JonCrow

Crop Circles - Tetrahedron

I'd been listening to alot of industrial and The Prodigy throughout highschool. In about 1996 I purchased The Orb's album U.F.Orb. Not long after that I had my very first experience with psychedelics and put this album on. I'm glad it was there for that (and The Doors) as it had a great impact on my conciousness at the time. There was alot of angry metal and immaturity around otherwise so The Orb's album really stood out and blasted my mind.

If you think it's not original then can you state some other older releases or artists that you think sound similar to this, but are better. I'd like to hear them. Listened to it again today at work. Still enjoy it! The repetition you're referring to is I assume the stuttering, shimmering, electro-melodic style he's used throughout. That's what I like most about the album! The texture work, layering and bass that backs it up is always varied from track to track. The African percussion element is nowhere near as prominent as you've suggested, IMO. The sound quality is excellent as you said. Some of his electro-instrumentation has a great organic touch to it and I like the mild glitchy feel that he's also sometimes incorporated. I never get bored or tired listening all the way through the CD like I do with heaps of others. IMO this album reminds me of the heat and wind element and is something I'd listen to in the summer time, especially afternoon. I never said that I loved it or tripped hardkore off it, nor is this a best of 2009 topic, but out of the 200 or so Psychill/Downtempo releases I've been listening to recently, it stands out as a style of sound that I enjoy listening to. I admit that it has the potential to maybe get a bit boring after some time has passed or if listened to excessively. That I have to wait and find out for. Jon

Yah agreed, there's some repetition. Huge variation in a release isn't always in an artists idea. I'll listen to it again soon with your words in mind and write some more about it.

Elea - Stellar Connection also deserves to be mentioned IMO. Rotwang has done a review for it here. I've only given this 3-4 listens and am reluctant to say much about it for now. My feelings toward it have only been positive thus far. Not the greatest album of all time but well worth checking out depending on your tastes. I see how some may not enjoy. I'll definitely keep an eye on the artist in future. Jon

A release that hasn't been mentioned much yet is oCelot - one. I warn that I may not use words the way others use them to describe elements. Some Ocelot purists may not like his deviation from the semi-dark side of the force. This particular release has made me interested in that side of his work. One is mostly groovy, uplifting and electro-melodic. As far as I'm aware it has it's own funky style of sound. Some mysticism. Some trance. It has both up and down-tempo(predominately) elements and is mixed as one piece and designed to be listened so. A description I can give for it is that it is as a sonic shimmering mirage with gusts of electro-heat and sun flares riding through it. Great journey. I was considering writing a full review but found it to be too painful and it was ripping some of the soul out of my relationship to the piece and therefore just wasn't enjoying it as much. Jon

Thanks for the second link psytoons. Didn't know about it, never tried to search for it. Good stuff.

Transwave - Phototropic Transwave - Backfire Etnica - Alien Protein Dimension 5 - Transdimensional Filteria - Sky Inuput RA - 9th Ticon - Aero

If you feel very strongly that an item on the list doesn't AT ALL belong on a psytrance forum in terms of genre, then state clearly in a post in this topic. If FIVE people vote an album off it will be removed. If a listing is excellent but is not specifically classified as "psy-whatever" (e.g. FSOL - Lifeforms, The Orb - U.F.Orb) please try your best to be forgiving. I'll spam this ^^^ or something similar every time I update the thing. If anyone can think of any other rules, changes, or suggestions that might work, post them. List Updated with: Alien Community - Alien Community Alien Community - Alien Community 2 Banco de Gaya - Maya Biosphere - Substrata Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Cardamar - Steam Eat Static - Back to Earth Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies FSOL - Dead Cities FSOL - ISDN Gabriel Le Mar vs. Cylancer - Night Radio Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut Kick Bong - Flower Power Mystical Sun - Energy Mind Consciousness Nodens Ictus - Spacelines OTT - Skylon Psyfactor - Endless Universe Quaid - Eight a Day (Unreleased) S. Zeilenga - In Media Res Ten Madison - Avenue Terra Nine - Strange Craft The KLF - Chill Out The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld The Orb - U.F.Orb Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio Unstable Emelents-Technical Illusions Xerxes - The Mirror Formula Zymosis - Elements Into Data Just to let you know that I added this one despite my comments earlier in the thread. Jon

