Psy Factor - I'll Take You There

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Psy Factor - I'll Take You There

 

 

Artist: Psy Factor

Title: I'll Take You There

Label: Medium

Date: 1999

 

Track listing:

 

CD 1

01. 10'04" Klangstrahler Project : Things Can Change

02. 05'05" Clip : Tumber

03. 06'11" Star Sounds Orchestra : Anandamid

04. 07'10" Haldolium : Plasma

05. 09'32" Atmos : Bad 2 Bone

06. 07'11" Tarsis : Into The Static

07. 07'35" Oforia : Pretty Poison (Rmx)

08. 06'14" Low Maximizer : A Good Bug is a Dead Bug

09. 08'43" Double Dragon : Fluffly Purple Thing

 

CD 2

01. 08'49" Amorphus : Return Of Shalam

02. 04'32" Blue Planet Corporation : Micromega (Bumbling Loons Rmx)

03. 05'30" Tim Vs Space Cat : Something Weird

04. 02'28" Vibrasphere : Crystal

05. 05'13" Jaïa : Time Machine

06. 06'17" Evolution : The Experience Of Taking A Step Into Someones Dream (Johann Rmx)

07. 05'05" Xenomorph : Apocalyptic Ritual

08. 03'59" California : Sunshine

09. 04'12" Mark Woods : Prince Of Transformation

 

Review:

 

F*cking awesome compilation... I have about 1000 Goa/Psychedelic Trance

Tracks (90% on albums, 8% compils, 2% unsorted mp3) and this compilation is in

my compilations Top5 among other great classics like History of Trance (3) -

The Psychedelic Movement.

It's lightly mixed (only for 1-2 sec), so the songs are in their original length

but they managed to wisely choose the tracks, so that it still is a continous

trip.

Most Tracks are great, slow, mystic, dark And progressive (but kinda melodic)

psytrance, not the shitty and boring 1999/2000 progressive style like most

songs on Irresistable Meltdown (only Etnica's track is mindblowing there) for

example.

 

Note that the album has the BEST cover art I have ever seen due to a strange

optical trick where you think that the pattern of the cover floats in the air,

2cm higher than the CD cover itself. You must have seen it to believe ;-)

Although I love the compilation nowadays, this cover was also a reason to buy

it!

 

If you expect Pleiadians, Green Nuns 303 overkill (which is nice ofcoz) or full

on

hard psy tracks like Quirk - Shark Matter (great track), then this might not

exactly

fit your style, at least not beeing that fast or multilayered melody rush.

 

CD1:

The first track is perfectly floating into Track 2 which is the same style but

much

shorter, so a very nice startup together.

With Track 3 the tempo is rising, great samples and some melody in the

background.

"Plasma" is THE introduction for the next track called "Bad 2 Bone" which is

besides

Track 6 the best track on this comp.

"Into the Static" from the Tarsis Album "Vacuum" is unbelievable dark psy trance

with mindblowing background sounds and perfectly fits between its warm up (the

previous track) and Oforias "Pretty Poison (Rmx)".

It's propably one of the darkest bass lines together with kick ass drums I have

ever heard... nice work Tarsis. If you disagree then mail to me which song can

beat

this one in those terms!

"A good Bug is a dead Bug" is really weird and the last track "Fluffy Purple

Thing"

is the fastest track on CD1 with classic 303 samples, it's still nice but if I

had

to pick the weakest track this is it in my opinion.

 

CD2:

All tracks on the 2nd CD are great, my favourites are Track 4,6 (kinda long

name, eh?)

and California Sunshine "Jajo" from the album Nasha, where the name has been

messed

up on the cover (California : Sunshine) but they also write it like this on the

inlay

printing so I kept it like this in the track listing.

This song is much more melodic and classic trance style than the others, it

doesn't

really fit too much in the whole compilation just like the last song which is

fast goa

style, but who cares as both really kick ass and are a great end of the trip.

I would repeat myself in describing the style of the other tracks, as they

managed to

pick the tracks fitting so nice together like you would expect it from a

complete

album.

 

my opinion: BUY IT!!!