Various - Gaia 7 / 8

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Various ‎– Gaia 7 / 8

Label:
Gaia Tonträger – GAIA 7, Gaia Tonträger – GAIA 8
Format:
2 × CD, Compilation
Country:
Germany
Released:
Jul 1994
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Trance, Techno, Goa Trance, Acid

Tracklist Hide Credits

  GAIA 7
1-1 Mandra Gora – Everything's Going Fine
Written-By – J.Bley*
9:03
1-2 X-Tron – Shiva
Written-By – M.Kurihara*
6:45
1-3 P.O.T. Evolution – Peyote
Written-By – A.Roll*
10:10
1-4 Digital Island – Cosmic Ocean
Written-By – B.Blenn*
7:00
1-5 Moon Dust* – Are We Alone?
Written-By – Cosmix, Rough & Rush
10:30
1-6 Rave Base – Electeaser
Written-By – C.Zippel*
5:50
1-7 Brainman – Spiral Energy
Written-By – H.Valetisch*
5:45
1-8 L.S.G. – Blueprint
Written-By – O.Lieb*
9:05
1-9 Cybersnack – Inner Chi
Written-By – Cybersnack
10:10
  GAIA 8
2-1 Source Experience, The – Atoms
Written-By – Robert Leiner
7:45
2-2 G.La Tortue* – Salinas
Written-By – G.Berard*
9:45
2-3 Motor Bass* – Hypnabesses
Written-By – Etienne 2C*, Philippe Z*
6:10
2-4 S.M.I.L.E. – Zeta-Riticuli
Written-By – R.Sommer*
6:25
2-5 Block Four* – Quartz
Written-By – Block Four*
7:50
2-6 Huichol* – Be Nice
Written-By – A.Roll*, Sangeet*
8:20
2-7 Voov – Helium Hi
Written-By – Voov
5:55
2-8 Drax – Doors Of Perception
Written-By – T.P.Heckmann*
6:50
2-9 Acme (5) – Ayahuasca 303
Written-By – Acme (5)
9:40
2-10 Goto (2) – Basic
Written-By – M.Laine*
5:05

Credits

Notes

The CD trays of the double jewel case are in orange like the cover and the print on the CD's glows in the dark.

1-5 is known elsewhere as simply "Are We Alone".

BPM's on cover:
Disc 1 - 138, 135, 138, 140, 132, 141, 144, 130, 136.
Disc 2 - 138, 135, 131, 141, 131, 138, 144, 120, 134, 120.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 4017659804220
  • Other (Label Code): LC 4571

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Rated 4/5
Review by Josephschembri Apr 26, 2009
Disc 1 (Gaia 7) can be labelled as the Goa/Trance side. The opener “Everything's Going Fine” is one of the first tracks by Johann Bley, originally released by this label in 1994 and licensed to TIP Records for their first compilation Yellow a year after. The version on the TIP compilation is shorter though, so CD speaking this wonderful track appears only in full length on Gaia 7 + 8. Track 2 is by Japanese artist X-Tron and is again very nice. Boris Blenn gives us track 4, a wonderful melodic track very reminiscent of the style he became famous for later in 1995. The track is short but the melodic build-up is instant. Track 5 is by a one-time collaboration between X-Dream and DJ Cosmix. This is one of my favourite old Goa tracks; maybe because I had this on tape though. “Are We Alone” is a very dreamy tune, hence the name maybe. This track is very much unknown since it didn’t make it on more easily accessible CD’s. Track 6 is a Hard-trance tune. It’s rough when compared to the rest, but still fits perfectly in-between. It’s 1994 after all, back then we didn’t make much distinction between styles. Being it Techno, Trance, Goa, Acid or Hard-Trance, it was all one big family of music unless you dropped the Prodigy in-between ;) Brainman gives us track 7. “Spiral Energy” would be the first appearance by this artist who would later release for TIP Records. Like most of his later material, this is no big track. German Trance legend Olivier Lieb is behind track 9, another great old Trance song. The end track by Cybersnack has a long intro until a beat drops after several minutes and has the famous “Turn on, tune in, drop out” sample.

Disc 2 is very different from disc 1. Gaia 8 could be labelled the Techno/Acid side. It’s starts off with Robert Leiner’s hypnotic tune, followed by the minimalistic and repetitive Techno tune by Guillaume La Tortue. Contributing are also classic artists like Voov and Thomas P. Heckmann, the latter’s track is a weird breakbeat/acidic trippy experiment.

The sound lacks a lot, even when considering it’s 1994, it’s really poor. Most tracks sound extremely dated and poorly produced but there are still gems deserved to be listened here.

This is far from an essential release, it’s more of a collectors item IMO.
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