USA

Last year’s Get The Lead Out showed that PsyBooty are a label whose mission statement actually adds up to something. The crossage-overage of the best elements…

The States will be one of the countries to watch out for next year: long a fragmented outsider in the global trance scene, there seems to be a lot of connecti…

There’s something I utterly love about this CD. If you’re 22, off your head on acid every weekend, and a member of the Astrix fanclub, then you may as well st…

Cyzum’s Escape From The Sun moves like an oldskool tune but adds neat production, the sort of clean and sheened sound that US psytrance has held close for ye…

I stuck this on last Friday evening, and just got totally sucked into it. Ended up playing it about three or four times. It’s been a long time since anything…

An utterly smashing surprise this one – I don’t know what I was expecting, I’m not even sure I was expecting anything, but I’ve never heard anything quite l…

The US still seems (to me anyway) to be a right old melting pot for electronic music. Hence you can expect the boundaries to be not so much ignored as decon…

This folks hails from California, a place I love not just for its liberal attitudes, quality herbs, sunshine but also for its open-minded mixed bag hotchpot…

Damien Vergnaud, the man behind Droidlock and one half of Snug As A Bug, comes up with his first album as the latest instalment in a career which has seen,…

Judging by the number of new labels from America contacting us lately, it looks like the US is undergoing a series of localised trance explosions right now. Spe…

Just picked up by Los Angeles – based Kagdila records is this top compilation which originally saw the light of day in spring of 2001. Mixed by DJ Indica – thou…

2001 saw a rash of chillout compilations – and not just on the psytrance scene. After a year of TV-advertised chillage on European and US markets, the question…

Classy chillout from San Francisco, and the music is every bit as wonderful as the city itself. Shakatura reflects the tolerant, open-minded worldview of the…