Ramin Vol. II* - Brainticket

I remember hearing this record for the first time at the Parkcafe in Munich (beginning of 1992). It wasn't until minutes before going into the giant Hall of the 1992 Mayday in Berlin, while searching through a crate of records at a big record store (it might have been the now defunct Virgin Megastore), that I finally deviced the precious piece of vinyl.

This is one of those tracks that is hard to describe unless you are actually dancing to it in some obscure underground bunker at 5 AM.

This is the real meat. Dark trance of the good stripe, class of 1992. Too bad Goa, psytrance and the like gave a bad name to what was one of the most promising styles at the beginning of the previous decade.

Brainticket was definitely the ticket to new regions of your brain. Remembering very well the night at the famous 'Dorian Gray' club in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) when I heard it for the first time (1992). This record has so much atmosphere like only a handful others from these times. It was (no doubt!) definitely one of the milestones of hardhouse and trance music and I was lucky enough to buy the record from some mailorder list in those times. If you like atmospheric trance music it's a must-have - the intro will give you already a decent goosebumps shower :)

The original mix of 'Brainticket' was really a track for the mysterious morning-hours, when all the LSD- and Extasy-experienced clubbers could discover new feelings and moments! Very dark and mysterious - and very very cool!!!!