Unreleased Goa Records (2024)

24/12/2023

Eskeemo Knights was a project by the late Nemo DX Zimmer, a talented producer who was born in 1974 near Frankfurt. He was a world traveller and he has lived in Spain, England, Holland, Belgium and Sweden. He was heavily influenced by his parent's music taste, which included Electro and Reggae. Later on, in 1990 he discovered a whole new range of Techno and thereafter Trance. Nemo has been DJing since 1992 all over Europe and has been producing music since 1993/4.

With this celebratory release, we want to honour the memory of a great friend and musician and unleash the music he assembled as an album back in November 2006.

Originally shared among a group of friends on a forum, the music contained in this album was ready to be released to the public, as Nemo was happy with the final state of the tracks. The album was only available in mp3 format at the time, however, Nemo had sent it as a promo CD-R to a few friends and it's a great privilege for us to publish it today in true lossless quality for the first time.

The album title is a mockery of the famous rock 'n' roll anthem "S*x, drugs and Rock 'n' Roll", according to Nemo himself, as explained to the label manager during a chat. Nemo was very happy with the feedback he received on this album. The tracks were produced from 1996 to 2002, however, most of the music was made after the year 2000.

All tracks were written and produced by Nemo DX Zimmer, with the exception of 'Liquid Morning' which was co-produced with his friend Jakob Nyström.

Unreleased Goa Records is happy to celebrate the memory of Nemo with this album and, as a bonus, we include the Live at The Tribe of Frog in Bristol recorded live on 22 December 2001, downloadable for those who support the label and purchase the album, shared for the first time in lossless quality.

Tracklist:

01 - Travelling
02 - Tijuana Sunrise (Jordstomp Edit)
03 - The Holy Church (If Not Remix)
04 - Liquid Morning (Nemo Mix)
05 - Acidtstr
06 - Yello
07 - Deep Grounds
08 - Tribe Of Frog (Lost In Bristol Mix)

Bonus Track:

09 - Live In Bristol @ Tribe Of Frog 22 Dec 2001
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All tracks Written and Produced by: Nemo DX Zimmer
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive Producer: Federico Draeke
Catalogue Number: UGR 054

9 track album

28/11/2023

Unreleased Goa Records proudly presents "Tranzform", the long-awaited second album by Danish veteran Moses. Rasmus Jørgensen, a well-established artist of the Progressive Psychedelic Trance scene, needs no introduction. His journey as a musician and drummer began in his childhood. His previous experience with several bands and projects helped him acquire a deep and extended understanding of electronic music. In 1994, Rasmus used his birth name Moses for his first solo project. Influenced by the major electronic pioneers of his generation, he self-experimented (with occasional help from his friends) with various trance sounds, using only an Ensoniq synth sampler, a Roland SH-9, a Waldorf Microwave and a Roland sequencer. Between 2004 and 2014, he released under the Moses alias several catchy Progressive Psychedelic Trance tracks for labels Zenon, Groove Zone and Crotus Records, among others.

After his successful "Liquid Dawn" album, released in April 2021, Rasmus collaborates again with Unreleased Goa Records to publish a second collection, nine marvelous tracks representative of his music output between 1999 and 2003. The album title, "Tranzform", alludes to the artist’s transition from Goa to Minimal and Progressive Psychedelic Trance.

These tracks were played on exclusive live sets performed at numerous events, including a CreamCrop party 2003 (Aarhus, Denmark), Scandinavian Electronic Music Festival 2004 (Mid Jutland, Denmark), Winter Solstice 2007 (Cairns, Australia), The New Zenon Masters 2011 (Tel Aviv, Israel). They are now available for purchase for the first time ever.

The Moses trilogy will conclude with the future publication of a third album containing the last unreleased pieces of the project.

Tracklist:

01 – Plastic Pancake (2002)
02 – Moth-Eater (1999)
03 – The Drifter (Spezialtranzport) (2001)
04 – Tranzform (1999)
05 – Mimezin (2000)
06 – Dirty Dingo (2002)
07 – Dann U-Boot (2001)
08 – Grizzly Fly (2003)
09 – Soft As Silk (2000)

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Rasmus Moses Jørgensen
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Audio restoration for tracks 4, 7 by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Vas Cosmogenesis, Federico Draeke
Catalogue number: UGR 053
Available now on Bandcamp:

9 track album

01/11/2023

Unreleased Goa Records celebrates Halloween with "Frag-mentos", the amazing Psytrance album of Circle, a South African project from the early 00’s, otherwise known under the more established guise FractalFungi. David Beer was the founder and drummer of Crystal Dawn, a band from Johannesburg that released a Melodic Death Metal album in 1999. Around the same period, he and the guitarist of the band, Dwain Du Plessis, attended several Trance parties at lovely natural locations, where they were mesmerized by the new psychedelic sounds. They both felt that Psy-Trance turned many of the musical rules upside down and threw out much of the constraints and limitations that they unconsciously set up for themselves in the Death Metal genre. Consequently, David began investigating the fabric of these sounds and pulses. The turning point came in 2000, when he came across the famous "Distance To Goa 8" mixed by Joti Sidhu. This compilation 'altered his DNA' and played a pivotal role in his decision to begin a new journey as a Psy-Trance producer.

David started using a computer at his first design job, at the late age of 19. It was the first step towards him becoming a feature film animator in the United Kindgdom and now in Norway. Two friends introduced him to Jeskola Buzz. At his next design company, he installed the modular freeware on his work computer and made experiments after work-hours, sitting in a dark office alone until midnight, doofing, zapping and squelching. All tracks featured in the present album were born in this particular working environment. They reflect a cross-over from House and Trance into the Goa and Psytrance realms, influenced by a variety of thought-provoking Trance-related 'entities': Global Underground releases, the housey-trance spiritual themes of "In Worship Of False Idols" by Baby Doc & The Dentist, HardDesertTrance mixes, Christ, the fully Goa styled "In The Mix" by Robert Miles, which paved the way for piano-based rave music, the voxless version of "Perception" by Cass & Slide, and the Psychaos tracks featured in the "Concept In Dance 2: Tribal Science In Trance" compilation. During this creative process, however, David felt that his electronic music production skills were somehow limited and that he would only attempt to make tracks in the style of Ticon and Necton, and the simpler sort of dancey vibes.

David signed his tracks under the name project "Circle", a simple word that conveyed the cycle of life and his obsession at the time about the way all things are connected. Reflecting retrospectively on his musical journey, he experienced a "blast from the past": he found himself piecing together tracks, timeframes, personal experiences, i.e. fragments of his memories and momentos, that make up the title of this album.

The opening track, "Mixed Emotions", is the result of an accidental play between a major and minor scale progression that transformed the vibe from melancholy to happiness. The listener is first immersed in a dark and indifferent atmosphere, forced to challenge the less confident / hopeful aspects of themselves. At some point, magic emerges and the sounds begin to construct, from the same elements, a sense of hope, purpose, and joy. "Nimby" was inspired by the lack of social cohesion, as described by George Carlin, the fact that no-one wanted any public outreach or assistance facilities near their own home. "Hunter Gatherers" is strongly connected to the muddy, basic basslines and stomping rhythms of Necton, as well as the "found sounds they were kicking out" of Shiva Chandra. "Fun" is more on the light and groovy side: it was written when David had just discovered Ticon and was impressed with the way the duo made such great tracks out of very simple ideas. "Crystal Columns" was inspired by the shifting basslines and percussion David was hearing on some Tech House tracks. Influenced by James Holden, Infected Mushroom and Shpongle, he ended up combining these elements with female vocals, as he was also listening to some medieval female a capella songs. "Damaged Datalinks" is the result of David’s fascination with some Techy House tracks with shifting naughty basslines that worked well on the dancefloor. Following Cass & Slide and James Holden, "The Next Chapter" uses a melody that is placed over a single monotone root note for some time and then the bassline changes under it. The inter-related, symbiotic elements unify and excite the mood and the vibe. From a sense of indifference, the listener is elevated to a state of wonder, and purpose. Finally, “The Gift" was inspired by a girl David was deeply smitten with, who motivated him to write a more easy-going slow track.

