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Euh ... wern't some of you guys that were going to a party where Frank spun saying his set was really crappy? And one of you even asked him about that and his only response was like "Artists change their style - accept that!"? ased on those posts back then I wouldn't set the expectations for the new album high...

UP / ENERGETIC / PUSHING / HAPPY / CRAZY : All sorts of psy (except darkpsy!) ranging from fullon to progressive - can be anything from Hallucinogen over Etnoscope, Silicon Sound and S-Range up to Son Kite ... generally rather higher bpm. POSTITIVE / HAPPY / CREATIVE : Progressive psy with not so high bpm ... I'm liking this stuff because it doesn't push you so much and is generally still having a positive overtone. When being in a creative or playful mood I enjoy stuff like Shiva Chandra TRANCED / DEEP : Koxbox or Saikopod is ideal stuff for me for those phases - although I could enjoy almost anything psy in general ... dark or not dark, low or high bpm, doesn't matter. ANGER / PUSHING : Darkpsy in general ... although sometimes it doesn't even have to be that dark, but rather fast. Some Industrial too ... even some industrial noise (Institut - Unto The Last Man). Also black metal in general I listen to when in those states of mind. PARTY / NON-PSY CRAZY EVILISH (kinda) / ENERGETIC : In that situations I enjoy nordic humppa metal ... stuff like Korpiklaani or Finntroll (searching still for other bands in this sector) ... or other folk metal, but non-epic and fast and crazy. PARTY / SOCIAL : that is a broad category and contains many different music types - it also depends on the party and the people. From metal over rock up to jazz or electronic even to pop music this covers everything that I find enjoyable on a scale from high up to down to the level where I can barely bear it without running away. When I'm social and talking to people I don't notice the music anyway. CHILL / SMOOTH / SOCIAL : Ambient, chill and electronic music, but rather less focus on the ambient genre. Stuff from Thievery Corporation, Tosca over Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield up to Enigma is what I dig in those situations. RELAXING / CHILL : There I like chilled music with ambient in between. Puff Dragon comes smooth then. Also Bluetech ... or Red Seal. Ott is smooth too. Chilling Matenda too. DEEP CHILL / DREAM / MEDITATIVE : One word for it: ambient. Ranges from Carbon Based Lifeforms, Aes Dana, Solar Fields and Healer for deeply chilled or dreamy states up to Makyo or Padmasana for almost meditative states. SAD / DEPRESSIVE : Depressive music ranging from melancholic dark ambient up to depressive neofolk. Also depressive black metal like Burzum - Det Som En Gang Var (his best piece IMO) or doom metal. DARK / DEEP : Generally dark ambient. But not too melancholic pieces ... stuff like Ulf Söderberg fits. Need to get more in this direction ... but I'm seldom in the mood. NON-PSY DREAMY : There I enjoy metal (Viking metal, to be precise) - and epic medieval ambient. That's where the "epic" folk metal also comes in. Also some black metal-ish stuff. As you see I like to dream off to various kinds of music - I just pick what I like. I tend to pick rather monotonous stuff if I'm tired so that I can slep off to it - Summoning for example, slept off to that already more than once ... but it's great stuff. TIRED / SLEEP INDUCTION : Dark medieval ambient. I sleep off best to this stuff.

but most of all it must be KILLLAAARRRGH!!!

Good choice ... if I had won I had picked that one... Cheers to faze and congrats to the winners

That's basically where we stand today ... in a nutshell: PSYTRANCE | | ------------------------------- | | | DARK PROG FULLON And that's also the genres where evolution will happen. Dark will become the new fullon concerning people bitching about it (because soon it will get too stereotypical ... many say it already is ... what's missing yet are the big commercial motherfunkers - just wait, they will come ). Prog will morph even more with club and house music making the hippies bitch about it because it will get too clubby and scene-ish and "hi society-ish". And Fullon will go even more in the guitar-and-singing direction so that one day there will be "fullon" on MTV and kids will rock off to it and everybody will shake their heads. As you see, Oldschool is not on there. Although I think there will happen some development in that sector I still don't believe it will be possible to start another Oldschool avalanche where it gets a global acclaimed presence (and recognisation of the big labels) as a genre where evolution still happens.

lol ... wasn't that that compi where this peculiar hilarious review has been written for? But hmmm ... this is really not the worst track I have heard. The part in the sample from 2:42 to 3:08 I don't even find sooo ultra bad at all... The worst one was from IM ... where Duvdev sings (remembe that vid?). Or maybe it's also not the worst ... but it's far worse than this one here.

