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This 15-song collection of techno visuals was drawn from the seven-volume Happy2bHardcore CD series, featuring psychedelic eye candy, matched to the hyperactive dance beats of these selected songs. It’s fun to see how director Vello Vikaus has visualized this music, yet much of this overview would work far better on a Jumbotron screen at a rave than it does as an evening of home theater viewing. Nevertheless, it’s a fun diversion – at least the first few times through. Many of these tracks utilize kaleidoscopic, computer-generated color swirls to form musical soundtracks. Such elements hark back to LSD light shows from the hazy days of the late ‘60s. One movement in particular is a series of black and white squares, which twirl and rearrange themselves into various formations. In another instance, Peter Max-like dotted cartoon characters interact together on the screen.  Sometimes, these videos are just seemingly unrelated blotches of colors, but at other times, they take on the appearance of the symmetrical lines of, say, a structural blueprint. Rarely, however, can one guess a song’s title simply by watching what’s presented onscreen. An exception to this rule is “Blueroom,” which is a collage of growing and shrinking blue buildings.