Samsara Recordings presents its second release ‘VA
Rajdhani Xpress’ - a very out-of-the-ordinary music assortment.
Firstly, it’s the single compilation in the world that features
artists only from India. Secondly, it has a rather curious concept.
The release derives its name from the fastest moving passenger train
of India (Rajdhani Express), which connects the capital city to
all important destinations across the subcontinent. Similarly, Rajdhani
Xpress intends to connect the newly branded Indian dark sound to
all important trance destinations.
Rajdhani Xpress is a combination of established Indian Psytrance
artists such as Flipknot (side project of Kerosene Club),White Wizard,
Devic, Gidra, and Silent Horror along with the new acts - Schizobot,
Bloodclot and Spiral. The Compilation also highlights the new Indian
duo acts – Vasuki and Tria Mera.
Track by Track
Schizobot - Pstyrofoam
A pulsating rhythm intro of staccato percussive drum work is greeted
with squishy synth leads and eerily industrial hits. Alien pads
waft through the backgrounds of sound while a grinding bass line
glues it all together. The whole symphony builds into ego-grinding
mayhem, broken by an effervescently misty breakdown giving you
plenty of breathing room.
Gidra - Adam Leatherface
At once dark and nasty, this bass line rolls along with the weight
of a stone grinder while edgy, knifelike acid rhythms cut through
your synapses like melting butter. Tweaky and glitchy, with plenty
of fluid drip and resonance-riding waves to keep you out of your
seat. Inimical life forms lurk between these frequencies, with
monstrous surprises awaiting your ear.
White Wizard - Metalized
Scary chimes and a chugging bass line hallmark these hair-raising
sounds. Brilliant breakdowns keep the tension rising as growling
rhythms and moaning pads provide the eerie dissonance that keeps
you looking over your shoulder. Complex arpeggiated acid leads
hammer out embossments upon your psyche, gripping you into pensive,
feverish thrall.
Blood Clot - Time End Life Begins
Dark, neurotic squelches atop undulating low frequency bass convections
are perfect for peak time nocturnal emissions of sound. Subtle
key changes keep the sound thick and engrossing, each layer spiraling
into spring-loaded dance floor pandemonium. A cliffhanger of a
breakdown cascades into a new rearrangement of shadowy sonic ferocity.
Vasuki - Rajdhani Xpress
Groovy and downright gritty, the title track to this compilation
of full moon music touches upon the minimal, albeit each sound
crisp and highlighted, ever evolving into psychedelic sonic beauty.
Resonant harmony meets digital malevolence. Metallic strings tug
at your perceptive borders like diabolical kittens upon a luminescent
fractal tapestry.
Spiral - Fury Within
A fittingly telling name for what plays out to be a full-on masterpiece
if mind-warping shenanigans. Lasers and phasers abound amongst
otherworldly terrains of distorted rhythms and persistently hyperactive
beats. Each element combines to form the soundtrack of an extraterrestrial
abduction or mental invasion within sonic transfigurations.
Silent Horror - Diseketed
Thickening with the colloidal subtlety of cooling gravy, pitch-bent
pads stretch and ply your paradigm like rubber. Dribbly highs
from above precipitate onto aggressive, goose-bump inducing soundwaves
and a scale-hopping bass beat. "Disketed" has the sort
of dark ferocity which jiggles your neurons while the rest of
you follows suit.
Triamera - Phrikyhorror
Prepare for a roller coaster ride through circus sideshows gone
twisted and awry. "Phriky" issues an ample dosage of
insectile sine-waves drenched with eerie effects, dragging you
on upward and downward spirals of audio bedlam. Squishy synth
squirts and disconnectedly pliable pads drift between the notes
for added dissonance and disassociation.
Flipknot - Intense Vivid Bharti
Electrical warblings, panoramically filtered percussion, pulpous
undulations and more make up much of this killer nighttime arrangement.
The bass beat is driving, a sonic fuel conductor powering unreal,
ethereal arrays of mutable astringents written to melt your mind
and inspire frenzied, selfless dance floor insanity.
Devic - Endless
This track closes out the album without leaving you wanting. A
finale of full-on psychedelic rumpus persists into its very last
seconds, each masterfully arranged drumbeat and gated rhythm stab
driving you further down the spiral. "Endless" ladles
the energy on like a thick, piping hot sauce, making Devic a true
master chef of electronic mayhem.
