This is a bit of a novelty item in one’s collection if there were ever one. Released just as the original Acid House scene broke up and diversified, Adamski had a big hit with Killer from this album, which featured singer Seal. Still, although the music scene has largely moved on from this form of Acid House today, this is still a quintessential listening experience for pill-popping ravers to explore. In any case, this should be an enjoyable listen in an outsider’s sense as well, for those not into EDM based music. For all intents and purposes regardless, let’s take a listen to this album, sober, and hear if the music is any good.

Flashback Jack launches into it with some strange keyboards, electrifying samples and a great sense of musical awesomeness. Some bongo beats emerge, and this piece gets underway. A really excellent listening experience, this has some great and thunderous beats, piano and other textures that are super awesome. Some New Order styled singing is present here from Adamski, and this is exactly what 1990 needed at the time. This is a tremendous effort, sounding joyous and interesting. There is a breakdown with piano and the eerie sounds throughout, which are sweet. A great piece of music that, although may seem dated today, is a really awesome listen for what it is. An awesome tune, and something that comes across as instantly memorable, especially for Acid House lovers. There is a repeated piano motif at the end, along with the bongo beats. Excellent.

Eighth House begins with some digital bleeps, and soft percussion and emerges into a fantastic tune that is very catchy and danceable. This is an interesting listening experience, which is very suspenseful, wonderful and energetic. A really great tune, this has many gorgeous layers of instrumentation and samples that will blow your mind. This eventually has some great pounding drums enter, and this tune is well underway. A futuristic, colourful and excellent piece of music, this still sounds really excellent to this day. The drum samples in the second half are the focus here, just sounding really punchy and driven. Eventually, this winds up with a repeat Roland bunch of samples that do sound really excellent. Awesome, great music with a strange conclusion.

Future Freak begins with an awesome but weird musical patch, some excellent sounds and instrumentation, launching into a glorious piece of music, complete with digital guitars. Some more vocals by Adamski are here, and the whole thing is awesome and brilliant to listen to. A thoroughly cool tune to hear, this does sound very good for what it is. There are rolling bongo beats in the breakdown, and a great attention to detail that other records lack. Really awesome music, this is great and danceable music that sounds amazing and awesome simultaneously. One of the most underrated albums ever made, this sounds really bizarre but good. It ends with some more digital guitar sounds, before abruptly concluding. Great.

Squiggy Groove begins with some excellent and unusual flanger edited percussion, quickly launching into an organ led piece that is fantastic. Very spacey and futuristic sounding, this is followed by some dark basslines that are awesome. Kick drums enter, and we are underway. This is an excellent instrumental that, although recorded many years ago, points ahead to the future of music. There are quirky melodies, real drum beats and other awesome sounds that will blow your mind. A fantastic piece, not even the highlight track of the album, this sounds epic and brilliant. Fantastic music from the past, but describing the future in its own way. The second half of the song sounds really tripped out, and it is highly likely that Adamski took his fair share of interesting substances. Nonetheless, this is an excellent listening experience that is 100% worth your time, especially if you dig Acid House. It ends with a fade out and a reoccurring melody. Excellent.

Soul Kitchen is a reference to The Doors and is an excellent cover. It begins with a spacey keyboard and some down pitched vocals, followed by more intricate melodies abound. This is pleasant, ambient and enjoyable. Some kick drum beats enter, and this piece comes alive very well. This launches into an excellent piece of music with some bass samples that are from the original song. This is a great cover and rendition of the original tune, sounding cool, clever, amazing and druggy. This is not your average cover. In fact, this tune is awesome and proves that the sounds of the past can inspire the future. The chorus has some down pitched vocals throughout, which is pretty cool. A great keyboard patch solo is here as well. A pleasure to listen to, this is a lively and outstanding cover that still sounds amazing to this very day. The post-Disco Acid House version of The Doors, complete with some gorgeous female vocals in the background as well. Brilliant, it ends with an awesome set of beats and melodies. Now this is how you do a cover, brilliant and excellent listening from start to finish.

