Being

Led by one Larry Lush aka Laurence Elliott-Potter, Friends, Lovers & Family were one of the most idiosyncratic groups of the rave era. From 1994 they would broadly settle into psychedelic trance, but for the three years before that they released — mostly on the UK’s notorious Rising High label — some of the most deranged, delirious experiments with breakbeat rave and proto-jungle made anywhere in the world. This 1993 EP may be their pinnacle: it incorporates a mordantly comic Dorothy Parker poem about suicide and its disadvantages, an epic ambient journey into hyperspace building steadily into rave meltdown, and untold glitches, swoops, swooshes and grandiose structures that remain staggeringly psychedelic decades on.