4 mixes of European-style melodic trance track from Japan's Yosihumi Niinuma (aka Sympathy Nervous and Dr Numa).

2 mixes of title cut with a down tempo syncopated rhythm: "Dubtech Mix" and "Industrial Mix". Plus "Sangel" (chilled techno-breaks).

Under-rated album from Dutch duo from Swains. Highlights: "When Demons Come" with a moody build-up and scary voice samples; and "The 4 Horsemen" which features throbbing analogue synth sounds, funky drumming and those popular beats from Renegade Soundwave's "Cocaine Sex". CD version with three extra tracks.

4 banging club mixes of haunting track from Demon album: "What do you see when the demons come?" Plus "Rough Trancelation (Live Mix)".

12"-only EP of early PWOG-style techno featuring 4 tracks. Features tracks also on Natural Born Techno 3 and 4 cd compilations.

Cool techno from Australian David Thrussell (from Snog and Soma) who's genocidal concept moves from Autechre-style moody ambient-techno ("The Unreality Industry") to Detroit-styled ("The More Confusion...The More Profit") to industrial noise-edged hardcore ("Joyful Slaughter"). Booklet features US government memo predicting Aids in 1969!

Mini-album of remixes of tracks from the Depopulation Bomb album. Featuring the original and "Deviant Creation" mixes of the acid-ish title track. Also the exclusive 14 minute track "Subservient" and 3 mixes of "Eugenics" (including the industrial hip hop "First Movement" and ambient "Third Movement").

2nd Nova Zembla full-length release of noise-edged techno and acid, aimed at the ruling elite and their plans for controlling the average citizen. Free your mind and your 303 will follow.

Belgium's Van Elsen brothers Stefan and Dimitri (who previously recorded as Trans4M) now producing warm Detroit-styled techno ala Kenny Larkin. Check out the Timothy Leary-sampling "Feel Real Good" and the glowing "EEG" for the Brain Pilot take on Detroit's intelligent sound. The CD features exclusively the great ambient bonus track "Matrix".

2nd album of Detroit-styled intelligent techno consisting of analogue synths and dreamy moods. Best tracks "Equilibrate", "Serotonine Flow" and "Brainsine". Don't tell British Petroleum about the new BP logo.

5 track mini-lp finding Brain Pilot getting into a darker, Autechre-styled sound of moody chords, spacious synth backgrounds and Detroit techno rhythms. Best track: "Wet Wired".

Full-length release in their new darker style in the mode of Autechre and CJ Bolland. With alternate mix of "Wet Wired (First Wiring)" and ambient moments "Trepan Dormant".

French duo into fast paced melodic trance-techno. CD features 4 extra tracks.

Belgian duo into techno and techno-house. The CD features the exclusive title track - a techno cover of the Wiseblood tune (written by Foetus and Roli Mosimann). Also includes: CJ Bolland-styled techno "Wintermute", techno-house-breaks "Eurocrat" and on the 12"-only "I Know What I Want".

Impressive debut from French quartet into hard dancefloor techno. 4 long, exclusive tracks including the 12m abstract electronic piece "Fluiid's".

Debut album from French hard techno group featuring the minimal Plastikman-styled tracks "Full Moon" and "Zniavre". CD with bonus ambient-drone track "Plan Station". Delible was ranked #1 in an Italia Underground Network chart and was album of the month in UK Bassline, New Life, Raveline and Immerse magazines.

Hit debut trance single including the original mix of "Interpretation Of Dreams" featuring a sample of Tibetan chant; the Harthouse-styled "Subconsciousness" and 2 others.

Classic Goa-trance from Denmark. Best tracks: "Elysium" and "Dance For The Celestial Beings". 2LP features extra track: the original mix of the hit "Master of the Rainforest".

Dramatic Goa classic with Middle Eastern vocal sample. Both formats feature "Electric Nature Remix" of the title track. CD features the 4 tracks from the Project One 12".

Vinyl-only 2 track trance collaboration between Elysium and Self-Transforming Machine Elves member W.O.R.M.. Features "Yemaya" from Natural Born Techno 5 compilation, a New Beat-ish trance track featuring World music samples. Also "Xanuba" with choir-type vocal backing and Middle Eastern violin.

European trio with a great hybrid techno sound using dubby hip hop beats and World vocal samples/instruments. 70 m long and as good as anything on the Nation label.

3 outstanding techno tracks from Australia's Psy Harmonics label, featuring didgeridoo on the dark, atmospheric title track.

Creative debut album with 2 extra tracks on the CD and a different mixes of "Red, Black and Mellow" and "Triad 3". The track "Dance of the Pink Elephants" gets into Eno/Hassell territory with a background horn drone and tribal rhythms.

4 track EP with of 'illuminated' Australian techno including the quirky "Mooove".

Detroit-styled techno from Canadian producer, Colin McGraw.
2 mixes each of smooth, melodic title track and "Planet Of Origin".

Debut full-length of Detroit-influenced techno, including the acid track "That Was Throb, This Is Limb" and the ambient "Rainful Memories".

Chill out techno on title track and "Ocean". Also includes ambient-trance cuts "Phobia" and "Ice Scape".

