Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy

Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Goa Trance
Year:
1997

Tracklist

Dancing Galaxy 9:18 X
Soundform 8:12 X
Flying Into A Star 9:44 X
No One Ever Dreams 8:25 X
Cosmic Ascension 10:18 X
Life On Mars 9:09 X
Liquid Sun 11:06 X
Ambient Galaxy (Disco Valley Mix) 13:44 X

Versions

Title, FormatLabelCat#CountryYear
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album) Ganesha, Nova Tekk, Nova Tekk GAN-02, NTD 91009-19, NTD CD-91009-19 Germany 1997
Dancing Galaxy (12", Pin) Transient Records TRA037 UK 1997
Dancing Galaxy (2xLP, Album) Transient Records TRANR612LP UK 1997
Dancing Galaxy (2xLP, Promo, Album) Transient Records TRANR612LP PROMO UK 1997
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album) Transient Records TRANR612 CD UK 1997
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album) Why Not Records WHYCD006 Sweden 1997
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album) Trust In Trance Records, Phonokol T.I.T. CD 012, 2089-2 Israel 1997
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album) Blue Moon Productions HQ BMCD002 Taiwan 1997
Dancing Galaxy (CD, Album + CD, Mini) Cutting Edge CTCR-17033 Japan 1997
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by Tennant Dec 07, 2009 (edited 4 days ago)

referencing Dancing Galaxy, CD, Album, TRANR612 CD

This, in my opinion, is Astral Projection's greatest album... and that's saying something. In the late 1990s they were really one of the best Psy/Goa acts and this is their peak release, well worth the money just for the title track and its awesome remix alone. Trust in Trance is also great, as is Another World to a lesser extent, but those releases are not quite as engaging, complex and acidic as this one! "The spice is vital to space travel... Travel without moving" which is what this album will make you do.

In a nutshell, this is a goa ESSENTIAL! Astral Projection were amongst the top of the game and this is their best release. Booyah!

Also note that this is the longest CD I have ever seen, clocking in at 79:57... packed to the brim with quality, and great to brag about to your friends who like half the tracks on a 40 minute indie album.
Review by testuser01 Apr 11, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

referencing Dancing Galaxy, CD, Album, TRANR612 CD

This is a good (but not the best) psy trance album from the leading artists of the genre.
The real gem here in my opinion is the 8th track - "Ambient Galaxy (Disco Valley Mix) (13:44)". WOW, what a track !
This acid ambient piece is the one that can really make you go into trance. The whole album is worth bying just for that track.
Review by pedro1985 Apr 05, 2007 (edited over 2 years ago)

referencing Dancing Galaxy, CD, Album, TRANR612 CD

When someone ask me: "what is your favourite album?" I always have one and only one answer: "Dancing Galaxy" from Astral Projection. "Dancing Galaxy" is absolutely and definetely the album of my life. This is CD is perfect on every way. We have a tracks here that are creating beautiful and psychedelic journey beyond the space. Every track here is excellent, every track here is a pure goa classic and every track here is immortal. I will listen this CD to my death and after my death... Before I discovered Astral Projection I never supposed that music would be the passion of my life.
Rated 5/5
Review by septiq Oct 02, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

referencing Dancing Galaxy, 2xLP, Album, TRANR612LP

That´s the base and the best album from Astral Projection ever compiled. Of course every album from Astral Projection is colossal, but you can find the most tracks with delightful tunes just on Dancing Galaxy. Melodical hard stuff. Zinger for DJs! But maybe antiquarianism piece for goa freaks, who barely fetch out this record from the cover sleeve.
Rated 5/5
Review by SkeletonMan Apr 22, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

referencing Dancing Galaxy, CD, Album, T.I.T. CD 012, 2089-2

One of four essential releases by the Astral boys (the others are Trust In Trance, Astral Files, and Another World).

Well, if you ask me these guys were pretty much walking on water back in the midnineties and this album another notch in their belt of classic psytrance releases. My favourite here could be opening track Dancing Galaxy, but then that might just be because I know what I am in for the following some 70 minutes after this.

DG is still widely available and I urge any psytrance fan to get it. This could easily be the easiest & cheapest value-for-money psytrance purchase you will ever make.

No home should be without it.
Review by Floriann Mar 19, 2003

referencing Dancing Galaxy, CD, Album, TRANR612 CD

If you like strong synths, funky voices, good routine and your trance pretty much hard......this is the album for ya! I think this is the album, every trance lover would like to have but can't seem to find!!! The music is vivid making anyone want to dance throughout the whole album :) Personally I cant come to terms why ap haven't become succesful like paul van dyk, carl cox or tiesto etc but anyways!
The music in this album varies from psychadelic, goa and even progressive trance! The best track in my opinion(the best track of ap as well) is without any doubt liquid sun! A true classic! The song makes you go crazy whilst at the same time makes you relax! The routine of the song is perfect and the strings.....just well garnished! The synths are great and hell I think there are other tracks not of ap's, which are imitated from liquid sun's synths!
Another good track is track 1 - dancing galaxy! It's melody is great (although not given that much importance) and the sample from dune.....yyyyeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!
It's major problem is the beats! Don't get me wrong, they are very good, but the whole album makes use of the same kick and open hihat! That might become lame and uncreative!
Track 8 is the least track which i like! It starts pretty well, but as it continues developing it gets really boring! :(
Anyways I strongly reccomend to anybody who's into electronic music to buy this album! It's a true classic!! Mind my words! ;) I give it a 9/10
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