Quite often there's a dead bug as well! I spent a year over there. Shopping in India rocks, I miss it. Anyway, I got no new music today. I have new music coming out my arse. But I wanted to get a lot of new music. Jon

A system I was thinking of the day I posted the thing was that if 5 people clearly voted an album off the list because they thought it didn't belong here due to genre, then I'd remove it. What do you think? Or anyone else please offer your opinions. So if 3 more people at any stage posted clearly that Monolake doesn't fit. Then it goes.

Yeah, agreed. It's really hard. I was reluctant to take on the "responsibility" because of it. I don't mind personally what's on the list because I'm not all that fond of drawing lines in the sand. I think of it all as electronica. It's important to keep things open in all wakes of life. I just wanted to try and keep complaints to a minimum because if it gets too painful then I can't be fucked trying to keep it all together. Should I just let it run free and just add everything suggested? Who am I to judge what should and shouldn't be added? That's why I said I'm not perfect in my knowledge and nor is the list, nor is there such a thing as a perfect list. Better to have a list than no list, no? But how far should it blow out genre-wise? "as closely related to the psytrance genre as possible" People can hopefully use some common sense. For instance someone would be more inclined to make a topic in the General Psytrance section of the forum about Androcell than they would about Autechre. And hence Androcell "belongs" a little more than Autechre does.

Hey, I'll try my best to keep the list pure and as closely related to the psytrance genre as possible. For this reason I won't add your suggestion I'm sorry. If you think I'm incorrect please say why. If anyone feels strongly that any of the albums that are on the list do not belong there in terms of GENRE for a PSYTRANCE specific forum then please say so and I may remove the listing. I am not perfect and this list is not perfect but I figure it's better that it exists for people's convenience than not at all. Thanks Jon

Don't use it?

These aren't chosen indiscriminately, they've been recommended by people on this forum. If you need to see who has suggested what, then go through the thread that I sourced this from, which I've linked to at the top of the list. Or go through this thread which I will also use for further additions. I won't just add things silently, entries must be publicly stated by a user. This list is not designed to be the end all of quality, it's just there. If you wish to use it you can, if you're unsure of an entry on it then get off your arse and listen to some samples. Copy and paste entries into google (or other search engine) and hunt around for detailed reviews or opinions from a wide variety of sources. Lists like these can be a useful starting point, but don't expect to be spoon fed.

X-Dream - We created our own happiness

I was drawn to this release from the first time I saw it. Listened to the samples only for a few months. Just gave it my first true listen after receiving the CD today and was blown away. Very nice!

Do you mean "One"? Aye it is a gem and a worthy addition, was thinking of it today, was going to give it more time to settle before suggesting it. *List Updated*

The older thread was getting a bit messy and difficult to keep track of so I thought I'd do this. All suggestions/additions/subtractions/edits/complaints/etc welcomed. Hopefully this is helpful to some. I have to go to work.

No, this is sourced from all suggestions out of this topic on Psynews.

