The Infinity Project – Mystical Experiences

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As Columbia in the Rocky Horror Picture Show would say, "It's OK..."

Sound quality not that great (CD version, bit muffled sounding/over bassy/low mid heavy), could do with a nice modern remaster. The music is middling, very noodly and meandering (which, ittedly, is sometimes just the ticket...), like The Ozric Tentacles, only more synth/sample heavy, and not as accomplished.

As with 'Mystery of the Yeti', for me it's more interesting for the people and labels involved as a cultural/historical artefact, and pointer towards what was to come, a precursor to the whole Psy Chill thing etc. A lot of the early Goa/Psy artists did give it up and continued along this more Chill/Ambient vein, and are still doing so today.

I'll play it once every few years and enjoy it, as an album of its times, but I don't get all the "best/most amazing album EVER!!!" posts here. :)

I appreciate this album the more I listen to it.

This is indeed one of the most genius, inspirational, transcendental, mind expanding, and beautiful works of art...created late in the 20'eth century...and it will endure forever as one of mankind's greatest achievements...next to the "moon landing", "the pyramids of Giza", and "the creation of the microprocessor"..

This album is a true masterpiece of psychedelic music - it's now 21 years from release date, but you can find only a few album, to that date, that came close to that level of perfection. Every track is a journey, but whole album is reality changing peace of art. Listen it on vinyl, in true hi-fi system and you realize what it does it meant.
While sound becomes colour and colour becomes sound.... good conclusion

Mount Kailash meditation guaranteed. Totally hypnotic music which will give you an out of body experience if you allow it to bathe your neural matrix. No psychedelics are required because this is aural acid of the purest quality. If you don't lift at least a little off-planet listening to this, may I humbly recommend that you the queue for Getafix's magic potion, get thee to a nunnery, do fifteen years of pranayama or otherwise reprogram your horizons. Even the slightest openness to this trip will allow you to view our galaxy, let alone our planet, from an impossibly remote distance and contemplate our irrelevance in the multiverse.

It seems almost churlish to mention the significance of this album for culture generally, for music, for psychedelic music in particular. I'm not joking when I state that in my opinion this constitutes possibly the most important album in the second wave of psychedelia to sweep through popular culture; in other words, it is up there with "Are You Experienced?", "Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and the best of early Tangerine Dream. Pretentious I know, but that is what I think. Moreover, it inaugurates the genre of psychill, psybient, call it what you will.

All tracks are simply mind bending genius, but "The Answer" has one of the all time classic samples that I feel compelled to reproduce:

"No one saw its approach
A small point of light
lost in the glare of the morning sun
it had been drifting for centuries
through the inner solar system
like an iceberg in the ocean of interplanetary space."

This track is THE ANSWER to the question you didn't know to ask. ~*~

The Infinity Project was created by Raja Ram, Graham Wood and Simon Posford - giants of the psy trance scene. Mystical Experiences is the second cd of them. It's one of my favourite psychedelic ambient albums, which is very hypnotic and visional. Get you to incredible beautiful places where sound becomes colour and colour becomes sound... You should turn off your phone, close the doors, curtain off, lay on your bed, close your eyes and flow with this perfect melodies and sounds sometimes enriched by flute playing by Raja. Must have electronic relase. Absolute classic. Magnificent!

Imagine your collection of electronic albums as a perfect square, and draw the different albums into their respective corners defined by their musical style. This album is one of four cornerstones. Mystical Experiences is the perfect piece of the puzzle where "psychedelic" and "ambient" comes together. The minds and creativity of a trio of skilled musicians; Simon Posford, Raja Ram and Graham Wood (all of the group "Mystery Of The Yeti") comes together and results in a magnificent release full of diverse and excellent tracks. The different tracks blend into one another so well, you easily drift away into other thoughts.. It's a truce masterpiece from TIP, and it's sure to a make firm stand in any collection of music.

The first album by the TIP Records founders. For some reason they put it out on Blue Room Released rather than their very own TIP label. On TIP they however put out the Feeling Weird album in 1995 too.

This album is the definition of “psychedelic” ambient. You don’t find the sounds of nature as in normal ambient. Except for the magical flute of Raja Ram, and occasionally some ethnic sounds, the most part of it is made of multiple sound layers and lots of melodies which are always in motion. It’s complimented with loads of psychedelic effects and some tracks have a broken beat. Also there is a heavy dubby bass most times which when coupled with some broken beat as explained above the music will surprisingly move you and still kick ass despite this being ambient.

This is wicked psy-ambient! Try Mystical Experiences, Alien Patrol and the twenty minutes long Under The Overtones.

A masterpiece!

If you're of the Shpongle persuasion then you'll definetely like this release. This was TIP's first ambient release, but about half of it was co-written with Simon Posford, making this pre- Shpongle. The flutes, soundscapes and spacey samples are brainchildren of where Shpongle went just a couple of years later. The complexity in track structure is inherent in this LP, and it works very well since this is not a full- on Goa LP. This is a very beautiful, well- produced LP that is now very valueable.