Various Artists

Well lorks a lummy, as one might say, because it appears as though Tip are back again, or are they, with a new album, or is it, featuring a selection of “cherry…

Fap, basically. It’s a super awesome welcome back to Interchill, a label I’m personally delighted has weathered the multiple storms of dwindling sales, mp3 str…

Firstly, a confession. I was sent this  by a source who I won’t name, through the Contact form on this site. The email that accompanied it (which was quite hil…

I have to admit, I’m kind of surprised this doesn’t happen more often than it does: a party organisation makes its business in booking acts and arranging nights…

Numanoid vs Mazda open with Everybody’s Gotta Move Their Body, a track that’s only marginally more subtle than its title. The array of sounds is compelling, but…

Riktam & Bansi kick off with No Fear, a decent enough tune to set the pace of things to come, but one that I can’t help feeling is a little bereft of soul, as t…

I get sent a lot of shit from Israeli promotions company Electro Public, and from what I hear an awful lot of other people do as well. Generally folks have diff…

Always putting “good music” ahead of sticking into pigeon-holed genre boxes, Interchill are in a sense getting back to their dubby roots, yet opening up more an…

Psyreviews’ Gash-Up(TM) of the above is here. The decline of Phantasm records over the years has been more pronounced than that of TipWorld, and even BNE, howe…

I’m sure I’m not alone in my abject love of Timecode, a label who have never so much as contemplated swerving from the style they do best. Future Cuts maintains…

At a time when progressive releases in any given month outnumber grains of sand on any given beach, and when the majority of the style’s DJs are switching to di…

On the back of Bush Food, I think it’s fair to say that Zenon have forged such a strong sound for themselves over the last few years that they’ve become very go…

Parvati are a bit like a pet dog. Faithful, reliable – they’ll always deliver the goods and quite often they’ll deliver them exactly when and where you want the…

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this. To say this is “Etnica remixes” doesn’t really go far enough; and at a time when limp recent releases have mad…

Mighty Fat Records are one of the best kept secrets around at the moment. From their outset, their manifesto was to add some cerebral qualities to downtempo mus…

If you’ve caught Interchill’s recent releases, you’ll know they’re about as far away from the hammock-n-chillum, Shpongle-lite, Buddha Bar chillout as you can g…

Strong, ballsy stuff that straddles the middle ground between oldstyle Wizzy Noise and the more recent Boshke Beats kinda sound. In other words, this is tecchy…

Aside from all the overhyped top-drawer releases, there are releases known as sleepers. Somewhere in between is Pulsar, an album that might have slipped under y…

About as nice a slab of chunky, groovy outdoor progressive as you could hope for. Cloud Catcher is the name given to the remains of a 20 million year-old volcan…

Tribal Vision need no introduction. You thought I was going to give them an introduction anyway, didn’t you? Hah. The Lime Light series of compilations doesn’t…

This, ladies and gents, is seriously out there. The press release reads “Pete Pan has hand selected a group of MAYANASA transmissions from some of the earth’s t…

Echo Ghetto from Earthling, Mekkanikka and Chromatone gets things kicking off nicely. It’s funky, it’s fluid, and the sounds develop by themselves without being…

It is 1957. Miles Davis releases Birth Of The Cool. Nobody has ever heard anything like it, and nobody is ever going to hear anything like it again. The world i…

If only all retrospective/reissues were as good as this one. Timecode haven’t just released a “best of” covering their output, they’re had tracks reworked and r…

Charmingly, innocently dreadful I love Mushy Records. Not because they’re brilliant, or because they send me a load of free party-enhancers. It’s because their…

The latest instalment in the series of prog compilations largely responsible for making the genre as big as it is today is also one of the best. Ex-Spiral Trax…

I’m going to paraphrase, for a moment, Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice: “If this is indeed what living in Bali sounds like, then I really rather think I should…

Being honest is good, so I’m going to be honest. British DJ Tom Lurk, who compiled this album, is a good mate of mine. A very good mate of mine, in fact: I’ve k…

I’ve been quite derisory of progressive music in recent months; it comes as a surprise then to find something as focused and enjoyable as this, but I’m not comp…

The fourth in the Vibraspirit series is a long way off the groundbreaking, multilayered kaleidoscopism that the first release personified. Hang on, was that jus…

You might like this, but will you notice it? That’s the question A cursory glance over the tracklist doesn’t really suggest anything exciting on this debut rel…

Compiled by Space Buddha, and sounding very much like you’d expect: no foreplay, just straight into the down and dirty. Wizzy Noise do pretty well with Origami…

Once again Psymag meet Yellow Sunshine Explosion in the middle, with a satisfying collection of already-released psytrance. Except this one doesn’t have GOA on…

Coming at a time where psytrance is sounding good again, I was looking forward to this. The standard Turbotrance roster gets mastered to glossy perfection by Ch…

I have to confess that this one took a bit of getting used to. It seems like there’s a plethora of labels out there who have got very good in sounding like Inte…

A very impressive lineup here, but it doesn’t really deliver. The roster includes heaps of names you’ve heard of, and even the ones you haven’t are important: K…

The eurotrance crossover has never felt so disarmingly real as it does here. Trancelucent are, without doubt, a major label and one who have carved their own s…

For the most part, this is fairly bog-standard, play-it-safe progressive. The sort you can DJ nice and easily, with mixes that last about three minutes, or unti…

The marriage of styles here is intriguing. Cyberdog, the Camden-based wankfest of a clothes shop has tied up with a staggeringly suitable label for a staggering…

Some bloody decent, chunky stuff here. Hadra’s previous stuff had all been a bit manic for me, but with this release they’ve taken a couple of steps back – and…

Utterly brilliant. Space Boogie Productions are a new label from Finland, adding respect and clout to the renegade underground mindset of the Suomi scene. Kiwa…

Parvati is one label that you know will never release a track by D-Nox and Beckers. If you take a top-down view of the last three years, few labels will demons…

Long-serving web-only label Antiscarp has finally made the transition to physical media with the wonderfully-named Speaker Grease. The creamiest Suomi sound wil…

ESKIMO yells the front cover, in capitals. X-NOIZE, it continues. OFORIA, TIMELOCK. All ten artists concerned are sprawled over the front cover; I’m not sure w…

Something about this sounds, for the most part, quite limp. Roman Rai does well with Disco On The Mothership, Duca’s Dirty Mind is positively sublime, and Jaia…

Look at the cover again, please. Then check your calendar. You will see that although things look decidedly pre-1999, we’re actually in 2007. It’s a cheeky opt…

Chillcode’s reputation and success goes a long way. Quietly, and with style, their downtempo output has been consistent lately, but Light Aromas falls down on a…

Horizontal. This is very fucking horizontal music. Proper dub. Not psy-dub. Dub. Big dub. Dub so strong it makes Planet Dog sound like Planet S-Club. Very sto…

