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Progressive psytrance or minimal psytrance recommendations?
healium replied to healium's topic in General Psytrance
I do know that Beat Bizarre has released quite a bit of new material over the last few years, and it is excellent.. His albums "Mukharv", "Riot", and "Maunder Minimum" are all excellent - great style, deep and hypnotic - sort of a dark and groovy thing, very unique, I can pick a Beat Bizarre track out easily.. Happily I find today that he just released a new album this year called "Perpetuum Mobile" that I'm looking forward to checking out.. -
Hey all! While I enjoy some of the new-school goa, it seems that it's all that I see on here anymore - either that or darkpsy.. Both goa and darkpsy are so fast, relentless barrage of sounds and layers - goa is great stuff, but it can't be the only psy I listen to.. Back in the 2000's we had amazing progressive psytrance albums being released - X-Dream, Vibrasphere, Beat Bizarre, Reefer Decree, Atmos, Ticon, Krumelur, etc.. I miss the slower BPM and hypnotic build up of layers that this sort of trance involves.. Can anyone recommend newer releases in this same style?
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Yes I think we will have to agree to disagree For me this album creates massive atmospheres, and the timing with the rhythms and other elements is fantastic (very groovy and danceable) - some tracks are also very catchy, which psytrance often lacks - "Entropy" for instance is a massive track, super catchy melodies, deep dark sound.. "Behind the Wall" is absolutely epic in terms of the dark atmosphere and catchy elements.. Yes it is unemotional but that is intentional, and what you call "simplistic" to me is a good quality that I refer to as "minimal" -in fact, back in the early 2000's, before people even used the term "progressive," we had a genre we called "minimal psytrance." Check out Krumelur - "Minimal Animal" for a great example of this style.. I guess what I'm getting at, is that the un-emotional, minimalistic, dark cyber sound is an intentional style that I find quite beautiful - your review makes it seem like they failed somehow because their album sounds like this, when it is an intentional sound - really, to me it seems like you're more just saying "I don't like the sub-genre" or "I don't like this style of progressive psytrance" rather than rating the album for how well it executes the sub-genre..
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I don't think that is a fair comparison - Ticon is obviously going for a mechanized, cyber sort of sound here.. Personally I'm loving this album, and find it highly artistic, despite that it isn't breaking new ground in terms of the basic format of progressive psy.. - By the way, please people post more progressive psytrance reviews! This forum is so goa-centric...
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He should do another Distant System album - that was a truly unique and memorable work..
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Check this album out - by some of the artists that create as "Elea." This is an extraordinary, midtempo psychedelic instrumental, Sufi chanting infused piece of art.. I haven't posted on here in a long time but I had to give publicity to this album - so fresh, so psychedelic, the fattest rhythms.. I have no idea how this album didn't get a bunch of attention.. Here's one of the tracks - first few minutes are instrumental till the beat drops
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That is very surprising!
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I don't even remember a review for this new Pleiadians double album extravaganza - nor can I find it by search - am I missing something?
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This track may be it - total mind-blower, melodic tour de force...
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The remixes are awesome!! I like the original a lot as well, but BPC's new version is way better - classic track!
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"Blumenkraft" is easily my favorite Ott album ever.. To me that album has the most distinct style - so swanky, groovy, and trippy - very stylish music with lots of depth..
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I didn't care much for this compilation - I don't care much for this style of psytrance though so it may just be that. Overall the whole "ghosts-and-goblins carnival" sound lacks depth of emotion - there's no charisma to it or euphoric melodic breakdowns, but it's also not got the heavy hypnotic trance aspects of progressive psy.. I liked the 2nd and 12th tracks on here pretty well though, those seemed to have more depth and charisma..
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The sound production on "Dragon Tales" may not have been to today's standards - but the actual sounds they used in that album are way more colorful, creative, and trippy than in 98% of what I hear nowadays - such a diverse sound pallate, and so much creativity. I would imagine that if "Dragon Tales" were simply remastered and otherwise had the production taken up to today's standards, and then released, it would sound more "modern" and groundbreaking than pretty much everything else currently being released.. It's only the production that sounds dated..
