Second Phase – Mentasm

Mmmm 😋 Mind to Mind 👌 🤪 😳 🥵 😜 😁 🙏 😊

All has been said about the music, but let's acknowledge this is one of the most brilliant sleeve design of R&S and maybe of all time. Clever, simple, elegant, and striking on shelves. It's a bit sad that the latest represses failed to keep the type work intact, as it was sophisticated and beautiful. There was lot of great designs for R&S releases, but this one stands on the shoulders of these giant artworks.

Very nice screen printing for the art. Whole record looks and sounds ace.

Always good to have another copy of this Belgium classic.

"Mentasm" (Original Mix) Is a monster if a tune and one of the true classics of the Belgium Techno sound of the early 90's. As soon as it drops with the huge synth riff that today is so recognizable as its been sampled so many times, followed by the driving beats and then dropping into that deep deep bassline, and building right back up again the track is relentless, deep, dark & driving that simply rocked very where it was played ! A true master piece from Joey Beltram. I never get tired of listening to this track and brings back so many happy memories & still sounds amazing.

I simply could not stop playing the original mix for years ! This is the original Hoover sample used by every Gabber record

Mind Games by Quest on sound pack records used the same sample..More on a Nu groove vein but still pretty out there.

Beltram & Mundo mix reminds me of the magical magic mushy season of 1991 Coming On Strong
Mushy messy madness :-S great days :-)

This is not that crappy term called the hoover sound.... This is Joey's SOUND! No one has ever replicated this exact sound ever! Powerful track with a B Boy velocity! That bass too! Think JUNGLE TECHNO or thank TECHNO jungle it's all Mind To Mind . P.s. If you mix this with Set Up System- fairy Dust. You have then two sounds which never properly got replicated! Now stop reading my warblings and listen ;)

To me Energy Flash and Mentasm are very similar to each other they both were released on the same era 1989-1991 . The materials used in that era were the same i agree some DJ/artists that were privileged enough to have new-pro materials were very rare in that time thus Joey Beltram is a great artist from it's time yes but sadly his pride was very short 1989-1995 .

Both of the the music Energy Flash & Mentasm were on ever clubs in Europa and were always used in mixing many time together because they were easy to mix in .....same as those techno/minimal techno from Construct Rhythm Records and Fine Audio Records were very easy to mix together since they used the similar sounds , riffs, 303, etc..

Today in 2018 Energy Flash and Mentasm has dated badly ......maybe because i have listened to it too much or because there were other better tracks in that same era .