The best single word to describe this one: solid. Product Placement’s Menacing Vibrations has an awesome, fat sound to it. It’s simply huge; pitched somewhere…

This may well have slipped under the radar, and it’s good reason to get a bit excited. Chillosophy is the new chillout sub-label from Son Kite’s MPDQX/Digital S…

A lot of the progressive to have landed at Psyreviews Towers lately has been so dull, writing about it is about as exciting as writing about Post-Industrial Rev…

I can’t think of a label that’s more confidently accomplished and consistently high-quality than Ultimae, downtempo or otherwise. This, their 20th release, is j…

The one problem with this is that there has never been a stereo or soundsystem invented that goes loud enough. Psyreviews’ predictions for 2007 included a stat…

Tribeadelic’s latest compilation is also its best. Released at a time where the sheer dearth of fullon releases means that hardly anything gets any kind of expo…

South African trance used to be shitscary, scratchy stuff that was a pain to listen to. Then the majority of psytrance became scaryshit, shit stuff that was a p…

With their second release, Chill Tribe have succeeded in cementing a solid reputation for high-quality chillout with a star-studded release. Altitudes – Blue P…

The gushing press release accompanying this album asserts that if you look up “journey” in the dictionary, you’ll see this CD. Oddly enough, it’s not in my dict…

Crikey. Okay, let’s recap: Gi’iwa made a huge impact with their debut compilation Schizm, al album voted best of 2004 by isratrance users. Admittedly most of t…

Quite a significant album this, and one that’s pretty highly deserving of your attention, money, and respect. This is the best thing HomHom-Mega have put their…

Yes. Fantastic. Firstly, Artifakt has still got it. Moreover, Artifakt has got it like he never had it before: the sounds, textures, escalation and release of…

There’s something a bit special about this album; this is the reason it’s taken me so bloody long to review it. Fact is, it went straight in my case logic to th…

Wild Things are a feral bunch. From the depths of the London underground scene (that’s parties by the way, as opposed to Oyster cards and mind the gap) has over…

You can’t help but notice the apparent drying-up of chill releases this year. Recent years have seen a weighty crop, but in 2006 you have to dig a bit deeper wh…

In all likelihood, there isn’t a sound system on the planet loud enough to do this justice. Alex Tolstey from Boshke Beats has compiled a gem here, that’ll nice…

Quoting the blurb, this album is “an exploration of that which lies just below the threshold of consciousness, where subject and object lose their distinction a…

From Cosmophilia’s ashes phoenixes a seemingly unscathed Hadshot, back on their mission to straddle the dirtier side of proghouse and electro with the second in…

London’s filthiest return with another instalment of frightmare music to satiate that post-Deviant Species part of your brain that eternally hankers after Baloj…

Tribal Vision have become pretty much everyone’s favourite progressive label, probably with Iboga in second place, with a moody catfight for third. Their first…

I don’t want to call this “Darkpsy” but it’s with respect to that particular subgenre that this album stands up best. Think of it as crunchy, quirky outdoor mus…

Parvati are an institution, and I don’t just mean that in the sense of a mental institution. Time after time they’ve come up with seriously good, seriously kic…

Fuck’s sake. Just look at the cover. Load of shit. 0 HERE IS THE COVER IN BIG IF YOU FANCY CRACKING ONE OFF AT 145BPM LOOK AT THAT THEY EVEN COPIED AND PASTE…

Weird one this. Pretty much everyone seems to be aware of it, and I’m buggered if I know why. Crap cover, maybe? Daft name? I’m really not sure, nor do I really…

Ultimae’s sound has been quietly evolving over the years, and Oxycanta represents something of a stylistic zenith. With their roots in psychedelic backrooms, Ul…

The followup to last year’s Set 5: Summer Collection has a lot to live up to. We thought we knew where we were with Sets 2 and 3, and then Set 4 showcased some…

Not great, this ‘un. Yotopia is an artist who I’ve never quite fallen in love with, and Blue Moon still doesn’t quite grab me. It’s solid stuff with great layer…

The second in the series from Trishula’s dowmtempo alter-ego Ajana carries on in much the same vein. After a slow start things pick up with Chronos’ Sky Path, w…

I have to admit, I never thought we’d be reviewing another release on Transient on these hallowed pages: but here we are. Brought back from the Other Side by Gr…

Being a bloody nice collection of Australian psytrance in its thank-god-its-not-space-tribe form. Syzmix’s Silicon Tears builds nicely into a striking midrange…

Basstardz may be delightfully-titled, but it’s not quite as manically dark as the name might suggest. Instead, there’s a pretty decent selection of intelligent,…

You. Need. This. Album. You may even want to buy it on vinyl as well as CD. Lucas has compiled and collaborated all over the place to create something which, in…

If you picked up the first Psymeditation, then my guess is you know what to expect. Deep chill that’s unashamedly shanti in its flavour: this is the sort of thi…

When I saw the cover on this one, I laughed milk out of my nose. Look at it. Look. What the fuck are those things? Cancer cells? Testicles? Testicular cancer ce…

Better than the “Shanti Mix” Sanctuary, Arcana sees Interchill shift its focus back to unmixed quality chillage, though not quite up to the highpoints that the…

U-Recken vs Nitro’s Forever Noma is along the lines of a more morning-friendly 3D Vision sound. It’s fluid, melodic in just about the right places, and has enou…

Via the boom in progressive over the last couple of years, a good many of us are starting to get pulled into the electro sound. And with high-octane psytrance a…

Featuring, according to the blurb, some of the artists who will be shaping the new sound of Tip New World next year. Hujaboy’s Psy Babby has a great tecchy fee…

Crikey. I’d heard this was good, but nothing quite prepared me for quite how good it actually is. Slow again on this review, as it was sent to my old address on…

More minimal techlectro, this time from new Munich label Rip n’Burn. Kicking off is Trentemoller’s Polar Shift, and it’s bloody tasty: scratchy, tetchy and disp…

Being probably the first ever compilation reviewed by yours truly, that’s been compiled by a French fashion designer. But “100% Jean Paul Goa-Tier Grooves” it a…

Last year’s Get The Lead Out showed that PsyBooty are a label whose mission statement actually adds up to something. The crossage-overage of the best elements o…

I know I’m slow on this one – it arrived at psyreviews’ UK lair too late to get reviewed before I changed bases, but it certainly has had a lot of play from me…

I must admit I had to bite my tongue on this one. Any album proffering neo-neo-neo-fullon trance under the guise of being a soundtrack to a trip generally gets…

Patchuli! The Smell of Hippies! Sexy!!! The Smell of Sex. Lounge! The smell of your living room! Which, if you’re a hippy, probably smells of Patchuli, but prob…

Being probably the first ever compilation reviewed by yours truly, that’s been compiled by a French fashion designer. But “100% Jean Paul Goa-Tier Grooves” it…

