Music: In The Mix by Astral Projection, Disease Factory’s Take.
November 19th, 2007 by Hexfix93
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In The Mix Disc 1
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In my honest opinion, and i have listened to hundreds of trance bands, this is the best out of the bunch. Easily. Musical, trippy, psychedelic, out of this world, tranced out, kind of dark, heavy. Stuff is always swirling and oscillating and pulsing. It’s fast. This is what i listen to when i do cardio, or HIIT training. It is perfect, i trance out hard to the music and don’t even notice that my body is on the brink of collapse. This lp is perfect for that. But it’s not just work out music ahahahaha, some of my best acid trips and X moments were thanks to this and meatbeat manifesto . On the first CD, my favorite tracks are Another World, Ionized, Enlightened Evolution, Life on mars, Electrostatic, and my FAV from them is Axis v0.99.
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In The Mix Disc 2
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I cannot put into words how much this band has inspired velvet acid christ over the last ten years. The biggest influence on our work in that time frame. I owe them so much it’s not even funny, and all i can do it tip my hat to them on my web site. On the second cd, my favorite tracks are People Can Fly, Liquid Sun, Kabalah, Mahadeva, Nilaya, and Burning Up.
Enjoy these cool videos i found. Very trippy. Their production is to notch. Mixing is amaizng, their use of sound fx, and filtering, phasers, flangers, delays. Hypnotic, but so alive, the music sounds like a living being. It is not canned digital, it is mostly analog, you can hear it breath and swim. It’s amazing.
The only two bands that i respect from this side of techno are Astral Projection and juno reactor. Most everything else is either to happy, not musical enough, or just bores the hell out of me. This stuff all ways sounds interesting to me no matter what mood i am in.
So, if you like what you see and hear here, please go buy this. Trance bands usually don’t sell that well, they have bad distribution, and in america the press ignores this stuff like the plague for some strange reason. This band is in my top 10 easily. And i’m not usually big on instrumental music. I all most always prefer vocals. go buy it! Click here to buy.
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November 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Astral Projection is definitely one of my biggest influences. Killer arpeggios are over the place, great synthesis, wonderful riffs and layers. What I love about goa is the layering, and the contrast between the different layers - dueling rhythms, acidic, brain piercing synths. And it’s trancey without being too upbeat and happy - which I hate. Hallucinogen is another band that I adore even though they are more along the lines of psy trance. I think my favorite tracks by AP are Hilaya, Virtual Booster, and Ionized.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:02 am
astral projection are what the name impies, an out-of-body experience. top of the line goa/psy trance along with some songs off of the Fun With Knives album. juno reactor is good too, but ive only heard the first cd Transmissions and limited material from the other works. i have Astral Projection’s cds Another World and Dancing Galaxy. their songs are lengthy and have alot to offer. a good reviewing choice, they deserve it.
favorite songs include Mahadeva ‘99, Searching for UFOs (so eerie/mysterious sounding, and so sci-fi!), Another World, and Liquid Sun
November 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Have Amen.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I really hear the AP influence in VAC sound a lot and I love man life would suck with out Astral Projection I love them so much I have Dancing Galaxy, Trust In Trance, Another World, and The Astral Files by them and I’m going to get in the mix soon cuz it has some tracks on it that i want to own..my fav. prob. from AP are Ionized, Kabalah, Flying Into A Star, Life On Mars, Dancing Galaxy, The Sleeper Must Awake, Dancing Galaxy, Virtual Booster, Mahadeva, Enlighted Evolution, People Can Fly, Searching for UFOs, Liquid Sun, Radial Blur, Power Gen, Zero, Utopia, Trance Dance, No One Ever Dreams, Soundform, Solid Electronics,Burning Up (Main Mix), and I could name a bunch more….yeah I agree digital I think Hallucinogen is psy trance they’re just so insanely psychedelic I love them a lot I think AP is totally goa I like both genres really I donno I read somewhere like if you go to a some place that sells goa and psy cds they’ll think ur weird for asking for some goa trance and its psy trance but w/e…bleh labeling..
December 26th, 2007 at 6:15 am
I don’t know this release, but adore “Dancing Galaxy” & “Another World” … a lot of passion
The video of “People can fly” is amazing
June 9th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Love…trance and “Dark Wave” type stuff. I’m a big Markus Schulz fan. Incredible stuff.
Anyway, you say you like HIIT…I do as well. Have you tried Lyle Mcdonald’s “Stubborn Fat Protocol”? Here is it s a nutshell…
Do HIIT for 10-15 minutes, rest 5 minutes, then do 20-40 minutes of steady state cardio at a low to moderate intensity level. The HIIT training followed by 5 minutes rest releases fatty acids into the blood stream.
The steady state cardo then uses those fatty acids for fuel. It is kind of a “hybrid” approach to get the best out of both forms of cardio.
This method is especially effective for reaching low body fat levels and targetting “stubborn body fat”.