Drop acid not bombs!

That would be an adequate sum up of this quintessential old school goa trance classic. It's one of the unquestionable pinnacles of the golden era, overloaded with energy, wild attitude and plenty of skills to carry out all those mad ideas!

Neil Cowley, Matt Coldrick and Richard Trevor, three obvious wackos unite under the alias The Green Nuns Of The Revolution, and deliver an album which in my opinion has in tact all the elements which mark a true classic.

Well thought out melodies, samples which are actually funny and don't get on one's nerves after the fourth listen, tracks which are simultaneously mentally tweaked out, intelligent and dance floor orientated, occasional intrusions of electric guitars which once and for all prove that psy trance and guitar riffs can go hand in hand, unpredictable musical structures, always in pursue of edge and challenge rather than conventionality. In addition to all of the above, the entire album is nonchalantly plunged into a universe of hopping mad acid synth lines.

Whatever it might be that you, or anybody else, associate old school goa trance with, chances are you'll find what you're looking for on "Rock Bitch Mafia". It's one of those albums where the final results meet the expectations, where the hype is justified, where the praise is not overblown and the often unmerited -classic- tag is spot on. Pity is, due to its immense quality, this remains to this day a very sought after album, relatively hard to come by, so some potential customers might get turned away by the astronomical prices it fetches on eBay auctions.
It remains however an album which is well worth your money, and similar releases in this niche I can recommed are Prana's sophmore album "Geomantik", "Dragon Tales" by Koxbox, Ominus self titled album, and/or some synth heavy tracks by Technossomy, and especially the old school vinyl releases by Slinky Wizard on Flying Rhino Records.

This trio with this curious name was amongst the foremost artists in the heyday of goa. Soon this act became famous for their full-on, mad & fast acid infected trance. This unfortunately short lived act gave us only one full length album. Here are eight tracks which will make you play this album over and over again the first time you hear it, or at least this is what happened to me.

Album starts with the track Cor! Sleeve says it’s an unreleased edit, but from what I can hear it’s the same as on Tip Singles which presumably was released before this album. Then comes Thunder Thighs, and after one of their most famous singles “Conflict”. This appeared as a single on TIP together with Cor in 1995. Next comes “Octofunk”, a lesser acidic and somewhat less intense tune which has some funky melody indeed. Album continues with another super hit, “Ring Of Fire”. Originally this came out on the The Afterburner EP on the same Flying Rhino in 1995. After this comes “Klunk”, a track which samples voices from the Wacky Races cartoon. Gotta love the way the voice samples are used randomly :) Next comes “Rock Bitch”. This track can be found as a radio edit on the super wanted “Green Nunions EP” in 1998, which is sadly their last release. Here however comes in full length version as had appeared on a couple of compilations before.

The last track however is the biggest surprise. Originally named just “Atomic Armadillo” on the compilation “Boyd In The Void” on Flying Rhino in 1995, here it re-appears twice as long as originally and is half full-on and half downtempo! It closes this album in great style.

A masterpiece of an album that today’s artist only dream of doing!