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Quickies
Space Designer
CDR (Israel)
Polaris around with people’s For me, this has been one of the most
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Neurobiotic (Italy)
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melodies, instead opting teased me months back by sending me
This is a very well produced for cleverly programmed the lead and I’ve worn the CD out! Fatali
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(
label@joof.co.uk)
album, with that tight, twisted sounds and fall slap-bang in the middle of
sharp, crisp production atmospheres. progressive and full-on, having a very
that we all love. Now under
g,
the wing of Neurobiotic,
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unique serious sound. Here you’ll find
the best of both worlds on this album —
P
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this should give you an Duca fast rolling basslines delivered in a
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indication of the direction After Dark smoother deep way. The melodies are
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musically. Nice and deep,
Tribal Vision (Czech Republic)
just mindblowing and simply trance-out
but still driving. I love the brave approach the dancefloor. Collabs with Astral
of Tribal Vision; they’re not Projection and Sun Project are the icing
or
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afraid to experiment. This on the cake. A very serious album.
t
hing, W Audiomatic is progressive delivered in a
Undefined completely different way,
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MONE
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Frequencies but that is a good thing. Dino Psaras Chakra
. Susse
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Spin Twist (Germany)
Quite minimal and blippy Where Words Fail, music Cross over
These guys are from the in places, but the punters Speaks
HOMmega (Israel)
x,
progressive camp, and this love it. Sounds great on a
Farm Records (Japan)
Wow, what can I say, apart from it’s
album is damn good. huge soundsystem. Dino is one of the original and most about bloody time we had this
Certainly produced to mess
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loved people in this scene. His fun album released. The past few years
character is reflected not only in his live we’ve been teased with killer
sets but in his music. He’s forever singles and remixes on various
reinventing himself, which makes him compilations (mine included), then
just as fresh with every album. I’ve lost made to wait months for this
track of how many albums he’s released, exclusive remix of Planshere’s classic album. Rami Shapira has certainly
but this one is a cracker. There’s a whole ‘Hosanna’, for me the gem of the album. come up with the goods and yes,
range of goodies here, including the the wait is well worth it. Chakra is a
electro influenced ‘Fashion’ and
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true veteran at his game, proving
‘Stripper’ that are as beefy as hell. Then Push himself as one of the best
everything is thrown at us on ‘Perfume’ Strange World producers on this planet - ‘Opacity’
and ‘Out Of My Head’ — full-on madness
Banshee Worx (Belgium)
is a true work of emotional art.
with fat rollin’ basslines and clever It’s okay, don’t panic, you haven’t ‘Pretenders’ and ‘X-Files’,
crescendos. A whole DJ set in one picked up a copy of DJ magazine from meanwhile, have killed every
album! 1999 and are reading an old review. Also dancefloor I’ve tried them on, both
*****
what on earth is Push doing being exploding with energy. He’s a
reviewed on the psy-trance page? So if I musical genius, creating this epic
Dancefloor destroyer!
Whirloop told you Astral Projection have just album.
Watch The Skies and Keep remixed one of the greatest trance
Ace VenturA
Looking anthems of all-time, would that get you
*****
JOOF Recordings (UK)
as excited as me, when I ran around the
Israel
Whirloop from Gothenburg, Sweden, room screaming when it landed in my
has always been a firm favourite at JOOF server? Yes, they have remixed it, and peak-time full-on lovers, with candy
HQ, hence why we’re excited to release yes, it’s the biggest bloody track of 2008 moments throughout. The star of the
Perfect Stranger this, his second artist album. His sound so far! The Astral boys have made an show is an interesting remix of Digicult
Free Cloud falls between psy-trance and regular anthem of an anthem — it’s massive! vs Fatali ‘The Return’. Alpha F manages
Iboga (Denmark)
trance, with a sprinkle of techno,
“Perfect Stranger takes progressive trance to uncharted ensuring all his productions are
*****
to keep the quality of the original yet
adds an uplifting flavour — very well
territories with this gem of an album. Mixing techno and swamped with quality. Don’t expect any Various Artists done. Then things go crazy with tracks
minimal with progressive like no-one has done before, thrills or spills, this album is aimed dead orientation from U-Reckon, Sufi and the Nemesis
this will raise the bar for artist albums. squarely at the more serious
Dacru (Belgium)
remix of the Alternative Control boys. In
“There are eight tracks that are all smooth and intelligent underground dancefloors, and is the Another one of those Various Artist all, great value for money — 10 tracks of
floor fillers, from the minimalistic ‘Easy’ and ‘Free Cloud’ sound of a producer making music from compilations, packed with a whole madness!
to the progressive trance anthems ‘No 1’ and ‘W.’” his heart. As a bonus, you’ll find an range of goodies. This one’s aimed at
*****
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