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No, it's not that simple. It's legal for you to download it (you're a Swedish resident, right?), but it's not legal for you to share it, and that's exactly what you're doing when you use bittorrent. If I understand your argument against downloads correct it's focused on the illegal sharing of artists hardwork rather than the actual download, and by downloading the new Shpongle album via bittorrent that's exactly what you've done. Posford and Raja Ram are probably crying in their jacuzzi's this very minute. If you don't have a good setup I doubt you'll be able to hear any difference.

The music download lawsuits in the US are, as I understand it, orchestrated by the cooperation of the major labels through the RIAA. The psytrance labels are not part of this organisation. RIAA focus on the major top 50 releases of its members, not small genre music like psytrance. The proof of illegal downloads are gathered by the RIAA and then sent to the police. It's not the police that are monitoring filesharing networks for illegal downloads. I'm sure you can download Shpongle without any fear of prosecution. That would be just lovely, or even better DVD AUDIO!

I've spent roughly $10000 US on psytrance and $3000 on non psy music. A lot of it thanks to downloads. I don't buy ANYTHING before I've heard it completely, there's just too much crap out there. Because the labels fail to provide adequate previews I'm forced to download music inorder to preview it. Thanks to downloads I've discovered tons of new music I would never have heard. I download almost everything people recommend to me, if it's good I'll buy it, if it's bad I delete it. The consequence of this is that my record selection is becoming more varied at the expense of psytrance, but my total record buying cost is increasing. The music download phenomenon is not as black and white as you describe it.

Ceriously Cinos, you don't have to inform us about every problem you encounter during the day. I haven't checked this topic since lunch and now it's full of completely useless replies from you. Please don't be so fast to hit the reply button, think twice.

Not on bittorrent yet? It's available on the biggest torrent site: Pirate Bay.

Cut and paste from Twisted.co.uk: "shpongle 3 nothing lasts is available now for pre order from the twisted online ordering page for a reduced price of £12.00 UKP. all pre orders will be shipped next friday 27th MAy 2005. worldwide release date is 06.06.05. buy it from twisted now and have it 2 weeks before any shops!"

First impression: Simply amazing! There's clicks and bleeps, morphing and shifting sounds and tweaked voices everywhere. The transition between tracks and the overall flow is excellent. There are tons of influences and variation among and in the tracks and still it doesn't feel unfocused. The sound quality is very sharp and crisp and it's a treat to listen to the album on a good surround setup. This is Shpongle all the way, so don't worry, you'll feel at home and at the same time you'll discover lots of new things: there are melodies, instruments and vibes that aren't the typical posfordian but executed with the typical excellence, care of detail and talent of Posford. The album ends a bit abruptly though. It's both an internal and external experience, and you'll have lots of flashbacks from start to finish. Another masterpiece really.

Yes, I'm going to burn the album to a cd-rw and listen to it on my surround setup. If it's good, and I'm sure it will be, I'll buy it. I hope you will find it worth waiting for your copy to arrive sometime next week, mean while I'll be playing it on repeat. Now I'm off to listen to some new Shpongle, see you later...

Rumours Of Vapours and Behind Closed Eyelids were both released prior to Are You Shpongled?, noone complained about that because those tunes belonged on that album for sure. I'm sure it will be the same with the great Beija Flor tune. Fluoro Neuro Sponge and LSD were released prior to Twisted. Trancespotter and Deranger were also released prior to The Lone Deranger. I rather have one or two great previously released tunes that fits the album, then one or two disjointed fillers, and seeing as it is Posford we're talking about I'm sure it's going to be all great stuff.

Excellent electronic music with varying amounts of acoustic guitars: Gravenhurst - Flashlight Seasons - Warp Records Four Tet - Pause - Domino Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough - Hefty Records Adam Shaikh and Tim Floyd - Drift

Freestyle psychedelic masterpiece, get it!

What part of "next time" don't you understand?

Try the Remember the Slime track or the Supermindway album. Supermindway is the same style as A Binary Input to Flest Antenna. Supermindway is one of those groundbreaking albums. You haven't heard anything like it.

Bother to check next time instead of wasting our time...

Cosmosis is one of those artists that has managed to progress his sound with dignity. It has so far been a great ride, from the debut Cosmology up to 2002's Contact, all good, great or brilliant. The latest offering, Trancendance, is unfortunately a release that will be lost in the flood of boring full on. Not bad, just not interesting: 5/10

The masters of weird psychedelic trance, Shaolin Wooden Men, have a 40.42 long track called A Binary Input To Flesh Antenna.

Agreed, quantity over quality seems to be the ruling concept these days.

Twisted's prices have always been way to high, their website is never updated in time, when it is updated the information is incorrect, and the release dates are never correct. I love weird music, but their weird way of making business isn't equally appealing.

Ubar Tmar's True album is one of the most brilliant and psychedelic masterpieces of the psy-trance genre. If you like that style you might want to try Quirk's Machina Electrica & Fornax Chemica. Then there's Ubar Tmar's 99 tracks album Macrometasomakosmos based on the golden mean. Great stuff. Btw, there's a live recording based on True called Ubar Tmar Live at Autumnal Equinox. Ubar Tmar is the most underrated artist of the psy-trance scene.

What's the tracklist for the Holm & Andersen Sunrise Mix - Deep Tribal House mix?

Words of experience: Never ever believe anything on the Twisted site, especially if it's related to a release date. You'll just end up being disappointed.

No tracklist = no download.

Some random selections: Texas Faggott Shaolin Wooden Men Rip van Hippy Midimiliz Rastaliens Droidlock Rhythmystec Snake Thing Spirallianz Weirdo Beardo Twin Freaks Unconcious Collective Deviant Electronics

I've found the source of the sample and it's Timothy Leary's "Tune in, turn on, drop out" recording: http://www.discogs.com/release/429192 Now, who can ID the track that uses this sample?

Hey Lemmiwinks, it would be nice to get some kind of respons to my above reply...