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Axonal Takeover

by Sensphere

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1.
Breaking Of The World 08:56
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2.
Shadar Logoth 07:48
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3.
Mind Creating Matter 07:18
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4.
Compulsion 08:15
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5.
Shayol Ghul 07:16
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6.
Word Of Datura 07:42
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7.
Aliens 08:05
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8.
Falling Into A Black Hole 08:40
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9.
Syntax Terror 06:33
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10.
The Cleansing 07:39
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11.
Machin Shin 06:44
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12.
The One Power 09:20
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13.
Balefire 08:33
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14.
Typhoid 09:06
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15.
Disorder 08:55
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16.
Neurotrancer 09:04
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17.
Respawn 07:15
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18.
Angreal 07:04
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19.
Stygian Fire 08:32
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20.
Kaf 06:58
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21.
I Love Paranoia 06:50
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22.
Mosk And Merk 07:18
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23.
Astral Atmosphere 11:25
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24.
When Time Has No Meaning 05:21
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about

Unreleased Goa Records celebrates its 50th album with a highly anticipated release from Swedish act Sensphere titled "Axonal Takeover". Anders Hermansson started producing electronic music around the age of 15 after being introduced to FastTracker on Amiga and composed his first tracks under the "Emolient" alias as early as 1995. This first project name was inspired by a random word found in a dictionary, that refers to a component of skin creams. A year or two later, a friend introduced Anders to the classic works of Astral Projection, Man With No Name, and Etnica. Already addicted to electronic music, he was quickly hooked to the psychedelic genre. In 1998, his style and taste had developed and matured so much that he felt necessary to use a new name for his Psychedelic Trance project. He invented the term "Sensphere", a combination of "sense" and "fear", an interesting word-play that sounded cool and reflected his sensitive personality.

Anders was particularly prolific and gifted in terms of production. His earlier Sensphere works explored the Goa side of psychedelic trance and were heavily inspired by Astral Projection and MFG. Two of these experiments, "When Time Has No Meaning" and "Astral Atmosphere" (released as "Whirlpool In The Pattern"), were published by the Blackhole netlabel run by JRB in 1999. Shortly afterward, Anders went deep into the darker side of the genre, attracted by music with fast decay sawtooth waveforms on every 16th note. An avid reader of "The Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan, Anders shaped a unique fantasy-inspired musical style that gravitates towards a dissonant or uncomfortable element like buzzing winds or a weird sawtooth horn. This idiosyncratic approach caught the attention of popular US-based Ultrabeat netlabel, where he published the "Black Ajah" EP and the track "Balefire" in 2000. These releases were followed by a vinyl EP and several compilation tracks on various Swedish and UK labels, including Kukomi, Psyforce, Implant, and Sphere Records.

The present album has been conceived as a definitive collection of the Sensphere project. It gathers all previously released and unreleased tracks produced by the artist between 1998 and 2001. Half of these tracks were sequenced in FastTracker 2 and used soft synths such as Dreamstation and Audiosim for DOS, which created snappy and resonant bandpass filters. Later tracks like "Typhoid", "Disorder" and "Respawn" were produced with the aid of Rebirth, Cakewalk, and Logic Audio to some extent. The medicinal term "Axonal Takeover" was the title of an album that Anders had already in mind while composing his first Goa tracks and refers to neuromuscular and synaptic connections.

Sensphere music was played live at small and bigger parties in Sweden, Portugal, Holland, and Denmark, next to legendary acts Atmos, Noma, Krumelur, and Bakke. Anders’s most memorable performance was at an outdoor party in the forests of Eskilstuna. The tracks of this album are released in full audio quality for the first time. The only exceptions are "Stygian Fire", "Kaf", "I Love Paranoia", "Mosk & Merk" and "When Time Has No Meaning", enhanced with the aid of modern technology, as the original masters did not survive in wave format.

This anthology will be supplemented and completed by an Emolient EP, expected from Unreleased Goa Records in the near future.

Tracklist:

01 – Breaking Of The World
02 – Shadar Logoth
03 – Mind Creating Matter
04 – Compulsion
05 – Shayol Ghul
06 – Word Of Datura
07 – Aliens
08 – Falling Into A Black Hole
09 – Syntax Terror
10 – The Cleansing
11 – Machin Shin
12 – The One Power
13 – Balefire
14 – Typhoid
15 – Disorder
16 – Neurotrancer
17 – Respawn
18 – Angreal
19 – Stygian Fire
20 – Kaf
21 – I Love Paranoia
22 – Mosk And Merk
23 – Astral Atmosphere
24 – When Time Has No Meaning

credits

released September 4, 2023

Credits:

All tracks written and produced by: Anders Hermansson
Mastered by: Federico Draeke
Artwork: Federico Draeke
Executive producers: Federico Draeke, Vas Cosmogenesis
Catalogue number: UGR 050

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