Flying Rhino Records

Nice label, get everything from them, specially in this era of crap trance music.

Flying Rhino Records was primarily focused on releasing EPs in beginning. Pleiadians, Green Nuns Of The Revolution, Technossomy - all these genre-defining groups released their best EPs on this label. All their vinyls had really nice design, so when it comes to EPs, Flying Rhino was probably the most successful Goa Trance label back in the days along with TIP Records and Matsuri Productions.
On the other hand, albums released on Flying Rhino cannot be considered as essential. Technossomy's Synthetic Flesh from 1997 had some great tracks, but they were already released before on their EPs. New tracks were just an average tracks. Similar is with GNOTR's Rock Bitch Mafia from same year. This album included tracks released few years before that on many releases, and new tracks were not nearly good (I don't even like some of them). I would probably have more respect for these two albums if they included remixes of old tracks instead of original versions. Darshan's Awakening from 1998 was nice album, but not essential. Their second album Spectra from 1999 was disappointment, not because it wasn't Goa Trance anymore, it just wasn't good enough (track named same as album is pretty decent though). Label tried to move to more Progressive side of Trance and that's where they failed. Blue Planet Corporation was the only ex Goa Trance project that had some success in that, maybe because Gabriel Masurel still had Goa flavor in his production. Blue Planet album from 1999 is label's best release from this period, but still not good as BPC's old releases.
When it comes to VA compilations, ones that were released between 1995 and 1997 are pure Goa Trance, rest is pretty much combination of Progressive Trance and hybrid Psy-Trance from late 90's and early 00's. Main problem with their compilations is that most of them included tracks that were released few times until then already. As far as I know, there are only two Goa Trance compilations from this label that didn't include previously released tracks: Boyd In The Void (1995) and First Flight (1996) which is considered as one of best Goa Trance compilations ever released.
It's interesting that not only label shut down in 2002, but all major Flying Rhino's projects stopped producing new material around that time as well (Darshan, Slinky Wizard, BPC), and some even before (GNOTR, Technossomy). I wish they stayed on same track and didn't follow the trends of late 90's, I am sure that we would have more great Goa Trance releases from them.