Penzoline

Yes, finally got the mail back!!! Can't wait to listen to this.

Hahhaha oh my.. hahahahah :lol:

So it's all downhill from here according to you guys? One day people will just pack up and leave?

Gonna see it next week, decided to go for 3D version.

I see you're in the mood. Merry christmas from me too!

V/A Alternative Colours, anyone???

I agree Asstrancer isn't a good name but Astrancer is alright.

Updated my review a little if anyone cares. I should also comment that now that time has passed since the release, I don't find myself coming back to this album as often as I'd hope to. I'm not sure why that is, but when it comes to Sky Input and Heliopolis, I listen to them both weekly.

Various Artists - Opus Iridium SUNTRIP RECORDS 2009 CD1 1. E-Mantra - Voyager II 10:26 2. Shakta - Ten Times Around The Sun 6:32 3. Filteria - Birds Lingva Franca 9:32 4. Artifact303 - Feelings 9:24 5. Ajna - The Art of Happiness 9:12 6. Radical Distortion - The Dreamer 7:37 7. Afgin - From The Heart (Tribute to Wonderboy) 10:17 8. Ethereal - Moondawn 11:02 Suntrips 10th release. It being a compilation, they wanted to make it a special one with 2CD's with 1st CD dedicated for the highest quality new school goa and 2nd CD for quality downtempo/Chillout. From the art to the the tracks, it's mostly wonderful. Uptempo - review. E-Mantra - Voyager II Is very crisp, open and mysterious goa with a nod to etnica's style with a moving progressive journey theme(Voyager II's journey in space perhaps.). A lot of tiny little details and atmospheric pads accompanied by a dark moving kick. The track progresses through various sections where it slows down for the upcoming mini-climax that brings a new twist to the trip. Gotta take hats off for the 4:38 part which brings in this very very dark, alien layer to the mix, and the awesome shakta-like melody that follows in it's footsteps. Really, really nice stuff. The tracks ending is met with slowing down the track from moderate paced action, which leaves a climax to be desired. This track is a very good piece, tons of amazing atmosphere, but the ending could have used a more exciting one. Shakta - Ten Times Around The Sun Ahh, Shaktas back? Fantastic. This track is very much made in the old school spirit, it definitely has that old school quality where you know you're in for a ride right from the beginning. Chummy dark effects and pads melodies throughout and a mysterious and entrancing melody make sure you get hypnotized in it. The track Ten Times Around The sun is exactly what you'd except, 1997-shakta with 2008 production quality, it's fantastic. A true old school classic released in 2008. Filteria - Birds Lingva Franca Is a track that I was looking very much forward to hearing and it is un-questionably the pinnacle of Filteria sound up until now. Begins with atmospheric mood and playful bubbly acid and birds singing a'la Birds Lingva Franca. From there we get the rolling fat goa bassline and not so in your face kick whilst more little detail layers ensue. 1:40 and we're finally off with a moving sound, not long and the main melody arrives at 2:20. It's unbelievable. Epic, sensual, spiritual with a hint of spaceyness. While I was thinking it was the best thing ever, it's nothing compared to what arrives at 3:10. Holy fucking god, Filteria just hit a home run. The climax is so out of this world, I feel an Arabic and Russian influence in it, and that's something I've never heard before in my time of listening Goa. Rest of the track is a solid great run, no complaints at all! My #1 track of 2008 no doubt about it! Artifact303 - Feelings We are greeted by atmospheric 'epic' interlude with some bird-like and playful acid flying around and then we get a kick. Revival of the brute force that Astral Projection was able to make? For sure. What else can I say, uplifting super melodic with crisp true-to-the-last-bone 303! This is what I would love to call full-on, not the stuff they actually call full-on. Strong track that reached my top 4 of 2008 best tracks. Ajna - The Art Of Happiness Is the debut track from Ajna, a new new-school goa artist from France. Begins with rattling acid/synth, a sample from a sci-fi movie like in the good old days and some really really gripping atmoshperic-pads in the background. 0:55 and we're introduced to the melody that the track is holding in itself which gives us a kick with that melody at 1:10. Rolling a little more pitched goa-oriented bassline that is basically on a overly noticeable loop that sticks out to me for whatever reasons. Is it a negative, though? Nah, just a tiny nitpick. 2:04 brings us this pitched acid line which is a feast and a joy on your ears, but the sub-melody at 2:20ish, I don't honestly think it flows well with the one going on well. It just comes forcefully and sounds a bit cheesy at moments. From there it keeps growing it's main melody and is full of smaller details that we heard earlier on the track, some new one's too. It's a solid latter half, but what the first 2 minutes promised, it kind of lacks something. It's ok, but sounds immature so to speak. I usually tend to skip this if I listen to Opus Iridium. Radical Distortion - The Dreamer Ah, mysterious spaced out intro with a sample saying "I had a dream-" with that rattling 'r' which is the perfect interlude for the sounds radical distortion uses. A lot of chummy rattling acid and synths everywhere. Bassline sticks to a deep, fat kick. This track has a lot of awesome sounds and a good amount of layers. But the melodies, the melodies are a perfect fit for those sounds. Awesome, awesome stuff! Easily their best track up until now and in my top10 best tracks of 2008! Afgin - From The Heart (Tribute to Wonderboy) It took a while for me to understand the real beauty of this track. Starts with this very harmonious emotion-rich melody and a sample from a forest with birds chirping away. Then the kick arrives with the soft hi-hats and we're already in Eden. A small breakpoint comes, kills off the kick and brings us that soft, utterly awestrucking soft bassline, then after a while gives us the kick back. Next step in the evolution of 'Eden' we get the oh so amazing acid lines. Soon a breakpoint comes, bassline and kick disappear, then we get this extremely fitting, for whatever reasons, sample "I think something happened in the early 60's that LSD was related to, music was related to, there was new soundstage and maybe once a second or something, LSD was just... the power" and we get the track back on it's feet. It's just so fitting, perfect. And how far are we in? only roughly 4 minutes. After 2 minutes of little to no chance of the harmonius combination of layers we get new melody there. This continues solidly until 7 minutes in and we get this soft harmonius interlude for the main melody, 7 minutes and 40 seconds and there we go, chills down the spine eyes get watery and the sample comes for the 2nd time. Chummy acid's accompanying the big strong, full-of-emotion melody. 9:28 and the track slows down with an epic ending till the end. This track has so many sections that bring new stuff and powerful layers that it's pure gold. Not to mention, all of the layers are injected with pure emotion. Afgin you're the man - Or as my friend put it, "Afgin on äijäöä!" How did I notice the real beauty of this track? Summer. I was out there listening to my mp3, this piece pops up, it's evening suns setting down, warm, not hot. I feel alive. This track conveyed so much emotion in me when I noticed it. Ethereal - Moondawn This one starts with harmonius darker downtempo very nature oriented style. It's very interesting for what it does do. Ton of layers, dark downtempo bassline and harmonic bright synth melody. I feel like this track was made for the mother nature. It's so very deep and earthly. The sample use of the "let there be deities" I'm not digging, could do without, but it's not too bad. I previously said it was very repetitious, and, well, that it is, but take time for it to hypnotize you in it and you see it's better than just a repetitious slow boring track. There's some seriously good stuff in there, you just gotta give it some time. Although 11 minutes a tad too long for this, if you have the patience to make it, it's worth it. But if not, it's gonna wear out, bad. In that case this is not for you. So there we go, Suntrip has once again proven it's the best new-school goatrance label on earth. The tracklist is full of quality artists and quality tracks with only a few that I find a little bit lesser than the rest, but not much. CD2 is very good aswell, but I don't review downtempo so I won't be making one for it. But it's assured, it's up there with the Ultimae quality in my opinion. Get this compilation, I find it quite the essential one in new-school offerings. Where to get it? Downtempo only https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10D/ Uptempo only https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10U/ Original https://www.suntriprecords.com/product/item/SUNCD10M/ Saikosounds http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=7130 Psyshop http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/sut/sut2cd010.html Disclaimer: Reposting on a new post, because I thought my earlier review was way too short and just a bit.. eh and I spent a while on this. This review is best read with the "blue darkness" forum skin option.

