Padmapani

i agree, although there's no way i could confuse d5 with cosmosis or filteria with alienapia mindsphere is a very good example. i listened to it quite a bit in the last weeks, but i don't think i could differentiate between most of the tracks. still on back to space i see the same thing, but less extreme. if you played trancemission or mysterious fanatasy to me i wouldn't know which is which. i find the antares album or daze to be very different here. from my own attempts at producing, i know that it's sometimes hard to make a melody that's catchy and not cheesy (and not too similar to one of the old classics), so that might be one of the causes. still, as goa listeners we're in a much better position than with fullon, progressive or darkpsy. probably because there's no goa sample cds yet

smooth, trancy, floating, yet energetic. i like. 7.5/10. onwards to 1992! 1993 was still fine, but it's starting to get difficult, so i'll have to take this classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGH_ZwGcZ0

nice bubbling acid goodness. 7/10 1995 isn't that old. next up: 1994

you seem to have a similar taste in progressive as i do. the ones i liked most (in no particular order) were: Protonica - Form Follows Function Lyctum - Tales from the Universe V/A - Groove Attack V/A - Sourcecode Transmissions vol.1 Elegy - Sleeping Giant Sonic Wave Control - Sixth Sense but those also were quite ok: VA - Progressive Textures Ovnimoon - Holographic Remixes and VA - Goa Moon vol. 3 also had a few good progressive tracks on it.

the main lead here sounds like a saw wave with a 303-like filter and some distortion.

ordered

i was a huge fan of talamasca back in 2004 and thought this might be good, because i remembered dacru records usually releasing the better melodic full, but the samples are quite disappointing. just generic, commercial sounding fullon like talamasca's last 3 albums and no hint of the talamasca signature sound i used to love so much.

nice goa-ish progressive track from human blue. i really like it but dream creator is so much better, so that's 7.5/10. i hope we haven't had this one already, it's hard to memorize all tracks from 20 pages.

i didn't know this one. chi-a.d. is always nice, but this one isn't that spectacular and the acid melody starting at 3:03 gets on my nerves after some time, so 6/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_f_Nd9Bww0

sorry, but you will run into legal trouble. writing the names of artists you like is punishable with up to 10 years prison in the whole european union.

i'm not quite sure if nova fractal was really 2012. wasn't it released on 1.1.2013? Uptempo: 1: Etnica - Live in Athens 1996 (DAT Records) 2: Mindsphere - Patience for Heaven (Suntrip Records) 3: V/A - Shaltu (Suntrip Records) 4: V/A - Space of Power (Global Sect Music) 5: Nova Fractal - Fractal Landscape (Ovnimoon Records) 6: V/A - Groove Attack (Iono Music) 7: Protonica - Form Follows Function (Iono Music) 8: InnerSpace - InnerSpace (Suntrip Records) 9: V/A - Sourcecode Transmissions Vol. 1 (Sourcecode) 10: V/A - Flight 604 (Zion604 Records) Downtempo: 1: Globular - A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (Omnitropic, Gliese 581c) 2: GMO vs. Dense - Tales from the Yellow Kangaroo (Altar Records) 3. V/A - Floating Spirals (Altar Records) 4. E-Mantra - Silence (Altar Records) it looks like altar records is rivaling the older top chillout labels with good releases lately.

sorry, but this made me literally laugh out loud. i know it's actually sad, but then again most funny things are in a way. but it's good to know that you don't share the defensive arrogance of half your countrymen about that topic. i've never been to the u.s. and don't know the scene there, but i don't think can i fully agree with your (interesting) post. there definitely was a strong psychedelic rock scene in europe back then (lots of friends of my parents were part of it) and very few have ever been to goa (and again most of those who went there, went in the 60s and came back long before goa trance even existed). you're right that there's no real jam band scene in europe, but i guess there was enough psychedelic rock (and later progressive rock) or smaller get-togethers with drumming/singing/tripping to fill the gap. 1. you can make hiphop and reggea responsible for that. we had some reggea too over here (of course not artists, but listeners ) and instead of hiphop, punk was hugely popular here (and punk is more or less the antithesis of psytrance imho). and after all, while the u.k. was dancing to acid house at the time, techno did come from detroit 2. replace coke with amphetamine and you got the situation over here in any edm scene except psytrance (and maybe freetekno if you're generous). well, there are my thoughts on this, tell me if i'm wrong somewhere. and btw: the dead are great

i got it today and have just listened to the first cd the first time (with headphones). and i've come to the realization that an album review is pointless. this is not music, it's a drug, so a trip report would be more appropriate. it's not as warm and fluffy as transdimensional, but very bit as strong. i'm still feeling the afterglow, but anyway onward to the second dose... ahem... cd

you belgians clearly have every advantage, i'm still waiting for mine edit: got it today!

production quality is nice, but it's not my style of dnb. the first one is too electro-influenced (actually it's sound like it's in the middle between electro house and dnb), the second one is dubstep. i more a fan of the hard, fast and dark (and/or trancy) kind of dnb like tech itch, bse or eye-d. actually i remember noisia making a similar style... this one was played quite a lot over here back then:

is it just me or did you forget to add the date? münchen is 3h drive from here, but the lineup looks nice. hmmm...

alone the fact, that there is a girl group with more than 90 members is interesting. as a westener, it just seems wierd, but if you didn't tell me which coutry this happened in, japan would be one of my first choices. to me the rule just seems arbitrary, coming from maybe conservatism or commercial interests, but neither seem to quite fit. i guess you have to be born there or have some family background to understand japan (what finland is to europe, japan seems to be to asia; and they both even make equally weird but good psy ). it must be cool to have two different cultural views. having a half-japanese acquaintance tells you much less about japanese culture than about racism in your own country.

some time ago, i had an argument with that guy on youtube over one of his mixes (the worst kind of commercial pop music with a fullon beat underneath). apparently he has discovered real psytrance since

my favourite from corolle. an instant classic 10/10. still morning, but different:

i'd say this is just trance. 90s trance. sorry afaik there's no recent music like this, at best the new releases from union jack and art of trance. i don't quite see what's so different about this track. it's a bit more ambient sounding than usual, but a lot of trance from back then is like that...

definitely. i've sometimes tried a more systematic approach, but random knob-turning always gives the best results with fm

@red hair hospital crazy, dirty and intense. i like it. 7/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhSFbKF-F6M

great news! i have all of these tracks except the zarkon principle as low quality mp3 from a vinyl rip and when i compare to your samples the difference is like night and day. limited print means 200 copies? if the people have any sense of good music, this cd will be sold out very soon after the release date

too screechy and scratchy for me and i don't find it driving in anyway, like most darkpsy (in fact i wouldn't recognise this track, if you played it to me in 20 minutes). but hey, at least it's not cosmo, psykovsky or furious . so that's a 3/10. but let's stay in the darker territorry: