can anyone recommend early acid techno/ trance circa 92-95

populist choice: get this cj bolland mix or this carl cox mix

connoiseurial choice (with downloads!): irdial records

damon wild is a consistent thread in this sort of stuff, though i favor the sound that fed more into acid techno than into trance.

obv gareth to thread ... in fact if you look for threads he started i am pretty sure he's started at least 2 or 3 threads on this very subject.

but seriously ... fuck jam+spoon.

http://www.austerproductions.com/steve/Steve_Eagle_-_When_Trance_Was_Good_pt_3.mp3

tracklist:
01. Cosmic Baby - Stellar Supreme [MFS 7033-2]
02. Futurhythm - Transmanic [MFS 7017-0]
03. Cygnus X - Hypermetrical [Eye Q 0630 12614-2]
04. L.S.G. - My Time Is Yours (Club Mix) [Superstition 2050-2]
05. Der Dritte Raum - Alienoid [Harthouse HHCD 017]
06. Microglobe - Afreuropamericasiaustralia [MFS 7055-2]
07. Virtual Symmetry - The V.S. (Fable Mix) [Eye Q 017 CD]
08. Union Jack - Yeti [Platipus plat 36 cd]
09. Spicelab - Blue Manna [Global Ambition GAMB 038-6]
10. Cygnus X - Superstring [Eye Q 0630 12614-2]
11. Resistance D - Throm 3 [Harthouse HHSP 005 CD]
12. Dave Angel - Planet Function [R&S RS 91 024]
13. Sven Väth - Rainforest Is Calling [Positiva CDTIVA-1011]
14. The Essence of Nature - Blue Lotus [Harthouse HH 038]
15. Microglobe - Stars (What Is Space?) (Lt. Uhura Mix) [EMI Electrola 7243 8 27857 2 9]
16. Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar (Cosmic Baby's Impression) [Eye Q 001]
17. Cosmic Baby - Träume [Time Out Of Mind T.O.O.M.002/CD]

The only place I can find anything about it is allmusic, which gives it a pretty good review but I'd like to know a little more.

So steer clear?

Cancelled :( He got annoyed at the new visa application process and ditched the US part of his tour. He did this last year (2003?) too. Oh well.

Nothing but love and respect for LFO.

The last time I even tried to follow anything close to this kind of music was '92-'95. I've been out of touch for 10 years, I guess. Although I did like the first Basement Jaxx album and Layo & Bushwacka's "Night Works" about two years ago.

Regardless, the best and most unknown record from this period hands down was the first 12" by Sub Sub called the "Coast" EP, 1992 on Rob Gretton's label (New Order's manager) Rob's Records. Nothing Sub Sub ever did even began to touch it's brilliance. To think I had an ample chance to steal it once, and refused to out of sheer honesty! I feel pretty sure I'll never live to find it in the black vinyl flesh again. Anyway, then they went on to become The Doves. Who are all right, you know, but it never really was the same.

Black Dog had their moments, too. I still have "Cost II" and love it. I remember many names from this period: Tresor, Eon, Harthouse records, Joey Beltram, Sven Vath, etc. But my favourites were Orbital, Ultramarine and Aphex Twin. Aphex became a lot less interesting as time went on, though. I guess they all did to some degree.

ooh now I want to go listen to some Dave Angel vibes.

Admittedly, I always thought their reputation exceeded the quality of their output, but The Hypnotist, Air Liquide, and mf'ing CHURCH OF EXTACY more than justify the label's mention on this thread.

React released a triple CD comp which is one disc Belgian techno, one disc early trance (almost qualifying for the name "hard trance" but earlier than that actual scene) and one disc nu-nrg. I should listen to it more, esp as I don't have any other nu-nrg and it's got this weirdly hypnotic propulsive sheen to it.

plus Plug, A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd, Rising High Collective, Caspar Pound, Steve Bug, etc

IMHO Rising High was aeons better than pretty much any other "trance" label around at the time. Platipus was too often cheesily trying to be psy-trance, and MFS and Superstition too often had no quality control - putting out all kinds of pisspoor Dutch and Italian trance-lite stuff. I know German labels and artists are really popular now, but the fact that trance went all "pretty" and CRAP is largely attributable to the German trance influence of labels like MFS and producers like PVD, Sakin, etc.

Also, I will second the React "Reactivate" series, and also recommend the Bitter and Twisted mix by Mrs Wood and Blu Peter. It was one of my favorites back in the day for Nu-NRG/Trance-techno x-over stuff.

i love the cartoon sea-animal covers on those reactivate comps. they remind me of dj clever's "troubled waters" cd, except cuter and prettier and better colors. so #10 is the place to start?? what other vols are good??

I should listen to it more, esp as I don't have any other nu-nrg

you should listen to it because it's got dj misjah & dj tim - "access"

For my money, the greatest hard trance compilation of all time is Senza Volto - An Eve Collection (1997), which is basically a collection of Pablo Gargano's output on the Eve label. It took the genre to artistic heights which I never heard equalled again, as formulaic lowest-common-denominator Eye-beef-a fodder started to suck the life out of the music from 1998 onwards.

Labworks
Over Drive
Analogue
R&S
Music Man
Juice, Australia (plug)
Force Inc
Plus 8/Probe
DJAX Upbeats
Experimental

The main ringleaders included Thomas Heckman, Woody McBride, Uwe Schmidt (Atom Heart) and Cem Oral (Ultrahigh), but locally DJ HMC had it going on.

Missile: Greatest Launches CD is full of sicko acid tracks like "To the Sky", "Ego Acid" and "Horn Track". If you like things like Misjah and Tim you'll be well into this.

And despite the comments above, I don't think you can go wrong with any of the Rising High compilations. The Secret Life of Trance series was one of my favorites way back when.

But definitely, Rising High had some brilliant output during said period. Rising High was just a great label, period. Never got into The Secret Life of Trance, though.

Got in the mail the first 4 volumes of the Gaia Tonträger compilations (1+2 and 3+4).

There's a great selection under the crudely pixellated cover art. Industrial, acid and spacey, bridging early minimal German trance and full-blown goa: E-Rection, Jungle High, S.M.I.L.E., Evolution, Aqua Regia, X-Dream... a mighty fine discovery!