All tracks were produced between 2000 and 2001; some were once available in low MP3 quality on the now-defunct MP3.com platform. They were played by some South African top DJ’s and on 5FM radio station. They are released here in full audio quality for the first time. The only exceptions are "Crystal Columns" and "The Next Chapter", enhanced with the aid of modern technology, as the original masters did not survive in wave format.

Tracklist:

01 – Mixed Emotions
02 – Nimby
03 – Hunter Gatherers
04 – Fun
05 – Crystal Columns
06 – Damaged Datalinks
07 – The Next Chapter
08 – The Gift

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: David Beer
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Vas Cosmogenesis, Federico Draeke
Catalogue number: UGR 052
Available now on Bandcamp: https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/frag-mentos

8 track album

27/09/2023

Unreleased Goa Records is proud to officially release "Species", the final chapter of the Sneila collected works trilogy. Co-founder of the first Romanian electronic festival TMBASE, previously known for his involvement in the MFDN band in 1995, Cosmin Constantinescu created "Sneila" ("Aliens" spelled backwards) towards the end of the 90's. This prolific project, inspired by conspiracy theories related to extra-terrestrial intelligence (the "alliance" with the "aliens" covered by "a lie"), gave birth to two popular albums that were once available as DAM CDs on the MP3.com platform and as limited run CD-Rs in 2000-2001. The first was "Implosion", re-released with considerable success by Unreleased Goa Records in November 2021. The second one, "Species", is available now in full audio quality for the first time ever, revived in remastered form.

This intergalactic Goa Trance album counts among the classic works of the genre. Its breathtaking rhythms and powerful synth riffs lift bodies off the ground, propel them to the edge of dreams, and take them to another part of the universe.

Tracklist:

01 – Electromagnetic Pulse
02 – Flying Objects Always Reach The Ground
03 – Last Trip To Transilvania
04 – Plasma
05 – Pumpkin
06 – Yeti Or Alien
07 – Levitation
08 – Dark Ceremony

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Cosmin Constantinescu
Originally mastered by: Cosmin Constantinescu; remastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Cosmin Constantinescu, Andreea Udeanu
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 051
Available now on Bandcamp: https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/species

8 track album

04/09/2023

Unreleased Goa Records celebrates its 50th album with a highly anticipated release from Swedish act Sensphere titled "Axonal Takeover". Anders Hermansson started producing electronic music around the age of 15 after being introduced to FastTracker on Amiga and composed his first tracks under the "Emolient" alias as early as 1995. This first project name was inspired by a random word found in a dictionary, that refers to a component of skin creams. A year or two later, a friend introduced Anders to the classic works of Astral Projection, Man With No Name, and Etnica. Already addicted to electronic music, he was quickly hooked to the psychedelic genre. In 1998, his style and taste had developed and matured so much that he felt necessary to use a new name for his Psychedelic Trance project. He invented the term "Sensphere", a combination of "sense" and "fear", an interesting word-play that sounded cool and reflected his sensitive personality.

Anders was particularly prolific and gifted in terms of production. His earlier Sensphere works explored the Goa side of psychedelic trance and were heavily inspired by Astral Projection and MFG. Two of these experiments, "When Time Has No Meaning" and "Astral Atmosphere" (released as "Whirlpool In The Pattern"), were published by the Blackhole netlabel run by JRB in 1999. Shortly afterward, Anders went deep into the darker side of the genre, attracted by music with fast decay sawtooth waveforms on every 16th note. An avid reader of "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan, Anders shaped a unique fantasy-inspired musical style that gravitates towards a dissonant or uncomfortable element like buzzing winds or a weird sawtooth horn. This idiosyncratic approach caught the attention of popular US-based Ultrabeat netlabel, where he published the "Black Ajah" EP and the track "Balefire" in 2000. These releases were followed by a vinyl EP and several compilation tracks on various Swedish and UK labels, including Kukomi, Psyforce, Implant, and Sphere Records.

The present album has been conceived as a definitive collection of the Sensphere project. It gathers all previously released and unreleased tracks produced by the artist between 1998 and 2001. Half of these tracks were sequenced in FastTracker 2 and used soft synths such as Dreamstation and Audiosim for DOS, which created snappy and resonant bandpass filters. Later tracks like "Typhoid", "Disorder" and "Respawn" were produced with the aid of Rebirth, Cakewalk, and Logic Audio to some extent. The medicinal term "Axonal Takeover" was the title of an album that Anders had already in mind while composing his first Goa tracks and refers to neuromuscular and synaptic connections.

Sensphere music was played live at small and bigger parties in Sweden, Portugal, Holland, and Denmark, next to legendary acts Atmos, Noma, Krumelur, and Bakke. Anders’s most memorable performance was at an outdoor party in the forests of Eskilstuna. The tracks of this album are released in full audio quality for the first time. The only exceptions are "Stygian Fire", "Kaf", "I Love Paranoia", "Mosk & Merk" and "When Time Has No Meaning", enhanced with the aid of modern technology, as the original masters did not survive in wave format.

This anthology will be supplemented and completed by an Emolient EP, expected from Unreleased Goa Records in the near future.

Tracklist:

01 – Breaking Of The World
02 – Shadar Logoth
03 – Mind Creating Matter
04 – Compulsion
05 – Shayol Ghul
06 – Word Of Datura
07 – Aliens
08 – Falling Into A Black Hole
09 – Syntax Terror
10 – The Cleansing
11 – Machin Shin
12 – The One Power
13 – Balefire
14 – Typhoid
15 – Disorder
16 – Neurotrancer
17 – Respawn
18 – Angreal
19 – Stygian Fire
20 – Kaf
21 – I Love Paranoia
22 – Mosk And Merk
23 – Astral Atmosphere
24 – When Time Has No Meaning

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Anders Hermansson
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 050
Available now on Bandcamp:

24 track album

26/07/2023

Unreleased Goa Records proudly presents "Harmonic Distortion", the third Goa Trance album of Greek veteran Elxis. George Gavras’s debut with Goa Trance music was in 1996. He named his project 'Elxis', the Greek word for 'attraction', both physical and spiritual. This concept inseminated George's creativity, as he felt attracted to the merits of music, to the sentiment of mutual satisfaction between himself and his audience. It became his driving power when he produced the famous hit 'Ultramundane Magma', followed next year by 'Prismatic', both featured in the 'Trance Experience' compilation series, released by Discobole Recordings and distributed by Sony Music.

"Harmonic Distortion" is the last chapter of a trilogy destined to shed light on the project's extensive unpublished repertoire. The twelve masterpieces featured on this album span from 2009 to 2023 and represent the peak of the artist’s production skills, that continuously evolve throughout the last two decades. The Elxis style remains faithful to an idiosyncratic Sci-Fi approach to the Goa Trance genre, encompassing a large range of pioneering works, mainly by Psychaos, Cyan, Hallucinogen, and Infected Mushroom.

Tracklist:

01 – Elliptic Conjugator
02 – Space Time Continuum
03 – Enter The Matrix
04 – Sonic Antimatter
05 – Paradox Syndrome
06 – Interdimensional
07 – Unknown Dark Matter
08 – Terminus
09 – Novalectial Delos (Pcychonaught Mix)
10 – Cosmic Waveforms (Psycho Deep Mix)
11 – Cosmogony
12 – Cubik Distance

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: George Gavras
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 049
Available now on Bandcamp:

12 track album

16/06/2023

Unreleased Goa Records proudly presents "Quantum Healing", the second Goa Trance album of Hungarian melodic magician Skarma. Zoltán Habó started producing Goa Trance in 2002, at a time it was less and less heard at parties. His first tracks were made with Commodore 64, Nord Modular, E-mu E5000, Korg EA-1, Lexicon MPX-1, Virus b, and a PC with Celeron 566 MHz. His main source of inspiration was the trance genre in general, which he converted musically to Melodic Goa Trance; melodies are a key component of his tracks, with up to 2-3 layers at a time. The "breakdown - climax" structure is very typical of the Skarma sound.

Zoltán wanted a unique name for his project. While flipping through a Lakadhi-English dictionary, he came across "skar ma" ("star" in English) and decided to use it as it is both euphonic and easy to remember. Since 2003, he released numerous compilation tracks on labels Hado Records, Suntrip Records, Global Sect Music and S.U.N. He performed at countless live events, in Europe and Israel, including Ozora, Balkan Goa Fanatics, Fractal Gate, Spiritual Movement, Heartbeat and S.U.N. Festival. He will perform this summer at Apsara.

