Psychaos - Future Rocks E.P.

[Penzoline]

Psychaos - Future Rocks E.P.

Flying Rhino Records

1997

 

Here we have perhaps the greatest work of once visionary psychedelic goa trance artist, Joti Sidhu. He has been around for as long as goa has been and has a commendable amount of material released, mostly on various compilations. He had a debut album in 1999 called Cause And Effect, but at that point he had already strayed away from the industrial/raw sharp goa sound for more hard techno psytrance style. What was interesting, though, that his ideas pretty much stayed the same as before, just with a completely different production point of view. That kind of demented industrial, very heavy soundscape. I wasn't a big fan of the album and it hardly gets playtime from me, unlike most of his goatrance works, which are in the very top of my favs from the old days. The Goa style really manufactured his wanted sound to different quality.

 

So here we have the 2nd Psychaos EP 2 years after the first EP released on Blue Room. That one also had two solid tracks, however this EP is on a whole new level.

 

Future Rocks

The title track starts with bubbly acid and a growly bassline, leading up to a kick and the golden hi-hats. The atmosphere is already massively dark and then the twisted melodies arrive at around 1 minute mark. Demented twisted layers sound in the background and the melody already explodes at 1:40. Just really groovy dark raw power. 2:40 gives us some breathing room. Those twisted leads in the background accompany a repeating sample "psychological". This eventually leads up to another injection toward 3:33 climax where the raw synths in the background just fill the soundscape and loom a maddening cloud of electricity. The melodies continue to travel your sub-concious. The track keeps going solidly till 5:50 where the whole track again starts to just inject raw full dark power. The psychological sample comes back and the synths are revving like no tomorrow. 6:46 Boom! I say.

 

There's such awesome groove with this dark and twisted old school style that I cannot even comprehend how wonderful it really is. What a track.

 

Dense Dawn

Here's a more known track. Found in several compilations, including the classic Air Born by Flying Rhino. The style of this track is a lot more calmer, though bear in mind the first track was pure speed. The melodies are much more, I'd say, refined and longer, quirky. The track starts in similar vein to the first, the bassline creates a massive atmosphere, kick gets lost easily though it's still grinding your sub-concious. The melodies appear at around the 1 minute mark again and are a lot more, say seriously demented and not just demented. The texturing is palpably magnificent. At 2 minute mark there's almost a complete key change. Very dim synths accompany the bassline and then the acid hits, and it hits hard and fast. It sounds raw, sharp and groovy. It evolves into an ever-green old school goatrance melody no doubt. We get some breathing room at 3:22 where the bassline really comes into play. You can hear it grinding the nervous system! Some acids come into play and the groove is off the hook once again.4:28 brings us the twisted melodies back yet again and this time it evolves after a while into such a playful yet dark and serious melody. Toward the end we get the main memorable melody once more and Joti sends us off with a working outro.

 

What can I say. For the price this fetches in discogs makes me feel this is underrated. Maybe my favourite EP ever. Two blazing dark goatrance from the heyday of 1997. Fuck. This is something worth owning. Even the cover kicks serious ass.

 

http://www.discogs.c...EP/master/29140

[the goa constrictor]

Future Rocks is a criminally underrated gem of a track.

This is what dark psytrance should sound like.

This is creepy and fucking awesome.

 

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