Padmapani

imho everything D5. much more so than IFO.

i often feel the same. the smell of trimethylamine is awful. maybe it has to do with us living in land locked countries, that never get their fish as fresh as in other parts of the world. the only types of fish that don't stink (as much) and i will therefore eat are tuna (which i try to avoid considering how overfished they are), trout (yikes, horribly bony!), salmon (can be a bit stinky sometimes) and fish in curries which cover the taste but what i really can't eat are crustaceans, from shrimps, crabs, crayfish to lobsters. i addition to tasting bad (and especially fishy in the case of shrimps) they are also disgusting animals with way too many legs. i'd rather eat a spider.

goasia and astral are easy get into (with astral being the introduction into goa trance for many people here on the forum), pleiadians not so much. i'd figure that Dimension 5 - Second Phaze, Mindsphere - Patience for Heaven and probably Chi-A.D. - Earth Crossing also fall into that category.

i've been there a few years ago. india in this respect is special anyways . still, i always got used to the smell within a few days (except in delhi). that's not something i can say about vienna, where the biting cold winds always seem to concentrate the pollution from traffic and the pervasive smell of piss around my nose. at least in mumbai it's warm the whole year round (having 30 degrees outside for me makes anything much more pleasant by default), but i agree that it isn't among the most beautiful cities i've been to

being angry at myself for not saving my project often enough. damn you logic, why do you always crash at the worst moments! i just wanted to try one final thing before going to bed... 100-200km per day. wow, that's a lot of time lost on the move. i drive that sort of distance twice a week escaping ugly, smelly vienna whenever i got the chance.

not bad, but imho nothing to really get excited about. i'm missing melodies a bit. it's a good thing though he returned to his early 00s sound just with influences from dark prog and darkpsy and minus some of the melody instead of heading the way most former fullon artists are heading.

ah ok, thanks for the info. goa overdose 4... we've just had goa overdose 3 a few months ago. the pace of new releases really is picking up now

damn, she found it out. we must stop her

looks nice. it's been a long time with nothing new from aerosis. is the dreamweaver track an old one or has he returned to producing goa?

it's not that different from last year. the good additions are hallucinogen and hux flux. the cosmosis dj set was swapped with a prana dj set. what's surely going to be interesting is the logic bomb classics set and i'm wondering what shakta is up to... on the other side there's captain hook and ritmo (and probably a few others i don't know), which... well, i hope i can flee in time i hope some of the goa artists get proper night time slots. why do all those people making the time tables insist on letting filteria play at 10am? still, it looks like it's going to be the best festival lineup by a wide margin again this year. what i have read about ozora or boom doesn't look nearly as good.

that's (gobalised) capitalism, which is the first thing i'd put into the waste bin of history if i had the option to do so. i have never heard of that ngo (which doesn't surprise me given the flemish name) but i don't doubt they do good work. but so do many other ngo's like doctors without borders. i must confess - even if i have great respect for it - i'm not even sure if charity is a good thing in the long run. it's certainly helpful in the short term, but i don't see it solving the fundamental cause for people to have to depend on charity. it's rather perpetuating the situation by reducing their incentive to stand up to end the injustice (i realize that's not the possible in all cases but it's possible in some of them) - kind of like the strategy of panem et circenses to keep the people pacified. i do find it appalling that people have to depend on the good-will of better situated ones. but well... that's maybe a bit too idealistic/theoretical and not pragmatic enough to be applied to the real world

yes of course. i gave just a few examples.

actually... i think i'll agree with you rather than myself here. i'd just see the beginnings of the third wave with daze and arcana. but yes, 2013 seems to be a kind of turning point with the third wave coming full force also i see two branches, one with a modern oldschool sound (new oldschool goa; compter controlled, aurax, recent imba ) and one that takes up and integrates the good bits of fullon into goa (newschool goa; artha, e-mantra, nova fractal, filteria). i guess we'll have to wait for a few years to see how the terminology turns out to be. such things are much easier to look at in retrospect... sadly yes. some promoters advertise their parties as "psytrance" and play that stuff. hehe. yes, it's probably better than most dubstep, electro and minimal, but i have a strong aversion against everything that's remotely like house (minimal imho is more house than techno and electro house obviously is house). i just don't get that kind of music, don't get the groove, cannot stand the choice of sounds and sincerely miss the floaty/evolving vibe that used to characterise any kind of trance music. dubstep is a different kind of thing. i can have interesting sounds (as long as it doesn't get too glitchy) and a lot of bass power, but i don't even consider it edm - it's nothing i can dance to. this is also reflected in the structure. it has more of a traditional non-electronic music structure with chorus - verse ( = bass drop) alternating instead of just going along or building to a conclusion like edm has done since its begginings. (well, electro is the same and i think commercial trance started the trend around 2000). so what i loved about fullon was that outer-space vibe, interesting sounds and that it was great to dance to, even when the majority wasn't very deep music. with "post-fullon" the same "interesting sounds" were used by almost every artist, the outer-space vibe vanished but it was still perfectly danceable party music. the new fullon with its constant stop-and-go-scheme breaks it for me. to dance i need a driving beat that keeps going coupled with some melody (or the monotonous relentless-machine-go-go-go-never-stop kind of vibe of techno). i have nothing against a good climax, but long breaks that lead into buildups that lead into just kick and bass which is then followed by the same thing again just don't do it for me. totally agree. i'm also one of those but i still find good fullon to be fine music, eye to eye still gets playtime here thanks for the info. i'll have to dig out the roots of fullon and check out absolum. so apparently i wans't that much off with my estimates @ alien project