Chilled techno release from England's Pat Aston, who's sound is contemporary with discs from the Ntone, Fax and Beyond labels. Combines ambient-trance and dubby basslines.

Duo from Holland into moody ambience ("Dans Mon Lit", "Ghost"), PWOG/Exquisite Corpse-style techno ("Stealth") and chilled breaks ("Poseidon").

European-styled trance from Japan. Both formats feature seven mixes of title track based on a choral-synth motif. Plus exclusive track "Siafu".

1st full-length release from Japanese duo into banging beats and melodic trance.

Very good album of trippy ambience and chilled grooves. The highlights include the great bonus track on CD "Plateau" - a space-y jazzy hip hop track with duelling trumpets and a sinuous flute-y synth melody; "Kansas" - a mellow tabla groove with psychedelic synths; and "OK That's It" - dub bassline, flute and violin. CD with 4 extra tracks.

3 exclusive tracks of chilled techno, plus cut from Bitone album.

Excellent 2nd full length release with new influence from drum and bass ("K.O." and the World music-sampling "Tahiti"). These guys do it all - space-y ambience, analogue techno and tribal drumming.

12"-only release with 3 jungle tracks including the exclusive 10m cut "14141" plus 2 from the Ghostfish CD: "K.O." and "Tahiti" (a great psychedelic drum and bass track with World vocals).

Cool mutant techno from Neo-Tokyo (via Australia's Psy Harmonics crew). With techno-breaks hit "Ohar" and a kicking Public Enemy sample in "Technique I Follow".

4 mixes of hit track including techno-house version "Forest Has A Mouth Mix".

Great 2nd album with avant-Detroit influences: "We Are Sound", "Baba Louie" and "Windscreen Wiper".

61 minute chill-out album from Koen Lybaert and friends, previously known as Starfish Enterprises. Features synths, percussion, bells, Indian flute/horn, bagpipe, digeridoo and environmental sounds.

Vinyl-only techno EP with the long track "Restless" which starts quiet and builds up in intensity over a background drone; "Mountain Land" with frequency oscillations; and "O.D. Offday" early version of hit track featuring road drill-type sounds and drones.

12"-only chill out techno EP with "Cool For Lovers", "Interval 0.1", "0.2", "0.21", "Unnatural" and "Timeline".

Vinyl release featuring the 2 mixes of the title track by Tim Freeman (aka Dogon). Also includes the exclusive tracks "Control" with a EBM-ish rhythm loop, "Tag" a phasing house track, and Reptilion" a short extro of experimental tones.

A transitional release for Koen Lybaert between his early chill out and his later minimal techno productions. Features minimalist-ambient-techno, dark drones and chilled breaks ("Doubt"). 4 exclusive tracks to each format.

Banging minimalist techno. Features two mixes of the hit "Offday" by PWOG engineer Tim Freeman.

4 long Tangerine Dream-styled electronic/chill out tracks from Zen Paradox's Steven Law.

Kicking techno-house track from Belgian duo featuring Tom De Neef (aka Plastika) in 4 mixes, including 2 big remixes by European star Frank DeWulf (the techno-house "Remix" and the clubby "Tribal Mix").

First techno project from Japan's Yosihumi Niinuma (aka 02 Soul and Dr Numa) into hard, banging techno with rave and acid elements. Includes the outstanding tracks "Civil Minimum", "Emergence #5" and the house-y breaks on "Hunger for Pain".

Dancefloor techno-house track in 3 mixes; plus "Jerrybuilding".

4 exclusive tracks with a new complexity from samples of music and sound effects. Includes 2 mixes of title track: "Original" with hard beats combined with noise loops and electro-ish bass tones; and the "Carnival Remix" with breaks and hip-hop styled samples! Also features "Yasha's Street" and "Count Me In".

2nd full length release continues his new sounds heard on the Fatty Parasite single that combine more styles and samples to his raving techno. CD with one extra track.

Debut for Greek producer Nicolas Teloglu who has a sound like Sven Vath and PWOG.

2nd release from Greek techno producer. Best tracks: the Orbital-ish "Molecular Pause", the Steve Reich-styled "Nightmare In Cairo" and the melancholy "Remembrance".

Third Eye is the Goa trance project of Australia's Ollie Olsen, who in the past has made dance-pop as Max Q (with INXS' Micheal Hutchence RIP). This single features three mixes of a track from his Dance Of Creation CD/LP, including a club-oriented remix by Eddie De Clerq. The Gaia-minded track explains the Earth Mother spirituality of the Goa scene in a pleasant piano/synth/female spoken word setting in the style of the neoclassical trance of Sven Vath.

A fantastic Goa album celebrating the Buddhist cycle of death and rebirth with a joyous sequence of tracks that utilise the non-electronic sounds of female vocals, piano, harmonica and Tibetan chant and ritual instruments ("Heaven Transmission" exclusive to CD). The dynamic flow of mellow and upbeat tracks features the single "New Life", the neoclassical piano piece "Towards The Still Point" and the exciting title track. A classic in the genre.

