Psychovader – Apoxina
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Various – Psychovader – Apoxina (France)
Regular readers will know how much we love new labels. We invite them in for tea, have a few spliffs, and check out their sounds. It’s always nice to hear a different and new slant on the psytrance scene, and it’s even nicer when the debut is as ruthlessly shitkicking as this one.
Pitching in as a variation of the Demon Tea / Exogenic sound, Psychovader offers the full-on shapeshifter jazz-tinged trance with added dancefloor compatibility and growly kick. Bleeps Sweeps & Creeps from Weirdo Beardo is a schitzoid, legs-everywhere stompathon, with bubbly lines and a satisfying kick.
Digital Talk’s Come Back verges on travel-sickness, with its relentless up-down rollercoaster cascades, and Grapes of Wrath’s New Era is an uncommonly good outdoor tune, with perfect timing, bags of character and a groove that just makes you want to move. Insane Behaviour’s Datura Inotia is class, a grizzly little lurker that picks you up and throws you about the room.
It’s a rare piece of wonderful trance that’s bread and butter for the psychedelic freaks out there. Top tune has to be Midi Disjoncted from The Crow, and it’s fucking huge. Straight in, with bags of energy, it’s got the vibe of a nuclear fallout (but in a good way) and it’s simply the most kicking, psychoid bit of riff-driven trance mayhem in a long time.
Source: http://psyreviews.net/2002/05/various-psychovader-apoxina/
