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Interesting subject! Let me add some more key features of postmodernism (as I understand them): - The world can not be viewed objectively, it's socially constructed - There are no universal ethical or political truths/principals - New social movements (peace, women's rights, animal rights, etc) - Fragmentation of the self, there's not one identity, but many - Deconstruction of categories - History is not linear - Nihilism - Relativism We've all heard or read about people's experience with psychedelics, and several of the above key features are often part of their description of the experience. There's at least one description most of us know back and forth: "Today, a young man on acid realised that all matter is just energy condensed to a slow vibration - that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death ; life is only a dream ...... we are the imagination of ourselves" - Bill Hicks The creation of new social movements as an alternative way of political participation can also be traced back to the protests against the vietnam war. Protests where the hippie movement played an important role. Btw, if you haven't read Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman you should. It's a very funny book written by the founder of the Yippie Movement and his personal description of that time in american history. Highly recommended! Yes, indeed a very interesting relation. If you're not already aware of a book called The Tao of Physics you might find it interesting. If you want to read more about psychedelics and natural science, Kary Mullis (Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1993) wrote a bold a highly entertaining self-biography called Dancing Naked In The Mind Field. He claims LSD helped in his scientific work. You might also find it interesting that "the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago." No, it's just a personal interest. Thanks, I'll look for it. That would be highly appreciated. 597034[/snapback] Political science. My bachelor thesis is not related to this in any way. I'm pretty sure my professors aren't ready to discuss this subject. :-)

I'm currently reading a lot about postmodernism (as part of a course I'm taking at the uni) and I find it very likely that the (re)discovery of psychedelics in the 1950s has played an important role in the development of postmodernism. If you're unfamiliar with postmodernism some of its key features are (taken from Wikipedia): * A continual skepticism towards the ideas and ideals of the modern era, especially the ideas of progress, objectivity, reason, certainty & personal identity, and grand narrative in general (see Counter-Enlightenment) * The belief that all communication is shaped by cultural bias, myth, metaphor, and political content. * The assertion that meaning and experience can only be created by the individual, and cannot be made objective by an author or narrator. * Parody, satire, self-reference, and wit. * Acceptance of a mass media dominated society in which there is no originality, but only copies of what has been done before. * Globalization, a culturally pluralistic and profoundly interconnected global society lacking any single dominant center of political power, communication, or intellectual production. Instead, the world is moving towards decentralization in all types of global processes. I would be very happy if anyone could point me in the right direction, that is articles or books about psychedelics and their influence on postmodern thought. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

FYI: Shades do not exist in the world of black and white.

Nuclear Ramjet - Mission To Sedna V/A - Beneath the Surface

My vote also goes for Weight of Oblivion, great tune!

What goes around comes around. Preach hate and hate is what you will get.

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Wow, excellent mix! Deep and psychedelic and lightyears from anything associating itself with psytrance. Why bother with non-psychedelic "progressive psytrance" when there's trance and house music that's actually deep and psychedelic on its own merits?

Since psytrance isn't very psychedelic these days I'm turning my interest towards other genres of psychedelic music. It's easy to get new music from the usual networks but it's a lot harder to buy it. I guess I'm looking for something like psyshop.com but idm, breakcore, house, lounge, electronic in general oriented, any suggestions? I am aware of juno.co.uk but they're too expensive.

"Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. While Marx addressed a wide range of issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.'" More at Wikipedia.

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I hear you, 2006 is crap so far. Let's hope that Twisted manages to release the Koxbox and Prometheus albums on time. Yeah, I know, it's not very likely that will happen...

It's exactly how I feel about Derango and why I miss the old school psychedelia, back then there was melodies and a story, now it's just too random and/or lacking evolution. One notable exception is of course Psykovsky's debut album, a modern masterpiece in my opinion.

Skazi is not psytrance. He might play at some psy related parties and have some tracks on psy compilations and labels but it's not psytrance, same goes for Dali and related pop trance. Agreed, there are a lot of great non-psytrance related releases out there that are psychedelic. Personally I don't find progressive psytrance all that exciting or psychedelic for that matter, I do however feel that deep house can fill that gap. Listen to James Holden's Balance mix and I'm sure you'll understand what I mean.

When ever there are discussions about old school psychedelic trance I get the feeling that we're nostalgic about different things so I thought this pool might give us an understanding about what it actually is that we are nostalgic about. Personally, I like both styles, but my preference is mainly towards the twisted properties of old school psytrance. Btw, I define old school as psytrance released until 1999.

His debut album caught my attention, but it took a while for me too give it the appreciation and attention it deserves. He has undoublty got talent and I'm looking forward to his new album. But then again I like "an overdose of the psychedelics, shit flying around all over the place".

1. Galaxy - Solar Synthesis 2. Electric Universe - Stardiver

1. IFO 2. Juggling Chemists 3. Alien Protein

I'd like to give some appreciation to Aeternum's Flow; a beautiful tribal morning tune. Some other good examples of the same type of sound are Trickster's Turquoise Mood and Morganixx' Egal. A return of that sound would be very nice.

This is really excellent morning music!

Great music!

I've never been a Human Blue fan (he undoubtly has some good tunes) so I won't comment on the music, but the album title, "misStArRyAs Xperience", is he a warez kid or something?

It would be a lot easier too call Raja Ram other things than "psychedelic clown" or "muse" if he had a project of his own, but he hasn't. He has only been involved in collaborations so judging his actual input is hard. I hear a lof of Posford in Shpongle and a lot of GMS in 1200 Mics. Here's some guilt by association: Raja Ram and Skazi on stage

Order is restored yet chaos rules the threads.

A download is not a lost sale, a lot of people download music that is worth more than they could afford to pay for so even if downloads could be completely banned it would not necessarily mean a new golden era for the record labels. If you compare the mid 90's to the present you will find that most people consume more dvds and video games today than they did back then. The entertainment budget relative to the consumers income is probably constant during that period but more things are bought for that money today.