Padmapani

sounds nice!

one of the great acid trance classics. the 9.5/10 i give this track need no explanation.

both cd's mixed?

if you have melodyne you can let it analyse the melody. sometimes this works nicely.

sorry i don't like that one at all. i don't like the strings and the general choice of sounds. the effects here make it a bit better, but it's quite monotonous. it would fit nicely as background music to a scene in a movie where people do something weird in confined spaces, but to me it doesn't sound like it's ment to be actively listened to. 2/10. back to some proper goa trance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHg9D2V0dA8

JBC Arkadii? Never heard of them before. have i missed something?

damn that's going to be a long list, but anyway: Absolum (x1) Ace Ventura (x3) Andromeda (x2) Artifact303 (x1) Astrix (x1) Astral Projection (x2, one time great, the other one horrible) Atma (x1) BPC (x1) Cosmosis (x3) Digicult (x3) Electric Universe (x3) E-Mantra (x1) Filteria (x2) GMS (x2) GNOTR (x1) Goasia (x1) Hallucinogen (x2) Human Blue (x3) Hux Flux (x1) Juno Reactor (x2) Koxbox (x1) Liquid Soul (x4) Logic Bomb (x3) MWNN (x4) Ott (x1) Penta (x2) Protoculture (x3) Protonica (x1) Psysex (x1) Etnica/Pleiadians (x2) Silicon Sound (x2) Suntree (x2) S-Range (x2) Talamasca (x2) Total Eclipse (x1) Transwave (x1) Tristan (x3) Union Jack (x2) U-Recken (x2) X-Dream/The Delta (x1) and probably a lot more, but those are those i remember.

your comment (plus the awesome cover) made me check it out, and indeed it's not bad at all. not like the usual dark prog. more like darkpsy without everything i hate about it or rather: pretty similar to 2001 style minimal psytrance,

i didn't know that one. nice and trancy oldschool track and i love anything with a good acidline. but it's nothing too special and it sounds pretty dated compared to other stuff from that time. so that's a solid 7/10. i've been up for a long time and i'm pretty tired now, so here's some more chilled out stuff:

no need to look foward to it. it's already out there. they did both agree it was essentially a free release, didn't they? . the question is: do the featured artists all see it the same way? as much as i like reading through some psynews drama every now and then, i think it's pretty sad, that e-mantra's gone. richpa and him have both contributed and still contribute a lot to the already small goa scene and this board is more or less the centre of the goa scene on the internets. and thanks to technossomy, who iirc had a perfectly good reason to start another flame thread like this but didn't.

thanks! i used your suggestion as a starting point. i guess one could come quite close with some tweaking of the waveform and the right choice of distortion (tried logic's and zebra's filters. only the vintage2 sounded moderately good) and reverb. and a small tip if anyone wants to try something similar: melodyne was a godsend when trying to figure out the pitch bends.

spiritual healing is a difficult one, but i gave it a quick try. here is the Result. the synth settings: the pattern:

sometimes i miss the rawness and "power" of bad production quality. especially the harder tracks can sound better if there not perfect or "sterile". take for instance the wonderfully clear production of Filteria's Big Blue and compare it to Talking Souls - Karma 209. Karma 209 has a lot more bite and a bit more drive than Big Blue, although Big Blue is pretty epic with the whole arrangement and the melodies. also some harder techno variants sound a bit castrated if the production is crystal clear. i'm not saying that filteria's album should have worse production, it actually fits the music (same as for example artifact303's back to space). it's just that sometimes the harder or acid-focused tracks need a certain dirtyness to really play their magic.

where's mahadeva?

there is not one absolute best. i'd recommend: Ra - 9th Filteria - Daze of our Lives Artha - Influencing Dreams Artifact303 - Back to Space there four albums are imho totally different and thus give a good overview over the best of newschool goa.

samples sound really nice!

it's a remix. tada:

cross-posting here? well it worked. i just couldn't believe, that i didn't have the first track and looked again through my library. the most pronounced synthline is definitely from morphem - ambrosia. but maybe it's a remix or mixed with a tribal track?

great! thank you! i would never have guessed that it was yahel, i only knew his old, trancy and some of his newer cheesy-beyond-belief stuff.

in theory, live to me means that the artist plays and manipules his own music on the fly. in practice live in psy music means that the artist plays his own music prerecorded and does some silly acting on the stage. i don't care about seeing the artist acting on the stage, in fact i don't even care if i see the artist at all. doing something with the music while it's playing is definitely a plus, but as the general populace at the parties have no way to discern if someone is just playing a prerecorded set or if he's manipulating/rearranging his tracks (or playing a part with the keyboard), there's imho not really a point to making a big distinction here. so in practice, live to me means that an artist plays his own music. period. as long as the music is good i couldn't care less if he simply popped in a cd and went for a smoke. i guess some of that is due to my history with freetekno, where the djs are deliberately hidden behind the speakers to prevent any sort of dj/artist-star-cult and shift the attention to the music and the people. this is imho a good thing (and there has up to now prevented those silly "put your hands up in the air" moments in the music which can break the trance dance experience). by my definition a dj cannot be live, because he plays other people's music. even if a dj set is actually more live than most livesets.

nothing too special, but not bad at all. it sounds dated, but has a nice acidline and is hypnotic and driving and atmosphere that reminds me of goa (the place). that's 6.5/10 let's continue in this direction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUTf86rdX_8

i failed

perfectly decent fullon. no cheesyness, no cheap "tricks", good to dance to, but a bit too monotonous. i'd appreciate a bit more melody and "stuff". the touch of acid at around 6:00 saves the track. 7/10. let's stay in similar territorry: