Number Seven: Highcosmos - 4Real

Hell yeah now we're talkin'.  

This album reminded me of what I like about psytrance.  Good, fast music that's just spooky enough, but not so much that you think you're in a acid drenched haunted house.  It's without a doubt full of the trappings that make full-on what it is.  1/16th note bassline, obscure samples ripped from sci fi, squeaky organic blipping sounds, builds on top of builds, it's all here.  Maybe if I had been listening to more of this recently (we'll see where I'm at later in the project) I wouldn't have been as receptive to this album as I am know, but until I get to that point I'm happy to have spent the time to hear this one.  After hitting Play and the hearing the album immediately launch in to a breakneck speed I couldn't help but give a little bit of a stomp up.  

As psytrance albums tend to go with me I did start feeling a bit fatigued towards the end.  However the closing track of this album really made me want to tough it out.   

This track is the barometer by which all other uses of samples will be judged.

Part of me feels like if this track hadn't been at the end of the album I might have tuned it out however finishing with it has imprinted this tune in my mind forever.  The track isn't all that different from most else on the album EXCEPT for the samples they use.  In the course of this track you get...

• Fighter pilot radio chatter
• Obligitory drug talk sample
• A wolf baying at the moon that only hits at the start of a phrase and I laugh my ass off every time I hear it.  

I don't know if I can say if they're particularly effective samples (ok except the wolf, that was worth the price of admission alone) but the fact that they crammed all that in one track made me a happy camer.