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Yep Laughing Skull needs more releases, he is a very good producer! https://soundcloud.com/laughingskullmusic

I had an extreme amount of hype for this release. Finnish artist, lovely tracks on soundcloud, suntrip release? Unfortunately this fluffy Nebula style is not something I come back to. The first track is exactly what I was hoping for, trippy, psychedelic, groovy as hell. Most of the tracks excel at the style it's going for but lack the excitement his more psychedelic and stronger uptempo works do. For example because it is so excruciatingly slow paced, I get sleepy bored in tracks like Superluminal Connection, Psychic Beacon(Though the ending is good), Agape Sophia and Alnatik Sunrise. I also ended up finding a couple of tracks tracks cheesy such as Alnatik Sunrise and Superluminal Connection. All of the afro-mentioned tracks I find average at best or just plain boring musically. The good parts of this album are definitely the more faster paced One-Eyed Reptile, Stardust Chronicles and Mindstream Continuum, which I found completely brilliant on their own. The kind of sound Nebula excels at, silky smooth but fast paced progression, groovy smart melodies and hooks with wondrously unique sounds and production. After an immense amount of hype, the album ended up being an average, more of a mid to downtempo, release in my books. It is unique for sure and has a great producer behind it, so if you are into this type slow paced style, then this album might even be great, but for me it ended up being a total disappointment. For reference you can find other uptempo works by nebula here. Urge you to check out tracks like Modern Shamanism and The Sacrament https://soundcloud.com/nebulameltdown Also he had a finnish Mixeri account for those curious with some awesome tracks. http://www.mikseri.net/artists/nebula-meltdown/bending-space-2009-mix/433065/

That is so weird, I think MR1 and 2 had some of the best re-mastering ever. The sound seperation is a must, goa needs to breathe, rather than be a big flat line of sounds mashed together. I mean hell, just go and compare D5 Iron sun and Iron sun remix, the other from 2007 and the other 2013. The difference is huge! The 2013 sounds much nicer. Obviously I don't know how any of that translates to live audio, but speakers/headphones, colin OOOD has had the best sounding masters I've heard in goa. Other EDM genre's I listen to(mainly dnb, dubstep, trance, prog house) don't seem to suffer from bad mastering or mixing so much. Obviously those genre's are more popular and have more money in them, but still. +1 to everything you said. I also noticed the improvement in Blacklight Moments.

Ah I didn't see this thread before. I'll list some recent top tier favourites. Ghost Recon Future Soldier by Tom Salta and Hybrid. Cinematic with electronic elements, hybrid such talented and diverse producers. Assassin's Creed scores(Or the JP scores), everything that Jesper Kyd touched is practically golden. I actually own the AC2 audio promo copy and AC: Brotherhood LE audio CD because I love his work so much. If only I could buy a physical copy of the first games ost. Vanquish was tremendous in just about every way, the soundtrack was also interesting, as it reminded me of those 90s electronic themed osts in games(as did the whole game, in fact). Total goa^ Another obscurity was C&C4, the game itself a total travesty, but EA used music from storage and in-house producers to create a really interesting multi-thematic OST, the best part about the game. Some random mentions. Unreal Tournament 3 score is a pretty fantastic multi-genre edm fest. Tekken always had interesting tracks. Resident Evil games had always nice soundtracks with a bit of cheese. Other notable game score people are Jason Graves, Steve Jablonsky, Boris Salchow, Harry Gregson, Jack Wall, Frank Klepacki (C&C). It's interesting how game soundtracks practically merged with movie soundtracks, obviously they are constructed for a different medium but the same people work on both.

Hey! Arty is great! D:

Of course there is a factor of wanting to show what you listen to, but with goa you have to take it to pretty extremes and even then they just think you're a hippie.

I have to agree the remaster was quite poor. Ever since I realized that I paid attention to Schudts masters and I didn't like much of them until recently as it feels like he's either improved or gotten enough feedback about the poor mastering that was done before. Suntrip there was a reason I wanted you to get someone else to master your albums! But it's quite fine now.

I never really posted about DI.FM properly so nows the time! Simply the best EDM radio channel in existence! If you're new to an EDM genre, then that's where you want to go exploring! Especially if you are doing something else and just turn on a station you will find great representative tracks with ease from all the channels. The only downside is certain channels have fair amounts of repetition with popular tracks, but it's a far cry from the abrasiveness of real life radio channels who play britney spears and justin bieber 20 times in an hour. Basically the reasons I listen to a lot of other EDM is because of it, like DnB and Dubstep and all their sub-genres, the variety is just so great you will find something you enjoy. Definitely 100% recommended for edm genre exploration! www.di.fm

I just found Bungle and Electrosoul System! Good shit!

