DJ Basilisk’s Essential Selections: 1998
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1998 marks the last year of the golden age of Goa trance and the beginning of a period of great uncertainty. Many producers, tired of the classic sound, began to experiment with new approaches. Some of these, like the short-lived psybreaks phase championed by Metal Spark and 21:3′s Elastic, never amounted to much of anything. Others, however, had a huge impact on the development of the movement. Chief among them was X-Dream’s monumental album Radio, which pioneered a new minimal aesthetic that soon spread across the world. Likewise, Simon Posford’s psychedelic downtempo project Shpongle scored a massive (and often imitated) hit with Are You Shpongled? The first hints of both the full-on and progressive movements can also be traced back to 1998 (see The Growly Family and the first glimmerings of the Scandosound on Flying Rhino’s Slipstream compilation for examples).
Beast – Spawn / Trouble EP
California Sunshine – Nasha
Cosmosis – Synergy
Growling Mad Scientists – The Growly Family
Jaïa – Blue Energy
Kopfuss Resonator – Spect-® Module
Lunar Asylum
Man With No Name – Earth Moving The Sun
Metal Spark – Corrosive
MFG – Project Genesis
Pigs In Space
Power Source – Cosmic Waves
Sandman – Witchcraft
Shpongle – Are You Shpongled?
Slide – Unstable
Tarsis – Vacuum
X-Dream – Radio
V/A – Beyond Colour
V/A – Dementertainment
V/A – Elastic
V/A – Full On Vol. 2
V/A – Kiss The Future
V/A – Score
V/A – Slipstream
V/A – Sound Of Freedom
V/A – Turbulence
The Early Years 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Top Ten Hall of Fame
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One liitle thing: Cosmic Waves was released in 1999, albeit in January.
I enjoyed most of these albums, esp. California sunshine,
I’m not an old school fan thou, i’m used to guys like tegma and electrypnose.
It’s good music, melodic with a sense for great hard work.
there is 2 version of cosmic wave, on two distinct labels and names, one of them has been released on 1998, the other one is much later, both got the same contents.
I would like to throw a vote out there for a few additions.
Take them for what they are worth.
How about…
Battle of the Future Buddhas – Twin Sharkfins
Cyan – Beast From the East
Digitalis – The Third State
all exceptional 98 releases I could consider essential
my ¢.02
cheers
Another fantastic record from this vintage is
Sibilant – Proper Filth
Pure psy-dnb bliss (maybe an ancient Atropos relative?)
Anyway – peace.
What about The Muses Rapt – Spiritual Healing?
Power Source 1999
http://www.discogs.com/Power-Source-Cosmic-Waves/release/112591
I still listen to X-Dream … Radio. It can still blow alot of the new stuff out of the dance floor. I just wish X-Dream didnt get all pop sounding. :-(
I feel these years were the best in trance but I think Psy sex, or Children of the Doc should be here some where not sure of the years.