Eclipse: A Journey of Permanence & Impermanence

Product Description
Beast Combines the Inventive Spatial-Techno Style of Process with the Luxurious Production and Immaculate Structuring that Only Hallucinogen Can Deliver.

Tracks:

...And The Day Turned To Night - Shpongle
Dubstuff - Walter Ego
Invocation - Anubis
Equinox - Subkha
Balashwaar Baksheesh - Doof
Nakano Ghost - Total Eclipse
Purple Pygmiles - Walter Ego
Spirals - Simon Posford/Nick Barber

Album Details

Beast Combines the Inventive Spatial-Techno Style of Process with the Luxurious Production and Immaculate Structuring that Only Hallucinogen Can Deliver.

Customer Reviews:

brilliant (if you have the right mind for it) :).......2005-10-03

Take this psychedelic-ethnic-dub compilation to the highest mountain tops and let the music take over your mind.

The journey begins with a 20 minute composition masterpiece that only gets better with age.

Thank you Simon, Raja, and Sheldon for this cosmic beauty.

I love this CD!.......2004-12-09

The other reviewers hit the highlights but let me just say this is an album that will take you place. Play the first track at sunset just as the sun starts to go below the horizon and you are in for quite an experience.

I found this after getting into the music of Shpongle (not to be missed) and the first track is a 20 minute epic of thiers. The other artists on this complilation produce some amazing music as well, there isn't a track I don't like. My favorite place to play this is on my car stereo to and from work. It is simultaneously energizing and relaxing. I do recommend playing this on a sound system that can handle the subtleties of deep bass. You will get so much more out of it.

Here is the description from the Twisted Records UK website, to give you a little more background:

"A celebration of the full solar eclipse in Baleshwaar, india this album of ambient psychedelic dub is,"a journey of permanence and impermanence" and voyage into deep ambient and far beyond into the stars. From grand beginnings of Shpongle's first track "...and the day turned to night" (20.30) full of the ambience of india and melodic flutes blended perfectly with a cocktail of liquid jungle beats, through the dub chill of Dubstuff. The tribal beats and vocals of Anubis' 'invocation' and into Doof's title track 'Baleshwaar Balesheesh' complete with audio samples from the solar eclipse itself. Not content, there are world ambient offerings from France's Total Eclipse and colloboration between Doof and Hallucinogen in the form of Nomads of Dub with the smooth ambient trance of 'Spirals'."

"A powerful blend of exotic and spiritual sounds generated from analogue recordings and hi-tech digital manipulation of mankind and nature's response to the most overwhelming astronomical phenomenon- the total eclipse of the sun. the starting point for each track is a series of recordings made before, during and after the solar eclipse witnessed in india in 1996. the album represents a musical journey carefully crafted in response to this event by simon posford (aka hallucinogen) and colleagues whose expanding horizons encompass styles as diverse as drum and bass, dub and ambient. this is an undeniably positive album guaranteed to soothe, seduce and satisfy genuine music lovers of all persuasions."

I hope that convinces you that it is worth tracking down this album--I'm glad I did.

Mind-breaking psychedelisk ambient/drum'n'bass/trance!.......1999-08-06

This cd is perfect for a chill after a great party and it takes your mind out of the room and on a journey that can (and should) NOT be described. Get yourself on a hilltop,bring some ******,and play this cd. Its so psychdelic,and will force you into differant dimensions,outer space,Goa,in the mystical wood filled with psychedelic mushrooms,and an old wizard playing tunes on his flute. For everyone who thinks that the spirit and soul deserves something better!+ABw-

outstanding and interesting concept.......1999-02-05

quality listening... interesting subject matter and well presented. Really grows on you. Highly recommended.

Electronic compilation of the year........1998-12-15

An incredible downtempo compilation produced by some of the preeminent artists in psychadelic trance. This album is simultaneously calming and energizing; interesting to trance fans yet accessible to a wider audience. For a long time it was only available through specialist trance shops and there it tended to sell out instantly.

I cannot recommend this disc highly enough.

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