Killer is the big hit from this album and features singer Seal. It begins with some dark and distorted sounds, launching into a good tune with soul singing from Seal to match. This is an okay song, although really a standard Acid House tune of the time. The fusion of Adamski’s Rave beats and sounds and Seal’s vocal background and style don’t match perfectly here, and in retrospect, this isn’t the greatest listen overall from this album. Seal does sing very well here, having said that. A crossover tune that is quite different, this song is a good listen but is somewhat lacking. It ends with some lone vocals and spacey textures, with Seal railing against racism, and wisely so. Good listen throughout, although the hype behind the song isn’t 100% there.

Space Jungle features Ricardo Da Force. Begins with some great Acid squelches, rolling breakbeats and other glorious sounds that are excellent. Adamski gets singing away really nicely here, and this tune is a majestic and clever listening experience that is trippy, colourful and enjoyable. This is a really forward thinking and amazing listen with a neat piano based breakdown, and some neat lyrics: “Please don’t ask me what’s on my mind, I’m a little mixed up but I feel fine”. Adamski, although sounding a little too much like Bernard Sumner as a vocalist, makes some excellent music and this song is brilliant. There are some brilliant sounds and soothing female vocals towards the end here that honestly sound great. A brilliant piece of songcraft and sonic exploration that works as a musical tune. Excellent.

Future Freak – Supernova Bosanova is a longer piece at over seven minutes long. It begins with a spacey fade in of melancholy melodies and gradually continues with this lone melody. Hi-hats eventually enter, and this tune is underway, followed by more unusual melodies. Piano follows soon into it, and this enjoyable instrumental is really excellent listening. Pounding beats then follow, and this is a real joy to hear. A fantastic and noteworthy tune to hear and enjoy, this is a melancholy space ballad that is definitely worth listening to, high or sober. Some robotic bleeps enter around the middle, and this track continues along very nicely. Very catchy, forward thinking and awesome music to listen to. The sounds and production on this album still sound like a million dollars today. Very, very catchy, this tune sounds really amazing. It continues on with some electronic structures and sounds that are digital, robotic, colourful and interesting. If drug use were ever meant to expand one’s musical mind, this is the album to beat. This has some digital electric guitar playing, moody melodies and sounds that are super tasty here before this awesome and decent instrumental listen gradually concludes. Far out, but top music. A superb listen.

Everything Is Fine begins with some drum beats that are intricate and some awesome digital sounds present. This is fantastic music, with some very unusual instrumental take ons musically. Adamski sings here very nicely, and sings a song about the alphabet, in his own unique way. A really awesome, colourful, tasty and brilliant listening experience, although a strange musical piece really. The chorus has some excellent female soul style singing that is really cool. This album never fails to amaze one. There is a gurgling midsection, followed by the continuation of a song about the Latin based alphabet. A brilliant listen, but something you shouldn’t advertise to children. Another excellent song, and this does work wonders. It slows right down at the end, before concluding beautifully.

I Want You Back features rapper Kurtis Blow. It begins with moody piano, and synth strings and sounds very depressing indeed. Soon enough, bongo beats enter and this tune sounds really excellent for what it is. There are some gurgling watery acid sounds throughout as well. Kurtis Blow raps nicely on this tune and sounds really straightforward in his vocal delivery. Seemingly influential enough for LMFAO to namecheck him decades later, this is a song that is very intricate and interesting musically. Adamski seems better at his instrumentals than some of his vocal cuts on this album, despite the fact that this is a good song. A really excellent listen, with Acid liquid sounds, handclaps and musical ingeniousness about it, this does sound really great even for a lesser song. A strange listen, but a very good one. It wraps up with an extended instrumental section that is really cool, with intricate drum patterns and gorgeous melodies. Great.