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Me too!! Bill, man, I love your reviews, but I simply can't wrap my head around how you could put this album here in the same league as "Dragon Tales".. "The Scanner" comes off to me as mindless full-on psytrance with little artistic intrigue. There are some trippy sounds, but it's all strung together in a way that seems devoid of musicality and soul.. Nevermind the headache-inducing baselines that go along with it.. "Dragon Tales" is the sort of album that truly spins a "tale" in each track, the sort of music that you can journey deep on with headphones, one of my favorite psytrance albums ever.. I'm not saying "The Scanner" is a bad album, it has some moments in it, but I predict it will not be remembered as even one of the better albums of this year, let alone on par with classic Koxbox..
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Really enjoying this EP - not sure which track is my fav but like them all quite a bit.
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This is a promo, not a review..
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Oh wow - this album is fantastic! You would think that with 20 tracks quality might suffer - not the case - there are so many superb tracks here - some similar in style to classic Beat Bizarre (dark, groovy progressive psytrance) - and some that go in very different directions.. I'm so stoked on this new album, there is just so much here - if you like your progressive psytrance dark, highly hypnotic and psychedelic, and with super phat, ass-shaking beats and rhythms then this album is for you.. Amazing psychedelic techno on here also.. Beat Bizarre is easily my favorite progressive psytrance artist at this time on the active scene - Martin has released 3 excellent albums in the past 3 years - massive style, lots of creativity, mature/classy yet as hip as trance can sound..
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Just check it out on Spotify. Do you have that? Everyone should have Spotify - you can create an online library of unlimited albums for free, and listen to them as much as you want - it's the best thing since ITunes/IPad in my opinion..
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I have mixed feelings about this release - some parts are amazing, but others sound uninspired or just don't come together in a pleasing or congruent way.. Tarantula, for instance, is epic for the first half, but why climax the track halfway through and then have 4 more minutes of non-melodic whatever? "Collapse of the State Vector" starts off great but then loses the vibe it had. "Finite Automata" is a great track all through - he really nails that one.. The samples in "Neural Growth" are terrible, very annoying - samples should be 1) brief, 2) catchy, and 3) not out of sync with the music - these samples fail on all fronts.. I wish he would either go more melodic or go fully zany Hux Flux style like on Cryptic Crunch.. The melodies in Cryptic Crunch were awesome though.. These tracks have too much full-on style to them.. It is psychedelic, but missing the inspiration of Cryptic Crunch.. I disagree about the Bring Your Own BIOS remix though, that one I think is pretty killer.. Dennis was super drunk or something when he played out this way, a couple years back - in a lowered state of consciousness for sure.. I think he needs to do less of that and more psychedelics and meditation and so forth..
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Hux Flux - "Circle, Sine, Sound" (Z-Plane Records)
healium replied to healium's topic in Artist News and Labels announcements
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Thanks for all these reviews Bill!
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"Invocation" is awesome!!
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is there any website to read news from psychedelic trance world?
healium replied to psybient.org's topic in General Psytrance
Isratrance is the other big psytrance forum that I am aware of - lots of event info and reviews and so forth. http://forum.isratrance.com/ -
I'm loving the albums by Alwoods - if you like Tengri check out Alwoods - darker style, great rythms, psychedelic.. Excellent..
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Hux Flux - "Circle, Sine, Sound" (Z-Plane Records)
healium replied to healium's topic in Artist News and Labels announcements
Got my copy - I can't agree with the above review, as I find this album highly psychedelic and certainly true to the Hux Flux spirit - there is no selling out here.. Some of the baselines have the full-on style to them but basically this is pure psytrance, and not always very accessible. I agree that the Logic Bomb remix of BYOB is awesome - usually I don't care for remixes but this one is right proper. -- My main critique of this album is that he puts the melodic breakdowns early in the track rather than building up to them or repeating them.. Tracks like "Tarantula" and "Collapse of the State Vector" have these killer high energy melodies early in the track, but then the second half of the track is just lower energy soundscapes.. This isn't satisfying to me as the listener - if an artist brings an awesome buildup and melodic breakdown early in the track I want to hear it again later on in the track, or at least hear another melodic breakdown.. Either that or just do like Sensient and not have any melodies at all and make it about trippy soundscapes - but don't tease me with some euphoric melodic energy without really delivering a satisfying dose of it.