Padmapani

quite the opposite, sadly. darkpsy, much of which was good 10 years ago has been supplanted by psycore/hitech. fullon has all but disappeared, progressive has morphed into sped-up minimal techno with a squelch here and there and dubstep breaks. on the upside, goa was nonexistent 10 years ago.

no way. there's not a lot of evolution in edm out side of psytrance either. it's rather that we get "new genres" with new names that basically all sound like one substyle of one genre in the 90s. trap is almost identical with a certain style of what used to be called miami bass. microhouse is now called minimal techno (and what used to be called minimal techno has disappeared). chicago hard house is (or was? is it still around?) called jumpstyle. and the successor to eurodance (which is confusingly called edm - "electronic dance music" - which used to be the umbrella term for all danceable electronic music; therefore trance dj's playing edm isn't something new, they've done that the whole time), albeit sounding a little different this time, is still as pukeworthy as commercial house variants have always been. the only things that's new is dubstep (and dubstep has disappeared as fast as it appeared). btw, dubstep used to be the name for dub-influenced dnb... so if psytrance was like the rest of edm, then we'd have a completely new genre, where everyone would agree that it has nothing to do whatsoever with goa, of which all tracks sounded almost exactly like elysium and it would be called "jungle".

nice. scatterbrain is exactly the kind of music i'd like to hear when they play darkpsy. and apparently his new stuff continues where he left off.

this actually sounds good (except for overbloody flood. wtf have they done???). but somehow it's a bit odd. i wouldn't at all be surprised if they told us, that they've found some old remixes they made in the 90s... is it just me or have we been spoiled by newschool goa to make this album sound dated?

this one maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1tvNzgqeqE

there is a part 2?

i don't profess to know better than the artist himself, but i also see quite a bit of goa in there with the choice of sounds and how the melodies and atmospheres play together... then again, with the very narrow spectrum of music for most other psy subgenres, anything that doesn't follow the template closely enough (while still having some melody) but is still definitely located somewhere in the psytrance genre might remind me of goa

the samples sound good. i wouldn't say it's progressive, well yes i see how it can be called progressive, but it's certainly not the kind of progressive we're used to

that's because the previous track is 'waiting for a new life' and we're still in the middle of the transition at 52:30

the melody just above the bassline seems a bit out of place (and pointless at times) to me, but the acidline is very nice

that's a really difficult question. but you focus in rhytm/percussion a lot, which is rare in goa (mostly used in more tribal tracks like for instance elysium) and you do that with a pretty technoid choice of sounds. in the first track there's only one real melody (a pretty simple one; and that is overlaid with a hoover type of sound - i guess that would be a first concerning goa ) while goa is all about melodies and their interaction. it doesn't have to be a melody overload with no more room to breathe like with some of the newschool stuff, the older goa often uses them sparingly, but you'd still have more complicated melodic lines, and interaction between the melodies and between melodies and other stuff, creating interesting harmonies. just compare your track to the classics (pleiadians - maia, bpc - crystal, ....) and you'll know what i mean.

no guys, no. the original time current is way better. in the silver rmx the euphoric, trancy main melody is drowned a bit in the rest of the track. i have to agree about spiritual healing and mwnn (except the orange theme ) though. absolutely. the original is meh but the remix is great.

i wou'ldn't have made that association, but now that i'm looking more closely at the cover (looking for things), i'm starting to wonder if it was intentional that there are mutant turtles licking the guy's ears...

we don't need no fucking neo goa presets or sample cds! those things have destroyed all the other subgenres of psytrance to the point where 90% of it has become unimaginative boring formulaic crap that all sounds the same. make as many such things for progressive, fullon and darkpsy as you want but please leave goa trance alone.

also, for the best euphoric effects, don't forget to put a methylenedioxy bridge on your morning tracks

nice cover. definitely better than the various moon+weed variants

they are completely different. let's stay with your example: architect and interior designer are like a butcher and a cook. they both have their part in preparing food, but it's a completely different occupation.

how would you know, when you never go to parties where goa trance is played? it's a completely different experience; hearing vimana played at a festival was almost like hearing it for the first time, even when i know it very well and my headphones certainly produce much more detail than a festival rig.

definitely worth checking out. start with the album "space".

yes, of course it's personal, but personally i'm also one of those that had to find the key the "thin", "raspy" choice of sounds they use so often (at least compared to many other artists) put me off at first and it took me quite a while to realize how good the music actually is. also, the difference between home listening and hearing the tracks on a big sound system imho is much greater with etnica/pleiadians than for any other goa artist (though this surely depends on the kind of listening environment you have at home).

alright. i take back anything i said about the previous track, it describes the new one more closely

looks great too bad i have no means to play back an lp.

nice track names . but why aren't there some named reactions in there? personally my favourites would be the leuckert reaction and the claisen ester condensation

i'm sorry to say that, but even over the internet, the diagnosis is perfectly clear: you need a hearing aid. how else could you have missed the parts with cheesy singing that sounds like it has a cheese filling and was dipped into a cheese fondue?

yeah, that's acutally what i ment (but it's valid either way ). psycore is what most party organisers mean when they put "darkpsy" on their flyers. real darkpsy has moved down to being called "twilight"...