Voices Of The Rainforest

Originally released in 1993 on Rising High Records, Voices Of The Rainforest is one of the most distinctive and underrated cuts from the early UK trance and ambient techno continuum.

The New London School Of Electronics was the collaboration of Caspar Pound and Laurence Elliott-Potter, two key figures around the Rising High orbit. Together, they created a track that sits in a strange and beautiful space between ambient techno, acid, early trance and rave.

Over more than ten minutes, Voices Of The Rainforest unfolds through rolling tribal percussion, deep hypnotic rhythms, spacious electronic textures and melancholic melodies. Constantly shifting between atmospheric passages and driving trance elements, it creates a hypnotic journey that feels both deeply immersive and unmistakably dancefloor-focused.

It is this balance that makes the record so special, connecting the psychedelic and ambient side of early-90s electronic music with the emerging trance and techno sounds coming from the UK and Germany at the time.

The original 12" also featured the extended Blackout Mix, recorded live at Erotica in Paris, pushing the hypnotic atmosphere even further.