Crikey. I’d heard this was good, but nothing quite prepared me for quite how good it actually is. Slow again on this review, as it was sent to my old address…

Last year’s Get The Lead Out showed that PsyBooty are a label whose mission statement actually adds up to something. The crossage-overage of the best elements…

I must admit I had to bite my tongue on this one. Any album proffering neo-neo-neo-fullon trance under the guise of being a soundtrack to a trip generally get…

Via the boom in progressive over the last couple of years, a good many of us are starting to get pulled into the electro sound. And with high-octane psytranc…

More minimal techlectro, this time from new Munich label Rip n’Burn. Kicking off is Trentemoller’s Polar Shift, and it’s bloody tasty: scratchy, tetchy and d…

Better than the “Shanti Mix” Sanctuary, Arcana sees Interchill shift its focus back to unmixed quality chillage, though not quite up to the highpoints that th…

U-Recken vs Nitro’s Forever Noma is along the lines of a more morning-friendly 3D Vision sound. It’s fluid, melodic in just about the right places, and has en…

Featuring, according to the blurb, some of the artists who will be shaping the new sound of Tip New World next year. Hujaboy’s Psy Babby has a great tecchy fe…

This is a great little product from probably the tightest, most pert, nubile chillout label on the planet. This is more of a one-off purchase, a chill album f…

If I was to say to you the words, “intelligent and mature fullon”, you would probably think I was joking. You would pour your drink over my head, stamp on my…

Compiled by the Megalopsy boys, Amalgama is the first compilation from Argentina, and a definite sign that things there are on the up. After Prismatix’s swir…

Bloody hell. This, folks, blew me away. It’s got Quality. And, Quirkiness. But it’s also got something uniquely special about it, defiantly solid, ruthlessly…

The latest in the Set… series is compiled by Aran Gallagher, aka Freq; the same guy whose Strange Attractors last year brought Iboga bang up to date to pretty…

The techno-ey end of psytrance has always carried connotations of cyborgs going mental to the sound of a drill smashing through Midi Miliz 12's, but Idea FX d…

Yay. Broken Toy’s remix of Damage’s Bringdanoise knocks spots off the original, it’s a heavy-set, clattering beast of a track that just gets the energy stacke…

The first Mountain High turned into a bit of a soundtrack for yours truly; travelling in pre-Ipod days, whatever I had on CD became ingrained into my brain li…

Caution, contains guitars. And lots of them. The vibe here is firmly the dirty industrial end of things, and while there’s one or two good moments, a lot of t…

Get past the cover you’d expect to see on a CD in the supermarket you buy and take home for your little sister, and this icy collection of quality progressive…

I met the people behind this label at Sonica in Italy this summer, and they’re bloody nice people. And funny. And on the strength of this compilation they al…

After making their mark on the trance side with Build Your Own Reactor, upcoming UK label Liquid Records make a stab at the already-crowded downtempo sector.…

I love Parvati. But whenever a new CD from them arrives, it’s not without trepidation that it gets slotted into psyreviews’ limited edition, industry-only, go…

The return of Dance n Dust records is one of psyreviews’ greatest excuses to be happy. Along with… erm… shit, there must be something else. Erm… okay, the mus…

Following on from the stonnkingly good Lime Light compilation, Inner Circle takes a different slant, looking at moodier progressive and offering up some pret…

This pretty much slipped in under the radar here at psyreviews towers. And admit it, from the cover or tracklist, it’s not something the average punter will…

You’ve got to love this label. I know I do: consistently interesting and inventive, and without whom we wouldn’t have REV, Double REL, Iron Madness or… well,…

One of those releases where you can read down the tracklist, and your brain magically tells you what it’s going to sound like. The production throughout has t…

Compiled by one Seb Krüger, this selection of clean, crystalline trance tickles a wider variety of progressive tastebuds than a Freq-flavoured lollipop. Trans…

Fuck. I couldn’t normally start a review of a chill album with a profanity, but this being interchill, I can fucking say what I fucking well fucking want to…

A new label launching a chillout compilation is going to be one of those sink-or-swim things: the subgenre is swamped by identikit releases with identikit…

Dark psy, as a genre, has got to be a bit careful. While a lot of the most innovative, - and certainly psychedelic - sounds of the last twelve months have…

Holland! Land of porn, pot, and chips with mayonnaise. Okay, now we’ve reduced a lovely nation of lovely people into a cultural stereotype, our minds are more…

There’s something I utterly love about this CD. If you’re 22, off your head on acid every weekend, and a member of the Astrix fanclub, then you may as well st…

Nighttime music seems to be more popular at the moment than it’s been in quite a while, and for my money at least, it has to be interesting to be successful.…

Blackout’s Lemon Strike is a gorgeous piece of music, end of. Progressive and groovy, the way the sounds are staggered and stuttered makes it immensely hypnot…

Spiral Trax were one of my favourite labels, back in the “day”. I loved the way they combined the psytrance output with kick-ass progressive stuff. Tricky bit…

Timelock feat June Rashava open with Un:Balanced, and personally I’d give my right arm (okay, my left arm) to hear Timelock’s version of this by themselves. I…

I must admit that lately I’ve been finding “normal” psytrance much less appealing than progressive. This may be because the stuff coming out on the likes of I…

I’m not sure whether I’ve ever come across anything from New Zealand before… but this is definitely something special. With artists from Australia, NZ, Denm…

Digital Psionics’ release schedule may be less busy than a 50 year old transvestive Skazi lookalike prostitute’s appointment book, but their output’s quality…

Illumination vs Ultravoice’s Imagination is a cracking start, progressing from an energetic swirly intro, into a deep fullon that then comes crackling to life…

Insane Creation’s Can Feel kicks off in wonderful style – smooth as hell, utterly gorgeous progressive with a perfect groove, incredible sounds and a wonderfu…

What the hell is going on here? Artifakt’s Mr O is pretty mellow for Artifakt, a pleasant-Sunday-romp kinda groove adds sprinkles of psychedelic mush, escalat…

Interchill’s run of downtempo releases were the de facto benchmark of quality a few years ago, and it’s always nice when they come up with another compilation…

A collection of different sounds coming out of Brazil, home as we all know to a large if infant trance scene, and looking at what’s on offer here the general…

Psychonaut’s Loco Breath has a sort of industrial-indie guitar line at the start, picks up nice chug-factor, adds psychedelic nods in the shape pf an ozricsy,…

A bit tricky this one: for a start, the promo copy that reached its way here only contains about 4’30 of each track, so talking about the whole flow of the mu…

A tricky album this. Twelve tracks of vaguely-trancey jazzy dublike beats, the sort of thing that I guess used to be called Trip Hop, and with some new names…

Hypersonic’s The Beginning Of A Story is far and away the best of his tunes I’ve heard under this moniker. Opening with moody, Clapton-unplugged-like guitars,…

