V/A - Goa Trancendental

[mahoney]

V/A - Goa Trancendental

 

Artist: Various

Title: Goa Trancendental

Label: Rumor

Date: 1996

 

Track listing:

 

01. Children Of Dub : Cascade

02. Optica : Rising High

03. Matrix : Train Of Thought

04. Digitalis : Kyphi

05. Cosmosis : Afterglow

06. 100th Monkey : Schumacher Levy 9

07. Bass Meditation : Symbiotic

08. Unreality : Birth Of Mankind (Dub Mix)

09. Delph : Leaves

10. Alien Mutation : Sea Of Colours

11. Astralasia : Alien Love Song (The Soundtrack)

 

Review:

 

A very nice pure trance compilation from "Trip" or "Rumour Records", quite hard

to get any info from the cover/booklet (can´t even get info about the release

year). All tracks here has a very friendly and peaceful atmosphere and a soft

and rather slow drum. Also a very spacey track selection, mostly

non-psychedelic. I guess "Afterglow" by Cosmosis is the one that the most of

you have heard of, and that´s the style of the most of the tracks (one of the

slower tracks though). The cd ends up with a beautiful (as always ) and very

spaced out ambient track from Astralasia. This is a very good cd for

homelistening and chillin which works for me most of the time. It gets a lot

of time playing in the background when I´m chillin or whatever I´m up to, no

bad tracks.

[ukiro]

Rumour records released the once legendary series of compilations simply called

"Trance". I think Trance 6 was the last one. It included the classic "Octopus"

by Art Of Trance, among others.

[Trance2MoveU]

Very mellow indeed. When it's time to chill, but you still want a little more than beatless ambient this would do nicely. It's downtempo at times or trancey without being overloaded with goa melodies stacked on top of each other. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I love it, but sometimes you want to go in a different direction. Train of Thought brought back memories of Children by Robert Miles, but darker. Smooth and capable of letting my mind drift as I sit in the backseat of a car as street lights reflect off the window glass. No talking, let me think.

 

Kyphi is positive and uplifting in a mid tempo way. I like the break down where he strips it all away. Afterglow is a classic of downtempo goa trance and the one that jumps off the track listing. Some fall flat of course and are relegated to the background noise category. Holy sh*t Symbiotic was boring. But of course it also had to be the longest track. Double nut punch. And Sea of Colours? What the hell is going on there? More nuts to punch.

 

Overall though it was relaxing and enjoyable.

 

Mdk