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If you’re pressed for time this review basically goes... new direction, new sound, dark and light, buy it. One of the most impressive trance CV’s (transwave, synthetic, deedrah) belongs to Dado who, from his white island lair, has just single-handedly evolved psytrance in a way that’s not likely to become apparent for some time yet. The presentation and artwork is deceptive – deep within here is the harsh kickboxing of deedrah and the ethereal fluffy goan spirituality (there, i said it) of transwave. Body, meet Soul. Yin, meet Yang. Siegfried, meet Roy (meet tiger.) Okay so the last one’s a red herring but what psyreviews was almost getting at is that this is a marriage of Dark and Light, like listening to Wagner while watching Neighbours, waving a glowstick about at a funeral, whacking off while reading Kirekegaard, and so forth. Which this music really seriously needed folks (not whacking off while reading Kirekegaard, but the combination of juxtaposed styles)– soundsystem goes fluffy, the darkheads go to the bar, frowning. Soundsystem goes dark, and the fluffyheads scamper off merrily like something out of Watership Down, except mostly nobody gets run over. Body & Soul represents a real turning point – could it just manage to unify our scene?
Whatever, it’s not possibe to bang on about the significance or quality of this album enough. Hefty bottom ends, basslines that are busier than a mushroom dealer at an outdoor lunar eclipse party, sweet topend melodic flurries to please the seratonin receptors, genuinely imaginative samples, more surprises than lsd in the camp david water supply, and production that’s among the best we’ve ever witnessed. Psyreviews has said naff all about the music itself, psyreviews knows this, but psyreviews bought it rather than got sent it so psyreviews can say whatever psyreviews likes. Because, for once this is an artist album more than the sum of its parts. And anyway, at a risk of sounding gay, deedrah’s parts themselves are really rather spectacular.
5/5
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... 2003 
