A hair of the dog that bit me! I woke up this morning somewhat stoned and wanted to see if it would be possible to rejuvenate yesterday's high by putting some goa-trance back on. A hair of the dog that bit me, as Jack Nicholson says to bartender Jeeves in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining".

My choice for the experiment became this newly acquired 1998 compilation out on High Society. So how is the experiment working out?

Well, the deciding factor for me to order this cd was the inclusion of X-Dream's remix of E-Rection's Out Here We Are Stoned and this collaboration doesn't let me down. Melodic, aggressive, and psychedelic, all at once, and with the sample on top to laugh your ass off to. Classic X-Dream material.

Besides this some other tracks that comes to mind are Bodh Gaya's Dream Machine and Paradise Connection's (Boris Blenn aka Electric Universe) Synthadelic Glide. Closing track Cloned by Drop & Dash ain't bad either. Besides these, however, this isn't going to be my favourite compilation. A little unimaginative, perhaps, this just sounds like stuff I've heard dozens of times elsewhere, and the tracks have a hard time grabbing me.

So, overall, how did the experiment work out? Well, I'd still say it's possible to press the pause button, pick up the trance stik where it was left, and bring back yesterday's high. Even if not all the tracks here spin me right back into orbit, there are no far fetched fillers. And perhaps a track like Akasha Projekt's 10 minutes+ long Smiling Doors is nothing but a big challenge. You have to be cool to get it and, well, you know how that might be a little easier the night before ... ;o)!

Anyway, even if all the tracks here don't work maybe I just need to play something else! Enjoy.