Padmapani

sounds promising

dude, why do you post facebook links that link to youtube links that don't work? don't you understand the agony of having to erase the cookies every time after i unwittingly clicked on a facebook link? anyway, congrats for having a track appear in an indian film! (and a nice track unknown to me too, thanks for bringing it to my attention )

of course from the outside that's the only thing where the new chillout was an improvement.

the first one i haven't had in a very long time now. yes, my itunes does that too sometimes (it's still the best music player imho). but transmission is really bad in this respect. it often takes upwards of 5 minutes to quit... what really drives me crazy lately, is logic's 32-bit AU bridge. when i click on an automation parameter there's either a 2 minute delay until i can do anything, or the AU bridge crashes (this means not only waiting for it to reload, but also to restart logic because it crashes again), or logic crashes and all progress is lost (of course it only does that when i haven't saved right before clicking on the automation thing)...

true. the old chillout was much better, even though it was an ugly circus tent. the best i've seen was the schmox tent, very comfortable and visually appealing

Artifact303 (before back to space) E-Mantra Filteria (x3) Goasia Astral Projection BPC Bumbling Loons Eat Static GNOTR Hallucinogen (x3) MWNN (x5 or something?) Total Eclipse i only counted artists that played goa sets. no sets with fullon remixes or just 1 or 2 goa tracks stuck to the end. these have all happened in the last few years, so i think this makes it clear that newschool is severely underrepresented at parties nowadays (except for filteria).

also, will there be medium size t-shirts?

we have a sort of running joke about CBL putting you right to sleep . of course this has its roots in reality. for hypnotic trance i'd recommend tracks like SWM - SWM BPC - Micromega Electric Universe - One Love Cygnus X - Synchronism Union Jack - Longhorn of course some of these artists have enough similarly suited tracks. and i suppose some chi-ad would also work nicely.

have fun. penang is a great city. my favourite place between ko phangan and singapore

some of us also like the "wall of sound". multilayered melodies are not a bad thing at all as long as there's a purpose to the elements and they're not just used to fill space.

so according to wikipedia rice hat and paddy hat are perfectly fine terms

it definitely was. most of it was cheap, cheesy and without depth, but at last typical "psy" sounds dominated and it was driving and good to dance to. now we have progressive, that's cheap, often cheesy and without depth with minimal techno sounds dominating and no drive at all or even worse: constantly interrupted by dubstep parts. my prediction is that most festivals will have psycore/hitech at night and aforementioned progressive at day and small bits of either uk fullon, remnants of cheesy fullon, zenonesque or goa thrown inbetween to bridge the gaps.

cherries. and chocolate. or cherries combined with choclate in a cake.

is this actually better than his last album, or did just the other psytrance to campare it to get so much worse?

no worries, it's all pointless stuff if you are neither a classical music nor have a music teacher like the ones i had at school (all we did was learn the structures of classical music... and even there i had to refresh my knowledge using wikipedia ) i just wanted to say that while there's no doubt that the melodies and harmonies of classical music are often very well thought out but the larger structure is most of the time following very strict rules (and sometimes the melodies too - you're not very free in your composition if you use counterpoint with the rules from back then). regarding "intelligent" music, i'll partly agree with you. i think the same about autechre and bach. and i'd add terrafractyl to the list. but i don't think that it's entirely the listeners comprehension, but also a missing quality of the music. i think of it as lacking "meat" or "substance". it might be well thought out and have interesting parts, but the whole just isn't captivating or driving enough to make listening a pleasant experience. also imho there's intelligent music and "intelligent" music, with the latter being just unusual and random for novelty's sake (no one can convince me that people who throw random metal objects on random string instruments from a distance are great musicians who make intelligent music. but naturally it doesn't need to be nearly as extreme as this). of course the distinction which is which lies in the ear of the listener (the listeners at above mentioned avant garde concert were utterly captivated and trying to figure out the melodic patterns)... it's the same as with food. when you go to the expensive restaurants (classical, jazz, idm, ...) you'll sometimes find good food, sometimes you find food that's good, but get so little that it doesn't quench your hunger, sometimes it's more "interesting" than good and sometimes you get a scoop of vanilla ice cream drenched in vinegar (seriously... wtf?!). but often you find the best food at the cheap restaurant around the corner, where the cook cares more about good taste than it being unusual.

khetzal - nyiragongo (only the first half of the track) technossomy - v.t.o.l. (only the first 3 and a half minutes)

not noisy but instead energetic and hard hitting. i like

Uptempo: 1: Dimension 5 - TransStellar (Suntrip) 2: Filteria - Lost in the WIld (Suntrip) 3: VA - Blacklight Moments (Suntrip) 4: Dimension 5 - TransAddendum (Suntrip) 5: Crop Circles - Full Metal Jackpot EP (DAT) 6: Crop Circles - Lunar Civilization EP (DAT) 7: VA - Goa Trance Revolution (Goa-Trance.com) 8: Stereofeld - Frequenzwechsel (Sun Station) 9: BlackStarrFinale - Auryn (Neogoa) 10: VA - Tribal Encore (Anjuna) Downtempo: 1: Globular - Magnitudes of Order (Ektoplazm) 2: Phone Booth Robbers - Falling into One (Omnitropic) 3: E-Mantra - The Hermit's Sanctuary (Altar) 4: Tengri - Icaros (Peak) 5: Phobium - Oort Cloud (Omnitropic) 6: VA - Floating Spirals 2 (Altar) 7: Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness (Twisted) i thought Vogager: First Plateau was also 2013? discogs lists it as 2012, but then no one voted for that great comp in 2012... if it's 2013 after all i'd like to insert it into 3rd place and kick out tribal encore at the bottom.

1200 mics is a collab between gms, raja ram and chicago, so i'd say look into gms. you'd probably also like music from astrix or alien project (their best albums being eye to eye and aztechno dream respectively). these artists are among the most "easy listening" of psytrance. don't forget to look into the other fullon recommendations, you'll love them when you get tired of the isreali sound and "easy listening" turns into "boring" as it always eventually does.

imho it's rather the opposite. classical music for a large part is totally formulaic. (of course simplified and changing over the span of centuries: ) a symphony consists of 4 parts: 1. fast sonata in the tonic (which in turn consists of a short introduction an "exposition" (which in turn consists of the theme (in the tonic)), a repetition of the exposition, followed by a side theme (in the 5th if it's in major, or in the corresponding major key if the piece is in minor), followed by an epilogue (with the same melodic content as the side theme, and always ending in a perfect cadence), then comes the "development" which allows a bit more freedom, but essentially it's just playing around with the melodic content of the exposition, this is followed by the "reprise" which is a slightly altered repetition of the exposition, but this time the side theme is in the tonic, and finally this is followed by the "coda" which is the main theme with more intensity)), 2. slow sonata in the dominant 3. fast scherzo in the tonic (always 3/4 and with its own rules and divided into repeating phrases like ABABA) 4. fast rondo (with its own rules and divided into repeating phrases like ABACABA) in this respect that stuff just as bad as fullon. if i want explorative, creative music i'd rather listen to 90s edm, psy/prog rock or jazz. (the latter two often play around with changing time signatures and key changes in a much more unpredictable and creative way than classical)

i was going to say artha, but then i listened space cat. are you sure this isn't a collab? it sounds more like hallucinogen than some of simon's tracks.

hey, welcome to the forum and welcome to psytrance. for oldschool goa check out: Hallucinogen Astral Projection Dimension 5 Etnica/Pleiadians for newschool goa try: Filteria Goasia Artha Ra for progressive i'd suggest: Human Blue S-Range Protonica E-Clip for fullon look into (something like the 2002-2006 stuff of) : Silicon Sound Logic Bomb Talamascsa Cosmosis for "psytrance" listen to (the first albums from) : Hux Flux Logic Bomb Psysex darkpsy recommendations are something i'll rahter leave to others. the best way to listen is imho either through (good!) headphones or in the middle of the crowd at a festival. but really... listening to psytrance in any way is always better than not listening to psytrance ; this genre is varied enough to have the perfect track for every mood and occasion.

Cybernaut should fit that description. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0mxMZp1ocQ&list=PLj3vlB-oOpygplWEwuE79RCauSK06OvZ- this one isn't the closest track to hardtrance from the album, but certainly their best imho

the subgenres that are pretty dead right now are psytek/minimal psytrance. fullon and progressive from the last 5 years or so can be a lot more cheesy (and especially commercial sounding) than nitzhonot. the most commercial/popular subgenre has been fullon for years, but it's recently been replaced by progressive in that role. over here it's all progressive or psycore now. goa seems to be the the most underground variant that has any appreciable following. the first goa track is debatable (there already was quite a bit of goa around when it "officially" became known as a seperate genre as opposed to "the music that's played in goa", so those early tracks were placed into the goa category in hindsight). i'd say it would have to be something like The Overlords - Sundown (Ionizer Mix) from 1991. there's not a lot of tradition playing vinyls mainly because india is too hot for vinyls, so DAT tapes were used back then (thus also no tradition for mixing in the way usual for other genres of edm) and when goa/psy arrived back in europe full force there were already CDJs around (which work equally well in goa).

1. D5 - Transdimensional 2. Pleiadians - IFO these two were easy. as third one i'd actually like to choose a newschool release (although i'm not exactly sure which one), but since it's all about oldschool, i'll go with... ...i can't decide, either one of those 3a. Hallucinogen - Twisted 3b. MWNN - Teleportation astral has no chance for a spot in here. imho their best tracks are either only found on compilations or distributed among their various albums instead of collected on a single disc (such as mwnn's teleportation - if that even counts. it's more a "best of" than a real album).