This list has and will continue to be compiled from here and here. If you feel very strongly that an item on the list doesn't AT ALL belong on a psytrance forum in terms of genre, then state clearly in a post in this topic. If FIVE people vote an album off it will be removed. If a listing is excellent but is not specifically classified as "psy-whatever" (e.g. FSOL - Lifeforms, The Orb - U.F.Orb) please try your best to be forgiving. A Abakus - That Much Closer to the Sun Adham Shaikh - Fusion Aes Dana - Aftermath Aes Dana - Leylines Aes Dana - Memory Shell Aes Dana - Season 5 Alien Community - Alien Community Alien Community - Alien Community 2 Alien Soap Opera - Second Wave Ambientium - Fractal Philosophy Anahata - The Unmade Sound Androcell - Efflorescence Androcell - Emotivision Another Fine Day - Life Before Land Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Astralasia - Whatever happened to utopia? Astralasia - The Seven Pointed Star Asura - Code Eternity Asura - Lost Eden Asura - Life^2 Aural Planet - Lightflow B B. Ashra - Live At U Fusion Banco De Gaia - Last Train To Lhasa 3CD version Banco de Gaya - Maya Biosphere - Substrata Bluetech - Elementary Particles / Prima Materia Boards of Canada - Geodaddi Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children C Capsula - Synthesis of Reality Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden Carbon Based Lifeforms - The Path (unreleased) Carbon Based Lifeforms - World of Sleepers Cardamar - Steam Cardamar - Where The Skies End Cell - Phonic peace Celtic Cross - Hicksville Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds Chilling Matenda - Mediteran Chronos - Steps To The Great Knowledge Colourform - Visions of Surya Cymphonic - Strataradialis D Digital Mystery Tour - Digital Mystery Tour Distant System - Spiral Empire DownHill - Silent City Dub Trees - Nature never...etc E Easily Embarrassed - Idyllic Life Eat Static - Back to Earth Ekko - Ekkocentric Remixes Ekko - Centripetal Electrypnose - Subliminal Melancholies Elemental Journey - AbsoluteAmbient.com Vol 2 Elve - Infinite Garden Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! Entheogenic - Entheogenic Entheogenic - Golden Cap Entheogenic - Flight of the Urubus Entheogenic - Spontaneous Illumination EN Voice - Hall Of Dreams Essential Trip - Trip To Inner Self Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible F Flexe - Programmable Love Songs Vol. 1 FSOL - Dead Cities FSOL - ISDN FSOL - Lifeforms G Gabriel Le Mar vs. Cylancer - Night Radio Galaxy - Science Of Ecstasy Ganja Beats - Paradise & Tranquility Gel-Sol - 1104 Gus Till - Electric Oceans H HAB - maPOd Healer - Wonderground Hol Baumann - Human Hoopy Frood - Psychonaut H.U.V.A. Network - Distances H.U.V.A. Network - Ephemeris I I Awake - The Core Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences Ishq - Orchid Ishq - Magik Square of the Sun Ishvara - Magik Square Of The Sun J Jairamji - Kindred Spirits Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home (CD1) K Kaya Project - And so it goes... Kaya Project - Elixir Kaya Project - Walking Through Kick Bong - A Cup of Tea Kick Bong - Flower Power Krusseldorf - Smokers Lounge Kuba - How The future Sounded L Liquid Stranger - The Invisible Conquest M m² - War of Sound m² - Aswad M-Seven - Activate Ma Faiza & Veet Sandeh - Liquid dreams Makyo - Rasa Bhava Makyo - Yakshini Matt Coldrick - Music For A Busy Head Matt Coldrick & Matt Hillier - Elemental Journey Mere Mortals - Ethnic Dub Simphony In Ten Parts Mere Mortals - Universal Code Miles Tilman - 3D Concepts Part II Minilogue - Animals CD2 Monolake - Plumbicon Versions Mystical Sun - Primordial Atmospheres Mystical Sun - After Materia Cloudland Mystical Sun - Deeperworlds Mystical Sun - Energy Mind Consciousness N Nature of Light - Shores of Jupiter Nodens Ictus - Spacelines O Ocelot - One Omnimotion - Dream Wide Awake Ooze - Where The Fields Never End