Oh dear. Up first is Cosmovision from Bio Tonic, sounding like it’s got one foot in the 70s with sub-Kraftwerk vocode-narration and incredibly large (and quit…

The only thing wrong with Plusquam releases is there isn’t enough of them. V-Tunes’ G-Con opens up and it’s all about gorgeous sounds, smoothly layered and in…

Following on from the rather wonderful debut Urban Legends, the case for progressive trance as being the must interesting and high-quality sub genre in 2005…

Compiled by Australia’s Beka, the second instalment in the Accelerator series takes things further than before, with a pretty damn tasty blend and variation o…

When the first Vibraspirit album came out in 2001, psyreviews loved it and said it was the best album of the year, before most of that year had even come alo…

Tony Rohr’s My Mind IS Going Dub is silky smooth techno, with only a slight funky twist, with samples from the HAL9000 in 2001 laid down over the top. Midimi…

A very horizontal, laid-back global chillage journey boasting an awesome line-up of the more intricate chillout artists around, this followup to Androcell’s…

I’m liking the cover, I’m liking the tunes, and I’m liking that you get a bonus mixed 2nd CD for your buck. Sequipa opens with Manic Panic, a nice slice of r…

Being a slightly odd idea this one. Tracks “from and inspired by” everyone’s favourite petrolhead tweakery modificationy, staggering-impression-of-speed-but-…

I’m kind of hoping we can drop the moniker “neo-fullon”, even though Com.pact often use it to refer to their own releases. It’s surprising but the last few r…

Opening track Free Motherfuckers from Deedrah has more ideas busting at its seams than I think I’ve heard from him in ages. Starting out funky, then picking u…

Surely one of the most exciting labels of 2004 returns with a suitably quirky slab of urban psychedelic mulch, all largely the work of the evil, hamster-thre…

Various Back To The Future Groove Zone (Japan) Woah. Further proof that much of the invention and flair these days is to be found within the progressive aren…

VA Booo Doof (Israel) The crunchy underbelly of Israel mooches forth again, this week giving us an excellent antidote to the more “Israeli” trance from that…

Various Chronika Chapter 2 Boshke Beats Tony Rohr’s My Mind IS Going Dub is silky smooth techno, with only a slight funky twist, with samples from the HAL900…

Various Evolve Soular Records (USA) Cyzum’s Escape From The Sun moves like an oldskool tune but adds neat production, the sort of clean and sheened sound tha…

Various Fahrenheit Project 5 Ultimae (France) The kings of fluid, seamless chillout are back and on the strength of this it looks like they’re setting up 200…

Various Forest Doof (Israel) One of my favourite labels at the moment, Doof have a reputation for no-bullshit hard as nails psytrance with a truly twisted be…

Various Gran Turismo 4 Kicks Solstice (Japan) Being a slightly odd idea this one. Tracks “from and inspired by” everyone’s favourite petrolhead tweakery modi…

VA Holographic Memory 3 Solstice (Japan) Opening track Free Motherfuckers from Deedrah has more ideas busting at its seams than I think I’ve heard from him i…

Various Inner Panic Manic Dragon (HK) I’m liking the cover, I’m liking the tunes, and I’m liking that you get a bonus mixed 2nd CD for your buck. Sequipa ope…

Various Inspirazzia – Compiled by DJ Zombi VP Records (Germay) Anything with a bird on the cover generally makes me think twice about listening. But finding…

Various Invasion From Hyperspace Organic (UK) The start of Summer is always a great time for psyreviews. Because somewhere around this time of year, a CD com…

VA Mushy Mystery Trishula (Germany) I must apologise to everyone concerned here, just not enough time to review this one. I’m utterly sold on Trishula’s soun…

Various Namaskar Indica (Italy) Taking its title from a Sanskrit word which basically means “welcome” but whose literal meaning is “I bow to God in you, I lo…

Various Natural Born Chillers Aleph Zero (Israel) On heavy rotation chez psyreviews since it arrived just before Christmas, Natural Born Chillers is as nigh…

Various Point Of View Dooflex (Israel) Learning that the mighty Doof label had set up this new offshoot to address cleaner, slinkier progressive fullon sound…

Various Portal Of Perceptions Celestial Dragon (Hong Kong) A very horizontal, laid-back global chillage journey boasting an awesome line-up of the more intri…

VA Psychedelically Yours 3 Parvati (Denmark) These compilations have been setting the standard in freaky nighttime trance, and if you know the first two then…

Various Purple TipWorld (UK) Let’s cut to the chase shall we. Is it any good? (Yeah, it is.) Is it Tip back to the old form again? (Nah. I dunno. Maybe. Look…

Various Retrodelic Vibes 2 Avatar (Israel) We all know someone who bemoans at every opportunity how it’s not as good as it used to be. How the music then was…

Various Star Dust Moonstone Records (Israel) The release info describes the music on here as “neo-fullon” which makes my heart sink, but also as “dark and ps…

VA Symptoms Of Compliance Last Possible Solution (UK) Surely one of the most exciting labels of 2004 returns with a suitably quirky slab of urban psychedelic…

Various Ultrapop Fabula (Italy) Chances are you won’t have heard anything quite like this before. Loopus’ own albums come close, but the fusion here between…

Various Unusual Suspects 2 Twisted (UK) The psytrance equivalent of The Phantom Menace, because people queued for weeks outside outlets just to get hold of a…

Various Vibraspirit 11 Sundance (Australia) When the first Vibraspirit album came out in 2001, psyreviews loved it and said it was the best album of the year…

Various Wild Life Jungle Juice Alchemy (UK) Disappointment is not the word. One of the chief moans at current psy is this whole thing of 9 or 10-track compil…

Various A Magical Journey Ajana (Germany) There’s a sort of bizarre justice, that feels perfect, here – Ajana is a sub label of Trishula records, and I’m lov…

Various Accelerator 2.0 – Compiled by Beka Turbotrance (France) Compiled by Australia’s Beka, the second instalment in the Accelerator series takes things fu…

Compiled by the Megalopsy boys, Amalgama is the first compilation from Argentina, and a definite sign that things there are on the up. After Prismatix’s swirly…

Compiled by one Seb Krüger, this selection of clean, crystalline trance tickles a wider variety of progressive tastebuds than a Freq-flavoured lollipop. Transmo…

Various Build Your Own Reactor Liquid (UK) Ding and indeed, Dong. Build Your Own Reactor is a real shot in the arm, particularly for a UK scene that’s had so…

Various Check In High-End (Brazil) A collection of different sounds coming out of Brazil, home as we all know to a large if infant trance scene, and looking…

Various Contact Lens Cosmic Conspiracy Records (New Zealand) I’m not sure whether I’ve ever come across anything from New Zealand before… but this is definit…

