I was going through my old albums yesterday and popped in this psy trance gem and have been listening to it non stop since. Practically every track on this album is a bomb, Simon Posford is the man.
This is about as good as trance music gets IMO. My only complaint is that you can tell by the sound of some tracks that the songs were made over a decade ago, I wish he would do a like a Hallucinogen 2007 remix album or something because all his Shpongle stuff is nuts too.
Flouro Neuro Sponge is the best song I think, just listen the whole way through. It starts off kind of slowly and then by the two minute mark it just explodes.
I think the best part about these songs is that there is no structure to them, or at least one that I have picked up on. He'll keep adding new sounds and melodies at various points in the song. Where as with with most epic trance you can tell basically structure of most songs, not nearly as much creativity.
netroM
I thought Hallucinogen was Goa?
sljiva
It is goa, and it's probably one of the greatest goa albums ever
PezCore
Twisted is a goa trance album released by Hallucinogen in 1995 on Dragonfly Records. It is one of the most successful releases in the genre, selling over 85,000 copies.
It's not for nothing that this album is still selling copies these days. It's a pure gem. This guy is responsible for half the good psychedelic tracks out there.
sljiva
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Originally posted by PezCore
It is one of the most successful releases in the genre, selling over 85,000 copies.
Simon has to thank Oakie for part of that sucess, because Oakie was closing pretty much every set of his goa days with LSD
I wonder why he didn't sign Simon to his Perfecto label at the time
RebeL9
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Originally posted by sljiva
I wonder why he didn't sign Simon to his Perfecto label at the time
Because he was already signed to Dragonfly.
Twisted is indeed a milestone in the history of trance. The album is beautifully crafted with songs you can listen to decades later and still enjoy just as much. I remember the first time I heard this over 10 years ago. Fleuro Neuro Sponge just blew me away. Alot of people back then were mostly amazed of the technical aspects of the album because it was extreamly well produced. Some people believe that the fact that he worked as a sound engineer at BBC helped him out ;)
Twisted is also the album that defined the psytrance sound and headed it into a new direction.
Here is a clip with Simon at Twisted 10th birthday party from London last year:
TranceArmstrong
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Originally posted by sljiva
Simon has to thank Oakie for part of that sucess, because Oakie was closing pretty much every set of his goa days with LSD
I wonder why he didn't sign Simon to his Perfecto label at the time
wasn't there an oakenfold remix of lsd? or some remix of the track? not the lieb one though. I've got it ripped from a set and it's awsome.
Also, it's not on the album, but the Hallucinogen track Spiritual Antiseptic is crazy good as well.
Orko
What a wonderful album.
I listen to it pretty often.
sljiva
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Originally posted by TranceArmstrong
wasn't there an oakenfold remix of lsd? or some remix of the track? not the lieb one though. I've got it ripped from a set and it's awsome.
I'm pretty sure that Oakie hadn't done a remix of LSD (at least it hadn't been released). There's a Nick Barber's remix under his Doof alias (not as good as original), and a Live mix done by Simon himself (faster, more psychadelic version of original mix). You probably have the latter one
There are some other mixes (Lieb's, Synthetic's) but they weren't released on Dragonfly
Beat Blog
Simon Posford has the most ridiculous number of aliases.
Somewhere in the mid-thirties I think.
Only seen one artist with more.
TweeK
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Originally posted by Beat Blog
Simon Posford has the most ridiculous number of aliases.
Somewhere in the mid-thirties I think.
Only seen one artist with more.
ohh yeah what are they.
Beat Blog
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Originally posted by TweeK
ohh yeah what are they.