After his successful "Gateway" album, Zoltán collaborates again with Unreleased Goa Records for this second collection of tracks representative of his music output between 2004 and 2015. The nineteen stellar pieces featured here epitomize Zoltán’s distinct approach to Goa Trance: ecstatic dance, happiness, submergence into waves of melodies, honoring the tradition of legendary acts such as Man With No Name and Astral Projection. "Quantum Healing" is the last stop on a trip down memory lane, a journey deep into the Skarma archives.

Tracklist:

01 – Unlimited (2004)
02 – Lightwave (2005)
03 – Quantum Healing (2011)
04 – Xtratosphere (2010)
05 – Neon Glowing Pupil (2015 Mix)
06 – The Rain Of Wisdom (2010)
07 – Dream Digger (Complex Mix) (2010)
08 – Heliolyte 57 (2008)
09 – Assignable Process (2009)
10 – A Second Chance (2004)
11 – Astrolaris (2008)
12 – Heliodromus (2004)
13 – Phasea (2008)
14 – Neon Glowing Pupil (2005)
15 – Spiralion (2008)
16 – Integral Error (2004)
17 – Forgotten Life (2004)
18 – Brain Puzzle (2004)
19 – Submergence (2010)

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Zoltán Habó
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Audio restoration by: Federico Draeke, assisted by: Pavlos Avouris
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 048
Available now on Bandcamp:

19 track album

23/05/2023

Unreleased Goa Records celebrates its 50th release with "Imaginary Landscapes", the second mindblowing Goa Trance album of French prodigy Opale. Gregory Bailay started to produce Goa Trance in the early 90’s. He first made music together with his childhood friends Christof Drouillet (Absolum) and Frédéric Holyszewski (Deedrah), known as the legendary Transwave duo. His style was initially techno hardcore in the same vein as the notorious DJs Manu le Malin, Laurent Hô and Liza N’Elias. Greg worked as the editor of the hardcore fanzine TNT together with Michel Comte (Professeur Diabolique), and took part in the first Teknivals with the Spiral Tribe. In 1992, he chose the name "Opale" for his musical project. This gem stone switches from clarity to brightness, it sparkles with a thousand fires and its colours inspire purity. Greg saw there an analogy with trance music, which can be full of life and sweetness. The same year, he attended a trance event at Rennes with artists such as Underground Resistance, Jeff Mills, Juantrip', Frankie Bones, The Orb, 808 State, Oliver Bondzio and Hardfloor, who helped him shape his approach on electronic music. Other major influences were X-Dream, Juno Reactor, Blue Planet Corporation, The Overlords, and Prana.

After his successful "Anaconda’s Dance" album, released in December 2020, Greg collaborates again with Unreleased Goa Records to publish the second collection of tracks representative of his music output between 1993 and 2006. In recent years, the artist unearthed several DAT tapes from his vaults. The tracks recorded there were miraculously exhumed after a complex restoration work and are presented here for the first time ever. This massive release consists of a first part of twelve tracks, all found in their final state: single unreleased pieces, alternate mixes and remixes of previously known tracks plus a few post-2000 productions. The second part features nine experimental productions from 1993, which show the genealogy of Greg’s idiosyncratic style: powerful catchy sequences and furious melodic and acidic transitions. They are included as an addendum to this release mainly for historical purposes.

As suggested by most track titles, Greg’s powerful music was often inspired by comic books and movies featuring super heroes. He was an avid reader and fan of the monthly French "Strange" Magazine, which featured stories of characters from Marvel and DC Comics. He recollects that more than once he composed a new track right after watching an epic action film in theaters.

