Ominus - Ominus (1997)

Label: Koyote Records (UK)
Catalog#: KRCD003
Format: CD
Country: UK
Released: 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Goa Trance
Credits: Producer, Written By — Dara Lee (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 8) , Marcello Bonifacii , Miranda Silvergren (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 8)
Notes: The track 'Shape Shifter' is sometimes credited to Encens.
Rating: 4.4/5 (17 votes)

Tracklisting:
1 We Mean You No Harm (10:06)
2 Toxic Brainwaves (8:58)
3 Tribalistic (8:26)
4 Hallucinogenic Hyperdrive (8:32)
5 Acid Tester (6:22)
6 Shape Shifter (9:03)
7 Physical Encounter (7:28)
8 Mindbender (9:16)

Every now and then you stumble over an album from the old days that you've only gotten acquainted with now. And you wonder; would my record collection look much different had I discovered this album when it was released?

Ominus' selftitled album is but a dazzling psychedelic trance voyage from the golden era. Everything you connect with it. Upbeat, melodic, innovative, and with so much going on even today it sounds cutting edge. When was the last time you heard shuffle beat psytrance that felt like, hell yeah!!? Opening track We Mean You No Harm pulls that off with standing ovations. Toxic Brainwaves follows up with a straight 4/4 goa track but packed with different melodic sections, all danceable, all creative and all fun. Like Astral Projection on a creative day. Plus the energy, less the straight forwardness. Bliss. Tribalistic supplies the 3rd homerun, a track both deep and simple, and psychedelic as hell. Track 5 Acid Tester is another dancefloor bomb packed with melodies, energy, speed and freaky samples. You can dance, or you can trip. Or you can do both! Ominus supplies something for the feet as well as the mind. Mindnumbing. With Shapeshifter Ominus cools things a bit. You go deep for a second, but Physical Encounter to the rescue. Trippy, melodic, insisting, you're bound to the floor again and when Mindbender nails the coffin with a another dancefloor bomb I am left with only one question:

This album is almost 10 years old and thus eligible for an "essential" sticker, but is it up to me to give such a mark considering I'm only hearing it now? Well, then, I'll give it a highly recommended, bordering essential mark. No, damnit, this gets a 5/5 mark!!

Nine years behind at least I'm on it now ... ;o) And this ROCKS! Big time !!

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