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I think Ofer Dikovsky has made enough good music to show he has nothing to prove and have the license to make whatever he wants...just my 2 cents.

Liked it. 3D, great animation and beautiful landscapes are a good combination. And if you like fantasy you'll love it. What stood out for me was the way the movie made you realise what you lose when you live in a city, the primal connection to nature.

If he wants to change direction thats his prerogative, I wish he had done it under another name since he anyway has so many projects (Indoor, Omputer, Phreaky, Sound Pollution, Tandu, Oforia etc...) Just bought Retrodelic Vibes 3 and am listening to Oforia - Timelessness on it, wow he's come a long way with this new track

Any software from the ones mentioned above, as long as you're comfortable with it.

Twilight is great to dance to, about 142-152 BPM and its about relentless energy. Basically in between dark and full-on. Here are some twilight tracks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L8vuXHHrHU

Try Office. I like it because its realistic, about situations that could happen in real life and how people react to them. This is from the 90s but if you like british humour try the Jeeves and Wooster TV series.

You mostly get twilight and full-on down here, so I haven't danced to Goa yet. I love the mad, ripping twi basslines and driving synths. Psy means I can totally let go

oops ! my mistake

I just remembered, if you've seen Human Traffic there's this part where two freaks come back from Goa and say "The bassline was so loud, you could hear it in Jamaica" released in mid '99 so basslines were big by then.

Not sure if this is what you were looking for but I was pretty surprised by the bassline in Sandman - Tripulogic from '96. A fair number of goa tracks did have basslines but they just weren't overt. OT: I like fast,groovy,energetic fullon with lots of acid like CPU - CPU and Space Tribe - TTLG etc... and if artists who've made really good music want to make some money for a change, sure!

You could try 'Primer'. It isn't completely out of the box or mind blowing, but its very good for a budget of $7000 and it fits your "low budgets" & "ambitious ideas" criterion Its also hard SF if thats what you like. Just in case you haven't seen it, another recent film that has some depth and good themes is District 9. Does 'Pi' come under SF? Guess not. And are you sure 'The Fifth Element' should be on this poll? I thought it was ridiculous. I completely agree with you otherwise, less Space Opera and more depth please! From what I have seen, 1. Bladerunner - nothing comes close 2. 2001, A Space Odyssey - beautiful montages, it gives you a real feel of travelling in space, of how it is 'out there' 3. Metropolis - has to be in the top 5, way ahead of its time - its influences are evident in later films like Bladerunner. 4. Alien 5. Twelve Monkeys - extremely disorienting you can feel what Bruce Willis' character is feeling. Its a crazy take on time travel, and has very good acting. Other good ones : Gattaca/The Day the Earth Stood Still/The Matrix

+1 I suppose consciousness is the difference between being 'alive' and being 'sentient'?

Oh...ok. Well thats not what I read books for generally...but hey! you called it one 'hell' of a book I'll read it sometime then.

I will. It seems to be more intimidating than Ulysses so I'm waiting for a clear stretch of free time. Yup I was of that opinion right uptill I read Ulysses but it after reading it I simply had to admit there wasn't a better book out there. I haven't read Walden yet, thanks for that suggestion The Bible I might read, but much later. Being agnostic, I'm not sure how taken up I'll be by religious books.

Whenever I see a critic's Top books list, Ulysses is at the top or near the top, so I decided to give it a read. And it fully deserves the place. Nothing I've read yet even comes close to Ulysses. Its just so far ahead of anything else, that you have to accept that it is the greatest book written and that James Joyce is a genius. Ulysses is a very hard book to get through. It took me three months, whereas say Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov took me about a month. I don't recommend using a dedicated Ulysses guide because a guide 'dissects' the book, and takes away the magic. What I did was to read a chapter, and then stick to the summaries on Spark Notes. Ulysses exists on two levels. For the average reader, even if you don't understand what he's getting at, the wordplay, and sentence construction is a delight in itself. Don't worry too much about figuring out what each and every sentence means. The second level is if you are a critic who's a English major, has Greek mythology on his/her fingertips, knows some French/Latin/Italian, is famaliar with Irish history, has read Homer then yup then you can worry about what every word means. Tip: Define <word> on Google is the simplest way to getting word meanings. Ulysses is out of copyright now is a free, legal download from Project Gutenberg... http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4300 Ulysses@SparkNotes www.sparknotes.com/lit/ulysses/ 1922 review of Ulysses - interesting read http://www.saltana.org/1/ist/71.html Read Ulysses online (This is a hypertextual, self-referential edition) http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rac101/concord/texts/ulysses/

Rakshas is my favourite, rolling track with acid flying all over the place. I find Asia 2001 very hard to like during home listening, imo its more for the body.

The best psy vocal sample is in the middle of The Nommos - Amma. X-Dream - The 1st also has good vocoded sounding stuff.

Its getting a little repetitive now.

Ah you can never be too sure with all the sub genre floating around. Neurofunk is great!

I assume you've heard Arrakis and Breach? For me its psy with broken beats. Anyhow I have a broad definition of what "psychedelic" is. And I have no idea what 'neurotech' is. I know what neurofunk is.

Alien Mental - Mind Hack has plenty of NSKPs if I remember correctly.

There's nothing like some good Psy DnB. Unfortunately not too many artist seem to be enthused the by idea. Whats not to love? Crazy synths laid over rolling broken beats? I hope Cybernetika's Atropos is just one of many more albums. Okay Psy DnB I've come across. And that brings me to, can we call it something better? Like "Doofstep"? ::Albums:: Deviant Electronics - Blunt Instruments - chilled out stuff VA - Freekstyle - inside is pretty good Evol Intent - Era of Diversion - a couple of the tracks such as parts of the title track approach psydnb. Otherwise the best dnb album i've heard. Mahisha - Empire - cyber guru, dishoom and the title track are my faves. has an industrial-ish sound on some tracks Nam Shub of Enki meets Kiki.iLL - In the Valley of Mood - clickher is my fav here Sibilant - Proper Filth Shakta - Feed the Flame Disc 2 - its got the digitalis dnb/breaks tracks ::Tracks:: Technical Itch - The Legend (Evol Intent Remix) - this track is crazy like psy-acidcore-dnb-hardcore haha Skynet & Stakka - Timelines BSE - Arrakis BSE - Breach - this is the best psy/trance dnb I've heard, mindblowing Raiden - Fallin Noisia - End Game - just a bit of techpsy creeps in Unknown Error - Shadows - sort of like a dnb version of Juice Unknown Error - The Yearning ok thats all the psy dnb I know. there is other stuff but this is the stuff worth listening to. and..there's my psydnb track its not bad http://www.4shared.com/account/file/96912053/797db968/Scorched_Acid_Policy.html

Heh well my Downfall is better! Which is why I didn't mention Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett. But yeah thats definitely worth a listen

Wow...why has no one mentioned the majestic Venetian Snares - My Downfall (Original Soundtrack) Also I guess martial industrial could be what you're looking for. Try Triarii - Muse in Arms And I haven't given this a listen but afaik its classical made with synths Wendy Carlos - Switched-On Bach

Psycore Alien Mental - Mind Hack - doesn't seem to be mentioned a lot, but I think its really twisted. Twilight Ocelot - Vector Selector Principles of Flight - Chaos Opera - still a new album, lets see how it holds up but imo its good. The rest has already been mentioned above.