Fuck. I couldn’t normally start a review of a chill album with a profanity, but this being interchill, I can fucking say what I fucking well fucking want to. Th…

The return of Dance n Dust records is one of psyreviews’ greatest excuses to be happy. Along with… erm… shit, there must be something else. Erm… okay, the music…

Various Earth Octave Lounge volume 2 Interchill (Canada) Interchill’s run of downtempo releases were the de facto benchmark of quality a few years ago, and i…

There’s something I utterly love about this CD. If you’re 22, off your head on acid every weekend, and a member of the Astrix fanclub, then you may as well stee…

Get past the cover you’d expect to see on a CD in the supermarket you buy and take home for your little sister, and this icy collection of quality progressive h…

Various Hardboiled Wonderland Hardboiled (Germany) Psychonaut’s Loco Breath has a sort of industrial-indie guitar line at the start, picks up nice chug-facto…

Various High Voltage House ACDC (Sweden) I must admit that lately I’ve been finding “normal” psytrance much less appealing than progressive. This may be beca…

Various High Way Com.Pact (Israel) Illumination vs Ultravoice’s Imagination is a cracking start, progressing from an energetic swirly intro, into a deep full…

Nighttime music seems to be more popular at the moment than it’s been in quite a while, and for my money at least, it has to be interesting to be successful. Yo…

One of those releases where you can read down the tracklist, and your brain magically tells you what it’s going to sound like. The production throughout has tha…

Ketuh’s P-Mac ventures to Australia and hangs out with the Triptamind bunch, a motley crew of smut peddlers and prostitute traffickers. Okay that’s NOT true, th…

The techno-ey end of psytrance has always carried connotations of cyborgs going mental to the sound of a drill smashing through Midi Miliz 12′s, but Idea FX doe…

Various Imagi:Nations Part 1: Night Tipworld (UK) Psyreviews is trumping this album quite a lot, but only because psyreviews knows that you’re likely to pass…

Various Imagi:Nations Part 2: Day Tipworld (UK) Hypersonic’s The Beginning Of A Story is far and away the best of his tunes I’ve heard under this moniker. Op…

If I was to say to you the words, “intelligent and mature fullon”, you would probably think I was joking. You would pour your drink over my head, stamp on my fo…

Following on from the stonnkingly good Lime Light compilation, Inner Circle takes a different slant, looking at moodier progressive and offering up some pretty…

Various – Mixed By Goa Gil Karmageddon Avatar (Israel) Goa Gil has been mixing psytrance since 3,500 BC. Or something like that. Anyway, you all know who thi…

Various Lime Light Tribal Vision (Czech Republic) Following on from the rather wonderful debut Urban Legends, the case for progressive trance as being the mu…

Holland! Land of porn, pot, and chips with mayonnaise. Okay, now we’ve reduced a lovely nation of lovely people into a cultural stereotype, our minds are more o…

Bloody hell. This, folks, blew me away. It’s got Quality. And, Quirkiness. But it’s also got something uniquely special about it, defiantly solid, ruthlessly in…

You’ve got to love this label. I know I do: consistently interesting and inventive, and without whom we wouldn’t have REV, Double REL, Iron Madness or… well, re…

The first Mountain High turned into a bit of a soundtrack for yours truly; travelling in pre-Ipod days, whatever I had on CD became ingrained into my brain like…

Various Posse Domo Records Insane Creation’s Can Feel kicks off in wonderful style – smooth as hell, utterly gorgeous progressive with a perfect groove, incr…

Various Psionic Circus Digital Psionics (Australia) Digital Psionics’ release schedule may be less busy than a 50 year old transvestive Skazi lookalike prost…

I love Parvati. But whenever a new CD from them arrives, it’s not without trepidation that it gets slotted into psyreviews’ limited edition, industry-only, gold…

Great stuff if you’ve not bought much trance this year, or if you never buy a lot. All these tunes have been released elsewhere, an idea which in itself is eith…

A new label launching a chillout compilation is going to be one of those sink-or-swim things: the subgenre is swamped by identikit releases with identikit artis…

This is a great little product from probably the tightest, most pert, nubile chillout label on the planet. This is more of a one-off purchase, a chill album for…

The latest in the Set… series is compiled by Aran Gallagher, aka Freq; the same guy whose Strange Attractors last year brought Iboga bang up to date to pretty m…

After making their mark on the trance side with Build Your Own Reactor, upcoming UK label Liquid Records make a stab at the already-crowded downtempo sector. Ps…

Various States Of Awareness Ajuca (UK) Compiled by Jamie Robinson and Haze, this compilation not only features a NEW zen mechanics track, but also draws up s…

Various Stereo Activity Agitato (Israel) Oh dear. Up first is Cosmovision from Bio Tonic, sounding like it’s got one foot in the 70s with sub-Kraftwerk vocod…

Various Swedish Goa Trance And Progressive Spiral Trax (Sweden) Spiral Trax were one of my favourite labels, back in the “day”. I loved the way they combined…

I met the people behind this label at Sonica in Italy this summer, and they’re bloody nice people. And funny. And on the strength of this compilation they also…

Sog have been gradually raising the bar of excitement with their recent progressive releases. While some of their output is more vocal and club-trance oriented,…

Various Time Out – Supportive Unbending Tunes vol 1 Spontaneous Aerobics (Germany) A tricky album this. Twelve tracks of vaguely-trancey jazzy dublike beats,…

Ground breaking, unique, exciting, inventive. Well, it’s a nice thought, isn’t it? Take the most inventive and exciting new music you could possibly imagine – a…

Various Tribal Maker Tribal Records (Israel) A bit tricky this one: for a start, the promo copy that reached its way here only contains about 4’30 of each tr…

Various Trojan Timecode (South Africa) What the hell is going on here? Artifakt’s Mr O is pretty mellow for Artifakt, a pleasant-Sunday-romp kinda groove add…

VA Un:Balanced BNE (Israel) Timelock feat June Rashava open with Un:Balanced, and personally I’d give my right arm (okay, my left arm) to hear Timelock’s ver…

This pretty much slipped in under the radar here at psyreviews towers. And admit it, from the cover or tracklist, it’s not something the average punter will get…

Caution, contains guitars. And lots of them. The vibe here is firmly the dirty industrial end of things, and while there’s one or two good moments, a lot of thi…

Blackout’s Lemon Strike is a gorgeous piece of music, end of. Progressive and groovy, the way the sounds are staggered and stuttered makes it immensely hypnotic…

Various Wireless Plusquam (Germany) The only thing wrong with Plusquam releases is there isn’t enough of them. V-Tunes’ G-Con opens up and it’s all about gor…

I must apologise to everyone concerned here, just not enough time to review this one. I'm utterly sold on Trishula's sound, and have been caning this over the…

The crunchy underbelly of Israel mooches forth again, this week giving us an excellent antidote to the more “Israeli” trance from that country. And who bette…

