Opening of the Cerebral Gate

• Artist: Transllusion
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• Release Date: November 13, 2001
• Genre: Electronica

Review

If you're thinking that the name Transllusion may in some way be related to the Transport series of progressive trance compilation discs, don't let the name fool you. Opening of the Cerebral Gate has absolutely nothing to do with anything that Paul Oakenfold or Sandra Collins has released. Instead, Transllusion, the project of one-half of Detroit electro duo Drexciya, sifts through '90s-era techno, occasionally giving way to those electroisms with which he is so familiar. Let it be known, though, that few of the tracks on Cerebral Gate ever resemble Drexciya's harsh, dark, and foreboding mixture of hypnotic pulses spewed from blown circuits. "Walking With the Clouds" and "Unordinary Realities" stand out as the most representative of Transllusion's robot-funky roots, while "Transmission of Life" exemplifies a new (albeit somewhat derivative) path for the project's future endeavors. Though Transllusion has taken a slightly different turn than his other half (the Other People Place), he does keep close ties to his Detroit roots, leaking the throbbing and quick bass beats of electro with the smooth rhythms for which techno is commonly known. In that same vein, Transllusion attempts to hinge real-life body experience with futuristic man-machine interaction. Track titles like "Transmission of Life" and "Cerebral Cortex Malfunction" would certainly suggest such a connection. Overall, Opening of the Cerebral Gate is a great album that sits comfortably between the Detroit and Dusseldorf sections of anyone's record crate. ~ Ken Taylor, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Transmission of Life		Transllusion	(4:30)
Negative Flash		Transllusion	(4:28)
Walking With Clouds		Transllusion	(3:32)
Cerebral Cortex Malfunction		Transllusion	(5:29)
Cluben in Guyana		Transllusion	(5:06)
Look Within		Transllusion	(4:30)
Unordinary Realities		Transllusion	(4:51)
Dimensional Glide	Transllusion	Transllusion	(6:59)
War of the Clones		Transllusion	(5:51)
Crossing into the Mental Astroplane		Transllusion	(4:48)
Do You Want to Get Down?		Transllusion	(5:44)
Do You Want to Get Down? (Vocal de Void)		Transllusion	(5:45)