Optic Eye - Light Side Of The Sun Optica - All The Colours Of The Rainbow Orbit Constructions - Androneda Orthonorma - Time 2 Wait OTT - Blumenkraft OTT - Hallucinogen - In Dub OTT - Skylon Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest P Pan Electric - Conscious Pilot Padmasana - A Universal Consciousness Padmasana - Padmasana Phuture Primitive - Subconcious Pitch Black - Ape To Angel Pedra Branca - Pedra Branca Perpetual Loop - Universal Flow Psyfactor - Endless Universe Q Quaid - Eight a Day (Unreleased) R S S. Zeilenga - In Media Res S. Zeilenga - Of Beauty & Mystery Saafi Brothers - Midnight's Children Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes Secede - Tryshasla Shakatura - Shakatura Shakatura - Glactivation Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? Shpongle - Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible Shpongle - The remixes Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment Shulman - Endless Rhythms of the Beatless Heart Shulman - Soundscapes & Modern Tales Slackbabba - "And the Beat Goes Om..." Solar Fields - Extended Solar Fields - Leaving Home Solar Fields - Movements Solar Fields - Reflective Frequencies Solar Fields - Extended Sounds From the Ground - Kin Spacey urban ambient Spielerei & Mantacoup - Cold War Stress Assassin - Within The Office Of Eye And Ear Stress Assassin - Carrier Track Sundial Aeon - Apotheosis T Taruna - World Fusion Ten Madison - Avenue Terra Nine - Strange Craft The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences The KLF - Chill Out The Kumba Mela Experiment - East Of The River Ganges The Mystery Of The Yeti - The Mystery of the Yeti The Mystery of the Yeti 2 The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld The Orb - Orbus Terrarum The Orb - U.F.Orb Third Ear Audio - Third Ear Audio Toires - Hemisphere Toires - Oued Toires - Sanäti Total Eclipse - Violent Relaxation Trentemoller - The Last Resort Tribal Drift - Collective journeys Tripswitch - Circuit Breaker/Rewired U Unstable Emelents - Technical Illusions V Vibrasphere - Archipelago Vibrasphere - Selected Downbeats W Waterjuice - Melbaphonics Welder - Vines And Stream William Orbit - Strange Cargo III X Xerxes - The Mirror Formula Y Yagya - Rigning Younger Brother - A Flock Of Bleeps Younger Brother - Last Days of Gravity Z Zymosis - Elements Into Data |VA| VA - Air (DJ ZEN) VA - Amberdelic Space VA - Ambient Meditations VA - Ambient Meditations 2 VA - Ambient Meditations 3 VA - Backroom Beats 1 VA - Backroom Beats 2 VA - Butterfly Dawn VA - Caribbean Eclipse VA - Chillosophy 3 VA - Natural born chillers VA - Dissolving Clouds VA - Downbeat Liquid vol. 1 VA - Elemental Journey Vol2 VA - Fahrenheit Project Part 3 VA - Floatation VA - Infinessence VA - Kumharas Vol 2 VA - Liquid Dub Vol 7 VA - Live At Dakini Nights VA - Midnight Soul Dive VA - Module 01 VA - Moonshadow Beats VA - New World Dub 1 VA - Oxycanta VA - Oxycanta Winter Blooms VA - Peace Therapy 1 VA - Peace Therapy 2 VA - Peace Therapy 3 VA - Quality Relaxation VA - Schlabbaduerst 006 VA - Soul Vibration 001 VA - Vajra VA - Water VA - Wider Horizons

This is a great release. I hope you enjoy it as much as I. I've been meaning to review the thing with my n00b skills. I might give it a seventh listen now on the way to work!

Cool. I've been keeping my eye on this one for awhile now, though haven't had the chance to listen to any samples yet. Hopefully the sound lives up to the title of the album. I like the artwork and font choices for both albums. Jon

It is! Took me almost a full day of listening to samples/reading this weekend to compile it. Only one of those albums I've heard in full is The Magus. Can't wait! I really have to slow down my purchases from here though. "Needed" to round out my growing collection with more uptempo and a bit of classical material before I did. I've set aside a weekly budget that I'll try my best to adhere to.