Total Eclipse - Delta Aquarids

Label:

Blue Room Released

Catalog#:

BR002CD

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

Dec 1995

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

Goa Trance

Tracklist

1	Hit And Run	6:12
2	Blade Runner	8:11
3	Age Of Reason	7:25
	Engineer, Programmed By, Mixed By - Jody Sherry Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke , Stephen Holweck*
4	Free Lemonade	5:49
	Written-By - Stephen Holweck*
5	Ms Frankenstein	7:50
6	The Crucible	7:02
	Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke
7	Le Lotus Bleu	7:51
	Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke
8	Bad Data	5:22
	Engineer, Programmed By, Mixed By - Jody Sherry Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke , Stephen Holweck*
9	Can't Do That	8:09
	Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke
10	Nautilus	6:36
11	Δ9	4:14
	Written-By - Loïc Van Poucke , Stephen Holweck*

Credits

Artwork By [Cover Design] - Mark Allin , Simon Ghahary
Photography [Kirlian] - Nigel Garion
Producer, Engineer, Programmed By, Mixed By - Total Eclipse
Written-By - Serge Souque (tracks: 1 to 5, 7 to 11)

Notes

3, 8: Recorded at Butterfly Studios, Brixton, London.
All other tracks recorded at the Total Eclipsed Studio in Hastignan France.
9: Δ = Delta

Total time: 74:48 - EFA 69002-2

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Rated 5/5

Review by Josephschembri Aug 13, 2006 (edited 22 days ago)

The first album by one of the Godfathers of the genre. Alongside artist like Hallucinogen, Astral Projection, Man With No Name and The Infinity Project, Total Eclipse with releases on labels like TIP Records, Blue Room Released and Dragonfly Records are the creators of the true Goa Trance sound from back in the days.

Delta Aquarids contains eleven tracks which today sound a bit dated unfortunately, but one has to appreciate the quality of these tracks. Amongst the best tracks some highlights are Free Lemonade, Le Lotus Bleu, Can’t Do That, The Crucible and Blade Runner. Tracks are simple in texture when compared especially to their second album “Violent Relaxation” in 1996; but all tracks are nice, and each track has that unmistakeable Total Eclipse sound.

Surprisingly this album lacks their best track ever, the 1994 “Waiting For A New Life”, which is also the second release on the legendary TIP Records. This track is almost 10 minutes long so two tracks would have had to be left out from this album for it to fit. This album though contains a lot of tracks which weren't released elsewhere so leaving the mentioned track out was probably the right move.

Luckily this album has been reissued in 2005 on Inpsyde Media so it’s easily availaible. Don’t let it go away. If you don’t have it, buy it now. Delta Aquarids is one of the highlights of the genre. To point that like a majority of Blue Room Released releases artwork is horrible but don’t let that put you off.