S a R a S a R a - Elixir - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. On the Road Again 2. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 3. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain 4. Nothing I Can Do About It Now 5. Georgia on My Mind 6. Living in the Promiseland 7. Pancho and Lefty 8. Always on My Mind 9. City of New Orleans 10. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Triple vinyl LP pressing. After previous stop-offs in The Netherlands, Germany, The UK and Belgium, May 2025 finds 'Hypnotised' - the country-by-country-hopping history of trance music - reaching American shores. There it explores one of the genre's lesser told yet equally fascinating tales. The fifth album in the series is again compiled by Arjan Rietveld, author of it's encyclopaedic companion book, Hypnotised A Journey Through Trance Music 1990 - 2005. To a significant extent, the American trance scene evolved inside it's own bubble. Ocean-crossing breakout acts were rare, which gave the scene space to develop a distinct sound and identity - one that was driving yet linear, progressive, more tribal, and less focused on the melodic elements that dominated the European landscape. Over time, certain elements of the sound were adapted to suit the unique demands of the legendary U.S. desert raves in Arizona, Nevada, and California. In it's formative years especially, American trance also leaned toward the experimental, which is where 'Hypnotised A Journey Through American Trance Music' begins it's story.

Karen y Los Remedios blending cumbia and existentialismBehind Karen's pulsating spectral voice lies vulnerability, contemplation and longing. Chameleon-like foundations explore cumbia in it's many forms, crossing the continent with Norteño airs, pitched-down rebajados, psychedelia and even traditional Peruvian music, taking in ballads, Afro-Latin percussion, reggaeton and the more electronic sounds of dream-pop, trip hop and downtempo. A mystical, motley mixture, the ideal soundscape to fight the voices in your head while you melt on the dancefloor and scare away the ghosts of your past, your body surrendering to the dance.That's pretty much Karen y Los Remedios, the project led by Ana Karen G Barajas, an artist and arts and social sciences researcher born in Mexico City and raised in Guanajuato, in the company of Mexico City native Jonathan Muriel (Jiony) and guitarist Guillermo Berbeyer (Z.A.M.P.A.), who after many years on Mexico's alternative scene decided to get together and bring this existential cumbia project to life. While Karen and Jiony first worked together in 2009, it wasn't until a mutual friend brought them together in 2016 that they created the instrumental EP Dónde Dormir, released by the VAA tag (Various Artists) which Jiony co-founded, specializing in electronic music with elements of Nu-jazz, techno, funk, trip hop and traditional Latin music fused with electronic textures. Z.A.M.P.A. released his first EP with VAA before gradually getting involved in the arrangements for Karen y Los Remedios.Before that, Ana Karen had worked on projects like Internet del Futuro, Perro y Juan, Karen and more. Jiony had reached double figures in solo records and collaborated on projects like CasaNegra, Ser Humano and Extraperrestre, while Guillermo put out post-rock and trip hop with the Z.A.M.P.A. project, produced by Rafael Durand and Fernando González. The stars