At its best this is a super fun, relatively minimal, super ravey trance record. Quite different from Hallucinogen and I would perhaps not seek it out as much for at-home listening, but pretty dope. This includes 1-2 despite both tracks overextending a little bit in the last couple minutes, and 5 which is the peak of the record imo and a jam. For the most part this is more of the same style, but with tracks that spread their ideas way too thin and offer a couple really cool sections among heaps of passable stuff with some questionable melodies here and there. That goes for 3,4,6,7, although the last third on 7 is quite cool. At its worst, this record offers a conclusion that just seems unnecessary and fillery. After one hour of ravey trance, the record gets slower, less energic and more introspective - and I just don't think that's the right moment to switch to that. Shame because at a higher tempo the melody midtrack of 8 would be quite dope, but yeah those two last tracks are weak - at some point it sounds like a cat stepped on the sequencer or something. The end of the record is pretty cool I'll give you that, but I don't see myself rec'ing this to someone who isn't a trance fan already. 3.1
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