Reviews of Divinorum's music

"A beautiful CD, very diverse, intelligent and refreshing. The music here moves from full on trance to ethnic chill out - I really like this one!" - DJ Shahar, one of the most influential DJ's and reviewers in Israel.

"I really, really like it. I can see why BooM released Divinorum's material, it has a nice lateral, not knwoing what is around the next corner style - in other words, proper trance! Some of the uses of melodies from other cultures is so spot on - especially the Indian melodies." Editor of Peek magazine, one of Europe's biggest trance magazines.

RadioActive TOP 10 TRANCE WEEK OF:29.8.99

1.Human Blue-Ice (Spiral Trax)
2.Darshan-Spectra (Flying Rhino)
3.V/A-Fifth Flight:Maelstrom (Flying Rhino)
4.Shiva Space Technology-The Digital Dance Of Shiva (SST)
5.Cydonia-In Fear Of A Red Planet (Blue Room)
6.V/A-Destination Goa 8 (Why Not)
7.Divinorum-Isms (White)
8.Alien Soap Opera-Second Wave (Electric melt)
9.Blue Planet Corporation-Blue Planet (Flying Rhino)
10.V/A-Excerpts From The Chillspace (Matsuri)

(The above chart placement was particularly welcome because if you look closely, Divinorum is the only independent ("white" label means independent, not on a big record label), the only independent release that was in the chart, competing with the releases from the big trance labels with big commercial marketing-budgets, etc. Divinorum held it's place in this chart for the next several weeks, without any marketing - purely on the strength of the music. I think it's the best review anyone can get.)

Radio Free Underground Weekly listener count 15.000
Trance chart 20. Sept 1999:

Artist Album Title Label
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1. Divinorum Isms Bjorn Lynne
2. Banco De Gaia the Magical Sounds of Six Degrees Records
3. Moby Play Mute/V2
4. Orbital Middle Of Nowhere FFRR
5. Chemical Brothers Surrender Virgin
6. Underworld Beaucoup Fish JBO/V2
7. Nine Inch Nails Fragile Nothing
8. Wiseguys the Antidote Mammoth/Ideal
9. Clan Of Xymox Creatures Metropolis
10. VA Electronic Challange 3 COP

This independent radio station charted Divinorum at the number-one position, week of 20th September 1999 - with Moby in 3rd position, Orbital in 4th, and Chemical Brothers in 5th position. Again, Divinorum on a completely independent label (basically just working out of Bjorn Lynne's studio) competed with the big releases from the giant record companies like Virgin. This is perhaps the best revivew Divinorum has ever got.