Cosmosis - Synergy

I wonder what medication Bilbo Bagginz was prescribed when he wrote Intergalactic Fluoro Funkster and Spores From Space (co-written with Jim Cheese), but I wanna have the same doc! I've heard a lot Cosmosis material in the past, but nothing as psychedelic as this. Holy fuck! The arrangement is just amazing. Psychedelic, fascinating, and trippy with layers added from beginning to end. Honestly, I never expected Bilbo to have the balls to write such tracks, but I stand pleasantly corrected :o)!

These two highlights aside a number of other nice psychedelic tracks loom around here. Opening track The Ultimate Sin is quite pleasant, though I dislike the Sample (is it another Tim Leary sample on a Cosmosis album?), and Higher Access also climbs a step or two up my psychedelic ladder of success. Nothing comes close to the psychic mayheem on track 2 and 3, however. Get them and prepare to be dazzled.

And a note of observation. At the end of the album there's a hidden track after a couple of minutes of silence. This consists of some guys talking about how to change the pitch and speed of the music while Hardfloor's amazing "Acperience" is playing in the background. In the words of one Butthead: "Ehrm .. okay!?"

Looking at the psychedelic quality of this album, it is the all-time high of Bill Halsey's work - the absolute peak. He's never gotten more psychedelic than on this album. Patterns come and go, morph and twist and spiral into each other, its close to unbelievable how one comes after the other, really leaves you breathless. Moonshine alone is such a great track, but the rest does not stand behind. I find it very nice that the bass doesn't stand out so very much, giving the music a much more fluent and less edgy, not so typically techno-esque appearance. If there's a 10/10 psytrance album out there - for me, "Synergy" is it.