An American label but the essence of Israeli Goa sound. It is being marketed in Israel as “the new Shidapu”, which it isn’t. But, maybe it shows what shidapu could have been if the guys didn’t go their own separate ways. I believe that although this came out in ’98 it is probably stuff from ’97, or at least that’s how it sounds. It is basically a Miki Litvak project and he is involved in all the tracks but the Brain Forest one, and I won’t be surprised if he also compiled this CD, although it doesn’t say so. And for the music- Israeli Goa sound at its best!!! Very morning, very uplifting and full on. The Hyperion track starts the hard work, a nice intro and straight to dancing mode (hard to connect this to Ido Ophir/Miki Litvak new stuff as Domestic). Very driving track with catchy psychedelic tunes. Tribal Encore is just another track. The Brain Forest (Amir Dvir from Luminus & Roy Sasson from Shidapu) track is a classic marching track. Andorphia’s track (Miki with Bart Knol) is very fast and powerful with sneaking psychedelic Sci-Fi sounds and powerful entrances of drums and intense melodies.
And we have Shidapu with 3 tracks, two of them just amazing and a must in every trance listener collection. There is a remix of the amazing Vertigoa (from Israel’s Psychedelic Trance, vol. 2 or Goa Mix), the most powerful track on this CD, and one of the most powerful ever. Let me say it like that: if you hear this and you don’t start jumping around, you’re not a trance person. Prince of the Dolls is in my opinion a work of a genius brain, it’s trance in toy land. Just close your eyes, lay down and use your imagination. A bit dark in some moments, but then the toys come marching and bring smiles and even laughter to your face. Dream Catcher is Miki solo, another good track much darker and slower and gives a clue of the future of Miki Litvak’s music. The Sofus track (Miki and Sofus Mortensen) is mellower and starts to bring thing down a bit, but beware there is a powerful drum entrance in the middle. The Aurax track (Miki with Asaf Shanberg) is very technoish in sound, nice long atmosphere track to finish this CD. |
