Goa Head Vol.12 (The Best Of Goa Trance And Psychedelic Techno) [Digipak] - Compilation

Advantages: Track selection, genre representation
Disadvantages: Rubbish mixing

...The tracks chosen are fantastic. If you wanted a definitive guide to hard trance and know nothing about the genre then this is a great place to start. The representation is great of the sounds of hard trance and full credit goes out on that point. Most of the good points in my mind are from the track selection to be honest. The mixing is rubbish to say the least. I wouldn't consider this to be a particularly "commercial" mix collection, and therefore I wouldn't necessarily expect it to be a rushed attempt to get a CD put together for money with no thought put into the mixing. How disappointed I was! I don't like to use the word "shoddy" but I feel compelled to on this occasion on the account that anyone with even an hour's mixing experience could do better. The artwork is completely unoriginal also and alone doesn't fill me... Read review

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Advantages: Original, psychedelic, distinctive Moodys sound, an extra hour of music
Disadvantages: The album without the extras is rather short

...remember however the sheer bewilderment sitting in the middle of these four speakers as sounds spiralled around my head like demented birds. I recall watching a colleague suffer acute nystagmus (involuntary twitching of the eyeballs) as he tried to follow the sounds. This disc was on the edge of flower power and the acid culture. The songs are a pastiche of the eastern, psychedelic and mystical. The words are used as auditory colours - and often the meaning may be somewhat obscure. All members of the band achieve this but the greatest exponent is Justin Hayward who can shade words and music to paint any mood. The line up is Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge. The range of instruments played by the band is prodigious: guitars (electric, acoustic, 12 string, bass), sitar, tables, piano, Mellotrons, harpsichord... Read review

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Advantages: Replaces a load of old singles
Disadvantages: Billy Bragg!

...& the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies Spear of Destiny - Never Take Me Alive The The - The Beat(en) Generation Killing Joke - Love Like Blood Fields of the Nephilim - Moonchild New Model Army - No Rest The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven The Fall - Mr Pharmacist Wedding Present - Brassneck The House Of Love - Christine All About Eve - Martha's Harbour Disc 2 The Mission - Towers of Strength Sisters of Mercy - Dominion Iggy Pop - Real wild Child (Wild One) The Stranglers - Peaches New Order - True Faith Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere The Teardrop Explodes - Reward Talk Talk - Today Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country Black Sabbath - Paranoid Mike Peters & The Alarm - 68 Guns Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love... Read review

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