Not your typical goa! Rather than going over the top with big riffs, Ciaran Walsh composes real trance music, with the emphasis on hypnotic patterns. Like the Blue Room Released material, this album has a futuristic sound, but with an unprecedented sinister touch. Melodies that are evil yet playful. I've never been anything other than sober whilst listening to this but it does seem to be communicating something uncanny, putting you in a state you're intimately familiar with but lack the vocabulary to describe, like a half-remembered dream. It's the Black Lodge in music form.

So it has atmosphere to burn. Does it work on the dance floor? IMHO, it entirely does. The basslines are groovy as all hell (elastic bang, indeed) and the drums are surprisingly hip tugging for old school goa trance. These are tight, intelligent grooves with a wide amount of variety between them, serving as a vital component of the music rather than being tacked on as an afterthought.

Along with Chris Gannon (Polyploid) and Matt Buggins (Acid Rockers, Red Back), Walsh is one of those overlooked, underappreciated British trance composers with a singular vision of future music. Perhaps too subtle for most, but if you're on the right wavelength, there really isn't a better trippy goa album.