New Frontiers Gidi Hovek Olam - Underground Sound of Tel Aviv
Various Artists
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 reating more minimal and tecchy trance, Israels producers have flipped the focus from macrocosm to microcosm, but in a different way. New Frontiers demonstrates how you can go deep, stay deep, and party deep. Psycrafts West Side is a spacey, textured number that kicks things off nicely. DJ Gidi teams up with trance darling Alien Project on Beatwins UFO, and it rocks it really comes alive with shifting sounds, together beats and all the emotion and energy of a classic. Human Blues Moods is one of the deepest tunes of the lot, and its awesome the perfect balance of sounds draws you right in, and youre literally left guessing where itll take you. Also worthy of note is Soap Bubbles by Sesto Sento, a harder offering than most of the others but hell, its scary, and when it breaks into a friendly synth line your feet are stomping and youre glad to still be alive. All these tracks are unreleased, and its definitely worth investigating as a snapshot of the Israeli scene as 2001 draws to a close.
