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Currently listening to the sound of rain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yu4NoS1HM It slightly bothers me that I will never know if all these 10 hour recordings on youtube are actual continuous unique recordings, or if they just loop. Surely I am not the only person who has thought about this.

Nice work mate! It is a very beautiful song indeed! I hope to hear more music from you.

I need to find the time to listen to this album all the way through, but so far I love what I hear! I am really starting to get a feel for the style. I can tell the kicks, basslines, leads are all fast approaching something really pretty unique in goa trance at the moment. It's spacey, hard hitting, trancey, ethereal. Also, I had to double check to make sure I wasn't going crazy, but these 5 tracks total 52 minutes. That's over 10 minutes per track on average! At that rate Imba could only fit at most 7 tracks on a full length CD.

It's like you knew I just got paid today and I will have money to spare in the next month or so!

Oh yea! It was fantastic! I was fortunate enough to see it in the theaters despite having been originally released back in 2013. It's nice to know that quality animation is still being made all around the world. I'm excited to see what kind of animation gets made given the tools available these days. And I'm not referring to CGI. I'm talking computer aided animation. They can use computers to animate hand drawn things. Much of Boy and the World is like a multi-layered collage brilliantly brought to life.

Just got back from seeing Boy and the World.

Mindsphere is the name of the Goa Trance project by Ali Akgun from Istanbul, Turkey. Mental Triplex is the name of a trilogy of albums to be released by Suntrip Records throughout 2016. This first album titled Presence is a remarkable work of melodic, floating, goa trance. It should be no surprise to hear that 3 albums worth of music are to be released when apparently hours upon hours of music were sent to Suntrip Records. I would like to think there was an exciting story of a massive hard drive being shipped from Turkey to Belgium where it had to clear customs and no one knew exactly what was on the drive. Ever since his first album, Inner Cyclone, released in 2007 on Metapsychic Records, Ali has created a style of his own that combines the best shifting, floating, morphing, harmonic layers of trance with innovative psychedelic sounds. His second album, Patience For Heaven released in 2012, was a well received album full of driving melodies and spiritual tones. It has been 4 years since then so what new Mindsphere madness does Presence give us? Presence is quite possibly the best thing to come out of the Goa Trance genre in a long time. It is maybe hard for me to describe, but when I listen to these tracks I hear unparallelled mastery of musical structures, layers, and control over effects. The layers contained within these 9 tracks are deceptively clever. I can only compare it to RA in terms of production style the way he likes to group sounds together and keep a consistent spacial arrangement. The album displays so many emotions from one track to the next. Where so many other albums can get dull hearing the same chords over and over, Presence goes from being euphoric, to melancholic, to hopeful, to sad, to happy, to mysterious. Yes, some of the tracks make use of eastern melodies such as Inevitable Delusion, Alinside, and Tears of Goddess while others have a more positive slant like Melodramadelic and Photosynthesis. The latter reminds me of happy summer days and not in a cheesy kind of way whatsoever. There is just such a degree of depth that constantly takes me by surprise each and every time I listen to these songs (And I have listened to them a LOT so far). Hard work and dedication has clearly gone into making something truly special... and I mean special. Unless you just hate melodies and don't feel emotions I can't imagine anyone not enjoying this album. They are energetic, well produced, and will serve any dance floor well. Thank you Ali for this thing. It is beautiful. And thank you to Suntrip, Tim Schuldt, as well as all the usual suspects. I look forward to parts 2 and 3 of the Mental Triplex. Suntrip Shop Suntrip Bandcamp Psyshop Mindsphere Project

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This album is insanely good. I am seriously floored.

Mmmmm.

I couldn't even... I wouldn't know where to start. Too many melodies burned into my brain. At the moment Cydonia - Animals is on loop in my head. Edit: Just had the interesting sensation of the melodies from Animals playing at the same time as the melodies from Cosmosis - Innerspace.

This might seem like a strange one to mention, but Cosmosis. Bill managed to go on for a long time and keep a style that I think is very much his own. Sure, the bass lines and general production moved towards full on, but albums like Synergy, Contact, and Intergalactic are all highly unique things.

I love the orange on purple color tones. The font is simple yet slick. The desert rocky landscape and the moon remind me of my favorite science fiction. It's just alien enough to make you stop and look at it for a moment, yet easy on the eyes. Not psychedelic, but aesthetically pleasing to me.

Merry Christmas psynewsers!

RA - Other Self starting around 7:30. https://youtu.be/TcsF5Rcg6T4?t=7m30s It's more like a solo that goes from that point to nearly the end of the track.

Not psytrance, but it wouldn't be fair to have this thread and not mention The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EkzNGkIPdE It's literally like a movie with scenes, movements within the songs, lyrics that "tell" the story, intros, outros, call backs, all building one large cohesive 77 minute, or 91 minute if you include the title track, experience. Each song represents a character in the story. If you have never heard this album before, do yourself a favor. Sit down in a dark room, close your eyes, and lose yourself in it.

Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Unicorn Skeleton Mask

I try to stay busy at work. Also, creative projects greatly help me put those emotions into something constructive that I can't make mistakes doing. There are no mistakes in art.

All the time.

Thanks Starkraver. It was just a weird thing is all . I'm pretty sure moving the squirrel out of the road would not have prevented its death. It's not like we have hospitals for squirrels... unless it's my pet. It would, however, had to suffer an even longer period of time. Oh well.

So I was riding my bike home today from work and this surreal thing happened. A car was driving up along side me on my bike and I noticed that a squirrel dashed out in front of us. I had plenty of time to notice but the car just kept driving on by. For a brief moment the squirrel disappeared underneath the car and then it appeared when it made contact with the left rear wheel of the car. I saw the squirrel get struck, roll, and emerge. Then it was just lying there on its back, its arms twitching. In that moment I asked myself, what am I supposed to do? I was hoping the squirrel would die so as to be put out of its misery. I kept riding and I still don't know what happened to the squirrel. And I was reminded that I too have been hit by cars before, multiple times while out riding. One of these days it could be me lying on the road twitching. What would I have done if I hit the squirrel while on my bike? It was just kind of this weird moment. I mean, I know it's just a squirrel and in fact I passed by another dead carcass of a squirrel on the way home, but until it's dead I didn't want to see the poor thing mangled yet still alive somehow. And there is the disconnect between humans and what we think of as lesser species. We are all dead at some point. Can we at least care until then? But what do we do? Oh well, that's my story.

Feeling very inspired by this track!

No. Thank you Alek! Sometimes when I think I am an alien trapped in a human body wandering this world, I remember that everyone here is inherently a part of my life. You all tolerate me and I don't feel so lonely.