Amazing album. Will suit any range of electronic fan, from electro to techno to ambient to IDM. The real spirit that Daum captures is something quite unique but is definitively a cross between electro and minimalist techno. He very well knows the tropes and nuances of both and puts them on display with an alarmingly heady and otherworldy feel that could only come from San Francisco.

1. Freaky Chakra

It is truly weird, very tripped out and amazingly spiritual and connected. Speaking heavily on Blacklight Fantasy, which I think is his Tour De Force, the textural aspects of the album are very IDM founded but labor in an electro context, creating something that could be worthy of the Schematic catalog or very easily a Warp or Rephlex forerunner. I believe his albums and EPs were criminally overlooked in a broader sense, but we knew them only too well in San Francisco and the greater US. At the great risk of sounding like a sub 18 year old druggie, I have to concede that this music is mind numbingly good on LSD and other hallucinogens.almost as if it were made for such an influenced listener. This is only because of the serious attention paid to very dense and exotic landscapes that Daum puts to work in each and every track. At their foundation, clinical electro from a Kraftwerkian heritage and minimal techno with Detroit lineage tracing to Sharevari rule the day.funky with a streak of pure dark on it's back. Within all these gems, alien landscapes and ambient excursion litter the forefront along with thick and heady analogue leads.

And finally on top is indeed a transcendental funk that perfectly encapsulates the efforts and makes them palletable for worthy dancers seeking a spiritual trip but also wanting just straight up funk to move to all night. More, more and more is all I can say/request: Daum, please! I recently pulled out this album again, and the praise here is justified.

What makes this album age well is its minimalist palette. Freaky Chakra mixes each track into the next like a DJ mix, demonstrating his programming ability with the conventions of deep tech-house, deep minimal trance, techno and electro. Though it sounds like FC is drifting along with dreamy sounds, this is a very tightly produced, well-executed series of tracks that do not contain long or overtly repetitive sections.

Watch the video, get the download or listen to Freaky Chakra – Blacklight Fantasy for free. Blacklight Fantasy appears on the album Miami Vice Original Motion.

High production value, for its time, underscores the album's longetivity. Much like work by FSOL, it contains within itself the sonic keys to its own understanding. I've started DJing these tracks out, and they play well with modern (2011) deep minimalism. This speaks to FC indeed being quite ahead of his time. Alright, So here it is.

A landmark underground techno/electro concept 2x12 lp of nearly indescribable alien dreamscape sounds. Rarely in the electronic world are listeners taken this far out. Every track is composed with precise drum and synth programming. A multi-faceted, mind-altering array of compression, panning, efx, and change.

Very experimental- yet at all times extremely dancable. Is a special force in the electronic dance world, known for extensive live P.A. Over the last 10 years. The track Blacklight Fantasy was recently added to the Miami Vice 2006 motion picture soundtrack.

Excellent choice!! I look forward to hearing more from this brilliant composer. This is a hugely underrated album, although the term is far too often thrown around. The album, taken as a whole, is a long and strange series of tracks full of disorienting beats and breaks accompanied by synthetics that are no less than gratuitous, and rightfully so.

It could surely be considered a concept album, but it's just so odd, I couldn't quite tell you what the concept might be. Each movement is primarily dance-oriented, and stands on its own for the most part, but the album as a whole is certainly more than the sum of its parts. Everything seems to fit and.and at this point I feel like I'm dragging this out, probably because I feel that a lot should be said about the album, Blacklight Fantasy. It's simply incredible, an album that has always stood out for me even more than it did for the ones who had just happened to be playing it that day. I could understand how this album was passed up by so many people, because it isn't your most accessible joyride. In fact, it's a very dark and uncomfortable piece of music, almost morbid.

Very worthy or consideration/reconsideration, but don't expect to get the warm and fuzzies. Whatever was on his mind when he made this, he sure as hell wasn't in a garden. I'm surprised this hasn't been rated higher. Listening to this album takes me to an entirely different place, and Freaky Chakra was way out ahead of himself with this album as compared with his earlier output which hasn't aged as well (writing this in 2003).

He combines elements of electro, dark acid, house and techno with a flare for manipulating those little hairs deep inside your ears. The album flows the way you'd expect a great 70's prog rock album to get deeper and take turns, and progressive house finally started to catch up to his sonic inventiveness around 2001.

The overtly technology-enhanced cover of the album, a cross between Tron and Blade Runner, helps set the tone for Freaky Chakra's follow-up release to Lowdown Motivator. If that album captured a blend between active techno energy and nods to a gentler, calmer approach, Blacklight Fantasy is rougher around the edges, more explicitly mechanical, and fiercer.

Freaky Chakra

If it had to be summed up, Lowdown had a more 'natural' air due to the inclusion of percussion from other cultures, while Blacklight's edge is often artificial, hinting at an electronic body music/industrial background. It's by no means a thorough or total reinvention, but songs are shorter and the overall atmosphere a touch harsher, making a nice contrast without completely disavowing the past. If anything, the results can be subtly beautiful, as can be heard on the clearly Kraftwerk-inspired (and possibly sampled) melodies of 'Hyperspace.' No guests are credited or have any noticeable roles and, unlike the somewhat start-stop debut, Blacklight runs like an endless mix session, with rhythms unobtrusively varying but never simply stopping cold at a song's end. One could call it a concept album if ideas were stretched a bit but, aside from a general futurism in the titles ('Year 2000,' 'Living in the Future,' 'Vector Head'), it's more a question of artistic trappings than anything else. Perhaps the best title of the bunch is 'Fascist Funk' - it's not quite the descendant of Heaven 17's 'We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing,' but its quick, crackling, and static-laden crunch is definitely some space away from funk in its greasy, slow sense.

When Bentley ups the spookier atmosphere of things, Blacklight starts to stand out more as its own record, starting with the swirling vocal cries on 'What?,' followed by the brusque beat and subtle, haunting tones of 'Thing.' Ned Raggett.