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During the summers I love to read books the challenge the mind, that make me question reality and my beliefs, that make me laugh and cry and think big thoughts about life, all while laying in the grass and looking at the clouds. Some books that come to mind are: DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge - Jeremy Narby Fingerprints of the Gods How are we to live? Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest - Peter Singer The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Do you have any such books that you can recommend?

Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger

You must have missed the singing and the lyrics...

I used to believe the exact same thing, that Nick "Doof" Barber music is good music, until I discovered his album from last year.

The samples form the last album also seemed ok, but that album didn't turn out to be that exciting. Look at all the videos of him playing guitar live on stage at his myspace site, there's no doubt this album will be worse than the last one. The sample of the Samba Del Gringo tune...don't get me started...

I also listened to it a couple of days ago and I still don't find it that fascinating...

Psybreaks have been predicited at least since 1997, but it has never really happened in any major way. Look for compilations from 21-3 Records, Surreal Audio and Edgecore.

I like the cover and it's hopefully a sign of him and Raja Ram returning to the roots

I think it's really bad. The live drums, the rock/metal riffs and lame artificial crowd noise doesn't do it for me. And there's nothing "live" about this recording. Even though they are experienced musicians they haven't played as a band long enough to trust each other and go out on a limb. This is a carefully rehearsed show and not once do I get the feeling of being there in the moment, which should be essential for a live recording. I have always been impressed by Posford's ability to reinvent his sound and they major effects his ideas have had on the psychedelic trance sound. I do understand that artists might find it more fun to play with instruments and with friends, but if Younger Brother and Hallucinogen in dub live is his new sound I'm not sure I will follow that path. I would rather prefer a live Hallucinogen album, and it's a good way of making more money of the Hallucinogen trance sound everyone loves. A live Hallucinogen album would be as magnificent as the Daft Punk live album.

Be careful what you wish for:

I agree 100 % and I often get annoyed when I listen to a great album where the cover of the album doesn't match the music. The problem is that the bad cover art gets in the way of the audio visual images in my mind. My best example is Twisted's Unusual Suspects compilation. It's a great compilation, but the cover is so lame. As is the case with most Twisted covers post Demented when Twisted decided to change their graphical profile.

Besides the Talpa follow up album, here's my disappointments: Gappeq - Speaker Seeker One of the most exciting new artists of recent years, but nonetheless an uninspiring debut album. One of the biggest disappointments. Cosmosis - Trancendance One of few old school artists that have managed to develop his sound, and then suddenly it's the well known and boring full on formula. Ocelot - Dream Selector The Vector Selector album is amazing, I just love all those strange alien sounds, and the idea of him turning melodic (as was the case with Dream Selector) was very interesting, unfortunately the album didn't work for me. Koxbox - U-turn All talent obviously left with Ian Ion. X-dream - We Interface There's no denying that the X-dream guys are one of the most important acts of psytrance, but the We Interface album is well crafted boredom. The Delta - Minusman Same as above x 10. Prometheus - Robot.O.Chan His first couple of singles are really good, but the album just doesn't do it for me. It's like he's trying to be more intelligent and avant garde then he actually is. Same applies for the Corridor of Mirrors album. Quirk - Quality Control Their debut album is one the essential albums of the golden years, their follow-up is one the biggest disappointments. Deedrah - Body Soul Impressive sound quality, among the best I've ever heard on cd, but the tracks doesn't go anywhere.

Will be one of the top ten best albums of 2009. No psy-trance albums on that list so far.

I understand that artists get disillusioned about the trance scene, but I can't understand how über cheesey new age ballads are the answer.

Some of you might know Zomby as a dubstep artist, but his debut album, Where were u in '92?, is old school breakbeat and hardcore, and it's excellent nostalgic music! He claims that "this album was produced using 92 studio techniques using the Akais2000 and Atari ST with Cubase". I don't know or care if that's the truth, all that matters is that it's a great album. Any similar old school recommendations would be appreciated. I had some old tapes with some great breakbeat, but I've lost them, and I would love to listen to some of it again.

Nice job with the interview. The questions were relevant and the answers felt honest. Any ideas on what his techno alias might be?

You should look for Ubar Tmar - True Sandman - Witchcraft Shaolin Wooden Men - Supermindway Spiral Active Project - Spiral Active Project Texas Faggott - Petoman's Peflett V.A. - Shamanic Trance mixed by Tsuyoshi Suzuki Odd Harmonics - Coincidentalism - Demon Tea - 2000

You are looking for: Ubar Tmar - True Odd Harmonic - Coincidentalism Shaolin Wooden Men - Supermindway Process - One Drop or Two?

Warp Records and the London Sinfonietta did something similar to some Aphex Twin and Squarepusher tracks: http://www.warprecords.com/londonsinfonietta/

I can't help you, but if you could manage to get those tracks released it would be excellent! Good luck!

Great work draeke! I would prefer a gold or black disc in a jewelcase. It depends on how the color of the artwork corresponds to the color of the disc. But I'm sure you'll make all the right decisions, this is after all your (and our) dream come true!

I just heard Interstellar Overdrive, not the Pink Floyd track, but the psytrance act. Wow, that's my kind of psychedelic trance! Dark, weird and with some haunting melodic parts. Who are they? Why are they unreleased? Are there any more tracks besides Dark Awakening and Part 4?

It was a long time since I enjoyed a Wizzy Noise album, and with this album I consider them to be off topic as far as psychedelic trance is concerned.

Best album of 2008 so far

I recommend all of you to visit Illuminus MySpace site and listen to their tracks. Even though I'm personally fed up with the ethnic downtempo sound Illuminus manges to make it seem fresh and of high quality.