Psychedelic Sparks - Inpsyde Media / Wirikuta

Bit different this one. I know I say that a lot so maybe I should shut up and get on with it. Well alright. This is a compilation of unreleased tracks from up-and-coming producers who won a kind of psychedelic battle of the bands. The contest, run by www.psynews.org, took entries from all round the world which were then judged by a pool of people from all over the world, so it's a global enough project for most people. The Bastard kicks things off with Crispy Crunchy Buffet Beast (o..kay...), a nice little nonchalant tune that slinks about in the background, while lots of little twists and surprises nick your wallet while you're not looking. Neurotoxin's For Red is a meaty fella that means business, and Promon's Throbbing for Hobbits has mental big noises all over the place, everywhere all at once, in delightfully "holy crap" sort of way. Call the Society for the Protection of the 303 on Psychopat's Spiral Landing, which has the poor old Roland box smashed into a zillion pieces, and De-Fect's Bouncing Shrooms and Giggling Gnomes laughs all the way to the asylum. Amygdala's Synaptic Misfire is a nice analog twist, while Synsun's Replycant adds lime and fizz. Israeli producer Agalactica pulls off a winner with Awkward Lightrate, a huge rising synth, a hefty cut-up lead line, and twisted voxes all over the place in a kinda gamma-goblins way. A really sweet tune with a zippy combination of melody and power. Torakka's Greasy Fingers is an icy gem, wonderfully produced in a way that hits you then goes right through you. It's a digidub-morning tune with big emotion potential, that takes you up and up and up and then sets you down effortlessly. Solstice's Ricochet closes things off in a bye bye to the happy train way. A global compilation that takes in every angle on the psytrance spectrum.