One At Last - Are You Dreaming? (Sounds True)

I don’t get trance music. I’m sure that Om, Jaya and Priyo are absolutely sincere when they state that this music was ‘born out of a very special dimension, when a magical window opened into the world from the cosmos,’ and they believe they access that portal when they crank up the BPMs, on a black lit stage, adorned in black and light body paint. Perhaps I’m too uptight and not suitably herbalized, but what I hear is the traditional and devotional music of various world’s cultures, recklessly and rather unimaginatively lifted and pressed into service of the most conventional beats. Far from delivering transcendence, the endless cut and paste puts me in mind of a hippie ‘Stars on 45’. Strictly for the festival twirlers.