Tracklist:

01 – Anaconda’s Dance (Alternate Mix) (1995)
02 – Cyclope (Remix) (1993)
03 – Groovy Baby (1997)
04 – Running (1993)
05 – Gandalf’s Return (Final Mix) (2001)
06 – Gladiator (Remix) (2001)
07 – Lord Of The Minds (Remix) (2001)
08 – Diablo (Remix) (1993)
09 – Colosse (1993)
10 – Maya (1993)
11 – Gladiator (Original Mix) (2000)
12 – Sparte (2006)
13 – Cyclope (Original Mix) (1993)
14 – Hurleur (X-Men) (1993)
15 – Serval (1993)
16 – On Line (1993)
17 – Performance (1993)
18 – Diablo (Original Mix) (1993)
19 – Planète 28 (1993)
20 – Cannibal (1993)
21 – Daredevil (1993)

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Greg Bailay
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 047
Available now on Bandcamp:

21 track album

05/05/2023

Unreleased Goa Records is very proud to introduce Man in A Room, a talented project from the United Kingdom, and his mindblowing album ‘Darker Themes With A Goan Twist’. Stuart Christie was into music from an early age: he learned how to play a keyboard and a piano (by looking at his sister who had piano lessons), progressed to create his own compositions of various genres, and discovered sequencing. In the late 80's, when rave was in full swing, he was fascinated by electronic music and started composing dance, house, and techno tracks. In 1994, he discovered Goa Trance through parties he attended in Tyssen Studios and Abbot Street in Dalston, London, where he developed a love for this music and went on to create his own tracks of this style. In December 1995, he went to India for Christmas, spending his time around the Vagator area in Goa, and attending parties at Disco Valley and Bamboo Forest. He stayed there six months in total traveling around the country. Upon his return to the UK in mid-1996, he dedicated his time to producing Goa Trance honing his skills along the way. He returned to India in January 1997 to travel for another three months in places he previously missed.

Stuart’s musical influences encompass a wide range of genres, however acts such as Hallucinogen, The Infinity Project, ManMadeMan, Green Nuns Of The Revolution, Alien Project, and Infected Mushroom, and labels such as TIP, Twisted, Dragonfly, Flying Rhino, Platipus, and Hook Recordings, were instrumental in shaping his own distinct style. Typically, Stuart's tracks have very few samples amidst multiple sounds that build an all-around rhythmic trance sound that flows in numerous directions. Massive beats are layered with a repetitive techno bassline and grinding acid riffs fl**ge and modulate into an o**y of twisted transcendental delight.

In December 1997, Stuart submitted a demo tape titled ‘Darker EP’ to UK-based Future Music magazine, which contained the first 4 tracks of the present album. A lengthy article, that praised Stuart’s talent, was in particular dedicated to ‘Early Sun’. The track was described by the magazine as ‘a tripped-out acid trance soundscape, very much in the Goa mould, with a very Eastern flavour which smacks something like Hallucinogen’. It was also featured in the magazine’s CD compilation together with other readers' demos.

‘Darker Themes With A Goan Twist’ has been conceived as an extension of this original demo EP. It includes 9 spectacular melodic Goa Trance pieces produced between 1994 and 1998. The first six tracks were originally recorded on a Tascam DA30 DAT, and the rest originate from a cassette source. The majority of them were produced with the following gear:

Atari ST running C-lab Notator
Sansui MX-12 mixer
Korg M1 keyboard
Yamaha SY22 keyboard
Roland U-220 module
Yamaha A3000 sampler
Yamaha ProMix 01
Akai S3000XL
Alesis micro & midiverb

A couple of tracks were recorded at different studios with slightly different equipment, such as Akai s1000, EMU, and some random synths.

Stuart never performed live at any official events, except for an infamous local party. He used to play only for himself and his friends, being literally a ‘man creating music in a room’. An aortic aneurysm in March 2000 prematurely ended his prolific writing period, as it greatly affected his ability to play and, to some extent, to create.

Unreleased Goa Records is particularly happy to pay homage to this artist’s outstanding musical heritage that fortunately survived for nearly three decades and is now officially available for everyone.

Exclusively available on Bandcamp are five additional tracks, produced around the same period, extracted from the artist’s cassettes.