These are more aligned to the actual game (Which I have very fond memories!), but you might wanna check genres like breaks / breakbeat / big beat with hip hop elements. No dnb here.

Wow! The groove structure is so powerful, it just moves me around with precision control.

I don't really like metal much but Arronax posted this track a long time ago and I totally fell in love with it because of the part 4:00 to 6:43 It's spiraling like goa, just total power. I take it theres nothing else like it that any of you know?

I got a couple more Very unique track, too bad the whole compilation it was on was ruined by some of the worst mastering of all time. The best dark goa track of new school, unfortunately suffering a horrendous fate. It's passable to a degree, but really, what it could have been... Man what I would do to get these tracks remastered on a best of comp, especially the last one. It's not impossible, is it?

I don't know if we've had this discussion before but what are you favourite tracks that are musically superb but end up not played due their terrible audio quality. Absolutely adore this Filteria track but the fact it's so loud and tinny makes me not want to listen to it. This Mindsphere track was released remastered but it was the album version(Operation Side) instead, I like this version from VA Human Hyperactivation much more. Just constant power but unfortunately it sounds very tinny and loud as well. Might I add the infamous Lost Buddha 2004-2007 album, it is literally the best(Incredible, even) works of Filipe but most of those tracks were completely lost. Phototropic released a live version of it but it didn't have half of the tracks that were in the unofficial release.

Yeah you might want to think before you post next time. On another note, those remixes sound fab.

I find myself having to keep shuffling through compilations and albums just to listen to a half a track then I start up next one. Usually something I've been "meaning" to, or really wanting to listen to, just to repeat the cycle. It's totally crazy with immense amounts of data just for one genre and with such limited time to listen to it, especially after I developed a condition that almost halved all my listening. It really became like fast food to me at some point because of the sheer amount of it. When I really start enjoying something it's often because I've forgotten it on, or I go out biking and it comes up on my MP3 skipping and shuffling is a lot harder. I think half of the time I'm not even paying real attention, but this could be consequential with what I do while listening. Filler tracks really feel like a waste as well, because there's just so much of the good stuff, so why even bother with the less than great? I could spend my minutes better, right? Also in general with Goa this skip culture develops really fast for me, because the other genres duration usually goes from 3 to 6 minutes, rather than 7 to 12 minutes, that's a lot less time having to spend on 1 thing. It can really be quite frustrating. But also when it's really good then things start to differ. I can appreciate and enjoy tracks but there is always a difference with the things that resonate with me the most, where the attention it gets is on another level, however this also correlates with mood and situation, changes in perspective. I hope that makes some sense. tl;dr sometimes What do you suppose this collective experience could be? And yes it's consumption, but I don't know if it could be called superficial, because it's still something people connect on an emotional level. Even with my endless skipping and mass consumption it does make me feel and take me to a different level of just being, even if I don't pay a lot of attention to it sometimes. Really, before my condition, I basically hid myself in the aural worlds that music generates every single day.

Curious as to why did it start getting more popular over there in the first place? Many great artists. I also wish there was a total comprehensive list of purely goa artists and their locations, could make an interesting infograph!

He was from Ukraine too? Very interesting artist with a unique style and I was wondering why he hasn't had more releases! Hope everything is fine! Really sucks whats going on over there in Ukraine right now.

Yeah man! Abasio what were you thinking?!?

First we will release a new album from Goasia and a compilation on a limited cd with the best tracks of the neogoa.tk netlabel. We hope to release both before the summer. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat wat :DD

Looks like CD2 is the real deal! Really good! CD1 had some great tracks too but the other half made me want to go sleep.

Yeah thanks for the work rotwang. It's just a shame the amount of votes is still very abysmal, but what can you do! It's still completely representable of the whole of psynews. Filteria #1 is all that matters

I added a spoiler tag for the light hearted(Including me). That's a crazy story though, not something that happens all the time and I wonder what the success rate of such an operation is as well..

Ya know, I did not know this guy actually still did anything. I quickly glanced over the new album and holy crap Lyctum is everywhere! And what a track too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHb6_4idmAc

I know I've missed something but whatever, for what I remember this is how it should be 1: Filteria - Lost In The Wild (Suntrip) 2: Juno Reactor - The Golden Sun Of The Great East (Metropolis) 3: Lyctum - Vibrations Of Life 4: Nervasystem - Time Travel (Anjuna) 5: PharaOM - Shelter10 (Future Disorder) 6: VA - Lucid Flux (Anjuna) 7: VA - Mind Rewind (DAT Mafia) 8: VA - Goa Overdose 3 (UAF) 9: VA - Voyager: First plateau (Hado) 10: VA - Phoenix (Anjuna)