while browsing through the reviews section, especially the review for astrix - eye to eye, i wondered fullon could be categorised into distinct styles by year. in a way analogous to how goa evolved from proto-goa that separated from ebm and later trance into goa (in its purest form) starting in 1995 and culminating 1997, then splitting up into more sinister stuff (think tarsis - atomic children rmx) beginning in 1998 and trancier melodic stuff (d5 - second phase, early yahel) beginning in 1999/2000 (post-goa? planting the seeds for fullon and newschool) before it was supplanted by minimal psy, progressive and eventually fullon, can fullon be looked at in similar fashion? in this case we would start with "proto-fullon" in 2001 (ignoring the few earlier releases, one album doesn't make it distinctive style yet?) with something like this... ...arrive at (proper) fullon in 2002/2003 with tracks like this one... ...this lasts until 2006/2007 when "post-fullon" emerges as fullon really begins to run out of steam, leaving us with... ...until we arrive at "full-crap" (for a lack of a better expression; post-post-fullon sounds equally crappy ) in 2011/2012 with tracks like these (can we really still call this fullon? i don't really see any similarities with how we started out) : this is obviously highly influenced by my perception of the music at parties and therefore also by what's played there. and of course there are always artists who don't conform to the most popular style at the moment (for instance logic bomb's and cosmosis' latest albums). in case you are wondering, i left out the night fullon (á la CPU) - twilight - darkpsy branch to keep things simple and due to lack of knowledge about twilight/darkpsy. does anyone agree? have you also noticed a switch in style at those times? why did these changes come about - were there influential albums that set the style (i can think of astrix - eye to eye and alien project - aztechno dream for "proper" fullon, but hte others?)? or does it rather coincide with the release of new vengeance sample cds? have you noticed similar turning points in progressive/darkpsy/...? having partied mostly to fullon i don't think i'm knowledgable enough to judge these sub-genres. actually i suspect we have seen a similar thing with goa around 2009/2010 when newschool goa really developed a distinctive sound rather than being a continution of melodic "2000-post-goa". for this reason i'd also rather confusingly call some of the not re-released stuff from anjuna or zion604 new oldschool goa rather than newschool goa

this is definitely one of the better fullon albums. it does sound very cliché nowadays, because it has become the template for most fullon (especially the isreali stuff) coming after it until around 2007. if someone asked me what fullon usually sounded like in the golden times, i'd show them this album.

happy birthday psynews! may the next 14 years bring you at least as many interesting and meaningful discussions, ever increasing memberships and a resurgence of high quality psytrance to be reviewed.

i agree, we have had the same thing a few pages back. i do respect people who use religion on a good manner, but that doesn't say anything about something inherently good about religion. in the same way i can hate people who use religion on an awful manner, which doesn't make the religion inherently bad. but the question is what to do about people who use religion in an awful manner, when those people are according to their religious beliefs and according to their followers the universal spokesperson for that religion? again, agreed. we just have to look at how the idea of communism has been perverted and used for the gain of small elites. of course, it didn't originate that way. the practice, interpretation and even scriptures have been modified (or omitted) over the centuries. that's why it baffles me that people subscribe to a particular "brand" of for instance christianity, when they differ in some fundamental dogmas. iirc the adoption of trinity by the catholic church initiated a church split. who knows if it wasn't just a decision made to consolidate power and secure influence? so even supposed christianity is the one and true religion, how are you supposed to find out the right variant? according to catholic theology, most protestants probably go to hell (after all you only need to believe that jesus is god and has died for the sins to go to heaven in most protestant groups; the catholics are much stricter here). what if the ethiopian orthodox or the thomas christians in india are right? what if the "true" christianity has been lost altogether? surely among the great multitude of options the local variant practised around you is unlikely to be the one true religion. if you believe in a religion then i guess what happens to yourself in afterlife is of utmost importance. so why are most people so "careless" and just accept the religion of their parents? edit: @tatsu i should have read your wall of text the first time, then i probably wouldn't have fabricated a wall of text of my own to the same conclusion

but what if i hate the man who could by saying one sentance greatly reduce the future incidence aids in africa. according to most people who who actively use that particular tool, he is the sole representative of that tool and in reality he (and his predecessors) are responsible for how this tool looks like. most of the time they modified it to suit their own hunger for power. how can i not hate this tool, even if it provides comfort for some people? it has been designed to control the masses.

that makes sense

vitamin b2 (riboflavin) is found in a wide variety of foods (vegetables, milk products, nuts, ...) and pretty much essential to converting glucose into energy. cobalamin (vitamin b12) on the other hand is not as easy to come by. it's found in whole grain and seawed, but our body has difficulties with absorbing it in the form which is present in plants. so the prime source of cobalamin is meat. mainly red meat such as game or beef, but also turkey and others (mammals consisting on a plant diet actually have specialised bacteria cultures growing in their stomachs or intestines that provide them with vitamin b12. otherwise they wouldn't be able to survive). cobalamin is the vitamin you're thinking of, it's often beneficial for any kinds of nerve cells. it can help with tinnitus, nerve regrowth or paraesthesia. lack of cobalamin can conversely lead to paraesthesia or brain damage. the thing about cobalamin is that alcohol prevents its uptake and vitamin b12 deficiency is one of the major causes of dementia among alcoholics. so sorry, even though beer (like many other fermented foods) does contain vitamin b12 it's not of any use to you. better eat a steak. no way. that you're totally clearheaded while still being relaxed and comfortable is one of the great things about benzodiazepines, you're probably dosing too high at least ime, alcohol makes me dizzy way before it's relaxing...

haha, great!

i have no idea about the first track, but the one starting at 5:58 is definitely logic bomb (an early track, from between 2000-2002). i have it on a liveset (without tracklist), but it's not on one of the albums, so probably it's a compilation track...

yup. mr. bagginz is walking a thin line here, but he manages to stay on the good side of it most of the time.

नमस्ते and welcome. have a nice time here!