Padmapani

how is that stupid? the only issue i can think of is that it's cheaply psychedelicised by using deep dream.

yeah, in fact i thought of big blue before posting. it's in some way more powerful and intense than electra but in a very smooth way. especially the end of the remix with its huge amount of layers.

may i introduce you to artha: of course you know artha, but this track is imho at least as intense as electra. the two tracks of synsun on golden vibes ii and a few filteria tracks (especially the higher civilization remix, or the big blue rmx if you also count this 'softer variant' of power) also come very close.

exactly. while i havne't yet found any exceptional, outstanding tracks (usually takes a few listens more anyway), there is not a single bad or mediocre track on any of the three cds, which is quite remarkable. translating poetry is incredibly hard. even with similar languages like english/german the translation is never as good as the original, so i had low expectations. it turned out better and about 10 times longer than expected . the verses do not always flow very smoothly (from what i can make out in cyrillic (which is not too much) that is not issue in the russian version), but i do get the story and enjoyed the clever composition of several passages. so while it is clear that i cannot enjoy it fully, i guess that the majority of the poem is like that in the original, making me want to understand enough russian to be able to read the original it reminded me a bit of the lyrics to genesis' the lamb lies down on broadway album (which also reads like the description of a psychedelic experience most of the time)...

this release was totally unexpected for me, but i still wasn't surprised. thing like the new ra album or the forthcoming astral projection album ( ) have people hyped up years before the release, but with the regularity of e-mantra's releases, seeing a new album has become something natural. "there's a new e-mantra album" is almost like "look it's becoming winter again". the biggest difference being that i don't enjoy winter.

i've got a download link 30 minutes ago and it sounds awesome thanks for the christmas present. i was expecting to have to wait for it to arrive in the post (which is probably super busy right now).

i've been enjoying this liveset a lot lately: it seems as if (the new style of) acidcore is slowly being picked up a bit more by the freetekno scene. so while that increases the chances of parties happening down here, it also means that i won't know it when they'd happen

it's coming on the 25.12. but compiling a best-of list without having had a chance to listen to it is probably pointless

it depends on what exactly you count as one melody. a short sequence that repeats, but a little different notes every time? a short sequence with different harmony every time? multiple short patterns played by the same intrument one after the other? a long non-repeating pad that plays over a vast stretch of time? ...? anyway i give you these: Dimension 5 - Deep Space 5D (the strings are 24 measures, so 96 beats) Lunarave - Cannon Fodder Dimension 5 - Caprica (should be more than long enough if you count the different layers and harmony every time) Cosmosis - Inner Space (depending on how you count you might have multiple shorter melodies or one long one with at least 32 measures) BPC - Midian (AP Rmx) (16 measures) Artha - Chaos (at least 16 measures) Astral Projection - Axis V0.99 Filteria - Filteroid ...

the venue (or something) has its own website: http://sunburn.in/events#sunburn-goa-2015/4414 and actually there seems to be some sort of psy stage with liquid soul, egorhytmia and aphid moon. apart from that the most "goa" thing about the festival seems to be the location... i haven't even heard the names of any of the acts playing on the main stage (except david guetta)

very nice. especially the psy-h project tracks sound better than i would have expected from the previous releases. the usual suspects (artifact303, filteria, ...) deliver the usual (high) quality. the big unknown is centavra project. never heard of them/him before, but the music sounds like the perfect mix between mindsphere and celestial intelligence

hey, just listening through the whole thing. it looks great with the black shiny discs and everything. the live set is monumental, the remastered versions are fine (for maia i prefer the original version with a little volume adjustment, the other tracks sound better remastered). the vinyl tracks are also a nice addition with some tracks i didn't know before and some tracks in better quality than before (jungle track [wasn't it called jungle trax everywhere else?] sounds hugely better than the version on destination goa 2), but wtf is up with sonic system? sorry to bring this up again*, but this single track is distorting badly all over the place. it's most noticable at 4:45. did i get a faulty cd or are all copies like this? the distortion on the doof cd is something where i can see that it's easily missed (and i don't notice at all when i don't listen for it), but this is something different. i've compared to the version on the natraj tempel compilation and in fact every single kick drum is completely mangled on the new version we have here. the kick in sonic system is mixed unusually loud and sounds very "90s"-like, but you can't just squash it until it sounds totally different to subdue it so you can raise the volume, especially if you cause really ugly distortion that way... all in all, having one damaged track out of 23 isn't a problem when you consider those other 22 tracks . even if sonic system were missing completely, i'd buy the cd without thinking. so a big thanks to dat records and everyone involved! *as much as we like good vibes in the psy community, with antic gone, someone still has to bring these issues up. and i warn you, i'm not going to ask for having my account deleted if people disagree with me

motorways, apparently. radi, come on this is the topic you've been waiting for! where are you?

