Cosmosis ‎– Trancendance

This album lands somewhere between full-on and psychedelic with a leaning towards the former. And I enjoy most of the musical parts here. Even Bill's take on New Order's Blue Monday (track 7 Re-Order) aint bad, though being a cover of a classic track it may come border cheesy here and there. Closing track, the chilled Tim's Trip aside, the rest though is quality dance-oriented music with an eye for psychedelic FX. Generally Bill succeeds with this project in a much more interesting manner than your typical Israeli full-on album.

The reason for me not to be much more infatuated with this album is Bill's insane love for corny samples this time around. I believe he's used Tim Leary before and I suspect it is once again Tim that is featured on track 6 Stormy Monday.

I wonder what's going through an artist's head when he decides to use skindeep meaningfull samples. Okay, now I'm gonna use a funny sample to completely ridicule people trying to border Psychedelia?! It sure as hell totally ruins my concentration in a track, when I'm trying to have it lift me, to have Tim Leary go: "It was a dark and stormy Monday, just like any other Monday, except for the sunny ones, or the partly clouded ones, or the ones with the golden version layer (?) and 30 pct chance of percipitation". Am I supposed to laugh? Or a sample like "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood." I'm laughing my ass off as I leave the dancefloor.

Alas, if you don't mind samples like the above and you want some quality European full-on, Trancendance is your album. If you, like me, cannot stand meaningless samples, stear clear. Each and every track here is haunted by them.