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The TIP crew have found the time right to release the history of TIP! TIP has been one of the pioneer labels in the goa/psytrance scene, and with this double compilation they show us some of their fantastic tracks from the early beginning and up till recent. With the two cds, you get a fat booklet with pictures of some TIP flyers and pictures of a lot of the rare old TIP releases. TIP has also become a very popular label for trance collectors, because of the good quality releases and because most TIP releases are hard to find limited edition releases. In the booklet, you can read about each track. The first TIP party was in London in December 16th 1990, when Raja Rams daughter Sastra invited 200 friends and Raja Ram invited 200 of his friends to a party at the London Meat Market in Farringdon. The label appeared in the fall of 1994, and TIP became popular pretty fast.
TIP The Story (TIP.World 2003) TIPWCD25
CD1:
1. The Infinity Project – Freedom From The Flesh
2. Total Eclipse – Waiting For A New Life
3. Doof – Mars Needs Women Remix
4. Green Nuns Of The Revolution – Conflict
5. Astral Projection – Enlightened Evolution
6. Orichalcum – Wicked Mille
7. Psychopod – Psychopod
8. Hallucinogen – Soothsayer (Lysurgeon Warning Remix)
9. X-Dream – Panic In Paradise
CD2:
1. Sandman – Starfinder (Edit)
2. Growling Mad Scientists – Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
3. Synchro – Science Friction
4. Maskalin – Alien Funk
5. Cyberbabas – Cyberbaba
6. Alien Project – Midnight Sun (GMS Remix)
7. Logic Bomb – Neighbour Of the Beast
8. 1200 Mics – Crystal Skulls Part 2 (Excerpt)
9. Mystery Of The Yeti (Excerpt)
10. Shpongle – Rumours Of Vapours
First out is a classic Infinity Project (Graham Wood and Raja Ram Rothfield) track released on the fantastic Feeling Weird album in 1995. Rare album and great track. Track 2 is a classic by Total Eclipse (Serge Souque). They never released any albums on TIP, but a few singles. This one is a melodic crazy goa master piece. Track 3 is probably the most famous track Doof (Nick Barber) has ever made! It builds up and will always do good for the dance floors. Track 4 is another classic by The Green Nuns (Matt Coldrick and Dick Trevor). They released their album on Flying Rhino, but they came out with a master piece on TIP too. Track 5 is by the israli stars Astral Projection. Their classic Trust In Trance album was released on TIP Records and on the Trust In Trance label in Israel. Here you get a taste of the album. Track 6 is a taste of Orichalcum. One of my all time favourite trance groups. This is really crazy psychedelic trance! The track you get here is a classic from the album Orichalcum & The Deviant released in 1997. Psychopod, also called Koxbox and Saiko-Pod, released two cd singles on TIP. Here you get the first one. Great track, as always from those Danish guys. Then we get a Hallucinogen track called Soothsayer. This one was never released on any of Simon Posfords albums, but on the fourth single on TIP. A very psychedelic track with a lot of crazy sounds. They finishes cd 1 with the X-Dream track Panic In Paradise. This one was originally released on the German label Tunnel Records. A fantastic track that made many people aware of the talented X-Dream guys.
CD 2 starts off with one of the biggest hits at Ibiza in 1997 by Sandman! Then we get my favourite track by GMS, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? This one is really crazy, with totally twisted melodies. Synchro from Amsterdam suddenly released his debut album Science Friction on TIP Records in 1998. This was a new style of psytrance with break beats, which tons of other artists has copied after that. Here you get a classic from the album. In 1998, TIP got serious problems because of the distributor. But TIP came back as TIP.World, and finally things went well again when they released the Trance De Eivissa compilation. Here you get the melodic track by Maskalin from that compilation. Then TIP.World released the Movers And Groovers compilations. We get a taste of it by Cyberbabas, who are Raja Ram and Benji Vaughan (Prometheus) in a collaboration. On these compilations they took a look at the less full on side of psytrance. The TIP crew got their eyes up pretty fast when Ari Linker (Alien Project) released his debut album on Phonokol in Israel in 2001, and two albums later he released his third album on TIP.World in 2002. Here we get a taste of the single, where GMS has remixed the classic Midnight Sun track. Probably the most played psytrance track in 2001. The talented Swedish Logic Bomb released their second album on TIP.World last year. Here you get the hardest track from the album, Neighbour Of The Beast. But TIP.World will probably be remembered more for their totally crazy album 1200 Micrograms, recorded with a lot of creamage (as they say..) in two weeks at Ibiza. Hated my some, loved by others. They have now also released a 1200 Mics track on The Secret Of The Crystal Skulls too, which we get a taste of here. They finishes this history compilation by two psyambient tracks. First a taste of the wonderful Mystery Of The Yeti, and finishes it all with Shpongle, Rumours Of Vapours, released on the first Infinite Excursions.
Personally I have got all these tracks on earlier TIP releases, but it`s fun to have for a collector, especially because of the story in the booklet. If you haven`t got the TIP releases, this compilation is a must have. No bad tracks on this one, and that`s pretty rare these days!
PK
