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Yeah, Cronomi had a few releases that were pure instant classics. Too bad Subra and Lapsus albums never happened.

Somewhat agree. There's a certain vibe of total randomizing on the sounds. Lot's of cool ideas and elements, but coherency / flow is not really there. Shame, because I was really looking forward to this! This almost feels like a "live" album in that sense. The One Thing, Liquid Love, Electrosurge and Transmitter were good tracks though. I liked those. Especially Liquid Love. It feels like a 2010 Fullon track, but new ideas and production. That bassline is awesome.

"Great intuition" is really well said. I agree completely. Lot's of wonderful melodic storytelling here.

Like I said on the other thread, it's really forgettable. However one feature that I do enjoy is the fact it still sounds like AP. We have a lot of artists that have similar style of sound, like Median Project etc. but they're much more dark in nature. This is like the version where it still floats and is trancy and progressive in nature. About sound quality: Listening on my monitors, the sound seems to break on the higher frequencies - and where the heck the is the lower end? There's so much compression.

Hmh, on a second look a lot of these tracks were released before but in they were pretty obscure releases.

I think astral managed to create way more memorable melodies and patterns on the previous albums. This one was really flat. It felt the same as Prana's latest album, just really boring, although approachable stuff. There's nothing that sticks.

It's well produced stuff, just that the melodies are completely uninteresting.

Man, the way this is going I'm never gonna reach even 10k.

It was really, really safe. I thought it was good, but not particulary great. Expectations were high and they weren't met. Again, good album, just nothing special.

Manual validation is still on-going for several reasons. Unfortunately admins have been busy with life and approvals have taken a long time.

For sure, and these tracks on the 3rd CD just wow. The amount of finesse and storytelling is just mindblowing.

What a love letter for the fans!

That Omnivox track sounds reaaally good.

Gamma Goblins is also probably my favourite. Trancespotter close 2nd. Edit: Well, Snarling Black Mabel is also super.

Wonderful

... one of the best decisions of my life. I used to read this forum like it was a bible when I was 20ish. 15 years later I'm organizing parties in Finland and I play Goa whenever I get the chance. Fullon is SO much easier to mix, but making 1 hour to 1.5 hour sets of goatrance is like finding the genre all over again. Every single time. It feels like I'm creating stories whenever I make my sets. Every single track brings something new, they tell stories that have never been heard, they push sounds and melodies that never been explored before. They intricately have a soul that trancends the life we are so accustomed to. Sometimes it takes 10 hours of goddamn hard work to make just over an hour of goatrance to flow together (even with my insanely vast knowledge of the genre!), but every - damn - time, it's totally worth it. There's like 5 people in Finland putting together goatrance sets during the year and it's a total pleasure being one the very few going against the mainstream of hitech, fullon, forest (that has nothing to do with forest, the fuck is wrong with that genre?) and other minimal psytech types of sounds. Last weekend I had the upmost privledge being able to deliver goatrance that transforms from 140bpm danceable super rhymtic and hypnotic goatrance (M-Run, Radical Distortion) to 156bpm soft nitzhogoa (Goalien & Agneton) and everyone who was in the front row was banging their heads off!!! I seriously could not have believed I could bring these sounds to peoples ears that have never heard them - and get them to enjoy it! This music literally was a saving grace for me. I used to be a nobody. Goatrance was something I consumed alone, skateboarding, hanging around on forums. I still kinda am a nobody, but goatrance made me a person who gives people experiences they never experienced before - I'd imagine that counts for something more than just being an npc. Goatrance, as a genre, is a goddamn joy. The melodies, the stories. People who make, play and consume goa, I've found, are the best type of people. The one's that have the capacity to ask more, the one's that think. The one's that care. Last weekend I had an older couple come up to me that my set from the weekend before was the best.. I was not sure what I heard so I asked them "this one, or the other one?", they answered "BOTH". ❤

8 years later from my last post and I played Inner Mind at a party last weekend. This album is one of the best nitzhogoa productions ever!

I've heard about shitty organizers shafting artists in the past (quite egregiously so), so they end up joining agencies to avoid these situations. Obviously agencies are better at raising prices and upselling (artists are not always good at selling). Of course we end up with a problem of having to deal with extra fee's due to a greedy middle man - but on the other hand they also protect the artists. It's a bit of a lose-win-lose-win situation.

I could've sworn I replied to this thread. Yes it's a home server running in Mars's home. A lot of downtime has been caused by database errors (Old and large database) and one time we had an overheating problem.

Seems like theres a lot of unreleased and new mixes. Mindsphere has such a nice hypnotizing sound. Thanks for sharing!

Most of these changes come with board updates. Admins and moderators don't really have skills or time to start customizing the board, especially with constant security updates. It's unfortunate but not much we can do about. I also miss that user level thing. Reaching "customize your title" was awesome!

Like stuff from basically 90s, do you guys recall any tracks that started the fullon movement, or had very similar production style to what emerged in the early 2000?

The mixing seems different (way thicker bassline on the youtube video) but yeah that is a bit weird how its about the same. Maybe a mistake? Idk. A pretty rare occurence. But plagiarism isn't the word you can use here since its the same artist. Wild opinions there man. This is really good and thematic forest imo. Goch is actually one of my favourites from forest producers.

This sounds definitely more akin to the modern Electric Universe sound with a Jaraluca touch rather than the goa one he's previously released. I'm liking the samples personally, but I can see why it might be jarring to some to hear such a switch in style.

These guys make fantastic tunes for sure.