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yes, I also like Indian Summer a lot... The songs on Archipelago are a tad too melancholic for me btw ... they're great in winter ... but nothing for summer ... IMHO...

I don't even have that money...

Damn, when will they release that new album at last? People are talking about it since years!

-> All artists that Spiral Trax stood for (for me) have either changed to other labels or they stopped making music ... like Noma I don't really think good ol' Spiral Trax times will come back

You know what's odd? Just yesterday I've been thinking of Spiral Trax again... Good to hear that they're back. BUT: exactly my reaction ... what the duck does Arsetricks do on Spiral Trax? They better should release the new ATMOS album ... but Atmos already signed with Digital Structures for this one... Well, then a new S-RANGE maybe? Oh no, Anthony already signed with Liquid Records... At least the Bakkelit v. 2.01 and the Ease Division 3 releases are good news And fortunately there's a sentence that calms me down a bit: "But don’t you worry – we are not going completely psychedelic on you, our roots are in the progressive sounds and that’s where we will dwell…"

I always thought "Goa Trance" is the term for oldskool goa trance ... and Psytrance is the sound that's around today - all that fullon, prog, dark, suomi... I thought parties nowadays are only called goa parties because they want to be cool and "Psy Trance Parties" would be the right expression. Also the music is often referred to "Goa" in the outside world because all the not-insiders (meaning the average type of people who haven't a big psy CD collection at home and only go to parties sometimes with friends) get this term and don't need an explanation as it would be the case with the term "psy trance parties". And furthermore, the word "goa" adds to the flow of language. Viennish slang is: "Oida, i geh auf a goa morgn, kummst mit?" ("Ey, dude, I'm going on a goa tomorrow, you go with me?") - that has flow ... "Oida, i geh auf a psytrance festl morgn, kummst mit?" ("Ey, dude, I'm going on a psy trance festy tomorrow, you go with me?") - that has not so much flow

I don't really have a favourite instrument, but there are some that I like to hear quite a lot. Synth is one of them ... but actually not the typical "acid" TB-303 type, I rather like warm and "long" sounds, so to say. Either that or if the effect is sharp then it shall be short and not this typical repetitive acid 303 loop... Apart from synths I also like the didgeridoo a lot. And trumpets and bagpipes I also like ... but those rather not in psy - except the bagpipe in that Klopfgeister track ... or the trumpets in Red Seal songs...

like Solar Fields and Skazi

My list... (yes, I have a list ... I like to remember whom I've seen ) Acan Aphid Moon Asarualim Astral Projection Atmos Dark Soho Echotek Etnoscope Feuerhake Goma Grapes Of Wrath Herbal Essence Human Blue Indika Infected Mushroom Koxbox & Saiko Pod Logic Bomb Magoon Marco Menichelli Magnetrixx & Morganixx Michele Adamson Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom Para Halu Prisoners Of The Sun Quantum State Rastaliens Rinkadink Rythmen S.U.N. Project S-Range Silent Sphere Sirius Isness Slug Son Kite Space Tribe Tegma all of them on one night gigs, no festivals If I ever went to a festival I'll take a diary with me and write down whom I've seen ... and I'd also have it to make artists write something in it maybe if I could get a hold of 'em...

RIGHT! Please you guys from Ultimae, please change it. PLEASE! Your past digipaks with no gloss, they were so good! As for the question ... I guess I prefer digipaks. It's more personal and it teaches you to treat your releases nicer. And it's cool, because the more marks they have, however little they are, the more memories you connect with them... And my digipaks will never break (as "tear in two"), because I treat them nice. What the hell are you people doing to your CDs anyway ... the CDs I bought new are still looking new after 20 years in my collection, yet when I buy used ones they always got marks, scratches and fingerprints! I bet, every single mark or fingerprint or whatever on my CDs and digipaks is not from me but from the people who owned them before me! I don't get it how one can be so rude to his releases that he tears a digipak - yet I myself have a torn one. Got it for 1 euro though ... well, better a torn one (with Cds in perfect condition, strangely) for 1 Euro than a new looking one for 15 Euros And jewel cases only break in the mail. That's what they can do really well. A digipak doesn't break! At least not when you treat it somewhat nice. Be gentle to it! Like you'd be to a good looking lady Anoebis, you should leave the digipaks at home if you go to gigs ... this way they won't get worn out so soon. But I assumed you got one of these CD cases anyway, no?

sounds quite nice you got more?

oh no, your collection is even smaller than mine! damn, so I don't have the smallest...

46 Euros is a blasphemy! Fortunately I have found out that there are some vouchers from ticketing organisations and stuff ... so I could get the tickets for 38 Euros. 38 Euros is still not few though. I'll think about it. Apparently I'll be working in July anyway, so I can afford it...

Ah, interesting ... they will come here in July and I was already thinking about going ... but the ticket price makes me wanna shit my pants. 46 Euro! And just Chemical Brothers, no support. That's what I normally expect to pay for a festival lasting for several days! I really am tempted to go, but the price I'll think about it. How long were they playing, Seraph?

