No matter what you want to call it; psychill, psybient, ambient goa, psychedelic trance, psydub, or whatever, there's no mistaking the sound of it, and Interchill, along with others like Waveform, are among the best labels out there when it comes to laying it all down on plastic. Assuming you can take the sub for granted, Interchill has kicked off 2007 with a compilation they call "Bliminal" and it's a cornucopia of deeply psychedelic, dub and near Eastern infected grooves that will make your ears smile in every manner of multi-chromatic fractal imagery they can dream up.

1. Greg Hunter "Geonosis part 1 - The Emperor's New Bassline"
2. Eat Static "The Tenth Planet"
3. Slackbaba "The Divine Unity"
4. Hibernation "Sympath"
5. Gaudi "THEN WHIP R.T. (feat. Random)"
6. Evan Marc "Active Ingredient"
7. Liquid Stranger "We Meet At Last"
8. Moravec "Kudelstaart"
9. Legion Of Green Men "Letters Never Sent"
10. Ishq "Nepalese Sun"

It opens with an amazing track by Greg Hunter called "Geonosis part 1 - The Emperor's New bassline" and doesn't really let up from there. Floating your mind past tracks by Eat Static, Slackbaba, Hibernation, and Gaudi, each sharing subtle Eastern influences and dub affectations, it isn't until "Active Ingredient" by Evan Marc that you'll encounter the first (and only) straight ahead 4/4 house beats (or should I say trance beats?) to be found on Bliminal.

After the Evan Marc track things take a more ambient turn and nicely placate your senses with numbers by Liquid Stranger and Moravec until an amazingly laid-back cut from Legion Of Green Men called "Letters Never Sent" brings you out of one hypnosis and into another, slightly more active state.

Ishq shuts off the lights on Bliminal with a marathon (as in 15 minute long) ambient tracks called "Nepalese Sun" that's guaranteed to lay you out flatter than a heavyweight's left hook, but in a much more pleasant fashion.

If you dig any degree of the psy* sound, you should pick this up.

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