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Another recent trance release is a compilation from Moonshine Music called Headtravel, which defines its purpose as "exploring electronic music and imaging." Headtravel describes itself as "poking a stick at the rapidly decaying boundaries that separate modes of media/methods of communications/us." This sort of talk would appear to lend the whole enterprise a certain air of pretentiousness, especially when the liner notes include the quote, "It is only when we step away from the actual and begin to explore the possible that life's infinities begin to reveal themselves to us." Deep, eh? The musicians on Headtravel certainly take themselves...
...Headtravel comes from San Francisco, which for a decade and a half has been a hotbed of electronic music, and the group reflects the richness and diversity of San Francisco's electronic music scene. The CD also suggests San Francisco's close ties to the computer industry in the Silicon Valley: the first track is a CD-ROM file featuring hallucinogenic digital imagery...
...music on Headtravel is excellent and seems to improve with each new track. "Shell," by Nail, is the best groove on the album, mixing a throbbing beat with the best in atmospheric trance sounds, winds blowing, sudden bursts of melody and rainforest noises. "Tesseract," by Darin Marshall, and "Environment," by A New Consciousness, are also standouts, delicate, lyrical and incessantly danceable. Headtravel is highly recommended. Trance...
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