Okay, first of all I think I might have the SMALLEST music collection of you all! At least concerning psy! And I'm going to check this thread frequently to confirm that... (1.: ) The TOTAL number of releases (CDs+vinyls+tapes) I own is: 220. (2.: ) 62 releases are PSY - 42 CDs, 19 vinyls and 1 is a tape (3.: ) The total number of CDs I possess is 135. (4.: ) I have 42 psy CDs. (5.: ) The first psy release I bought was Goa-Head 13. That was at the end of 2001. Bought it at a CD flea market, but it was still not that cheap... (6.: ) Difficult. Very difficult. I have some that I like a really big lot despite it's such a small collection. That's the point: I try to only buy releases that are really promising or sounding good to me. I can't really answer that question. Seriously. (7.: ) Again, hard to answer. But that could probably be VA - Earthtrance because it made me so happy back then that I got this gem so cheap and it has great songs on it that I listened relatively often to (it was my second psy CD), so I already connect memories to it (8.: ) That must be the Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger (Promo) ... or the Shiva Chandra - Spicy Moments tape ... but I think the promo is more rare... (9.: ) I have 19 compilations. The rest are albums or vinyl singles. (10.: ) Not really. When local acts are good I support them by maybe going to their gigs ... but I don't have a single album of a local act.

That's difficult as I don't know any song similar to this one. It was quite an original try from Klopfgeister to use a bagpipe as an instrument for one of their tracks ... I don't know of any other artist who did that too... Banco De Gaia used a similar instrument (not precisely a bagpipe, but something where you have a kind of bellow with which you mechanically put air into the bagpipe and don't use your lungs) on his song "Drunk As A Monk" ... that song sounds completely different (also the bagpipe) though and has not a real oriental feel to it (despite being good)...

I also wonder what's up with them, I like MOS a lot Haven't heard anything from them for a long time ... their last released track I was aware of was Fire on Goa-Head 18 and it was an absolute monster (and it is their last released track according to Discogs...)... their website also hasn't been updated since 2 years (that's even quite exact)... I hope they didn't stop

indeed, somehow... I mean, sorry, how can somebody sue the owner of a forum when a member slandered somebody? How stupid is that? Why not sueing the member who was slandering instead? That would at least make a bit of sense... bureaucracy lawsuit head shot

that's exactly what I meant with the term "etching machine"

Yep, I second that. At least concerning the Sky Input album ... actually all songs on it sound damn energetic to me so that it fits the description of flying through the universe at insane speeds... I am not too big of a fan of these in-your-face energy blasts though. It's a good treatment when you got headache (Filteria's first album has now officially gained the status for being THE headache killer for me), but under normal conditions this is nuking my brain, it's too intense. While dancing I am a fan of intense sounds, but at home I prefer a more subtle way that things should go... Older Matenda is a perfect example of how I like things when it comes to the term "energetic". While at first listen these songs are nothing that special there reveals a deeper, constant energy flow, a kind of gentle but steady pressure behins everything, something energetic yet subtle ... something actually very genious. It lies in the bassline. I guess the bassline actually defines the energy level for a song for me... Other, different (un-subtle ) examples of really damn energetic songs are Atmos - So Nice You Name It Twice and Space Buddha - Acid Prophecy (the most energetic fullon song I know - and I like it!)...

see? soon prices will be down at 10 Euro and then it's my time to get my hands on them

Well, concerning really different types of music (not ambient or anything electronic, something totally different) I listen to Metal ... all kinds of styles from Iced Earth to Summoning - and you can even count some medieval ambient into that - but with a peculiar special preference of crazy finnish Humppa Metal such as Finntroll, Korpiklaani and Trollfest. And there's also some New Age among my other musical preferences ... such as Gandalf of Mike Oldfield ... but I count that to world music ... just as Xavier Rudd. So I voted for Metal and World Music Oh, it just came to my mind I could have voted "Other" too ... for the Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise side of me! Damn Count 1 more on "Other" please if you want to be exact

Nah, I can't really enjoy music when it's too fast. I can't mentally synchronize to it. The Morax track "Morthor Spede" is just a joke to me. I can't listen to that (I quite like the sample of the Fragetrollet track on the same compilation though )... Generally music tends to sound funny and unserious when it gets too fast. And the greater the bpm speed the lesser room for cool things such as melodies or other stuff you have. It's all just "bambambambambam-break-bambambambambam..." and that gets mindnumbingly uninnovative after time. Oh and yes, the three ones Fosku mentioned ... they are horrible aswell... It's not that I don't like faster stuff every now and then. There is some good fast and dark stuff out there. But it doesn't go over 160 bpm ... and when I listen to those fast tracks here now then I also understand why...

My mama - she's 65 now - likes Etnoscope ... but anything on the progressing side will do - not too many melodies, she doesn't like that "whining" as she calls that synthie stuff... I once played Noma - Tube to her and she loved it But she'd just as well like Mauro Picotto ... my mama just likes anything with a lot of bass in it My dad doesn't like much electronic music. Except old stuff like Jean Michel Jarre he despises that kind of modern sound...

gone is he from here ... quite some time ago already...