Israel

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…

Shulman’s third album is frustrating. While it shows how his sound has evolved and become more mature since his last album, there’s not enough new and interes…

An ambitious project – progressive trance with more live instruments than you can shake a Nord at. While it’s an interesting idea, much of Not Responding To L…

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…

Holy fuck. Holy fuck on a pogo stick. Holy fuck on a pogo stick whistlin’ dixie all the live long day. This, ladies and germs, is an absolute masterpiece. Blu…

Second album from Sesto-sidekick in “mostly quite good” shocker. Recorded with Aquatica, Deeper Level is a pretty stellar bit of rinse-u-like trance mania ma…

Live-band psytrance fusion from Israel, with tight sounds and a clean, electro-ey feel right the way through. When the fusion works best (Ozric and Astralias…

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…

DJ Bog is a good DJ. He plays all over the place. He is one half of this project along with Bizarre Contact. Who also gets to play all over the world. La La L…

Nightshift (Remix) has a nice baggy groove to it, sounding like normal psytrance but with the belt loosened a couple of notches. It takes a while to build up…

Bit of an oddity this one. My guess is you have already made up your mind whether a four-track EP by Infected Mushroom is something you really need. The only…

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…

I must say I was really confused about how to review this. It’s too easy to make wide, cheap shots at this because most of us hate vocals in trance; but then…

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…

I will admit to having quite a lot of time for Sesto. Chiefly because their tunes are varied, and because they have funny bits in them. I like funny bits. I…

A mishmash of different styles and sounds all by one guy. Now, this could easily be bad (imagine skazi doing something similar?) but it works and because of…

The first fullon album from Israel in months that psyreviews can recommend with a straight face, this collaboration between Hujaboy and his mate Uri is a…

Any artist album that’s got a mostly nighttime bent is a tricky beast – it’s either got to be dazzlingly intricate (see Megalopsy) or varied and wide enough s…

Blanka has been one of my favourite Israeli producers recently, thanks to good work on recent compilations, and I could hardly wait to get my teeth into this.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Christ on a farken bratwurst. This folks, is just painful. Psysex were (are still? Maybe) a pretty decent act. Come In Peace was interesting, and still sounds…

I suspect this album will only sound as good as how much sunshine there is when you’re playing it. The third album from Cosmic Tone doesn’t have much daylight…

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…

If you’re familiar with Lish’s earlier output, prepare for a departure from their previous gnarlier vibe. It’s headed more in a morning progressive trance dir…

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…

Originally released in 1997 on Symbiosis records, this reissue puzzled me a bit. Back then, Orion was Jean Borelli and Mino Vaknin, who since left and it’s o…

Crikey. You think you’ve heard big melodies, and then this. Clearly one to avoid if you’re Azax Syndrom’s mum, this is all about massive – and I mean massive…

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…

This is a bit of a puzzling album. Echotek’s (nicely produced) second album is full of a glistening, liquid sound that’s twisty yet flowing. When it works, it…

I missed Time Lock’s album last year, and the chief surprise for me is that Felix used to be in PPS Project. Evidence of that hard gnarly style is still here,…

By his own admission on the interview Fatali did with Psyreviews (plug plug, linky linky, www.psyreviews.com/features) this album was written for playing at…

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.…

If you think there’s not been enough raw 303 power in psytrance lately, the idea of this will delight you. If you think there’s been too many dodgy vocals in…

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…

Hang on a second… a release only on vinyl? In 2004? Hmm. This is confusing. Props to BNE for releasing on this format, because finally vinyl DJs will have s…

(ed) Ethnic electro here from Israel, and Yuval K.dar sets down the beats for vocalist Dganit Daddo who's star(fish?) is a multi-talented actor. Apparently.…

Previous Virtual Trance releases have been good, consistent compilations that never really got the credit or recognition they deserved. The eight tracks, comp…

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…

BLT is the superhero trance alter-ego of Yuli Fershtat, who trivia monkeys may like to know is currently studying his final year in Chinese Medicine. Fancy…

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…

Double Impact – Zero – Lunamusic (Israel) Lunamusic’s debut release sees the return of the legendary Eddie Mis, guesting with Guy Landen, Rai Cohen-Alloro and…

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…

Space Cat – Power Up – BNE / YoYo (Israel) The recent single rocked, I love Space Cat, and that cute postmodern Japanese influenced artwork on the cover looks…

Whoops. Must admit, was rather excited to hear of an Atmos mix from Phonokol. Even though it followed Yahel’s tragic Mixing In Action release last year (thos…

Old Avi Algranati came from relative obscurity a few years ago and made a huge splash on the trance scene with his no-frills, kick-ass psychedelic trance. His t…

This oddly-titles, oddly-packaged and (spiritually) oddly-scented release from Shulman is a delight. Whether you like to think of it as one man’s soundtrack…

Politically, this album is a bit sensitive. Alien Project had signed up to two albums with Phonokol, and after last year’s potent Midnight Sun, decided to wo…

Since appearing on USTA’s compilation Dig It, Lish have quietly been making waves and debut album Dejavoodo is a smack-in-the-face entry to the scene. The title…

You may remember a couple of weeks ago, Yahel’s Private Collection EP was reviewed here and got quite a lukewarm reception – cos we knew he was capable of so…

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…

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…