Goa-Head comps still exist?

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Not really all that full-onissh (vol.23.) What differentiates vol. 23 from the previous volumes is that both sides are "balanced" in terms of "power". Whereas the others had one-full on-side and the other side is (mostly) progressive and mellower, Vol. 23 seems to have reduced the "full-onism" from disc 1 (I repeat: just reduced) and put that on disc 2 since disc 2 here isn't mellow as the previous editions.

 

This series comes in fantastic artwork BTW.

I don't have the impression that they did it like you say - reduced fullonism on disc 1 an more of it on disc 2. I'd say they increased it on both discs! I mean, I only prelistened it, so I can't say anything too definite, but my first impression was that it has nearly all gotten fullon - on disc 1 and on disc 2. Tracks like Elec3 & Psynina - Stardust, Mad Contrabender - Redeemer (Live Mix) or Optokoppler - Massive and many others on disc 1 too are either full on per se or if not that then they are still generic and kinda boring to me - at least for Goa-Head standards I mean ... and this bad it has never been on disc one! Never, even though it always was the more powerful side! And disc 2 is a catastrophe ... what is Galactika - Blue Velvet doing there? I want prog, damnit! Really, that is sad. Goa-Head had always some original and cool tracks on them, some that are far off the genericness that has infested this genre ... and because of that I was a great fan! Now hearing volume 23 and hearing that it has all become very generic so to say, this disappoints me quite a lot. Not even groovy stuff on the second disc ... what is this ... this kind of shite they do now was not present on still recent Goa-Head compilations like vol. 21! On that one there are already some occasional parts of genericness on the first disc, I admit that, but it's not so bad, they still managed to hold the niveau up on the first disc with some good tracks such as Ticon - Texas Magnussen ... and on the second disc there was groove only anyway. I really liked Goa-Head compilations because of the fact that they have not become generic like dozens and hundreds of other compilations out there ... but now that I heard the 23rd installment I really am disappointed ... I mean, they did manage to be good until near the end of 2006 - I really didn't think that they would at the end still choose to go with the flow of genericness ... I don't understand why and I'm very disappointed

 

Not even the good artwork they deserve now ... please, you dudes from Leguan, put the cool head on the cover away, it's a symbol for music you don't put on your discs anymore