The Infinity Project – Feeling Weird

Basically another installment of TIP colors series, but even more focused on the true TIP essence--featuring only collaborators from the TIP inner circle. Essentially a compilation album, as everything was already released elsewhere. Plus new mixes from close friends issued officially for the first time here.

Not a single cut is solo Graham Wood. We have Posford, Freeland, Jackson, Barber all making about equal contributions and the results are surprisingly consistent. I don't think the coproducers are here to make up for any inadequacy in Graham's ability, since he's clearly proven he can make crazy good stuff by himself. I think his distinctive sense of groove and synth phrasing is what holds everything together here.

The Doof remix can probably be considered his best remix. Many times Doof would bury his drums in the mix as the track was built, but this time his drums sit on top of the whole mix and rudder the track well. Paul Jackson is someone whose technical ability started to fall behind his peers in 1994, but his contributions here are among his best ever. They are some of the most spacious and shadowy selections here, and it's cool they're listed back to back, creating an awesome pivot point for the album's halfway mark.

The title track is amazing and just barely fits here, but does sound a tad generation older than the rest. In 1993 it was one of the most advanced and wild tracks on Project II Trance, and still blows my mind. But on this 95 album, the kind of drum mixing already feels like something more retro.

One of the first Goa trance albums I bought in the late 90’s. It’d already been out a few years but was recommended even then as one of the best. Repurchased recently here on Discogs and sounds just as great now as then, if not even better!