N.R.G. Symphony In F Minor begins with some TB-303 melodies, some rustling percussion and some synth strings. This is an epic tune at over eight minutes long, so strap yourselves in. Some basic Roland beats then enter, and this tune gets underway very nicely. An upbeat, energetic and listenable tune, this is a very good piece to warm up the evening whilst you take your MDMA. This sounds brilliant in a musical sense, and it works very nicely overall. This sounds tranquil in parts and awesome overall. A variety of textures, beats and sonic sounds that were quite new for the time are here, and they still sound great today. Some awesome piano based melodies are present here as well, and this is extremely catchy. If this were an album to receive an award, it would be for the most underrated EDM album ever. The midsection present is interesting with some steady House music 4/4 beats, piano styled sounds and textures reoccurring, and a great listening experience overall. A legendary listening experience, this sounds fresh, fun and amazing, to this very day. Adamski obviously is a highly talented and clever musician. There is a gradual shift of sound throughout and this tune is really amazing listening, even for a release back in 1990. Spacey sounds are present in the second half before this tune gets grooving away again. Fantastic music, definitely worth dancing along to. It ends with a dramatic conclusion, followed by a repeated piano riff montage, before fading out. Brilliant.

Pipe Groover begins with some loose and spacey sounds that are keyboard melodies, and which sound unusual, yet weird. This is followed by an excellent bass line, some weird keyboards and hi-hats. Some beautiful melodies enter, followed by some excellent Roland percussion. This is definitely listenable, catchy and really excellent music that sounds quite cool. A really supercharged, fresh and inspired tune, with a great barrage of electronic sounds, this is a real winner. There are piano based melodies, synth sounds and great percussion, followed by a pseudo-flute melody. This is pleasant and enjoyable. Fresh, interesting and energetic, this works incredibly well. It falls apart in chaos at the end but is the best chaos you will hear.

Space Jungle – Earthquake Mix begins with some digital bleeps and has some gorgeous female vocals. Of course, this is a remix of an earlier tune on this album. Still, this is very impressive and different and is a really brilliant remix of that tune. It has some grooving breakbeats, colourful and enjoyable melodies and Adamski’s awesome New Order style vocals. This is tremendously awesome music designed for underground raves and still sounds amazing to this day. A very neo-Psychedelic tune, with a gorgeous piano breakdown, this sounds excellent and interesting. A really cool tune, this is energetic, awesome and pleasant with some varied sounds throughout. A really great song that references music of the past, this is an exciting listen that kickstarted the 1990s in a great way. Robotic vocals are present, and this tune is an interesting and enlightening one. Great to listen to, this is a really cool tune, although to be fair, it is somewhat lengthy. Despite that flaw, this does sound excellent. It ends with acid bleeps and beeps galore.

Over Killer is the final song on this album, referencing the earlier Killer song on this album. It begins with a vocal sample, some robotic beeps and bleeps and repeats this for some time. Some interesting melodies eventually enter, along with synth strings. This eventually launches into a basic Acid House EDM tune that is good, although it is a little odd having Seal back again as a singer on this track, although he only sings in the background here. Still, this does sound really quite good in retrospect, much like the rest of the album. There is a sped-up melody that falls apart in the middle, before more beats and textures emerge, sounding really classy. A great listen, all the same, this sounds really awesome and unique. A good but warped song to conclude this underrated treasure of an album, this is music to blast into your ears if you need a rave flashback. Excellent, it ends with crystal sounding melodies and other sounds, before wrapping up. Neat.

This is an album that deserves more respect. It is a unique mash-up of melodicism, sound and quality Acid House that despite the Killer hit, never really caught on. That is a negative way of looking at it all. Should you listen to this album? Yes, especially if you love popping party pills and dancing to the great music of the past, this is perfect for you. Even those who aren’t huge fans of EDM will enjoy this. An underrated album.

Warped and colourful fun.

9/10