Guest Tequila Posted February 18, 2000 Share Posted February 18, 2000 Lunar Asylum - Lunar Asylum Artist: Lunar Asylum Title: Lunar Asylum Label: Phantasm Date: 1998 Track listing: 01. 08'30" Iron Age 02. 07'20" Vanishing Point 03. 08'47" Twister 04. 08'35" G lock 05. 08'36" Van Halen 06. 07'16" Goldendawn 07. 07'39" Meltdown 08. 07'00" Depth Charge 09. 09'28" We Know Nothing Review: Lunar Asylum is a realy good album.Nice melodies, beautiful sounds, and a certain speed are making that you canot switch off your hi-fi till the end of the album. The best track is clearly Van Halen, one of the best track of goatrance.7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ubik Posted February 19, 2000 Share Posted February 19, 2000 Well, overall a good album : nothing bad here. My favourites are Vanishing Point, Twister and, of course, Van Halen. Begins slowly, in the middle of the song, there's a countdown after which the track is absolutely incredible. Very very fast, you want to hear it again and again. A must have, just for Van Halen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted February 26, 2000 Share Posted February 26, 2000 If "Van Halen" is the only very good song on this CD I can only recommand everybody to buy "Trance, Dance And Magic Plants" if you wanne have that song of Lunar Asylum!! Because on that CD you have "Van Halen" and alot of very good other songs!! Bom Shankar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narwhal Posted January 11, 2001 Share Posted January 11, 2001 One of the most rocking classic psychedelic trance albums ever! (together with the Green Nuns of the Revolution album)Also look out for rare early maxis on Phantasm by the same guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted July 7, 2001 Share Posted July 7, 2001 I like it, it is a nice peace of work but no great one's in here Van Halen is okay and there's some other ones that are okay too. 5.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted December 20, 2001 Share Posted December 20, 2001 "If you would like to commence transportation... initiate... sequence... NOW!!!!" VAN HALEN OVERKILL!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisk Posted February 13, 2002 Share Posted February 13, 2002 Very good acidic Goa trance! Too bad about the shoddy vinyl release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest galacta Posted March 7, 2002 Share Posted March 7, 2002 van halen rocks!! for sure, but the voice: if you would like to commence transportation,... is taken from the movie Demolition Man! and thats just too bad!! 4,5,6 are the best tracks! -peace- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 Lunar Asylum is for sure a twisted album. Pure full-on psytrance, i think it can be considered as a cult album for this style. This sounds are not common for isralian musicians, but their are real madness. In all tracks there is hard strong bass (except We Know Nothing, classical Tr-909 precursion alnog with good rifs. Also all tracks are full of various acid melodies that damage your fisical brains, but make you feel rock. In some tracks there are good metall samples for more effect. On the base of this general description all tracks can be devided into two grups: MAD and ABSOLUTELY MAD. First ones are Iron Age, Goldendawn, Meltdown, Depth Charge, We Know Nothing. And the others are Twister, G_lock, Van Halen. Vanishing Point is my favorite, its not a characteristic track for this album. It has great spacy melodies, jumping bassline and is closer to GOA-trance. To summarise ewerything i will say that this is strong quality full-on album. and every crasy psyman should defenetly listen to it sooner or later. P.L.U.R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davidtolsn Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 warning: this cd is not worth your time. it is outdated to say the least. most parts just sound annoying with random sound effects. the first half of van halen is really cool, and then it goes to shit. maybe if you like cheesy over-chaotic immature sounding psy like green nuns and battle of the future buddhas you'll like this.. otherwise stay away. 0.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 0.5/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 This is pretty good album but nothing extraordinary as you'd expect from Lunar Asylum. Tracks are psychedelic but many of them lack something for the album to actually be a classic. This album has their bas track to date VAN HALEN ( OMG ! fantastic ! Wild, deranged, twisted track, brilliant, this track alone is worth the whole album, but it could also be found on other compilations )...rest of the good tracks are : VANISHING POINT, TWISTER, GOLDENDAWN, DEPTH CHARGE.....7/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cosmogenesis Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 Well, I will make certainly a contrast with the other judgements of this review, but for me, this album is one of the worse goa stuff I have ever heard. I'm listening it rarely, because I have any enthousiasm, any real desire to put this cd on my stereo. For me, the melodies and the general atmosphere of the album are boring, without a great sense of originality. There is a lack of something inside that makes me to feel down listening this album. I have expected to be impressed by it, but, except maybe "Van Halen", I think the other tracks are quite good, but far from being masterpieces. But it's only my personal taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delars Posted April 19, 2006 Share Posted April 19, 2006 10/10 this album. really, REALLY good. and i'm so glad i bought it because at that time i didn'teven know lunar asylum. the first time i listened van halen. mustbe one of my fave' tracks EVAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuser Posted November 4, 2014 Share Posted November 4, 2014 One of the most rocking classic psychedelic trance albums ever! (together with the Green Nuns of the Revolution album)Also look out for rare early maxis on Phantasm by the same guys. Yeah "G Lock" is a bit similar to Green nuns in sound I like that track. Other favourites are "Twister" (great psychedelic atmosphere), "Meltdown". Solid album, Phantasm is the real deal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Artist: Lunar AsylumTitle: Lunar AsylumLabel: Phantasm RecordsDate: 199801. 08'30" Iron Age02. 07'20" Vanishing Point03. 08'47" Twister04. 08'35" G lock05. 08'36" Van Halen06. 07'16" Goldendawn07. 07'39" Meltdown08. 07'00" Depth Charge09. 09'28" We Know Nothing "This album has their bas track to date VAN HALEN ( OMG ! fantastic ! Wild, deranged, twisted track, brilliant, this track alone is worth the whole album" I find your lack of accuracy and overabundance of hyperbole...disturbing. There is no way that Van Halen is better than Twister. No way. Van Halen was fine if not unremarkable until it got all key changey, but the pure psychedelic eruption of Twister is like a black hole swallowing everything that gets near it. I would say this was a good album, but like others have said previously even though it's solid and has its moments it falls short of a classic. However that's not going to stop me from searching for a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padmapani Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 interesting how these things change over the years. the most famous lunar asylum tracks are van halen and meltdown. van halen is downright annoying to my ears while meltdown is decent but pretty unspectacular. twister blows both out of the water. vanishing point is also quite an ok track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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