I hate the fake trancey stuff offered on this long double album. Chunky sounds and choppy synth sounds show little effort on the 140+ bpm tunes. The slow paced ones are listenable day in and day out. Diamond Ring Effect was instantly given repeated listens. Blue Galaxie had to grow on me. The album starts out violently fast and gradually relaxes to nothingness. This stuff is not really goa nor is it psychedelic. It is more like happy trance into ambient trance.

The perfect psychedelic trance album? Author – Total Eclipse; 2 discs; one full-on, the other laid back. Then it could be a perfect psychedelic journey yes. Side one delivers the mind-blowing trance you would expect from Total Eclipse in those days. Lots of synths and melodies coupled with weird background sounds and a beat which is yes stomping but often surprisingly compatible with other more laid back trance due to the warm and melancholic melody typical of this trio. Tracks 1 to 8 are all heavy; “Blue Galaxie” (9) however closes in minimal downtempo fashion.

Side 2 opens with the 10 minute long “Espanolizer”, my fav on this side. There seems to be some Spanish guitar here, and a very gentle piano note. The journey continues with the faster “The Pendulum”, and 3 and 4 are even faster. There are no breaks on these tracks neither pure ambient music. All have infact a 4/4 kick except the closing track “Gravity Mirage”. This track has a very tricky beat. Often you think a 4/4 beat is coming but instead it is broken again after three or so kicks.

Aah…. and for whom (like me) missed it the first time around, the good news is that it has been re-issued in 2003 on Avatar.