Astral Projection – Trust In Trance

A solid album that I've tried to get into countless times, even had the CD, but don't find it as impressive as everyone else today. The mixing is a class act and this sound must have floored people on club systems back in 95/96, but these tracks just don't have a ton of replay value for me. Not sure what it is, maybe the saw riffing is too fatiguing or there is just too much reverb everywhere, too much of the same tired interpretation of the phrygian scale, track-in track-out. So maybe just the wrong combination of things for me. Still decent though, and Utopia and Enlightened Evolution are the best in my opinion. Utopia has about a minute-long ride starting around the 3:40 mark that lets some excess boil off and finally gets at the essence of trance before the portion returns again in the second half of the song, that part reminds me of Laughing Buddha. Enlightened Evolution has a phenomenal bass line, the entire track is pretty good, but honestly would have loved a mix that focused more on that bass line and drums instead of "let's stack saws so tall you almost can't hear it anymore", but it's still a fun track and I enjoy whenever it plays on TIP Blue.

If you are a fan of fully charged maximalist goa trance or psy trance then obviously you should love this album. I think I enjoy different styles of the genre more--for instance--I don't think I.F.O. is very good either (T.I.T. is much better than that from compositions to production), but even so I think Dancing Galaxy is SIGNIFICANTLY better than this, Pigs and Space/Tandu is much better, and Dimension 5's Transdimensional is better even though the production is more homemade.

Kabalah , a soul , beautiful track . Miss those days :)

we all know that the world of goa has a amazing producers around the world, but we need to accept that israel is a mine of gold for this amazing kind of music!!
astral projection bring to us an amazing album which all the songs are truly amazing, but the real anthem here is People can fly!!! this tune has everything, the rythm and melodies are just incredible and the sample in the last part of the song is a amazing way to trip and realize that, when you dream there are no rules!!!!!!

I reckon it might be possible to limit the amount of classic albums in the All Time Trance Hall Of Fame to some 20 albums. Any serious trance lover will tell you that this album belongs there.

This is not just an amazing Trance album. This is an amazing Music album.

Why? Because of the endless list of hits here? Because of the never ending number of artists that have found their main source of inspiration here? Well, I could try to put in words what this music does to the faithful trance follower more than 10 years after its release ;o) This album has not only stood the test of time. It still defines the sound of GOA even more impressive, entrancing, and ground breaking today.

Words won't suffice.

With this album Astral Projection presented the original mid nineties melodic Goa Trance and easily the epiphany of this period and style. Far and away a must in any trance collection. Correction. In any music collection.