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It seems that Tip are putting quite a lot of weight behind Hujaboy; much talk of an “outstanding” album in the pipeline, and with the quality of the tracks o…

If you like your fullon psytrance chunky and colourful, then my guess is you’ll like this. Bliss’ sounds are sharp, crisp and well-rounded and, for the most…

Mexican artist Tron has caused quite a few waves already – and this looks set to further the cause. His music is deft, playful – it’s almost as though it’s sl…

Featuring, according to the blurb, some of the artists who will be shaping the new sound of Tip New World next year. Hujaboy’s Psy Babby has a great tecchy fe…

EVP is a bit of a legend on the London underground scene, and it’s easy to see why. This is solid, wall-of-sound party music: think Acid Techno in one room an…

The delta remix of Johann’s Stranded was, back in the day, the original guitar track. Ish. And here we have the comeback album. To say it is littered with gui…

This is an odd one, but I like it. Part with any ideas of this being a followup to Bass, Sweat & Tears: this is more experimental, a kind of industrial/dub/am…

What’s perhaps most significant with this collaboration between Merv Pepler and Will White (respectively halves of Eat Static and The Propellerheads) is that…

After making their mark on the trance side with Build Your Own Reactor, upcoming UK label Liquid Records make a stab at the already-crowded downtempo sector.…

UK duo Voice Of Cod made serious waves with their We Are Free track in 2003. “That Drop” was talked about in hushed tones and caned at loud volumes, and while…

It’s easy to forget that what we on planet psytrance call chillout isn’t really ambient, but more like footnotes to the Planet Dog / Ambient Dub vibe of the e…

Hypersonic’s The Beginning Of A Story is far and away the best of his tunes I’ve heard under this moniker. Opening with moody, Clapton-unplugged-like guitars,…

Intriguingly-named Serious Porn Collector (aka Lek Black, aka NRS, half of RAM, aka ex-Deviant Species’ Paul) is…. well, intriguingly-named. The music here i…

I was excited to hear that Cosmosis was coming up with a new album this year; not just because his albums are, for the most part, fucking killer but also bec…

Surely one of the most exciting labels of 2004 returns with a suitably quirky slab of urban psychedelic mulch, all largely the work of the evil, hamster-thre…

The psytrance equivalent of The Phantom Menace, because people queued for weeks outside outlets just to get hold of a copy. Possibly. Famously available in…

Let’s cut to the chase shall we. Is it any good? (Yeah, it is.) Is it Tip back to the old form again? (Nah. I dunno. Maybe. Look, this is hard for me to com…

Following on from the Last Possible Solution’s outstanding debut release Unhinged, NRS return from a too-long break with an outstanding album of tree-frighte…

Strewth. A new Deviant Species album is pretty major news, and rightly so I reckon. Deviant Species is now only one person (Santos de Castro), as Paul Wright…

Brand new release from a brand new label – and I only need mutter that label manager Paul is ex-Deviant Species, and if I imply through the medium of a shocke…

This blows me away, make no mistake. Regan and Chesh from Cape Town, SA have produced an utter belter, that takes everything and fuses it into a fresh and dis…

Clearly, after Absolute Threshold, even the mugs among us all can see that Dragonfly are back on form with a sound that's better than it's been in years. Compil…

One of the busiest trance jocks on the planet steps forward and lays down what he calls “good full-on party tunes to be played at home” in the first of a sl…

We all need a bit of Alien Project in our lives. After last year’s wonderful Midnight Sun album, and the recent so-so collection of singles, remixes and odd…

Step forward Alien Project for a storming single. Aztechno Dream, title track from the forthcoming album, is a full-on hurricane assault on the dancefloor. Firm…

Dragonfly’s newest darlings, Zen Lemonade, consist of Gus Till and his other half, Super Cozi. The Zen Lemonade project has made waves in the trance scene in th…

German duo Charismatix (Martin Shoenhauer and the mysterious Cybersnack, for those taking notes) have made a lot of waves this year, not least with their recent…

