Another (over) wanted Goa-trance album.

“Awakening” can be defined as the soundtrack of space. Imagine yourself travelling into the infinity of space, entering new dimensions in flying machines we always dreamt about, Awakening would be the perfect sound. This album is packed with sci-fi samples, dark creepy melodies occasionally and long passages of intros and outros which make you feel you’re travelling millions of light-years away.

Unfortunately tracks suffer from using the same formula however. On any given track there is no innovation. There’s little of what can be defined as true melody; except on “Tranceformations” which however ends quickly and abruptly after gathering a huge momentum. This could be the best track. Yet each track is so luring, possibly because the way each track starts and progresses initially makes you think it’s going to evolve into something huge, but no track really does.

Having been released on the legendary Flying Rhino Records is certainly the key why this release is so wanted and so hard to find (the CD, not the vinyl is rare – and the vinyl lacks two tracks one of which is Tranceformations sadly)

How much is worth spending on getting this I don’t know, but it’s still a nice album to have in hand and gaze at on your shelves. I’m sure it has its moments too and played at the right time it can send you there where you always dreamt to be; in space.

Dark, deep sci-fi tech trance. This is not full-on psy, it is more a deep psy tech sort of sound. Grant Collins and Mark Robinson used to produce house music before they went on to create Darshan. This LP mostly lives up to the singles released mostly on Flying Rhino, but isn't as strong as some of the releases. They got progressively darker and tighter with their sound in tracks like "Black Magic" on The Black Rhino, their sophomore LP "Spectra" and with the "Digital Damage" single.