The kings of fluid, seamless chillout are back and on the strength of this it looks like they’re setting up 2005 to be another great year for the Ultimae sta…

Learning that the mighty Doof label had set up this new offshoot to address cleaner, slinkier progressive fullon sounded pretty far out, but it takes less tha…

These compilations have been setting the standard in freaky nighttime trance, and if you know the first two then chances are you’ll know what to expect here.…

The psytrance equivalent of The Phantom Menace, because people queued for weeks outside outlets just to get hold of a copy. Possibly. Famously available in…

Let’s cut to the chase shall we. Is it any good? (Yeah, it is.) Is it Tip back to the old form again? (Nah. I dunno. Maybe. Look, this is hard for me to com…

Woah. Further proof that much of the invention and flair these days is to be found within the progressive arena, fresh label Groove Zone take in Japan, Swed…

Cyzum’s Escape From The Sun moves like an oldskool tune but adds neat production, the sort of clean and sheened sound that US psytrance has held close for ye…

Anything with a bird on the cover generally makes me think twice about listening. But finding out that VP stands for “Very Progressive”, and that this is a m…

The release info describes the music on here as “neo-fullon” which makes my heart sink, but also as “dark and psychedelic” which makes it leap back up again.…

One of my favourite labels at the moment, Doof have a reputation for no-bullshit hard as nails psytrance with a truly twisted bent. U-Recken vs Zion open pro…

On heavy rotation chez psyreviews since it arrived just before Christmas, Natural Born Chillers is as nigh on perfect a chillout album as you could hope for.…

Chances are you won’t have heard anything quite like this before. Loopus’ own albums come close, but the fusion here between deep amyl-funk and psytrance is…

Taking its title from a Sanskrit word which basically means “welcome” but whose literal meaning is “I bow to God in you, I love you and respect you, as there…

Chillout albums tend to need something special and magnetic to make them special; doubly so if they’re to stay special. Ultimae’s general output, for example…

Well, crikey basically. Picture the scene: psyreviews is sat in his living room in the middle of December. It’s cold outside (baby), the fire’s on, and the e…

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I have a feeling this could be the best progressive release of the year. Not just this, but it could be one of the best CD’s I’ve heard…

Another new label folks, this time dedicated to creaking nighttime music. For me, 2004 has seen so much innovation and excitement in this subgenre, and from…

We're a bit behind on this one, it came out in September, but we only just got hold of it thanks in no small part to the lovely people at Triskele Management.…

Compiled by Trancelucent and Psymag.com’s Homsy, nine tracks of what I suppose we must continue to call neo-fullon. Noga opens up with Intelligent Species, wi…

The first release in quite some time on Holland’s much-missed BooM! records is a nifty little offering. Ten tracks, all remixes, and more interesting than t…

Remembering the first in this series, which is described by people who remember it as "er, which one? the blue one right?", and the impact it had, "I almost f…

Brand new release from a brand new label – and I only need mutter that label manager Paul is ex-Deviant Species, and if I imply through the medium of a shocke…

(ed) Chill comp here on Candyflip records and jolly nice and relaxed it is too. Solar Fields open the proceedings and this is really, I mean really deep! Fe…

Okay. Well, Skazi utterly rocked Melbourne recently, I assume he rocks wherever he goes (in the toilets as well, depending on who you listen to), and this do…

A new compilation, put together by Safi Connection, on a new label that promises a new take on fullon morning music. Kicking off proceedings we have Beat Hacker…

Brighton’s premier label has seriously outdone itself with this collection of Brazilian trance: a sound that’s uplifting but with splatterings of gnarl, chummy…

Clearly, after Absolute Threshold, even the mugs among us all can see that Dragonfly are back on form with a sound that’s better than it’s been in years. Compil…

A new Spun CD generally attracts as much excitement and competition here as a game of ‘who’s going to shove this milk bottle up their arse.’ After frisbeeing it…

I don’t know much about this release, but let’s see… Nine tracks, and it showcases the generally more anthem-y, fluffy side of this summer. Beat Hackers open pr…

In all my years of doing this (three, since you asked), I’ve never heard a CD that sounds like this: it honestly sounds like it’s been beamed from the future to…

This may well be a first: compiled by father (John Phantasm) and son (Junya, aka Eskimo) this collection marks Phantasm’s return with a satisfying thunk, and it…

Blimey. Right, so Gi’iwa is a new label set up by some very nice folk from Oz, and from the moment I first heard about what they were doing I was convinced it w…

File this under “pleasant surprise”: It seemed, a few years ago, that every label and his dog was looking to Scandinavia, in a kind of post-Atmos fallout that d…

Compiled by DJ Joyrider, a bit of a legend in Germany’s tech-trance scene, this collection of nine smoother-than-james-bond progressive trance is a pretty nifty…

Okay first things first: this isn’t the followup to Twisted’s superlative Unusual Suspects compilation; mainly because this is Usual Suspects, not Unusual Suspe…

A new compilation on Nano almost always sets pulses racing round here, and Wind Up is no exception. While there may be less immediacy in the melodies compared w…

Okay. Well, Skazi utterly rocked Melbourne recently, I assume he rocks wherever he goes (in the toilets as well, depending on who you listen to), and this doubl…

Ahhh the four corners of the psytrance globe. Goa, Australia, Thailand and er… North Wales. Yup. A long time coming, but the part of the British Isles where mag…

We know that the Germanic progressive take on psytrance is, at least, a little different to what makes the rest of the world groove; and even on this basis, it’…

Compiled by Trancelucent and Psymag.com’s Homsy, nine tracks of what I suppose we must continue to call neo-fullon. Noga opens up with Intelligent Species, with…

Another new label folks, this time dedicated to creaking nighttime music. For me, 2004 has seen so much innovation and excitement in this subgenre, and from the…

A particularly nice CD this, compiled by Nate Protoculture and in the absence of a follow up to 2003’s Refractions, this comes pretty close in satisfying whatev…

Saafi & Liquid Phase’s Sound Like Bazoom is totally different – it has a guitar (no wait! Don’t run off just because I used the G word!!) First up, it’s a real…

The first release in quite some time on Holland’s much-missed BooM! records is a nifty little offering. Ten tracks, all remixes, and more interesting than the c…

Well, crikey basically. Picture the scene: psyreviews is sat in his living room in the middle of December. It’s cold outside (baby), the fire’s on, and the ener…

Brand new release from a brand new label – and I only need mutter that label manager Paul is ex-Deviant Species, and if I imply through the medium of a shocked…

Oh. My. Fucking. God. I have a feeling this could be the best progressive release of the year. Not just this, but it could be one of the best CD’s I’ve heard in…

Wingmakers parties have been the crème de la crème of UK underground gatherings for some years; few and far between, they come closest to those ‘legendary’ Drag…

