Flashback (Flash animation)

Flashback is a Flash animation by Danny Gomez. It has been widely circulated around the Internet, especially in psychedelic trance and Goa trance communities. For many others, outside of these communities, it served as their first introduction to this genre of music.

The animation features a patient who suffers from hallucinations (Gomez), and his psychiatrist (in the likeness of Albert Hofmann). The doctor decides to introduce a new experimental treatment influenced by shamanic medicine which apparently causes the patient to go into a trance. The rest of the video features psychedelic music and intense imagery, the images taken from the artwork 'Discover', also by Danny Gomez.

Flashback serves as an unauthorized music video for Shpongle's track "Divine Moments of Truth" from the "Are You Shpongled?" album. While it is not clear whether or not the band endorses the work, they have made no attempt to have it removed from circulation even though that the Shpongle Mask is also used in the video. The video is currently featured on Shpongle's MySpace profile.

External links

* [http://thequality.com/people/michela/weblog/archives/mirror/flashback.swf The Flashback Animation]
* [http://www.erowid.org/culture/show_image.php?i=art/artists_g/gomez_danny_discover.jpg'Discover' original artwork]
* [http://www.myspace.com/therealshpongle Shpongle's MySpace profile]