Tracklist:

01. Power
02. Centrifuge
03. Tyssen Valley
04. Early Sun
05. Fine Thing
06. Synthadelica
07. Hypnosis
08. Drop One
09. Skiptrip

Bonus Tracks:

10. The Thing
11. Tweaker
12. Melody
13. Open Your Psy
14. Psy Mee

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Stuart Christie
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Audio restoration for tracks 7-14 by: Federico Draeke
Painting by: Stuart Christie
Artwork [Lettering]: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Vas Cosmogenesis, Federico Draeke
Catalogue number: UGR 046
Available now on Bandcamp: https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/darker-themes-with-a-goan-twist

14 track album

12/04/2023

Unreleased Goa Records proudly presents ‘Nocturnal Eschatologists’, the second mindblowing Goa Trance album of UK project Soliptic. Stephen Mercer’s first encounter with music was in his childhood when he learned to play the piano and the clarinet and took part in some cover bands. As a teenager, in the mid-to-late 90’s, he started producing ambient, chillout, and drum’n’bass. In 2000, while at university, he joined Keiretsu, a live band that blended drum’n’bass, breakbeat, and techno with rock, jazz, and folk. A year later, Stephen was introduced to the world of psychedelic trance by his housemate Brendan; classic releases recorded on minidiscs, such as ‘Cosmology’ by Cosmosis, ‘Twisted’ by Hallucinogen, and ‘Rock Bitch Mafia’ by Green Nuns Of The Revolution. Their intricate melodies, expansive design, and ambitious and unpredictable structures soon convinced Stephen to start making Goa himself, a funny experimental solo project that he called "Soliptic". The name comes from the term "solipsism", a viewpoint stating that only our own mind exists; according to Stephen, music is one of various ways to express exactly that.

For the fabric of the Soliptic style, Stephen challenged himself to replicate effects that impressed him the most in Goa Trance, like Simon Posford’s trick of morphing smoothly between 4/4 and 12/8, to make tracks that vary from minimal musical content to stacking umpteen layers of over-the-top melodic counterpoint. He consciously made tracks that constantly evolved from start to finish, balancing out the inherent looping repetitiousness of trance with subtle "through-composed" details that only happen once. A huge fan of Shpongle, Eat Static, and Ozric Tentacles, Stephen infused subtle elements of his eclectic listenings to his own twisty techy basslines : classical, afrobeat, soul, funk, metal, jazz, country, drum’n’bass. He also used samples from kitsch/camp and sci-fi movies and series (X-Files, Star Trek, The Outer Limits) to add a pinch of humour to the mix.

After his successful ‘Whirling Mathematicians’ album, released in November 2021, Stephen collaborates again with Unreleased Goa Records to publish the second collection of tracks representative of his music output between 2002 and 2003. They were assembled on his PC with lots of VST plugins (OhmBoyz dub-tape delay, Blood Overdrive distortion, etc.) and some soft synths from EMU XK6 keyboard and Korg MS2000R. The present album features ‘Riot Fuel’, released on the ‘Fluorotronik’ compilation by Tranceform Records, as well as eight previously unreleased pieces that were once downloadable as MP3 files on Dart Recordings. They are now available for the first time in full quality.

Stephen explains the reasons why he called his second album ‘Nocturnal Eschatologists’: “I came up with ‘nocturnal’ because I always lived a rather nocturnal life working on these tracks on headphones deep into the night; and ‘eschatologists’ since a lot of tracks have samples dealing with big issues like ‘humanity’s place in the universe’ and there are some quite dark, apocalyptically stompy ones on the album, so the theme of eschatology seems a bit appropriate. But, at the same time, those ‘dark’ themes and samples were a little bit tongue-in-cheek, so I wanted something that also sounded a bit silly. In the end, ‘Nocturnal Eschatologists’ is what I came up with”.

Tracklist:

01. Ajipjuteket
02. Dangerous Dinosaurs
03. Particle Swarm
04. Coke Fiend
05. Riot Fuel
06. Perspective
07. The Pulse
08. Solar Flair
09. Psyanide

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Stephen Mercer
Mastered by: Stephen Mercer
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Vas Cosmogenesis, Federico Draeke
Catalogue number: UGR 045
Available now on Bandcamp: https://unreleasedgoarecords.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnal-eschatologists

9 track album

Unreleased Goa Records

24/12/2023

28/11/2023

01/11/2023

27/09/2023

04/09/2023

26/07/2023

16/06/2023

23/05/2023

05/05/2023

12/04/2023

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