One of my most cherished progressive psy albums, Mindwave's "Awaken" is an awesome and stunning excursion into deep, contemporary psychedelic trance, a masterpiece within the progressive subgenre of modern psychedelic dance music.
His style is marked by grandiose bass work, fine tuning all aspects of his sounds and tracks to deliver a more than well-rounded sonic result, with profound tracks that can trigger a slight obsession in the listener. Rewarding tracks that may stick around long after you have heard them, or maybe it's just because they create such intense sensations of warmth and ease that the listener will gladly return to this record even after listening to many others that came out since this 2011 album.
As fas as I am concerned, Mindwave has never managed to produce such an awesome album again - his later releases do work at times but never quite hit home with me like this album still does today.
If you want to dive into the world of progressive psytrance, if you want to put something on that makes you want to move and enjoy your day or if you just want to take an hour to relax and get lost in soundscapes of the imagination, look no further than this record!
The full album is on youtube:
As always, you can buy the album in high quality and support the artist directly using a wide variety of online music stores, such as psyshop.com
Please enjoy this gem of modern musicmaking!
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