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Mandalavandalz
Chapora Nightlife
6Dimension Soundz (Japan)
Anyone who bemoans the “unpsychedelic” nature of current psytrance would be well advised to check this out. In fact, calling this ‘psychedelic’ is a bit of an understatement, rather like suggesting that Angelina Jolie has a mouth “reasonably adequate” for performing fellation. The bastard son of Texas Faggot, Mandalavandalz’ music is fast, frenetic, deranged, hyper-ritalin trance recorded in (checks inlay) “Goa.” Wherever that is. Wnd while most night-time music professes to be “scary”, this is Jack Nicholson hacking thru your bathroom door, while everything else is more like an episode of the X-Files. BPM’s are fast, and usually changing. No breakdown lasts longer than about a bar. On Roller Gauze, Typ10ly and Do You Read Me, there’s so much frenetic bouncing going on that it’s hard to keep track. Hotrny Goa Teen Pimps is pornographic both in its worryingly squelch camples, and in its unforgiving mushroom-nightmare synths. Mata’s Medical Story is twisted ge nius, and Monkeywalium is a deliciously abhorrent slab of amyl-house. Top of the heap though has to be Raggare, a rolling Funland-amusement-park indie-jazz-rock, east-cheats-west egg and cress sandwich. Whether viewed as an album or as a vaguely postmodern artistic comment on Something (matters not what), this is utter visionary brilliance.
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... 2004 
