Abduction

It’s hard to think of a record more “of its time” than this, from the electronic offshoot of festival space-rockers Ozric Tentacles. Non-stop alien imagery, samples of psychedelic guru Terrence McKenna, zippy rhythms with the earliest trance at their heart: this is the absolute encapsulation of an early-90s hippie rave movement in which people genuinely thought ecstasy and LSD were creating a new global mind. HOWEVER the rave part of the hippie-rave equation is strong here: Eat Static plied their live trade around the biggest raves and clubs of the post-acid house era and this music is 100% dancefloor native. There is enough well-honed understanding of fundamental dance dynamics to make all the hokey hippie stuff is a mild distraction at worst, a gloriously colourful embellishment of the sweaty, joyous groove at best.