Clearly, after Absolute Threshold, even the mugs among us all can see that Dragonfly are back on form with a sound that's better than it's been in years. Compil…

Here we go this is proper psytrance - evil, twisted this gives no quarter....the cover art is spooky - ghostly skulls haunt the forest night while forlorn figur…

Okay, well psyreviews appreciates that this isn't exactly current -- it hit the shelves at the end of last year -- but psyreviews has been travelling, children,…

Psyreviews has made reference to Interchill previously as not so much a label, more a ‘movement’ with the goal of chilling everybody out to the tune of at least…

Various 6 Stringadelica TipWorld (UK) So there I was smugly thinking that guitars in trance were dead; that 1200 Mics’ Mescaline had taken the whole thing as…

“Yowza”. Many cars elicit this reaction in this reporter; most Samothraki women elicit same. However for a cd – (a mere cd! with only one curve, and neither fle…

A joint venture between HomMega and Israel’s Radio bu 99, B Trance is a nice package – one unmixed CD, one mixed by Guy Salama – that doesn’t quite deliver what…

Various Backroom Beats 2 Backroom Beats / Twisted (UK) In the second compilation from Backroom Beats, master of chillage Ed Bigland has selected a proper bun…

Various Bakkelit Spiral Trax (Sweden) I always fear that using the word “minimal” in the first half of a review will turn people off…  but this is minimal in…

Various Clairaudience Devic Craft Recordings (Greece) As the devilish little cover pic above suggests, this is twisty spirit-of-the-forest psychedelia double…

Mix albums aren’t to everyone’s tastes but those who prefer to be a passenger rather than a pilot, at least from time to time, will seriously dig this. Marcus r…

Progressive labels don’t come much finer than Digital Structures, and progressive albums don’t get much finer than Digital Emission. I don’t really need to go o…

Psyreviews thinks this should be called “Eeeeeaaasssseee Diiiivvviisssiiooonnnn”. Read those two words, mantra-like, for the next twenty minutes and you have th…

Blimey. This is a label carving themselves one hell of a niche in the fullon scene. And this compilation rocks, no two ways about it. Sonicsurfers’ P.O.D. (Tala…

Various Electrickery Tempest Recordings (Australia) Pitching in somewhere between the chillspace, dancefloor and lunatic asylum, Electrickery is a varied and…

Various Global Eyes 03 Global Eyes (Australia) There’s something very switched-on about all this; it’s almost like there’s a thread of resonance and positive…

Various Irresistable Meltdown 2 Plusquam (Germany) It seems to this reporter [writes our correspondent psyreviews, in his socks] that the number of progressi…

Anglo-franco-progresso-fullono-tranceo. Yes folks, more about this shift in the scene. Think melodies over attitudey basslines, think a combination of all that…

Timecode Orbis Tertius (Timecode) Whhooooahh… this smacks you round the face, nicks your mum’s bus fare and makes off with your dad’s car keys, this does. Wi…

Various Psionic Realms Digital Psionics (Australia) Okay? Right, hold my hand. I look craftily and lovingly into your eyes and we can feel the tension, the a…

Various Psytelligence Organic Records (UK) A pretty unbeatable showcase of the new UK trance that’s been evolving over 2003: a confident, nonchalant progress…

Further evidence of psytrance’s current shift is to be found in Reefer Madness, nine new-sound showcase numbers compiled by Lucas. Initially, this’ll take a lit…

Brazilians, eh? Fine football, fine women, and, as we’ve been randomly referencing here at psyreviews, a pretty meaty trance scene. Fitting then, that this albu…

Various The Secret of the Thirteen Crystal Skulls Tip.World (UK) With the first Crystal Skulls compilation seemingly having some strange property that makes…

Various Third Trip Parvati (Denmark) I made my third trip to Arundel Castle the other week. Really nice, National Trust joint so not overly cheap, and the cr…

A full on album from stalwart minimal experi-mentalists Iboga might sound far fetched, but here it is and it’s rather good. Etnoscope’s Stealth Mode kicks o…

South Africa may just be the next country to make a huge splash on the global trance circuit. Let’s not forget that some of the best stuff on Vibraspirit 23…

This rather tasty compilation from Spirit Zone ought to have your tastebuds jumping up and down…. Compiled by DJ Antaro, it’s eight tracks of immaculately p…

Mike Liquid has compiled a nice selection of half-progressive psychedelia as the first release on his new label Element. And this is both more enjoyable and…

Some nice stuff here, and a good comedown to some of the more mental moments this week. Sense Gemini’s You Can Hurt Me is a competent female-vocal breakbeat…

Creamcrop are one of the planet’s finest purveyors of the stripped-down trance sound, and this CD is full of immaculately-produced deep and distant slices o…

Bit different this one. It’s sort of a concept album, revolving around the ideas associated with the disciplines of Karate (which, literally, means Empty Ha…

From the art of karate to the art of sticking pins into yourself. Israel’s DJ Bog has selected eight cuts of tight tecchy trance for Medium, a label who’s f…

Over the last two years Sweden’s Baluns Records have made quite a name for themselves, creating a fresh and funky blend of minimal psychedelia, techno and p…

Analog Pussy’s label devotes a solid release nodding the head to the next generation of psytrance producers. Their goal is to highlight the upcoming names i…

Ahh… the passing of time, eh? Acid Casualties kicked off at a funny old time in trance, one of the first labels set up to explore the progressive edge that…

From the art of karate to the art of sticking pins into yourself. Israel’s DJ Bog has selected eight cuts of tight tecchy trance for Medium, a label who’s found…

Over the last two years Sweden’s Baluns Records have made quite a name for themselves, creating a fresh and funky blend of minimal psychedelia, techno and progr…

Bit different this one. It’s sort of a concept album, revolving around the ideas associated with the disciplines of Karate (which, literally, means Empty Hand.)…

Analog Pussy’s label devotes a solid release nodding the head to the next generation of psytrance producers. Their goal is to highlight the upcoming names in th…

The Prooved DJ’s are some of Germany’s finest, playing a layered and progressive blend of psychedelic trance to funky-fresh audiences and featuring heavily on t…

I know we’re a bit late on this one, but it’s certainly been worth the wait. This beautifully packaged CD is a sheer delight from start to finish, and has somet…

We’re all simple people at the end of the day. We love the progressive side, and the minimal stuff, and the no-holds-barred techno trance fusion. But there…

At last an album based on sound geographical principles. Bear with me. Digiboga is the psychedelic lovechild of Sweden’s Digital Structures and Denmark’s Iboga.…

Firmly in keeping with the rather Scandinavian theme this week, another compilation crops up from new (ish) Danish label Ayahuasca. Taking their name from the h…

The fourth in the Dragon Tales series follows the same trajectory as the previous releases, concentrating on a stripped-down and semi-melodic techno-trance fusi…

We’re all simple people at the end of the day. We love the progressive side, and the minimal stuff, and the no-holds-barred techno trance fusion. But there will…

Being a music journalist always used to entail a lot of freebies and bonuses. The Sex Pistols, for example, used to send out plastic vomit and wraps of speed to…

Ahh… the passing of time, eh? Acid Casualties kicked off at a funny old time in trance, one of the first labels set up to explore the progressive edge that psyt…

Once in a while an album comes through with absolutely no accompanying press information which makes someone like me sweat because there’s no concrete basis to…

New South African label Microdot has pulled out all the stops on this one, with a killer album assembled by DJ Jay-O, a chap who’s not only one of the nicest pe…

London’s Ambivalent Records, home to Deviant Species, has turned out a moody compilation reminiscent of B-Movie Sci-Fi backdrops. Neural Rectifier’s Electrical…

Further proof that France is the most psychedelic playground of them all in 2002. Following on from last year’s divine 3D Story, the Paris boys pull out all the…

Various – Psychedelically Yours – Parvati (Denmark) If you like your LSD in liquid form, your chai black and treacley, and your tunes full on and banging as if…

Various – Transient 9 – Regeneration – Transient (UK) Transient have evolved like no other label. Their full on days pioneered the likes of Cosmosis and Laughi…

Chilled albums were the curse of dance music in 2001. Hidden between the Ministry-Essential-Clubbers Guide chillout releases there were some more underground-fr…

Various – Psychovader – Apoxina (France) Regular readers will know how much we love new labels. We invite them in for tea, have a few spliffs, and check out th…

This is the "first essential Freestyle compilation" according to the blurb, but judging from the quality of the music on offer, I’d not be surprised if it wa…

Another month, another bunch of compilations from German progressive labels, and surfing the wave this month is the latest offering from the morning meltdown ma…

An odd compilation that left me quite confused. Is it psytrance? Is it trance? Or house? What’s going on? Lando and Chrisma’s Interesting Places kicks things of…

We’re about a month late on this one, but the music’s top and therefore, as you may have missed it as well, it’s getting a mention now. Because we love you, tha…

Bit different this one. I know I say that a lot so maybe I should shut up and get on with it. Well alright. This is a compilation of unreleased tracks from up…

Don’t know much about this one, possibly because the press release is in German (and while my language skills allow me to buy a paper and order a beer, the f…

This quirky little compilation from Sphere moves in a very unique way – and the sounds you’ll hear on this are quite unlike the stuff you’ll hear elsewhere.…

Flying Rhino bring us another instalment in their Singularity series. Featuring about half previously unreleased tracks and half tracks released on artist album…

With the wave of new French labels emerging it's refreshing to see they're not all sticking to the same style. This release from Sub Machine Records, their firs…

Last year's Chillosophy album got many a well-deserved pat on the back for being a consistent and intelligent chillout compilation. And this one knocks the spot…

DJ Asherun’s new label Dance N Dust debut with this scary nighttime album. It’s worth mentioning that this features some nice cover artwork – though I have to a…

Judging by the number of new labels from America contacting us lately, it looks like the US is undergoing a series of localised trance explosions right now. Spe…

The fourth Re:Evolution CD from the Flying Rhino stable is in much the same vein as the previous releases – taking a snapshot of where the label’s at in both th…

From the Shiva Space Technicians, the well-established Israeli ambassadors in Germany, comes this collection of light, uplifting melodic morning tunes. As long…

I’d be surprising nobody if I said that chillout compilations are a dime a dozen; that a new chillout comp is (by definition) unlikely to get pulses racing; and…

This is good. Certainly it’s not been far from my ears since it arrived. With a cheeky bit of cover art from Nick Doof, and the CD graphics featuring a big TIP…

As home to Son Kite, Ticon, Tegma and P-Woland Sweden’s Digital Structures are on good form at the moment. Nince tracks here, all displaying the nice balanced s…

Shane Gobi’s London-based label has turned in a tight compilation here, with bags of dark and futuristic energy, and also some of the grinniest, fractal-friendl…

Compiled by Hamburg DJ’s Mapusa Mapusa & Fabio, this compilation of smooth n’ funky progressive cuts is pretty awesome. It’s got a fresh take on progressive tra…

Albums this good don’t come along very often. In fact, you’re unlikely to come across a more rounded, mature, colourful and full-on album this year. Younger Bro…

Chris Organic and the rest of the Organic Records crew have developed an addictive and versatile breed of progressive psychedelic trance. Chris Organic & Prison…

The 3D Vision sound is the most full-on, intense, brains-in-the-air up for it party trance you will every hear. Think outdoor parties, full moon parties, losing…

Celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2002, Dragonfly’s fist CD of the year is a chunky, progressive voyage that’s packed with surprises. 12 Moons’ Beacon o…

Sometimes, an album just works. There’s something about this CD that tickles me – it’s a totally fresh take on trance, and with a bonus chilled CD here’s a l…

Artists from the USA, Sweden, Canada, France and the UK contribute to this truly global village-vibe downtempo CD on superlative French label Ultimae. Fusing…

Good old Transient. Always a favourite label among trance fans – as a quick flick through their back catalogue will justify. There diversity over the last few y…

Just picked up by Los Angeles – based Kagdila records is this top compilation which originally saw the light of day in spring of 2001. Mixed by DJ Indica – thou…

2001 saw a rash of chillout compilations – and not just on the psytrance scene. After a year of TV-advertised chillage on European and US markets, the question…

The third in Tatsu’s Dragon Tales series picks up where the previous albums left off, showcasing another slice of their smooth, futuristic techno-blended tra…

Israeli trance has shifted from the full-on "victory trance" style which put it on the global trance map. Just as a lot of European artists have turned inwar…

Twisted mayhem from Italy’s finest! Neurobiotic deliver psychotic, in-ya-face messy trance, and this their second album showcases more highlights. Progo from…

Following on from the first two high-class compilations, Israliens 3 is well worth investigating. Offering a selection of the top Israeli trance producers ar…

Twisted mayhem from Italy’s finest! Neurobiotic deliver psychotic, in-ya-face messy trance, and this their second album showcases more highlights. Progo from Pa…

The third in Tatsu’s Dragon Tales series picks up where the previous albums left off, showcasing another slice of their smooth, futuristic techno-blended trance…

Following on from the first two high-class compilations, Israliens 3 is well worth investigating. Offering a selection of the top Israeli trance producers aroun…

Israeli trance has shifted from the full-on “victory trance” style which put it on the global trance map. Just as a lot of European artists have turned inwards…

Byron Bay’s Digital Psionics have drawn trance acts from all over the planet on this excellent album of outback open air doof doof wizardry. Lun by Bon is a nic…

Various The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls Tip.World (UK) History lesson. Record label Tip produced arguably the best psychedelic trance albums ever released.…