Australia's Ollie Olsen and his partner Simon Polinksi get darker than their Goa-trance material on this great album of mysterious-sounding techno-rave tracks for the dancefloor. Samples of vocal chants swirl around tense programmed beats and atmospheric analogue synth oscillations. Fans of Coil's dance tune "The Snow" will dig the other-worldly sounds of "Think" and "There Is Nowhere To Go But There". Ancient Future also features the orchestra-sampling dark ambient track "Sea Of Tranquility", the ambient-trance cut "Chemical Angels" and the Philip Glass-styled trance of "You Know".

Xingu Hill's John Sellekaers and collaborator Olivier Moreau combine for a mini-album project dedicated to William Burroughs' Dr Benway character. Urawa's sound is a subterranean atmosphere of weird pulses and alarm beeps with rhythms from acid-techno ("Assembly"), CJ Bolland-styled kick drums ("Kendi") and LFO-type Morse code melodies ("Silo"). Experimental and claustrophobic (A Dog Called Demolition) will appeal to those into adventurous music.

S.T.M.E. member Stefan Osadzinski doing trance that features World vocals bytes. CD with three extra tracks.

Excellent debut album of ambient-techno and ambient-dub. Best tracks: "Sungate" tribal rhythms and trippy World vocal; and "Temple" ambient-dub with Arabic chant.

2nd album now featuring acid-trance amidst the moody ambience. Best tracks: "Technicolor" and "Anomaly".

Relay is a continuation of the Xingu Hill musical development. Xingu Hill's current sound now reminds of the Autechre tracks that aren't influenced by hip hop, although the police-radio-sampling track "Newshounds" could probably be pitched-up for that heavy electro-vibe. "Shockwave" leads off with a solid bass kick, machine-like counter-rhythms and menacing ambience. The drums are hard while the synth backing is still dark and full of surprises.

Nova Zembla's first release was this debut, licensed from Australia's Psy Harmonics label. Steven Law's impressive Harthouse-style trance began a long relationship with Nova Zembla. Best track: "The Light At The End...?".

4 track single with exclusive dark trance tracks "Mescalito" and the orchestra/opera-sampling "Void Spirit".

Steven Law's 2nd album gets darker and deeper while maintaining the DJ interest. Best club track "Darkwater Denizen".

3rd album of dark trance featuring increasing ambience. Features different mix of "Into The Abyss". Best track: "Dutigalla 1994".

The 4th and final trance album from Zen Paradox. Dark trance and banging techno "Mutazen". Also Sven Vath-like melodic trance "Sapphire (Deepblue Mix)". CD with exclusive track.

4 exclusive techno tracks after several trance releases. Features the quirky "Fruitcake Mix" and building acid-techno cut "Another Shade Of Purple" cut.

1st album in a new direction of creative techno and techno-house tracks.

Double cd compilation of Nova Zembla artists with exclusive tracks from Zen Paradox, Starseed Transmission, Shaolin Wooden Men, Paranonia and Zenith (Erik Van Wonterghem from Insekt). Also features Phi, Brain Pilot, Lumukanda and Amazone. 2LP version comes in burlap bag with a stencilled title.

Vinyl-only compilation with Riou "Base Like Kik", Sympathy Nervous "Jerry Building", Omicron "Collonization" and Delta Plan "Spherical Perspective".

2CD set for-the-price-of-one with exclusive tracks from Starfish Pool, Xingu Hill / Urawa and Zenith (aka Insekt). Also released tracks by Zen Paradox, Black Lung, Third Eye, Brain Pilot, Elysium and Shaolin Wooden Men. And licensed tracks from Juan Atkins aka Model 500, Prototype 909, Secret Cinema and Mark Broom.

CDEP-priced compilation with exclusive tracks from Phi, Amazone and Astralogica (first time on CD). Also tracks from releases by Elysium, Sympathy Nervous, Kode IV, MDA Analog, Delta Plan and Self-Transforming Machine Elves.

CD-single-priced compilation with another new-to-CD track from Astralogica. Also tracks from releases by 02 Soul, Swirl, W.O.R.M., Xingu Hill, Sympathy Nervous, Delta Plan, Low Tech Heroes, Omicron, Riou and Bulbawee.

This CDEP-priced collection is a great introduction to the fine trance techno artists on Nova Zembla. Includes the first appearance on CD by Elysium Vs W.O.R.M.'s "Yemaya". Also tracks from releases by Elysium, W.O.R.M., Kode IV, Bulbawee, Save A Prayer and Clutch Assembly.

Hard techno and acid-techno from the associated labels KK, Nova Zembla and Radical Ambient. With an exclusive track from Holland's Seiko. Also with tracks from releases by GF (aka DJ G-Force), Unit Moebius, Noshinto, Ra-X, Dr Numa, Omicron, Yellowcake, Delta Plan and Black Lung.

Vinyl-only compilation of producers/groups from Melbourne, Australia with Zen Paradox and others. Also features guest remix by Thomas Heckmann.

2nd compilation of Australian techno producers/groups including Black Lung and Zen Paradox's Steven Law aka Sonic Voyagers and aka Mutagenic Mind. Also features guest remix by Biochip C.