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"Tryptaphonic Mind Explosion"

Mandragora Records
We are living in a golden age for mind-expanding, foundation-rumblingpsych chaos, as evidenced by this particular slice of aluminum. Inspite of coming from all corners of the globe, all 12 participants herehave obviously been huffing the same UFO vapors. Robot vs. Rabbitlumbers through a buzzing, Earth-like dirge. In perhaps the weirdestpiece on the disc, Interferents wring out some insane toy vocals over ahallucinatory jam. Pine Tree State Mind Control exhume the corpse ofearly Chrome and turn it into a conveyer belt. Escapade's loose,sprawling improv whips up a fresh black hole. Sure to make this comp abestseller, the ubiquitous Acid Mothers Temple crash land the mothership into heavy metal histrionics. Reynols' shamanic drone prayer makesearly Amon Duul seem coherent and tight (that's a compliment, by theway). Finnish band Circle finish things off by returning us to morefamiliar krautrockish territories, somewhat reminiscent of the live Canstuff released a few years back. What makes this comp so great is theheavy layer of outer space that all of this music travels throughbefore it reaches your ears. No duds to be found here. This music isunhitched, but not at all inept. They know where they are taking you.Like the liner notes say: "The path of pure psychedelic noise awaitsyou."

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