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PKS: By the way, the nice cover art seems to be based on a photograph of one of your beautiful Norwegian glaciers Pics from my trip to the Nigardsbreen glacier

BBE - 7 Days 1 Week Nalin & Kane - Beachball DJ Sakin & Friends - Protect your mind Disc O Thek - Don't you want me Secret Diary feat. Supermax - Lovemachine '98 DJ Quicksilver - Planet Love Saccoman - Distant Planet From Eye-Q "Behind the Eye Vol. 2:" Firedance (The Sunrise) ... just to mention a few

Sensient: No please!!! Don't go full-on! There is so much of that stuff coming, mostly of mediocre quality. Keep your style!

Although Fusion is not a pure Goa Trance festival but includes many underground music genres, the trance floor is a class of its own, its line-up often surpassing that of pure Goa Trance festivals. The highlights: Midimiliz live set: felt like being sandblasted... ultra dry innovative tech-trance stuff Son Kite live set: music that is 5-10 years ahead of its time, coming from a place light years away from ours. Guys understanding and playing REAL music, not just fiddling with computers. The best live act I have seen ever! Helltown Chicks DJ set: Great progressive house / trance stuff Sebastian Krueger DJ set: although I missed the SBK part of his portfolio, the final hours of the trance floor on sunday were beautiful and relaxing. Progressive crossover stuff at its best. Der dritte Raum (not on the trance floor): carefully crafted, minimalistic basslines that work! I have posted some pictures on my home page: http://www.feueratem.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10

Haldolium was quite monotonous, lacking thrust and passion... that was a wasted opprtunity to place a highlight on sunday afternoon... Anyway, SBK's combined live and DJ set alone was worthwhile to go to this party - top quality progressive stuff, only to be surpassed by stuff like Son Kite (i had them just a week ago at the Fusion festival). By the way: dancing in the mud had a quality of its own, notwithstanding the bad weather

Tshitraka Project 2005 was a beautiful and well-organized festival. Great music, nice decoration, gorgeous fireworks and a generally very relaxed atmosphere, although the weather was less than optimal on saturday. IMHO it was very useful to clearly distinguish progressive and full-on floor - it made the choice easier depending on my current mood. Anyway, here are my pictures: http://www.feueratem.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9

The album fits nicely as a building block into dark progressive sets, together with the new albums from Sensient (pressure optimal) and Metalogic (magnetic influence) or compilations like electroscopic or chronika2.

Minimal: not really, I would call it polished and cleaned-up. Not many dirty (and sometimes useless) sound effects like in neo full-on stuff. It feels more technical than organic. Flyh experiments with varying strokes and tempo inside a track, intermediate ambient parts and stuff like that. Very funny and well done. Progressive: Flyh does not really fit between Son Kite and Freq, it is closer to Japanese style. I would place it halfway between K.U.R.O. and Protoculture. For me, it was love at a first glance, an instant mover. The cover is somewhat strange (probably a parody of the LEGO logo) but the package will blast you out of your seat. My rating (according to the frequently used 0-10 scale): 9/10

When I pre-listened to this album on psyshop.com, it sounded pretty cool and powerful. However, when I got it, it did not play properly both on my PC and my Mac and there was no way to put it on my iPod. I sent it back and got a replacement (the guys at Psyshop are pretty fast, good service!) but the replacement had similar problems. When I sent it back again, they told me that the whole batch had manufacturing errors and I could choose a different product as substitute. Some weeks later, the Entropy album was available again, I ordered one immediately, got the same results. Finally, Psyshop found out that the CD was COPY PROTECTED!!! How are they going to sell anything if they p*ss of their paying customers and screw up their distribution network by letting the distributors handle customer complaints and returns? Which DJ still takes the risk of carrying around originals? Sorry, I will never buy anything from DOOF until they publicly excuse for having abused paying customers as guinea pigs for crippled media and publicly declare that they will NEVER put "copy protection" on their CDs again. My conclusion: zero/10 !!! PS: Psyshop offered again to choose a substitute product. This problem is not their fault!