You guys should have automated File selling system, I know you guys need to send the physical copies yourself, but files are just files. Hmm.

Yes finally got my e-details from my bank back and was able to pay for it! Can't wait to hear it!

Astrancer - Athanaton

Awesome new free track! http://www.4shared.com/file/158128054/b6a36c26/VA_2012_-_Astrancer_-_Athanato.html http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=153152913&blogId=519728740

Yes? What the hell do you expect? Is it strange that you don't like something that others do? Of course it's strange.

What a shame, this comp deserves be released more widely! :/ Ah well, can't wait for what's next in store from Sita anyhoo!

Well I don't disagree there either. I'd love a real copy of course. Collectors edition anyone?

hope they sort it out and get it out there..

Oh right I forgot about that completely, when should we be expecting it?

Update with some colours on the review. Also, why aren't there any more comments for this release?

Come on, I'm a no-goer for a digital releases, but this one I'll actually chime in because I know the money goes to the right hands

Epic.

Wow, what a track! Never heard of it before but that's prolly because I never checked psychaos's discogs

Jesus almighty this movie was incredible. Fooking incredible.

Soundbeams is such a phat tune! I love it.

Full-on? Depends on what you like to call full-on. To me this is more like Darkpsy + Goa. I never knew about these 2005+2006 promos btw, so thanks for making this topic. To me, at first, Cybernetika seemed like a no-name darkpsyish artist with his first two Ektoplazm releases, just like you mentioned "but still sounded way to "common" for me, too "fullonish" or "darkish".", but when he released Atropos I became interested as he was able to produce something so unique. These promos are really good too. Cybernetika has lot of talent, I just didn't notice it on those 2 ekto releases..