Germany

I have, on occasion, said that I would never put brain-to-sequencer and attempt to make music because I’m not a musician. However, listening to this makes me…

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…

Gaudi we should all know: fantabulous Interchill debut Bass, Sweat & Tears followed rather quickly by the impressive-but-patchy Continuum. Pete Namlook is a…

I’ve not been lucky enough to experience Mexican parties first hand, but everyone says they’re good so let’s go with that. Master Control is best thought of a…

Decode opens up at a full pelt 150bpm, with a bassline I’ve heard thousands of times before, more stopstarts than an acid techno deejay mucking about with the…

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

Human Blue has come up with some dazzlingly good chilled tunes of late, appearing on all sorts of compilations. And usually at the end, where you want that su…

One of the year’s bets new labels continues its good run with a very tasty artist album from Psyfactor, an artist whose compilation tracks have created a well…

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,…

Taucher is fucking massive. Releasing trance since most of us were still in short trousers, his discography is only slightly shorter than a family-of –seven’s…

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…

Wow. In a word. I’d not heard of this being on the way, but just before their new album, Entheogenic have decided to hit us with something a bit special. On…

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…

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…

Blimey. This is a monster. The track you and I most probably know as Vernon’s Wonderland gets the remix treatment, as well as a timely and welcome re-releas…

As one half of hallowed Reefer Decree, Oryx certainly knows his stuff and this solo outing takes the Reefer vibe and passes it through a more linear, conven…

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…

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…

Alright, this is an odd one. Jacques Gelee is not a person, it’s two people. The two people are called Christian Vogel and Tom Knopp, but apparently they’re…

A little late on this one we know, but after some strong tracks and a good reputation for mid-set psychedelic grooves this album is worth checking out. Hype…

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…

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…

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…

Abracadabra – Abracadabra – Hadshot (Germany) What the hell is this all about then. I think it was released at the end of 2001, but it’s only just arrived here…

Tatsu mainman D-Nox teams up with Sly Flynn, following on from their tune Muy Caliente on Tatsu’s Dragon Tales 3 compilation. D-Nox’s self-confessed techno upb…

GMS – No Rules – Spirit Zone (Germany) GMS are kind of like cartoon characters who get zapped into a studio and proceed to make tunes with the sole intention o…

Blink and you’d miss this one. Because neither does the packaging nor title information convey the weirdbeat future-disco of this 12″. Autopilot is Detroit tec…

Weighing in at over ten minutes, Peaking Polka is a building, semi-minimal affair. Cute halfmelodies build up and maintain the tension in that linear way POTS a…

One of the quirkier and fresher albums of 2001, Emou’s Still Pretty Good Year was a grower. At the time we described him as a Germanic psychedelic Moby, fusing…

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…

Classy stuff from those Growling Mad chaps. They may be running a risk of overkill with the amount of stuff slated for release this year, but when the quality's…

Deeper... deeper... no, bit deeper... and again... go on... bit deeper again... there. THAT’s how deep Deep Dive Corp go, and this CD (packaged in a weird and w…

Analog Pussy are unique in the global trance scene. The closest we’ve got to a psy-celebrity couple, Jiga & Jinno are uncommonly focussed on their mission to…

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…

Here's another release that slid in under the PsyTranceReviews radar, but we found it under the sofa cushions and gave it a spin. I'm one of those often wary of…

This week’s most anticipated release.... and with the global buildup they’re sort of the Tyson – Lewis of psychedelic trance. X-Dream are back and here to furth…

Boris Blenn has been on the trance scene wince most of us were still in short trousers. His Electric Universe project is sweet melodic psy, and what it lacks in…

A nice doublesider on Freeform packed with Germanic goodness. The Space Safari mix is a smooth, percussive prog-psy tune with twisted vocal samples and cute lit…

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

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…

Somewhere along the line, Gabriel le Mar went off on one. Evident on his previous two albums Gab’s Lab and Gab’s Gift, he found a style all of his own, and alwa…

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…

Every so often, an ablum comes along that blows you away. And this, ladies and germs, is one of them. Fünf D’s second solo album is the most delightful soup…

Crisp, clean, and at the highest possible level of production quality, The Delta stand out as one of the central ambassadors to the evolving sound of psyched…

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…