The scene in Austria is ... well, quite okay. Could be better ... could also be worse though. A part of the scene is a bit fullon-infected and I don't like that anymore - so when they invite artists like Eskimo some weeks ago I prefer to stay at home, but there seem to be some minds thinking in another direction, otherwise they wouldn't have invited Tegma and Prisoners Of The Sun this winter. Also a lot of other interesting liveacts we had ... so yes, the scene's okay. We had once a sort of progressive collective that named itself Suntribe where they played quite good proggy-clubby psy music and invited quite some interesting international progressive masters as live acts (Son Kite I remember) ... but this one went down two years ago. Although recently there was another of their parties where they claimed Suntribe would be back and such ... but other than this party recently I don't know anything about future projects yet ... I'm staying tuned about that though, they were my favourite back then and still stick to their clubby progressive style and I love that...

Some sale stuff looks indeed tempting there... But WTF ... no info about payment/shipping/anything? I better ask first...

Are you still in A'dam? If so, then go to ABRAXAS coffe shop (it's in J. Roelensteeg)! And buy a pie! Do it

FILL THE HAT and So Nice You Name It Twice.

yay... The compilation it is on hasn't got bad names on it either ... I only dislike the cover, that's why I never made a closer look...

Damn, this track is STILL MARVELLOUS! Enjoying listening to it since more than 2 years ... and it's still great! I think that must be the most often played psytrack of all times for me. Meanwhile I already own it on CD And of those recommendations Another Time is not as good as Soon. Tarsis one was quite good. Any more recommendations?

haha, the bid race is on again

It's released by Free Form Records. The Free Form label went down some years ago already. I'd say you should try your luck on ebay or in used record stores, maybe there you can still find it.

Horns And Hoofs Entertainment is based in Moscow ... according to THIS list, which provides you with all record labels (note: ALL, not just psy) in Russia: http://www.allrecordlabels.com/db/country/Russia.html that should solve at least the labels issue as for artists ... well, Kindzadza is from Russia AFAIK. oh and good luck Nhio, expecting a killarg release from you soon

well, that's right... That's the reason why I said "his new sound" in the thread description. Because his old sound wasn't proggy. Although I admit, if anybody has seen him performing lately - he spins rather progressive stuff! So maybe Seraph was just referring to a liveset by him he heard...

The longest song I have: Mortiis - Født Til Å Herske Part 1 ( 27:24 ) Part 2 is only 25:24 long ... anyway. These are two long dark medieval ambient songs and they're BRILLANT!

I WAS a trancehead once. I WAS. Now I hate it ... I am so happy I've found psytrance ... I was a real trancehead back then with gel hair and sports shoes and only listening to trance music ... Tiesto (Urban Train), AvB, Talla 2XLC, Mauro Picotto ... yeah, I loved it. Back then. Now I hate it. I am off it. 99% of that trance stuff I was into sounds now very shallow and boring and monotonous and cheesy after I was converted to a psyhead. You can't make me listen to trance again, never.

Eeeh ... why didn't you listen to the whole tracks of the album at the link I gave above? Because psyshop samples are not really suitable for getting a solid overall impression... I would not say it sounds like Lish though.

Currently: (especially the title song) But it varies Generally it's some viking metal, some folk metal and some dark medieval ambient that I like very much besides the psytrance/ambient stuff. And ... oh yeah, how could I forget that! THIS one will be one of my forever non psy favourites: (don't bother checking out his recent stuff though ... it's no good ... this was his best album (besides the medieval ambient he did before) ... and there will never follow another masterpiece like that )

I'd say I like modern psy somewhat better than old psy. Now don't get me wrong, there's also some great oldschool stuff out there and it's a pity that it doesn't exist anymore. But it's still the case that the oldschool stuff is too intense for me on the long run. I enjoy it sometimes ... and indeed, it's great music that can twist your brain. But not too much of it please... In contrary to this stands the modern progressive psy, that comes with lesser 303 mayhem and more well and wisely placed sounds and rhythms and twists. And that's what I prefer. I like a light and groovy psychedelic cocktail, but not with too much psy in it ... you know me I could listen to such stuff forever nonstop! And the modern stuff - the modern progressive stuff, to be precise, because Fullon is generally not quite my cup of tea - can give me what I need. Thus I voted for modern.

Ah, yeah, Ayamaya ... it's also on Goa-Head 19 ... but let me (and all others out there) tell you, if you know Ayamaya you don't know the new Feuerhake!

wow I think I might have about 1/76 of your amount (250 tracks) - if you count in CDs

I just kinda wanted to give Quazzi an honorable mention - without him I'd not have this album ... it fitted at this place

Hmmm... That's rather difficult for I can not really recall what CD I've listened the most to this year. If it would be just a song then I could be quite sure that it was Finntroll - Jaktens Tid ... but that's not psy anyway... I guess it's Makyo - Shringara ... and actually not even so much as CD itself, but I listen a lot to the mp3s of it (and did already before I obtained the CD - but I really have the piece, go ask Quazzi ). That's mainly because my CD drive lately sometimes doesn't want to play them discs or spit them out again! (just like now, that's because I'm off now to restart again )