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What a joke to claim that Spiral Trax is back if their return release is an EP by Astrix and remixes by GMS and Wrecked Machineries. Maybe I shouldn't judge too fast, but this doesn't look to promising and without tracklists for the upcoming compilations I'll choose to remain pessimistic. The real question is: what big German label bought Spiral Trax? Those of you living in Germany should find out who holds the rights to the Spiral Trax name, or who has registered the Spiral Trax company name.

Have you noticed that this releases is actually called Best of the Rhino years vol 1? Let's hope there's actually going to be a second volume.

It's awesome, lots of great music by Gus Till! A hundred times better then his recent output. It's an essential release if you like the early Bus sound, and who doesn't?

Nuclear Ramjet are really good, Mission to Sedna was one of last years best albums, but I think a lot of people never even heard the album. I'm not sure I agree on the Triac connection, Nuclear Ramjet's sound is more melodic and morning oriented while Triac is less melodic and more nighttime oriented. If there is a connection, I would say that it's Triac that sounds like Nuclear Ramjet since NR has been around for a longer time. :-) If you're looking for some what similar music (based on both your interest in NR and Triac) I can recommend: V/A - Arise V/A - Refresh V/A - Rewired V/A - Chronika Chapter Two You also want to listen to anything by Midi Miliz, Spirallianz and The Delta. If you're prepared to go a bit further back in time I can also recommend Noosphere's album Radiated.

2 albums in 2006 and 20 tracks on compilations. In 2007 he has released a split/collaborations album and now a double cd on Digital Psionics and at least three tracks on compilations. Are the labels happy to release anything as long as it's by an established artist?

I've just listened to it for the first time and it's great!

When the best of 2006 competition was over I decided to revisit some of the releases mentioned in the competition. I'm glad I did because given a second chance I found these two releases to be a lot better then the first impression: Vibrasphere - Archipelago Filteria - Heliopolis That shouldn't be a big surprise to most of you since both releases ended up in the top ten. My first impression was that both releases didn't really evolve previous efforts, but given a second chance I think both releases are more then valid and that they are worth purchasing. I also found a (to me) previously unknown album: Quasar - One Day Really good storytelling dark psychedelic trance. Are there any psytrance releases from 2006 that the rest of you have overlooked or (re)discovered?

Do you remember what it was you let him listen to?

Few psytrance artists have a twelve year long career. Most artists release a couple of tracks and one or two albums and then they are lost in the noise. Cosmosis is one of those artists that have managed to develop his sound with dignity and keep the quality high over the years. Even though he's far from his straight forward ecstatic melodic debut he has always had that psychedelic atmosphere we are all looking for. During his career he has created lots of good tracks and solid albums. Nine years after its release date Synergy still remains a masterpiece. His 2005 album, Trancendance, was a big disappointment as it lacked the quality and integrity expected from Cosmosis, but judging by the samples from the new album he's back on track.

Wow, the longer samples do sound fantastic! Anoebis, give the longer samples another chance. It's not old school Etnica/Pleiadians but it's deep psychedelic space trance.

That's the good old goa spirit, quality over quantity.

Yes, Native State is a great label, all of their releases are really good.

Anahata - The Unmade Sound Cybernetika - Neural Network Expansion Gus Till - Best of Rhino Years Para Halu - Space Rock Sync24 - Source Tea Chairs - Tea Chairs Transwave - Backfire V/A - Twist Dreams So far I'm very happy with 2007.

Try The Wizardry of Oz compilation on Transient: http://www.discogs.com/release/340190

Not an excellent album, but definitely strong, and it's quite catchy. I like it.

Thanks for the tip!

I'm usually not impressed by the so called dark psytrance, but I tend to find one or two albums per year that are really good. This year I've already found one of those great albums. Para Halu's Space Rock is dark, hypnotic, twisted and psychedelic night trance. Highly recommended!

Nice to finally have the results, good work. Some comments: 1. If there are only 76 participants spread over 24 countries there is really no reason why the bars should show the percentage, the absolute numbers are just as valid and more interesting. 2. Reconsider if the current form of voting is relevant. 87 % of all releases in the contest received less then 5 votes and the median number of received votes is 1. That is, most albums only received one vote. A problem with this kind of ranking is that the voter is forced to rank a number of releases even though he or she might not feel that there's that big of a difference between the top five releases. 3. Another alternative way is too divide the contest into two parts. Step one is to let anyone nominate albums, let's say ten albums. The second step is the actual voting phase where only albums that received more then let's say five nominees are allowed to partake in the actual contest. 4. If only the number of received votes is taken into account and not the ranking/points then the list would look slightly different. The first column represents the new order and the second column the current order and the third column is the name of the album/compilation. Filteria is still number one, but OOOD is moved one step up and Jikkenteki one step down. Electrypnose is moved from 14 to 8 and the New Order compilation from 30 to 13. 1 1 Filteria - Heliopolis 2 3 O.O.O.D. - Free Range 3 2 Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home 4 5 KoxBox - U-Turn 5 4 Ka-Sol - Fairytale 6 6 Vibrasphere - Archipelago 7 7 Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers 8 14 Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies 9 10 Tegma - Around the World in 80 Minutes 10 8 Androcell - Efflorescence 11 8 V/A - Pyramidal Trancendence 11 10 Quasar - One Day 11 10 V/A - Peace Therapy Vol.2 12 13 V/A - God Save The Machine 13 19 Human Blue - Misstarryas Xperience 13 30 V/A - New Order

