Not such a good compilation actually...This guys started compiling different

styles at once and it simply don't go together....But there are some good

tracks : CD 1 ; SEITENZWACK, BAD LIEUTENANT, GEOMANCER...and CD 2 ; BREAKING

THROUGH ( ! ), SANDAL WOOD ( ! ), TRAVELLING AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT, SPACE

FLIPPER ( ! ), POLARLANDER...CD 1 : 6/10, CD 2 : 7/10

[Balance]

My favorite Goa-Head. I own up to vol. 16 of the series but this one defined a time in my life where for personal reasons I lived very far from the love of my life with little money & my music was stored with her. I bought this and it was on endless rotation for a very long long time. It had me much warmth and happiness during this time, and so for me it still holds these.