D5 - Transdimensional is one of the most coherent, storytelling and therefore cinematic psy albums i know. another one that's fitting in this respect (maybe even more so) is: Lunarave - Do You Know Who You Are

so do i, but i'll put melodic/lush/spacey progressive like e-clip, human blue and the like into a "good progressive" category rather than drawing a genre boundary because of that in the end the borders between subgenres are constructed artificially anyway. when you know psy music well, you simply develop a feeling for what's fullon/progressive/forest/... and can immediately recognise it in a matter of seconds and >90% of the other psyheads will agree with you (making the distinction useful). it's just when you try to make a general, objective definition that fits in all cases that people will come up with totally different opinions or when you try to categorise music that's combining the elements of different subgenres that you'll get vastly different assessments from people... simply goa trance imho. and not even the kind of goa trance that would later evolve into progressive. it's only the miranda remix that i'd call progressive.

i'd rather say that it's psytrance with a different structure. it's focused more on rhytm and groove and changes "one element at the time" (you know... the track "progresses" slowly instead of going from climax to climax like in fullon). that gives it a psyprog (=progressive psytrance) track and slow and coherent impression instead of being more unpredictable with quick changes like the other subgenres of psy. once you're in the groove it just keeps going instead of transitioning to something completely different by two buildups and one break that only lasts one measure. whilte it's true that a lot of progressive is slower, uses different bassline patterns, is more minimal and often has influences from house/techno/trance/.... none of these are imo defining features. it's all in the structure (but one could argue that the structure is borrowed from techno…). so from the examples above the former three are progressive while the last one is fullon.

i'm just listening through the samples at arabesque, but is it just me or does this sound better than his previous releases? with more melodies, less metallic-ness and a more coherent sound that fits together nicely instead of just going weirdly experimental?

neelix ranges from formulaic, boring, easy-listening sound to extremely cheesy. just like filteria is the poster child for newschool goa, neelix is for commercial progressive.

i cannot disagree with that. but when good music comes out, it's pretty likely on one of those labels. besides liquid soul, almost everything on iboga is pretty horrible/non-psy nowadays. spintwist has quite a few bullshit aritsts also (fabio&moon, klopfgeister, neelix!), so meh. the labels of the plusquam group release inconsistent to horrible/ultra-cheesy stuff most of the time. ovnimoon does all kinds of psy, i wouldn't include it as a proggy label. joof has some nice progressive, but also a lot of (or rather mostly) normal trance so i wouldn't count that one either. that leaves us with iono and tesserract. if it's on those labels it's either good or just boring, never really horrible

interesting how these things change over the years. the most famous lunar asylum tracks are van halen and meltdown. van halen is downright annoying to my ears while meltdown is decent but pretty unspectacular. twister blows both out of the water. vanishing point is also quite an ok track.

imho the best progressive labels now are tesseract and iono, having the smallest percentage of releases that sound more like minimal/house than psy.

not bad, not bad at all. both are good progressive tracks, but neither manage capture the magic and energy of the original. when you remix one of the great trance classics of the 90s and update it to a modern sound it's easy to get an ok result. but imho i've heard better remixes of overbloody flood.

Votes: 1: Colin OOOD & Goa Travellers - 100 Billion Neurons 2: Nebula Meltdown - Didgeridreams 3: Imba - Serbian 604 Revolution 4: Dragon Twins - Foster 5: Mellow Sonic - Psychokinesis 6: Cybernetika - Prismatic Reflection 7: Recursion Loop - The Riddle Of Three Turtles 8: Fiery Dawn - Kundalini 9: Profetia - Rage Against the Crashing 10: Spiral Minded - Swampy Séance _____ these are preliminary results after the first listening. might change a few of them later. very interesting submissions this time. considering my usual preferences, i'm especially surprised that mellow sonic got such a high place in my list no, it's playing "fine", meaning that it takes forever to load and you can't skip forward at all (just like the tracks from imba, space elves, phobium, neuropa, and 2-3 others). i wonder how soundcloud decides on which tracks it wants to bug out...