Hallucinogen - LSD (The Remixes)

[Guest TJ]

This is a great EP, no doubt about it. But i think the LSDOOF remix is a very

good track also. Its very different from the original, jumps straight into a

stomping beat that is typical of Doof's style. Overall not as good as LSD but

powerful stuff anyway.

[Guest smg]

Hallucinogen - LSD (The Remixes)

 

 

Artist: Hallucinogen

Title: LSD (The Remixes)

Label: Dragonfly

Date: 1995

 

Track listing:

 

01. 06'23" LSD (LS Doof Mix)

02. 06'46" LSD (Original Mix)

03. 09'04" LSD (Live Mix)

 

Review:

 

Oh my! I don't know about the rest of you ppl out there, but for me

Hallucinogen's "LSD" has stood as a landmark for all the psychedelic genre.

This was the track that got me hooked with this music after all. The whole

record "Twisted" did, actually. In the terms of good psy, there wasn't any

before Hallucinogen's Twisted (at least haven't heard any), which

revolutioned the scene. Before this there were only few good artists that

still produce tracks nowadays, and they were melodic goa. Such as Astral

Projection and Etnica. Well...Koxbox was just about to become popular these

days...but anyways. About the tracks, first one is mixed by Doof, and

doesn't compare in quality to original version. It rhytmically reminds you

of the original, but isn't that versatile, and becomes boring quite soon.

7/10 for Doof mix. Second track, which is the original version, same as on

the album "Twisted" (not transitioned though) is just perfect, it sounds so

great and complex with those heavenly lsd paranoia sounds in layers which

blend to each other so perfectly. Even though I know Hallucinogen has made

dozens of more groovy and powerful floorkiller tracks than LSD, just to

mention few, Trancespotter...Shamanix...Snakey Shaker...etc, I give my full

respect for this. In my opinion Simon's most important track! This is

something remarkable, first track Simon produced. A true classic. No need

to tell about the track anymore, one who hasn't heard this track, is

listening to wrong music . 10/10 is not even questioned, perfection!

Track 3 is the live version of LSD, which is just about as good as the

original, it sounds even more wicked than original. A bit more groovy, and

distant feeling. 10/10 is fair. It sounds it could be recorded live through

mixer, and some of the sounds even like played live (meaning not playback

from DAT etc). Compared to those "live mix"es groups normally do, like

Infected's Psycho, and X-dream's 5th dimension this sounds way better when

live experience is considered, more spacey...distant, and musically worse,

of course (not as music, but as a spectrum of sounds). Even though those

are killer tracks, I just don't know why they're called live mixes, at

least they sound like 100% studio work. They could be 100% live

though...dunno. Without Doofs a bit boring track this would be perfect.

This whole remix ep deserves no less than 9/10. LSD excels in every way known

to man .If you can find it,

hesitate no longer to buy it.

[Guest goa_2000[at]mail[dot]ru]

Perfect single.. If u haven't listen to it, u have miss a lot.

 

PS. I've just listened it again and realize that psy&goa of 1996,1997 is more

interesting(IMHO) than millenium releases

[Guest Cnt97]

The original LSD track is probably one of the best REAL goatrance tracks ever.

Nothing like todays trance.. it can never be as good as it was back then...

too bad.

[Basilisk]

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[Guest Mescalinium]

There's really not much more that can be said about this amazing song. This

track will always have the power to move me, emotionally, physically and

spritually. Just to say its an all time classic is a serious understatement.

The impact it had on the scene is still being felt today. However, to clear

up a common misconception, LSD is NOT Simon Posford's first production. "The

Quickening" by Gumbo was released in 1993 on Dragonfly's Project II Trance

Compilation. LSD was the first Hallucinogen track though. And just to add to

smg's comment above, I believe that Juno Reactor's first album

"Transmissions", while not "goa" in the classical sense, is the first trance

album with serious psy influences. In any case, this single and "Twisted"

certainly were deciding factors in formulating the genre of goa trance.

[Guest cidprostudio[at]aol[dot]com]

Ya know... I dispise the Doof remix of LSD... For this very reason.. This remix

was the one of the first psy / goa trance tracks i ever heard... and i thought

it sucked. and it had the hallucinogen name on it. (i didn't know who the

hell doof was) and for about 2 years, i thought that's what hallucinogen

sounded like that. Then one morning i found beast and put the 2 together,

simon posford of beast, was strangly hallucinogen as well. So i checked it

out, and now he's my favorite psy trancer. Damn that Doof remix to hell, i

could have been in bliss 2 years before i was! ARG. 1/10 for the doof remix.

( i gotta reason! )

[Guest Davidtolsn]

LSDoof, one of the most unique tracks i've heard. very full on, layered, yet

still with that original melody, although it definitely sounds much different

than the original and you probably wouldn't notice it without having heard the

original multiple times. however, for me it hasn't stood up to repeat plays,

it's more one of those "wow that sounds cool" songs than a work of art you can

listen to over and over. 8/10. the original is the same as the one on twisted.

the live mix is basically a longer version than the original with some stuff

added in, and i like it very much... but still not quite as much as the

original, it seems to drag on for some reason some times. 9.5/10. this is a

classic track, and a classic ep.