Artist: Various Artists (compiled by Psyness)
Album: The Last Point
Label: Sonic Tantra Records
Mastering: MMC aka Mushroomjet
Release: Dec 2012
“The Last Point is a powerful magic portal that exists. It is neatly tucked in deep wilderness and promises an intense journey to hyper-static states of groovedelia each time the psychedelic traveller hits the spot.”
A Hardcore psychedelic album meant especially for the darkest of nights. The Compilation is an ensemble of some of the best talent in dark psychedelic trance scene from across the world.
Except for few exceptions the compilation album has good continuity.
This album has been compiled by Psyness. Psyness is also the founder of Bangalore based record label Cosmic Crew. He has also been producing music with the project Hitech Error. Psyness has been one of leading figures in the psytrance scene over the last few years in the country with gigs in Goa, Bangalore, Hyderabad and other parts of the country. Apart from DJing, the man has also been organizing events in the country featuring some prominent international acts like Psykovsky, Necropsycho, Liquedator and more.
Here’s a brief introduction of the artists featured on this compilation.
Not much of an introduction needed for Aghori Tantrik. He is a Mumbai born currently living Hyderabad dark psychedelic trance producer/artist. One of the most established psychedelic trance projects of the country, he is also the founder of Sonic Tantra Records. His music is deep and has spiritual influences.
Psychogenes is the side project of GenOhm aka Vadim from Russia. One of the best track on the VA by this project. Psychogenes is a fairly new project with releases on a couple of VAs so far.
Psy4Tecks is Portugual based dark psychedelic trance producer. He describes his style as Dark Psychedelic with weird & creepy melodies, agessive leads and scary atmosphere. He produces between 148 & 170 BPM.
Zamurah (3eke) is Ezequiel Mozzi from Buenos Aires, Argentina, musician and producer. A noteworthy talent worth keeping a lookout for. His music consists of fat basslines, well arranged eerie and beautiful atmospheric sounds.
Gotalien is upcoming hitch psytrance producer Alberto Zatta from Italy. With numerous releases last year. He is also to be seen on the lineup of many parties/ festivals in Europe lately.
Liquedator, is psytrance producer Frikttos from Russia. He is also the founder Dark Terror Records. His track on this VA is a bomb. Must hear for any fan of Psycore or high BPM music. He tours the country often. One is likely to find him in Goa at some event around wintertime.
Necropsycho is a well-known psychedelic trance producer Carmine E. Tarsitano aka Nuccho. Been around with some smashing releases for more than 9 years now, His music could be best described as dark psytrance with a flavor for Macabre. His side projects are Ogun & Alien Corporation. He has collaborated with Berclunoise on this album. He was in tour in India few years back. His performances created quite a fanbase for him in the country over the tour.
For the final track of the VA, Mushroomjet collaborates with Phagus Sonus & Pharmacore for the final track of the VA. Mushroomjet is the hitech project of MMC, a psychedelic trance producer who has been in the scene for years. Though the MMC project ranges from morning psychedelic trance to full on psychedelic trance, Mushroomjet is quite apart from Alex Karlin’s MMC project.
Américo aka intekshine from Portugal entered the trance influence by a friend to go play at a small club. Since then he started to produce his own songs with some friends. He describes his style as dark and fast Psicodélico . Intekshine has played with producers as Palex, K-lapso, Hyldhegan, Tryambaka, ov3rdos3d, Divine stones, Killer Machine, Rawar, Akés, Playtek, Neurotic Poizon, Project Psylocibe, Psichonauta, Hydrus, Meteor Burn, Corrosive Brain and more. On this compilation, he has collaborated with veteran psychedelic trance producer Psiconauta aka Master Pain.
Sonic Tantra is a longtime dark psychedelic trance label from India. Been around since 1995, the label has been presenting numerous intrinsic delicacies through artist releases and compilations. The labels boasts of having more than 40 artists signed on its roster. It consists of some of the best talent from across the world. Artwork for the album done by none other than Sid aka Aghori Tantrik.
The album is available here for free