Dimension 5's debut album, Transdimensional

My most wanted albums and compilations are (in alphabetical order): Aeon - Transe Modulaire Chakra & Edi Mis - The Promised Land Darshan - Awakening Deviant Electronics - Brainwashing Is Childs Play Eraser vs. Yöjalka - Round 1 Etnica - The Juggeling Alchemists Under The Black Light Green Nuns Of The Revolution, The - Rock Bitch Mafia Juno Reactor - Transmissions Odd Harmonic - Coincidentalism Pitch Black - Electronomicon Rip Van Hippy - When Bernie Was A Tree Sibilant - Proper Filth Technossomy - Synthetic Flesh Transwave - Hypnorhythm EP Ubar Tmar - Macrometasomakosmos Zerotonine - Cygnus Loops Various - 3D Various - Accidental Occidentalism Various - Psychedelic Goa Core

Instant purchase: Twisted 10 years DVD From the website: Catalogue Number TWSDVD001 Barcode 630883004590 Format PAL DVD9 Region Region 0 (All Regions) Running Time 5 Hours 25 Minutes In July 1996, Twisted Records was born with the release of the first single ‘Deranger’. The first sound Twisted ever made was ‘I’m going to lead you, kicking and screaming, giggling and laughing into the future…’ This self fulfilled prophecy has been realised with the creation of the Twisted 10 Year Anniversary DVD. Based largely on the Twisted Anniversary party on the 27th of October 2006 in London, a Halloween fancy dress extravaganza where almost all of the artists associated with Twisted over the years played their part and 2300 people turned up dressed even freakier than usual. This made quite a spectacle as you can probably imagine. The whole event was filmed and photographed with some of the best bits making it onto this DVD. EVENT COVERAGE You’ll find a selection of prime dance floor moments including unreleased tracks performed LIVE by Hallucinogen, Transwave, and Younger Brother and some recent releases from the likes of Prometheus, Shpongle and Koxbox. Re-live the experience of the Twisted Anniversary or enjoy it for the first time if you were one of the many who couldn’t get tickets for this landmark event in our history. INTERVIEWS Interviews with Hallucinogen, Younger Brother, Raja Ram, Tristan, Prometheus, Koxbox & Dado give you an insight into the personalities, motives & mindstates behind the music. STUDIO TOURS As an added bonus for you techies you can see how they work their magic with special studio tours from Simon Posford, Benji Vaughan, Ott, Koxbox and Dado. For the first time, these secretive characters give you a proper glimpse of their methods and machinery. HALL OF FAME There are photographs galore of all the weird and wonderful characters and costumes that appeared on the night which can be found as a slideshow on the DVD. This is the Twisted Hall of Fame. Find your friends amongst the melee whilst listening to classic music from the label. Reminisce on the crazy faces that flashed past you that night or be amazed at the effort and colour in the crowd. These are the faces that have supported our label over the years and they have gone down in the hall of fame. DJ & VJ Mix Ott’s Levitating Turtle DJ Mix is a 45 minute unique blend of Twisted downtempo classics set in time to some top quality VJing from Inside-Us-All. Sit back at home and bliss out to your favorite tracks with some seriously stimulating visuals. BONUS MATERIAL Unreleased Hallucinogen LSD Video Big Tits Time Lapse ? BONUS AUDIO CD This is a bonus cd of unreleased tracks and live mixes of released tracks to satisfy your need for a hour of nothing but sound. An excellent addition to the collection or to the DJ case. It includes unreleased tracks from Hallucinogen, Younger Brother, Ott, & Audio Chemists (Simon Posford and Joti Sidhu), a special live mix of a classic track from Transwave and a live mix from Koxbox’s latest album. There are also some tracks taken from the Prometheus and Shpongle sets at the party.

More info please!

It's old school, it's Transwave, it can only be psychedelic and it is.

There's a great melodic progressive trance act called Celluloid Dmage and they deserve attention from all of you: Celluloid Dmage Their music is deep, uplifting and beautiful. You'll love it! Oh, I forgot to say the best thing: it's free and of high quality!

It's a great album (all their albums and projects are), very innovative and it has some great progression going on in the tunes. Love it!