Various Time and Space pt.2 (Maia)

After part one earlier in the year on Sound Sourcery records now comes part 2 from the Mexican party delegation, and there's some big names on offer. Nice cover art - a big pyramid stage not unlike the one reportedly spotted at Samothraki this year, giving birth to glowing butterflies - nice! Synthetic's up first with a remix of Bamboo Forest's Ohmboys. A hard funky bass line underlies a swishing top end. After the break the temperature rises with the pitch as Dado cranks it up. Altom follow with Cycles, an ambient intro leads us to the drop of a thumping bassline as crisp stuttering percussion flits around in the background. There is nice progression throughout as loads of layers come and go. Talamasca step up next with The Missing Link, nicely remixed by Silicon Sound. Things get more full on now - a bouncing oscillating bassline keeps pace while all sorts of bells and drums echo behind. Nice melodies float around as a rising acid line builds the pressure. "Do you know where you are?" - you won't after this drops back after the break. It kicks back in a stripped down fashion before building it all back again with stabbing synth lines and uplifting French melodies. Atomic Pulse, fresh from Israel, seem to be infecting all sorts of compilations recently, and this is one of their darker offerings. Crashing percussion and a driving bass make this a strong tune. A wizard's voice spooks you in the break and then it gets deep. More spooky voices float around on the edge of consciousness and it's a pseudo-melodic final run. Polaris take us to Breaking Point with some sci-fi samples and another deep pulsating bass line. The atmosphere is other worldly and the whole tune has quite a techish feel to it, with strangely flexible and stretchy synth lines! Next up is the debut release for Camposonic - the younger sibling of Riktam from...er...wait a minute - I’m sure that name sounds familiar ;o Similar in style to the growling mad ones but with all the madness and enthusiasm of fresh blood - a real floor burner, plenty of ideas and nicely put together. Then it's this summer's anthem tune - Psychedelic Circus. Classic quote and not half a good tune either - more outdoor party fodder. D-Tek (rarely heard from since Psychedelic Cowboy on Assasi:nations) teams up with Paul Taylor for another quality psychedelic stomper, and then it's Logic Bomb masquerading as Alternate Vision. What a way to finish :) This tune brings up visions of enormous stacks of speakers spewing out their twisted psychedelia deep into the night. Spacey and etheral and very banging! Quality release of outdoor party dancefloor tunage.

Full Lotus is one of the resident DJ’s for the Kundalini parties in London. He has over 12 years experience of playing out psychedelic music across the board from the 60’s right up to the current tunes ripping up the trancefloors all over the world. Playing music for the mind and body, he is equally happy playing ambient, progressive or full on sets, and will quite often do a combination of all psychedelic styles if requested. He has played for numerous parties in and around London, including Secret Squirrels, Karoo, Doolally, Muriwai, Revive to Unite, Ellemental, Dhyana, Liquid Connective, forest parties and squat parties. Catch him in a corner of the mulitverse some time on the not too distant horizon.

(Next gig: Project Ozma @ The Boxing Club, Reading. Friday 13th December 2002. Email: full_lotus@hotmail.com )

Ed lives locally (to me anyway) and while I have no idea what his second name is, and though only met him the once, he's a thoroughly nice guy. The reviews here are also available at www.psychedelicmarket.com and Ed's next gig (I think) is Inna?Turtle vs. PsychedelicMarket.com up in Camden.

Where do we go from here?

Well, nowhere. But also everywhere.

(Mystical enuff for ya?) =o)

There's a huge backlist of reviews and right now I'm going through 'em as fast as I can, talking to labels to see what's in need of a fast review. As a result the next couple of reviews I intent to get together over the next few weeks will be high-density (i.e. shedloads of releases) but probably shorter reviews (and face it you probably could all do with a break from reading a 400 word essay by me dissecting the finer points of the GMS kickdrum).