London’s Ambivalent Records, home to Deviant Species, has turned out a moody compilation reminiscent of B-Movie Sci-Fi backdrops. Neural Rectifier’s Electrical…

France’s Bamboo Forest have an album on the way (and naturally the review will appear here just at the right time) and this taster 12″ promises good things to c…

This, folks, is nice. And different. And laid back. And funny. And cute. Frank Bolaers & Brice Berard (let's call them Electroslide) ditch the guitar-friend…

Taken from Transient 9: Regeneration (reviewed next week), Girl FX is a progressive twister with the key resting on spaces between the sounds. Layered like a p…

Logic Bomb- Unlimited – Tip.World (UK) My. This has been a long time coming. Their wicked live sets around the world in recent months have seen them propelled…

Chilled albums were the curse of dance music in 2001. Hidden between the Ministry-Essential-Clubbers Guide chillout releases there were some more underground-fr…

A lovely 12" from the Twisted crew. To recap, Younger Brother is Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle) plus Benji Vaughan Prometheus), in one of the most widel…

This is the "first essential Freestyle compilation" according to the blurb, but judging from the quality of the music on offer, I’d not be surprised if it wa…

Sunfish have graced the stages of many a free festival, and make a likeable blend of crusty-trance that’s half medicine drum and half missing link between Oz…

This quirky little compilation from Sphere moves in a very unique way – and the sounds you’ll hear on this are quite unlike the stuff you’ll hear elsewhere.…

Flying Rhino bring us another instalment in their Singularity series. Featuring about half previously unreleased tracks and half tracks released on artist album…

Opinion is divided on GMS. To some they represent the true kick-ass outdoor mountaintop black chai LSD soup freeparty madness element of the scene. And to other…

Seems to be the norm these days - a smashing compilation gets a CD-only release, and you have to wait weeks before the tracks start appearing on vinyl. Such is…

The fourth Re:Evolution CD from the Flying Rhino stable is in much the same vein as the previous releases – taking a snapshot of where the label’s at in both th…

As one of the better tracks on Dragonfly’s recent A Better Life Through Chemistry, Transparent’s Open The Sky has been cropping up in psychedelic and progressiv…

This is good. Certainly it’s not been far from my ears since it arrived. With a cheeky bit of cover art from Nick Doof, and the CD graphics featuring a big TIP…

Shane Gobi’s London-based label has turned in a tight compilation here, with bags of dark and futuristic energy, and also some of the grinniest, fractal-friendl…

Albums this good don’t come along very often. In fact, you’re unlikely to come across a more rounded, mature, colourful and full-on album this year. Younger Bro…

Chris Organic and the rest of the Organic Records crew have developed an addictive and versatile breed of progressive psychedelic trance. Chris Organic & Prison…

Bass Porridge sees Chris Organic team up with veteran psy DJ Stella Nutella, creating a good solid piece of crossover psychedelic-progressive trance. A smooth,…

Two on offer here, the original mix plus Tristan’s remix, as featured on Dragonfly’s recent A Better Live Through Chemistry compilation. The original version is…

Britain’s Aphid Moon has been steadily making a name for himself lately, and this 12” release on Rhino is damn near essential. A Lot Of Radio is hypnotic and pa…

Celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2002, Dragonfly’s fist CD of the year is a chunky, progressive voyage that’s packed with surprises. 12 Moons’ Beacon o…

It may be six years old, and it may well have been the tune that started everything for fans of this genre, but Hallucinogen's LSD still sounds wicked, and rema…

Manmademan have a wonderful knack of totally igniting a dancefloor while never retracing old steps and managing to sound new every time. Opening track from the…

Good old Transient. Always a favourite label among trance fans – as a quick flick through their back catalogue will justify. There diversity over the last few y…

It may be six years old, and it may well have been the tune that started everythig for fans of this genre, but Hallucinogen’s LSD still sounds wicked, and re…